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Lucy was lounging on the famous couch in the Gryffindor common room. She was recovering from a particularly nasty cold. One thing Lucy hated was being sick, but not sick enough to miss classes was even worse. The only thing the she liked about being sick at this moment was the endless amount of peppermint humbugs that she got to eat. She told everyone that they cleared her sinuses, but most of the time, they failed in that department. But they never failed to satisfy her stomach. She asked Lily to go pick up her mail. The red-headed girl had refused until Lucy had forfeited four of her peppermint humbugs. Lily had gone on her way with her mouth full, much Lucy's dismay. She remembered the conversation perfectly.
"Lily, will you please go get my mail from the owlery?" Lucy asked, her eyes pleading.
"No," Lily responded immediately, immersed in a Muggle magazine, covered with very muscular men. Lucy had caught herself staring at a random guy's chest twice. She blushed and wished Lily would read something else.
"Please Lil?" Lucy did not want to beg. Lily shook her head and turned a page in her magazine.
"Where did you even get that?" Lucy asked, looking away from the dude's chest again, cheeks flushed.
"Krista's lending it to me," she said, looking at Lucy's face for the first time.
"Please get my mail. I'll give two of Peppermint Humbugs," Lucy said , defeated, looking detected at the thought of having to part with at least two of her Peppermint Humbugs. Lily looked up from her magazine.
"Make it four and it's a deal." she decided. Lucy sighed and nodded. Lily smiled and left, snatching four of Lucy's little angels. Lucy looked at the empty spaces where her comfort food had been. She smiled sadly, thinking about the poor Peppermint Humbugs' fate.
Just at the moment, Lily walked in.
"Here's your mail," she said. Lily looked at her sympathetically. Lucy didn't understand why, until she saw the red envelope. Oh, no. She didn't understand until she saw the red envelope. Lily went upstairs, her magazine tucked under her arm. A couple of students saw the red envelope and left as well. Lucy opened the Howler, preparing herself for a loud lecture. She didn't remember doing anything wrong. Maybe it was because she skipped Muggle Studies to go ice skating. That has to be it. She transfigured a nearby match into a toothpick and began to use it, leaning back into the couch as her father's angry voice rang out.
"LUCY WEASLEY! HOW DARE YOU SKIP MUGGLE STUDIES TO GO ICE SKATING! YOU HAVE SOME NERVE, YOUNG LADY! YOU ARE VERY LUCKY THAT I DIDN'T HEAR ABOUT THIS BEFORE CHRISTMAS! I HOPE YOU LEARNED YOUR LESSON! That was pretty much the gist of it. It was longer than an average Howler, much to the occupants chagrin.
The Howler tore itself up. Lucy hadn't been listening to a word it said. She had been busy trying to get a unknown object from between her teeth with the toothpick. A couple of students stared at her. She smiled charmingly at them before exiting the common room with ice shared slung over her shoulder. She had been told that it wasn't a good idea to go outside, but she didn't care a bit. She desperately needed some fresh air. She enjoyed the solitude of the frozen lake because nobody in their right mind would be out there since it was so cold. She slid on the ice, gliding gracefully. She was having the time of her life when she slammed into a warm object. It grunted. She irately pulled her scarf off her eyes to see who the person. Vincent Zabini lay sprawled out on the ice, dead to the world. Dead!? She killed him!
"Oh my gosh, wake up! Wake up!" Lucy shook his him, her knees becoming numb. He did not stir. She was running out of options. She remembered a Muggle fairy tale that had been discussed in Muggle Studies. If she went to class, she would have heard it, but she ended hearing a little bit from Rose. Some person kissed someone to wake them up. Was she really that desperate? Yeah, she was. She leaned down and he opened his eyes and jerked his head up, his mouth accidentally capturing here. They tried to pull away, but their tongues somehow frozen together. She wondered how this was even possible until she saw Lily's triumphant grin on her face. Vincent noticed too and they were both screaming at her. They ran rather her falling down many times since Vincent was very tall and she was not. To make a long story short, they found Scorpius and Albus, after laughing hysterically, agreed to separate their tongues. Lucy was extremely tired when all this was over. She went straight to bed with her precious peppermint humbugs.
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