Fred's Point of View:

Angelina had latched herself onto me and I was helpless to get her off. She wasn't the one that I wanted, Ariel was. She would always be the one that I wanted. Speaking of Ariel, she had run out of the Great Hall in such a hurry, I wondered what was wrong with her.

"Angelina, I'm going to go check on Ariel. I'm sure you'll be just fine without me for three seconds," I said, pushing her off. Man that girl could cling.

"Okay, but I'll miss you Freddie. Come back to me soon, yeah?" She said, fluttering her eyelashes quickly. "Or I can come with you…"

"No! I mean, I need to go talk to her about private matters," I said, all but running out of the Great Hall.

I walked around the corner and saw her sitting under one of the stone knights. When I got closer I saw that she wasn't alone; Cedric was sitting there with her. I thought about walking away from her but I had done that enough already. So I took a deep breath, stood tall, and walked up to them.

Ariel looked up and I saw that she had been crying. The first instinct in my body was to knock Cedric's face off but I held myself back. "Ariel, why did you run away from the Great Hall? You didn't even wait for the food to arrive."

She grimaced and said, "Yeah, well I sort of lost my appetite. Luckily Cedric was out here and helped me put myself back together, something you've been sucking at lately."

I flinched at the ice in her tone and said, "Well I'm trying to help you now. Don't I get some sort of credit for that? I want to fix whatever's happening between us right now."

"Do you even know what's going on right now, Fred?" She shouted. "Of course you don't, you're a total dolt. You are so oblivious that it should be a crime; you can't see what's going on right in front of your face. How do you live with yourself?"

I recoiled and shouted back, "Well if I'm oblivious then so are you. You haven't picked up on everything happening either. Instead of realizing that some people have feelings for you, you've been all over Diggory over here. Do you realize what that makes you look like?"

Her eyes became the size of dinner plates and she said, "Did you just call me a slag? What have I done to make you call me that? I'm nothing of the sort and you know it, you're just mad at me and saying things to hurt me."

I felt my heart cracking when I said, "I'm just stating what I'm seeing. You make a bloke believe that you have feelings for him and then you go and flirt with another one. That's slaggish behavior if I've ever seen it."

She winced and I saw her eyes fill up with tears again. Cedric stood up and said in his quiet voice, "I think you need to apologize for what you just said. She hasn't done a thing to you and you're coming in here and making her feel like trash, that's not right."

I had to restrain myself from punching him. "I meant what I said and I'm not going to take it back. I know you think the same thing, what with the way she was all over me right after she left you at the Cup. Does that make you mad?"

He didn't seem fazed by it. "Ariel and I aren't a couple; she can be with whomever she wants. I don't like the idea of her doing that but she's not my property, I can't tell her what to do."

This guy really grinded my gears. He was so freakin' perfect it didn't seem real. "Whatever, I honestly think that you're just putting on an act around Ariel. There's no way you really think this way."

He just shrugged and said, "I don't honestly care what you think. All I care about right now is Ariel and how you're treating her. You're pride is hurt so you're trying to make her feel even worse than you do. By the look of things you're doing a pretty good job of it."

"Can you two please stop? This is stupid; Fred, I don't know why I'm oblivious. It's not like you're in love with me or anything so why are you throwing a fit about me and Cedric talking?" She asked, stepping between us.

I had to think on my feet, she couldn't know that I loved her. I thought for a second and said, "I think of you as a sister and I'm doing the same thing I would do if Ginny were in your place." Yep, that was a nice save.

I saw hurt flash in her eyes and she took Cedric's hand in hers. "Well if that's how you feel then this shouldn't bother you." She then proceeded to pull him to her and kiss him.

He seemed shocked at first so I didn't really respond. Then he grabbed her hips in his hands and started to kiss her back. I saw red and pulled them back and punched him square in the nose. I heard a satisfying crunch under my fist and I smiled. I expected him to fight me back be he just grabbed Ariel's hand and they walked away.

"Mate, what did you just do? You know Ariel hates violence," George said from behind me, putting a hand on my shoulder.

"I know I really messed up. I called her a slag at first and then I told her that I loved her like a sister. She then proceeded to kiss Diggory right in front of me and you saw the rest," I said before I slumped against the wall in defeat.

"With her you have to be delicate, she's sensitive about a lot of things. You have to approach everything with care," George said. "She's like a kitten, jumpy and easily frightened but loveable and warm."

I nodded and pushed off of the wall. "I'm going to turn in early today. I'll see you for classes tomorrow, mate. I hope I'm in better spirits then."

He shrugged and said, "I think that you should talk this through with Ariel and see what she has to say. That means no sticking your feet in your mouth this time; pretty much you're going to beg for her forgiveness."

I knew he was right; I was a stupid git for doing this to her. I needed to go find her and talk to her calmly. I nodded goodbye to George and made my way up to the Gryffindor Common Room. I was at the door and I heard giggling on the other side.

I swallowed my vomit and muttered, "Pigsnout." The portrait door swung open and Ariel and Cedric were revealed to me. He was tickling her sides and she was laughing so hard tears were running down her face. I used to be the only one she'd let touch her like that.

"What, Fred? Want to break his nose again so I can mend it back. You're being a prick," Ariel hissed as she stood up. "Just go to bed before you start something."

I sighed and nodded my head. I just tugged her to me and kissed the top of her head lightly. She pulled away form me but I saw her smiling slightly. I was getting to her.

Fred's realizing that he's getting closer to losing Ariel than he thought. Will they work it out soon? Review and find out...