Title: Goodbye
Rating: T
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Lavender/Ron (unrequited), Ron/Hermione
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em - not making any money off 'em. Dern it.
Word Count: 249
Summary: Lavender watches the man she loves get married to someone else.

Notes:

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: Diving - Reverse Dive - Write about a wedding.

Pokemon Trading Card Collection Challenge: Onix - Gold - Write about someone camouflaging themselves.


Lavender hoped she was camouflaged enough. The last thing she wanted was to be seen at this particular wedding. How pathetic was she? Lavender had dated the groom in sixth year only—and not even the full year—but she simply couldn't let him go.

She knew most people thought it was just a silly school girl infatuation, but it wasn't. What she felt for Ron was real. As real as what Harry felt for Ginny or what Ron felt for...

She closed her eyes.

She didn't want to go there. She didn't want to think about it even, but she knew she had to. She was hiding in plain sight at the wedding of Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

Soon, he would forever be out of her reach, and Lavender knew there was nothing she could do about it. Lavender might love Ron, but Ron loved Hermione, and nothing that Lavender did would change that.

She had come to the wedding, but it wasn't to torture herself. It was to get closure on a relationship that never stood a chance.

She had come to silently say goodbye to what could-have-been.

It was time for her to move on.

And as Ron and Hermione shared their first kiss as husband and wife, Lavender turned and walked out of the backyard, never recognized by anyone.

It was the beginning of a new life for her, and hopefully, she would find someone to love her as much as Ron loved Hermione.