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It was late one night and the common room appeared to be empty. George Weasley couldn't sleep so he crept downstairs to read, hoping to make his eyes tired. He tip toed across the room and to his favourite spot but he realised that someone was already there. Curled up into the chair, was a peacefully sleeping Alicia Spinnet. Her "History of Magic" book was open in her lap.

That would sure put anyone to sleep, thought George, smiling to himself. Distracted by looking at Alicia, he tripped on the couch, stubbing his toe painfully, falling to the floor with a soft thump. "Damn it!" He whispered, realising he had woken Alicia.

"Is somebody there?" she said, sounding alarmed. George, having fallen behind the couch, was hidden from her view.

George held his breath, hoping she wouldn't come over to investigate. After a few moments of silence he heard her gathering her things from the table and getting up to walk up to her dorm. Thinking fast, George reached under the couch feeling for something. Finally he grabbed an old piece of candy and threw it across the room where it hit the fire place making a clanging noise.

Alicia snapped around. "He—Hello?" she said, beginning to look very scared.

Taking advantage of her turned back, George ran over to the staircase to the girls' dorms and crouched down into the shadows. This is going to be good, he thought, waiting for Alicia to walk over. Alicia finally turned back towards the staircase and practically ran across the room, wanting to get out of there as soon as possible.

Just before she got to the stairs, George jumped out of his hiding place with a big, "RAWR!"

Alicia screamed and jumped backwards about four feet. "Oh, oh my gosh, it's just you George," she said sounding out of breath and relived. She walked over to him and wrapped her arms around his waist, happy that it was only George, and nothing dangerous.

George laughed and put his arms around her small back. "If I knew you were going to react this way I might have done that a lot sooner."

Alicia pushed him away, coming to her senses. "George! Why on earth would you do that? You nearly gave me a heart attack! For all I knew, you could've been Sirius Black!" she said, crossing her arms and pouting at him. George just laughed.

"It's not funny!" she whined, trying to keep a straight face. George walked over to her.

"Oh, come on. You have to admit, it was hilarious! You should've seen your face!" He reached out to hug her again.

Alicia stubbornly backed away. "No, get away from me. I'm not forgiving you." She quickly turned her back to him so he wouldn't see the smirk forming on her face. Before she knew what had happened, George had grabbed her hips from behind and pulled her too him where he began tickled her stomach, mercilessly.

"AH! Geor--, George please, stop, stop it!" She said in between giggles. She somehow managed to turn around and began tickling him in return. He quickly let her go and she jumped onto the couch grabbing a pillow to cover her stomach.

George looked at her, smirking, and slowing made his way over to the couch. Alicia clutched her pillow tighter and looked up at him grinning. George climbed on top of her.

"You do know that's not going to work?" he said motioning to her pillow. Alicia chose not to reply and instead gave him a challenging look. George chuckled. "All right then, don't say I didn't warn you."

Alicia rolled her eyes at him. He bent down and for a second she thought that he was just going to put his face into the pillow, until she felt a pair teeth softly biting into her arm. She lifted her arms up immediately, in disbelief.

"You just bit me! I can't believe--," but the rest of her words were cut off when George grabbed the pillow, tossing it to the floor. She was about to push him away but in one swift motion he had both of her hands pinned above her head with one of his hands, his other one free to tickle her. She squealed and began laughing, trying to get out from under him.

"I haven't touched you yet, what are you laughing for?" George said, laughing along with her.

"I give up! You win! Now let me go," she pleaded with him. George pretended to ponder this for a moment.

"You know us Weasleys don't give in that easy," he said, lightly touching his hand to her stomach. Alicia groaned, trying to prepare herself for some intense tickling. But instead, George let himself fall right on top of her, as hard as he could, knocking the wind out of her. Alicia let out a yelp and tried to catch her breath as George rolled off of her.

Once she what able to breath again she sat up and glared at George. "That's not fair! You cheated."

George just smiled, "What's a matter Ali? Don't like the fact that I am better than you are?" He knew this would get to her.

"Maybe a better loser!" she retorted.

