Scarlet

I wander around the room, tears streaming down my face, looking for the thing I have lost forever.... my love. The only person that has ever loved me. I fall backwards onto my bed, deep in thought.... suddenly remembering when we told them, told them we were to be married... and that I was in love with her for the longest time......

Everyone was SHOCKED when I told them... told them about us. It was like it shouldn't have happened. That's what most of our fights are about... the fact that they won't accept her for the good person she is. They just don't understand and NEVER will. After all what can you expect from the Boy Who Lived? The worst possible person to be with? No. They are the ones that NEED to grow up and expect the un-expected... they need to deal with this themselves. After all it was THEM that made me do this. Made me become what I am today. They left me out. So I turned to Scarlet, the mysterious new girl. They didn't care when my only way to the outside world, my angel was killed because they had each other. They will always have each other while I will have nothing... Scarlet's gone forever so what's the point of living? She was my life. She also befriended Malfoy, telling me that he needed a friend and that she was going to be it. So when she died.... I turned to him.

Who knew he had a good side to him? Who knew? Me. I knew. I was the only one who knew the fact that he loved Scarlet, my angel, as much as I did. When she came into our lives we were changed. She was searching for someone to be her friend, someone to talk to, someone like me and Malfoy.

We had talked before and when they started ditching me to go and snog I went with her. She brought us together. A Gryffindor and a Slytherin. She was our glue and we were her guys. If she wasn't with one she was with the other.

Suddenly, there were no more fights in the hallways, no more death glares to one other, no more "Oh my god, I wish Malfoy/Potter was dead!" thoughts, no more of anything to do with threats, we actually became fast friends. She was our life line. All the guys wanted her, but she wanted nothing to do with them.

I will admit... she was gorgeous. With her long copper hair that fell down to her itty bitty waist and her sapphire eyes that shined when she was happy. She was smart to, as smart as Hermione, maybe smarter, but no one knew because she was shy and quiet. She never spoke up in class; never let people hear her wonderful singing voice and her piano.

I remember one time when I was going to "Our Spot", as she labeled it, as I neared the painting I heard her singing and that old piano playing. I slowly walked in and closed the door silently. I just watched her, she was sitting there, her eyes closed and her voice filled the room. It was her favorite song that she was singing in that room that day. What I didn't know was that Draco was watching too.

"Spinning, laughing, dancing to
her favorite song
A little girl with nothing wrong
Is all alone"

"Eyes wide open
Always hoping for the sun
And she'll sing her song to anyone
that comes along"

"Fragile as a leaf in autumn
Just fallin' to the ground
Without a sound"

"Crooked little smile on her face
Tells a tale of grace
That's all her own"

"Spinning, laughing, dancing to her favorite song
A little girl with nothing wrong
And she's all alone"

She turned around after that and smiled at us. We both said that we didn't know that she could play the piano and she just smiled and said "There's a lot you don't know about me," then went back to playing. We soon joined her sitting on each side. Watching her play the piano and talking softly. We asked when she had learned, how long she had been playing and stuff like that. She answered the questions in her angel-like voice and sung more songs for us. All muggle songs we noticed and asked her about her past life. She had replied, "The past doesn't matter, what matters now is that I'm here with my two favorite people in the world and doing what I love." I swear that girl was too wise for her own good.

I remember every memory with her in it, especially 7^th year. She had come to school with a new attitude that year. I was talking with Ron about what I did over the summer with Sirius, newly freed, when all the attention was suddenly brought over to the barrier, I had thought someone fell on their face but when I didn't hear laughing I had to see what it was. Standing there, clad in a jean skirt, belly shirt, jean jacket and two inch high heals stood Scarlet, Lettie as we called her. I stared at her new look and when she spotted me, she smiled and ran over to me. She kissed my cheek and asked what I thought of the outfit. I told her it was great and we set off to find Draco. When we found him she kissed his cheek and asked him if he liked the look or not. He said that he loved it.

It was that year that she became serious with Dean Thomas too. She never saw us anymore. She went to him with her problems, she was always with him. That was, until he dumped her. He dumped her. She wouldn't talk to anyone for weeks. She turned back into the shy quiet little girl that she was from 5^th year to the beginning of this year. People called her names and she didn't care. She just didn't care. That was until she found her piano, which we had left in the room. Draco was walking down the hall the room was on and he saw the door open. He told me that he had looked in and saw her standing there, running her fingers over the keys and looking around the room. He told me that she was just staring at the piano, until she sat down and opened the book. She started playing and he was drawn into the room by the music. They talked for hours, about everything and in-between.

Then they came to me. It was great to have Scarlet back in our lives. She went back to caring. She told us she wasn't going to go around looking depressed because Dean broke up with her. She was going to tough it out. And from that day forward all she did was with us. I had one arm, Draco had the other. She closed the rift in-between the worst of enemies, the rift between Gryffindor and Slytherin and made it tight. Ron and Hermione had each other and I had Scarlet and Draco.

