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We're time jumping about four and a half years, so they're all 16 now (still in fifth year though).
Now, without further ado I give you chapter one.
Chapter One
Saturday, March 19th 2022
Black Lake, Hogwarts, Scotland
Lorcan hums quietly to himself, rather lost in thought as he sits on a large rock overlooking the lake. It's really and truly spring now (finally) and he's glad for it. He had been getting quite tired of winter. He watches small ripples appear on the dark surface of the lake and wonders whether it's the squid waking up from its hibernation.
"Knut for your thoughts?" his sister leans against the rock and looks up at him.
"They're really not worth the money, Evie," he smiles at her.
She laughs. "They very much are. You were humming that song again. What's it called?"
He shakes his head fondly, because it's one of his favorites and he's told her about it more than a few times, but she forgets its name every single time. Or at least she pretends to, he isn't quite sure sometimes. "If I told you," he says. "And I told you that a gazillion times already."
She just laughs louder and bends down to pick a flower that she twirls in her hand as she speaks. "You know, Lorc… you get out that song when you have a crush on someone."
"Not just anyone," he says before he can stop himself, and Eva looks at him curiously.
"And who is not just anyone?" she asks.
Lorcan shakes his head. "I'd rather not…"
Eva smiles at him. "Doesn't matter. I think I know."
He watches her play with the flower in her hands and thinks that she might just be right, because she can read him like no one else, except perhaps their mother. They don't say anything for a while and when her boyfriend calls out to her, she smiles at Lorcan and tucks the flower behind her brother's ear before she goes to meet Brandon.
Lorcan stays, staring at the lake, and tells himself that it's better to just leave it be this time. There are some things that are too good to risk breaking them. He just wishes he wouldn't forget about that the moment she smiles at him.
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