prompt: ocean
writer: PrincessPearl
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She's sitting by the seashore, pretty as a picture with her strawberry curls spilling down her back like sand spills from his hands, and he has to wonder -
"What's a pretty girl like you doing out here by the ocean?" Scorpius asks, voice quiet, not wanting to disturb the peace of the ocean.
Lily turns, hazel eyes bright with reflected ocean-light. "I'm thinking."
"About what?" he presses, genuinely curious.
"I don't know," she shrugs. "Just things. Have you ever wondered what fish think of us?"
Scorpius raises an eyebrow. "I can't say that I have."
"Exactly," Lily nods, meeting his gaze, hazel into gray. "There's so much out there we never even think of. An ocean full of things to think about, but we never do. So, I figured I'd sit by here and think of all those things, just to make up for all the times I don't."
"Very insightful for such a little girl," Scorpius teases, smiling when his comment teases a giggle out of her. "Mind if I join you?"
She laughs and scoots over and he sits beside her, watching ocean waves crash to the sand and thinking about all the things he'd never have thought about otherwise.
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