019. Ice Cubes - April/May - Rambles & Snippets - Fiction[NET]
They chinked into the glass with a strange sound as he watched them closely, transfixed by the frozen cubed water.
"So, what are these things called again?" he asked, tapping the outside of the glass with a perplexed look on his face.
"Ice cubes." she replied with a grin. "It's just frozen water done in a freezer...not electricity."
"But they're all in cubes!"
"Only because the water was set in a tray with all these different sections, right? You could do it with your wand if you wanted to."
"Hmm, I guess so..." Oliver watched as she poured a drink called Coke Cola into the glass but didn't move to try it even after she had poured her own and taken a sip herself. "Those Muggles...they seem to cope okay, don't they? Considering they don't have magic and all."
"Well, they have to really. Electricity does most of the work for them. And the Japanese, they're always inventing gadgets to make their life easier..."
She watched him for a moment as she took a seat across from him, and took another sip from her glass. "It's not going to kill you, you know." Katie Bell grinned, it's just a drink, tastes a bit like...well...it's hard to say. Have you ever had mineral water? It's got bubbles like that."
"Haven't tried that either." Oliver smiled apologetically.
"I think you need to be introduced a bit more to the finer things in the Muggle world." Katie grinned. "There's this band called INXS, I think you'd really love them."
Oliver sniffed the drink cautiously. He was good friends with Percy, and his younger twin brothers had made him a bit paranoid about ingesting anything foreign, but...he trusted Katie well. She had always stuck by him when he had been Quidditch captain after all. Even now, that he was on the reserves team and had finished school long ago, she still invited him around for dinner. She had her own flat now, just like he did, and had cooked a full meal, just for him.
It was good to see that some friends stuck around and made an effort to stay in contact...
Oliver finally touched the glass to his lips and sipped it cautiously, then drank deeper as the taste appealed to him, making Katie laugh.
"See, not that bad is it? I have good taste." she poked her tongue out at him and then rose to get the first course (the very thought made Oliver feel elegant) which was a potato and leek soup, his favourite.
"What else does your taste include?" Oliver called, but didn't hear her answer as it got lost somewhere in the hallway along from the dining room to her kitchen, even though the flat was small.
He loved it here, along with Katie's cooking. Oliver idly poked one of the ice cubes in his drink, moving around the icy chill so his coke was kept cool. What would he do without her?
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"So, what are these things called again?" he asked, tapping the outside of the glass with a perplexed look on his face.
"Ice cubes." she replied with a grin. "It's just frozen water done in a freezer...not electricity."
"But they're all in cubes!"
"Only because the water was set in a tray with all these different sections, right? You could do it with your wand if you wanted to."
"Hmm, I guess so..." Oliver watched as she poured a drink called Coke Cola into the glass but didn't move to try it even after she had poured her own and taken a sip herself. "Those Muggles...they seem to cope okay, don't they? Considering they don't have magic and all."
"Well, they have to really. Electricity does most of the work for them. And the Japanese, they're always inventing gadgets to make their life easier..."
She watched him for a moment as she took a seat across from him, and took another sip from her glass. "It's not going to kill you, you know." Katie Bell grinned, it's just a drink, tastes a bit like...well...it's hard to say. Have you ever had mineral water? It's got bubbles like that."
"Haven't tried that either." Oliver smiled apologetically.
"I think you need to be introduced a bit more to the finer things in the Muggle world." Katie grinned. "There's this band called INXS, I think you'd really love them."
Oliver sniffed the drink cautiously. He was good friends with Percy, and his younger twin brothers had made him a bit paranoid about ingesting anything foreign, but...he trusted Katie well. She had always stuck by him when he had been Quidditch captain after all. Even now, that he was on the reserves team and had finished school long ago, she still invited him around for dinner. She had her own flat now, just like he did, and had cooked a full meal, just for him.
It was good to see that some friends stuck around and made an effort to stay in contact...
Oliver finally touched the glass to his lips and sipped it cautiously, then drank deeper as the taste appealed to him, making Katie laugh.
"See, not that bad is it? I have good taste." she poked her tongue out at him and then rose to get the first course (the very thought made Oliver feel elegant) which was a potato and leek soup, his favourite.
"What else does your taste include?" Oliver called, but didn't hear her answer as it got lost somewhere in the hallway along from the dining room to her kitchen, even though the flat was small.
He loved it here, along with Katie's cooking. Oliver idly poked one of the ice cubes in his drink, moving around the icy chill so his coke was kept cool. What would he do without her?
<--- 018. Flashbacks || 020. Holiday--->