Hello, everyone, I'm back with another chapter; looks like this one is gonna be a pretty light hearted fic eh? ;D

"Can I braid you hair?" asked Crystal, her eyes were sparkling with excitement, desperately wishing to braid the long red hair of his.

His eyes widened "What?"

"Your hair" she replied, still smiling with her finger now pointing at his long red locks "Can I braid it?"

His face was riddled with confusion then his face scrunched up in defiance "No way! I'll look ridiculous."

Crystal put on her best pouty face and , puffing up her cheeks, she pleaded in a soft voice "Pleeeaaase~?"

Charlie sighed, realising that she was not going to stop until she got her way "Fine."

In that instant, Crystal's face lit up, her smile growing impossibly wide, and immediately her hands were all over his hair.

Crystal separated his hair into uneven clumps and began looping them around each other in ways that should not be physically feasible. Within what seemed like minutes, Charlie's hair was already 'French braided' into a giant heap resembling a bird's nest, with strands of hair sticking out at all angles. However, she didn't stop there, she kept piling up the hair into a ant nest formation, embellishing the details of the hair so that it began to look as though a five year old was let loose onto the poor man's head, which admittedly is quite close to the reality. After some time, Crystal was standing in front of him with an idiotic grin on her face.

"Done!" she finally announced much to Charlie's relief. "You look so pretty now!"

Crystal took out her wand and summoned a mirror for Charlie to see and he grimaced at the sight. "And what exactly is this?"

Crystal pulled a face looking mimicking that of a fashion designer "It's my greatest creation" she said in a fake tone causing Charlie to chuckle "I call it the bird's nest"

Charlie decided to play along "I never knew you were so... artistic" he said in false amazement.

"Well, what can you say?" She said, giggling "I was just born with it"

"Woah, Charlie, what happened-" rang a voice from the bushes.

"-to your hair?" came another, a perfect imitation of the first.

"-It looks like someone-" two mops of red hair were visible from the bushes.

"was playing exploding snap-" the hair was joined by two identical grinning faces.

"-on your head!" the both exclaimed as the jumped out of the bushes.

"Gee, thanks, guys." said Charlie, feigning annoyance.

"I think it looks beautiful" piped up Crystal with a grin on her face. "Why are you here anyway? This is the forbidden forest, you know"

"Come on, Crys, don't be like that-" said Fred.

"-yeah, we're just here to pick you up; it's break time." completed George.

Crystal's eyes widened "I spent that long braiding his hair?!"

"Well to be fair, he does have a lot of it" said George in a consoling manner.

"and you haven't had any since you were thirteen" added Fred jokingly.

"It kept getting caught or burnt." Crystal reasoned with a pouty face.

"That's true, judging from the amount of times it landed you in the Hospital ward, it could be considered a safety hazard." Fred agreed.

"Although, you don't do a good job of staying out of there even without your hair." George continued.

"Still, stop stalling, m'dear Crys" said Fred as he took Crystal's left arm.

"Yeah, you've got lessons to attend and NEWTS to pass" said George taking her other arm beginning to lead her back through the forest to the castle.

"See ya, Charlie" Crystal shouted as she followed the twins back through the forest leaving the redhead behind with mumbled goodbyes.

The trio made their way through the forest in a rush, arriving back at the castle with only two minutes to spare as they parted ways and sprinted to their classes. Crystal ran through the fields once more back to Hagrid's hut and arrived just as Hagrid did, panting heavily to catch her breath. She wheezed out an apology for being late and proceeded to walk towards the other Gryffindors in her class as Hagrid explained the objective of the lesson that day. She smiled as they began walking to the lake with wands in their hands as she thought about the hell of a time that her new found friend was going to have undoing her art.

Meanwhile, back in the forest, Charlie had nothing to do; the Dragons were still calm and the checks were being done by the other dragon keepers so he assumed a comfortable position, leaning against a tree, and began thinking. He'd decided that Crystal was nice, if a little eccentric, she was good friends with his brother's and he was relieved that the infamous 'Chris' that they so often talked about was not the worst kind of influence on them and seemed capable enough to look after them. His thoughts were disturbed as a fellow dragon keeper walked up to him.

"Charlie?" He asked, snapping him out of his daze.

"What's up?" Charlie replied with a sheepish grin.

"Um... what happened to your hair?"

Charlie's face flushed, his eyes widened in realisation as his hands rushed towards his hair "Oh um..." he said trying to think up an excuse for the state of his hair.

The man cut him off with a chuckle "Ah, never mind that. Charlie, could you take my night shift for me? I have something to do tonight."

Charlie nodded "Sure thing, if you buy me a butterbeer later."

"Thanks, mate. Oh and Charlie" he said as he turned back to the dragons "You might want to fix your hair before the others see." he continued with a wink as he walked off into the forest.

Charlie nodded as he began unknotting the mound of hair atop of his head.

'Ello, this will be the last update for about a month while I'm off on holiday, hope this has been okay. And thank you all for the reviews 3