Author's Note: This is one of my first fanfics and my first with this paring. I've also got Fred/ Angelina and some Katie/ Lee in this story, hope you like it!
(For the purpose of Alicia's nickname her name is pronounced Ah-Liss-Ey-Ah, NOT Ah-Leesh-Ah)
You'd think there wouldn't be any difference between the Weasley twins. Mainly because they are, well, twins. But there are differences, small ones that can only be noticed if you know them well enough. Fred's nose is slightly more angular and George's hair is slightly more orange.
That's the only way they look different, but George is also a little cleverer and a bit more considerate, and Fred is more creative and rash. You have to know the Weasleys well to find the differences, but fortunately after four years I think I know them well enough.
At the beginning of our fifth year I should really hope I knew them by then.
I walked into the last empty compartment with Angelina and Katie, gossiping about our holidays and the fact that everyone in our year seems to have become suddenly more attractive, something I wouldn't have thought possible for Cedric Diggary.
"Hello ladies!" the Weasleys and their friend Lee Jordan entered our compartment, grinning like loons, as usual.
"Hey Fred!" I smiled back, catching a glance from Angelina which plainly said that that Fred and George were very much included in our earlier statement. I nudged her in the ribs, trying not to giggle and looked back up at the twin I was sure was Fred.
He and George looked at me in mock outrage, "What makes you call me that? I thought we were identical, didn't you brother?" the twin that was George nodded indignantly causing us girls to giggle.
"Yes but unfortunately for you we have known you for long enough to recognise the difference. One which you reinforced by speaking first Fred." They looked a little disappointed but shrugged and sat down.
Fred is the slightly more confident twin, they both appear equally confident but really George is pretending to be a little more confident that he is, not that he really needs to, so Fred generally speaks first.
"So, anything interesting going on Angie?" I asked, Angelina shook her head.
"No," she sighed, "I broke up with Darren at the beginning of the holidays; he was just too bloody possessive. He tried to stop me from going out without him in case I found someone else. The wanker." I smiled at this, every single one of Angelina's new boyfriend is exempt from any insults, and any ex is immediately branded a wanker.
"What about you two?" she asked. Katie shook her head; she and Ed had broken up a few weeks before the end of term and she hadn't found anyone else yet.
"I dumped Jason" I told them both, business-like as I am only on this one topic, "cause he's a prick, then I met Jack, you know, Jack Bryant? I met him in Diagon Ally and he asked me out, real long relationship that was. I ran into him at a part a week later snogging some blond slag so I punched him." Everyone in the carriage smiled and Lee laughed.
"Do you reckon you gave him a black eye or something Lis?" he asked eagerly. I frowned slightly,
"I hope I broke his nose, but I probably gave him a bad bruise or something instead. Why are you so interested?" I asked. Lee laughed again,
"Cause Jack's in my muggle studies class and he's really annoying. Cockiest little shit ever." This really meant something coming from Lee, "I can't wait to ask him what happened to his face!" the carriage broke into laughter again and the boys turned back to resume their conversation but Angie shook her head at them.
"So boys, is anything interesting going on with you?" Lee turned faintly pink and shook his head while Fred and George turned to look at each other.
"Well…?" I prompted gleefully.
George bit his lip and turned to Fred. Fred just looked at George who sighed. He paused then answered for both of them. Damn that pause! That meant he was finding a way to say it with only the bare minimum of detail left in, how boring.
"Well, I broke up with Lisa at the end of last year and Fred broke up with Anna because neither of them could tell us apart and they both kept getting clingy, then realising that they'd got the wrong twin and getting annoyed with the other one who'd also got it wrong and, well, it was just annoying really. Anyway, there was a very pretty girl working in the corner shop in the village who thought our card tricks were something marvellous, almost like real magic. So we invited her out, she brought a friend…"
"And we had dates for the summer!" finished Fred, grinning and leaning back triumphantly.
"So why didn't you want to tell us?" asked Lee shrewdly. The twins scowled at him and the rest of us grinned.
"All right, all right. If you must know all that happened was that we had a bit of a fight over who got which girl." Said Fred.
"And…" prompted Lee, using their trademark grin, "Who got the girl?"
Fred glared at him while George just smiled at sat back in his seat. No explanation was needed and we moved on before Fred got more annoyed.
After that we chatted for a while about our summer holidays, Lee went to America to visit his cousins in New York, Katie went to see a quidditch match with the Holy Head Harpies, Angelina and I went to the south of France together for a while and Fred and George played a lot of quidditch and decided to open a joke shop. It seemed that they had spent a lot of time inventing a lot of things that would make sure you never ate anything again, in particular, "This." Said Fred, holding up a small white tablet.
"This," continued George; "took us weeks to develop. Instantaneous full body hair loss pill, crumble it up or dissolve it in food or drink or swallow it whole and all the hair on your body falls off within three minutes!" He announced proudly, returning the little pill to his pocket. We all groaned.
"God, I'm going to starve this year!" moaned Angelina, "We can't eat anything anymore!" the twins cracked identical evil grins which did not make us feel any better.
"Don't worry Angie; we've got a much better idea for this one." Fred reassured. She raised her eyebrows sceptically and Fred and George grinned again. "No, honestly," said George, still with that evil grin. "We were thinking more along the lines of Mrs Norris!"
The rest of the train ride passed enjoyably, ending in an hour long game of exploding snap which blew off Lee's eyebrows. When we got off the train it was tipping it down outside so we all squeezed quickly into one carriage.
