A/N: This is dedicated to Madelynn (who requested this a loooong time ago) and Anonymous who also requested it more recently. I wish you all a very happy holiday, even if mine is not so. I hope it's everything you want it to be.
Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
eleven: grass
He loves her because she makes him feel like he matters.
People have always thought him to be extremely proud; he does not deny it. He is never entirely sure why he acts as though the world revolves around him, especially when he sometimes feels as though he's nothing to the world. Especially when he sometimes feels as though he is as insignificant as a tiny blade of grass in a field of flowers.
Remus applauds him for creating a metaphor that actually makes sense for once, Sirius laughs and buys him another Butterbeer, and Peter knows exactly how he feels. And then Lily looks at him and her eyes sparkle and she smiles that brilliant smile that she saves just for him and he knows his negative thoughts cannot be true.
He knows because she's Lily Evans and that she should see something valuable in him and love him for it makes him feel like he matters; it makes him feel like whatever God is up there looking after him must think that he is important and special and somehow deserving of such an amazing person and he loves her for agreeing with that God.
