Thanks for the prompt <3 When Marlene entered the potions classroom the first thing she noticed was how strongly it smelt of lavender. There were cauldrons bubbling at the front of the classroom, Professor Slughorn standing over them and stirring a couple here and there. Marlene hated Slughorn, but that was neither here nor there, he could play favourites all he liked, at least he wasn’t obsessed with pure-blooded nonsense like some people.  “Smells pretty strong in here, doesn’t it?” Dorcas was taking a deep breath as she said this, eyes slightly closed. Marlene nodded, looking at her friend.

“Yeah, that lavender.” 

“What?” Dorcas looked confused, which confused Marlene as well. Had she not just commented about the overpowering scent coming from the front of the room?

“That’s the smell isn’t it?”  “Smells more like vanilla to me.” Now Marlene just felt stupid. How could she be smelling lavender if Dorcas was smelling vanilla? “Maybe your just smelling my shampoo Mar? I washed my hair before class.” Marlene nodded, unconvinced. Sure, the smell of Dorcas’ shampoo did distract her for reasons but she didn’t usually smell it this much.

Before she would reply Slughorn clapped his hands in the way he always seemed to do. It pissed Marlene the hell off, but everything this man did annoyed her so she supposed she wasn’t the one to judge. “Alright folks. Today we have a very exciting potion to be looking at and attempting to make.” He looked at their faces closely, as if expecting a reaction immediately. Like any of them actually wanted to be there. “Amortentia.” He paused, presumably waiting for the reaction he had expected a moment ago. He was gratified by a few eyes widening, but Marlene just sighed. 

““I wish he’d get on with it.” She muttered in Dorcas’ ear, making her giggle, in a way that made Marlene’s stomach get major butterflies.

““Now, can anyone tell me what Amortentia is? Ah, Miss Evans, please enlighten us.”

Lily, who was a couple of desks away from Marlene tucked her hair behind her ear, in a way she often did when talking about something she liked. ““Well, Amortentia, is a love potion - the most powerful love potion there is actually. It smells different to each individual, depending on what attracts them.”

Marlene felt her eyes widen slightly as she understood, then felt appropriately mortified. Of course she was attracted to lavender - it was the scent she associated with Dorcas, who she may or may not have had a crush on since like third year. Oh, god she had said it smelled of lavender and Dorcas had been confused, and she was probably realising Marlene had smelled her and was attracted to her oh no oh god just go die Marlene and hope it will be painless.  Slughorn was talking again, of course. That man really loved the sound of his own voice didn’t he? Marlene was having a quiet argument with herself about something, she didn’t really know what point she was trying to make to herself anymore either, she had said what she’d said, and now was going to have to face the consequences. Or, she could avoid things until it got to the stage where it had escalated much more than it needed to and she had been overthinking for way too long. Option B sounded mightily superior.

“Uh, sir?” She raised her hand slowly, causing Slughorn to look at her with an expression in his small, blue eyes. How was it that blue eyes could look so cold and unattractive on people like Slughorn, then on people like Dorcas they were absolutely gorgeous? Marlene had spent many a conversation with Dorcas just staring into her eyes, glad to have an excuse. It would probably be a bit creepy to stare at a friend’s eyes at any other time.  “Yes, Miss McKinnon?”

““I don’t feel so well, do you mind if I go and see Madam Pomfrey.”  “Well, I’m not sure Miss McKinnon, what exactly is wrong with you? You’ll be missing a very important lesson.”

““Oh, it’s just I have awful cramps. You know.” Marlene grinned internally. This was a foolproof excuse with people like Slughorn, who thought that the subject of periods was not one to be discussed. Personally Marlene thought it was ridiculous. Why on earth would anyone have a problem with something that happens to the majority of women?

“Oh, run along then, yes.” Slughorn was indeed looking a bit uncomfortable, much to Marlene’s delight.  “I’ll take notes for you Mar.” Dorcas whispered as Marlene stood up to go. When she was up in the Gryffindor girls dormitory - She didn’t really have cramps, Slughorn was so gullible - Marlene considered the events of the last half an hour. What in earth was she going to say when Dorcas brought up the fact Marlene had smelled her shampoo. Ugh, what a nightmare this was, literally, because just the other night Marlene had had a very stressful dream about having to confess her feelings to Dorcas.

Staring across at her bedside table, and her bottles of perfume, Marlene suddenly realised something. Dorcas had smelled vanilla, which was the scent of her favourite perfume. Probably a coincidence... right?

Ooh okay!

Basically, in primary school my science teacher called me caketin, because it sounds a lot like my name, and it kinda caught on, so all through primary i was caketin most if the time with my friends haha.

I’m leaving that nickname behind in real life but i thought it would be nice to kind of commemorate it or something haha.

Ooh okay 

1. Chocolate brownie

2. Cookies

5. Top 5 fictional characters?

Ahh how do I pick just five? Okay:

1. Remus Lupin (duuhhhh)

2. Sirius Black (because again obviouslyyy)

3. Noah Sweetvine (he’s just so amazing and I love him) (from I’ll give you the sun)

4. Baz Grimm-Pitch 

5. Umm Marlene/Dorcas maybe?

23. What’s the most useless thing you know how to do?

1. i used to be allergic to kiwis

2. im a vegetarian

3. i have so many books i want to read lying around my room right now