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Harry and Ron got a shock as they headed to the common room after class. Hermione came bounding up the stairs behind them shouting for them to wait. As they looked at her, they saw she was positively glowing and looked carefree and content, not at all like they thought she would after not turning up to class. Harry couldn't help himself. When she reached him, he pulled her into a tight hug.
"Um, Harry... Why are you hugging me?"
He quickly pulled away, going a bit pink as he realised Fred was watching from halfway down the staircase, looking uncharacteristically stoney faced.
"We thought something awful had happened to you!" Harry said, slightly relieved that it wasn't true.
"Yeah," Ron stepped in. "First you didn't come back to lunch, then you didn't turn up to class... And what did Fred want anyway?"
"Oh yeah," remembered Harry "we asked George, but all he said was 'you'll find out soon enough' really mysteriously and then left. What was that about?" Harry then noticed a few things. Being a Seeker, he had good sight for small details. One; Hermione turned quite pink, two; Fred suddenly sped past them and climbed through the portrait hole and three; Hermione started tucking her hair repeatedly behind her ear, something she only does when she's extremely nervous. All of this he took in in a couple of seconds, but it was enough to make him suspicious.
"Well, I'm not sure what George was on about, but Fred just needs help with some school work so i'm going to be helping him. And we just lost track of time so I didn't think there was any point coming to class 20 minutes late so I went to the library." she said in a rush. She and Fred agreed on this story beforehand, wanting to keep their relationship secret for now so as not to make things weird between them all. This way they could spend time together, and have Hermione do his homework, without anyone, hopefully, becoming suspicious. The only downfall was that Hermione wasn't the best liar, and she was sure either Harry or Ron would question the liability of this story. Ron seemed to buy it OK and turned to enter the common room, but she wasn't sure if Harry did. He raised an eyebrow, making her go redder, but thankfully left it and turned to follow Ron. She inwardly breathed a sigh of relief; the hardest part was over. When she too entered the common room, she caught Fred's eye and nodded slightly, smiling, the sign to show they bought it. He smiled back before walking to the other end of the room to the window where George sat. He was leaning back on his chair, arms behind his head, smirking at Fred as he sat down opposite him. "So," he started, looking somewhat amused, "what did you get up to at lunch?"
"You know exactly what!" Fred said, aiming a kick under the table at George but missing.
"She said yes then?"
"Um, well," Fred said hesitantly, looking slightly uncomfortable "I didn't exactly ask her the question as such." George only raised his eyebrows in response so Fred went on to explain "I sort of froze up and the words got stuck so I, um, may have kissed her rather than asked the question." he looked at George, expecting a witty remark or teasing comment but instead found him looking hard into his eyes. "I thought so. I can see it." he said seriously. He then looked out the window once, announced he was going to bed and left to the dormitories.
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