Author's Note: This is just a little something I wrote… while planning my Lily/Severus story. I'm planning on continuing… so this could serve as a little introduction. I just need to start writing, and see what happens from there. Hehe, I don't even have a title for it just yet. I have several ideas… but no definite title *smiles*

It's as if you've never been hurt, but I know that can't be true.

When I first saw the Mark upon your arm, I wondered

Singled out from so many, but for what reason?

I'd see you every day… you had always been alone

Then I got to know you, I got to know what lay beneath

Even now, I still remember the way you'd try to hide smiles, but then give in

When I got talking to you, one day I found out why

Severus, you told me more then you had perhaps told anyone else

And even now… I never forgot