Lingerie.
After spending the afternoon, lying on the beach soaking up the sun as she read her newest book, sixteen year old Lyra headed back to the villa the Malfoys and Zabinis were staying in. The two families had come away to an expensive part of wizarding Italy as a treat for Scorpius and Alex finishing school. Despite their trouble making ways, both boys had passed their exams with flying colours and their parents had wanted them to have a week of fun in the warm Mediterranean sun.
When Lyra arrived back at the villa she was surprised to find Scorpius and Alex lounging around beside the pool. Lyra hadn't been expecting them as the two boys had headed into the nearby town earlier that morning and they'd given the impression they wouldn't be back until late. She had been hoping to have a bit more peace and quiet back at the villa as when she headed down to the beach after lunch her parents and the Zabinis were heading out for the afternoon.
"How long have you two been back?" Lyra questioned.
"A while," Scorpius replied. "Where is everyone?"
"Mum and Dad said they were heading to some sort of museum," Lyra replied. "And Blaise and Daphne mentioned going shopping."
"That sounds like Mum and Dad," Alex laughed. "I can't believe Mum found someone who loves to shop almost as much as she does."
"I don't get that one," Scorpius said. "Shopping is boring. Although come to think of it, so is going to museums and art galleries, and my parents are always doing stuff like that."
"I'd rather they went to museums and art galleries than stay here and act like randy teenagers," Lyra remarked. "You know I caught them planning to skinny dip this morning. Luckily, I turned up before they could strip off."
"Don't tell us stuff like that Lyra," Scorpius complained. "I don't want to think about our parent's sex lives."
"As if I do," Lyra muttered as she headed into the villa.
Lyra was halfway through the front room when she spotted a flash of green material on the white sofa. Curious, she made her way over to the sofa and frowned at what she saw. Lying stuffed half behind a cushion was a very skimpy bra. Lyra picked the bra up between two fingers and shook her head at the sight. The bra was so skimpy and revealing, it wouldn't cover someone's modesty. Chances are if someone was wearing it, you'd be able to see all they had to offer.
Still holding the bra, Lyra turned round and stormed back out onto the back patio. The bra wasn't there when she'd gone down to the beach, meaning either Scorpius or Alex had brought a guest back from the town with them.
"Which one of you was it?" Lyra demanded, waving the bra in front of the two eighteen year olds.
"What the hell. Why are you waving a bra in our faces?" Scorpius asked his sister with a frown.
"Which one of you brought a tart home from the village?" Lyra asked. "You were warned about bringing girls back to the villa."
"We didn't bring any girls back to the villa," Scorpius replied.
"Then how do you explain this?" Lyra questioned, continuing to wave the bra around.
Sitting up Alex grabbed the bra from Lyra's hand and had a good look at the skimpy material. "This is a nice bra. It's very flimsy, and it'll show everything. I love bras like that."
"So it was you," Lyra said, glaring at Alex. For some reason she didn't like the thought of Alex bringing random girls back to the villa.
"I wish," Alex replied, throwing the bra to Scorpius. "I haven't seen that bra before, either on or off a witch."
"Neither have I," Scorpius said. "But I agree with Alex, it's a good bra."
"So if neither of you brought a girl home, who does the bra belong to?" Lyra asked.
It only took a moment for the answer to become clear and both Scorpius and Alex shot up and backed away from the offending material. There was only two other possibilities as to where the bra had come from.
"Please don't let it be Mum's," Alex muttered, trying not to think about how much he liked the bra.
"The bra is green, and she is a former Slytherin," Scorpius pointed out. "It's more than likely Daphne's bra."
"Your father is a former Slytherin, and we all know Hermione likes to wear green. It has every chance to be your Mum's bra," Alex retorted.
"Lyra, get rid of the bra please," Scorpius said, not wanting to touch it again in case it did belong to his mother.
"Maybe I should ask who it belongs to," Lyra said as she plucked the bra up from where it had been discarded.
"Don't," Alex and Scorpius cried together.
"Just put it back where you found it, and we'll pretend like we haven't seen it," Scorpius told his sister.
Lyra shrugged and went into the villa to return the bra to the sofa where she'd found it. Even though the bra was out of sight it didn't stop the boys wondering about it, so they moved into the front room to see if either of their mothers claimed the bra when they returned back from their afternoon out.
Daphne and Blaise were the first to return, and neither of them mentioned the half hidden bra as they spoke to the three teenagers. The couple were in the room for almost fifteen minutes, before they headed off to put their shopping bags in the room, and neither of them once glanced in the direction of the forgotten bra. With his parents having gone off without claiming the bra, a smug Alex sat back to enjoy the show when Draco and Hermione arrived home.
When Draco and Hermione did arrive back at the villa, they didn't immediately pounce on the bra. However, as they were asking the teenagers if they'd had a good day, Hermione suddenly caught sight of the green material. Her shocked expression was enough to alert the three teenagers to the fact the bra was most likely hers. Unfortunately the look was enough to alert Draco to the fact his wife had spotted the bra.
"Hey, Hermione, it's your bra," Draco said, yanking the material out from underneath the cushion and dangling it in front of his wife.
"Thank you, I can see that," Hermione muttered, pulling the bra off her husband and stuffing it in her bag.
"I wonder if that means your knickers are around here somewhere," Draco mused, looking under a few more cushions. "We couldn't find them either, could we."
"You two are impossible," Scorpius groaned as Alex chuckled beside him. "Can't you act like grown-ups?"
"Yeah, it's embarrassing that you've lost your underwear at your age," Lyra added.
"It's not lost, it's merely misplaced," Hermione argued.
"It's not misplaced either," Draco called. From underneath the sofa, he pulled out a tiny thong that matched the bra. "Found them."
"This is priceless," Alex laughed as both Scorpius and Lyra buried their heads in their hands through sheer embarrassment.
"Sorry kids," Hermione said as she took hold of Draco's hand and pulled him towards the stairs. "We didn't mean to embarrass you."
"You never do, but yet you're so good at it," Scorpius muttered as his parents headed off upstairs.
Lyra waited until her parents had time to be safely ensconced in their room, before she also headed off to her room. She was wishing she'd just left the bra alone when she'd first seen it. That way she would have been in her room when her parents returned, and she would never have known that sometime over the course of the afternoon her parents had been getting frisky in the front room and her mother had misplaced her underwear. Some things, she just didn't need to know, and what had just happened was one of those things.