Title: What Is and Never Will Be
Word Count: 38
Timeline: Post DH
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and I make no money from this
A/N: This drabble was written in collaboration with The Moonspinner. Idea was mine; credit for the actual wording goes to MS. Please address all favourable reviews to the brilliant person who saved me a migraine. I'll take any bad ones.

Nineteen years later and two friends treat each other like perfect strangers. They avoid each other's eyes afraid that one single glance will confirm everything they know, but are too weak to say.

It should have been us.