Disclaimer: The Next Gen characters do not belong to me.
A/N: This will be a drabble series written for PrincessPearl's 'coffee and candle flavours' challenge, for which I am taking 25 sets of prompts, each one including either a flavour of coffee or a candle scent, as well as a (next gen) pairing and several extra prompts.
~Number 1~
~Coconut Bay
~pairing: james/oc/albus~
~extra prompts: gravity, illustrious, mellow~
When you've screwed up your life so badly that there's nothing left to do except run away, the Caribbean is as good an option as any. And lying in a sandy bay under a coconut tree, feeling pleasantly mellow from the cocktail she's just drunk, she can almost forget the gravity of the situation; forget that as an illustrious international Quidditch player, you cannot run away to the Caribbean without losing your place on the team and making newspaper headlines; forget the mess she has made of everything.
Forget that she had something precious and wonderful with the black-haired boy with greengreen eyes and an overly serious expression except when that mischievous smile lights up his face. Forget about the stupid, painful argument about nothing that left her shaking with anger, and then, when the first fury was passed, with desolation because he'd walked away and left her and she'd lost him. Forget about the emotional night that followed when she tried to drown her sorrows and only succeeded in drowning her mind. Forget about the drunken kiss she could hardly remember anyway, with the laughing, brown-haired young man with a wicked glint in his eye.
Forget about the expression in those greengreen eyes, which she could remember only too horribly clearly, when he walked through the door to find her locking lips with his brother.
Here, she can almost forget all that.
But not quite.