Alexis's POV
It was two weeks before I was due to start my sixth year of schooling at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry and I was leaving to spend the rest of my holidays with the Weasley's. Although I was almost seventeen and should be starting seventh year, I started school a year late and was put with students a year younger than me. At first I hated the idea of being out with younger students, but then I met the Weasley twins. Many people told me not to get involved with Fred and George because they like to joke and pull pranks on people, not focusing on their school work but that didn't deter me. The three of us, occasionally with the added help of Lee Jordan, make the best prank pulling team in the school. The twins plan on opening a joke shop when they finish school and we often spend our time making and testing products for them to sell. Anyone who says the twins aren't smart are dead wrong, a lot of the stuff they do is pretty advanced.
I quickly finished packing my trunk, grabbed my owl Logan and headed downstairs to say goodbye to my parents. I found my mother in the kitchen, washing dishes by hand, although she knew dad and I could do it quicker and easier she still insisted on doing them herself.
"Make sure you behave yourself, Alexis. Don't be a burden for poor Molly; you know that she already has her hands full with all those kids. Be polite and help her out. Have fun at school and don't forget to write."
I agreed with everything she said as I hugged her goodbye, said goodbye to my father before flooing to the Burrow. As usual, I fell over in the fireplace as I landed and was greeted by the laughter of Fred and George.
"You're supposed to stay on your feet Lex," George said as he helped me up.
"You should know that by now." Fred said, grabbing my trunk and owl.
"Just because you can't floo with as much style as me doesn't mean you can be nasty to me."
"Alexis? Is that you?" Mrs Weasley called, coming into the room, "Here already? Oh, time flies. I swear you get prettier every time I see you," She exclaimed as she hugged me. "You'll be staying in Ginny's room with her and Hermione. Make yourself at home."
I blushed a little, personally I didn't think I was anything to look at, with long, straight, dirty blonde hair, eyes that didn't know what colour they wanted to be and average build I thought I was pretty bland. Fred and George led me up to Ginny's room, put my things beside the bed that was set up for me and left me with the girls.
Ginny looked the same as always, with her typical Weasley red hair and freckles and Hermione had bushy brown hair and was unbelievably smart.
"Why do you always take so long to get here?" Ginny asked.
I laughed, "Because if my mum had her way I wouldn't come at all. Dad convinced her that it is better for my education that I stay here, eventually she agreed."
"Do you have to go home for your birthday again?" Hermione asked.
"No this year, I convinced her to do an early one at home." Usually when I stayed at the Weasley's over summer mum made me go home to do a family thing for my birthday.
"That's awesome!" Ginny exclaimed "You'll be seventeen and can do magic whenever then. I'll have to tell mum so she can have a party."
"If you insist. Who's here this year?"
"Everyone. Well, everyone except Percy. Even Bill and Charlie came home again," Ginny replied.
I grinned, I loved it when the two oldest Weasley boys were home for the holidays.
"They're all outside playing Quidditch, Harry and Ron spent ages setting it up," Hermione explained.
"Well I think they could use some more players," I suggested to Ginny.
"Yeah I think your right. Hermione you can keep score."
Ginny and I grabbed our broomsticks and raced outside to join the game, with Hermione following slowly. The game stopped for a few minutes while I said hello to everyone I hadn't seen already before resuming with Ginny and I included.
After hours of playing we all went inside before dinner. Fred and George quickly dragged me up to their room to show me their latest inventions. When we were safely in the room out of sight of Molly, George pulled a handful of sweets out of his pocket.
"These are great. Eat this one to give you a nosebleed and eat this one to stop it." He explained, as Fred handed me a bucket. I tested a variety of sweets over the next half an hour, anything from throwing up to turning blue.
"Don't mention them to mum," Fred warned as we were called down to dinner, "She hates them and gets really mad."
As usual, Molly had made enough food to feed an army and we all raced to get seats around the huge table. I ended up seated between Fred and George, across from Charlie and Bill. We all chatted amongst ourselves as we ate, making dinner a very noisy affair.
"How's Romania?" I asked Charlie.
He grinned, "It's great, I've only been away for a week and I already miss it. One of the horntail's eggs hatched before I left. They're amazing."
I watched the way his blue eyes lit up as he talked animatedly about the dragons he looked after in Romania. I'd had a huge crush on Charlie since the first time I met him, luckily none of the other Weasley's had caught on or it wouldn't be much of a secret.
"I wish I could see them. Hopefully when I finish school I can come and visit you there."
"What are your plans for after you graduate?" He asked.
"I don't know. I'd love to work with the dragons like you but I don't know. Depends on how I go at school. I'll probably just work for these two," I said indicating the twins on either side of me.
"You would never work for us," Fred interrupted.
"You would work with us," George explained at my shocked look.
"Fred, George and Charlie. Stop trying to talk Alexis into dangerous and stupid professions," Molly almost shouted from the other end of the table.
I was just about to protest and say that I would like to do those things when I was kicked by the three boys.
"Hey mum!" Ginny exclaimed, coming to the rescue, "Has Alexis told you that she's going to be here for her birthday this year?"
"Are you really dear?" Molly asked.
"Yep, I had an early celebration with mum and dad."
"Well we'll be sure to have you a lovely birthday feast."
"Molly, a normal dinner will be fine," I objected.
"Nonsense, it's your seventeenth birthday, you will be having a big feast with a cake. I'll invite some people form the order and you can invite people from school and it will be a nice little party."
I tried to object but gave up when Fred told me it was no use. I spent the rest of dinner listening to Charlie talk about his beloved dragons on the reserve.
Later that night when Ginny, Hermione and I had all climbed in to bed Ginny spoke.
"Hey Lex, if I ask you something will you answer honestly?"
I was a little confused but told her I would.
"We were just wondering if it was the dragons you wanted to work with or the keeper?"
So much for the secret, "What do you mean?" I asked, playing dumb.
"There's no point trying to hide it Alexis, we've seen the way you look at him," Hermione said.
I blushed, "Alright, I do have a little crush on him. Okay, may be a big one. But no one needs to know, not even you two and especially not him. But for the record I am interested in dragons."
"We could just point him in the right direction…" Ginny suggested.
"No. He doesn't need to know anything. For starters he'll probably laugh, secondly it's just a crush, it's not like I'm madly in love with him. Thirdly, if he did return any feelings it'd be too hard because he's so far away."
Ginny and Hermione solemnly swore not to say anything before turning out the light and going to sleep.
