In the letter from the twins, Fred will be in Italics, and George will be in bold.

When you first left me I was wanting more

But you were fucking that girl next door, what you do that for?

When you first left me I didn't know what to say

I never been on my own that way, just sat by myself all day

I was so lost back then

But with a little help from my friends

I found a light in the tunnel at the end

Now you're calling me up on the phone

So you can have a little whine and a moan

And it's only because you're feeling alone

At first when I see you cry,

Yeah, it makes me smile, yeah, it makes me smile

At worst I feel bad for a while,

But then I just smile, I go ahead and smile

-Lily Allen Smile

Chapter 25: Twined

Ginny woke up late the next morning to a letter left on Draco's pillow for her.

Ginger,

You were sleeping so peacefully that I didn't want to wake you when Zabini came by asking for a fly. There is breakfast out there if you want some. Give Hermione hell for me.

Yours,

Draco

Ginny rolled her eyes and climbed out of bed, heading for the common room. There she saw Hermione sitting on the couch eating pancakes.

Ginny ran over to join her, stacking a few pancakes herself. "Morning" she said with a grin.

"Good morning Ginny! How did you sleep?" asked Hermione, very enthusiastically.

"I slept okay. And yourself?" said Ginny, trying to hold back giggles.

"I slept very peacefully." said Hermione sighing.

"Oh I bet you did. Ron made sure of that, yeah?" teased Ginny, not being able to hold it in any longer.

Hermione looked wide eyed at Ginny. "I beg your pardon?"

"YOU TWO HAD SEX DIDN'T YOU?! DONT DENY IT!" shrieked Ginny.

"Not so loud! You want everyone to hear?! panicked Hermione.

"Ohhh Draco isn't here. And besides, he already knows! We heard you two last night!" said Ginny, laughing.

Hermione blushed so hard you could actually see it when normally you couldn't because of her skin tone. "Oh no, did you two really? I knew I forgot to put up a silencing charm! I'm so embarrassed."

"Why? Was it bad or something?"

"Well no...actually it was rather amazing. Ron -"

"My brother, Hermione! I don't need the in depth story okay?"said Ginny covering her ears.

Hermione laughed. "Right. Sorry. But yes. It was lovely. I just wish you didn't hear us."

"Don't worry." said Ginny. "When you two got too rowdy to sleep, we threw up a silencing charm."

Hermione hid her face in her hands. "Oh god. Malfoy is going to take the mickey horribly on the both of us."

"He really stopped being concerned about in the two of you very quickly, so he won't too much I don't think." said Ginny with a grin.

"Wait...oh my goodness did you two have sex too?!" gasped Hermione.

"No no no! God no! We just...snogged..." said Ginny looking down and smiling.

"Finally!" squealed Hermione. "Ron and Blaise both owe me money!"

"Wait. You three bet on when we would kiss?"

"No, when you two would get together."

"Woah. We aren't together or anything like that. It was a snog. I mean-"

"But, why not?" asked Hermione.

Ginny drank all her pumpkin juice in one big gulp. "I don't wanna rush into it and then something happens. Don't get me wrong, I fancy the hell out of him. I'm just not ready for another heartbreak."

"Honestly, I don't think he would do you like that. The boy almost loves you, Gin. I'm not saying just off and date him. Maybe take it slow and see what happens."

"Yeah...you're right. I'll talk to him about it."

"Not snail slow though. I have 5 galleons on you two for by the end of May. And Ron already lost his chance 2 weeks ago."

"Oh you guys are evil." laughed Ginny.

About an hour later Ron came out of Hermione's room with a letter for Ginny. He gave a sweet kiss to Hermione ("awww the after sex glow" "GINNY!") and then the three gathered around the letter to read

Dearest Gin-Gin,

It has come to our attention that at the party we threw on New Years, your scarred friend acted less than noble.

Stop being proper Fred, he acted like a fucking slag, the tosser!

This is my part of the letter! Anyways, we are a little upset that you didn't tell us. You know we would have kicked his sorry ass had we known.

But since we know now, we have had time to think of a suitable punishment for The Boy Who Cheated.

Meet us at Hogsmeade this upcoming weekend. Ronniekins knows the passage to get there.

We think we have something for Potter that will fall under the muggle saying "Payback's a bitch."

Love,

Gred and Forge

"Oh my. I can't imagine what the two of them have cooked up for Harry." said Hermione.

"Probably something brilliant. But the question is, how do we get whatever it is to Harry? None of us are speaking to him." said Ron.

"Maybe you should try to befriend him again Ron. I've been telling you to do that anyways." said Ginny.

