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It had been unrequited right from the beginning, but he still didn't understand why. He only knew that he wasn't supposed to be feeling this way towards her. It may have been that she was far too intelligent for him. It may have been that she was unreachable. It may be that she belonged with him too much. It may have been that she was perfect for him. But his heart was not something that could be reasoned with. Why else would it fall in love, with two very different women, equally, and at the same time?
But of course he had never told either of them. Because, because? He did not have a reason acceptable enough. Cowardice would not have let him fight in the battle. But of course it takes a whole different kind of bravery to confess your love.
That was why, though his heart was divided in the middle, each part fighting for supremacy over the other, he was still undecided. Sometimes he wished they had been complete strangers. May be then he wouldn't have been so stupidly held up. May be then he would have had the courage Ron Weasley had.
Ron Weasley, whom he considered a friend, was also his worst rival. It was he who had taken both of them from him. One more permanently than the rest. But he could never blame him. That was why he was at their wedding, laughing with his friends, congratulating the happily married couple, watching as Ronald Weasley took his love away from him forever. But it hadn't hurt so much. Because she had been with him, hurting as well.
Lavender Brown, the one other person in the gathering who wished to be elsewhere. It was her pain that had him retracting. He couldn't love two people at once could he? But fate, it seemed thought differently.
She was nothing like the vain and silly person she had been at school. Neither did she look the same. Scars adorned her face which had once been pristine and untouched. But she seemed the same to him. The same person who had agreed to join the DA, the same person who had trusted the right people at the right time, the same person who had made him swallow his pride and apologize to Harry, the same person who had held on to a relationship she knew would never work.
They had been two peas in a pod, each mourning the loss of their own crushes, not realizing that they could have had something together. It had taken them a while, but they now had gotten it right. They were where they most wanted to be. With each other.
He knew they hadn't completely moved on. He doubted they ever would. But he was not going to be deterred by that. Because he was always the optimist.
The Mr Brightside.
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