Mina hugged her pillow as she sat by Ginny and Hermione on the ground giggling.

She had arrived before dinner and had helped out Mrs. Weasley, who was an absolutely lovely woman, and had promptly been pulled off into Ginny's room despite most of her other friends sleeping downstairs. Although, given the amount of fun she was having, she'd take this any day over Lee Jordan talking about the proper way to care for a broomstick or Angelina on how many times she brushed her hair in the morning. She loved her friends dearly, but there was only so much she could take of them.

Ginny said something which brought out another round of giggling from the two of them, which they tried and failed to stifle when they heard a knock on the door.

"Come in," Ginny said through giggles, nearly sending Mina and Hermione into another fit.

Fred opened the door hesitantly, looking almost bashful to intruding.

"What do you want?"

"Can I hang out in here with you guys?"

"Why? What did you do?"

"Nothing. It's just, they can all be a bit..." he took a breath before continuing. "They can all be a bit much and it's starting to get late. I'd like to be able to sleep and not worry about anyone drawing on my face through the night."

Ginny looked to Hermione and Mina seeing how they felt on the issue, and after a moment she gave a shrug.

"Fine. Just don't mess with anything. Oh! And go grab your own pillow, I don't want you using any of mine."

Fred rolled his eyes, but after a moment he returned in his pajamas with a pillow. He walked over to Mina and took a seat next to her, and suddenly she felt self conscious over her over sized shirt and sweatpants. She had no makeup on and had her hair in a sloppy bun, which she somehow managed to keep her hands away from fixing, and was currently snuggled up in a Disney blanket. She was far from the definition of beauty. She sat up a little in hopes that it would help, and if Hermione. and Ginny noticed they sure didn't say anything. (Although, Mina noted, Ginny was giving her an odd look and she was beginning to wonder whether or not she had grown a second head.)

"Alright," she started slowly, "Now that we've got a boy here we've got to throw out the previous conversation entirely."

"Why? You don't have to do that, just pretend I'm one of the girls I don't care."

Mina put on a fake look of reluctance before she spoke.

"Oh no, you don't want to hear about this. Ginny was just professing her love for Harry. And Hermione for Ron," she said, a joking ton to her voice that said she wasn't serious.

"What about you?"

"What about me?"

"Who were you professing your love for?" he said with a wiggle of his eyebrows. She gave him a shove before she answered him.

"I was about to profess my love for," she stared up him and sat up straight, "the house elves of Hogwarts, for making some truly delicious food."

"That sounds like a cop out to me. Does that sound like a cop out to you?" He said, gesturing to Hermione and Ginny. Hermione let out an accusatory 'mhm' while Ginny stumbled through her words.

"What? Of course not, I'll have you know I love every one of the house elves from Hogwarts that's a perfectly valid answer."

"Ginny I didn't know you cared so much. Well if that's really the case, then let me tell you about SPEW..." the next few minutes were spent going back and forth with Hermione and Ginny about the benefits of free house elves and whether or not they liked working. Hermione looked on the winning end of the argument when Fred cut her off.

"You're both forgetting the point here. Mina gave a lame answer, she needs to answer truly if you confessed to your obsession with Harry."

Ginny quickly brightened, her face matching her hair.

"I do not have an obsession with him, Mina was just joking around she shouldn't have to say anything."

Mina felt touched Ginny was trying to save her from answering, although she didn't know why - maybe to avoid saying she actually did like Harry, but she knew Fred was determined and he was going to have to get an answer whether it was right or not.

"Ginny it's fine really." She pulled a face at her next words, "The truth is I've got a huge thing for Percy. Just the way he's so against fun really does it for me," she said, her voice dripping in sarcasm.

Fred let out a fake gasp.

"No, not my own brother! You couldn't have picked one of the more attractive ones?" This caused Mina to snort.

"Like who?"

He put a finger to his chin, the picture perfect image of being deep in thought.

"George."

"George?"

"George."

She gave him a lame look.

"You guys are identical twins."

"You know what, I never thought about it before, you're right!" He gave Ginny a crazed look, "Do you think mum knows we're identical twins?"

It was Ginny's turn to look at him lamely.

"You guys' are being weird, I'm going to bed," she said as she threw her covers over herself, although they didn't know that it was a way for her to get out of the conversation with her blowing Mina's secret.

Hermione threw a glance at a watch and Mina pretended to ignore the quick look she had given the two of them in between it.

"It's getting pretty late, I think I'll go to bed too. Feel free to stay up, just maybe whisper so we can get some sleep."

Mina said goodnight to them, and then her and Fred relocated to the corner on Ginny's room in hopes that they wouldn't wake the two suddenly very sleepy girls.

"Did I thank you, by the way," he whispered.

"For what?"

"For this," he pulled Mina's necklace out from under his shirt, and she felt her heart flutter a little at the fact that he was still wearing it. "I think it may have saved me from failing all of my OWL's. You can have it back now if you want."

Mina shook her head.

"I told you, it's been nothing but bad luck for me. It's all yours."

He tucked it back into his shirt, mumbling something about 'one man's trash'. She turned to look out the window, and hid a small smile as she saw the moonlight falling on the two of them, now that she knew how she felt about looking out at the sky.

"Now, if you can find a way to bottle the feeling the night sky gives me, I won't turn you down on that."

He put his head on her shoulder in order to see the window.

"I would if I could."

She turned and realized how close they were, before he suddenly pulled away and leaned against the wall.

"We should probably go to sleep soon too."

"Yeah."

Yet they stayed up and talked about anything and everything for a good while later, until eventually Fred felt a weight on his shoulder, and found Mina asleep.