A/N: This is my response to the '100 words' challenge from WIKTT

Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Harry Potter.

An Admission

I say that I love you Hermione, hoping you will see that beyond my unlovely face and nature is someone who would love you until the sands of time ran out. Beyond as well…

You look surprised, eyes wide...and for all the times I (wrongly!) called you a foolish girl I see that now I am the foolish one. I have bared my lonely heart and it was all for nothing.

Then you smile, reach up and touch my face gently and…and I see that you do see me.

"I love you," you say and the world starts anew.