Everyone who knew the little first year Hermione Granger knew who her big crush was. It honestly wasn't hard to figure out, especially because she turned crimson when she saw him and always stuttered out a "H-h-hi, G-George."

George Weasley had always thought it was cute and he had greatly enjoyed getting her flustered when he gave her a friendly wink or something of the sort. However, he never thought much of her, friendly was all he ever was.

One night, in the Gryffindor common room goofing around with his third year friends, George heard Angelina Johnson suggest playing a game George had never heard of before called Truth or Dare. She explained that she had learned it from one of her Muggle friends during the summer. Someone asked you if you wanted a question that you had to answer honestly, and if you didn't pick that they could dare you to do anything they wanted. Anything.

Everyone liked the sound of this game and to make it more fun Fred Weasley spoke up.

"I've got an idea." he said, with the devilish grin he wore so often. "Whoever refuses to do their dare, or answer their question, has to stand up on a bench in the Great Hall tomorrow morning during breakfast and sing A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love by Celestina Warbeck!"

The teenagers howled laughing and a couple groaned, George being among the latter. Celestina Warbeck, otherwise known as 'The Singing Sorceress' was his mother's absolute favourite and he knew every word to the dreadful song Fred mentioned.

"That's a wonderful idea, Fred!" Angelina squealed. Fred smirked at her.

"No, it isn't!" Alicia Spinnet argued. "That's an awful idea, they could get in a lot of trouble for doing that."

"Yeah, because I can definitely see Professor Dumbledore expelling a student for singing," Lee Jordan said sarcastically.

"You don't have to play if you don't want to, Alicia," Oliver Wood said sincerely.

Alicia huffed and pursed her lips. George could see that she didn't want to play at all, but if she backed out now she'd look like a coward.

"All right then," George said clasping his hands together loudly, trying to get everyone's attention off of Alicia. "Who's first?"

"Me!" Angelina said. "It was my idea, wasn't it?"

"True," Fred said. "I'm next though."

"Hmm.." Angelina said, looking around the group that was sitting in a wide half-circle around the fire. They were all staring at her waiting to see who would be first. "Lee! Truth or dare?"

Lee smiled hugely at her. "Dare."

Everyone was excited to see what Angelina would make him do. George didn't doubt at all that his best friend would pick dare, and Lee definitely wouldn't hesitate to do the most embarrassing thing. Just to prove to everyone he had the guts.

"I dare you..." Angelina said smiling, knowing that everyone was waiting for her to hurry and tell him what he must do.

"Nothing that will surely get him in trouble!" Alicia blurted out. Everyone looked at her. "I think that should be the only rule.." she said quietly.

Angelina and Fred looked at each other and shrugged.

"All right, that's the rule." Fred said.

"Back to the game," said Angelina. "Lee, I dare you to stuff ten Chocolate Frogs into your mouth!"

Everyone looked confused that she would pick something so simple, but hurried to their dormitories to collect all the Chocolate Frogs they owned. When they returned to the common room they discovered they were one short, but Angelina said nine would do just fine.

"All right," Lee said, sitting comfortable on the chair by the fire. "One." He quickly unwrapped a frog and put it in his mouth before it hopped away. And by the time he had counted six Chocolate Frogs his cheeks were sticking far out and everyone was laughing hysterically at him. George thought he resembled a chipmunk.

But Lee was determined and he managed to shove nine whole Chocolate Frogs into his mouth. When he finished everyone clapped and cheered while he hurried to a bathroom to spit them out.

"Fred's turn," Oliver said still laughing, his face quite red.

"George," Fred said with no hesitation, smiling sweetly. George could tell he had been thinking about this one and was ready to see what his brother had in store for him. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare." George said, putting everyone on the edge of their seats again.

Now, Fred had had a sneaking suspicion that his twin might fancy a certain Quidditch teammate named Alicia Spinnet. And this suspicion had been growing quite a lot recently. So, of course, he said, "I dare you to snog Alicia Spinnet."

