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Dec 28, 2016 23:02:01 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 23:02:01 GMT -7
Just like that, it was almost as if the last few days never happened. Like his mother had never written that letter. Like T hey hadn't spent the last four days apart. Like nothing bad had happened, and they had absolutely nothing to worry about.
Willingly, he pulled back just enough to allow her to turn his head towards her, their noses softly brushing as they finally looked at each other. That was when he noticed the red, puffy eyes and suddenly realized that she'd been crying. There was a sharp twisting pain in his chest. Please... he didn't make her cry... did he? He nodded. "Yeah. Yeah I will." He found himself saying as he slowly smiled.
He didn't move for a few moments, just stared into those eyes he'd missed so much, but finally reality caught up to him. "She... She said there are still a few other prospects to see, but she didn't sound interested in any of them." He finally explained. From the way she'd written the letter, he wasn't worried.
lily luna potter
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Dec 28, 2016 23:05:59 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 23:05:59 GMT -7
Everything was evaporating, as if she never had slipped into that dark, cold place without him. That letter was a memory, a distant one at that. Of course he said yeah, that he would stay. He was smiling slowly and her lips mirrored his, another one of those giggles wanting to break free. But she didn't move yet. She drank him in. Every color in his eyes, his scent, his warmth, his everything. But, the silence broke, and he spoke again Not great news, but still it flattened the moment a little. She shook it off, literally leaning back enough to shake her head. "Doesn't matter," she said, "I have you now," she added.
@adrian (almost time for a fade to happy dance and the next encounter?)
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Dec 28, 2016 23:23:11 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 23:23:11 GMT -7
Adrian laughed at her reaction. It didn't matter, because she had him now. "You had me before." He reminded her. But she was right, it didn't matter. They were fine. They could go back to normal and pretend none of this ever happened. So when he released her from the hug it didn't feel like he was losing her anymore. Taking a step back, he stooped down and picked up her books and the letter. Stuffing the letter in his pocket. Adrian draped an arm back over her shoulders and steered her towards her next class, her books in his other hand. "Come on. You have another class to get too."
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They had a week. A normal, happy week, before Adrian got the next letter. Everything had been back to normal. As if a bad dream that had passed and didn't need to be brought back up. Adrian had actually forgotten that his mother had stayed in Los Angeles to look into a few other prospective jobs. She hadn't spoken highly of them, or really given much information so he'd assumed that they weren't serious prospects. Until she wrote him and said she'd fallen in love with one of the positions at a smaller record company and accepted the offer.
Everything came crashing down.
Adrian had been sitting next to Lily in the Great hall when that letter came, and read it with her there. His mother had written the letter in English, starting it out by saying she 'needed to brush up on her English.". How she'd start just after the New Year and she'd heard great things about a Magical school on the American East coast. As he read, Adrian's face turned pale, and his breathing stopped entirely. He didn't even finish reading it. The letter dropped to the table, and Adrian got up, leaving the Great Hall with out uttering a single word to Lily.
He felt cold, and hollow, with a loud ringing in his ears. He finally reached outside, and he was suddenly running. Running, and running, and running. He didn't know for how long, or what he was going, just that he couldn't stay there. Without even realizing it, he found himself at his and Lily's fort in the forest. It'd been almost two weeks since he was last out here. Collapsing on his side of the fort, he just lay there flat on his back, staring up at the makeshift roof with a dead look.
His mother was taking a job in Los Angeles.
lily luna potter
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Dec 28, 2016 23:37:10 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 23:37:10 GMT -7
He laughed. The sweetest sound. "You had me before," he said, and she let her own giggle escape her lips. She knew that already, of course. They were a pack, one in the same, they belonged to each other. Lily didn't think this in a romantic way, of course, she was too daft to figure that out yet. Sadly, they had to get back to reality. He picked up her things and the new letter and draped an arm over her shoulders, everythign was finally back to normal. She could breathe again.
