The school was buzzing with the news of the ball, who was going with who and who was wearing what.
I easily assumed that I would go with Fred since he was my mate and also I was his girlfriend but I still wanted him to ask me.
It was a Hogsmeade weekend and me and Fred were currently hiding in one of the back booths of the Three Broomsticks. We had left George and Angie, along with Lee and Kaite Bell alone in Zonks when we snuck away.
We were sipping on butterbeers when I asked Fred about the ball.
"So is George gonna man up and ask Angie to the ball?"
"I sure hope so because it's so hard to watch him look like a love sick puppy when he's around her." he said.
I laughed "I hope Lee asks Katie too." I said.
"Me too." he said.
"Angie's George's mate right?" I asked after a minute.
Fred looked at me worried. I knew he didn't want to lie to me.
"I think she is since he gets a little defensive whenever another guy is around her." I said.
"She is but he's known since her birthday but he's just to scared to tell her." he replied.
"Well she's worried that she isn't. I mean she's really like George for a long time." I said.
"Mom and Dad always said we'd end up together." Fred said.
I laughed then I realized...our parents.
"Did you tell your mom and dad about us?" I asked. He shook his head. "No, figured we could surprise them for Christmas and they'll be ecstatic when they find out it's you." he replied.
I snuggled into his side. "We can go tell dad whenever. I don't think he'll really care what with Ced in the tournament and all. He doesn't talk about anything else." I replied. Fred took my hand in intertwined our fingers. I looked up at him.
"Your dad cares about even if it is hard for him to show it." he said.
"I know." I replied.
"I love you even if no one else does." he said quietly so only I could hear.
"I love you too." I replied. Fred then leaned down and captured my lips.
We both pulled away for a moment. Fred then pulled out a rose.
"Mia, will you go to the ball with me?" he asked.
I smiled "Of course." I said and hugged him.
I kissed him one more time before he handed me the rose. Just then our lovely friends walked in, bombarding us with questions about why we left them.
Me and Fred laughed at the four as they sat down and we all drank butterbeers.
The next day we were all being supervised by professor Snape while we did homework. Hermione, Ron and Harry sat not far from where me and Angie sat. across from us to the right sat Fred, George and Lee.
We were both whispering how to finish the rest of our potion homework.
Hermione had told us that she had someone but didn't say who. Ginny was going with Nevile and Katie was going with Lee who asked her out earlier in the day.
Ron, Harry, Angie and George didn't have date as of yet. I was serious irritated with George. If he kept on making googly eyes at Angie and didn't ask her out before the end of the day I was going to do it for him.
"I can't find anything in her that has to do with-" Angie said but was cut off with a piece of paper hitting her head.
"Angelina." whispered George.
"What?" she whispered back slightly annoyed.
"Do you" he said and pointed to her "want to got to the ball" he then made a dancing movement. "with me?" he asked and pointed to himself.
"To the ball?" she asked in disbelief.
"Yeah alright." she said flustered. She looked down at her book and parchment I could tell she was trying hard not to squeal. I smirked at Fred and he smirked back at me, both knowing what the other was thinking.
We all stiffed a laugh and returned to our work when Snape hit the trio over the head with his book. Me and Angie were finishing up our work right before Hermione stormed out of the room. When we finished our problem me and Angie ran up to the tower and into the girls dormitory before Angie practically screamed her lungs out with happiness.
Then Hermione ranted to us about how Ron was a git for just then realizing she was a girl. We backed her up on that one. We then all made our plans to go to Hogsemede during the weekend to go shopping for the ball. I had never been one for formal gatherings but I couldn't wait for this one.
After dinner I ran to the library to pick up a few books on some transfiguration homework that was due for the following week.
I sat down at one of the tables in the back and and decided to start on the assignment since it wasn't to be that long.
I had finished my assignment only to find out that I had been there for two hours and it was now almost nine. I started to pack up my thing. I shrunk them and put them in my skirt pocket. I grabbed the books I was using and started returning them to the shelves.
I could tell I was probably the last on in the library because there wasn't much noise.
I was putting the last two of my books away when I heard footsteps and they were close. I put away the last book before I was spun around forcefully and slammed into the shelf behind me. I winced in pain.
Someone then attached their lips to mine. I immediately didn't recognize the scent, I tried to move my arms to push the guy away but he had them pinned above my head.
So I decided to bite this guys lip really hard. The guy pulled back and I came face to face with my attacker.
"You little bitch." he said. I gasped when I realized it was Daniel Cooper. I would see the desire and lust in his eyes but also the anger of what I had just done. Cooper then smacked me across the face hard making me stumble to the ground. I sat up as he pointed his wand at me. He muttered something under his breath and I opened my mouth to yell but nothing came out. He had cast a silence charm on me.
Suddenly ropes appeared around my hand. He then grabbed me by the hair and pulled me up and threw me onto the table on my back. He pinned my hands above my head again as I thrashed as he tried to kiss me again.
"Stop moving bitch!" he ordered and slapped me again. I felt blood in my mouth and I knew he had split my lip.
I felt Cooper's hand starting to trail up my skirt slowly. Inside I was freaking out and I knew I had to do something. I stopped thrashing and let him think I was going along.
"You gonna be a good girl now?" he asked I felt his bulged against my thigh. I forced myself to nod with a sexy smirk. That apparently was enough for him to take the bait.
