Ravenclaw HoH, Drabble, [Speech] "I didn't mean to date your ex. It just happened.", WC: 424
AU, of course.
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These sorts of instances usually start with one person not knowing what they did to upset the other. I am not in one of those situations. I know exactly what I did to make my brother, Ron, leave the dinner table, furious with me; and why he is now slamming his bedroom door in my pleading face.
"I didn't mean to date your ex. It just happened."
The words seem flat from my lips, as if the apology is hanging just out of reach. I'm not sorry that I started dating Hermione Granger, who just so happens to be my brother's ex-girlfriend. She's mesmerizingly brilliant - beautiful, funny, a free spirit. Recently, we started spending time together, and everything just… Clicked. And I was suddenly wondering why I didn't notice all of this sooner.
"Ron, can you just open the bloody door so we can talk like men about this -"
"Piss off, Fred!" he shouts back, through the walls.
"Come on, seriously? You're going to be a child about this, are you -"
I step back, flinching, as the door almost rips of its hinges, and my brother's face appears before me. It's not a pleasant sight. His eyes are red and watery, and his face is blotchy. Crap. He pokes me in the chest, hard.
"You have no idea, no idea, Fred," he utters, voice cracking under the weight of his own emotions. Guilt races through me. I really am a shitty brother. "She was everything to me. She was the ex that is out of bounds - to my friends, and especially to my brother. She's not a 'just happened' person. How could you think that I would be okay with this?"
I swallow thickly, putting out my hand to stop him from slamming the door again. "I didn't think… It just happened. We were laughing, then we were - no, wait, don't slam the door," I say, trying to salvage things. "I love her!"
The words burst from my lips before I have any sense of how to control them.
"I know exactly what you mean," I implore him. "She crept up on me. I know it's shitty, fucking hell, I tried so hard to not fall for her." Ron takes a step back, as though I have just administered a physical blow. "I'm sorry you found out like this. I should have spoken to you earlier."
He nods, as if half accepting my apology.
"Just know, if you mess her around, I will end you."
And he slams the door in my face again.
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