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A/N: Sorry that I haven't updated in so long. My computer broke and then I started university! Good thing: Had plenty of time to get ahead on some chapters, so expect frequent updates for a while :)
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Louis was walking along the shore, careful that his feet didn't slip in towards the edge of the water. His mother was tired of having to dry his shoes, socks and trousers time and time again. He was walking and thinking. Since both his older sisters had left home, his own holidays had become very quiet. Of course he enjoyed the feeling of having his parents to himself for the first time in his life, at the same time all the attention was making him rather uncomfortable. For example he wasn't used to coming back from Hogwarts and having both his parents standing in his room with large smiles and watching him as he unpacked his trunk, did his essays, wrote letters to some friends. He understood that they were basically trying to 'be there' as he went from being a small boy to a grown man, but in all honesty it was becoming a bit suffocating. He kicked at a shell moodily as he walked further from his house, in a contemplative stance. A slight wind picked up and Louis' hair flayed around his head. He looked up and that's when he two small beings running frantically towards him. "Mister, do you live here?" the small boy said, with large eyes. Louis nodded his head, a small smile playing on his lips as he was reminded of his 11-year-old cousin, Hugo. "Can you help us find Penny?" the girl said enthusiastically. "Who is Penny?" Louis asked bemusedly.
"Our pet nargle of course!"
Louis shrugged and said okay, really he had nothing else to do and he did miss company of friends.
For a couple of hours Louis and the twin siblings searched high and low for penny the nargle. The two children were getting distressed by the time their parents found them.
"I hope they haven't been troubling you," the woman said in an airy voice.
"Not really, I was bored and Lysander and Lorcan came and we've been searching for Penny the nargle!" Louis laughed.
Lysander and Lorcan's father chuckled. "Putting up with their games is no easy task, you've been a Good Samaritan, young man." although Louis didn't know what the man meant, he nodded his head politely anyway. It turned out that the family was moving into Louis' neighborhood and in the years to come the two neighboring families would become extremely close.
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