AN: I've been writing a lot of prompts today! Here's another one: The prompt was: Begin with "There was once a chance I didn't take"… I don't own HP!

Chances:

There was once a chance I didn't take. I watched opportunity knocking at my door and I closed the blinds and hid in my cupboard. Opportunity doesn't knock twice – or so they say – but it did for me. In fact, opportunity – minx that she is – has been knocking, pounding, huffing and puffing to come in for nearly seven years and I keep reinforcing my hidey-hole and shying away. Well I finally got my wish didn't I? Opportunity gave up on me right after it ripped me out of my hideaway and exposed my core to the world. Opportunity made sure I saw just what I was missing.

I felt the twinge in my stomach as he kissed her. I felt the knots trying around my throat; closing off my air. What did she see in Dean; besides his handsome, charming, and all around brilliant persona?

Chance is a funny thing, if you take chances you risk everything, but if you don't take them you risk more. I stare at Ginny as she laughs at his jokes. There once was a chance I didn't take.