Title: The Joker's Love
Author: TheLadyAbigail
Rating: M For suggestive themes.
"Carol will you stop obsessing for Oliver wood he's way to old for you!" I said to my best friend as she stared down the Gryffindor table towards the Quidditch captain whom she has had a crush on since first year. "He's only three years older!" Carol complains taking a bite of potatoes before glancing back at her obsession. A moment later she turns to me with a big smile on her face that could only mean one thing. "Guess whose looking over here again!" I roll my eyes then respond "Fred Weasley is not in love with me contrary to your belief, he is probably staring at Katie bell, she is sitting a couple seats down." I explain carefully trying to hide my own hopefulness. "Ok what if I said I can prove he likes you?" she questioned smiling an evil grin. "What are you up to?" I ask slightly afraid of her answer. "Oh nothing" she replies before once again turning to stare at Oliver Wood. When it comes to being mischievous everyone knows that the Weasley twins are on top, but second best would be my best friend since birth, Carol Smythe. Through her many pranks and practical jokes she has become fairly good friends with the twins, and through that she has learned many evil prank-pulling secrets from them.
Over the next couple days I started noticing that carol would disappear for long amounts of time and come back with no explanation as to why. "Where have you been sneaking off to lately?" i asked after finally getting the chance to be alone with Carol. "What?" She had always been a bad Actress and it was showing now. "Yes you have I've noticed you keep Disappearing almost every time i turn around and you're gone for at least an hour at a time, sometimes more!" I was kinda upset that my best friend was keeping secrets from me. "Ok if you really must know I've been going to the library, I'm being tutored by George Weasley." she said after a slight pause and she looked down blushing. "Your not being tutored in the dark arts of pranking are you?" I asked slightly worried she was going to learn more ways on how to charm my shoes to dance while I'm wearing them, a charm i was rather unhappy with. "No nothing like that this is nothing to do with pranking." she reassured me before getting up. "Where are you going now?" I asked seeing her walking toward the common room door. "To the library to go study with George." And with a smile most scaring she left the common room.
I was sitting in the common room doing my homework one evening during one of Carol's "study sessions" when she walked in, came right over to me, drug me to our dorm, and sat me down on my bed. She then started pacing the room nervously. "What is going on?" I asked, worried by my friends behavior. Carol sat down opposite me on her own bed and stared at me for a moment before saying anything. "You know how i said i was going to the library to get tutored by George? That was a lie. George and I have been working together to try to get you and Fred to just admit that you like each other." I stared at her for a moment wondering if this was some new joke she decided to play before realizing she was completely serious. "Well lets hope you came up with something better than locking us together in a closet." I said after a moment of silence that seemed to go on too long. "So are you mad at me?" she asked looking nervously over at me. "I guess I can't be to mad at you for trying to set me up with someone as cute as Fred Weasley." I said. We both laughed and headed back down the stairs to the common room.
End Chapter One.