TOO LATE
Some people are just meant to be together.
How come I didn't know it until it was too late?
My name is Angelina Johnson. And I fell in love with my best friend.
Except, you see, I didn't know it until it was far too late. It was too late for me to finally get the courage up and tell him what I was thinking. Too late for me to wrap my hands around the back of his pale neck and kiss his pink lips.
I didn't realize that he was the one until after we had left Hogwarts. Well, after he left Hogwarts. I didn't realize until he was gone from my life forever. Forever.
We used to be the best of the best. He was the one that I could talk to about any problem that I had.
When my grandfather died in fourth year, he sat next to me on the couch in the Gryffindor Common Room and wrapped his long arms around my shoulders and held me while I cried. I cried for two hours and never once did he complain or use a lousy excuse to get away. He just sat there with me, pulling me closer when I shook with anger and fear, when the tears gave my body shivers. He held on.
When I made Gryffindor Quidditch Captain in sixth year, he was there raising me onto his shoulders, carrying me around like I was the Minister of Magic and had just saved the whole wizarding world from the worst wizard in all of wizard-kind.
He was there when I failed my stay-up-all-night-and-studied-for potions exam. He made a joke to get my mind off of it, he danced around in circles for minutes, looking like the biggest -but cutest- idiot on the face of the Earth and he made me laugh.
He got so angry one day, that he and his brother just left. Without warning, without so much as a hug for me. And all I could do was watch as he flew off, into the distance, with his long red hair flapping in the night air and his dark crimson and gold robes clinging tightly to his toned body.
My body shook and I could feel Alicia and Katie, pushing past me to get a better view through the crowd. I stared into the sky, with a broken heart pounding in my chest.
All I could do was whisper to him, though he wasn't able to hear.
All I could say was, "Fred Weasley, I love you."