This is written in First POV and mainly in Charlie's. Although there will be times it'll be in Gwenog's POV. This maybe slightly AU because Gwenog is the same age as Charlie and she attended Hogwarts, although I don't remember too much information on Gwenog in the books. I hope you like it! XD
Prologue of Love, Harpies and Dragons
No one really knew why I was doing this. No one but the twins that is, and her.
I had always wanted to be a dragon tamer; it seemed like the perfect job! Exciting, dangerous, and with just a flair of originality, I mean how many people can say they are a DRAGON TAMER! How Merlin is that?
That's the reason I told my parents, my family, and my friends that I was leaving. That I wanted to be a dragon tamer and the closest reservation taking rookies was in Romania. Of course the Weasley family was none too happy about me moving so far away, but eventually they succumbed to the fact that I was going. And no amount of talking was going to keep me from moving.
Somehow, to this day I'll never know, the twins just knew. They knew that wasn't the only reason. So they pestered, and pestered, and pranked, and pestered some more until they got the answer to the unasked question.
Why? Why was I really going?
The same reason any man, boy, or teen runs away, leaves, the reason was a woman.
A woman who broke my heart in two, a woman who made me fall head over heels only to ensure that I plummeted to the harsh reality of gravity and ground. She was my world. And no one knew.
She wanted it that way. Our relationship to remain the shadows, she told me that it made our romance all the more exciting and thrilling. And I was fine with that, as long as it was me who was holding her in the end. As long as it was only me who felt those soft and luscious lips against mine.
I, Charlie Weasley, renowned player and overall heartthrob, had fallen deeply in love with…the equally sexy Gwenog Jones.
Our seventh year together was bliss, that year we were together, was the happiest of my life. We would kiss in forgotten broom closets, snog in empty classrooms, and whisper words of love in each other's ear in the Room of Requirement, our favorite getaway.
Then she ended it. Abruptly, unexpectedly, in fact I had thought that she was finally willing to let everyone know that we were an item. So those jerks I call friends would stop leering at her.
It was the day of our graduation, and I swear my heart stopped as I saw her give me a soft smile as she accepted her diploma. After the graduation, she brushed past me, her hand lingering against my arm, it sent sparks of electricity through my body. I reached into my pocket and found a note.
It read: Meet me at the Trophy Case at 4:30. –Yours, G.
And you can be sure that I was there, on time, fidgeting like the major gryffindork I secretly was. She walked up to me, her warm brown eyes meeting mine, and I swear the world stopped.
"Hey," she had whispered and smiled.
"Hey," I replied but somehow I knew that the smile was forced, that her tone was shaky.
Now understand at this point, I was going to play quidditch for the Tornadoes, they had offered me their seeker position and I was inclined to accept. Especially since the woman I was in love with was staying here in England, playing as a chaser for the Harpies. It was no secret to anyone that I had a love of magical creatures. Many were surprised I decided to play quidditch instead of finding a career in magical creatures. But, I couldn't leave her.
And trust me, here comes the gryffindork again, it physically hurt to be away from her. She was my every thought that I couldn't even think straight. If I thought we were old enough, I would have proposed right then and there.
"Charlie," she said looking at her hands.
And now I know something's wrong. Gwenog and I had been in the same year, same house, and she was a Gryffindor through and through. She was never scared, never shy; in fact it scared me how confident she was. And maybe filled my dreams…, but that's a whole different thing.
"Gwen? What's up?" I ask, and now I'm getting real scared, because she won't look me in the eyes. She's looking everywhere but into my eyes, and now I realize what's up.
"Charlie, I think that we should…well we should," she started and her hands began to fidget, she looked back down at them. Gwenog furrowed her eyebrows and clenched her eyes shut.
And then everything clicked, I understood why she was acting strangely. She didn't come here to tell me that she was ready to make our relationship public. She was here to bury it. Forever. She was dumping me.
"Gwen…are you breaking up with me?" I question softly, and I cursed myself mentally for the soft crack in my voice as I spoke. My heart was breaking, and I, a full grown man (at least in my eyes), wanted to cry. To straight up sob, because I couldn't live without her. She had become my everything.
She tucked a strand of that lovely auburn hair of hers behind her ear. "Y-Yes," she breathed tenderly, and I could tell that she was scared of my reaction.
"Why?" I press, because I need to know. What did I do wrong? Did she love someone else? Did she finally realize she could do so much better? Or did she just use me as a stress relief? That would explain keeping our relationship in the dark.
"This wasn't supposed to last, Charlie! We are going our separate ways, we've graduated! It's time to grow up and move on! And I don't want you to make the mistake of staying when I don't feel the same way you do!" Gwenog snapped and looked up into my eyes.
That was a mistake, because I saw that she was serious, and there was a hidden emotion I had never seen in her eyes. That emotion was prominent and mixed in with her dead seriousness. For a second I thought I saw tears swarming to the surface, but she looked away. That emotion, the one that I couldn't recognize would haunt me every day since then.
"I'm sorry, Charlie, but it's time for us to say goodbye," she whispered before walking away.
And I swear I could hear my heart breaking. Although the last thought I had as she walked away was, "Merlin, I love her." I just wish I had told her. But maybe that would have made it hurt even more.
And so I ran. I ran like a little boy. I ran from the girl who would haunt my every dream and my every thought since then. I ran from the pain all the memories of England would bring. I ran from the poster of the woman I loved on the wall of my little sister. Yes, I ran because the truth is I'm still not over her.
There will be a song attached to each chapter, a playlist of sorts. The song I acquired inspiration from for this chapter is "The Truth by Jason Aldean."
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