Her fingers were mindlessly stroking Loki's soft fur as he laid on her stomach, purring softly. Her stinging, bloodshot eyes looking up at the ceiling, her mind empty and her heart completely shattered. After she was left alone in the Astronomy Tower, she bawled her eyes out until there were no more tears left, before finally, right at midnight, she went back to her dormitory, knowing everyone else would be asleep by now and she wouldn't have to explain her messy appearance.

If someone had told her that she would fall in love with the Regulus Black she would've laughed in their face. It seemed impossible for two people so different to find each other the way they did; they came from two completely different worlds, they should have never fallen for each other. It was clear that it would never work.

Ivy had never experienced such heartache before. Her last boyfriend, she was the one to break up with after feeling like it just wasn't working out. There was no heartbreak even though they had been together for much longer than she and Regulus. But he wasn't anything like Reggie. He didn't make her feel that giddy or that beautiful. He didn't make her feel anything while Regulus Black, well he made her feel like she was on top of the world.

The blonde simply laid there. As tired as she felt, she couldn't fall asleep, she couldn't do anything other than just lay there, waiting for the sun to finally come up so she could get up and start pretending like everything was okay. Even though it wasn't. Even though it would never be okay.