candle light

character: Teddy Lupin

By:

xoxotruegryffindorxoxo (Georgia - Gryffindor)

I needed to get away. I couldn't be with her anymore, not when I didn't love her. I took one last look at my wife, who was incidentally crying at what I had just said.

"What are you doing?" she said while I pulled my clothes out of the wardrobe. I threw them on to the bed and pulled out my wand. I waved it so that all the clothes packed the selves into a suitcase I had got down earlier.

"I just need to get away. I can't be with you anymore. Not when I think your cheating" I said as I realised that I needed to admit that I loved someone else. I had always known who I had loved but I couldn't let her get away again. I closed the lid and made my way down stairs. We had just had a fight and somewhere in the middle of it I realised I didn't love her anymore.

"I've told you. I'm. Not. Cheating." she shouted, her voice cracking as the tears started running down her flawless skin.

"I don't believe you" I answered honestly.

"What?" The pain replaced with anger. I turned around and I saw the tears suddenly stop. "Why not?"

"Someone told me otherwise and I believe them." I whispered, shaking my head. The tears came back twenty times worse than before.

"We have been together 7 years. Why don't you believe me?" she angrily, while coming closer to me.

"Because they showed me this." I said pulling out a picture from my back pocket. I handed her the photo and I turned round leaving her alone to think about the picture. The picture was of her and a boy around her age. I didn't recognise him they were holding hands and she was gazing into his eyes. Now you try and tell me that doesn't look suspicious.

"This proves nothing. You can't let this affect us. It was probably taken by someone who doesn't like their sad, pathetic life and has to mess with others to make themselves feel better." She said throwing the picture away. I bent down to pick up the photo and I tucked it into my back pocket.

"It doesn't matter who took it. It looks like your cheating on me and I'm not happy with that."

Not when you don't love her anymore, I thought to myself. This was just the icing on the cake. This just made me leave her. If this hadn't come out then I would have found another way to go. I just needed to know that what I felt was feel.

"But I'm not. Please you can't leave me!" she pleaded.

"I'm sorry, but this" I said pointing to and from us "is over. I can't carry on leading a lie. And besides I have to go see someone." I said heading for the door. Suddenly, just before I reached the door, I slowly reached out for her right hand which she all so happily gave me. I ran my fingers over all her fingers until I reached the right one. I then, ever so slowly, pulled off the glistening ring which I had given her 7 months before.

"I'm sorry!" I whispered, closing the door behind me.

I pulled myself back to the present time. I had to get away now before she made me stay. I took one last look at our house before I spun around, trying to get away from all the painful memories.

My insides churned. Man I hate apparating. I hadn't pictured a place so I had no idea where I would end up. I suddenly felt my feet hit the soft ground just as I lurched forward. It was pitch black, so I cast lumos. I brought my wand up to eye level to see where I was. I instantly recognised it as mine and my best friend's little hideout from when we were younger. I quickly walked towards the hollow tree where we used to sit for hours just talking. I really missed those days. She hated me now though, and I mean really hated me, ever since I had asked my 'girlfriend' to marry me. I quickly found the old candle that we used to light the tree with when it got dark. I lit the old candle with the end of my wand and looked around the worn out tree. Then something caught my eyes. A Purple note book next to the wall. I reached over and gripped it hard while I brought it over to where I sat. I quickly opened up the front page and read the words on it.

Do not read, or you will suffer from one hell of a bat bogy hex.

I knew I shouldn't read but curiosity crept through me. I turned over the page and read what it said.

7th June.

I hate him. I hate him. How could he do this to me? I mean I love him. I always have and he hasn't even realised, instead he has just asked that cow to marry him. Mum guessed when I got home and told her the 'news' I guess it wasn't hard, with the fact that I burst in to tears when I told her. She had never really gotton on with her very well. Mum always said she was too much like my mum's sister in law.

I flipped a few more pages until I saw something that caught my eye.

OMG. I have just caught that bitch snogging Michael Jordan. She is engaged to the love of my life and she is just going to throw him around like he is just some shit she found. Oh no victorie Weasley. You did NOT just mess with me!

My breath caught in my throat. I wasn't imagining things when I saw that photo and said I thought she was cheating earlier. She had made out that I was the bad guy but it was her all along. It then took me several seconds for my mind to click about what lily had wrote earlier,

The love of my life

I love him. I always have

She had always loved me. Just like I had but I just could admit it until now. It still hadn't sunk in. she had always loved me.

When she had been days old.

When she asked me to play with her when she was 5.

When she was 7 and asked me if I would marry her when she was older while we were sitting in our hideout.

When she had broken up with her 1st boyfriend because he felt she just didn't love him enough.

All this time, the whole of her short life, she had loved me. And I had loved her; I had just been too scared to admit it. I pulled myself out from the tree and I ran. I ran as fast as I could to her house. Even though she was 21 years old she still lived with her parents. Once I had got to the door I pulled out a key and I carefully made my way to the room where I knew she would be. I saw her asleep in her bead. I carefully made my way next to her and I kneeled down next to her. I moved her bright red hair away from her eyes and stared. She looked to peaceful as she slept. All of a sudden her eyes began to move.

"Teddy? Is that you?" she asked sleepily.

"Yeah." I replied, pulling her close.

"Why are you here?"

"I need to tell you something!" I said while stroking her hair.

"Go on"

"I love you" I told her as I bent down and kissed her.

"I love you too." She said replying to the kiss. She moved over to allow enough room for me to lie next to her. I lifted her head and she lied it down on my chest, as we both let the sleep take us to the rest of our lives.

Candle light. The best way to see. It blocks out all the pain from your past. It only lets you see the future. And it makes you realise the best things in life. If I hadn't of seen that diary 69 years ago then I would never have gained the courage to tell my god sister that I love her.