Sorry for the sad/short chapter... it gets better next chapter! Enjoy!
Impatiently I wait for the sorting and the feast to end. Luckily none of the other Slytherins are talking to me, so I eat quickly and sit silently while anticipating dismissal. I can't help but glance over at the Gryffindor table periodically, and most of the times I look over at Lily she's looking at me. We both blush and look back down at our plates, but can't help but look up again.
When Dumbledore finally sends us to our commons, I lag behind. Soon Lily and I are the only ones left in the Great Hall, under the magnificent starry sky. She walks over to my, smiling slightly.
"I missed you."
"I missed you too. I wish I could have sat with you." Lily takes my hand, grinning.
"We'll get through this, Sev, we can still hang out together, we'll find time."
"Will we? We said we would last year too, but look what happened. I hate being apart from you, Lily."
"Sev, you can't think like that, we have to try. I hate being apart from you too, but maybe it's for the best." She blurts out the last part, then looks away.
"What?"
"It's nothing, nevermind."
"What do you mean, it's for the best? Don't you... like being with me?"
"Of course I do! You're my best friend! But I'm starting to worry that maybe that's all we should be. What if I start to like someone else? I'm scared things are moving too far and too fast."
"So, you want to break up?" I can't believe it, after the amazing summer we'd had. Things had been so perfect, and she wants to end it? Doesn't she understand how much I love her?
"No! Maybe. I don't know! I need time to think. But I still want to be with you! Just not in that way."
"Lily, I can't be with you at all if we can't be together. I can't handle it, and it wouldn't be fair to you."
"So you'd rather not be with me at all than to be with me as a friend? Is that all you ever cared about in me? I thought you liked me for me?"
"I did. But clearly I wasn't enough for you."
"Well if you're going to be like that, then maybe it would be better for me to not see you at all!"
"Fine!" I storm off, red with rage. Only once I reach my dormitory am I calm enough to understand what has happened, and only once I'm in bed do I cry.
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