Molly

Gwen and I were sitting in the compartment. It was strange with it just being the two of us. The boys were off doing something, I was sure of that much, but it was clear that they didn't want us involved.

Well at least I had some time to talk to Gwen about what I was thinking over the holidays. It would all be fun of course. We could never do anything intentionally nasty to one another. Even though we have only known one another such a short time.

"Hey Gwen, over the break I was thinking." I said pausing after saying that.

When she didn't say anything, just stared at me strangely, I realised I wasn't talking to someone from my family. No one was going to quip, "well that's dangerous" as it was clearly something only my family did on a regular basis.

"I was thinking that maybe we could come up with some friendship rules." I said recomposing myself. "Just as a kind of joke in a way. But it could be nice to help strengthen our friendship."

"Sure, could be fun." Gwen responded smiling softly.

I began to rummage around in the small bag I'd brought. In there I knew I had the muggle pen my mum had given me along with some parchment.

"Leave the title blank for now." Gwen told me. "Maybe while we're doing this we'll come up with a great title that we can use."

"Rule one, always check one another's appearances to make sure we both look good." I explained to Gwen.

"How about we go with don't let her look like a hot mess." Gwen suggested. "Same meaning, only less words and I think it sounds a bit cooler."

I just stared at her. Was she going to do this for all my ideas? I quickly began writing down what she had said.

"Always support her choices." Gwen said. "But then again, there should always be one hundred percent honesty."

The way she was coming up with these was as though she expected it to be published or something.

"Gwen, why are saying them like this?" I asked her after writing down the first three she had just said.

"Like what?" She asked me.

I showed her the parchment. She read through them.

1. Don't let her look like a hot mess

2. Always support her choices

3. One hundred percent honesty

"I suppose I'm thinking of it like a mantra sort of way." She admitted. "Something that you can repeat in your head when thinking about one another."

I just stared at her. How was she like this? There was no way was someone as young as we were could be as wise as this. Except, it seemed like she was.

"Obviously one very important one is that secrets are secret." She continued.

I just looked at her before continuing to write what she had said. I was struggling to work out where this all came from. I was the one who had suggest we write a list of rules and yet she seemed to have them all planned out.

"Of course we'll only share good photos of one another." I told her.

She smiled. It seemed like that was one she hadn't thought of. But one she supported either way. I continued writing.

"We must share all gossip." Gwen told me not longer acting wise beyond her years.

"And always respect who the other is crushing on." I added.

"Respect her crush." She rephrased.

"I like it so much better when you rephrase it." I admitted. "Why do you have to be like this?"

"Like what?" She asked again.

I just smiled at her writing down what we had agreed on so far.

1. Don't let her look like a hot mess

2. Always support her choices

3. One hundred percent honesty

4. Secrets are secret

5. Only share good photos

6. Share all gossip

7. Respect her crush

I smiled down at the list once I'd finished writing before handing it to Gwen. She looked over the list before handing it back to me.

"We can finish it in the dorm tonight." She told me. "I think we should have nine rules."

"Why nine?" I asked not quite sure where that came from.

"Well there's four letters in Gwen and five letters in Molly, therefore, nine rules." She explained. "That is, unless you want to go with Gwendolen, but that means there will need to be fourteen rules using the same method."

"No, I'd rather go with nine." I admitted.

I wasn't sure what we were going to do for the final two let alone another five after that. Realising how close we were getting to school we got up and quickly got changed before joining the boys in their carriage up to the castle.

We sat on my bed in our dorm. Together Gwen and I had placed as many spells as we knew around the bed in order to prevent our dorm mates Kendall Wood and Juliet Clarke from listening in on our conversation. From the first term alone we had learnt that both of those girls were incredibly nosey and wanted nothing more than to find out our business.

"So, what else do you want to add to the girl code." Gwen asked to me.

"The girl code?" I asked her not sure where she came up with that name.

"Yeah, I figured that could work as a name for it." She said sheepishly. "I mean we could be in a situation and just call girl code on one another. To get them to share something. I don't know. It was just an idea. Because it's just us, not any of the guys."

