"REGULUS"

REGULUS: the brightest star in constellation leo/little king; Lorelei Black was in awe of the kid she'd only known through paper, Regulus Black wasn't stupid brave, instead he was stealthily courageous — absolute legend, if you ask Lorelei, and she was only on the first journal, from what she could notice was that Regulus, or should she say her uncle Regulus? Had a shit ton of anxiety, something that's quite expected living with that nightmare of a woman.

Regan seemed just as fascinated, and especially because she found herself relating more and more to Regulus with each page, maybe her dead uncle could be the solution to some of her problems. The two sisters stayed up under their wand's light building a blanket fort and reading his diary.

The thing was, Regulus wasn't just some kid who had no one else to talk to, but he was also a very hugely interesting individual, Lorelei could tell by the way he wrote that his thoughts were a streamline of his conscience, almost like his brain didn't think things over — it just knew what to say, and when to say it, and by his handwriting you could tell he wrote a lot, for it looked rushed and perfectly cursive at the same time.

Lorelei was intrigued to put it lightly, why had she never heard about Regulus from either of the Blacks in her life, did he do something bad? Lorelei turned to look at Regan as she read the next paragraph but noticed that the kid had already fallen asleep. She then checked the time on her watch and noticed it was just two minutes till three in the morning.

Lorelei put the diary down and put on a hoodie over her night gown, and she then stepped into her slippers, making her way outside the room hoping George hadn't forgotten about their planned meeting.

As soon as the clock hit three, Lorelei heard the door creak and silent footsteps making their way towards her, she came face to face to a very fresh looking George, "Hi" he breathed out.

"Hi" Lorelei greeted him back, "Why do you look like you just took thirteen showers?"

"I don't know" George shrugged, "Why do you look like you haven't showered in thirteen days?"

"Charming" Lorelei said dryly.

"Thanks" George grinned, "So, what's this plan that couldn't wait until the afternoon or any time that could be deemed acceptable"

"Well, to be honest, I don't know why I chose asscrack of dawn" Lorelei yawned, "Anyway, I have a plan and there's a few questions I need to ask you first"

"Go ahead?" George said unsurely.

"On a scale of one to ten," said Lorelei, "how afraid are you of bugs and reptiles?"

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"We're going to die" George declared as he passed Lorelei the other jar and held one himself.

"It's going to be worth it" Lorelei nodded at him, stuffing her pockets with some fake spiders and adding a whole lot of fake roaches to the bunch.

"What the hell" George said, he then started stuffing his pockets with it too, "I hope you know I might lose my business partner because of this"

"Weaslebee, come on, it's your brother we're talking about — he's desperate" Lorelei scoffed, and then passed an evil grin to the real spider in the jar.

"Normally, I'd defend my brother, Bubbles" George said emphasizing on her nickname, "But you're right it's getting pathetic now"

"Right?" Lorelei asked, "It's not that hard to just be together if you like each other, though your brother does make things a bit complicated"

"My brother didn't make it complicated" George frowned, "He just needed time, not all people can just jump right in like Birdie, you know"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Lorelei paused to give him a look, and George immediately straightened up.

"Oh, no no no" George said hurriedly, "I don't mean it like that I just mean, Birdie's always so full of love, you know, and she's always been so Birdie about everything, and Fred's well, he's Fred, he's scared about commitment as much as he's scared of dolls"

"...Fred's scared of dolls? Sick!" Lorelei grinned, and George smacked her arm, "Hey, this is abuse"

"Arsehole" George muttered, "I was actually worried you hated me because of the Birdie misunderstanding"

"But I do hate you...?"

"Yeah, but you don't hate-hate me"

"Um, yeah, I do" Lorelei dragged on and George looked over, "Nah, kidding, I don't hate-hate you, you five year old"

"Well, I definitely do hate-hate you now" George said jokingly and Lorelei released a chuckle, "Remember that fight we had about you saying you hated me?"

"Yeah, you wanted to keep my teddy bear and I said no" Lorelei smiled fondly at the memory, "Mr Grumpypants, I still have him actually"

"Still sleep with him?"

"None of your fucking business, Weaselbee"

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"LORELEI LET ME OUT, AH FUCK!" Birdie yelled out in annoyance as Lorelei started throwing more and more fake spiders in, "This isn't funny, El! I have to see my brother before he goes to the ministry!"

"He's already gone!" Lorelei said from the other side of the door, "Speaking of brothers, where's yours? I thought he was going to be here in five?"

