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Musical Chairs Competition III. Prompt: "Creep" by Radiohead
Creep
He'd made a mistake. Albeit a huge mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.
It was a slip of the tongue; a word he'd heard a thousand times thrown around casually in the common room. He never meant to say it, let alone yell it to her face.
But what's done was done, and Lily was gone forever.
Severus had tried futilely to apologize but she would have none of that. He'd have to denounce everything he'd worked for in Slytherin. Without the friends he made, he would be nothing to them. The bullying from Potter and his friends would be nothing compared to what Lucius could do.
"You're such an idiot, Severus," he muttered to himself as he watched her from across the grounds. "As if you ever had a chance with her anyway."
They had been friends for years, but friendship didn't always amount to something more. She was an angel, and he was a weirdo with perpetually greasy hair and a crooked nose.
Maybe one day she would notice him, if he managed to be something better than he was, but what was the chance of that? He was just going to have to settle for being a Slytherin creep and let her go.