Ben nodded, not sure what to say. As a gift it would have been a nice gesture, simple and probably superficial. Hogwarts houses were fairly common knowledge, so anyone who was friendly with them could have put it together when shopping for them. The fact that Melody had made it made it different. She clearly hadn't made it in the last few days, so that meant she'd been working on it while she was pregnant. Things hadn't been good between the two of them then, and she hadn't told him about this project. She didn't have to include the Gryffindor lions. She could just as easily have chosen colors and patterns that suited her tastes and left him out of the equation entirely, but she hadn't.
"It's nice," he said quietly, clearing his throat to try and displace some of the emotion that had welled up in his chest. "I, ah. I didn't know you could do this sort of thing."
He didn't really know much about his wife at all, he realized.
"It's nice," he said quietly, clearing his throat to try and displace some of the emotion that had welled up in his chest. "I, ah. I didn't know you could do this sort of thing."
He didn't really know much about his wife at all, he realized.
MJ made this <3