George stepped over to her, ignoring her comment, and she stood up. She waited for another one of his witty comebacks. It never came.

Alicia looked at him as he reached over cupped her cheek in his hand. This was not what she had been expecting. George took another step closer until their faces were inches apart and raised his eyebrows at her.

Oh gosh...he's going to KISS me? Alicia thought, not knowing how to act. She was just about to ask him what he was doing when they heard somebody coming down from the girls' dorms.

"Who's down there?" the groggy voice of Katie Bell came from the top of the stairs.

George moved his hand from Alicia's face and quickly stepped back. Alicia tried not to blush at the thought of what just could've happened. Not wanting to be seen by anyone, Alicia put her finger to her lips and motioned for George to follow her.

They scampered across the room and would have gotten behind the big chair if Alicia hadn't turned around to make sure George was still following her. She tripped backwards over the pillow George had thrown earlier. George, who hadn't expected her to fall so quickly, fell right on top of her, knocking the wind out of her once again.

Hearing a big "oomph", Katie decided to do downstairs to tell whoever was down there to shut up. When she reached the bottom of the stairs she was a little surprised to find Alicia and George on the floor and a very compromising position.

George rolled off Alicia and looked sheepishly up at Katie. "Hello Kate! What are you doing here?" He said, as if he hadn't just been on top of Alicia.

"I would ask you the same thing but I kind of already have an idea." She said raising her eyebrows at him. She looked at Alicia who was still laying on the floor, looking out of breath.

George realised was she was implying and spoke up, "No, you see, clumsy little Alicia here, tripped, poor thing, and I fell onto her by accident." Alicia glared at George for his choice of words.

Katie looked at him clearly not believing him. "I suppose Alicia is just panting for fun then?"

Alicia sat up from her place on the floor willing her cheeks not to go pink. "No, really Katie. He's telling the truth! He knocked the wind out of me when he fell! I mean, its George. I would never think of doing what you think we were doing! Yuck."

"Hey!" George turned to her and pushed her back down on the floor.

Katie rolled her eyes at them. "Well then I won't even ask what you both are not doing at 3:45 in the morning," she said turning to leave.

Alicia's eyes widened. "3:45!"

Katie ignored her. "Just keep it down, I could hear you guys all the way upstairs… whatever you were doing," she said giving them both a look and continuing her way up the stairs.

Katie knew for a fact that Alicia and George liked each other. In fact, almost the whole school knew it. They flirted constantly and obviously to no end. Of course they both flirted with other people, but it never compared to what they were like together. She wished they would do everyone a favour and just go out already.

Back downstairs, Alicia was trying to tidy up the mess they had made of the common room. George was still sitting on the floor and made no move to get up.

"George, what are you doing? Get up and help me!" she said, playfully kicking him in the side. George looked up at her.

"I am highly insulted that you said 'yuck' referring to me, of all people," He told her, pretending to be hurt.

Alicia sighed. "George, I was joking, get up."

George stood up crossing his arms, looking at her with sad expression.

She walked over and wrapped her armed around his neck. She stood on her toes to give him a kiss on the check but could only reach his jaw and settled for that. "I love you George, you're my best friend. I only said that so Katie wouldn't jump to conclusions. I mean . . . you're a very, um, snoggable guy I guess."

George turned his head and looked down at where Katie's head rested on his shoulder. "You think so, do you?" he said in a playful voice.

Alicia caught on and replied in a low seductive voice, "I can barely contain myself from ravaging you right here!"

George took a deep breath. He pulled away from her embrace before he could embarrass himself. He looked at her with a smile that could only be described as arrogant. "Well get in line Alicia. Girls tell me that all the time. But I'm sure I could find time for you somehow."

Alicia scoffed at him. "In your dreams, Weasley," she coolly replied, turning her back to him and strutting over to the couch to fluff the pillows. She jumped when she felt arms encircling her waist from behind.

"Maybe in your dreams," George whispered only her neck sending shivers down her spine. She turned to face him, and tried not to get lost in his gorgeous deep blue eyes that were just inches from her face.

