Luna Lovegood was fourteen years old and in two weeks, she would be attending her very first high school dance. Not that she particularly cared; Luna had only bought the ticket because the two seniors selling them – Cho and Marietta – were passing out cupcakes with sprinkles on them to everyone who purchased one.
And Luna absolutely loved cupcakes with sprinkles on them. Especially if they were star shaped sprinkles, and if they were also purple, because stars were the coolest shape Luna could think of and purple was the best color ever.
Unfortunately, Cho and Marietta’s cupcakes had only been the kind with regular rainbow sprinkles. They were still good cupcakes, though; chocolate swirl with vanilla frosting and the equally tasty rainbow sprinkles, which Luna hand picked off – every last one – eating them separately and with relish. Luna had wanted to buy two, but Zacharias Smith from her math class had shoved her out of the way after she’d bought the first one, asking her who she thought would take her to the dance, anyway.
Luna had almost been offended by his shoving her, but then she remembered that Zacharias was on the soccer team and suffering from Loser’s Lurgy, so she cradled her cupcake in her hands and walked away with a, “I understand about the Loser’s Lurgy!” as a farewell to Zacharias. He’d gotten really mad at that, turning to look at her with a fierce scowl and then picking up his really tasty cupcake, he’d hurled it towards her retreating figure.
It had hit her in the back and Luna had smooshed cupcake in her hair all day. It’d smelled great, but Luna wondered if every boy hated cupcakes as much as Zacharias Smith, or if it was just him. She hoped it was just Zacharias, because she couldn’t imagine having to finish high school with a bunch of no-good cupcake haters like him … the idea was worse than imagining a world with out catfish.
A World Without Catfish
Luna Lovegood was fourteen years old and in two weeks, she would be attending her very first high school dance. Not that she particularly cared; Luna had only bought the ticket because the two seniors selling them – Cho and Marietta – were passing out cupcakes with sprinkles on them to everyone who purchased one.
And Luna absolutely loved cupcakes with sprinkles on them. Especially if they were star shaped sprinkles, and if they were also purple, because stars were the coolest shape Luna could think of and purple was the best color ever.
Unfortunately, Cho and Marietta’s cupcakes had only been the kind with regular rainbow sprinkles. They were still good cupcakes, though; chocolate swirl with vanilla frosting and the equally tasty rainbow sprinkles, which Luna hand picked off – every last one – eating them separately and with relish. Luna had wanted to buy two, but Zacharias Smith from her math class had shoved her out of the way after she’d bought the first one, asking her who she thought would take her to the dance, anyway.
Luna had almost been offended by his shoving her, but then she remembered that Zacharias was on the soccer team and suffering from Loser’s Lurgy, so she cradled her cupcake in her hands and walked away with a, “I understand about the Loser’s Lurgy!” as a farewell to Zacharias. He’d gotten really mad at that, turning to look at her with a fierce scowl and then picking up his really tasty cupcake, he’d hurled it towards her retreating figure.
It had hit her in the back and Luna had smooshed cupcake in her hair all day. It’d smelled great, but Luna wondered if every boy hated cupcakes as much as Zacharias Smith, or if it was just him. She hoped it was just Zacharias, because she couldn’t imagine having to finish high school with a bunch of no-good cupcake haters like him … the idea was worse than imagining a world with out catfish.