She was right, it did feel a little too perfect, like it would be snatched away from them and they would be plunged back into the daily grind of school and their associated lives. It wasn't that he disliked school at all, far from it. It was just that certain aspects of his personality were outgrowing and he was feeling ready for freedom in fourteen months. He'd miss seeing Millie every day when that happened so he shouldn't wish it away.

"I don't know if it's as cold but I bet it's got fewer monsters in it." he laughed and then felt fingers on his elbow like they were tapping for an entrance. He moved his arm and was rewarded with Millie's sliding into the crook of his elbow and taking hold gently. It all felt so easy being able to just walk and publicly be a couple with no one gossiping and no one chastising them because they had found each other's affection. "I don't think we'll swim though, Mum would kill me if I got salt water on my clothes and I don't think anyone wants me running down the beach in my undergarments." he gave Millie an open-mouthed mock look of scandal.

They walked a little further soaking in the atmosphere, he got the impression from Millie that she wasn't keen on a donkey ride, and pushing the pram in the sand seemed far too difficult to be worth it. "I think you are right, in a few years that will be lovely." he could picture it right now, except in his head it was just him and Millie put together playing like a family, he would like that a lot. "I'm hoping to get my apparition licence next month, and then when I am seventeen I can visit places like this much more often." he looked forward to being seventeen and being able to legally cast magic outside of school. He would need to be careful though, apparating into a popular muggle area could be an easy way to get in trouble.

He thought about her comments on fiddling with charms and modifying them. "Do you think you would want a career in charms after school then or just wait to be snapped up by one of the wealthy lads at coming out?" he squeezed her arm subconsciously at this, only now realising that that was a possibility, he had no claim to Millie but the idea of some older more established man whisking her out of his life, probably forever made him feel quite fretful. He gave a slightly apologetic look to Millie as if she knew the selfish thoughts he had in his mind right now. She looked so lovely with the freedom blowing in her hair.

Another bike whirred past them with a ding drawing Ben out of his inner turmoil. "Sir, where did you hire that?" he asked after him. The other gentleman gestured up the Promenade to a spot near the base of the long pier where Ben could see more people riding up and down. Benedict thanked the man and gave a goofy smile thinking of the two teens sailing along like proper dandys.