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I loved sleepovers at Freddie's house. Especially when Aunt Rachael wasn't home and it was just me, Freddie, and Uncle George. Those were probably the best memories of my childhood, no lie.
"Albus, Ginny! Come on in!" Uncle George greeted us as Mum and I walked in the front door.
"Okay, George, I'm laying down some guidelines even though I do this every time and you NEVER follow them," Mum immediately started talking as we walked into the kitchen. "Try to get them into bed at a reasonable hour." Uncle George rolled his eyes as they sat at the table. "Don't give him tons of sugar at midnight. And you certainly can't give them ideas for how to get in trouble once they get back to school."
Freddie ran down the stairs and joined us in the kitchen. "Oh, that never, ever happens, Aunt Ginny!"
"Yeah, Aunt Hermione was the one who taught you how to break into Filch's desk in his office," Mum replied while rolling her eyes. "Don't think I bought that story for a second, Frederick Weasley."
"It's the truth, Aunt Ginny!" Freddie exclaimed. "You just don't know how much of a troublemaker Aunt Hermione really is…She's got a wild side that you she only shows me." Freddie and I sat down at the kitchen table with them. "And Dad is always on his best behavior when Al is over. Trust me, Aunt Ginny, you should see him when it's just us two."
"You know what? I don't even want to have an inkling of what that's like."
Uncle George laughed. "I'm a great father if you must know, Ginerva." Aunt Ginny glared at him. "I am your big brother and I will call you Ginerva if I wish."
"When you call me Ginerva, you know I'm not responsible for my actions, right?" Uncle George smirked for knowing he got under her skin, even if it was just a little. "And I never denied you were a good father, I just worry about my son's behavior once he comes home. I don't want him telling me his goal in life is to work at the shop with Freddie."
"And that would be so horrible?" Uncle George questioned with an indignant tone in his voice.
"That's a great summer job, but I just do not think we need another prankster in the family. You, James, and Freddie are more than enough."
"Let's take your stuff upstairs," Freddie suggested. I nodded my head and we headed up the stairs.
There were three bedrooms in the house and even though there was a spare room I could sleep in, I always slept on the floor in Freddie's room. He naturally joined me there and we stayed up talking all night.
We dropped my bag of clothes and sleeping bag on the floor then headed downstairs again.
"Remember when we were little and you put a spell on Ron's teddy bear and turned it into a spider?" Uncle George laughed loudly at the memory. "That's the kind of trauma I am afraid of! I don't want you permanently scarring my son. It's bad enough you convinced the other one that his goal in life should be to get as many detentions as possible."
Uncle George sighed. "Okay, the only time I ever came close to traumatizing any of the kids was when I put a spell on Rose's owl, Zita, to tell her that she was going to fail all her tests. That's it though! I swear. And you have to admit that that was hilarious."
Freddie busted out laughing. "That was funny, Aunt Ginny."
Mum stared down both of them. "You are a cruel man, George. Rose was in hysterics after that owl started talking to her. She totally went over the deep end. Poor girl, I worry about her."
"She got over it!" Uncle George barked.
"After crying to Ron! Then of course Ron figured out that you were over the house earlier that day and led the trail back to you. What is with you torturing Ron AND his children? I'm surprised you have not attacked poor Hugo yet." Mum put her hand over her mouth, realizing she just gave Uncle George a bad idea. "Forget I just said that. Please, just forget that. I don't think he could handle one of your pranks."
"Oh, no, you have a point, Ginerva. I'll remember that."
Freddie impatiently tapped his fingers on the table. "Are you going to leave anytime soon, Aunt Ginny? We kind of have big plans."
"…That just makes me never want to leave."
I shook my head. "Oh, Mum, don't worry about us! Go home and spend time with Lily and Dad! You're just wasting precious bonding time with them to bother us."
My mum bit her bottom lip and nodded her head. "I guess I should be going." She got up from her chair and started walking towards the door with us following her. She turned around and looked at us with an intimidating stare. "Nothing too crazy, all right?" We all nodded our heads and she laughed. "You're lying to me and I know it. Well have fun." She kissed me on the cheek. "Bye, Albie." With that she apparated home.
"I thought she'd never leave," Uncle George said as he closed the front door. "Freddie, go get the cake in the pantry. Albus, sit down in the living room, it's story time!" Freddie grabbed the cake and we all met in the living room.
Uncle George lived in a town next to Diagon Alley. He liked where he lived because he could just walk to work and Freddie could visit him anytime he wanted to.
"So, Albus, this year is your fifteenth birthday. I know last year for James' birthday, he got the Invisibility Cloak. You, I am sure, get the Marauder's Map," Uncle George stated, sounding happy at the news.
Freddie nodded his head enthusiastically. "James told me the Invisibility Cloak has helped him loads with pranking!" He turned to his father. "Which do you think is better to have: the Marauder's Map or the Invisibility Cloak?"
Uncle George sat back in his chair, contemplating the question deeply. It was a really hard choice. Both were very useful items to own.
"The Invisibility Cloak would help you get useful things done. but the Marauder's Map would be better for pranking. You'll always know where Filch is, Al…" Uncle George had a lazy smile on his face. "Good times."
"That'll be brilliant!" Freddie exclaimed after swallowing the ice cream that was in his mouth. "We'll know where everyone is, all the time. You'll let me borrow by myself every once in a while, won't you, Al?"
I nodded my head. Of course I would. Freddie was not only family, he was one of the closest friends I had.
