Melisende was cleaning her room, when her owl arrived.

Her bags were already packed, she would be leaving tomorrow morning so she had written to Levi. It surprised her that she wrote him after a whole week, guess she had been so caught up in her mess of a life that she forgot.

Her mom's words were still spinning in her mind, making her crazy.

She unfolded the small parchment attached to her owl's leg and started reading it.

Hey Mel!

Firstly what the hell happened that it took a week for you to write. I was expecting a letter on first day saying how you wished the holiday was over.

Anyway please write often, you know i don't have a owl.  And you know i am seventeen right? If you are having trouble do tell me, i can kick some ass.

Your's,

Lee.

A soft smile crawled on her lips as she re read the letter. Damn, she missed him.

She quickly scrambled a reply asking him to meet her in the park near her house.

Quickly changing her clothes and fixing her frizzy black hair, Melisende sneaked out of her house. The walk to the park was silent.

She sat on a bench, trying to braid her hair as she waited for him.

A sudden snap of twig brought her to her surrounding. She looked up, her braid long forgotten. A huge smile crawled on her face as she ran towards him.

He spun her around as soon as she wrapped her arms around his neck earning a soft giggle from her.

"Hey sweetheart", he greeted her. The street light highlighting his sharp features. Putting her down he scanned her face. "So how's life?"

Melisende laughed loudly. "Seriously?"

"Well being your best friend i gotta ask right?", he said as he pulled her towards the bench. Proceeding to fold his legs and turn fully towards her. 

"I sometimes wonder what i will do without you", she replied placing her hand on her heart dramatically.

"I know i am the best, anyway spill everything"

"What?"

He only raised a eyebrow as if to say really?

Of course he knows something is wrong, she thought. He always knows.

Mel took a deep breath. And she told him everything, from Voldermort to James and to her mother's words.

"Jeez..... it feels i'm meeting you after a whole year, you sure only a week passed?", he said sarcastically as he pulled her in his arms.

It was always like this, one of them gets upset and the other one hugs to provide comfort.

Levi weaved his hand through her soft hair, freeing it from the braid she had done earlier. Her hair fell all over her back in soft curls.

"My life seems like a movie Lee, it just feels unreal. I am fucking tired of this all".

"I know...... "

A brief silence passed as he held her.

"So you told James that you feel the same for him?", he asked softly.

"Of course not...... wait what?"

"Did you really thought you could hide it from me Mel? I can read you like a open book and honestly i have known from a long time, just never brought it up", he whispered tucking a few strands of her hair behind her ear.

Melisende signed loudly.

"I didn't want to hide it, i just didn't knew how you would react?"

" I am happy if you are", was all he said.

But he didn't share what he felt. Why? Only he knew.

"So about that death eater thing, are you really accepting it?", he asked.

"It's not like i have a choice. Voldermort would probably be dragging Rabastan and Narcissa into in this as well. I don't think i can leave them alone."

"Then i'll join you as well", he whispered after a slight hesitation.

Mel quickly pulled back and stared at him as if he had lost his mind.

"You kidding right? There's no way i would let you come. And even if i do you are a half blood", she hissed.

"I know.... but.. i can't let you go alone in that hell", he whisper shouted.

"I'll have others"

"There's no room for argument Mel, i am coming. I'll prove myself, i am sure he will take me in. And besides he needs as much followers he can get", he said determined.

"You have to understand this doll, you are the only thing i  have in this world. My parents don't count. Dad is busy working his ass off and mom she just disappears all the time. They don't care for me and neither do i. But you are a different case Mel, you are my world. You know me, i can die for you and joining the dark lord is nothing. I want to be there for you, i want to be alongside you. Please......"

Melisende took a huge breath.

"I would have been much happier if you stayed out of this mess Levi. But i know i can't change your mind. But please think again..... it's basically signing a death warrant", she whispered, her face desperate.

"I am aware with the risks Mel, besides i really don't have anyone else whom i could be with rather than you".

"I can't believe this", she muttered with a frown.

Now it was his time to sigh loudly.

He knew it was hurting her, she didn't want him to be a death eater. He knew knowing that all her friends were going to be a part of this and without their will. But he had no choice.

He had to protect her, he had to save her from the things she was being suspected to. This is not what she is destined to be. 

Having no one else to care made him much closer towards Mel. She understood him better than himself, she befriended him when no one else did. Being a half blood and sorted into slytherin doesn't go well. But she changed that , she didn't let the other kids bully him, she practically stuck with him all the time so no one would dare approach him.

She is the reason he has so many friends today, she changed their views and she still tried to.

He will not let her spirit and talent get wasted, he swore he will be aside her no matter what. He would be her shield, fighting off everyone who wanted her bad.

And moreover the fact that he loved her. Not like a friend but much more.

He has always loved her , since as long as he remembers.

But not love stories have happy ending do they?

He always wanted her to be happy, so never confronted her. Did what he always have been, being a best friend.

Cause he knew that her heart have always and will always belong to James Potter.

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