A/N: Luna/Neville, one of my absolute favorite pairings for Harry Potter! Inspired by Taylor Swift's "Tim McGraw". Half flashback and half present time based on what's going on in the lyrics, should be pretty easy to follow if you listen to the song while you read. Luna and Neville are kinda OOC here.
She had loved Neville Longbottom for as long as she could remember. He was a year older than her, so it was her first year and his second when she first saw him. And everyday since then she had fallen even more in love with him than she thought possible.
He said the way my blue eyes shined
Put those Georgia stars to shame that night
I said: "That's a lie."
Just a boy in a Chevy truck
That had a tendency of gettin' stuck
On backroads at night
And I was right there beside him all summer long
And then the time we woke up to find that summer gone
Neville had surprised her when he agreed with her idea to leave the wizarding world and move to America with her. She agreed on Georgia and he found them a small house in the country close to a town but far enough away if they wanted to do magic.
But when you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think my favorite song
The one we danced to all night long
The moon like a spotlight on the lake
When you think happiness
I hope you think that little black dress
Think of my head on your chest
And my old faded blue jeans
When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think of me
The two had gone out to dinner shortly after arriving and getting settled. He had picked a semi-formal restaurant outside of town. She walked down the stairs in an amazing little black dress that had rendered him speechless when he turned around and laid eyes on her. After dinner the two had gone back to the pickup truck he bought and he drove out to the lake on their property. She jumped back into the bed of the truck and shimmied out of her dress and into one of his flannel shirts and a pair of faded jeans. They danced out there in the moonlight to whatever song was playing on the truck's radio.
September saw a month of tears
And thankin' God that you weren't here
To see me like that
But in a box beneath my bed
Is a letter that you never read
From three summers back
It's hard not to find it all a little bitter sweet
And lookin' back on all of that, it's nice to believe
They went through a rough patch in September. Neville's grandmother passed away and he went back to London to take care of the funeral and details. Luna was angry because all they did before, during, and when he returned was fight. She looked back on all the letters she wrote him that he never read. She feels sorry now for all that she said to him.
When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think my favorite song
The one we danced to all night long
The moon like a spotlight on the lake
When you think happiness
I hope you think that little black dress
Think of my head on your chest
And my old faded blue jeans
When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think of me
They agreed to separate for a while after that. Both agreed that they should stay in Georgia but Neville moved out to another place and Luna stayed in the house.
And I'm back for the first time since then
I'm standin' on your street
And there's a letter left on your doorstep
And the first thing that you'll read is:
It had been almost a year that they had been separated and Luna missed Neville terribly. She had seen him around town on dates with other girls and once with Hannah Abbot from school! So she wrote him a letter pouring her heart out about all the times they shared.
When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think my favorite song
Someday you'll turn your radio on
I hope it takes you back to that place
When you think happiness
I hope you think that little black dress
Think of my head on your chest
And my old faded blue jeans
When you think Tim McGraw
Those nights made her smile and he loved her with all his heart. But when they started fighting his heart just broke and he left. He wasn't happy when he tried to be with other girls and that one date with Hannah just didn't feel right.
I hope you think of me
Oh, think of me
Mmmm
When he read the letter that Luna left on his front porch his heart broke even further. He made her feel worthless. He broke her heart by seeing other girls when she hadn't even seen another man. All he could think of was her blue eyes. So he started up that old pickup and turned his keys into his landlord and with whatever small things he had taken with him he drove back to the house he and Luna had gotten. He threw rocks up at her window. She pulled up the window and smiled at him and waved for him to come in after he mouthed the two words she had been waiting to hear: "I'm sorry."
He said the way my blue eyes shine
Put those Georgia stars to shame that night
I said: "That's a lie"
