A/N Not what I intended...
Its short, I know, but R&R plz!
"….marry me?"
The words seemed to come from far away. She didn't know what to say. She loved him, but could she do this?
Lily looked into James hopeful, eager eyes. She couldn't bear to replace the light with sadness, yet she felt like it was wrong to agree. Because of Severus.
Sev.
Her best friend, for so long. She never forgave him for what he said. He had pleaded, his eyes full of desperation and hurt, his face a mask of misery. But she'd refused.
Memories of his laugh came back. Days in which they would talk, tease, hang out. Those days were so perfect, so precious. And she'd still refused.
She looked back into James' eyes. Sev had looked at her like that once. When he'd first asked to be her friend. And yet, she had let him fall into that pit of confusion, accusing him, instead of helping out. She had failed him. She had let him go.
Thinking about that, she knew her answer.
"I will."
She couldn't change what happened between her and Sev. But she could redeem herself by accepting someone else, by not failing another.
She could love them both.