Didn't take much at all from me; this job won't be too time-consuming at all.
I guess it's gonna break me down,

Like falling when you try to fly,

It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life,

Starts with goodbye.

-Carrie Underwood; Starts with Goodbye.

Early April:

He tightly held her hand, silently begging her to reconsider with his stormy eyes.

Trying desperately to ignore her heartache, she shivered at his intensity. "No. It's impossible." The tears started to slide down her cold cheeks.

He took his bitterly cold thumb and wiped the salty water from her cheek. "It's not impossible, Nee. It's just going to take a lot of work – we both knew that."

"Don't call me that," she hissed. Her heart broke; she honestly loved that nickname. But it – them – their relationship was impossible. "Draco, don't make this harder than it has to be. We tried – it didn't work. You know this cannot happen anymore!" Wording feels slightly forced. She turned away from him and started to walk back to the castle. Her feet were frozen because of the spring dew she had walked through to get to their secret meeting place.

"I refuse to give up on us!" Draco grabbed her arm and spun her around, steadying her as he kissed her passionately. Immediately, Hermione's hands found his platinum hair and kissed him back. Draco pulled back, breathless. "Tell me that is wrong. Tell me that you don't feel exactly the way I do – alive."

Hermione placed her head on his chest and sobbed. "It's too dangerous. For the both of us, Draco." She looked back into his steel blue eyes. She cupped her hand around his cheek, still crying. I love him. "Until this war is over- until we are no longer divided, we cannot be together. A different time, a different place." She kissed him chastely and broke off into a run back to the castle.

"Hermione!" She heard him yelling for her to come back to him. Crying even harder, she ran faster. She ran all the way to her private room in the Head Apartment and threw herself onto her bed. Hermione barely heard Ginny enter over her cries of anguish; Ginny was her only friend that knew of their relationship. She felt Ginny crawl behind her and hold her close, just letting her cry. Sobbing, she tried to erase the past eight months from her memory.