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The next week was perfect. Everyone was glad to see the too of them back in action. It was like nothing hand changed, and Lily refused to acknowledge those dark days as having been reality. This was reality. He was reality. Her world was back in motion and things were better then ever.
That was, until that morning in the Great Hall. They were sitting side by side, their shoulders pressed together as they ate their breakfast and the letters came flying in. Lily watched them in awe, until one dropped a letter in Adrian lap. Lily leaned over, reading the letter. Wait... it was in Enlgish? She kept reading and, slowly, her hand found Adrians knee and she started to squeeze it tightly under the table.
Then he dropped the letter, and was leaving her again. She clenched her fists until she lifted them up, slamming them onto the table. She knew her face was going pale and the blood was rushing to her ears again. The world was suddenly gone once more, but this time was different. This time she didn't cry.
This time she dissappeared.
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Almost two more weeks of silence.
The Yule Ball was in two days, and her and Adrian hadn't spoken since that last letter. Lily had taken it and then brought it back to the tower, asking one of the boys to put it on Adrians bed for her. She wondered if he'd answered his mother... what he had said, if he had mentioned her.
She saw him as she entered the Common Room, sitting in front of the fire, something in his hands. She froze at first, trying to decide what to do. But, her whimsical teenage girl side got the best of her and she crossed over. "I have a killer dress. Would hate for it to go to waste," she said, plopping herself down next to him.
@adrian
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Dec 28, 2016 23:51:54 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 23:51:54 GMT -7
Adrian had done a lot of thinking the last two weeks. Surprise! But in all seriousness, he had quite the dilemma on his hands. His mother was definitely taking that job in Los Angeles. What was he supposed to do? The obvious answer would be to tell her he wanted to finish his schooling at Hogwarts, and be on the other side of the world from his mother. The idea was nauseating. He couldn't leave her like that. She didn't have that many people in her life that she cared about. Him. His Aunt and her family. But that was it. She didn't have anyone else. He couldn't just let her go on this adventure alone, knowing that he was so far away. He had to go with her.... Didn't he? But how... how could he.... leave Lily?
He sat on the ground in the Gryffindor Common room, right in front of the fire place. His gaze was focused intently on something in his hands. Well... not something. It was a Christmas present. For Lily. Upon hearing her voice though, he immediately, almost frantically closed his hands together to hide it, and then proceeded to stuff the gift in his pocket before she could get a look at it. This was the first time they'd spoken in two weeks... "It won't." He answered. "I still want to go with you." He added as an after thought. He knew all the girls were making a big deal about the ball. That it was supposed to be special. He wanted it to be special for Lily. Because... Well he didn't want to think about how that might be one of the last things they got to do together.
lily luna potter
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Dec 29, 2016 0:01:31 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2016 0:01:31 GMT -7
She looked into the fire as he said he still wanted to go with her. She nodded. "Good," she said firmly. She sat there in silence for several moments, unsure of what came next. Then, she reached over and placed her hand on top of his. She gave it a small squeeze, still not speaking further.
The silence wasn't something that Lily usually did, but with Adrian there was often times when words weren't necessary. The could communicate just as well through touch as they could through speaking. Sometimes even more so. She felt she knew what he was thinking. That the ball would be their last memory together, at least being so close. She sighed, shifting to lean toward him. She kissed his cheek, her lips lingering there, before turning back toward the fire and resting her head on his shoulder.
@adrian
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Dec 29, 2016 0:08:59 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2016 0:08:59 GMT -7
Adrian just nodded as she said that single word. No, he'd go. They'd have an amazing night, and it would live up to all her expectations. Because the last thing he wanted was to let her down. After everything that had happened in the past month Adrian had learned many things. About himself. About his feelings. But most especially about his feelings, especially towards her. How cruel fate was, to finally realize what he'd been so oblivious to for so long only to have it ripped away from him moments later. Turning his hand in hers, he tightly squeezed back. At least for the next few days, things could be good again. And... Well, it would only be a year and a half. Just eighteen months. And then... THen he could come back....
lily luna potter (short, but le END)
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