For Princess Pearl's flavourful prompts competition on NextGen Fanatics Forum.

25th July
candle flavour: café au laut
triangle: JamesOCLouis
prompts: bloom, mythology, freestyle


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Louis watches over the girl in the Gryffindor Common Room from a distance, noticing everything about her. He spots the way that she stares into the open fire as she attempts to work on her homework to get inspiration; he notices the way that she tosses her hair around, parts looking like the café au lait that he buys when he's in France with his mother; he notices how she has so much more potential than her boyfriend, James Potter II, seems to see.

Her name? Violent Haines, and she is the girl dating his younger cousin, the serial womaniser who moves onto another girl every time he gets bored.

But she doesn't seem to see this side of him: as far as Louis can tell, she has been drawn in by his charms and rugged good looks and made to forget the reputation she knew he had before. As far as Louis can tell, James doesn't even love her – he simply wanted a new bit of arm candy for his arm and that's what he got.

She's the utter model of perfection: her slender body with its ivory coloured skin allures him, along with the sweetheart shaped face and open eyes. She draws everyone in, including Louis, and he knows that it is love.

He loves her: how can you notice everything about someone for two years now and not be able to title that love? You can't, he decides, as he sits at the back of the Common Room in opposition to her at the front with the popular kids.

She turns around suddenly, her quill falling onto the Muggle book in front of her: he recognises it, of course he does; it was the mystery Valentine's day present he got her because he had heard her telling James how Greek mythology fascinated her. The ladies man never even realised what she had said but he did… he paid attention and gave her the thing she had wanted for months but never received.

As she turns, her eyes lock with his and, for a brief second, he allows himself to believe that they are dating and she is looking at him, her lover. Her brown eyes are so open and warm, they entice him in…

She smiles slightly before turning away, breaking the magic. And then he realises something: she will never be his.

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I'm not so good with triangles idk if that was how it should be?

Vicky xx