Y/n and her friends, Pansy and Daphne, have finally decided that they are going to quit smoking. It starts with a completely reasonable promise between the three of them: no more sneaking outside between classes, no more disappearing behind the greenhouses, and absolutely no more buying another pack whenever they swear they’ve finished their last one. They quickly discover, however, that quitting is much easier said than done, especially when all three of them are used to having something to occupy their hands and mouths whenever they’re bored, stressed, annoyed, or simply trying to survive another ridiculous day at Hogwarts. After some questionable late-night research, they stumble across the suggestion that lollipops can help with cravings, so they decide to give it a try. The solution seems harmless enough. Soon, Y/n, Pansy, and Daphne are constantly carrying little bags of lollipops around the castle, popping one into their mouths whenever the urge to smoke hits. They treat it as nothing more than a practical replacement, completely focused on their own struggle to quit and entirely unaware that anyone else is paying them any particular attention. Unfortunately, they fail to consider one very important problem: Theodore, Draco, and Blaise. The boys initially think nothing of it, assuming the girls are simply trying some strange new method to quit smoking, until they start noticing just how often the lollipops appear. Suddenly, every study session, hallway conversation, library visit, and common-room gathering seems to involve one of the girls casually sucking on a lollipop, completely oblivious to the fact that the boys are finding it increasingly difficult to concentrate. Theodore is the first to admit that he finds it distracting, though he immediately regrets saying it out loud when Draco and Blaise realize they feel exactly the same way. What was supposed to be a harmless quitting method has somehow become their personal test of self-control, especially wh