I stepped onto the stage taking a deep breath. The glitter on my face was a little sticky but it made me feel a little more confident.

I smiled at Reg, who was sitting by himself close to the stage, he smiled back as I took my place behind the microphone stand and adjusted my guitar. "This song is dedicated to someone very dear and close to my heart."

I softly started tugging on the strings.

"All that I know is you caught me at the right time
Keep me in your glow
'Cause I'm having such a good time with you

Baby, don't you know?
That you're my golden hour, the color of my sky
You've set my world on fire
And I know, I know everything's gonna be alright"

I couldn't help but smile lightly as I sang. Regulus was grinning at me from his seat, I could feel myself starting to blush and tried to look away from him.

"You make the world look beautiful, ooh
I thought I'd seen it all before
But looking through your eyes, it looks like paradise"

I looked out at the audience, and they all seemed to be enjoying the song, which was very soothing to me.

"You've set my world on fire
And I know, I know everything's gonna be alright
Yeah, I know, I know everything's gonna be alright
Golden hour"

I finished with a smile, as everyone started clapping politely. I set my guitar aside and took a bow.

As I walked to exit the stage I saw Regulus standing there, extending is hand toward me to help me walk down the steps. I gladly grabbed onto his hand. I must've looked like a fool with the gigantic grin on my face. Regulus pulled me into a big hug as my feet touched the concrete floor. I loved his warm squeezes.

He pulled away and I snuck in a firm kiss on his lips, but it was right then that I heard a terrible gasp and a glass smash against the floor. I pulled away from my boyfriend, startled. And over Reg's shoulder I saw something that made my stomach drop.

The source of the startling noise was three very familiar faces. My own sister stood gaping at me in disbelief, her husband standing beside her looking at me as if he didn't know me, and then there was Sirius, who was the one who'd dropped his glass from their table, his expression was a mix of anger and resentment.

About a million thoughts ran through my head. What was Lily thinking? Why was she here, and not in Portugal? Would they all be angry at me? What was I supposed to say to them? I wasn't prepared for this yet.

Before me or Reg could react, Sirius had stomped over to us and pushed his brother away from me. "You get away from her, you little —" Sirius was about to swing at Reg, and I was just standing there frozen.

James held his friend back. "Sirius, stop."

I started feeling like I couldn't breathe, in fact, I might have passed out if James hadn't stopped Sirius.

"Why? He can't just make a pass at her like that!" Sirius argued, trying to break free from James's hold.

Then Lily made her way over to us, and with a cold look on her face she said, "Don't be thick, Sirius. They're obviously together."

I felt like I was about to burst into tears. "Lily, I can explain."

"Get in the car." Lily ordered in a tone that told me she was not to be messed with at the moment.

I glanced at Regulus, who was keeping his emotions well hidden, then put my head down and walked away slowly. Then I heard Lily say, "you too." Was she talking to Reg? My body tensed. What was she going to do?

Reg followed me out with an equally worried expression on his face.

The five us sat in an uncomfortable silence. I kept looking at my sister, to see if I could figure out what she was thinking by the expression on her face. I couldn't.

The drive to my apartment had been long and silent, Regulus and I didn't dare speak, and Lily and James were probably too angry to make small talk. So, now we sat in the living room, still in silence. I think we were all waiting for Lily to say something.

"I thought you'd be practicing for tomorrow." Lily finally spoke. "Were you with him all day instead of training?"

I took a deep breath. "The competition was last week."

I could almost feel the rage behind Lily's eyes. "And how did you do?"

"I won."

"Good." My sister stood up all of a sudden. "Rainbow, I need to speak to you in private." She declared.

The knot in my stomach tightened. I stood up and followed Lily. Before she stepped out of the room she turned to the boys and said, "play nice.".

Lily and I walked into my kind of messy room and shut the door.

"You should really learn to keep your room in order." Lily couldn't help herself from commenting.

I wasn't in the mood to respond. I sat at the end of my bed, and Lily took the chair from my vanity and sat.

"Are you angry?" I finally asked.

Lily sighed heavily. She shook her head then looked at me. "Yes, but not for the reason you think."

"What's the reason?"

"I don't care if you want to date a Death Eater —"

I opened my mouth to retort but Lily stopped me. "I mean it's certainly a choice, and I would definitely not be okay with it, but what I'm angry about is the fact that you lied to me. Big time."

