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I was hiding. Hiding from Mrs. Weasley. She was getting on my nerves. Harry, Ginny, Ron and I had cleaned the house about 20 times. Right now I was sitting in the broom shed. I was probably covered in dirt but I didn't care, it was better than Molly yelling at me. I had no clue what time it was or how long I had been in here. I slowly opened the door a crack and seen that Molly was in the garden, looking for someone. I realised it was probably me and I closed the door again. I sighed and sat back. I felt something crawling on me and jumped up. As soon as I seen it was a spider I screamed and ran out of the broom shed. I swatted everywhere, hoping I had got it. I heard laughing and turned around. Harry, Ginny, Ron, Fred, George, Percy, Bill, Arthur, Molly, Tonks, Remus, Dad, Marla, James and Lily were all standing there laughing at me. I glared at all of them.
"Oh shut up!" I pushed past them. I noticed the tent was set up and walked in. Finding my spot at the table I sat down and crossed my arms. Everyone followed my lead. Fred was on one side of me, my father on the other. Then from my father it went Marla, James, Lily, Harry, Arthur (at the head of the table), Mrs. Weasley, Ginny, Harry, Ron, George, Percy, Bill, Remus (at the end of the table), and Tonks who was beside Fred. Even though there was so many of us, it was not cramped at all. We sat and ate, telling stories and jokes. After dinner we had sundaes. I felt my father staring at me and looked up, he intently looking at my hand.
"What is that?" I looked at the ring and smiled.
"Promise ring from Fred." My dad just nodded and finished his ice cream.
Once everyone was done Arthur cleared the table and we made our way inside to the living room. Ginny, Ron, George and Percy squeezed on the couch. Remus and Tonks shared an arm chair as did Arthur and Molly. Lily, James, Harry, Dad and Marla brought in chairs from the kitchen and Fred and I sat on the floor by the couch.
"Alright Ginny get everyone a present. We can all open them at once." Ginny nodded at her mother and grabbed presents. She handed me a present from George. I opened it and smiled. He had gotten me a book of different magical creatures, knowing I would love it. Another present was dropped in my lap, it was from James and Lily. I opened it to find a picture of all the kids when we were younger in a beautiful frame. Ginny was about one and was crawling away from the camera. Ron and Harry, age 2, were fighting over a small broom. George, age 4, was holding a spider above Ron's head, Bill and Charlie were looking bored in the background, and Percy was reading a book. Fred was tickling me, age 3, and I was laughing my head off. I looked up as another present was chucked at me. It was from Arthur and Molly. I opened it and smiled. It was a dark Red sweater with an O in black on it. Three more presents were dumped in my lap. First one from Ron was a bag full of sweets Honeydukes. Second was from Ginny which was a book about Famous Woman Healers. Third was from Percy, which was a lovely red scarf. I looked up at Ginny to say thank you but she just dropped 3 mote presents in my lap. I opened Hermione's first, it was a charm bracelet with 3 charms. A book, a broom and two hands, there was also a note.
Ollie,
I hope you like my present. If you hadn't figured out whom the charms stand for I'll explain. Book for me obviously, Broom for Ginny, and the hands are you because you want to be healer and you are always looking out for all of us. I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas, see you New Years Eve. Also I really liked the book about the History of the Ministry, you know me to well.
Love Hermione.
I smiled at the note and put the bracelet on. The next present was from Bill. It was an empty photo album. My dad and Marla's present was the last one to open. It was small canvas painted picture of her. She was surprised and confused. She wondered who could have painted it. It was beautiful. Her hair looked like it was blowing in the wind and I was laughing.
"You like it?" I looked up at my father and nodded. "Marla painted it."
"Wow Marla, it's beautiful. Thank you."
"You're welcome dear. I painted it the other day, when you were outside with Fred."
"I never knew you could paint." Marla nodded and gave me a shy smile.
"It's kind of like my hobby. I paint in my spare time." I smiled at her and looked down at the painting. I looked so happy. Fred nudged me and I looked up.
