Things change when you get older, Lily's mother always warned her about how a boy would catch her attention and how she'd never be able to get them out of her head. How butterflies would swirl in her stomach and how fireworks would burst in her heart. She understood what her mother meant now, except with one minor difference.
Lily didn't feel those things towards a boy, she felt them with a girl.
And not just any girl, her best mate Mary Macdonald.
It was complicated, odd and quite frightening. The duo were already outcasts because of their blood status, and not that Lily cared too much about what people thought, she was more worried about hers and Mary's safety. She didn't even know if she was gay, she had fancied boys in the past, what was different now? What changed? It scared Lily to absolute bits.
But she had to stay strong because Mary was important to her. She held her ( girl? )friend's hand, giving it a tight squeeze.
"We'll figure it out, Mary. I promise."
