Disclaimer: I own nothing but the OC and the plot. Everything else is JKR's.
Chapter Seven
As I walk toward the headstone, the birds are singing and the sun is shining. How sickening. How can they sing? They are revolting.
I come to the headstone. I kneel in front of it. Anger is surging through my veins. Why did she have to leave? Why couldn't it have been Black, or even me? But it wasn't, it was her.
I read the headstones and tears drip from my eyes. So inspiring, exactly how she would want it. I morbidly chuckle about it. To think this caring and considerate girl was a Slytherin.
I pull the black hood of my cloak up over my head and lay one last flower on her headstone. The headstone of my beloved, Hedwig...
'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.'