The ground is right underneath you
Let yourself
Fall into all that completes you
And I will keep my arms like so
Forever, if ever you let go
If ever you let go.
Title: Forever, If Ever
Characters/Pairings: Teddy/Lily Luna
Summary: A set of twelve songfics, in sequential order, based off Jon McLaughlin's album Forever If Ever.
Chapter Two: A Little Too Hard (And A Little Too Fast)
He sighs as he walks through his front door. Teddy Lupin is exhausted, and the entire Potter-Weasley clan is coming over to his house tonight.
That means Lily's coming.
He doesn't know if he can take it.
He tries to take his mind off of the fact that Lily is coming over – and not as his girlfriend. He sweeps his floor and buys everything he needs. But it doesn't work. Nothing works – nothing has ever worked. He hasn't seen her since they fell apart.
He dresses simply – putting on a white v-neck t-shirt, his better pair of jeans.
Wonder how Vicky's gonna do her hair, he thinks absentmindedly, not really caring. He used to wonder how Lily would do her hair.
He starts to lose it – but then everyone starts showing up.
It's the Percy Weasleys first – Percy, Audrey, all of their kids – who really aren't that little anymore. Then it's the Bill Weasleys – Bill, Fleur, Dominique, Louis, Victoire…
She looks great, Teddy thinks – although he never says beautiful. Only Lily has ever deserved the word beautiful…
Crap, Teddy thinks, I wore this shirt last time I saw Lily…
He should be thinking about Victoire, not Lily.
He almost feels like he's still with Lily – but time goes by so fast…
Life moves a little too fast sometimes.
Everyone's here now.
Lily's here now.
And she doesn't meet his eyes, doesn't give him a glance, just goes to find Hugo – the one cousin who understands her.
To think that when he remembered their glory days – the good old days – he thought that those days would suddenly come back, that the fact that they were just in the same room would bring them back together.
Idiot, he thinks.
Although it was nice to see her again. It was nice to see her again – he misses her so much.
Why did their summer have to end? Why did they have to lose their precious summer romance? What changed to make everything fall apart?
Stupid family reunions, he thinks as Grandmother Weasley – as they all call her – pulls out every scrapbook, ever.
And there it is. The scrapbook of that crucial summer, the summer you and Lily were together. Victoire's brows furrow and you try to avoid looking at the pictures, but it's like looking at a car crash – it's terrible and it hurts you to see it, but you can't look away.
What were we thinking? he thinks, shaking his head at his younger self – he had light streaks in his hair back then.
Lily's leaning against the door, glancing at the pictures, trying to act like she isn't looking – like she doesn't care.
There's one picture of Lily where she's leaning against his piano – you took tons of pictures of her in all sorts of poses, because you just liked taking pictures of her. There's Lily, glancing at you over a canvas she was painting. There's Lily, wearing that hat you bought her. Lily sitting on the couch, Lily about to blow into a pinwheel to make it spin, Lily laying down in the road, Lily smiling and laughing with her hair blowing in the wind.
And there's all the pictures took of Teddy – Teddy playing piano, Teddy playing guitar, Teddy asleep, Teddy hugging her dog that she got rid of after they broke up, Teddy fixing that Muggle car she insisted on having.
And he thinks that they look so stupid…except for her. She's just as perfect as she always was.
Everything's changed since then. Everything's different.
And maybe life moves by just a little too fast.
So what did you think of that one? I really liked it, myself. And for your pleasure, I made the pictures from the scrapbook into collages on photobucket. Find me - my username is Lily-In-Lace. :D :D Here the actual lyrics to the song - at the bottom now so you don't have to scroll through them all. XD
everyone's coming over tonight
I swept the floor and bought some ice
and I'm picking out something to wear
as I try to guess the way she'll do her hair
I'm blowing up they're showing up fast
I realize I wore this shirt last time I saw you
man life moves...
a little too hard and a little too fast
we keep talking 'bout good ol' days
like they're gonna come back
yeah it's nice to see you again
why do the summers have to end?
let the reminiscing begin
pull out old pictures, man what where we thinking?
like my bleached hair with that old shirt
we look so stupid, well, except for her
and even though everything has changed
time is only half to blame
and tonight it's true
man, life moves
It's an amazing song, you should look it up. Special Mentions to Couture Girl and Yellowtail555! :D Next chapter is Summer Is Over.
Love always,
Lily