Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.

Written for Mystii's 'Freeverse Collection' on the HPFC forum.

This one is called Kiss and Run.

Hope you like it. R&R please. (:

lily's a pretty girl; she always has been.

_._

but as as young girl she's never liked pretty things -

dressup&&dolls&&prettysilkdresses

(those were dumb, her brothers told her; she listened)

so she left her shinyredhair

(tangled)

and her sparklingbrowneyes

(ignored)

because that's what her brothers did, after all.

_._

but now she's eleven and she's not a tomboy anymore

(not really)

and she twirls around the room, her red hair flying -

(like a halo – a halo of flames)

in those prettysilkdresses and ribbons and hairclips

because she's a big girl now, and she likes being pretty.

_._

then suddenly she's fifteen – almost a woman

and she wears m a k e u p sometimes -

(like her mother does)

because she does like being pretty

and (almost) all the boys

(even the slytherins)

stare at her shiny hair and sparking eyes

(never mind that she's a tomboy at heart)

but the one boy she wants,

is the one that doesn't care.

_._

but it's okay – it's all right

there's plenty of other boys, her best friend says

you don't have to go after him – the painfully perfect malfoy boy

and so she agrees – she date other boys and breaks their hearts

(but she never really forgets him.)

but she can't help but think sometimes – does he think she's pretty?

_._

and then when he finally kisses her -

(after a bloody eternity)

he leaves – leaves her and her b r o k e n heart

alone to stare at the mirror, pristine as her heart is s h a tte r e d -

.

wasn't she pretty enough?