Chapter 36: Verity

March 15th:

Hermione had received a note and was to appear in McGonagall's office at 8 O'clock that night. She had no idea what she would be doing for McGonagall but still feared the three hours of detention. She had so much homework to do and hated herself for ever telling Lavender and Parvarti about Fred's Daydream Charm.

At 7.50 she said goodbye to Harry and Ron with a sigh before slowly walking towards McGonagall's office on the fourth floor.

"Good evening, Ms Granger!" McGonagall said with a smile.

"Good evening, Professor," Hermione growled, not nearly as excited as her Transfiguration professor.

"I have an exciting task for you today, Ms Granger. If you will please step to the next room, you'll find it there. I will be attending a meeting at the Head Master's office and will be back to dismiss you later."

As Hermione opened the door to the room in which she would be serving her detention, she thought about how odd McGonagall was behaving; Hermione had never heard about a teacher leaving a student in detention alone. However, the thought didn't last that long, because as she looked up to see what would be awaiting her, she saw two familiar faces; "FRED! GEORGE!" she cried out as she slammed the door behind her. She pulled both of them into her embrace, "What are you doing here?

"Well, McGonagall told us you had detention..."

"...and we thought we'd pay you a visit"

"to cheer you up!" They said in unison with a grin.

"Does she know that you're here?"

"Well of course, Love! She invited us," and then they filled her in on what McGonagall had said and done: She had visited their shop in Diagon Alley in the beginning of February talking about 'young love' and how Hermione was to serve detention on March 15th. She had even told the twins that she had to attend a meeting and that she didn't have anything for Hermione to take care of whilst in detention, so she had indirectly asked them to pay Hermione a visit.

They talked for a long time and then subject finally fell upon Verity.

"How is she doing?"

Fred mumbled something while George growled.

"Sorry, I didn't quite catch that..."

"She's dating the douche from New Years," George said quietly.

"I'm so sorry to hear that. Have you told her that you fancy her?"

"NO! As if that would make it any better!"

"Come on George - you're one of the most sweet and intelligent people I know - and you're handsome as hell!"

"Aw, thanks love!" Fred said and beamed at her.

"Isn't there anything you can say or do that'll make her change her mind?"

"I don't think so. I've been trying to get a date with her for the last six months but she just keeps shooting me down. I'm sick and tired of trying to win her over."

"So instead, you just mope around and hope she'll fall for your irritated mood?" Fred laughed.

"Shut up. I don't recall you being any better about Hermione."

"At least I didn't give up. I won her over and look how happy she is!" Fred winked at her.

"You didn't win her over! As I recall…"

"You do seem to recall a lot of stuff today, Georgie," Fred cut in and sniggered.

"Shut up and let me finish – As I recall you had a lot of help from no other than your, and I quote; handsome as hell twin brother! You should be helping me now as well! But no, no, instead you just go to bed early and jerk off to a mental picture of Hermione."

"HEY!" Hermione said, "You don't do that, do you?"

"In my defence; you do look smashing in that picture. You're wearing this little red bikini and you have…"

"Can we please focus on George again?" Hermione said, her face turning crimson, "we should be helping him."

Fred and George sniggered which made Hermione sure that Fred had already told George all about his fantasy of Hermione in a little red bikini.

"I'll help you, George. When I'm staying at your place during Easter I'll do anything in my power to succeed as a matchmaker!"

March 29th:

"So, Fred and George tell me that you've found a nice guy!"

Hermione was small talking with Verity in the storeroom of WWW's. It was Easter and Hermione had for days now elegantly tried to avoid the one issue she really wanted to talk to Verity about. George had asked her about it every night, but she had waited for the right moment that had now arrived: The shop was packed with costumers and the boys wouldn't interrupt the two girls since they were busy selling their products.

"I highly doubt they told you that Thomas is nice," Verity huffed, "every time he picks me up after work they both just glare at him - especially Fred. It's horrible!"

"That does sound kind of weird," Hermione lied, "are you sure they don't know him from somewhere?"

"Positive. He just moved here from France so he hadn't even heard of them before he entered their shop for the first time."

"So, how is he?"

"He's okay."

"Okay? You don't seem that interested in him?"

"Don't get me wrong; he's lovely. It's just that he's really boring! I have so much more fun at work than when I'm with him and sometimes I really hope the shop's so busy so I have to cancel with Thomas!"

"How about George?"

"What about him?"

"Well, for a few months it seemed as if the two of you really hit it off and had a good time. Fred and I really thought you were going to end up together at some point."

"He ruined that himself."

"George?"

"Yes, he fucked some stupid cow named Alicia."

"Alicia? Verity, are you sure that's what happened?"

"Yes. I overheard a girl at the shop talking about how good he is in bed and that she should've stayed with him because he's so rich now. Stupid cow..."

"Alicia was George's sweetheart at Hogwarts. He resents her so I really doubt that he shagged her recently."

"Really?"

"Why don't you just ask him?"

Fred and Hermione had an extendable ear each and they could hear everything going on in the living room. They had pretended to go to bed early, but they just really wanted George and Verity to do something about their feelings for each other. After a lot(!) of waiting the subject finally fell on Thomas, Verity's new boyfriend.

"So, you and Thomas seem to hit it off"

"I dumped him," Verity quickly said, "He was not really my type. He was nice but I never laughed when I was with him."

"You like guys who can make you laugh, huh?" George said.

Verity took a deep breath before saying: "George, I have to be honest with you. The reason why I stopped sleeping over and I started dating Thomas was because a girl named Alicia told me that you shagged her."

George was getting angry and was just about to yell a lot of nasty words about Alicia, but Verity cut in, "Hermione already told me that you didn't and that she's your ex and, obviously, a huge cow."

"So, how come you bothered about Alicia?"

They were quiet for a few seconds but then Hermione could hear kissing!

"Fred, they're kissing. Oh my God, they are kissing! Way to go, George!"

They listened to them kiss for a couple of minutes before George started to moan Verity's name.

"OH! I think we should put it down now," Hermione laughed.

But Fred had already put his extendable ear down. From his position behind Hermione, who was on all four, he had a nice view up her skirt of her panty-covered pussy.