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A/N: My next story from my table of prompts. This one popped into my head and I quite like the way it turned out. Not what I'd usually write, but it's nice to have a change of pace as an author.
As always, I hope you all enjoy.
Complicated By Nesserz.
"It's complicated," are the first and last words out of his mouth when she approaches him, demanding to know why they can't be together. It's not the first time she's approached him, but it's the first time he's been able to say anything, and he regrets the words the moment they form in his head and he's stupid enough to speak them.
She doesn't approach him again, after this.
It's not the finality that the words created that haunts him the most; it's the look on her face that he sees every time he closes his eyes.
The look is one of complete defeat, something not usual upon Ginny's features and its so strange to see her give up on something. He realises that it is he that she's giving up on and he firstly feels relieved. This is what he wanted after all, for her to find someone better than him, to be happy with someone who could make her happy in return. He wasn't that person. She was for him, and she knew it, but he couldn't return it, no matter how much he wished he could.
He didn't want her to keep investing her time in him knowing nothing would change, so he'd said what was on his mind. It had hurt her he knew. She never said anything but the look on her face spoke volumes. He often recalled how it was the first time he truly was able to read Ginny's feelings through her facial expressions like she'd always done to him. "I can read you like a book," she'd often told him and he'd been jealous that he couldn't do the same of her. It seemed rather ironic that the first time he was able was also the last time he spoke to her.
They dodge one another at the Burrow, she's always visiting Luna when he visits Molly and Arthur, and he always makes sure to be visiting Hermione whenever he knows Ginny's stopping by the Burrow for dinner. It's a horrible thing to have to do, but it works and who is he to dispute what works? So he doesn't.
Not until one day he runs into her in Diagon Alley, literally and they stand, staring at one another and for a second it's as though nothing has changed, they take in the sight of one another like they always did, but then the crowd jostling them side to side snaps them back to reality and they're back where they started.
He doesn't see her again for a month and he thinks he might be going crazy because he can't stop thinking about her and everything in his life reminds him of her. The old adage, 'You don't know what you've got until it's gone,' taunts him over and over until he can't take it anymore; he has to see her - needs - to see her and he does. In the arms of someone new. Her eyes widen and her partner senses that they have unfinished business and kisses Ginny on the cheek and leaves them alone.
"Ginny - " she hangs her head, steeling herself to say what she's needed to say but has been avoiding. He knows before she speaks what she's going to say.
It's when she speaks that he knows the pain she must have suffered through and his heart breaks, not only for her, but for him too.
"It's complicated,"
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Fin
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So...what did we all think of this one? Yay or nay?