Falling Behind, Catching Up || Marlene & Lily
An empty package sat at the foot of Lily’s bed, its contents sprawled across her comforter as she parsed through them. The package had come from her parents, something she hadn’t received in a while, the number dwindling year by year. Perhaps it was the nostalgia of her last year at school that had her mum sending one before November had even come, and it was clear that her father had helped very little in putting it together, save for his name scrawled on the card below her mother’s familiar handwriting.
Lily had already undone a once tightly wrapped bundle of brown paper, knowing very well the exact almond triangle biscuits her mother would have sent along. Lily nibbled at her third as she flipped through some photographs, the very muggle sort, of her parents’ trip to see Petunia in London. The round, stern looking man in the photos who Lily couldn’t recognize must have been this Vernon her sister was apparently smitten with. Hopefully he would be more approachable when the actually met come Christmas time.
Moving on from the photos, Lily poked around some other trinkets, just little knickknacks that filled space. Another deck of cards, a new set of fine-tipped pens Lily used to write in her journals, a couple of silly stickers with Halloween themed phrases and jargon she could almost hear her mother giggling at in the checkout line. Picking up a mask that she figured was supposed to look like a cat, Lily slipped it over her head and onto her eyes. Turning to Marlene, Lily gave a hearty chuckle. “What do you think? The start of a good costume? I feel like everybody’s got something figured out, I haven’t a clue.”
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