A/N: Written for the Pairing Set Bootcamp challenge, 24. Sirius/Lily and for the Freeverse Frenzie competition, poem 104.
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25. Cheers
When she finally grasped her dream
it was to him she came
glass in hand
and he who clinked his
with hers, and drank to her success.
They were just best friends she said
and he agreed, though he remembered a lie
from long ago
and the truth that he'd foreseen.
Their little friendship dates
became fewer and far between.
He owed them after all:
her and him both
for their faith in him,
and the life that he had lived
But his heart
was a shrivelled up
selfish little thing
and he both loved and loathed
each moment he pined for her warm body
pressed against his own
But she, the smart oblivious
came and came again
In all her moods: laughing,
and crying too
in his arms
and he all but ripped away, his chained up voice lost too
as he cried out the truth
And her stricken voice smiled
and thanked him once again.
The next time she came to him
as a friend once more, leaving a ghost behind
and he smiled and took the flesh hand one last time
to the aisle, and loved the ghost thereafter.