allow me to exaggerate a memory or two
where summers lasted longer than
longer than we do
He falls to the ground, his salty tears staining the palms of his hands as he melts into the pavement, an oozing mess of heartbreak.
Severus thinks back to summers gone by, to those hazy days of hopscotch and ice-blocks, in which he could have believed that she loved him. He thinks of all the times she threw her arms around his neck, beads of sweat dripping from her shiny cheeks like raindrops of happiness, and he remembers: once, they were friends.
Now, he has no words to describe their relationship, cracked like the pavement, only his tears; they taste like summer love.
Two words: inspiration loss. None of my other stories are coming to me, and I'm in a drabbly mood, so I decided to write this. There will be ten drabbles, each focussing on a different unrequited love pairing from Kore of Myth's 100 Pairing Challenge. This was also written for TheRavenclawNinja's Love Song Challenge, for which I claimed the song Folkin' Around. :) All the lyrics come from there.
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