Hey everyone. Here is another chapter of Little Moments. This chapter was brought to you by December Event's Advent Calendar on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I wrote for Day 8 and the prompt was Platonic Pairings. Mine was Andromeda/Narcissa. I hope you all enjoyed Skipping Stones and Other Childhood Things.
The Black family home had at one point in its existence been a very happy place. A place full of children's laughter and the pitter patter of little feet running to and fro. It had always looked bleak but the sound of children playing out in the back yard had been the one thing that brightened the old place up a bit.
The house belonged to Druella and Cygnus Black and they were the most upstanding people that could ever have lived. They had three children and they were the most adorable well behaved children anyone had ever met. The oldest of the family had a wild streak and no one was surprised when Bellatrix would lead the way for the other children getting into trouble. The next in line was the mild manner Andromeda. She was the one who usually tried to keep the peace and talk Bellatrix out of her plans. And last but not least the youngest child Narcissa. She was her mother and father's little angel and could do no wrong in their eyes.
Bellatrix's wild plan for the day had been to go and steal their cousin Sirius's chocolate frog cards and hide them somewhere. Bellatrix would have succeed to if it hadn't been for Andromeda and Regulus running and tattling to Andromeda's mother. As Narcissa sat outside glumly watching her older sister be drug off to sit her sentence in time out she wondered why Bella had to ruin all the fun on such a nice.
"What are you thinking about, Cissa?" Andromeda asked sitting down next to her sister.
"Why does Bella have to ruin such a nice?" asked Narcissa in response to the question her sister had just asked her. A pretty bird had landed in the tree branches above them and Narcissa reached to grab it.
"I guess that's just the way she is." Andromeda held out a hand and the bird fluttered over her finger. "Don't grab him or you'll scare him away, Cissa." She returned to the subject of their sister. "She's just trying to get mother's attention and going about it the wrong way. That's all. She just has learn a better way."
The only problem with that was that Bellatrix didn't want to learn another way and even as a four year Narcissa could tell this was a fact. "I'm bored," Narcissa whined as she watched the bird take flight from Andromeda's finger. "What can we do?"
"Why don't we go over to the pond and I can teach you to skip stones?" Andromeda asked smiling down on the small blonde girl. "I'll teach you the same way Bellatrix taught me. Okay?"
Narcissa nodded excitedly. Taking the outstretched hand of her sister she followed the older girl towards the pond. The pond had been added by the girls parents when they moved into the manor. It had a nice little patch of grass surrounding it with a few trees. There was a nice bench to sit on too. Their parents had even seen fit to put a few coy fish in for the girls to look at.
"How do I start?" Narcissa asked picking up a stone and just plain tossing it. "Why didn't it skip?"
"Here let me show how first," Andromeda told her. "You take the stone like this." She picked up a stone from the ground holding gently in a relaxed fist. "Then throw it like this." With a gentle flick of her hand the stone was off skipping across the pond. "Do you want to try?"
Narcissa nodded. Picking up a stone like Andromeda had before. She flicked her wrist and the stone just dropped through the water like it had with the one before hand.
"You have to be more gentler with it," Andromeda pointed out.
Trying one more time Andromeda picked up another stone. Flicking her wrist this time gentler she saw the stone skip for one of two times and then sink. "I did," she squealed.
"You did it," Andromeda squealed back hugging her.
The rest of the day they spent skipping stones near the pond.
I hope you all enjoyed Skipping Stones and Other Childhood Things.