She shook her head and gently pried him arms off of her which were dangerously close to her back side. "George come on, enough of this. It's probably 4:00 now, how are we going to get through classes tomorrow?"

George rolled his eyes and laid back onto the couch, onto the pillows Alicia had just fixed and closed his eyes. "Who cares? Tomorrow is Friday anyway. Most of our classes will just be study hall."

Alicia frowned down at him and smiled wickedly. "George! Have you forgotten already? We have a HUGE potions test tomorrow, don't tell me you haven't studied!" she said in the most convincing voice she could muster.

George eyes snapped open and he sat on like a lighting bolt, "WHAT? I thought that was next—" but he stopped short when he was Alicia trying very hard not to smile. "Oh very funny, just hilarious," he mumbled glaring at her and then leaned back onto the couch and closing his eyes again.

Alicia laughed at how cute George was when he was annoyed and looked down at him. He was slowly drifting off to sleep. Boy he's gorgeous, she thought to herself.

His arms were resting above his head giving her a nice view of his firm muscles. She loved it when those muscular arms wrapped around her pressing her up against his firm abs. Especially on hot days in the spring when he would take his shirt of to go swimming in the lake. She sighed.

"Enjoying the view?" A very awake George Weasley asked, smirking at her. She was just about to swat him when a thought came to her.

She went over the couch and jumped up onto George's stomach, knocking the wind out of him like he had done to her before. George exhaled sharply and looked up at her kneeling on his chest trying to get air into his lungs.

She smiled brightly and jumped up off of him and ran over to the girls' staircase to gather the books she had dropped earlier so she could made a quick getaway before George recovered.

Obviously she hadn't jumped on him hard enough because in a matter of seconds, George had grabbed her around the waist and carried her back to the couch where he laid her down and climbed on top of her before she had a chance to escape again. "Hey now, that wasn't very fair."

Alicia laughed at the pouty face he was giving her, "You are such a baby!"

George yawned and put his head down onto her stomach. "Yeah right," he muttered sleepily.

Alicia put her hand in his hair, "George, we need to get to bed, we can't fall asleep down here," she said half heartedly.

"Just for a couple of minutes," George reassured her, "then we'll go to bed."

Alicia sighed in defeat, "Al—alright then," she said through a yawn and closed her eyes.

Alicia could feel someone trying to wake her up. "Just five more minutes," she moaned, swatting the person off.

"Alicia! Get up, everyone's staring at you guys!" Angelina's urgent voice whispered.

Alicia's eyes snapped open to find nearly all of Gryffindor looking at her. She tried to sit up but found that she couldn't. She looked down to find a sleeping George Weasley using her as a pillow. She gasped, remembering last night.

"George, George! Get up!" George moaned and grabbed onto her tighter causing all of the onlookers to snicker. She smacked his head.

"Ow, what was that for?" he said looking up. "Oh, hey," he said smiling when he saw who he was laying on.

"George get off!" Alicia said shoving him onto the floor.

George was about to remark when realised that he was surrounded by people. He groaned and rubbed his eyes.

Fred came to his rescue. "Alright people, the show is over! Nothing to see here, go on to breakfast!" The crowd murmured their disappointment, as Fred shoed them out of the common room.

Finally, Fred, Angelina, Katie, Alicia, and George were the only people left in the common room. An uncomfortable silence filled the room. George decided to speak first.

"Well that was sure interesting," George said brightly. He realised that he said the wrong thing when he saw the look Alicia gave him.

"I told you not to fall asleep, George!" Alicia scolded him.

George winced as she took a step closer to him. "But you fell asleep too!"

Alicia rolled her eyes and turned to go upstairs to her dorm, Katie and Angelina following her.

"Oh come on, Ali, don't mad at me! Alicia!" George sighed in defeat and turned to face Fred, knowing what was coming next.

"Well?" said an excited Fred once he was sure the girls were out of earshot.

George looked at him. "Well what?" He asked his twin, turning to climb to stairs to his dorm.

"Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about, what happened? What did you do?" he said, raising his eyebrows suggestively.

