| back to hope | {g. weasley}
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third book in the Evelyn Black series
• • mature - language, drugs, alcohol, sex • •
• slow slow-burn friends to lovers •
• soft burn romance •
[ all books listed in prologue via chronological order ]
George can't take the silence any longer, and he hardly has to put his voice above a whisper for her to hear him ask. "So... how'd you sleep?"
She's silent for a moment. Her mind had wandered off into a string of senseless thoughts so it took her a second to realize he was speaking to her.
She swallows. "Fine... you?"
"Good," he says, still keeping his eyes and head on the back of Ginny's. "I slept good..."
"Yeah... good," Evelyn breathes. "You guys left pretty quick last night..." She tacks on, a bit quieter than the rest. The beat of silence pulls the last of the hesitant words out of her. "Didn't even give me a goodnight kiss..."
George's teeth clench momentarily, his eyes flicking over to check her in his peripherals... she's still locked forward. His cheeks begin to burn. "I erm- I didn't know..." he clears his throat, "I didn't know you wanted one."
She's quiet for another second, calculating her words carefully. The way his words began to stumble gave her butterflies. "Frankly, I was expecting you to finish what you started," she tells him, "but I would've settled for a little peck."
F*cking Hell is she ruining him.
• • Their final year at Hogwarts proves to be all but ordinary when a certain cat-grind professor takes over the defense against the dark arts position and Dumbledore seemingly goes missing.
[ start date: 1/15/23
[ completion date: -/-/-