Carrie looked across the long table in the library she was using with Draco. He was hunched over his charms homework and some old book. It was about three weeks after Halloween and still no one had any proof to say that Carrie and company were the one's who had done it. Draco looked up and saw Carrie looking at him.
"What? What is it?"
"Oh I was just wondering what you saw Halloween," Carrie said looking at Draco through half opened eyes. Draco rolled his eyes and went back to his homework. Carrie shrugged and began drawing little cats all over her History of Magic homework. She tossed down her quill and starred at the ceiling.
"Draco lets go do something."
"We are doing something…homework." Carrie glared at her friend and shook her head.
"You know you just sounded like Hermione right there."
"Well," Draco said tossing down his quill and leaning back into his chair. He crossed his arms over his chest and raised one eyebrow. "What do you propose we do?"
Carrie grinned and opened her mouth to reply when George came running in. He ran up to the table out of breath and looked over from Carrie to Draco and got a confused look on his face.
"I don't see how you two can be friends," George said painting. Carrie and Draco both shrugged. "Anyway, Carrie aren't you forgetting something?" She lean back in her chair and shook her head. "Qudditch Practice?"
"OH MY GOSH! I COMPLETELY FORGOT!" Carrie shouted jumping up out of her chair. George shook his head and Draco snickered. "I'll see you later Draco," Carrie said as she and George ran out of the library.
When Carrie and George arrived on the field the rest of the team was already flying around. Harry shouted down to them to hurry up and get ready.
"Sorry! I forgot!" Carrie shouted up to Harry. Harry just smiled and shook his head.
Just as Carrie and George were mounting up on their brooms the Slytherin Team walked onto the field. Draco was walking a few feet behind glancing around every once and a while.
"Uh oh, here comes some bad news," Carrie muttered to Fred who had joined his twin and friend. Harry flew down and landed in front of the other team.
"What exactly do you think you're doing here?" Harry asked looking into the tallest boys eyes. By now the entire team was standing behind Harry.
"We want the field," The older boy demanded.
"What? Are you insane!? We signed up for the field today!" Harry shouted angrily.
"Look why can't we share the field?" Carrie asked coming in between the two angry Quidditch captains. "We can have one half of the field and you all can have the other half. Won't that work?"
"No," The Slytherin Captain said scowling. "There's no way that we're sharing the field with the likes of you." That was the last straw for some of the Gryffindor team players. George tackled one of the snickering Slytherins while his twin made a dive for the team captain. Then in the next instant Fred was on the ground unconscious, George had the Slytherin in a head lock, the Slytherin Team Captain was in a full body bind and Carrie was standing there with her wand drawn.
"No body move," She said glaring at the other players on both teams who were inching towards the other team shooting murderous glances at each other. "Obviously you all are a lot more thick skulled then I thought. I want all the Slytherin Players on the other end of the field now." Carrie looked at both teams of whom which no one was moving. "Look either you move on your own free will or I'll make you move." The Slytherin players all looked at each other and didn't seem to be planning on moving anytime soon.
"Carrie, can't you just let us beat the snot out of them?" George asked. Everyone looked at the young American student.
"No, you can't look what happened to Fred, besides you feel like being either suspended or even expelled for fighting?" Carrie looked at all of the people standing on the field by her. "Slytherins, move to the other end or else."
"Or else what?" Draco asked. He hadn't really done anything yet but at the moment he didn't care who was on the other team he wasn't about to move and sallow his pride.
"This." Carrie pointed her wand at Draco and muttered something under her breath. A silver spark flew out of Carrie's wand and hit her target in the arm. Carrie flicked her wand upward and Draco's body followed. Everyone on the Qudditch Field watched with wide eyes as Carrie pointed her wand toward the other end of the field and muttered something else. Draco was then shot down the field toward the other end and was only stopped by the middle goal post.
"Anyone else feel like staying down here?" Carrie asked looking at all of the Slytherins, who began to scurry down toward the other end of the field. Carrie released the Captain of the team and watched him run down after his friends.
"I didn't know you could do that," George said to his friend. "Good job."
"Thanks," Carrie said beaming. She then knelt next to her fallen friend. "Don't you know he'd be the one stupid enough to get knocked out." Carrie said to her self under her breath.
