-Mirror and Tears-

Come Together

Lily walked into her dormitory room in a huff. She couldn't explain why she could feel tears building in her eye. It was only a minor fight… no, it was major. Colossal even.

Scorpius had said something so horrible to her that she couldn't help but slap him before she ran away. He had cheated on her. Whether he knew what he was doing or not; whether he had planned it or not; or whether he confessed, it didn't make a difference. It didn't change what he had done.

The guilt must have built up inside him before he finally confessed that he had kissed her cousin in a not-so-friendish kind of way. The fury that was building in her against those two that she loved so much was blinding.

She found herself in front of her mirror, watching herself cry. How pathetic was that? Lily watched as the tears ran out of her puffy and red eyes and down her very red cheeks.

The most unattractive look a girl will ever have is the one she only shows to her mirror. The face that's covered in tears of grief. Now she showed her mirror self that she was in true pain by viewing those tears rolling down her face, and the snot out of her nose.

Scorpius was going to pay for this. It was as simple as that. Lily was going to make his life as miserable as she was at this exact moment. Rose was going to feel this pain through that Man-Whore that Lily had given her heart to. Sure they hadn't had sex or anything, but this was the worst Scorpius could do to her… and with her own cousin at that. Unforgivable!

Lily looked into the red, puffy eyes of her mirror self as she realized one thing. Revenge wasn't going to help anything. She just needed to move on and find a new man, one that wouldn't leave her like Scorpius had done to her.

The image in the mirror rubbed her face on her sleeve and walked away; a new beginning in her eyes.

As Lily lay in her bed, waiting for sleep to come, she thought of her perfect guy. The one that would make her laugh and hold her close during a particularly loud thunder storm to tell her that everything would be alright. All she could see in her mind's eye was Scorpius Malfoy smiling at her in that goofy way of his.

It was then that she fully realized that she was going to have to forgive him someday. Maybe not today or tomorrow… or even next week but she'd have to go back to him to be truly happy.

She let sleep take over her as one last tear rolled down the left side of her face.

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