December 7, 2021:
I was with Michael, sobbing my eyes out into his shoulder. He had one arm wrapped around me, and the other was petting my head. I had been crying for about five minutes now. I ran into the Great Hall during dinner time, tears filling my eyes. Michael took one look at me and got up from his table. Scorpius tried to follow him, but Michael knew that this wasn't a conversation Scorpius should be a part of. I loved Scorpius, but he wasn't the most sensitive of guys.
Michael quickly walked up to me and pulled me outside. Now here we are, me sobbing into his shoulder while he was being the sweetest guy known to man.
"So what happened?" he asked me.
It took me a second before I could calm myself down enough for me to form coherent words. "We broke up," I finally forced out. It brought another round of sobs out of me. I felt like I was falling apart.
He gave me a questioning look before asking, "Wait who broke up with whom?"
"It was kind of a mutual thing," I replied.
Now he looked more confused than ever. He asked, still soothingly, "But I thought you really liked him, Rose?"
"I did. I think I was falling in love with him," I squeaked out. This was the first time I said it out loud, and it was true. I may have not been all the way there yet, but I could feel myself going in that direction.
"When I talked to you this morning, you said you were going to invite him to Scorpius' Christmas Eve party," Michael then pointed out.
He was right. I woke up this morning determined to invite him to the party. I have never invited anybody to come with me. It was always a time that I reserved for my boys, but Theo was different. Both Michael and Scorpius really liked him. The four of us could hang out, and even I would sometimes forget that he would be hanging out with us because he was my boyfriend. He just felt so comfortable around them. After talking about it with Michael, I thought it would be a good idea to invite him.
"So you went to meet up with him. Then what happened?" Michael urged.
I explained to him that I met Theo in the Room of Requirement. He had the perfect dinner set up for the both of us. There was candlelight and violins and really cheesy stuff like that, but Theo knew that I would love it. It was beautiful and one of the sweetest things any guy has ever done for me.
We sat down and ate. We talked and had a good time, but I could tell that Theo had something on his mind. When I suggested that we move to the couch that magically appeared in the room, Theo declined.
Never has he ever declined.
I now knew that something was definitely up. I asked Theo what was on his mind, and he told me that we needed to talk. I knew where those dreaded words were going, but I hoped that I was misinterpreting him.
He told me that his father got a new job in the United States, and that his family was moving there at the end of this week. I asked him how long he knew about it, and he told me a month. He knew about this move for an entire month, and he didn't even think to mention it to me!
So then he said that since he wouldn't be coming back to England very much that he thought it would be best for us to break up.
"And what did you say?" Michael asked.
"What do you think I said?" I snapped. "I wasn't going to be dating a boy that lived on the other side of the world that I would never see."
"So you two broke up," he said, calmly. He was even offended that I just practically bit his head off.
"Yeah, but first he put this necklace on me and gave me a kiss goodbye."
The necklace was cool against my skin. It had a silver heart pendant hanging from it. I pulled it over my neck, breaking the clasp, and threw it across the room. I was angry. Angry that things couldn't work out for once in my life. Angry that I had finally found the perfect guy, and even he couldn't stay.
Michael let me go for a second to walk over and pick up the broken necklace. "Reparo!" he said, fixing the necklace. Then he walked back over to me.
He tried to put it back on me, but I pulled away from him.
"You'll be sorry that you don't have it when you are gone," he said, his bright green eyes boring into me.
"I don't want the stupid necklace. I don't want anything to do with that stupid git!" I snapped again, tears falling from my eyes.
"Yes you do. Now stop fidgeting and let me put it back on you," he said.
I did as he told me, but I wasn't happy. I didn't think I would ever be happy ever again.
