"Elizabeth Black! You gave me a heart attack! What possesed you to do that?" Jessie said sternly to her best friend.
"Jeez calm yourself Jess, it was just a small fight, nothing big," Elizabeth said with a smile. She was secretly glad at the welcome back that she had gotten from Jessie. She looked at the couch and saw Lainee with a relieved expression sitting next to Oliver and Fred on the couch. "I see you got out of the Hospital Wing alright," Elizabeth said commenting on Fred's apperance. He had bandages wrapped around his head but otherwise seemed fine.
"Just a scrape, is what Madam Pomfrey said," Fred said with a laugh. Jessie rolled her eyes and went back to sit on the armrest next to her boyfriend. Elizabeth suddenly had the intense desire to push her onto Fred's lap again but desided that in his current state it wouldn't be the best of moves.
"Good, now I'm thinking that Flint will be in the Hospital Wing taking a Pepper-up Potion and getting his bruises mended," Elizabeth said with a satisfied smirk on her face.
"I can't believe you did that! You could have been expelled, or worse! Imagine being 16 and sent to Azkaban!" Jessie said dramatically yet seriously. Elizabeth just rolled her eyes at her friend.
"I doubt that they would sent me to PRISON for beating up a lousy person like Flint, maybe if I attacked a teacher but-" Elizabeth was cut off by Lainee, who almost never cut anyone off.
"Enough, I'm tired and I would rather be happy that Elizabeth is back than hearing you two bicker before bed!" Lainee said a frown on her pixie like features. At this both Jessie and Elizabeth rolled their eyes at their dramatic friend.
"Calm yourself!" The two said at the same time and burst out laughing.
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The next morning _-_-_
Jessie was sitting with her group at the Gryffindor table eating breakfast and discussing what their plans for the day would be. Professor Dumbledore had arranged for the lessons of the day to be canceled for everyone to go and get their outfits for the Yule Ball. Jessie was sitting and staring across the hall to where she saw her cousin sitting with a group of Riley's friends. But Riley was over at the Gryffindor table with Elizabeth, his official girlfriend now seeing as he asked her properly. Jessie was in a really bad mood, she missed her cousin. Hannah had always ate breakfast with Jessie and Jessie was realizing how much she missed the other girl. At that moment Hannah's head looked up and Jessie and her made eye contact. Jessie knew it was part of their 'twin telepathy' and motioned for Hannah to come over. But Hannah was stubborn and turned her head away from Jessie.
Jessie's heart almost broke.
"Fred, I'll be right back," Jessie said to Fred and stood up. He looked up at her with a confused look on his face.
"Hurry back, we're all going to Hogsmead soon remember?" Fred said to her.
"I know. I've just got to go sort some things out," Jessie said and walked towards the Slytherin table. "Peters," Jessie barked out with a frown on her face. Hannah looked up shocked from her conversation.
"Excuse me Milis? I didn't know that we would ever be on last name basis, it just shows how much I really knew you." Hannah said coldly.
"Just get your lazy arse up from that bench and follow me," Jessie said rolling her eyes.
"You can't talk to me like that Jessie, incase you haven't noticed, I AM a Prefect," Hannah said icily but stood up anyway.
"Oi, just come on!" Jessie said glaring at her cousin. Hannah rolled her eyes and the two girls went out of the Great Hall to talk in the hallway away from prying eyes.
"Now what did you want? I was having a great conversation with-" Hannah was cut off by Jessie.
"Cut the crap Hannah, I just wanted to talk to you, no need to get all defensive." Jessie said.
"Defensive? Ha, YOUR the one who barged over to MY table and called ME by my last name then COMMANDED me to follow you," Hannah said glaring right back at Jessie.
"I'm sorry!" Jessie said letting the hurt go show in her voice but not in her features which stayed an impassive mask.
"Sorry? For what? Taking me away from breakfast, believing the lies that were fed to you by your friends? How could you choose your friends over FAMILY? I thought we were closer than that," Hannah said glaring at Jessie. Jessie was hurt by Hannah's accusuations.
