The Locket
Title: The Locket
House: Gryffindor
Words: 100
Challenge: Star
She did not wear it.
She knew it was there, collecting dust in the drawer of her bedside table; she felt it like a tiny sun, bathing her in a pool of warmth every time she laid her head upon her pillow and remembered-the weight of it, the soft way the chain coiled into her palm as her father gave it to her, beaming, saying gruffly, “Open it, my girl, my star. It shines like you.”
Engraved on the back - Andromeda Black.
She missed his love, the glow of that star-her star. But she did not wear it.