Harry Potter One Shots

Hopeless Romantic (Theodore Nott)

A/N: It's never easy being a hopeless romantic, wearing you're heart on your sleeve, falling in love with anyone who gives you the slightest bit of affection (based on a scene from The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

Y/n POV:
"Meet me in the Astronomy Tower tonight at 8?" He whispered in my ear pressing a kiss on my cheek before walking off and not seeing how my face started to become red and the butterflies in my stomach fluttered.

The two of us were unofficially together, never saying we were boyfriend/girlfriend, but I am his and he is mine. It was no secret I wore my heart on my sleeve, people always questioned why I was put into Slytherin. I knew how I was with relationships, falling deeper in love every second but somehow always getting my heart broken in the end. But he promised me, he wasn't like that, he would love me forever.

As 7:45 rolled around, I looked to see my roommates in the bathroom getting ready for bed and I was able to sneak past them. There were a few people still out in the corridors, but I was able to walk past them and make my way up to the Tower.

The Astronomy Tower had always been one of my favorite places in the castle, I would sometimes come up and just look at the stars in the sky, listing all the constellations I knew.

I walked over towards the ledge letting my feet hang from the bottom placing my arms on the railing looking up towards the sky. I looked down at my watch to see it was 8:30pm.

He must of had a late quidditch practice, he'll be here soon, I thought to myself before looking back towards the sky.

I didn't remember what time it was but I felt myself slowly start to fall asleep, only a couple minutes, I told myself, and then he'll be here.

But I guess that couple minutes turned into something a bit longer. "Darling." I felt someone shake my arm.

"Hmmm." I looked up to see Theodore.

"What are you doing?" He asked me. "It's almost curfew. You're lucky I caught you before a prefect did."

"What?" I furrowed my eyebrows looking at the time and saw it was 9:45. "I was suppose to be meeting him here at 8, he must of forgotten."

"Are you sure?" Theo sat down next to me. "I saw him with Tracey Davis in the common room 30 minutes ago."

"Oh." I sighed. "I guess I should go to bed then."

"Y/n wait-" I didn't hear what he was going to say as I walked down the stairs towards the dungeon.

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I spent majority of my time in the Astronomy Tower the past week, it was the only place I could be alone with my thoughts. I broke it off with him the next day after he stood me up, he told me that I was just a distraction for him so he could get with Tracey. God it hurt, adding a crack to my already broken heart.

"There's the mystery girl." Theo walked up the stairs. "Haven't seen you in a couple days."

"I usually come here after class and don't leave until curfew, I like it here." I commented. He just hummed and sat down next to me looking at the stay.

"I saw him in the library today." I said still looking at the sky.

"Yeah." He said.

"He said he was sorry and that I was right to break up with him." I continued. "I'm walking away and just feeling so small. Just ask myself, why do I pick people who treat me like I'm nothing?" I turned towards him while we sat in silence for a moment, before he turned to me.

"We accept the love we think we deserve." He said.

"Then why didn't you ever ask me out?" I asked.

"I, um, I just didn't think you wanted that." Theo confessed.

"Well, what did you want?" I questioned.

"Well, I just wanted you to be happy." He gave me a small smile.

I exhaled. "Don't you get it Theo. I can't feel that. It's really sweet and everything but, you can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. I don't want to be somebody's crush. I want people to like the real me."

He tried to say something opening his mouth but nothing came out, he stumbled on what he wanted to say. "I know who you are Y/n. I know I'm quiet and I know that I should speak more." I looked up at him with glossy eyes and he was in the same state. "But if you knew the things that uh, that were in my head the most of the time you'd know what I'd really meant. How much we're alike and how we've been through the same things. And you're not small, you're beautiful."

He cupped my face bring his lips to mine, I instantly kissed back, wrapping my arms around his neck, it started off fast, hungry, slightly pulling apart for a breath, but it slowly became more passionate, more slow, more loving. He kept his left hand on my cheek as he slid his right down my arm to my thigh, squeezing it lightly.

"What's wrong Theo?" I asked one he pulled apart staring at me. "Merlin, I messed it up, didn't I."

"No, nothing." He answered before caressing my cheek. "Nothing at all." And kissed one more time resting his forehead against mine.

"Theo, you know I care deeply for you, but if you don't feel the same way as I do, please tell me right now, I can't bear being dragged through the mud again." I confessed.

"I do care about you, more than I ever cared about anyone." He kissed the tip of my nose. "I know what it's like to be threaded along just to have your heart broken, but I promise you darling, I'll always be there."

"Forever." I asked.

"Always and forever." He smiled.

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