Almost lover

Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images
You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick

Sometimes she doubts her sanity. It's been 10 years from his death. And still she can see him everywhere she goes. And wonders is it a dream or reality?

Well, I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me

The castle is no longer full of students; corridors are no longer full of laughter and chattering. There is no one except for her and Him. He's the only companion here in this emptiness. And sometimes when she sees him, she fears she has lost her sanity for life.

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

She often thinks about him. And can't help but wonders what would it have been like if he were still alive, would something have changed? And then she smiles. She does not smile often, but she does smile at this irony- the irony of her life.

We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images
And when you left, you kissed my lips
You told me you would never, never forget
These images

She never was one for love. When the girls in her age were chattering about boys, she rather settle down in her favorite armchair and started to read History of Hogwarts. At least for thousandth time. But then she met him. And his eyes were the first thing she'd fallen in love with.

Well, I'd never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me

He meant earth and heaven to her. They went through many things together either happy or sad. But always life went on, always they were together and then, her life had stopped its race with time. Her life and her heart were shattered into the pieces the day he died.

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

That day when so-called friend killed his mentor, killed him without any hesitation, any mercy. And she cries, she cries not for him or for the world or for the people dying outside but she cries, for the first time in her life, for herself.

I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning



Suddenly her legs seem to be too heavy for her to carry and she falls to the floor, tears running down her cheeks. She's too tired, too weakened to bear this burden. To be here without him.

Without you on my mind
So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine

And then she sees him again standing here and watching her with sadness in his eyes.

„You know as well as I do that we've been meant to be, my dear Minerva. We've always wanted each other. Pity we don't always get everything we want, even though it was something we were born for, even though it was something we wanted with all our hearts''

Did I make it that
Easy to walk right in and out
Of my life?

And she watches him to walk away, still his words hanging in her mind. She knows they will meet again either in heaven or in hell.

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should have known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

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