"If you're asking if we snogged, then no, we didn't. And before you say anything else we are just friends, that's all," George explained pulling on his school pants, "I came downstairs because I couldn't sleep but she was down there already and we were talking and I guess we fell asleep." He didn't feel like telling Fred how he lost his sanity for a moment and almost kissed Alicia.

"Yes well I'm going down to breakfast now, you can tell me the rest later," he said meaningfully to his twin. George nodded and headed upstairs to his dorm.

Back in the girls' dormitory, Katie and Angelina were talking to Alicia.

"Nothing happened!" she sighed in exasperation as Katie and Angelina interrogated her.

"That's not what it looked like when I found you last night!" said Katie.

"What are you talking about?" Angelina asked Katie. Katie quickly explained and soon they were both looking at Alicia with knowing smiles.

"Ugh! Listen, I don't have time for this now, go on down to breakfast. I have to finish getting ready. I'll talk to you during study hall. Go!" she said, ushering them out of the room.

She looked at her watch and realised that breakfast would be over in twenty minutes. There was no way she could get ready in that amount of time and make it to down there. She sighed inwardly. It looks like I'm going to go hungry this morning.

George ran across the common room and out into the hallway. There was about ten minutes left of lunch. If he ran he could get there in time to have a few slices of toast and some pumpkin juice.

When he first entered the Great Hall, he thought someone had turned off the sound. Everyone went silent and looked over at him. It seemed like the news about him and Alicia sleeping in the common room has travelled like wildfire.

Doesn't anyone in Hogwarts have something better to do than gossip about where I sleep? George thought to himself as people started to point to him, murmuring to anyone who would listen, their own version of what had happened. He walked a little faster and went to sit down next to his twin.

"Are you going to tell me what happened now, dear brother?" Fred questioned him instantly, ignoring the whispers and snickers that were directed towards his twin. Angelina, Katie, and Lee all looked at him with interest.

George quickly shoved some food into his mouth and began to speak, bits of food flying out of his mouth. Angelina quickly shut him up and told him to chew first. Luckily, just as he swallowing his last bite, breakfast ended. With one last swig of pumpkin juice, he grabbed his books. "Gotta go," he told them quickly, leaving before they could ask him anything else.

When Alicia had finished doing her make up she checked her watch. She had six minutes to get to the dungeons before her potions class began. She grabbed her books and left in a hurry. She knew that if she was just a second late that Professor Snape would take points away from Gryffindor.

Four minutes later, Alicia found herself sprawled across the floor. She had been tripped by a Slytherin in her hurry and fell onto her floor, her knees slamming into the rough cement. She grasped her left knee which was beginning to throb painfully and tried to stand up. She looked around but whoever had tripped her was down the corridor and she couldn't see who it was.

"Need some help?" asked Brady Beaumont, a guy in her potions class. He grabbed her hand and pulled her up.

Alicia smiled. "Hey! Thanks, Brady."

Brady was always really nice to her. They had become pretty good friends over the past year. They were almost always partners in class since Angelina and Katie usually worked together. She smiled at him and linked her arm through his, forgetting about the pain in her knee.

George's first class was transfiguration which, thankfully, none of his close friends had with him. He didn't feel like getting in trouble for talking today, and he knew he would if Fred or Lee were there because they wouldn't leave him alone until he gave them every single detail of the night before.

George smiled to himself at the memory. But then he frowned wondering if Alicia was still mad at him. I sure hope not, he thought as he rested his head on his palm and dozing off.

"Mr. Weasley!"

Georges head snapped up. "Wha--?" he said groggily, waking up from his nap.

Students were standing to leave, blocking his view from an angry Professor McGonagall.
George got up and left quickly before McGonagall could give him detention.

By lunchtime, George and Alicia had lost Gryffindor about twenty points combined from falling asleep in class. When George sat down at lunch he realised Alicia was still not there. In fact, he hadn't seen her since this morning.

"Where is Alicia?" George asked his friends. Lee answered first.

"She's got detention with Snape," he told George. When George gave him a questioning look he spoke again. "She fell asleep in class."

