confessions in a garden? (any ship is fine!)
Frank leaned against the brick wall, staring at Narcissa watering a row of rosebushes.
"They gave you a private garden? How much did your family give the school for that?"
Narcissa shot him a glare, "Professor Sprout allowed me it to study for my Herbology n.e.w.t in peace. My family had nothing to do with it."
Frank snorted, "Sure, they didn't."
"I can achieve things without my family's influence."
"I never said you didn't."
She huffed, sitting her watering can down and folding her arms, "What are you doing here?"
"Well it is a private garden."
Frank grinned, glancing to the rosebushes, "Roses, the flower of Aphrodite."
Narcissa raised a brow, "How fascinating."
"Why aren't you growing any narcissi?"
"A little too on the nose, no? Are you that bored that you have to bother me with relentless questions, where's Alice?"
Frank laughed, "Great steering into talking about Alice."
"I was not trying to talk about Alice! It's just that you two are usually together."
Frank pushed himself off the wall, "Y'know, there's this boy I really like."
Narcissa smirked, "Kingsley?"
"Yeah", he grinned, "I like him a lot."
Narcissa stared at him for a moment, "Why are you telling me this?"
Frank shrugged, "In case there was something you wanted- needed to say out loud. We're friends, Narcissa, I feel comfortable telling you secrets, private things about myself, and I want you to be able to feel that way towards me."
Narcissa nodded, picking her watering can back up and turning to a row of snapdragons, "Thank you. For trusting me enough."
She plucked out one of the flowers, passing it to Frank, "Give this to Alice for me?"
Frank smiled, "Want me to give a message with that?"
"Just- that I wanted her to have it. And she can come to visit me here anytime."
Frank took the flower and gasped, "Oh, and I can't?"
"Absolutely not. You'd bore my plants to death with all those beatles songs on your guitar!"
She huffed a laugh, "Oh, shut up."