Title: Summer Solstice
Prompt: 094 - Solstice
Word Count: 200
Rating: G
The sun was not setting. Draco languidly shifted his body so that he could glare at the clock above the mantle, as if to frighten the hour-hand into rushing forward. Today had been terrible from the very start, and so he was eager to greet the end of it, at which point he would tuck himself into bed and sleep until no traces of it remained.
Draco's brows knit themselves closer together in annoyance. The clock was undoubtedly broken, as the time it displayed was eight-forty-five in the evening.
The sun was still setting a quarter of an hour later when Hermione came into the living room and announced that she was going to turn in for the night.
"But it's the middle of the afternoon," he told her.
Hermione looked at him as if he had said something particularly befuddling. "Why ever would you say that?"
"The clock is broken."
She peered at it and then laughed. "It's not broken at all! The sun has yet to set because it's the summer solstice. Days will be longer now."
Somehow, Draco had managed to forget this. He buried his head in his hands and refused to look out the window.
