Friends. When was it, exactly that the word began to hold such a negative connotation? When did it become so easy to break someone's heart with seven little letters?
"I don't want it?" she asked him, anger edging into her voice. "I'm not the one who got married." She was taking out her frustration with her current predicament out on Seth, but that didn't make what she was saying any less true. "Of course, I suppose that's not much of a fair argument now that I'm like this." Who in their right minds was going to marry a pureblood witch turned squib? No one.