It wasn't the best arrangement, firstly because there are only supposed to be four people in each carriage, not six, and secondly because we really wanted to have a slightly more private conversation, without the boys. Fortunately a great idea for an "epic prank" suddenly struck Fred, so they huddled off on their own, so deep in conversation that they wouldn't notice if one of us turned into an elephant.
They generally like to keep their biggest jokes quiet until the last minute for maximum dramatic effect, and so that if anyone overhears/ thinks it will get them killed it's too late to do anything about it. With the boys off in their own little world, we were able to hold an entirely private conversation, one that happened at the beginning of every year and had done since we first met on the Hogwarts express five years ago.
"So," announced Angelina, "I call Fred!" I rolled my eyes and Katie giggled.
"Angie, you've called Fred for five years now and you've never done anything about it. Please say you'll do something this year!" Angelina just shrugged and smiled.
"So who do you two choose?" she asked, changing the topic. Katie looked George and Lee up and down evaluatingly and then smiled, "I choose Lee!" I rolled my eyes again, this wasn't the first time she'd chosen Lee either.
"Okay then, I guess George is mine." the other two exchanged a look around me and started to giggle. "What?" I asked, confused at this. Naturally they just giggled louder.
"Well let's just say you didn't have to choose George, and this isn't the first time you've chosen him either!" explained Katie, still giggling.
"Well you didn't leave me much choice did you? This isn't the first time you two chose Fred and Lee!" they continued to giggle.
"I seem to recall this choice being out of the entire year, you could've chosen someone else." Damn. They had me there. And unfortunately they knew it too, so Angelina giggled incredibly hard and Katie took a victory sip of her pumpkin juice.
"So when are you going to get off with Lee then Katie?" Katie spat out her pumpkin juice all over the boys, but fortunately for all three of them they were so engrossed in their whispered conversation that they didn't notice.
"Excuse me?" yelled Katie, "Why would I get off with Lee?" It was my turn to giggle this time.
"Come on Katie, you've called Lee almost as often as Angelina's called Fred!" she spluttered on so we continued to giggle. More for the sake of peace than anything else I interrupted Katie's choked protests and said, "Okay girls, a pact, we all admit we fancy our chosen guy and we will get with him by the end of the year, or the other two will make it happen. Agreed?"
Katie stopped spluttering and Angelina stopped giggling to agree to this, and then we all stated giggling again, each knowing that we would now have to go out with the guy we had called dibbs on because the other two's efforts to put us together would happen and would be very embarrassing.
Then, scheming seemingly over, Fred, George and Lee re-awoke to the real world. "What are you all laughing about?" enquired George.
As anyone who has ever been asked this question before knows, that just make it worse. "And why am I wet?" asked Lee confusedly.
It was a full ten minutes before we could calm down.
The sorting and the feast went fairly boringly (none of us ate much in fear of the twins' inventions) and we were kind of tired so we went up to our dorms pretty quickly. Angelina went on a bit about how gorgeous Fred was so I got into bed. I've heard way too much about the various attributes of Fred Weasley.
Secretly I did very much fancy George, had done since at least second year, only much more subtly than Angie who has fancied Fred since first year and denied it all the way. Katie, I'm not sure how long she's liked Lee. She's found him fit for ages but it's only been the last year or so that she's liked him, and denied it even more fervently than Angelina.
It seemed that after I had gone to sleep, my two friends had decided that I should get together with George first. At breakfast the next morning they made sure that the only place I could sit was right next to George, and Angelina kept budging up closer to me so I was forced to move further and further down the bench, closer and closer to George until I was sat practically in his lap.
He looked quite surprised at my close proximity but fortunately said nothing and pretended like it was normal for me to sit on him at breakfast. I kept kicking Angie under the table but unfortunately that just made her giggle which set Katie off too, which made me blush. All three of us got strange looks through breakfast, but they were used to giggling and didn't bother asking what it was about. It seemed they did not want involvement in what made us giggle. They really wouldn't want to know most of the time.
When breakfast was over I got off George, blushing slightly again and Alicia, Angelina and I headed off to divination while Fred and George went to the common room for a free period. And when I say free period, I mean a period with a lesson that they didn't feel like going to.
Personally I think it's their loss, divination can be a real laugh, only reason I bother with it. All three of us have "mundane minds" so none of us are any good, but it doesn't matter. Katie does excellent impressions of Trelawney and Angelina has such blunt common sense that anything in such a wifty-wafty lesson as divination is hilarious.
"Today my children, we will be reading the tea leaves. If you would all collect yourselves a teacup each and a pot for your table. Then drink, drink until only the dregs remain. Swill the contents three times clockwise then turn upside down to drain."
I love Angelina. "So Angie, what do you see in your cup?" I asked mystically.
"I see a load of soggy brown stuff." Replied Angelina bluntly.
"Ah, but my dear, what does it resemble?" asked Katie in an excellent impression of Trelawney. Angelina looked down at the cup again.
"Errm… Mud? Yes, mud. What does mud mean?" she asked, looking it up in the textbook.
"Don't worry Angie, I got it. It means that you are a crap seer." I said.
"Huh." Angelina smiled, "Finally, something the textbook actually got right." The divination keenos shot daggers at us for making fun of it as we laughed and Angie handed her cup to me so it stood a chance (a very faint one) of being read properly.
"May we have the honour of escorting you to your next lesson?" asked Fred and George, bowing and offering us their arms. Katie smiled and went off to ancient runes while Angie and I giggled and allowed them to lead us down to potions.