"After what he did to you? Hell no!" shouted Ron.

"Ron, I do get that he hurt me, but it was ME he cheated on not YOU. And I know you miss your best friend." said Ginny putting her hand on his shoulder.

"Maybe so, but still. If I was to try to make up with him this wouldn't be the way to do it. You have to get someone else."

"Someone like me?" said a voice.

The trio looked up and seen two very muddy boys at the door. Draco and Blaise must have finished early because of the rain.

"Plotting something you three? You know how much I love a good plot." laughed Blaise.

Ginny shook her head as she walked over to Draco. He started grinning at her.

"You look positively filthy." laughed Ginny.

"Care to match?" said Draco grabbing Ginny and hugging her close smearing his chest all over her face.

"EWWWWW YOU PRAT!" laughed Ginny as she broke free. "Just for that I'm going to stay in your bathtub extra and use up all the hot water so you won't have any!" she said as she ran to the bathroom.

Draco laughed and did a quick scourgify over himself and looked as if he never touched a speck of dirt. He then went over and sat with the others as Hermione and Ron filled them in on the letter and they formulated a plan.

That following Saturday, Ginny and Ron took the long secret passageway that let out in the cellar of Honeydukes and went to meet Fred and George at Hog's Head.

"Ah siblings!" said the twins as Ginny and Ron approached them. They both took turns hugging Ginny and messing up Ron's hair.

"So why didn't you tell us about Harry, dear sister?" asked Fred.

"Yeah," said George with a sour look on his face. "One would think you didn't like us anymore, keeping us out the loop like that."

"It wasn't that. I just didn't think about it. Also despite Harry being a prat, I did have a great time at your party." said Ginny.

"Oh we know. I looked over the party to me my new raven haired sister dancing very very close to that Malfoy git. Really Gin? A Malfoy?" said Fred.

"He isn't really that bad once you get to know him. Even him and Ron get along now."

Ron rolled his eyes.

"Ah haaaah you're smitten with the ferret are you Gin-Gin?" laughed George. "Well, as long as he isn't like Potter, he's okay in my book. And I cannot believe I'm saying that."

"Speaking of Potter, find a way to give him this candy." said Fred reaching in his pocket to pull out a box of what looked like that muggle candy that Hermione called M&Ms.

"These are called Shrinking Sillies. They shrink any body part of the prankster's choosing. We have chose a part that would be very valuable to Potter to shrink. And we enhanced them so instead of lasting an hour, it lasts an entire week." said Fred.

"He won't feel the effects till the day after he eats them so make sure he eats the whole bag by the next day for maximum results. We also rigged it so he will break out in horrible acne for that week as well." said George.

"Whatever you do do not eat those. Don't even try to taste them. If you have to physically touch one be sure to wash your hands. They are extremely potent." said Fred.

Ginny beamed at her brothers. She felt so very loved in that moment. "Thanks you guys. We will take pictures of your work...well the acne part at least."

"Oh anytime. Tell your friends. We will start selling these soon." said the twins.

When they got back to the castle they explained the whole thing to Blaise, Draco, and Hermione. Hermione was hesitant about it saying that it almost sounded a bit too harsh, but after some convincing (and a quick private snogging session with Ron) she came around. They decided to execute their plan the next morning.

Sunday morning, Ginny and Hermione went to brunch in hopes not to bring attention to themselves if all five came in at the same time. Harry was already there at the Slytherin table eating with Daphne. Moments later Blaise walked in and sat with them and after 15 minutes, had done the deed and had left the room. Ginny and Hermione hurried up and finished their meal and met up with Blaise down the hall on the way to Hermione and Draco's dorm.

"Oh it was too damn easy." bragged Blaise. "I didn't even have to say much. I had acted like it was that muggle candy and I said I didn't like it. Harry took the bag with no hesitation. Bonus points! He shared with Daphne before I left them. "

Ginny and Hermione's jaws dropped. They didn't even think of the possibility of Harry sharing the candy with anybody else.

"Oh shit! That's not good, not good at all!" shouted Ginny as the approached the dorm room's door.

"And why is that Red?"

"He shared them with bloody Daphne."

"Okay? Worst case scenario, she breaks out and her overused pussy shrinks. Probably not by much. You wouldn't believe how much she has-"

"No no no Blaise you don't get it." interrupted Hermione as they entered the dorm. "If he shared with Daphne he could very well share with someone else. A lot of innocent people could suffer."

Blaise smiled disappeared. "Oh fuck. I never even thought of that. Shit! What are we going to do?! It's too late to take back the candy now!"

