This sweet little gem came to me as I was preparing to write a fan fiction. I hope you like it as much as I did.

Graduation.

It was all too much! Wrenching herself away from the scene in front of her – her boyfriend Harry and Ginny Weasley, her best friend – Hermione ran.

Like rain her teardrops fell

On to the ground

I love you and I'm not afraid.

The paintings seemed to mock her as she ran. It was over, oh, she'd suspected for a while, but to have it thrown in her face like that.

Beneath her feet

Above the stairs

I love you and I'm not afraid.

The halls of Hogwarts vibrated with sound, the graduation ball was in full swing.

And the party below

I love you and I'm not afraid.

It was useless. She was useless. All the years of study she had endured, and for what? Nothing. No boyfriend. No friends. Nothing.

It was the end

No more, all gone

The excuses

I love you and I'm not afraid.

The steps of the astronomy tower loomed in front of her. She took them two at a time.

Can't let go

Should never

I love you and I'm not afraid.

The wind outside screamed her name. She knew what she had to do, but was she strong enough?

All things end, beauty fades and song dies

Death

I love you and I'm not afraid.

Watching the stars blur with her tears Hermione thought back to her last summer at Grimmauld Place. Without Sirius it had seemed dead. Empty. The life had gone. It was just a shell. Like her.

All alone

The pain

Of herself

I love you and I'm not afraid.

She remembered the nightmares. Remembered who had held her as she cried.

When she's trapped inside her head

Screaming

I love you and I'm not afraid.

They had kept it a secret. And when they had parted she had thought she would die, the pain in her heart was so great. But then, with Harry…

New beginnings

Never end

I love you and I'm not afraid.

After the downfall of Voldermort she had thought about leaving England, making a new life somewhere. But Harry had convinced her to stay. 'It was for the best, he loved her', he had said.

Decisions

She cannot leave

I love you and I'm not afraid.

But then things had started to go wrong. The fightsbecame more frequent. The words, like daggers, flew between them.

It's a cage

Knowledge

And it has trapped

Her

I love you and I'm not afraid.

But they had tried. With sweat and tears they had kept it together. They had weathered the storm of Ron's death as well as the storms between them.

Ill prepared for a new world order

She cannot leave

And so

I love you and I'm not afraid.

But it had been so hard! And now this. The wind was getting worse. Slowly she started to climb.

She

I love you and I'm not afraid.

Her toes curled over the side of the stone railing

Must

I love you and I'm not afraid.

She raised her arms

Stay

I love you and I'm not afraid.

And flew away from it all.

I'm not afraid.