He leaned down to kiss me again but before he could I brought my head up and headbutted him in the nose. That was enough for him to let go of my hands. I used my bound hands to push him away. I jumped off the table. Cooper stood in front of me groaning, clutching his nose and cursing. I brought my foot up and kicked him in the balls and then punched him in the face with my bound hands. He fell to the floor and I kicked him in the stomach again for good measure before I ran out of the library.
I used the secret passageway to get to the tower as fast as I could. I got to the portrait but couldn't say the password because of the charm. The Fat Lady took one look at me and gasped but opened up for me.
I climbed through the hole and leaned against the wall taking in deep breaths.
"Mia? Mia?!" I heard a voice say.
I looked up and saw Fred, George, Hermione, and Angie run towards me all with scared looks on their face. Fred reached me first, he pulled his wand out and held my hands in front of me. He then cast the counter curse for the ropes. The ropes fell away, the bruises on my wrist were completely visible. I rubbed my sore wrist. Fred cupped my face gently
"What happened baby?" he asked.
I pointed to my throat a few times before he got the message and released me from the silence charm.
I let out a gasp and then for the first time since my attack I started to cry.
Fred pulled me into his chest, picked me up and sat us on the couch. I hung onto Fred like my life depended on it.
Fred held me close "George go ask Harry for the map. You need to get Cedric up here." he said.
I heard George run up the stairs while Fred rubbed my back. I heard George re enter the room with others.
"I'll be back as soon as I can." he said.
"What happened asked?" Harry.
"We don't know, she went to the library and came back hands tied, a silence charm cast and a spilt lip." said Angie.
Fred continued to whisper sweet things into my ear and rub my back until I completely calmed down. By that time George stepped through the portrait with a very worried Cedric.
Cedric found me immediately and ran to me.
He cupped my face and inspected it quietly followed by my wrist that were turning black and blue.
"Who did this?" he gritted through his teeth. I didn't say anything.
"Mia tell us what happened." said Fred. I looked to him and wiped away my tears.
"If I do you have to promise you won't leave me alone tonight." I said.
Fred nodded as did everyone else.
I shifted myself to face everyone while still being on Fred's lap. Everyone sat around us.
I stared into the flame for a bit.
"Mia?" said Angie
"I was in the library, finishing up my transfiguration assignment. I was put the last of my books away when he attacked me...he turned me around and pushed me against the shelf and started to kiss me." I said quietly the last part.
I instanly felt Fred tense up next to me. I didn't dare look at him.
"My hand were pinned above and I couldn't move so I bite him. He then slapped me across the face, making me fall. I cast a silencing charm and tied my hands before he grabbed me by the hair and pulled me up onto the table. I thrashed as hard as I could even though he pinned me down. When I wouldn't stop moving he slapped me again. His hand tried to go up my skirt and I knew what would happen if I didn't do something so I stopped struggling just long enough for him to think that I wasn't going to fight anymore before I headbutted him. I then pushed him away and kicked him in the balls and then punched before I ran for it." by the end of my explanation I was crying again.
The tension and anger in the come could have been cut with a knife.
"Who was it Mia?" said George.
"Mia who was it?" repeated Fred strongly.
"Daniel Cooper." I whispered loud enough for everyone to hear.
"I'm going to kill him." growled Cedric.
"And then I raise him from the dead just so I can kill him again." Fred growled. He shifted to move me off of his lap.
Immediately I knew they were going to go find Cooper.
I clinged on to Fred.
"Angie, take her." said Fred and tried to pass me off to Angie.
"No." I said but he wiggled out of my grasp.
I watched as he, Cedric George, Lee and Harry followed by Ron got up.
"NO! You can't." I said. I knew that them being blind by rage they'd risk killing Cooper and hurting others and themselves before any teacher could reach them.
"Mia were not going to let that bastard get away with this." Cedric said.
"We can get him in the morning." I reasoned.
"He almost raped you. He deserved to get his ass beaten now." I could see the fury in Fred's eyes it burned. There was very little to stop them.
I did the only thing I could.
"But you promised. You promised you wouldn't leave me tonight." I said. I didn't want to play the whiny card but I knew I had to but it was true. They did promise and truly, I didn't want to be left alone.
Plus, I was already hurt, I didn't need them to be not at my expense.
They knew what a promise meant to me because it all meant the same thing to all of us. To promise something was to give your word. It was like swearing an oath, it bound you to your word.
I watched as their faces changed. They were now thinking.
We were all silent for a minute.
"First thing tomorrow. No exceptions." said Fred.
I nodded as did everyone else.
"Wait after breakfast." Ron said making some of us chuckle breaking up some the tension.
After a bit Hermione, Harry, Ron and Lee went off to bed. Me, Cedric, George, Fred and Angie however stayed in the common room. Fred and George had brought down some blankets from their dorms.
I told Ced that he could head off to bed if he really wanted to but he insisted he stay until morning. Me and Fred laid down on the couch by the fire while Angie and George shared the other couch and Ced got the love seat. I laid across Fred's chest and let the steady beat of his heart rock me to sleep. Just knowing he was there brought me enough peace to forget all that had happened that night.
AN: Hey guys! I'm in the middle of moving so there won't be any updates for a while. Sorry but I promise not to give up on the story and to put an update up when I get settled. Love you! and have a great summer!