"I didn't choose Lainee over you! I asked you to do something for me and you wouldn't! It's not as if I would EVER choose a friend over you. Family comes first, but you know my friends are just as close as family to me!" Jessie said.
"I don't care,"
"Hannah, be reasonable!"
"I will when you see that there is something going on with Lainee!"
"What?" Jessie asked confused, there was nothing going on with Lainee.
"The way she never seems to want you near me,"
"Hannah that's bloody crazy! You know out of Lainee and Elizabeth Lainee is the one that likes you more," Jessie said laughing at the absurdaty of Hannah's statement.
"See, you ARE choosing your friends over family!" Hannah said her hands balling up into fists.
"What, going to punch me now are you? And NO I am NOT!" Jessie said yelling it back at her.
"I would never lay a hand on you because I love you! And yes you are! You are choosing that bloody... bloody UGH! Over me!"
"Bloody what? And I don't like the fact you keep making me choose between you and my friends," Jessie said calming down, she decided that if Hannah was going to be difficult she would let her.
"I'm not making you choose, I just want you to see from my point of view," Hannah said quietly, she was also calming down. Jessie looked at Hannah and saw the bags under her eyes from a sleepless night.
"Hannah, I'm sorry." Jessie said quietly.
"I'm sorry too," Hannah said just as quiet, then as both girls were going to go and give a make up hug Fred and George burst through the Great Hall doors.
"We didn't hear anymore yelling," Fred started.
"And we thought," George entered.
"That you were going to,"
"Kill each other at any moment!" George exclaimed. Hannah and Jessie had similiar looks of annoyance on their face.
"We weren't going to kill eachother, we were just about to hug." Hannah said.
"Were you listening with your Extendable Ears?" Jessie said appauled that they would listen in on a mostly private conversation.
"Well," Fred said scratching the bag of his neck with a sheepish expression on his face.
"Fred!" Jessie exclaimed.
"I'm sorry hun, I just wanted to make sure you were going to be alright," Fred said sincerely. Jessie paused for a moment, he had just called her hun.
"Oh alright," Jessie said with a slight blush and a smile.
"What are Extendable Ears George?" Hannah said curious.
"They are a new product that we created, they can hear through doors and most anything with the exception of a few spells that our mother seems to know," George said with a wink in Hannah's direction. The small group laughed.
"I'll need to get myself one of those," Hannah said smirking.
"Here, you can have one free of charge, on the house." George said with another wink at Hannah who smirked. Then he handed her an Extendable Ear.
"So are you joining us for a day of shopping?" Fred said while putting his arms around Jessie's waist from behind her. Hannah smirked at the light blush that crept onto Jessie's cheeks.
"Dress shopping I hope?" Hannah said.
"Well duh! It's our only day to go shopping before the ball!" Jessie said laughing.
"I'm just making sure!" Hannah said with a smile. George had started moving closer towards Hannah and finally did the same thing to Hannah that Fred had done to Jessie, put his arms around her waist.
"I'm hoping that you plan on asking her out officially," Jessie commented with raised eyebrows. Fred laughed. George's ears became red and looked down to make sure that Hannah didn't see. That just made Fred and Jessie laugh that much harder and Hannah looked up at George with a smirk on her face.
"Well Georgie, are you going to?" Hannah said with a wink. George's ears became that much more red and he bent down to whisper in Hannah's ear. Jessie couldn't hear from her postion with Fred but judging by Hannah's expression that became the biggest smirk she had ever seen and the nod that came from her, George had just asked her out.
"Finally!" Fred said and Jessie laughed.
"Oi, shut your bloody mouth!" George said his ears still red.
"It's always the quiet ones," Jessie said with a wink to which George's ears flamed that much worse and Hannah laughed loudly.
"Calm down George, you're fine," Hannah said laughing, feeling the heat radiating off of him from his embarassment.
"You know we're only joking Georgie," Fred said with a wiggle of his eyebrows. Hannah burst out laughing.
"Jeez Jessie, are you sure you want to stay with that one?" Hannah said laughing. Jessie smiled and felt Fred squeeze her tight, waiting for her answer.
"Of course," Jessie said with a small smile.