"Do you want to take him down to the hospital wing Carrie?" Harry asked squatting next to Carrie.
"Sure, why not? Let's try and bring him around first." Carrie began to try and wake her friend up when her eyes wandered down the field to where the other team was flying around. "Ummm….I'll be right back." With that Carrie stood up and mounted her broom.
She flew down to the other end of the field and found Draco still sitting on the ground by the goal where he had crashed. He was rubbing his back when Carrie landed next to her other friend.
"You alright?" She asked worried. "I mean nothing's hurt to badly?"
"Nothing but my pride," Draco said frowning.
"Sorry about that, but…but you all wouldn't move," Carrie said defensibly as she helped Draco up onto his feet.
"Yeah, but you didn't have to throw me down the field," Draco pointed out. Carrie looked at him with her eyebrows raised. "Ok, so maybe you did but that doesn't mean I think its right."
"Well if you aren't in too much pain I need to go take Fred to the hospital wing." Draco grinned at Carrie.
"So you never told me, are you two going out or what?"
"Arg! Why do you care?" Carrie asked shouting. This rewarded her by getting glances for many of the Slytherin players. Draco shrugged in response.
"Well then do you like him like that at all?"
"I don't know, there you happy?" Carrie asked glaring at her friend.
"You don't know?" Draco repeated surprised. "How can you not know? Well I think you should figure it out sometime soon, otherwise you might miss something."
"I can't believe this! I'm getting advice on my love life from Draco Malfoy!" Carrie said laughing. But she knew that he was right; unless she did something soon she'd miss something she might never get a chance at again. "Well I gotta go take him in now so I'll see you later?"
"Yeah, sure, see you later then." Carrie then remounted her broom and began to fly past all of the Slytherins when one of them shouted after her. "What?" Carrie asked stopping in midair.
"Stay away from Draco, we don't want him to start acting like one of you," The boy said. Carrie rolled her eyes and began to turn away. "Hey wait! I'm not done talking to you yet!" The boy shouted.
"What is it then? 'Cause I have a ton of better things to do then hang around and listen to you try and tell me what to do. So if you could hurry this up I'd really appreciate it." The boy opened his mouth to say something but then closed it again. "No? Nothing to say now? Good, let's keep it that way from now on. I won't talk to you and you want ever bother me by even looking at me." Carrie rolled her eyes and steered her broom away from the Slytherins and flew off towards the other end of the field. She landed next to Fred who was now awake and standing but very out of things.
"I've only really seen him like this once before," George told Carrie as George staggered slightly under his twins weight. "He got knocked out somehow but didn't really remember anything that happened until he got some pain-killer, then he kind-a woke up."
"You still want to take him down to the hospital wing?" Harry asked.
"Nah, I don't mind," Carrie said as she lifted Fred's other arm and draped it over her shoulders and wrapped her arm around his waist.
"You sure you can hold him?" George inquired. "I mean he is taller than you and isn't exactly as light as a feather if you know what I mean."
"I'll be fine, and if he's too heavy…I'll do some spell or charm on him."
"Alright, if you insist," George slowly let go of his brother and steeped back. Carrie staggered under her friend's weight a little but then got control.
"Ok, we'll met you all back in the common later?" Carrie asked over her should as she and Fred made their way towards the hospital wing.
"Sure, see you then!" Harry shouted and then told everyone else to mount up and get ready to practice.
Carrie had to smile in spite of herself. Fred was in a dream like manor and began to talk to the suites of armor after they entered the castle. After Carrie had drug Fred away from a very deep conversation with one statue he began to click his tongue in a very annoying way, just like a little kid would. For the first five minutes of this Carrie found all of this quite funny, but after awhile it began to push her to the edge. Fred had finally gotten to the point where he could basically walk on his own but still needed help.
Carrie looked at Fred out of the corner of her eye and shook her head. How can this be Fred? I wonder if he will remember any of this later. Then an idea hit Carrie. She remembered what Draco had said about missing something with Fred if she didn't figure things out. Her idea was more of an idea that the old Carrie would have come up with, but it wasn't to incredibly horrible. She looked over her shoulders before shoving Fred into an empty classroom and shutting the door behind her after she followed her confused friend.
