HER

𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟹

♪sᴛɪᴛᴄʜᴇs ʙʏ sʜᴀᴡɴ ᴍᴇɴᴅᴇs♪

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"How was school Loxy?! Tell me all about it!" Lucy cried out enthusiastically as she ran into my bedroom and jumped onto my bed.

School was school.

"Well firstly it's Roxy, say Rrrrroxy." I tried teaching her.

Lucy had been struggling to prounonce her 'R's' like many other kids but she tried her best.

She held her tongue up against her teeth. "Llllloxy!"

I couldn't help but giggle and she joined in.

"Now tell me, how was your day?" She asked, referring to school again.

She was the only one who ever asked about it. She seemed to care more than anyone else did, then again I didn't have a lot of people in my life.

"It was okay, I guess. I wrote all day, listened to annoying teachers, and the other kids smelt really bad." I exaggerated slightly, watching as she scrunched her face.

"Stinky?" She asked, covering her cute little nose.

"Stinky!" I exclaimed, doing the same. "How about you? How was your day?" I asked her.

"Mine was okay." She answered sadly, fidgeting with her fingers awkwardly.

I could tell that she wasn't okay. If I had to be stuck in this house 24/7 I wouldn't be either.

"You know what this calls for?!" I changed the topic, standing up from the bed.

"What?" She questioned, standing up on the bed.

"Ice-cream!" I yelled excitedly.

"Ice-cleam?!" She whisper shouted in amazement.

"Ice-cream!" I declared cheerfully, picking her up from the bed and walking out of the bedroom, through the passage and into the kitchen.

I seated her on a chair at the kitchen table before taking the ice cream out of the freezer and placing it on the table along with two bowls and two spoons.

I scooped some strawberry ice-cream into one bowl and chocolate into the other, squished the syrup bottle and squirted some over the top before placing one spoon in each bowl.

"Here you go princess." I placed the bowl of strawberry ice-cream in front of her before sitting next to her with my bowl of chocolate ice-cream.

"I'm not a plincess. I don't have a clown." She pouted.

"You don't need a crown to be a princess Lucy. You got something better, something way more worth it, something not many princesses are fortunate to have." I explained.

"And what's that Loxy?" She questioned, looking up quickly at me, strawberry ice-cream dripping down her chin.

"A beautiful golden heart!" I told her.

"Wow! Leally? I'd still like a clown like those beautiful plincesses in my stoly books though."

"How about a deal? You learn how to pronounce your R's properly and I'll steal you a beautiful shiny crown from one of those Princesses! Deal?" I put my hand out for her to shake it.

She smiled mischievously then shook it with her small soft hand. "Deal! But you shouldn't steal from people, especially not p-p-princesses!" She stuttered a bit.

"You did it! Keep practicing and then, and only then, I'll kindly ask one of the Princesses if I could bring one pretty crown home just for you." I smiled at her softly.