VIOLET'S POV:
It was finally the weekend. I could hang out with my friends, Jane, George, and Fred.
I was in the girls' dormitory, changing into a pair of jeans and a purple shirt. It was a little cold, so I decided to put on my favorite black jacket.
I turned to see Jane's light brown hair hanging straight in her face as she pulled on her shoes. I waited for Jane to be ready and then we walked down stairs to meet the twins. They were sitting on the couch already ready.
Fred looked up to see us coming down the stairs. "Its about time!" he commented, hardly sounding as if he held it against us.
At that, George looked up at us. He smiled crookedly and I lost my breath. I have been completely in love with George since our first year together at Hogwarts.
I waved and sat between them, letting them put both of their arms over my shoulders. Jane sat on the other side of George. He put his other arm around her shoulders. This wasn't unusual, this normal for us. It was the way we sat and walked together. We were a group and a package deal. If something happened to any one of us, it affected all of us. We were best friends.
We sat and smiled liked dorks at each other for a while and then we all got up and walked out the door of the common room. Jane put her arm around the side of George's waist that she was on and I put my arm around both Fred and George's waists.
I knew she wanted to be on the other side of Fred instead of George. She had a crush on Fred. It was just a small one, though. More like preference than an actual crush.
I held both boys tighter to me as I thought about how much I loved my friends.
We walked to Honeydukes candy shop.
Every weekend we spent all of our candy money on tons of candy then shared it all by the fireplace back in the common room. Then, hyped up on sugar, we all ran around the castle after hours and played pranks.
We got to Honeydukes and walked around, looking for and buying our favorite candies. I got some jelly slugs, cauldron cakes and treacle fudge. I paid for my candy and then waited for everyone else.
Fred was the first out of the shop after me.
"Hey, Fred, what'd you get?" I asked, excited and anticipating the sugar-fueled party we were going to have later.
"Some chocolate frogs, Cockroach Clusters, and Jelly Slugs." He said as he looked through his bag.
"I got jelly slugs, too!" I said, holding up the cellophane bag of candy.
He smiled widely.
Then George and Jane came out of the store.
We all held out our left-over money and counted. Every time we buy candy, we count up our money and if we have enough, we go to the pub in Hogsmeade and get butterbeers.
"We've got enough." George said happily.
So we all walked over to the pub and sat at a table that seated four. Fred was the first one to get to the table. He pulled the chair out and held it out for me. I sat down and thanked him then he sat down next to me.
I frowned. I had wanted George to sit next to me. George sat across the table from me and Jane sat across from Fred.
Our butterbeers were served and we drank and talked and laughed. We all got foam on our upper lips, making it look like we had mustaches. The four of us sat around giggling at each other and then things got awkward.
I had just taken a drink of butterbeer and had a mustache of foam.
Then George said, "Maybe Fred should kiss it off!" and laughed.
That made me and Fred look at each other awkwardly. Then, to make things even more uncomfortable, he reached up and wiped the foam slowly from my lip. I tried not to let him see how discomforted i was and looked down and mumbled a "thank you."
I could feel Jane's jealous gaze on me and kept my head down. The way he was looking at me made me uncomfortable and I knew it didn't make Jane feel that great either.
FRED'S POV:
Why did things have to be like this? I knew she liked George. She has been in love with him since we were first years. Even then, I loved her. I remembered the first time I met Violet…
It was our first year at Hogwarts and I was nervous. My palms were sweaty and my red hair was sticking up in odd places from where I kept running my hand through it.
The train stopped along with my heart. I couldn't breathe.
"Calm down, Fred." George said, sounding just as nervous as I was.
We both had agreed that it was more exciting than it was scary… But we were just 11 and leaving our mum to live in a huge castle for a long time. It was still scary.
We began to take our luggage down from the overhead racks and started to walk out.
A short girl with black hair stumbled past, almost falling. I reached out and grabbed her before she could fall on her face. Then I realized what I had done and that she would probably hit me or something, so I hid behind George letting him take the blame for it.
"Who did that?" she asked, looking around.
I pointed to George.
She smiled at him and shook his hand saying, "Thank you. I'm Violet Radke."
George shook her hand and said, "I'm George Weasley, and this," he said, pointing to me. "is my twin brother Fred."
I had waved timidly.
That was the first time I saw her face. She had freckles covering her nose and a few spread over to her cheeks. She had long bangs that covered half of her face. Her eyes were a buttery golden color. Like a mix of green and brown. When she smiled, I felt my heart do something I had never felt before.
I didn't know what to do, so I just smiled back.
But then she looked back at George. I could see what I was feeling for her reflected in her eyes and directed at George.
I saw her give that same look to George every day. And everyday it broke my heart.