For the Oh Christmas Tree 25 drabble collection on NGF
I – 1st December
James II
gingerbread; linger; possibility; tree
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"See you later," Lindsay smiles seductively as she drops something into his hand, her sapphire blue eyes locked in on his before she turns from him.
The smell of her perfume lingers in the air as she walks away, James finding his eyes unable to move from where her figure has disappeared around the corner. She's caught him under her spell, he realises, caught him to the point where he's intoxicated even when she's gone.
Finally, his attention is brought back down to the thing that she gave him, the thing that he almost managed to forget about.
It's a small gingerbread man, a reminder of their time together in the past when they were both young, naïve first years and he donated one of his gingerbread men to her because she felt lonely.
As he looks at it, he can't remember seeing anything that's filled him with as much hope before, given him the notion that there is perhaps a possibility for something here.
He smiles ever so slightly before following in the direction she went, dropping the gingerbread man into his pocket as he walks, planning on savouring it later.
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