This is for Visa (Lowi)'s 150 Beautiful and Colourful prompts challenge on NGF
12th February 2012
colour: sun drenched; prompt: desultory; LouisFemale!OC.
~x~
There's a desultory edge to the way that he hands her the ring in his pocket, as though it was never part of the plan: spur of the moment has always been the way that Louis Weasley has rolled, and today, with Linda Champter, things aren't any different.
It was a spur of the moment decision to take her to the local beach at his parents' house, to walk along the tiny promenade and look out wistfully at the setting sun in all its glory, streaks of burnt orange and violet intermingled together.
It's even more of a spur of the moment decision to slip down onto one knee before the girl who seems to have diamonds for eyes, their glittering nature catching his attention for longer than he can tell.
"Linda, will you marry me?" he asks, wondering if she'll accept because, after all, they're both barely adults and marriage is something eternal.
(Just like the tattoo he got last year.)
And when she replies yes, he's so stunned that he drops the ring with the gem that reminded him of her eyes, drops it right into one of the little rockpools, so that it's drenched with saltwater when he summons it.
But she doesn't care: it's a reminder of their spur of the moment engagement that she can remember forever, a forever which is longer than most because they're barely twenty, so they've got decades longer to go with one another.
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