friend! george weasley ೃ࿔*:
george weasley x fem!reader
and i hate the way you love me / and i hate that i still care / funny how you feel like we would ever talk again / how could you think i'd be your friend?
song: friend – gracie abrams
You don’t expect to run into him.
Not here, not now—not when you’ve done everything possible to avoid him.
But life doesn’t work like that, does it? Life likes to laugh in your face, to put you in situations you aren’t ready for.
So of course, it’s George bloody Weasley standing in front of you, looking at you like he still knows you.
Like he still has the right to.
“Hey,” he says, a little cautious, a little hopeful.
You hate that he thinks he can just talk to you. Like nothing happened, like nothing’s changed, like he didn’t rip you open and leave you there to figure out how to put yourself back together.
You hate that some stupid, small, broken part of you still wants to hear his voice.
You can tell he wasn’t expecting that.
George has always been good with people, always been charming, magnetic, impossible to stay mad at.
He probably thought this would be easy.
A simple, Hey, sorry I was an arse, but we can be friends now, right?
As if he didn’t wreck you.
As if his love wasn’t the most painful thing you ever had to survive.
It’s quiet, softer than you’ve ever heard him.
And for the first time since he showed up, you laugh.
Because of course he misses you.
Of course he thinks that matters.
You meet his gaze, and something inside you twists. Because damn him, he still looks like the George you knew.
The one who used to make you laugh until you couldn’t breathe, the one who used to look at you like you were magic.
The one who let you believe it.
And then broke your heart anyway.
“You think we’ll ever talk again?” you ask, voice sharp, cutting.
He swallows, brow furrowing. “I—”
“How could you think I’d be your friend?”
George flinches. And good. Good. Because he should know how it feels.
He should know what it’s like to be left with nothing but regret and unanswered questions.
He should know what it’s like to love someone who never learned how to love you back the way you needed.
You shake your head, exhaling. “I hate the way you love me.”
“And I hate that I still care,” you continue, voice quieter, rawer. “Because I do. And I shouldn’t. But I do.”
Something cracks in his expression.
For the first time, he looks like he understands.
Like he finally, finally gets it.
Because you’re done being the one who cares more.
So you turn and walk away.