Illusion

They created the illusion of the perfect couple.

The smartest witch and wizard in the year, with eleven Outstanding OWL apiece, they made quintessential fairy-tale couple.

The best looking too, they were.

She with her long red curls that tumbled all the way down her back and brilliant blue eyes, always smiling, she left the boys drooling after her.

He with his wind swept blond hair and piercing grey eyes, trademark smirk always in place, turning girls to butter with that gaze.

Best friends that had somewhere along the way turned into something more.

But this illusion of perfection and beauty was just that.

The fights were getting worse and were about inane things.

Academically too they were transforming from friendly rivals to arch enemies.

The stony silences, the periods of no communication or contact were lengthening.

No one saw through their illusion.

They were good at keeping secrets.

Yet, they both knew that one day; very soon, a fight would escalate into a battle, a war and shatter their illusion.

Their carefully crafted, precious illusion.

But until that they would keep it intact.

~littlegirlgonemad~

Author's Note: Not my usual style or very good. But what do you think?