I looked down. She was right, I'd fucked up.

"You know why I was at that café today?" Lily asked.

I shook my head.

"It was because you told me RWI was this week, and I've never missed one of your competitions. Yesterday I felt so awful I was missing your short program that I convinced James to end our vacation early and come back here in time to surprise you by showing up during your free skate. You lied to me for a boy, I never thought you of all people would do that." Lily's voice sounded bitter.

I bit my lip to stop it from trembling. I hated this feeling.

"Lily, I'm so sorry. I know what I did was wrong, I felt awful about lying to you and to everyone like that, but I genuinely love him so much, and I don't know how I can make you understand." I was barely holding on from bursting into tears.

"Understand that you're in love with a Death Eater?" Lily asked coldly, her brow raised.

"He's not a Death Eater." I immediately defended Reg.

"He has the Dark Mark."

"He doesn't."

"Still doesn't mean he isn't a Death Eater."

The knot in my throat was turning from sorrow into frustration. This is exactly what I feared would happen. "Lily, it's okay if you can't forgive me for lying yet, but can I please explain to you and the guys what's going on with me and Regulus."

Lily looked at me for a long second, as if trying to figure out if she could still trust me. And let me tell you it feels pretty shitty when your sister looks at you like that.

"Fine." Lily deliberated.

So Lily and I went back to the living room, where luckily the men had not yet killed each other. But their dramatic stare down hadn't slowed down.

And just like that, I sat down with my sister, her husband, Reg, and Reg's brother and I told them everything. I'd been so scared to do it for months, but once I started talking, it all started spouting out. I did most of the talking, about how Regulus didn't really want to be a Death Eater, but he was in too deep when he realised and what we were planning to do about it. Reg had surprised me though, when spoke up to tell some of what he had told me that day in a broom closet months ago, I think today was the most open and honest he had been with someone who wasn't me in a long time.

There was a pregnant pause as Regulus and I finished speaking, and it was James who spoke up first.

"Wait, so let me get this straight." James said with a slightly confused look on his face. "You," he pointed at Reg, "are going to fake your own death with Bow's help and Voldemort has to buy it, then you're going to assume a fake identity and go into hiding for Merlin knows how long."

James looked at us for confirmation. We both nodded.

James chuckled. "You guys do realise that's going to be, like, hard?"

I stopped myself from rolling my eyes. "Yes, we do."

All of a sudden, Sirius sat up in his spot next to his friend, he had remained expressionless up until now. He scoffed. "I can't believe you guys think your plan is going to work. This is so... dangerous."

Sirius pushed his hair back in frustration.

"Well, now you know, so, if you want to help, you're welcome to." I said.

"Of course we're going to help you." Sirius sighed. "I'm sorry I didn't try harder before, Reggie."

And that sentence unleashed something between the two Black brothers. The next few minutes included a lot of heart-to-heart conversation, some crying, and a lot more hugging, also a few apologies.

But once Regulus and Sirius got all their shit out of the way, it was then time to start planning Regulus's Great Escape from the Death Eaters.

Honestly, it was a gigantic relief to have Lily, James and Sirius be a part of our whole thing, they had some insight that was very well appreciated. I mean, who knew elder siblings were kind of wise.

By the time we finished talking out everything, the air was much lighter, also quite colder, which caused me to snuggle up to Reg a little bit (causing everyone to give us weird looks).

I could tell Lily was still mad at me, but she'd simmered down by now, especially after listening to Sirius's words to Regulus.

It seemed though, now that we were done with all significant conversation, we didn't quite know what to do, so we just sat there in silence for a few minutes.

"Can we please talk about Sirius's hilarious reactions to you guys at the café now?" James said in a light-hearted tone.

I smiled slightly. "He's the one who spilled everything on the floor, right?"

James almost immediately started giggling. "Right. But the funniest part was how when we realised it was Regulus hugging you, Sirius was like flat out refusing to admit you guys were together together. He just kept saying oh they must be good friends."

I had to admit that was pretty funny. Even Regulus was laughing.

"It could've been a possibility." Sirius defended himself.

"They were literally making out right in front of you, mate!" James cackled.

My sister couldn't hold it in any longer and finally burst out laughing, and I breathed a sigh of relief.