"He must be checking out his hair for the thousandth time" George said equally annoyed at his brother as Lorelei, "If this plan goes south I'm blaming my brother"

"I'm blaming both of you" Lorelei said, she watched through the keyhole as Birdie sighed and then climbed up on the bed — using a pillow as some kind of shield, "Bloody hell, do I have to drag him out by his hair or something?"

"Five minutes, and I might be the one doing that instead of you" George muttered and then knocked on his brother's door, "Hey, Freddie, no need to rush, but you might want to come out before she finds out they're fake!"

"Coming!" Fred exclaimed.

"Right, Fred, try not to scream out loud when I let the real spiders in" Lorelei pat his back reassuringly, as Fred looked proper terrified.

"What—"

"In you go" Lorelei pushed him in and immediately heard a girly shriek escape his mouth and the springs on the bed making a huge noise as Lorelei presumed that he jumped on the bed, "Didn't you two bully Ron with a spider until he literally developed a phobia?"

"And you think those spiders didn't fuck us up too?" George asked, "Spiders are disgusting"

"Agreed" Lorelei said, she then pulled out the jar with the real tarantula in it, "Now, let's bully our people"

"You sound evil"

"Mwahahaha?" Lorelei offered weakly and George released a chuckle, she knelt down on the ground, opening the door just a little to let the spiders out, "That ought to do it"

"El, what are you trying to do, you little shit?" Birdie screamed out loud from the bed, "Let me out or we're over"

"Sure, we are!" Lorelei called out to her, adding a snort at the end, the day that Birdie and Lorelei are over is the day Lorelei Black dies, not earlier.

"I'm not kidding, El!" Birdie exclaimed and Lorelei heard the bed springs again, "Let me out right this second!"

Lorelei shrugged, "You want to get some crisps? Popcorn? Let them do their thing?"

"Do you know how to make brownies?" George said playing with the vase on one of the small tables that were there outside of every room, usually on top of those tables laid very expensive vases, or some kind of souvenir that basically screamed, Look at me — I'm rich! In George's opinion, but he'd started noticing the vases disappearing almost everyday and being switched out with cheap looking vases that looked like they were bought from a shitty merchandise shop, and George was so certain that it was the grey eyed Ravenclaw who went around messing up the decor to, and he quotes 'muggle-ize' the old grim place.

"Do I look like your personal chef?"

"I don't know why I even asked" George shook his head at Lorelei who gave him a goofy grin, their friendship started all of a sudden for the second time in their life, and it was all because of the Order — for the second time in their life.

"Wait — do you hear that?" Lorelei asked holding her hand up, "Is that my mum?"

George stopped, he then started paying attention the noise coming from downstairs and heard what was indeed Neveah's voice, "Yeah, great ears!"

"What a weird compliment" Lorelei furrowed her eyebrows but then grinned, "Thanks anyway, dude"

George stopped himself from wincing, dude? Seriously? He shook his head as he watched the brunette run downstairs and waking up the portraits on purpose to piss her dad off — he was always the one who had to deal with them. Lorelei stopped at the last step, "You coming, Weaselbee?" George passed her a smile, and joined her down the stairs.

George wasn't going to lie, Lorelei was handling herself really well after the immense pressure and trauma she went through last year, she was joking, smiling, pranking people, and most of all doing everything she could to piss off her dad. Lorelei was ok, and George was glad.

...

"Regan, come out already, darling!" Andrew knocked on the heavy door that was now covered with band posters, and a keep out sign that was almost ironic at this point, Lorelei had apparently gotten tired of everyone walking inside her room without knocking and she'd made a poster herself — her attempt to draw a skull was hilariously adorable, but to her great disappointment everyone started barging in her room even more than before rendering the sign useless, but Lorelei still kept it on her door, "It's two in the afternoon, honey, come out and eat!"

Regan's eyes opened and then immediately closed again because of all the light — she found out that the blanket fort was now destroyed and being used as a cocoon by her instead, she tripped over the blanket looking around for her slippers with her eyes closed, she army crawled up to Lorelei's bed, reaching her hand under El's bed and soon it hit something, but it wasn't the fuzzy fabric of her slippers, it was something made out of glass.

Regan opened her eyes, rubbing them furiously to find around fifty bottles of empty potions, she took the tray out and read the label, "Sleeping draught"

yeah this chapter sucks balls but i was really tired and i couldn't sleep so this is what u get? sorry help😭