Assigment 11 Muggle Music
Task #1: Real Peach by Henry Jamison - Write a relationship in which one partner tries to make up after a fight. What the other partner(s) decide is up to you.
Word count:521
Lucius paced nervously around the living room. It was something unusual for him, being nervous, but he didn't know how to proceed. How to make things right. He had really messed up this time. It wasn't like before when they had fought. This time was serious.
He should have known better. He should have seen that he was being deceived; a Slytherin beaten at his own games. Because that had been his way of life until he had married Hermione. So of course he hadn't seen the problem. But she did and she had told him so. He hadn't believed her. How he regretted it now!
His marriage with Narcissa had been just on paper. Both had had affairs. In his mind it was normal. And his favourite affairs had been with his secretaries. Of course this had changed when he married Hermione. Lucius was in love with her. He wasn't going to cheat on her with some girl. He had told so to his secretary and considered that that was it.
Hermione had disagreed and she had asked him to fire Leysla(his secretary); that was when the fighting had started. Lucius had refused to fire her;she was efficient and after all these years she knew him well. She understood him.
He hadn't take realised that now he had someone else who knew him better that his secretary could ever know him: his wife, the love of his life. But he could see now how wrong he had been and it was too late to take back all the hurtful things he had said to her. He had told her that she was just jealous, and to leave the house and not come back unless she changed her way of thinking.
She had stood up left the house without looking back at his words. He had wanted to apologize the second he had heard the front door close. But it was too late. And now he was all alone. He
Lucius entered the bedroom carefully and breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that his wife was inside. He had feared that she had left him. Hermione was sitting on the bed and she was looking at their wedding picture.
He sighed and closed the door. She stiffened, but she didn't turn around, eyes focused on the moving couple in front of her.
Lucius wanted to hug and kiss her, he wanted to make her smile again, but first he had to apologize. And he wasn't sure if she was going to forgive him.
"Hermione," he started to say,"I know I messed up this time. Badly. But I am so sorry. These days without you had been...horrible. A long time ago I would have loved the solitude, but now…without… I feel just empty. Please forgive me."
Hermione turned to look at him, picture in hand.
"I thought you never apologize. A sign of weakness, you said."
"I know. But you are worth it."
Hermione allowed a small smile to grace her face.
"Alright. I forgive you. But if you ever do something like this again, were done."