"Oh. . .well it's a good thing I didn't have potions today!" George said brightly, digging into his food. Angelina and Katie glared at him.

"Well I'm just saying," George began, with a mouth full of food, "if I had potions this morning, I would've lost our house even more points!"

The girls shook their heads. "Anyways...ready to fill us on your late-night escapade with Alicia?" Katie questioned him. Fred, Lee, and Angelina leaned forward in anticipation.

"You know, it's really not an interesting story," he told them, "at all," he added when they didn't look any less interested. George realised that they weren't going to let him go without hearing the whole story.

He sighed. "Fine. Well see, I couldn't get to sleep last night . . . probably from all the chocolate I had that evening. It was leftover from the beginning of the year, I had almost forgotten about it. But it was really good chocolate, though –"

"George!" Angelina snapped as George started getting off the subject.

"Right, sorry. Anyhow, I couldn't get to sleep so a grabbed a book, a very boring one mind you, and went to common room. I mean, this book was really boring, probably something that Hermione would read. I knew it would put me to sleep in an instant, that's why a grabbed it.
"Well, I walked down to the common room and was just about to sit in my favourite chair—you know, they one in the corner or the room near the fireplace—but Alicia was already sleeping in it.," George told his friends.

"I bet that was a pleasant surprise," Lee snorted.

George smirked. "Well she does have nice legs."

Fred chuckled and said, "Yeah, I sure didn't know she slept in shorts like that...I'm sure the rest of boys in Gryffindor didn't think so either."

The three boys laughed but stopped immediately when they saw the looks Angelina and Katie were giving them.

"Uh, let's get back to the story," George said quickly before they girls could start scolding them.

"She woke up and I don't remember how it all started but eventually we got into a tickling fight…"

His four friends groaned at the thought, remembering when George had first found out Alicia was ticklish.

It had been the winter of last year. They had all gone outside for a snowball fight and Alicia had just put a pile of snow down George's pants. George, gasping as the snow slid down his legs, tackled her to the ground. His hand accidentally brushed her stomach as he was grabbing snow and Alicia yelped and start laughing. George realised she was ticklish and quickly used this knowledge to his advantage.

They probably would still be rolling around outside tickling each other if it hadn't been for Fred and Lee prying them apart and making them join back in the snow ball fight.

But from that day on George and Alicia were a lot more—well, "friendly" then they had been before. They also couldn't go more than a week without getting into one of their tickle wars. And once they started, it took a lot of effort to get them to stop.

The most recent occurrence of their outbursts was at the beginning of the week. . .in the library. Madam Pince was not pleased to say the least.

George ignored their groans and continued, "Anyways, she grabbed a pillow to cover her stomach but I snatched it back out of her hands and then we heard Katie so we tried to go hide behind that one big chair but Ali tripped over the pillow and I fell on top her. That's where Katie found us. Satisfied?"

"Nope." Fred replied.

"Yeah . . . how did you end up falling asleep on the couch with her?" Lee asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Oh...well she jumped on me while I was on the couch—"

"Oh! And you tell me there's nothing going on between you. Honestly George, lying to your own brother!" Fred interrupted, nudging him in the ribs.

"Shut up Fred. As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted…she jumped onto my stomach and then tried to get away so I picked her up and laid her on the couch—"

"YOU WHAT?" Fred and Lee exclaimed at the same time. Katie and Angelina scoffed what their exclamations were implying.

"No, no! Honestly, get your minds out of the gutter, that is definitely not what I meant – I put her on the couch and then we were only going to lay there for a bit but then we both fell asleep. That is everything that happened, I swear…just ask her!"

Fred and Lee looked disappointed, Katie and Angelina looked sceptical. "Well that's kind of a let down. I mean, you guys do that kind of stuff all the time…but by now I thought you surely –"

"—would have made a move? Sorry to disappoint you all, but for that last time, me and Ali are just friends."

Lunch ended and the group exchanged glances as George got up to leave. When were their friends going to realise that they had more than just a platonic relationship?