I smiled at her pulling out the parchment from where I'd put it away. I quickly wrote the title 'Gwen and Molly's Girl Code' on the top of the parchment, above the first rule.

"Now, we need rules eight and nine." She said as I handed her the parchment so she could go through the list again.

"Well I don't really want you dating any of my cousins." I told her. "Just in case there's a messy break up and you hate them. I want you to be able to come to our family gatherings after we've finished Hogwarts. I know they'll all love you."

"So you want the rule to be don't date any of the Weasley and Potter group?" She asked clearly not understanding the rule.

"Well, yeah." I told her.

"What if we wrote something about not dating any relatives?" Gwen suggested. "Because I don't overly want you dating my little brother or my cousin when they come to Hogwarts."

I nodded in response, liking what she was thinking. She did have a fair point. I began to write down the rule.

"Wait, that means there's only one guy in our year and house that I can date." She said realising what I'd just done.

"Well I'm in the same situation." I admitted.

"Poor Parker." Gwen laughed.

She shoved me playfully. The two of us began laughing. It was strange to think about us dating the guys in our year in the future. It seemed so far off.

"I feel like we need something about exs." I told her. "For the future."

"Hate them all." She said bluntly.

I just stared at her. "Don't you think that maybe that's just a little bit extreme? What if we were friends with them before?"

"Hate all her exs, if she wants you to." Gwen changed it too. "Does that sound better?"

"Much." I admitted with a laugh.

I quickly jotted down the last rule onto the parchment.

"What do you think?" I said handing her the finished list.

Gwen and Molly's Girl Code

1. Don't let her look like a hot mess

2. Always support her choices

3. One hundred percent honesty

4. Secrets are secret

5. Only share good photos

6. Share all gossip

7. Respect her crush

8. Don't date her relatives

9. Hate all her exs, if she wants you to

"Looks perfect." She said with a smile.

She placed the parchment down on the bed and hugged me. We had just confirmed our friendship. So long as we stuck to these rules I could tell we were going to be friends forever.

For the next year things were rather calm. The only problem we ever had as a group was rather minor however on going. James appeared to be becoming more infatuated with Gwen by the day.

Because of this meals were always an ordeal. James was always trying to sit with Gwen while Fred, Louis and Parker tried to keep him away from her. Gwen and I meanwhile were stuck watching the boys, half in fear, half in amusement.

While Gwen didn't want James and his antics to succeed, I always found it amusing when James did manage to sit down beside her as he would never actually talk to her. The only thing James would ever do was occasionally bump hands with her then stare pleadingly at Fred, Louis and Parker who would shake their heads at him.

Although one breakfast, when he succeeded at sitting next to Gwen he decided he didn't care what his friends would say, he decided to just speak to her.

"Gwendolen Grace Smythe, will you do me the honour of accompanying me on a walk around the black lake for our first date?" He proposed in a ridiculous fashion.

"James, I think you're about nine months too early." Louis said to him.

Gwen and I both looked over at him. Neither of us had any idea what he was referring to. It was probably one of the boys stupid inside jokes.

"Wouldn't want us to leave you all alone now, would you?" Parker asked him.

James just pouted at the other guys who decided they didn't really care too much about what James did.

"So, what do you say Doll?" James asked turning back to Gwen.

"Sorry Potter, but I can't, Girl Code." She told him looking him dead in the eye before turning back to her breakfast.

"What's Girl Code?" James asked her not truly understanding what Gwen meant.

Gwen just ignored him as she continued eating her breakfast.

Oh no she didn't. She is not going to use Girl Code as a reason to reject James. Not when I know there are over a hundred other reasons for her wanting to reject him. I wanted to hear all her reasons. Besides, if she's not going to be kind enough to explain Girl Code to him she shouldn't get to use it to her advantage.

"What if I changed Girl Code?" I whispered in her ear.

I watched as she stopped chewing and her fork clattered to table. She turned and looked me straight in the eye as she resumed her chewing. She narrowed her eyes into a glare as they locked onto mine.

