Title: Unspoken
Author: Reilly Tross
Summary: Hearts are often broken. AU
Disclaimer: None is mine, I swear it.
James stood, his energy trickling out of his body and sinking into the floor. Framed in the doorway, looking into the dorm, he was sure he probably looked like a phantom. So different from how he looked before he opened the door. He'd caught sight of himself in a mirror on the way up to the seventh year's dorm. Cheeks flushed, practically vibrating with nervous tension, he had been the very picture of youthful vibrance. And now he looked like a ghost, watching his loved ones move on without him, with nothing to look forward too.
'No one person should have this much effect on another.' He had been looking to find his sometimes lover. After seeing Lily and Snivellous snogging, as disgusted as he had been, he had received the jolt needed to realize just how much he really loved, needed Sirius. Suddenly unable to breathe, James had hurried up to the dorm to find the other boy. 'Well,' he thought, 'I've found him. I wonder if Remus really tastes as good as it looks like he does.' James turned around and left the room, fighting back the murderous, traitorous tears. He didn't know why he cried.
"Cause hearts are often broken, by words left unspoken."