Meanwhile. . . Alicia stormed out of Snape's classroom in a huff. Who did he think he was making her miss lunch so she could take off all the pieces of gum from under the tables? She had barely fallen asleep for a minute! On her way to transfiguration she ran into Brady again.

"Oh, hey Alicia . . . done with Snape's completely unfair detention?" Brad inquired, stopping next to her.

Alicia grinned. "I know! If Marcus Flint had fallen asleep, he probably would have given him house points!"

Brady laughed and nodded his head in agreement. "Yeah, well, I got to get going. See you in Flitwick's, 'Licia!"Brady said waving and continuing his way down the corridor.

Alicia waved goodbye and hurried over to Professor McGonagall's classroom before she was late. The rest of the day seemed to glide on by, and before she new it, her Charms class was over.

"Yes! I can finally eat," Alicia said to no one in particular. Her stomach had been growling constantly the entire day. She was surprised no one has heard it. She hooked her arm with Angelina's and began pulling her towards to Great Hall but stopped remembering that she had to talk to Professor Flitwick.

"Ugh, I for got, I have to ask Professor Flitwick about that extra-credit essay I'm doing," she grudgingly told her friend as her stomach growled out in hunger.

"Do you want me to wait for you?" Angelina asked.

"No, that's alright. I'm sure it won't take that long, you go ahead with out me."

At dinner, George was sitting next to Fred talking about strapping dung-bombs to Mrs. Norris when Angelina arrived.

"Where's Alicia?" George asked the moment Angelina sat down, ignoring the smirk Fred was giving him.

Angelina wore a similar expression. "She's talking to Professor Flitwick. . .something about an extra-credit project she's doing."

George chuckled at this. He knew that Alicia had straight O's, from the extra-credit she did whenever she didn't hand in a homework assignment, which was quite a lot.

But dinner finally ended and she still hadn't shown up. Katie and Angelina went to do homework in the library and told George that if he saw Alicia anywhere, to tell her to meet them there.

George, Fred, and Lee were about to go back to the common room for a game of Exploding Snap when Oliver Wood came over to them. "Quidditch practice tonight at 6:30!"

"What? Ollie, friend, surely you don't mean tonight?" Fred said putting his arm around Oliver.

"No, it's tonight at 6:30 sharp. We really need to push our training up a few notches. Go tell your team mates!" Oliver said excitedly as he went over to tell Harry.

"But its Friday," Fred whined at Oliver's retreating back.

George sighed and looked at his watch, "its 5:40 already, you guys go tell Ange and Katie, I'll go find Alicia." Fred and Lee nodded and George headed towards Gryffindor Tower.

He was a few yards after from the portrait of the fat lady when he saw Brady…with Alicia on his back. All of a sudden, a wave of thoughts poured into George's head. Just who does this guy think he is? That's MY best friend! She's wearing a skirt, what does he think he's doing!

"Oh, hey George!" Brady yelled over to him, dropping Alicia back to the floor. She looked athis and they started laughing at something.

George started to get annoyed. "Alicia we have Quidditch practice," he said in an even tone, trying not to show his feelings toward Brady. They normally got along very well. George would even say he liked the guy. Well…at least he used to.

"What, right now?" Alicia asked him. George nodded but kept his eyes on Brady.

"Oh, okay. Bye Brad, thanks for," she glanced at George, "thanks for everything." She gaveBrady a hug goodbye, a hug that was much too long in George's opinion.

Alicia ran over to George,Brady was still watching them with a slight smile on his face. George wrapped Alicia in a big hug and give her a smacking kiss on the cheek and glanced over to see Brady's reaction. To his surprised Bradywas full on grinning. He waived and turned in the opposite direction.

"Wow, why are you in such a good mood?" Alicia asked George who was still hugging her.

George remembered she was there and quickly released her. "Oh, well, I haven't seen you all day," George said the first the he could think of.

"Aw, thanks Georgie!" she said pinching his cheeks.

"Ouch, stop that," George said taking her hands away from his cheeks.

Alicia laughed and then stopped abruptly grabbing Georges arm and swaying a little.

George said pulled her to his side, steadying her. "Alicia, what's wrong, are you okay?"

