She's on the blacktop at lunch, surrounded by small children asking for remedies.
"Lily, my throat hurts." a little boy coughs, peering up at Lily. "Can you help me?"
"Oh, I know!" Lily smiles and kneels down to face the boy. "When you go home today, I want you to drink a lot of tap water-not fridge water. And gargle with a cup of salt water every two hours! It always works for me."
The boy shyly smiles and runs back to the ladder of the slide, and it's always been Lily's belief to help others first and put yourself last. Good deeds are better than being selfish.
The next day, the boy has stopped coughing and runs to Lily, his fair cheeks rosy and his breath salty with excitement. "Lily! It worked! Thank you so much!"
And he gives her a warm hug, her first one in a long time.
Instead of becoming a children's physician and curing people, she became an Auror and died.
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I have swim championships today and tomorrow, so I decided to write this one today. Please review! :D