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First Friend
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"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." ― Marilyn Monroe
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She sat in the meadow, making a wreath of clovers. She chose each flower carefully, looking for the ones that were past their prime and had started to wilt. In her concentration in looking for the imperfections, she didn't hear a boy coming up behind her.
"Why are you picking the old flowers?"
"It's cruel to kill the ones that are just starting to live. I'm just helping the old ones find their way to the next life." Luna did not turn her head, but treated the boy as if he was just another curious person on a long list of curious people. No-one she hadn't seen before.
"Did you know that four-leaf clovers can bring good luck? My gran told me so," the boy sidled over to her and sat down on the grass. He picked his nose before he continued, "She knows everything."
"Only those who wear the Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw can know everything."
"Where's that then?"
"Oh, it's lost. My mummy has been trying to rebuild it."
"Can I see it?"
The question caused Luna to put down her partly-completed wreath and look at the boy for the first time. She gazed at him with wide blue eyes, surprised.
"You want to see my house?"
"Yes."
"And you don't think I'm weird?"
"I think you're interesting. The girls in the village just play with their boring old dolls. They've never told me anything about a diadem. What is a diadem?"
Luna sprang up, abandoning her clovers. She twirled around until she fell, her already long blond hair whipping around her face, then said-
"Will you be my friend?"
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Fin