We Know It's Real

prompt: bells

character: Luna Lovegood

by

Eccentric 11 (Lune - Gryffindor)

Bells; lovely things they are.

She was actually the one to introduce me to this somehow magical object. I owe her one.

And now, she's wearing them as earrings. Not only once did the thought of how lucky I am crossed my mind.

Of course our relationship is not all that flawless, but she always said that when something has flaws, we know it's real.

I don't quite remember how it all started… All I know is that she was there, and so was I.

"Evening." she came out of no where and stroke the creature in front of me that's supposed to be a thestral. "Luna Lovegod." Luna reached out and offered me a hand shake. "Do you know that a trained thestral can take you anywhere you want to go? As long as you mentioned the location?"

"Y-you can see it?" I stammered, as I spent the last hour speculating how to study something you can't even see.

"Of course. It was my mum. I was 9." she mumbled.

"Oh, sorry." I looked at the forest floor. "Uhm, Rolf Scamander." I remembered I haven't introduce myself. "Can you help me? I can't-" I was cut mid-sentence.

"Yea sure. This is it's head." she gently touched what seemed to be nothing. "Those are the wings." she seemed to be admiring them.

"Is it okay?" I hesitated to reach out my hand.

"They're very nice creatures." Luna smiled.

"That's not what the Ministry said…" I tried to recollect my memory of that day's daily prophet.

"You're weird." I remembered her laugh during that very first meeting "The Ministry have no right to classify thestrals like they did"- only now I realized that she actually seemed to be admiring me.

I asked her out a few months later. I only went out with one other girl before her, so that was pretty nerve-wracking. Apparently, a month of preparation wasn't enough for me. She wasn't like any typical girl, and so she doesn't like things a typical girl likes. For instance, I gave her flowers, she just kept the leaves. I gave her chocolates, she thought it was to keep the wrackspurts away. In the end, I gave up and just asked her outright. She said yes.

Everyone who knows us would probably say that she deserves more than me. Well I agree with that statement. Why? Because she really does.

One time, she fell on top of me on a puddle. She gazed at me with her dreamy eyes and said, "We are an odd couple, aren't we?" She then continued the journey as if that was a completely common statement that demands no reply or comment whatsoever. But well, I'm guessing that to her eyes, I'm just me, and she's just the girl who loves me enough to want to be with me. So we don't have to worry about anyone not deserving the other, we have enough.

We're like two pieces of a big puzzle; we don't complete the whole world, but at least we have each other and we complete each other's world.

She really changed me to be the person that I am now. I used to be a mess, not knowing what to do with my life-thinking that having a famous grandfather will fuel the rest of my life. But it was her that, through everything that she is, made me realize life's about dreaming and making the best out of it. So why should I stop living?

I looked at myself, all dressed up, and cleared my throat. I looked up, and there she was, my dream come true. What more can I possibly want?

Of course, I always wanted twins… But that will be a different matter.

Nothing else is important to me at this moment. I got Luna right there in front of my eyes.

She said 'I do.' and smiled, those magical words that made us even closer.

I leaned down to kiss her, and the Blibbering Humdingers started to dance around us, or at least I think they were. (What does Blibbering Humdingers look like anyway?)

It was a kiss of a lifetime, one we'll treasure. It was one of those kisses that is indescribable, one of those kisses where the bells ring.