Ginny was standing behind Aster playing with her hair. I definitely think you should wear it up. Let me see what I can do. Ginny moved her wand around and tiny little tendrils gathered themselves up at the back of her head. "That looks lovely."

Aster stood up.

"Okay let me go down and in a minute you go down. I want to see Charlie's face." Ginny grinned and rushed out of the room.

Aster stared at herself. She thought she looked pretty. She was wearing a green dress that went down to her knees. The top part was form fitting. It had long sleeves. She smiled.

She walked out of the room. Charlie was standing at the bottom of the stairs talking to Ginny. He heard a noise and looked up. Aster was true to her name. She looked like a lovely flower floating down the stairs to him. The twins stood up. Ginny and her mom were smiling. Aster made it all the way down the stairs. Charlie was frozen. He didn't move.

Ginny nudged Harry and Harry cleared his throat. George got knocked out of his trance and jabbed Fred in the ribs. Fred hit Charlie in the arm and Charlie stumbled and almost fell over. Charlie saw red.

He turned to hurt Fred, Molly grabbed his upper arm and Aster's and shoved them out the front door. "You look lovely dear. Have a good time."

Charlie stood on the porch stoop and looked at her. "You are gorgeous."

She smiled at him.

Charlie took her hand to lead her out of the yard so he could apparate. He wished he was wearing dress robes or a muggle suit. Why had he decided to wear jeans again? He didn't remember. He was outside of the gate and he was just standing there. He didn't even remember where he was going to take her. He couldn't side-by-side apparate like this. His head was foggy. He'd end up hurting one of them. Aster wrapped her arms around his arm. Suddenly he saw his apartment like a slideshow. He turned and apparated.

He waved his wand and the candles came to life. He looked down at her. She was breathing a little hard, but she seemed like she was okay. "Okay?"

She closed her eyes and gulped in air.

"It gets better every time you do it. I have to get you apparation lessons." He pulled her around so that she was standing in front of him.

Aster opened her eyes and looked up at him.

He fell into her eyes. He closed his eyes. He smelled sea brine and salt. He could hear the sounds of the ocean crashing around him. "Aster?" Where was she? He opened his eyes. He was on a beach. There was sand and waves crashing. There were clouds in the sky. The sky was dark. He looked around. He heard the most beautiful music.

He closed his eyes and opened them again. He was back in his apartment. Her arms were reaching up around his neck. "Aster?" What just happened to him? "Babe?"

"Shhh."

She started kissing him. She was touching the back of his neck. Charlie maneuvered her over to the couch. She leaned backwards and he leaned into her. He could feel her breasts touching his chest. He reached under her dress and put his hand on her upper thigh. Then he pushed it higher to her hip. He didn't feel any panties. He groaned. "Oh baby." He pulled her forwards so that her hips were high on his lap. His hands were under her dress touching her back and her hips. She wasn't wearing a bra either. He reached his hand up to touch her breasts but she leaned forward into his chest. Her arms came down to her sides. Her hands were on his chest. He wrapped his arms around her and sighed. She put her head on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry."

Charlie pulled her back and looked at her. "You don't have anything to be sorry about. Things were going kind of fast, huh?"

She put her head back on his chest. He felt her nod.

***

Charlie woke up in his bed. Aster was lying across his chest. The blankets were pulled up to her chin. He looked out the window and it was light outside. She was still asleep. He looked back out the window and realized that his mom was going to kill him.