"I know something you don't know."
Ginny looked up between the locks of hair that fell in front of her face, four of her school books spread out under the table beneath her. Her O.W.L.'s were just hours away. She didn't have time to play her normal round of guessing games.
"Luna, you always know something that I don't."
Luna frowned and then gave a little smile, taking the seat across from her red haired friend. She reached out and took Ginny's quill from her fingers, drawing a silly little figure on the corner of her parchment. It looked like a cross between a pumpkin pasty and a gargoyle. Ginny laughed.
Luna looked up and smiled again, saying, "You ought to know. It will be entirely too helpful for your studying."
Luna noticed the little flush there was to Ginny's cheeks when she laughed. She always noticed, but today, after her countless hours here in the library, she was sure that her friend hadn't smiled in a good number of days, let alone a few minutes. Luna thought that while smiles were gifts, they should be given out regularly—not at intervals or festivals or holidays.
Clearly, Ginny hadn't been given any sort of gift today and hadn't given one in return.
Ginny propped her head up on her hand, leaning forward and shaking her bangs out of her eyes. She smirked. "And what ought I to know, exactly?"
"The Care of Magical Creatures exam is going to have a unit on Flashing Fambies." Luna stated matter of factly, her monster growing teeth from the tip of Ginny's quill.
"What?"
"Flashing Fambies. If you don't control them, they'll go around and steal everyone's smile."
A relieved sort of look crossed Ginny's face, who leaned back her chair and stretched her arms. "Even that is a little far fetched for you, Luna."
"No, really, and you're the one who's going to infect everyone."
"Me?"
"Yes. You have to control them." Luna's monster had little horns now and a dark unibrow. She was starting to get attached to him.
"Why are they after me?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Luna asked, and when Ginny only looked at her with the same dumbstruck expression, she elaborated, "You haven't had enough reason to smile."
"Enough reason to…"
But Luna leaned forward, her hand covering the small drawing of her creature, and pressed her lips to Ginny's in just the right way. Ginny reacted differently than Luna thought she would have; she put her fingers at the front of Luna's blouse, tugging the blonde closer and she opened her mouth to her, leaving Luna rather dazzled for the first time in a long time when Ginny's tongue lightly traced along her bottom lip.
Clearly, plenty of people had given Ginny Weasley enough reason to smile.
Ginny pulled away after a moment or seven, looking up at her friend with those flushed cheeks again. Luna smiled a lazy sort of smile, resuming her normal sitting position and giving Ginny a curious look.
The redhead blushed again but grinned that wicked grin that only her brothers would have been capable of.
"Think I'm all cured?" She asked teasingly.
"Of course. Though there is always that method of prevention…"
And if that was never enough, whenever Ginny turned to the index of her Monster Book of Monsters, there was that little corner piece of parchment in the F's, right next to a tiny, sloppy scrawl that had done her the courtesy of writing in the ridiculous name.
But in the margin, Luna had written, "And then there are the Razzlehumphed Ruffles to get rid of, too."