~ Wizard Sweets ~
(Lifelike)
Thirteen-year-old Orion's expression turns sour as he observes the other couples around them in the crowded tea shop.
"Let's go somewhere else instead," he suggests.
"You said you wanted to go on a date," his cousin returns, smirking. "This is where people go on dates."
It's his first Hogsmeade weekend, and it's being ruined by his own stubborn insistence on bringing his beloved elder cousin on a date. (She doesn't take him seriously. He knows she doesn't.) He should have just asked her to show him around the village. Too bad he didn't think of that before...
She laughs in a most unladylike way at the look on his face.
He crosses his arms over his chest and mutters sullenly, "It wouldn't be so bad in here if everyone else was acting normally and not... not speaking in baby-talk and calling each other weird things like animals and names of sweets!"
"Oh, you don't like nicknames?" Walburga says, coming around behind his chair to wind her arms around his shoulders. "My little Chocolate Frog," she whispers in his ear.
If she were serious, it wouldn't bother him as much, he is fairly certain - but he can tell she is only teasing him.
"I suppose not," he concedes, unable to conceal the note of irritation in his voice over her chosen endearment. He turns his head to nuzzle her cheek and murmurs, "My sweet Cockroach Cluster."
~2/9~