Shoutout To My Ex | O.W

- one

"Lissy-"

"He used to call me Lissy!"

"Who?"

"O-ol-" her voice cuts out with sobs.

"Felicity it's been over a month, how can you not even say his name?" Lily interjects from where she had been listening to her mother and sisters conversation.

"We were supposed to get married!"

"I'm sorry honey, but you have to take your sister to the wizard store for her books."

Lily had tried to convince her mother to let her go alone— Felicity wouldn't be much help with anything if she couldn't stop crying long enough to read the supply list.

"What if he's there?"

"Then someone else can watch you cry your eyes out, now come on! I need a new cauldron."

With that Lily drags her sister out the door, the pair rushing towards the Leaky Cauldron.

"Lils, I don't know if I can see him."

"He probably won't even be there, you don't really need new supplies for your last year, right?"

"Yeah, probably not." Felicity figured her sister was right, Oliver probably didn't have many new supplies to get, but that wouldn't stop him from getting something for himself, "But he always bought the new quidditch calendar before school started. So- so he could hang it above his bed and know when there were games and see who won."

Felicity tried to hold her tears in now that they're in public, her shiny eyes avoiding everyone else's.

The pair pass through the inn, and the bartender directs them through and into the bustling street of Diagon Ally.

Felicity tries to stop the tears, knowing she needs to get out of public as fast as possible.

"Okay, where to first? We gotta move fast."

"Flourish and Blotts."

Felicity keeps her head down the entire way to the store, hoping no one sees her bloodshot eyes or the way she keeps wiping her nose.

"Lis, you're really smart right?"

Felicity peers at her younger sister between openings in the bookshelves.

"I like to think so, yes."

"And you read a lot of books right?"

"That's a definite yes."

"Okay, so what happens in one of your books when the main character gets broken up with?"

Felicity pauses, trying to figure out both the answer to the question and where her sister was going with this.

"They give the person who dumped them a big speech and then they get back together. Why? Do you think I should send him my letter?"

Lily cringes at the thought of the letter sitting in her sisters room at home. She'd written it at varying levels of heartbreak, and phrases like "I thought I was your future" "you can't raise kids with brain trauma anyway" and "TWO YEARS YOU ABSOLUTE JERK WHY NOT JUST THROW ME DOWN THE ASTRONOMY TOWER!" all jumbled together to make a disaster of a letter that made absolutely no sense to anyone other than Felicity.

"Not exactly. In every book that I've seen movie adaptations of, the girl always does a makeover and gets really hot after getting dumped."

Felicity barks out a laugh.

"You mean I don't look hot right now?" She questions, gesturing down to her sweatpants and exaggeratedly blowing her nose shortly after.

"I mean, don't get me wrong, the absolute blubbering mess thing is totally working for you. But maybe you'd feel better if you tried a little more, you know? Show Oliver what he's missing."