Feelings of Lily

     It's been a year since Sev and I have been together as boyfriend and girlfriend and I've loved it. I met Harry Potter a few years ago and we've been good friends since, normally hanging out with Ron Weasley. Harry's story always intrigued me, the scar on his forehead begging for attention, which he got from all of his teachers. I knew Sev had a connection with him since I glanced at him glaring at Harry in the great hall during a meal one time. Sev looked very suspicious, but it was hard for me at the time to figure out the other emotions he was hiding. I didn't know the true impact Harry had on Sev until today, when I had the surprise of a lifetime. In potions today, Sev had a substitute, which has never happened before and was odd to begin with. Curious, after the school day ended and night was upon Hogwarts, I crept to Sev's room, hoping no one would be there. I walked to his room with my invisibility cloak. I open the door, close it back, and whisper "Sev?" as I let the cloak slide off my back. What I saw next has been engrained in my mind ever since because it was so momentous. I looked up at Severus Snape, who was pacing back and forth in front of the fireplace in his room. When I walked slowly towards him, he stopped walking back and forth and faced me, tears streaming down his sleep-deprived face. Wide eyed, I open my arms as Sev rushes toward me, crashing into my arms, silently sobbing. Substantially confused, I help him sit down on the floor and kneel down myself. I place his head on my heart, stroking his hair, feeling his tears soaking my long sleeve shirt. I'm crying now as I ask Sev "What's wrong?" He replies "I...Lily. Always." I say "It's okay, I'm here for you," holding him to my heart. Realizing Lily is Harry's mother's name, I ask Sev "Does this have something to do with Harry?" He puts his arms around me now, hugging me and barely crying. I didn't need a reply to know I was right. He cleared his eyes and kneeled beside me. I tell him that "Whenever you'd like to talk, I'll listen" and carefully caressed his left cheek with my hand and smiling with tears in my eyes before pulling him to me, my head resting on his left shoulder.