TITLE: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
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NEVILLE AND LUNA
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Luna was as crazy as she was beautiful. Neville sighed and wiped sweat from his brow as Luna examined his flutterby bush with her arms full of recently picked gurdyroots. She was checking for some magical creature or another, ones that didn't exist and Neville had honestly lost track of all of the silly things she believed in and liked to check his gardens for. He just let her work to avoid having to listen to long explanations about things like nargles and wrackspurts, and heliopaths and other nonsense. He used to find her beliefs fun and charming, but the past couple of weeks Neville found himself being very annoyed by her. Maybe it had something to do with how nervous his grandmother made him and how she had been pressuring him to break things off with Luna.
"Can you really see yourself spending the rest of your life with this girl?" Augusta Longbottom had asked during her last visit. "One should know after a year if they want to marry a person or not, and you should not waste our time on someone you do not intend to marry."
Could he marry Luna? Neville didn't know.
She was beautiful and charming and non-judgmental. She was a wonderful person. But she got on his nerves, at times, with these things and he was even embarrassed by her sometimes. It was awful, really, and he didn't let it deter him from being seen in public with his girlfriend…but it was hard not to be self conscious with the way people stared at them when Luna was wearing a large daisy in her hair or an onion necklace or other silly things, spouting off about creatures no one else believed in. People looked at her like she was an escaped mental patient and he had no idea what anyone thought of him for being with her.
"I think it's all clear, Neville!" Luna called cheerily, getting back to her feet. Her dress was now dirty with grass stains and her long blond hair was tangled and spears of mud were all over her body from when she had been crawling around checking things.
"Thanks, Luna!" Neville called out half heartedly.
He did love her, even with everything else. Most days he could put up with her crazy. She certainly made life more interesting. But could he spend the rest of his life like this? Neville wasn't so sure…But as he watched Luna smile dreamily as she carried her things back into the house, Neville wasn't so sure he could end things either.
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