I reminded him of that fact and then added, "Your dad was the one who got it from Filch's office in the first place! The map is as much yours as it is mine."
Uncle George looked at me with appreciation in his eyes. I guess he was glad that I had given him credit for getting the map and that I would let Freddie use it anytime he wanted to.
"Freddie, with the map you might destroy my record of pranking at Hogwarts," Uncle George stated. "Already you've dyed Filch's cat's tail pink, got that teacher Davidsen to drink from the Nose-Biting Teacup, tricked Professor Indus into admitting her true feelings for Neville, and so much more. I'm proud of you, son."
"Thanks, Dad," Freddie replied with sentiment in his voice. It was an emotional moment for them.
Uncle George smiled at him in return then changed the subject. "Any girls in your lives boys? How's Baina doing, Al?"
I shrugged. Baina and I hadn't really talked all summer. The thought that she might break up with me had crossed my mind many times. I really had to write her a letter seeing if we could meet up…
"Al and Baina aren't talking as much and well…a ton of girls fancy me and I don't know why," Freddie replied with a shrug. "I think it's just because I'm funny. It's weird because girls like me more than Sam and Sam's a whole lot better-looking than I am. And girls are just getting sick of Ray's attitude. All of us are sick or Ray's attitude."
"Girls don't fancy boys just for their looks. Charm and wit have a lot to do with it. Trust me, that's the only reason that Fred or I got any dates during our Hogwarts years," Uncle George informed us.
For the rest of the evening we talked about everything. From girls, to school, to friends, to new inventions Uncle George was making for the shop. We stayed up talking until eight o'clock in the morning. That was bedtime at Freddie's house when his mum just happened to be visiting her own mother.
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Finally, I got in touch with Baina and she came over my house to hang out. Mum and Lily absolutely loved her. They thought she was the most charming girl in the world. Dad never got the chance to meet her though, he was at work. He and a few other Aurors were working on a new case about the group of terrorists.
We sat outside under a tree in the shade. There was a little bit of sunlight that was bouncing off her dark hair and she looked beautiful. I didn't want to break up with her and hoped she was thinking the same about me. She was definitely thinking about something as she picked grass out of the ground. Baina couldn't even look me in the eye.
"Remember Ray's ex-girlfriend, Kainda?" She was trying to make small talk, to avoid what was really on her mind. "I saw her at Diagon Alley the other day. She was all over this really ugly guy." Baina looked up at me and laughed. "Guess she finally got over Ray, huh?"
I laughed and smiled back. We knew that Kainda used to be OBSESSED with Ray. I was glad she was moving on.
"Really, that's interesting," I replied. Wow, that sounded even lamer out loud than it did in my head.
I wanted Baina to just say what was on her mind. She was leaving in an hour and once she left I was going over Aldus' house for a Legilimency lesson. She needed to speed up the process of telling me what was wrong. Aldus was always pissed if I was a little late for a lesson. He would complain that I didn't deserve to learn such a great art.
"Baina…" My voice trailed off. "What's going on with us? Did I do something wrong?"
My girlfriend shook her head furiously. "Of course you didn't, Albus! Did I do something wrong? We keep getting more and more distant, but I don't want that. I thought you did… I thought you wanted to break up with me, to be honest."
So both of us were ignoring each other basically because we were afraid the other was going to break up with us. How stupid.
"Really, I thought you wanted to break up with me!" I exclaimed. She shook her head again.
Our eyes locked together and I kissed her. This quickly turned into a passionate snogging session. She fell back on the ground and I was on top of her. Merlin, it always felt so good to be kissing her. My hands ran up and down her arm. Finally we broke away for much needed air.
"Maybe we should ignore each other more often," I teased. "I enjoy our making up snogs a lot."
"Well, I don't enjoy the ignoring part, so how about we just snog more?" Baina suggested while raising her eyebrow suggestively. I always liked the way she thought. Before we started snogging again, Lily interrupted us by running outside frantically. Leave it to your little sister to destroy a romantic moment with your girlfriend…
"Albus! Baina!" She ran up to us, breathing heavily. "Since you're leaving soon," she looked at Baina, "do you two want to play Exploding Snap with me?"
"Not now, Lily," I growled. "Can you leave us alone, please?"
She pouted her lip. "Fine." Then she ran back to the house. Baina looked at me, anger flashing in her eyes.
"What?" I asked.
Baina frowned. "Did you have to be so mean about it? I mean, maybe I did want to play a game of Exploding Snap with her!"
"Would you have seriously wanted to play with her or would you have done it just to be nice?"
She sighed. "More to be nice but still! You should be nice to your little sister." I looked her in the eyes then suddenly I kissed her. She pushed me off. "What are you doing?"
"Trying to keep us from having another fight," I answered then tried kissing her again. She denied me.
"We can't just kiss away our problems. We actually have to talk about them. And I think the way you just treated your sister is a problem. Are you mean to people like that while I'm not around? I need to know stuff like this, Al."
"Of course I'm not!" I protested. She glared at me. "Baina, that's my sister. I have every right to be rude to her. That's how siblings are. You're an only child, so you don't understand. If I gave Lily all the attention she wanted, I would have absolutely no life! I have to put my foot down sometimes."
Eventually we stopped fighting, Baina went home, and I went to my Legilimency lesson with Aldus. During the summer I went over Aldus' house every single day and by the end of the summer, I could officially read minds. Not very well, mind you, but I could still do it.
