Lovely | GINNY WEASLEY

31 - So I painted you a sky

I saw a dull light. The clouds had covered the sun long ago. In the light, I saw us. I saw myself and a girl bound to night. The moon glistened and lit up her skin, oh how she sparkled. She wasn't light like the sun, her light came from the moon.

I missed the night. I missed the lightning. I longed to have the wind in my hair, I longed for the noise of the night.

I saw her, so deeply passionate and heartbreakingly broken. Her hair matched the night sky. When caught in the wind, reminded me of smoke. Almost transparent in the moonlight ribbons floating away, out of my grasp. Her soul was so beautifully damaged.

I told the sun and every cloud I ever saw about you.

What a careful, lovely creature she was. So fragmented she was, I wondered, if she needed me to introduce we to the sun.

I glanced down at my light, reckless soul. Carefully covering the night within my mind that always remembered.

I watched her darkness dance around the sun, never daring to step closer than the world allowed. I wondered if it was possible to defy gravity. I wondered if I could share my flame.

I willed my soul to move forward, I passed every layer the world held, I crossed the line between black and white. I stepped a foot into the night, and pulled her in a box in between.

Why did the darkness still hang around your soul, my darling? I felt a part of the darkness stream down my face, it worked. For you, my love, it would be worth it. I've always had a flare for the night.

For, it wasn't just your darkness. For, the devil does not hide miles below, he hides in souls. Everybody had darkness, some souls had just enough to hide it. Everybody told I should want to hide my darkness, I believed everybody until I met you. For, you could not be everybody.

Everybody simply would not compare.

They've hurt you, just as they've hurt me. I grazed your cheek, love, there's no need for a mask here. Behind her mask I saw my flame, turned to tears. I frowned, why must you always find the night when it's day? A part of me died when you told me you didn't think you deserved my love.

Such a careful creature she was, I'd hoped with everything I had in me I wouldn't break her. She held the night hidden in my soul, she wiped my tears. For her, I would move mountains.

She told me she'd lost her way, so I drew her a path.

She told me she'd lost her sun, so I painted her a sky.

When I'd told her I'd never met the moon, she revealed the night sky had been there all along.

For, on a journey to forget she had erased my memories entirely. She had turned my memories into something new, something I hadn't thought of before.

You broke my heart, my love. You broke my heart with your words. You broke my heart when you told me what they'd done to you, you broke my heart when you told me you thought you deserved it.

She healed my wounds, for the first time, I picked up a journal and didn't cry.

You began to feel like home.

I home that I had already lived in years and years ago. If only time had warned us then how long we'd had left.

They took me away, they took away the person I called home. You came back with grazed knees and a broken mind, I healed your wounds. Because, that's what we do, isn't it? The world hurt us, and we heal each others wounds. They held you prisoner, I traded my clouds just to have you back.

I tore down the defenses they forced you to put up, I was met with the light that sprinkled your soul all along. You shook your head, you told me you'd been drowning in the abyss. I held your hand, I have too.

You made me feel free, with you, I was the person my younger self would look up to. They couldn't hold us prisoner anymore. Together, we were unstoppable.

We'd found a grey area in a black and white world. Every night I stared at the moon thankful for it.

My favorite flowers will always be sunflowers, they remind me of your smile. Perfectly imperfect, my love.

The moon and the sun finally met, they created a world of their own, just for them. A grey area nobody would scathe.

I stepped into our world, blissfully happy at the smile on your face. I was so utterly fascinated by you, I promise nobody will ever compare.

And just like that, I felt her drift into my grasp. I accepted her with open arms, and as the air filled our lungs, I knew I'd never have to take an involuntary breath.