Yellow Rose for a Yellow Boy

[Thaddeus Miller]

After having delivered his rose to the Slytherin Prefect, Thaddeus turned around and walked to the Hufflepuf table to do the next one. He didn't know who this next person was so, like he had done with the Prefect, called out for the boy's name in the hope that he was sitting at the table. ''Xavier Jeffreys?'' he asked. ''Is there a Xavier Jeffreys here? If so, please raise your hand so I know where you are.'' he added, looking around again.

 

[Xavier Jeffreys]

Xavier had already received two amazing roses that day, and had arrived to eat lunch with a wide smile on his face. He sat down at the Hufflepuff table, put a piece of bread on his plate, and began stacking things on top of it to make a sandwich. He had just put a piece of lettuce on top of some cheese when he heard someone shout his name from down the table. Xavier looked up and smiled before raising his hand and shouting "I'm Xavier!" and wondering if this boy was going to give him another rose.
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[Thaddeus Miller]

Thaddeus smiled when someone replied to his name calling and looked over his shoulders to see where it was coming from. ''Hey, Xavier!'' the Gryffindor said while approaching the boy. ''I've got a rose here for you!'' He knew that the Hufflepuff was supposed to receive a couple of more roses today so wondered if he was the first one to deliver them, or if other students had already done so before him.

 

[Xavier Jeffreys]

"Hey." Xavier greeted back as the boy approached him. When Xavier noticed the boy was carrying roses he raised his eyebrows, then smiled wide when the boy then said that he had a rose to give him. "Oh, another one?" Xavier asked, eyes momentarily glancing to the table, where the two roses he'd already received that day were sitting next to his half-made sandwich. "That's awesome!" He exclaimed waiting for his third rose of the day to be handed to him.
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[Thaddeus Miller]

As he got closer to the Hufflepuff, Thaddeus saw that he wasn't the first one to deliver his rose to Xavier. "Yeah, dude." he said, smiling at the boy in front of him. Thaddeus took the yellow rose, and the note attached to it, of out his bucket and handed it to Xavier.

Spoiler: To Xavier Jeffreys

You are the sweetest and best hufflepuff ever, I love spending time with you.
With kindness,
Signy

 

[Xavier Jeffreys]

Xavier held his hand out to accept the rose, and placed it on the table next to the others before unfolding the note and reading it. A blush crept onto his cheeks as he read the words on the paper that only deepened when he saw who had written the note. Signy was by far one of Xavier's favourite people in the entire world. Receiving a rose from her, and reading a compliment she had written just for him was all he could have asked for on Valentine's day. He clutched the note from his friend to his chest, before looking back to the boy that delivered the rose. "Thanks, this is the best one yet." He said, contempt evident in his voice. He could not wait to thank Signy for her kind words when he saw her in the common room later that day.
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