"What are we doing here? Where is here?" Fred asked simply looking around. Carrie sighed and pushed Fred into a sitting position on one of the desks.
"This is the…I donno, it's some classroom," Carrie answered looking around the room. "Fred, you know who I am right?" Carrie sat down next to her dazed friend on top of the desks.
"Yup, you are Carrie," Fred answered smiling. "And I'm Fred."
"Yes, yes you are," Carrie said biting back the laughter that threatened to surface. "So Fred, do you like me?" Fred had a puzzled look on his face when he answered.
"Yeah, you're my best bud…what's that?" Fred pointed to a book lying on a table-top.
"That's a book, but no I mean, do you like me more than a friend?"
"Like how more?" Fred asked puzzled. Carrie let out a sigh of frustration.
"Like do you," Carrie pointed to Fred. "like me," Carrie pointed to herself. "in a girlfriend boyfriend kind of way?"
"Yup, yup, do you like me like that?" Fred asked smiling. I think I like him better when he isn't acting like a seven year old. Carrie thought to herself. "Don't you?" Fred asked again when Carrie didn't answer.
"I don't know," Carrie answered getting up off the desks and standing in front of Fred.
"You don't know? But I knew."
"You're right," Carrie said smiling. "But I still don't know."
"When will you know?"
"Soon, very soon," Carrie said grinning. Carrie had decided to finally do something about her confusion for Fred, she kissed him. She had just intended it to be a sweet simple kiss. What she hadn't counted on was Fred actually responding to it. Just as Carrie was about to pull away Fred slipped his hand behind Carrie's head and deepened the kiss. Carrie wrapped her arms around Fred's neck and decided to stay that way when Fred suddenly stopped and pulled back.
"What did I do?" Fred asked his eyes wide.
"Ummmm…" Carrie said backing away. What was she supposed to say?
"The last thing I remember was the Slytherins on the Qudditch Field and then the next thing I know we're kissing in the charms classroom," Fred put his head into his hands. "You aren't mad are you?"
"Mad? Nope," Carrie sat down next to her confused friend.
"You're not?" Fred asked picking his head up out of his hands. Carrie grinned and her eyes sparkled green. She shook her head in response. "Well, why not?"
"Because," Carrie said leaning in whispering into Fred's ear. "I kissed you." Carrie leaned back still smiling as she watched her friend's eyes widen in shock and then his face crack into a smile.
"Do you mind telling me what exactly happened?" Fred asked smiling. Carrie related the whole story, give or take a few parts, from when he was first knocked to when she kissed him.
"So does you head still hurt?" Carrie asked hopping off the desk. Fred got off the desks also and the two walked out of the classroom.
"A little," Fred admitted rubbing the back of his head. "But not enough to go to the hospital wing." They walked in silence for a few minutes until Fred finally asked something that had being running through his mind since he found out that Carrie had kissed him and not the other way around. "So, why did you kiss me?"
"Well, I wanted to see if I liked you that way," Carrie explained as they started to climb a flight of stairs up to their common room. "See, at first I didn't really want anything to do with guys, but then we became friends and then I was confused about weather I liked you enough to say something. Then, oddly enough, Draco gave me some advice that really made sense." Fred looked over at his friend doubtfully.
"What did he say?" Fred inquired.
"Well, he said something along the lines of, 'If you don't do something about it soon you'll lose your chance.' So I did something about it."
"Draco said that?"
"Yup, he's not all that bad once you get to know him."
"So what are we now?" Fred asked Carrie stopping her outside of the Gryffindor common room. "Are we just friends or…"
"Well personally I hope we're something more than friends," Carrie answered, suddenly finding the ground very interesting.
"Good, me too," Fred said grinning. "But let's not tell the other's yet."
"Yeah, we'll let them wonder for awhile," Carrie said smiling. She took Fred's hand in hers and walked into the common room.
(yeah yeah, I know this chapter is well….probably the most 'romance' that this story is ever gonna see…there might be more…I'm not sure yet, but if you want me to go on I'd kind-a like for you to review…so…if you could r/r I'd be very happy. Alright, well in the next chapter some bigger things happen so keep you eyes open for the next chapter.)