When she had finally swallowed her food she said, "You wouldn't dare."

I flashed her a smile knowing that even the proposal of changing Girl Code a year after we'd written it was something she would kill me for.

"No, I wouldn't change it." I said causing Gwen to let out a sigh of relief and pick up her fork again. "No, just make an exception."

"An exception." She yelled dropping her fork again before she had even had the chance to continue eating. "Molly Audrey Weasley you will not make James Potter the one exception in the entirety of Girl Code."

She was so angry and I was loving every minute of it. I knew a smirk was forming on my face. This was even more fun than I thought it would be.

"What's Girl Code?" James asked again clearly confused why Girl Code seemed to have so much to do with him.

"No, don't tell Potter about Girl Code." Gwen whined.

It was clear by now that Gwen was not happy with me. I knew she wasn't going to be able to be mad at me for too long so I might as well just do what I want.

"It's a set of rules for our friendship." I told the boys.

They all really wanted to know. James was the only one brave enough to ask about it though.

"So why can't Gwen go out with James then?" Fred asked.

Fred was a tricky one. Sometimes he seemed to want James to succeed in his attempts to win Gwen over. Other times he was set on helping Louis and I keep James away from Gwen. I could never figure out what he actually wanted.

"Rule number eight." Gwen said having given up at this point.

"Don't date her relatives." I recited.

The boys just stared at us as if it was the most ridiculous thing we could have said.

"Why would anyone come up with anything like that?" Louis asked.

"Because rule number nine." Gwen told them.

The boys just stared at her. She really needed to stop referring to them by numbers and just tell them what the rule was.

"Hate all her exs, if she wants you to." I explained.

"That has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Fred said as he began laughing.

Louis, James and Parker all joined his laughter shortly after. Clearly boys don't understand how female friendships work. Clearly they don't see that the way we maintain our friendships were very different to whatever stupid stuff they do.

"I'm making James the exception." I whispered, turning to Gwen.

"You will do no such thing." Gwen whispered back.

"But I want to see all your other reasons for rejecting him." I explained.

"Doesn't mean you need to give him hope that maybe I might date him." She responded.

"He thinks you two are his grandparents reincarnated." I responded. "His grandfather spent the whole of his time at Hogwarts trying to get his grandmother to go out with her until she finally accepted in seventh year."

"That doesn't mean the same thing is going to happen with us." She said.

"What are you two whispering about?" James whispered sticking his head in between ours.

Both of us screamed as we jumped back from him. We didn't realise he was going to get that close to us. Gwen was glaring at James. I was making James the exception to Girl Code regardless of whether or not Gwen agreed.

"My aunt and uncle on my mum's side of the family bought me one of those bound notebooks for Christmas." I explained to the others. "I think I've just found the perfect use for it."

All five of my friends all stared at me.

"I'm going to keep a list of all the reasons Gwen rejects James." I told them. "It will be funny for us all to look back on when they inevitably prove James right and fall in love and get married."

"Molly I'm going to kill you." Gwen said getting up from her seat and grabbing her bag.

I got up as quickly as I could and ran. I could hear Gwen chasing after me. I ran towards the Gryffindor tower in hopes of getting into the dorm and barring the door so I had enough time to add the exception to the parchment contain the Girl Code list.

As I continued running I heard Gwen start screaming. I looked over my shoulder to see James holding her back. He smiled at me and I continued running. It wouldn't take Gwen too long to break out of his grasp so I had to get to the common room as quickly as possible.

When I reached the portrait I said the password as best I could as I was out of breath from running. The portrait swung open and I ran through the common room to the dorm. When I got in I levitated my trunk in front of the door in hopes that it would keep Gwen out if she had gotten out of James' hold.

I grabbed the parchment that had the Girl Code on it and my pen. I quickly wrote 'James Sirius Potter is the exception' at the bottom of the list.

With the spells that we had previously put on the parchment there was no way that was being removed. James was now the sole exception to our Girl Code. There goes her reason for not wanting to date him.