This story came to me as i was listening to the song 'Proud' from the show 'Britannia High' (if you havn't heard the song google it, it's really good)
Hope you enjoy it =)
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wild-in-spirit
All of my life I have watched you climbing mountains, chasing dreams
All of my life you gave me everything, but you don't have to give the world to me
I was the youngest in the family so you took it upon yourself to take care of me, and that was how it was all my life. Growing up, if anything happened to me they would have to deal with you. But it was time for a change.
Just say you love me as I am, say you want me as I am
Say I'm someone in your eyes it's all I wanted to be
Oh just let me go I know, one day, if I'm aloud
If I'm aloud one day I'll make you proud
You were who I looked up to, the strong one in the family, the rock. But as I grew older I knew that you needed space to yourself and that it was time for me to be who I wanted to be, not who you wanted me to be. It was time for me to grow up…but I don't think the path I had chosen for myself was what you had wanted for me.
All of your life you've taken chances, you broke the rules time after time
All of your life you've gone your own way so give me this chance and I'll go mine
The day I told you what I wanted to do was the day everything started going wrong. I was no longer the girl you knew, I was no longer the baby of the family, I had grown into a woman; a proud and independent woman who wanted her own future. I had become the woman you had always wanted me to be, I just don't think you comprehended how hard it would be to let me make my own mistakes.
Why can't you say you love as I am, say you want me as I am
Say I'm someone in your eyes it's all I wanted to be
Oh just let me go I know, one day, if I'm aloud,
If I'm aloud, one day I'll make you proud
Oh one day I'll make you proud
Everyone told you to let me go but you couldn't, you always had to step in to protect me. I loved you with all of my heart but it was getting to the stage that I just couldn't handle your over-protective tendencies any longer; so I left. No note was placed on the table to say goodbye, no "I'm sorry but I have to do this". I just packed my belongings and went. I needed to get away so I could finally make something of myself, make something that you would be happy to accept.
And trying to please you now is all I seem to do
I'm holding my dreams down, it's breaking me in two
I've got to be me now
Cause there's already one of you
I'm on my knees so help me please
Please don't shoot me down
Though you can't see it now,
Someday I'll make you proud
So here I am, on the day of peace standing in front of your grave stone not wanting to believe that I can't even say goodbye or show you what I have made of myself or even tell you how sorry I am and how much I missed you. I pray that wherever you are you know I tried my best and I did become something. When I turned up at the doors of the school I found it in ruins, I had hidden myself so far away that I hadn't even known how much trouble my beloved home had been in. I am sorry my dear grandfather and I swear on everything that makes me what I am I will help repair what you spent so many years building. I gently kiss the tips of my fingers and place them on the words that are engraved; "In loving memory of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore: loving family member and headmaster. Both those who knew you and those who didn't have been blessed by what he has done."