CHAPTER 1
Well this was it. The end of their date. Fred didn't know what to do really; did he hug her? Kiss her? Or just bid her goodnight and walk away? He didn't know.
Fred and Hermione had just emerged from a restaurant in Hogsmeade called Noir Et Blanc; a reasonably new location in Hogsmeade. It was snowing. It was mid-November and the snowflakes were cascading down around them. Even though it was only 6pm, the sky was dark, and most witches and wizards had shut themselves in their homes hoping to get away from the icy, chilly and brisk weather.
Hermione just stood there; her hands stuffed in her pockets and her Gryffindor scarf wrapped tightly around her neck. She looked up at Fred and he looked just as cold as her. His nose was red and his lips were blue - quite the contrast.
Fred looked down at Hermione and smiled. He really did like her a lot.
"Hermione?" He asked.
"Hmm?" She replied absent mindedly.
"Do you want to head back to the castle? It's nearly curfew." Fred said.
"Oh, yes, I suppose we should." Hermione mumbled.
They walked towards Hogwarts in comfortable silence with the snow crunching under their feet. Eventually they reached the Entrance Hall, where they stood for a few moments to warm up.
"Well I guess we should head up." He said.
"Separately of course." He added. No one knew they had a date. Not Ginny, not George. No one.
"I had lots of fun with you Hermione, if you're not busy maybe we can do this again." He said looking at her with the deep blue eyes every girl loved.
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"I had fun too, but I don't think it's a good idea for us to date, I'm just worried about our friends. I don't want to hurt them, they are all I've got left. But I would love to hang out with you as friends" Hermione replied with a hopeful smile.
Fred looked at her with understanding. As much as Fred wanted to call her his, he understood that friends always came first that's what he liked most about her.
"Ok I understand, maybe we can take it slow and see where it goes from there?" Fred said
"I'd like that. I think people will become suspicious when the prankster and the bookworm are spending more time together than usual" Hermione replied with a smile.
Fred nodded his head agreement. He then pulled her into a hug. Hermione was surprised at first, but then she hugged him around his shoulders. They stayed like that for a long time. Finally she pulled away her cheeks were as red as Fred's hair.
"I better go, it won't look good if the goody two shoes is late." Hermione said blushing
She ran up the stairs. Too bad she couldn't tell her friends about this. I guess it would just have to go in her diary.