"Wanna go for a walk? Everyone's done with the presents." I nodded. I grabbed my presents and stood up.
"I just want to take these home first." Fred nodded and followed me to my house. We walked upstairs to my room and put my presents on my desk. Fred sat down on the bed and looked at me. "Whats up?"
"Nothing, just wanted to be alone with you. I feel like I haven't seen you all day."
"That's because we haven't." I laughed and sat down beside him. He grabbed my face and kissed me. I smiled against his lips and pulled away. "I love you Fred."
"I love you to Ollie. Do you like your present?" I looked down at my hand and smiled.
"Yes I do. Do you like yours?" I had gotten my dad, Remus and James to write down some of the pranks they had down in school. Then I made it into a book and gave Fred and George each a copy.
"Yes I really did. I like ready about the Marauders. They are my idols and dating the daughter of one makes it even better." I laughed at him and stood up.
"C'mon we have to spend time with everyone. It is Christmas." Fred just nodded and followed me back to his place. Celestina Warbeck was coming out of the radio and Molly was dancing with Arthur. Dad and James were playing chess, while Lily, Tonks and Marla talked. Remus was watching James and dad. Ron, Harry, Ginny and George were playing Exploding Snap. Percy was reading. Bill was sitting on the couch watching everyone. I walked over at sat down beside him, Fred following.
"Thank you for the present Bill, I really liked it. I have a lot of photos to put in it."
"You're welcome Ollie and I loved the tie."
"Well I wanted you to look nice at your job at Gringotts. Congratulations by the way."
"Thank you Ollie, I'm looking forward to being around more. I wish Charlie would come see us more often but he was spending Christmas this year with a girl." I looked up at him surprised.
"A girl! Oh do tell!" Bill laughed at me and I blushed.
"Her name is Tia, she works with Charlie. I think he is quite smitten with her." I smiled. I missed Charlie, him and Bill were always a lot of fun when they were together. It also helped that Ollie was fascinated with Charlie's work.
"Well I hope things work out for him." Bill nodded and looked around. He kept looking at the clock. "Have somewhere else to be?"
"Well actually yes. I promised someone I would stop by and say hi. I just don't know how to leave without lots of questions." I wondered why he didn't want anyone to know where he was going.
"Just sneak out. If anyone asks where you went I'll say you got felt sick and went home." Bill smiled down at me.
"Sneaking out, you spend too much time with the twins." I laughed and nodded, knowing it was true. Bill stood up and quietly went to the front door. I was surprised that no one noticed. He slipped out and I heard a small pop as he disapperated. I looked back over at Fred who was watching the Exploding snap tournament.
"Wanna have a game of our own?" Fred looked down at her and shook his head.
"No, let's just sit here and watch everyone else." I smiled and leaned into him. He threw his arm around me and kissed the top of my head. I closed my eyes, listening to everyone around me.
"Ollie, Ollie get up. C'mon pretty girl. I want some breakfast." I slowly opened my eyes and looked around. I was in Fred's room, lying in his bed. I looked up at him confused. He laughed at me and pulled me into a sitting position. "You fell asleep on me, so I just brought you up here to sleep. Your dad wasn't too happy, so I slept on the couch. Or at least he thinks I did."
"You're pretty brave." I stood up and stretched. I guess I was pretty tired from cleaning and hiding. Fred grabbed my hand and pulled me downstairs. I looked down and noticed I was wearing a pair of Ginny's pjs and Fred's sweater. "Who changed me?"
"Mom." I should have figured that. We walked into the kitchen and sat down. Fred started eating his food like he was starving for three days.
"Hungry?" Fred looked at me and nodded, going back to his food. I started to eat and noticed no one else was eating with us. "Where is everyone?"
"The parents went for a walk to the Village. Bill is probably at home. Percy went to work. George went over to visit Alicia. Harry and Ron have gone to get Hermione, they decided she should come earlier. Ginny I think went with them. So it's just me and you!"
"Nice and what shall we do today." Fred looked at her and smiled.
"I have a few ideas."
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