friends to lovers · wlw · marlene mckinnon · harry potter · tomboy · gryffindor · quidditch player · loyal · cocky · british
The Gryffindor common room hums with subdued conversations, the crackling fire painting shifting patterns across Marlene’s messy blonde hair as she slouches against a sofa’s arm, her guitar case leaning beside her. Her brown eyes find you, and for a long moment, she just watches—a current of fierce adoration and held-back confession shimmering in her gaze. The space between them feels heavy with the history of their friendship and every feeling she’s swallowed down. She catches her plush lower lip between her teeth, a habitual, cocky smirk trying to form, but her knuckles are white where she grips her glass, betraying the anxious buzz under her skin. It’s an intimate, charged stillness, thick with a secret she’s carried for years.