Lily Collins
November 19, 2007 4:14 PM
Guilty (Wotw) by Lily Collins
Lily sank back into one of the library's arm chairs, half-reading a book. She had decided to stay at Sonora for midterm, much to her father's chagrin. Ever since the Quidditch game, she hadn't really wanted to face people. Even though Lily hit members of the opposing team with some regularity, she never felt actually guilty about it before, but then she'd never injured anyone as badly before as she'd injured Kaylie now.She really didn't want to tell her father that she had possibly permanently injured his cousin's daughter. He would have known too, for one of the things her younger sister, Autumn, usually asked her was if she'd knocked anyone off their brooms in the Quidditch game. What if her dad thought she was a horrible person and turned on her? Lily was all too used to conditional love, where you had to be what people wanted or they wouldn't want you. Not to mention, what if he or Felicity didn't want Lily around her little sisters and she never had anywhere to go again? She refused to go back to her mother and her mother wouldn't have let her anyway.
Mostly though, Lily felt bad that she'd caused Kaylie so much pain and ended her Quidditch playing. It wasn't as though Kaylie was too obsessed with it. In fact, unless someone had been a prodigy with dreams of playing it professionally, she would have felt less bad about that, as it would have shown them there were other things in life. It certainly had nothing to do with family sentimentality either, as Lily barely had any of that and there were cousins she would certainly not mind injuring at all, such as Chelsea. She had met that girl at her cousin Oliver's wedding last summer and they'd taken an instant disliking to each other. It was just that Kaylie was a sweet, kind person who'd never harmed anyone even with words and she didn't deserve what Lily had done, even if it hadn't been on purpose. She hadn't meant to injure her so badly, just stop her from winning the game for Teppenpaw (which hadn't even worked.)
Lily sighed and gazed around the library. She saw someone approaching and groaned inwardly. Dealing with other people was the last thing she wanted.
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