When he was just a young boy, Harry never imagined that he would have the world resting on his shoulders. But unlike every other little boy, Harry wished to have a family. He wanted somebody that would make him feel whole. Because there was a missing piece in his heart.
When he got to Hogwarts school for Witchcraft and Wizardry, he thought he would find that missing piece. But he didn't think that somebody he trusted could break his trust. He didn't think that a girl who he thought of as a sister would try to poison his mind for her own selfish gain. This girl with her hazel eyes and crimson hair, so reminiscent of her families, betrayed him. Made him doubt his own mind.
As he stares out of the astronomy tower, he wonders why these things happen to him. He only wanted to find happiness. He almost had it too. A girl with chocolate colored eyes and bushy brown hair. A girl who made him feel safe and loved, who made him laugh and treated him as if he was just a boy, a boy with no special names. But now, she's given up on him and is with his other best friend.
He wished he could be selfish, tell her he loved her and they'd run away together, but he knows that it would ruin his friends already low self-esteem. And he couldn't do that to somebody he considered his brother in all but blood.
"Maybe one day," he sighs.
Hermione was a simple girl. She was pretty in an understated way, but what she was really proud of was her mind. Her mind that helped a boy accomplish things. Things that only occurred in fairy tales. In these 8 years of friendship, she had experienced many things with this boy. But there was one thing she wanted to experience with this boy that she couldn't. She wanted him to want her. Only her. Sometimes she thought she could see a flicker of something in his eyes, but she always put it to wishful thinking.
She wished he would be selfish.
She wished she could be selfish.
But the thing is, you couldn't be selfish when you are best friends with a boy who thinks you're always cheating on him or don't love him. But she knows, that in some part of him mind, he is right. And that is what kills her. She wished he would just dump her. But he won't, because they have something to prove. They have to prove that this isn't a failure. That all those times he fought with her wasn't in vain. And that she isn't really in love with an emerald eyed boy.
"Maybe one day," she sighs.
"One day, I'll be strong enough to leave and be selfish. I'll be strong enough to leave him and love you…" she promises to nobody.
A few weeks later, a redheaded boy finally gives up. It's not that he loves her any less, but he's finally realized that he's fighting a losing battle and trying so hard isn't making this relationship any better. The kisses are awkward and they definitely don't want to do anything beyond heavy touching knowing that her heart isn't totally in it.
So he finally sets her free.
He knows she loves somebody else. A boy, a boy who is his brother. A boy who deserves the world. And he's finally done being selfish.
He knows she deserves better than what he can give her. So he sets out to find somebody who will make him want to be a better person. Somebody just as wonderful and passionate as he is. Maybe a girl with radish earrings he knows will help him understand that there are fantastic things for him out in the world.
Authors Note: There will be an epilogue...I just haven't written it. But there will be an epilogue.