Echo
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"We can't," Teddy said simply, pushing Lily backwards with more force than he meant, so she stumbled, hitting the wall.
"What?" she demanded. "Why not?"
"Because it's wrong," he said. "Because I'm too old for you. Because I'm going out with Victoire, and I love her. Because it's not appropriate."
Lily was silent as he left, but the word appropriate echoed in her mind until she was dizzy and dazed and the only way she could get Teddy's voice out of her head was to creep downstairs in the dead of night and steal her parents' sleeping pills and firewhiskey.
Author's Notes: Also for the Next-Gen Drabble Tag on the Next Gen Fanatics Forum – Pairing: Lily/Teddy, Prompt: Appropriate