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Fred and Charlene

Chapter 2

Charlene had known Fred and George for 2 weeks and they were already best friends.

Everyday Char would go to healer training from 9am- 12pm then would have an hour off for lunch where she would go see the girls or her other friends or eat with Fred and George, then at 1pm she would go back to healer training till 3pm. Then at 3pm she would go to Weasley Wizards Whizzes and hang around with Fred and George till 4pm. Then at 4pm she would spend 4 hours working behind the counter at Magnolia Wine. Then at 8 she would eat, always with Fred and George- the girls or her other friends would sometimes join them. Sometimes they would go out and eat at the Leaky Cauldron or somewhere else but usually they would pick up a take away and eat on the floor of Weasley's Wizards Whizzes or Audrey would cook for them as she's great at it or they would eat a takeaway at girl's place above the shop.

She was eating lunch with Fred and George today.

She apparated outside their shop and rushed in excited, today they'd promised to prepare lunch.

There was a blonde girl sitting at the counter on a stool with a red headed guy with a pony tail, she assumed he was another Weasley.

"Charlene!" cried Fred with a huge grin on his face, "You're just in time for lunch."

"I still can't believe you're cooking," she grinned and he smiled at her and went upstairs to get the food, Char sat down next to the blonde girl on an empty stool; she turned to her and gasped, "Fleur Delacour!"

Fleur giggled and replied, "Yes, 'zat ez me, who are you?"

"Oh, yeah, sorry, I'm Charlene Dahl," said Char blushing, "I remembered you from the triwizard tournament."

Fleur frowned and thought for a moment then her eyes widened and she exclaimed, "I remember your face! You were a Ravenclaw; we zat at zee zame table."

Charlene grinned and said, "Yeah, we did."

The boy sitting next to her introduced himself, "Hi, I'm Bill Weasley."

"Another Weasley," she said repeated the sorting hats words.

"There are a lot of us, and next year Fleur will also become one," smiled Bill as Fleur held up her hand to show off the engagement ring.

Fleur laughed, "Though without zee red hair!"

Charlene cried, "Congratulations!"

"Thank you," smiled Fleur, "So 'ow do you know Fred an' George?"

Fred explained as he walked back into the room, "We were in the same year together at Hogwarts but didn't officially meet until 2 weeks ago, she wandered into the shop and we talked to her for a bit and then she just kept coming back and back, she won't leave us alone."

Charlene pulled her wand out of her pocket and pointed it at Fred threateningly.

"I was joking! Just joking, promise, love you really Char," he grinned.

She smiled at him and took the bowl of pasta he was holding off him and began to eat.

George came in and greeted Char and then asked, "How is everything at home?"

"It ez awful!" exclaimed Fleur, "They all 'ate me!"

"Besides Ron," teased Fred.

George said, "I'm sure they don't all hate you."

"'Zey do!" insisted Fleur, she added sadly, "'Zey talk about me bee'ind my back- Ginny calls me Phlegm when she thinks I am not listening."

They proceeded to spend lunch comforting Fleur and at the end Fred and George lent her a bunch of extendable ears so she could listen to what they were saying about her, Fleur quickly developed a firm friendship with the lovable Charlene and promised to visit Magnolia Wine soon.

"That was fun," smiled Fred.

Char grinned, "It actually was. Fleur's nice; I don't know why you're family have a problem with her."

"They don't understand her and she doesn't understand them," explained George, "She comes from a big town; she's a city girl, daughter of a ministry official, we live deep in the countryside- it's very different for her."

Charlene nodded, feeling sorry for her and said, "I got to go but remember, tonight's the dinner party, be prompt, 8 o'clock exactly."

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Char was wearing a grey dress, Verity was wearing a dark blue one, Audrey was wearing red, Rowan was dressed in purple and there other friend Julia was wearing a black dress.

They were all sitting down at the table which had been extended for the evening to fit 12.

On one end was Audrey, on her left was Zackary, then Rowan, then Nathaniel, then Verity, then Fred, then on the other end was Charlene, on her left was George, then Julia, then her fiancé Alexander (but everyone calls him Xander), then Henry and Oscar.

Everyone but Fred and George had been in Ravenclaw; everyone was in the same year.

"How's the shop doing?" asked Verity to Fred.

"It's great," he replied, "But we could do with some more help."

Verity wondered, "You have a job opening?"

"Yeah," answered George, "Are you interested?" He recognised her excited tone.

Verity smiled, "If the positions available."

George and Fred exchanged a look then said at the same time, "Definitely."

"That's great," she grinned.

They sorted out the job and timings.

"What have you been doing since you finished Hogwarts?" asked George curiously.

Verity replied, "Non-stop writing. I'm writing a book and I just finished planning the series, took me years, and now I'm writing."

"Wow, what's it about?" asked Fred.

Verity proceeded to give them a detailed account of her books plot and each individual character, Charlene smiled, she loved how passionate she was about her writing.

Charlene shared a room with Verity and Audrey shared with Rowan.

Later that evening Audrey announced, "I hope you've all had a nice time and enjoyed the meal, it's much better than takeaways," she winked at Fred, George and Charlene, "We're having a party in 2 weeks' time here, invite your friends, it would be great to meet all you're new colleagues or maybe even some more Gryffindor's'," she raised her glass and smiled, "To friends."

"To friends," everyone chorused.

Hope you liked it.

This chapter introduced Bill and Fleur into the story, I've always liked Fleur and disliked the way the Weasley's treated her. My writing of the way Fleur speaks was horrible, I apologise.

It also introduced Charlene's friends, Verity does work for Fred and George in the book and that's the story of how she was hired.

No romance yet but soon I promise.

Thanks for reading and please review.

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