Before we knew it, it was Christmas and the famous Christmas Ball. What we didn't know was that Scarlet was planning something. I walked into the Great Hall, no date this time and saw a stage and a single microphone. There are small tables lining the dance floor and each has a house and a name. I sat next to Hermione and across from Draco. I suddenly noticed that there wasn't a place for Scarlet. We sat and ate talking and laughing together, all getting along when suddenly the curtain's opened. People headed out to the dance floor as the lights turned on. Sitting in the middle of the stage was a single piano; sitting at that piano was absolutely gorgeous Scarlet. Wearing a long beautiful sapphire blue dress, her copper hair swept up in a high bun covered in curls. Suddenly she started playing and singing. She started with a new song, one that we hadn't heard before but Hermione had. It went like this:

"I wanted to be like you
I wanted everything
So I tried to be like you
And I got swept away
I didn't know that
It was so cold
And you needed someone
To show you the way
So I took your hand
And we figured out
That when the tide comes
I'd take you away"

"If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away
From here
So lonely inside
So busy out there
And all you wanted
Was somebody who cares"

"I'm sinking slowly
So hurry hold me
Your hand is all I have
To keep me hanging on
Please can you tell me
So I can finally see
Where you go
When you're gone"

"If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away
From here
So lonely inside
So busy out there
And all you wanted
Was somebody who cares"

"All you wanted was
Somebody who cares
If you need me
You know I'll be there
Oh, yeah"

"If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away
From here
So lonely inside
So busy out there
And all you wanted
Was somebody who cares"

"Please can you tell me
So I can finally see
Where you go
When you're gone"

Her voice filled the entire room as she sung her music. Everyone was shocked, everyone. She went through a handful of her favorites before she ditched the piano. Even I was shocked when the piano was pushed off stage and she stood in the middle of stage. She spoke then.

"Hello, I'm Scarlet, Scarlet Palakaka, Palakaka is Hawaiian and it means Black. Some people are probably thinking my mother did that on purpose to protect me from Sirius Back, but she didn't. I'm not even related to him in any way. My mother's name was Piper Palakaka. She went to school here and was best friends with some of your parents. My mother was a Gryffindor and after her schooling ended she moved back to our native land, Hawaii.

During her school years she dated and found the right person, but he wanted nothing to do with her after he had heard that she was cheating on him, but she wasn't. He left her, broken hearted and pregnant. My mother passed away last year and left me. She didn't die happy like most people do, she died broken hearted. She always used to tell me 'Never give up Scarlet, never let someone brake your heart, always follow it.' My mother was an artist, her art was her voice. I'm going to sing you a song that she sung to me when I had nightmares. My mother is my life line."

The song was called "Through the Rain" and it was beautiful. After the song she just stood there. Then she bowed and walked off stage. She showed her true self that day, on that stage. She proved to everyone that even though she's small and quiet, she can surly belt out a song or two.

After that she spoke more in class and ended up graduating with the highest grades in the class. Hermione close behind. She gave this wonderful speech on how to never give up and to always fight for what you believe in because one day it might come true. To always dream big and think small. Then Draco came up to me and told me to tell her how I felt. I looked at him shocked and asked was it that oblivious and he said no, but the way I looked at her gave it all away. So I did. She didn't seem shocked and just smiled. Then she walked on stage and spoke into the microphone. She said "I'm going to sing one last song before everyone here leaves to find themselves. It's one of my favorites and it's called Pretty Baby. Thank you."

"You light me up and then I fall for you

you lay me down and then I call for you

stumbling on reasons that are far and few

I'd let it all come down and then some for you"

"Pretty baby don't you leave me

I have been saving smiles for you

pretty baby why can't you see

you're the one that I belong to

I'll be the embrace that keeps you warm

for you're the sun that breaks the storm

I'll be alright and I'll sleep sound

as long as you keep comin' around, oh pretty baby"

"And I know things can't last forever

but there are lessons that you'll never learn

oh just the scent of you it makes me hurt

so how's it you that makes me better"

"Pretty baby don't you leave me

I have been saving smiles for you

pretty baby why can't you see

you're the one that I belong to

I'll be the embrace that keeps you warm

for you're the sun that breaks the storm

I'll be alright and I'll sleep sound

as long as you keep comin' around, oh pretty baby"

"Why can't you hold me and never let go

when you touch me it is me that you own

pretty baby oh the place that you hold in my heart

would you break it apart again... oh pretty baby"

"Pretty baby don't you leave me

I have been saving smiles for you

pretty baby why can't you see

you're the one that I belong to

I'll be the embrace that keeps you warm

for you're the sun that breaks the storm

I'll be alright and I'll sleep sound

as long as you keep comin' around, oh pretty baby"

After school ended a lot of things happened. We dated and before long were married. Nine months later we were granted with a wish. A beautiful wish by the name of Lillian Piper Potter. Draco as her godfather. We knew no one better. No one more fit for the job then he was and she loved him. He never met anyone and claimed that he was better off with only two women in his life. Scarlet and Lillian.

Scarlet died today but what she left behind will always live in happiness. Her twenty-one year old daughter and me. Lily was blessed with her mother's voice, hair and looks, but with my eyes. She just recently got married and is very glad her mother died happy and not broken hearted.

I learned that Scarlet wasn't just my angel, but part of my soul and I will forever be blessed with her beautiful smile and voice.