George's mouth dropped, just like everyone else's in the room did a second later. And at that moment Lee Jordan had returned from the bathroom. He saw everyone's faces and got excited.

"What? What'd I miss?" he said happily. It took a moment for anyone to answer and then Oliver Wood said, "Fred dared George to snog Alicia."

Lee paused, and then burst out laughing. Everyone followed his lead and George's ears turned very red. He walked over to Alicia, who was blushing wildly.

"Well, not around this lot!" she shouted. They laughed louder at that.

"Of course she wants someplace more private, George!" said Lee, trying to sound romantic.

"Come on, Alicia," George said, taking her hand, trying to smile. He then led her out of the common room, glaring at his brother.

The two walked silently and awkwardly to the Astronomy Tower, both trying to find words, any words, to say to each other. It was a very embarassing situation to say the least. George had never fancied Alicia, but once Fred got something in his head, he never let it go.

Finally, they reached the top of the stairs, looking everywhere but at each other. But what they didn't notice was the small, bushy-haired first year doing the next week's homework in the corner.

Hermione had come up here for some quiet to study because of the noisy older kids in the common room laughing and making all kinds of noise. She looked up when she heard them enter, thinking it was a teacher and she was about to get in big trouble, and her eyes went wide when she saw George. She watched him as he cleared his throat and scratched behind his ear. He looked adorable.

Then, he cupped his hands under Alicia's face and she placed her hands on George's chest and stood up on her tip toes. Hermione gasped and nearly cried out when she watched their lips meet. Her eyes stung and a lump appeared in her throat. She bit down hard on her lip and quickly packed up her books and ran for the door, trying to be as silent as possible.

She looked back one last time, only to see the couple still snogging, completely oblivious to her existence. Hermione closed her eyes and raced out of the Tower, slamming the door behind her.

George and Alicia jumped apart at the sound but saw no one at the door. They looked back at each other and realized they both had just had their very first kiss. They stared at each other blankly, and then began to laugh. The kiss had been clumsy and awkward and George knew they were meant to be nothing more than friends.

On their way back to the common room they decided it must have been Peeves that had slammed the door, trying to ruin the moment and they were lucky they didn't get in trouble.

Alicia was very smug when they returned, telling everyone that she had snogged George Weasley just as she was supposed to and had not backed out. Everyone was in good spirits for the rest of the game, except for Fred. He had seemed to be feeling extremely guilty for the rest of the night and George could not figure out why.

It wasn't until the twins were back in their dormitory that Fred finally began to explain what happened.

He sighed heavily. "George.. Where did you and Alicia go tonight?"

"The Astronomy Tower," George replied, confused by the question. "Why?"

"I thought so.." Fred lowered his eyes. "You know that first year Ron and Harry hang around, Granger?"

George smiled fondly. He had a soft spot for the little bookworm. "Yeah, she's cute." he said. And then was more confused than before. "What about her, Freddie?"

Fred hesitated. "I believe that she saw you and Alicia tonight. In the Tower."

The smile on George's face was instantly wiped away. "What?"

"She ran into the common room, we all thought it was you and Alicia coming back, but it wasn't. I thought she must have been in the library but when I asked her, she said she was doing homework in the Astronomy Tower," Fred rushed. "She looked like she'd been crying.." he paused. "I'm sorry, mate. It was my fault for making you do it."

George hung his head.

"She cried?" he asked softly.


So here it is, my new story. I know I sort of disappeared off the face of the planet and I'm very sorry. But you must understand that I have been working day and night on my comeback. Which shall be awesome, if I do say so myself. Anywho, I have two new chapters of Unexpected Romances that will be up soon and another new story that I'm almost close to being done with. And once again I'm very sorry to have seemingly abandoned my stories. But I didn't. I'm back now, don't worry.

Leave me a review please and tell me what you think of this. Next chapter up soon! :)