you're nobody until somebody loves you
A HariPo drabble collection
by mew-tsubaki
- ^-^3
They were in a cycle, forever watching over Hannah falling—to pieces over her dead mother, behind in school, in love with Neville, beside herself as she determined her future.
That was why falling together felt like the natural thing for Susan and Ernie, on Hannah's sidelines, even though it felt out of order, when the feelings (they named it—"love"—later) arrived, inconveniently and when they least expected.
But perhaps it wasn't so bad, if they became the first one in each other's thoughts instead of Hannah.
(Hannah watched over them, too; turns out she didn't mind one bit.)