Hermione and Ginny looked at each other. Both were in a panicked state and were entirely useless to the situation. Sensing that, Blaise went to Draco's room.

"Mate, you got any more floo powder? It's an emergency."

Draco went over to his fireplace and got out his jar of floo powder.

"What are you using it for?"

"Come on, see for yourself. Wait. What's wrong with you?" asked Blaise sensing that something was amiss.

"Nothing...I'll tell you later maybe." said Draco in a low voice.

Blaise nodded and the two of them went back to the common room where the girls were sitting on the couch.

"Okay Red what you need to do is contact your brothers. Tell them what's going on and see if they have a solution." said Blaise handing Ginny the jar of floo powder.

Hermione lit the fire. Ginny took a small handful of floo powder and threw it into the fire. She then stuck her head into the fire to see where her brothers were.

"Anyone care to tell me what's going on?" asked Draco.

"I gave the candy to Potter this morning. Not only did he eat some of it already, he also shared with Daphne, causing Ginny and Hermione to realize that Harry would share that shit with people. Half of Gryffindor could be royalty fucked by now." said Blaise.

Draco laughed "Sorry, sorry. I know I shouldn't be laughing, but if you think about it, it's pretty fucking funny."

Hermione gasped. "Funny? Funny?! How is any of this funny?!"

"Look at it this way. He will probably share it with Pansy and those other slags he fucked too. And what other guys do he hang with? Thomas? Longbottom? That guy who is always somewhere blowing shit up?"

"Oh no, poor Dean, Neville, and Seamus."said Hermione shaking her head.

A few minutes later Ginny stuck her head out of the fire. " Okay it's handled. The twins are able to manipulate whatever they make from wherever they are, so they charmed the candy so only Harry and apparently those who were deemed wrongdoers would feel the effects. So maybe only Daphne might get messed up by it. Let's just hope whoever else he shares it with is on the up and up." said Ginny.

"I'm still nervous for people. Things will be happening to them and they won't know why." said Hermione trying to calm herself.

Ginny looked over at Draco. He smiled at her but she could tell something wasn't right about him.

"Well, we just have to keep quiet and hope that not a lot of people took the candy from Harry. We'll just have to wait on tomorrow." said Ginny walking over to Draco and sitting on his lap.

Draco wrapped his arms around Ginny and buried his face in her back. She could feel that something was bothering him, but felt that this wasn't the time nor the place to talk about it. She would let him come to her.

Things between her and Draco hadn't really changed dramatically. They didn't snog like they did Valentine's Day, but they did seem more flirty, more affectionate towards each other. Ginny knew she wasn't ready to be in another relationship and Draco realized that and didn't pressure her. But they did find fun in being extra close to one another. And they still cuddled up and slept in Draco's bed.

The next morning Hermione, Ron, Draco, and Ginny went to breakfast early. They all say at the Gryffindor table and tried to act normal, but they all were too anxious.

A few minutes later Blaise came in with Luna and sat down with them. He passed them amusing glances as he reached for some bacon.

"You five look like you are all in on the same joke." said Luna in her airy voice. "Care to share? I do love a good laugh you know."

"Ohhhhh it's coming love." said Blaise giving Luna a kiss on the cheek." Just wait and see."

"Does it have anything to do with Professor Snape having spots all over his face?" asked Luna.

Ginny spit out her pumpkin juice. "WHO?"

Luna looked unphased by Ginny's reaction. "Oh yes. I seen the Professor on the way here. He looked an awful mess. Had these great big blackheads all over his forehead and cheeks. It was quite funny actually, but he didn't look amused."

Hermione's eyes widened. Draco, Blaise, and Ron tried hard to hold in their laughter, and Ginny hid her face as Professor Snape walked into the great hall looking as if he had been insulted by a hippogriff. His face covered in the worst acne any of them had ever seen.

"Holy shit..." whispered Ginny. "Snape doesn't like Harry at all. How did he-"

Before she could finish her sentence she seen both Pansy and Daphne walk in with their faces wrapped up so much that you could only see their eyes and lips. This time Draco laughed and buried his face into Ginny's robes to hide all his laughter.

Then Harry walked in and the group tried even more desperately not to laugh. His face looked as if it was made of acne. Some were so big you could see the pus ready to burst out of them. He also walked funny. As of something was missing.

Draco had to walk out of the great hall. Ron grabbed Hermione and buried his face in her back to hide his laughter and Blaise found himself way too amused to even laugh at all. He just shook his head and tried desperately to eat his food.

Ginny watched as Harry walked past her. He looked over at her and Ginny gave him the most Draco like smirk she could give him.

Mission accomplished.