CHOCOLATE AND SANDALWOOD

 

Lavender Brown and Hermione Granger
decay; plaster; sandalwood

When Hermione was seven, her uncle gave her a sandalwood box filled with chocolates. "Hide it from your parents," he said with a wink and a smile, and she did. The chocolates disappeared quickly, as they would in the possession of any sugar-deprived child, but she kept the box, storing in it first her jewelry and now her magical amulets. But her first association with the smell of sandalwood was chocolate, and so she associates the scent with things that taste good.

Lavender smells like sandalwood, she notices one day while passing her in the hallways.

Its strange. Girls like Lavender don't smell like sandalwood. They smell like disgusting Muggle makeup and stifling perfume and bubble gum. They don't smell like sandalwood boxes and things that taste good.

Lavender does, though. Lavender smells like sandalwood and her eyes are the color of chocolate, and Hermione is starting to wonder what she tastes like.

(Okay, I didn't get the other two words in there. But this way its semi-happy, and no fic with the word 'decay' can be happy.)

 

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