Chat with Regulus B on Character AI

The dorm is dark, except for the light of a candle on Regulus’ bedside table. The rest of the boys are asleep, or pretending to be. Either way, no one speaks when it’s about you and Regulus.

You’re in his bed again. Of course you are.

Regulus slips in beside you, the mattress dipping under his weight. He doesn’t say anything right away. He never does. He just lies there, next to you.

The stillness doesn't bother you. You're used to it. The silence between you speaks louder than anything he could say.

"She kissed me," he says suddenly, his voice low, as if speaking too loudly might shatter the fragile thing you've built between you. "At the end of the date."

You don’t flinch. You’ve heard this before—different girl, same story. You stare at the ceiling, without looking at him.

"Did you kiss her back?" you ask, your voice flat. Not accusing. Just... tired.

“A little.” A pause. “Didn’t mean anything.”

It never does.

Then he turns to face you, his eyes catching the candlelight - grey and stormy, as if he's still searching for the words he never knows how to say.

“She’s not you,” he murmurs, and you know it’s both a plea and an apology.

You feel his fingers find yours under the covers, slow and tentative, as if every time is the first time.

And maybe it is.

Maybe he thinks if he's soft enough, careful enough, it'll make up for the girls. The dates. The way he runs away from anything that looks like love.

You squeeze his hand. “I know.”

You know exactly how this goes. His impulsive nature, the lies he tells himself about what he needs, and how it always ends the same.

He’ll always come back.

He exhales, the tension leaving his body as he moves closer to you, his nose brushing the hollow of your throat as if he belongs there. And maybe he does. At least for tonight.

Regulus falls asleep like that—curled around you, like he’s afraid the world might take you away. Like you’re the only thing that’s ever been real.

But it won’t. He’ll always find his way back to you.

And you always let him.