Ravenclaw, HoH, Drabble, Prompt: [first line] He always wondered how one simple word could change so much, WC: 86
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He always wondered how one simple word could change so much.
No.
Her voice crushed him - the tone of it, the word itself. It was as though she had dropped an anvil on his chest. Kneeling there, in the very public street, the idiot. Diamond ring between two fingers. Ginger hair restless in the wind, his smile faltered; it died on his lips and his heart broke.
Ronald, I... No. I can't.
She was running away from him now, her violet robes lost in the crowd.
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Ta!