Alicia took a deep breathe and tried to smile at him. "Yeah, I'm fine. I just got dizzy for a second. I haven't eaten all day," she said attempting to laugh. George continued to look worried. "Honestly, George, I'm fine."

George nodded and turned to walk over to the portrait of the fat lady but stopped and turned around causing Alicia to bump into him.

"George? Wha—"

"I was just wondering, what were you doing with that Bradley guy?"

Alicia shifted around, looking nervous. "It's Brady, George. Um . . . nothing, I had just gotten out of talking with Professor Flitwick about doing extra-credit and he was there. We started talking and I supposed we just lost track of time. By the time we realised what time it was, dinner was already over. I was really tired from all of those stairs so that's why I was on his back."

"Oh," George said, trying to beat down the strange feeling of jealousy that was creeping into his mind, "well he had better be nice to you or he might his bed filled with cockroaches."

Alicia rolled her eyes, "I thought you guys were friends! You know how nice he is. . . someone is being an overprotected best friend!" she said swatting him softly on the side of his face. He smirked at her.

"Anyways . . . what were you saying about Quidditch earlier?" she questioned him.

His eyes widened and he slapped his forehead with his hand. "Quidditch practice! Tonight at six thirty!"

Alicia was about to question Wood's sanity when George grabbed her hand and pulled her over to the portrait of the fat lady.

"Legit Dragonis," George said to the fat lady.

After helping Alicia into the common room, he took her book bag and set it on the couch.

"George! I have to take that to my dorm," Alicia said, moving to pick up her bag again.

George grabbed her arm, "Alicia, it's 6:10, by the time we get down there it was be 6:30, and we still need to change into our robes."

"Don't be ridiculous, it won't take that long!" she said grabbing her bag and moving just out of reach as Georges' arms shot out to grab her.

By the time they got down to the Quidditch pitch it was 6:23. They had run from the entire way from the common room. When they had finished changing, it was 6:31.

George grinned and turned to Alicia and was about to remark about how he was right about them being late but stopped when he saw she was still out of breath looking very pale. Before he could say anything, Oliver motioned for them to mount their brooms.

Quidditch practice went considerably well. Alicia wasn't at her best though. She did score some good goals but it took all of her strength just to catch the Quaffle and throw it, let alone aim for the goaling hoops.

She was in a daze as she walked into the locker room and took a long hot shower. When she got out of the shower, shivering, she put on her shorts and a tank top. She was still really cold but she didn't want to put her school uniform back on again and she hadn't had time to bring extra clothes.

Alicia stepped back into the locker room and realised she was the only one there. I must have been in the shower longer than I thought. She stepped out onto the Quidditch pitch and found Fred and George leaning against the wall waiting for her.

"Hey, you both didn't need to wait for me," Alicia said walking over to his, surprised as how weak her voice was.

One of the twins spoke up, "We wanted to make sure you were alright, George said you were looking pale and I noticed that you weren't your best today at practice."

Alicia looked down. "Sorry! I'm just really tired today."

George put his arm around her shoulder, "No! We aren't worried about that, we know that you're the best chaser on the team! We just wanted to make sure you weren't sick or anything."

"Yeah! Now lets get you back to the castle," Fred said, putting him arm around her waist on the side that wasn't occupied by George, "A lovely lady like you shouldn't be out here in the cold!" Alicia laughed at her friends' concern.

They were a few corridors away from the Gryffindor tower when Fred stopped. "I forgot, I was supposed to meat Lee over by the kitchens. I'll see you guys later," Fred said, pulling Alicia into a hug and turning around a corner.

Alicia and George continued walking down the corridor when Alicia felt another wave of dizziness sweep over her. She stopped George. "George," she said, her voice barely a whisper, "I need to, sit down."

George remembered how she hadn't eaten a bite all day long. Wood's insane Quidditch practice was probably awful on an empty stomach. He asked if she was okay and she shook her head. Alicia looked up at George, his face getting blurrier by the second, "Oh, no," she whimpered as she fell to the floor unconscious.