≈o hiself” she said, aears a for real, a torrent of the “he did so daage ron”
harry doeseng to her all he rebers is that o his piture of sea ihe sea he knew fro shool, the happy o was ih dean, ahis other sea ihe o kissed dean good bye on his way to work a dowe, who loked hiself a bathroo, who got found by er overed his own bl about how he ouldn’t ake hiself ut deep enough, ould she fish it, please
please, he had appareg her pull hi to her ars like he was still a little kid please let it end
harry felt like he had beehe stoah, so he turned away, but he ould forever, beae ron was o, one ar ed around his sister’s shog ho” he said, voie gri, but deteri had beehey were preparg to do sothg gero, like he was hekg thgs off of a to-do list “akirong up of tea you want to go keep dean opaal until heriohere?”
o say, beae he did not want that, he did not want to see sea like this, he did not want to sit unofortable hairs and tell his friend audes, he did he oh all of this
but that’s not what he says
“sure,” he hears hiself sayg, reahg for his shirt to get dressed, expliably wishg drao ouldihat he wouldhis was not about harry’s ofort “o”
drao
harry was te, whih ant that drao hen he a ho, settled to the orh a book spread aross his p
“i’ te i know” harry didi to respond, jt yanked off his oat a dowh a drao hadhey were shool “sothg a up”
≈hio ask if everythg was okay, but doeshe words aren’t out of his outh before harry is levelg his stare at hi
≈hg’s not okay, atually you want to know why?” drao didn’t, really he didn’t want to know why harry looked so pale, or why his eyes are red enough to ake drao thk he had been ryg, or what that sta on his shirtsleeve was he didn’t want to ke or why his handsor why he had sd the door so hard when he a i wahgs to be okay “sea went and bloody tried to kill hiself, that’s why, ripped hiself apart fro wrist to elbow”
≈o be waitg for so sort of reation on drao’s part, a horribly like he was faili of a test he puts the book dowo his feet, like he ight atually be thkg about walkg ivg harry a hug, of all the stupid ideas but thehe roo entirely, and drao follows
harry is kikg the hair repeatedly ag it, huh his elbows on his knees, hands yankg at his hair aarg up at drao like he ight fihere, the fae of soone who has reahed their breakg pot “it never e?” he sounds like he has been drai drop of otivation, like fihg, sea will be the one who breaks hi “it jt brgs ore pa”
“it’ll s” drao says, w if this is helpful, w if he should leave harry th this on his ow a long way to go”
harry stares at hi for a oands, and for half a ont drao thks he is leavi he said as uive, and he’s already halfologizg whehe roo while shruggg on his oat “i need a drk” and jt before drao an start w that it had been hi that drove hi away fro his owurns aroui, raisih sothg that ight have been ipatiene “you og?”
drao doese
harry
drao doeswith the people here, but se harry had started draggg hi alohg as his ps o tue, jt ordered another round of drks and said it was ohe
“you did was gog to be everybody” drao said, but due, jt throws his oat over the hair and rolls his sleeves up to the elbow i he an’t know harry likes “it’s not really y pe”
“you’re fe,” harry tells hi bak, ahfully, harry didn’t know that everyone would be here, but aybe they should have this is what they always did after the war, through the reports arials and the rebuildg and the grief, fd a bar and drk uand on their ow was a bad way of dealg with thgs, but it was the only tis he ould reber beg happy that ti right after the year, and they deserved a hao be young and dub, jt for a few onths of their life
it’s all of the ron and herio a b a pte of fries that her , and gny and na are slow io the song on the radio, he rep pitures of the neville had found his way tee was right beside drao, where he had already seed to be halfway dowo beg a drunken ss pada aer are there, too, the spae beside the redg the all of vender, who should have beehe but still won’t leave her hoe beae and that’s jt the ones lose enough for harry to see
“i heard” gee says, bei ohe silene abo