In anger, Silwen slammed her hand against the table for the umpteenth time. Another hold to add to the others on the stupid piece of parchment in front of her. "That's it." She crumpled the parchment and hurled it viciously into the fireplace, watching with a satisfied smirk as it it burst into flames.
"What are you doing?" asked Draco. He slid into a chair next to hers and took in the ink splattered across her fingers, robe, and even face.
"I...don't you dare laugh. I'm trying to teach myself how to write cursive."
"You—what?"
"Teach. Myself. Cursive."
A laugh escaped his lips but it was gone in a moment when he saw hexes flying from her eyes. "You never learned?"
"No."
Draco reached for another parchment and carefully wrote the cursive alphabet horizontally across its top. "It has to do with the angle of your quill." Carefully, he reached over, put the quill in her hand and positioned it so that the quill wouldn't tear the parchment. "Try now."
Silwen hesitantly put the quill against the paper and drew a lower-case "a," connecting it with a "b." She concentrated on not pressing the quill harshly on the parchment, but rather like skating across it with long smooth strokes for the attached letters and short quick ones to dot her i's and cross her t's. It took a small snore from Draco to realize how long she had spent on just going over the alphabet once. Two hours. Two hours of sitting scrunched up on a chair and painstaking patience not to rush through the beautiful letters. Letters she had written.
Smiling, she nudged him awake.
"Beautiful. Take a nap with me on the couch?" he didn't take no for an answer. With a smirk on his face, he stood up, pushed both of their chairs away with a spell and picked her up in his arms. Draco walked over to the sofa, easily carrying her weight, and plopped onto the sofa.
"Thank you," Silwen said, closing her green eyes and curling against his chest.
His hand stroked her long obsidian hair as her murmured with a small smirk, "Of course, Sil." It would be him to de-curse her cursive.
