George spent a miserable afternoon wandering around the grounds of the school before spotting Joey Tenors with his friends. Developing a sudden sense of defensiveness on behalf of his twin, he strode over to the laughing group and singled out Joey. The blonde boy detached himself from the group and warily followed the redhead away from them.

George turned and looked at him. Joey Tenors was staring at him with confusion written all over his face. Putting on what he hoped was a frightening demeanor, he said, " Playing innocent doesn't work, Tenors. What were you doing with Angelina?"

To his surprise, Joey smirked, "Ahh, you must be the famous Fred," he remarked mockingly.

George scowled rudely at him. Although the travesty wasn't directed to him, he still felt like hitting the strapping youth in his face for daring to speak that way about his twin.

Instead, he snapped, "I am not Fred."

Joey's smirk disappeared and was replaced with a contemplating frown. "Then you would be George. But why-?"

"You haven't answered my question."

"About Angel? What has she got to do with you?"

George rolled his eyes, "Just tell me."

Joey narrowed his eyes suspiciously, eyeing him with what George took as immense disdain. "Why would you care? Got a thing for her, Weasley?" Joey's patronizing tone almost sent the already annoyed redhead over the edge, "Does your brother know about your treachery? Or do you plan to just filch Angelina from right under his freckly nose?"

George clenched his fists tightly into a ball. Joey spotted the slight movement and sneered. "Out with it, Tenors. Don't think I'm falling for your bait."

Joey sighed and gave in. Secretly, he was sick of playing the devil. He wasn't even Fred, and really, he was the one Angelina had a grudge on. He lifted his eyebrows, "Nothing much. You can tell your twin that I'm not shagging her or anything."

George stuck his balled fists into his robes pockets to keep from throwing a punch at him. He turned around fiercely and left Joey looking after him in the same satisfied way Angelina had been earlier that afternoon.



When George returned to his dorm, he found Fred sitting on the bed and staring at the empty air in front of him. He sighed and crossed over to his glassy-eyed twin. "Hello, Fred," he said, waving his hands in front of his face.

Fred startled him when he spoke, still not moving or blinking, "George, what did Angelina mean when she said she saw me cuddling some other girl?"

George looked at him strangely, "You cuddled whom?"

Fred sighed, "That's just it. I have no idea." He suddenly broke his empty stare and fixed George with a long hard one. "Whom were you cuddling?" he asked accusingly.



George returned his stern look with an offended one, "Sheesh Fred, we might be identical, but I think Angelina can tell us apart. And sadly, I haven't been cuddling anybody so far. Not even Alicia."

Fred looked away. "Well, I haven't cuddled anyone either...unless she means the day I was comforting Sandy. But that wasn't cuddling! It was a simple act called hugging!"

"You hugged Maria? What happened?"

"Oh, her grandmother passed away."

"That must be it then. Girls have a way of exaggerating, like Alicia. I wasn't snogging Katie, it was merely kissing."

"My dear brother, you do NOT have an excuse for doing that."

George sighed again, "I suppose not. But back to you, was that what Angelina saw?"

"It must have been. But we really were hugging, nothing else! In fact I thought she was referring to that but after I thought about it, I didn't see how hugging could become cuddling! So, naturally, I thought that she mistook you for me! Apparently that isn't the case..."

George plopped down onto the bed beside his puzzled brother.

He shook his head sympathetically, patting his sulking brother on his back, "Girls, what can you do? They are territorial."



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"Boys, what can we do? They are territorial," Angelina said.

Alicia smiled at her friend. Joey had just came by and told them about his encounter with George.

Joey laughed, "Hey, I am a guy too!"

Angelina laughed as well. "Wait a minute...I just realized I didn't have to explain anything about you and me to Fred! He was rendered speechless when he found out I knew."

"Serves him right!" Joey and Alicia said at the same time.

Angelina smiled brightly at them and proceeded to hug her cousin, "Joey, you're the best! Now just make sure you dress up for the little trip to Hogsmeade and work on your acting skills."

Joey laughed at his cousin's determination, "Sure Pineapple Pie, you know I'd do anything for you."

Angelina dropped her arms immediately and glared at him. Alicia was giggling too much to speak, "What did you just call her?"

Joey smiled smugly, "It's a family name, right Pineapple Pie??" Angelina frowned and smacked his arm.

"Ouch! Well, I'd better leave then! Bye!"

Alicia looked at Angelina, waiting for an explanation.

Her friend just stood there glaring at the closed door. 'So much for keeping that a secret,' she thought angrily. Joey might be sweet enough to play along with her on this, but when it comes to keeping secrets, he might as well join Parvati and Lavender in the girls' dorms.

She noticed Alicia laughing and yanked a pillow from her bed. "Oh stuff it!" she huffed and threw it at her.

Alicia was still giggling. Oh, no one ever dared call the fiery Miss Johnson Pineapple Pie. No one.



A/N: I have gone completely nutters, Pineapple Pie? Lol... Thanks for reviewing! I would list you guys out but I want to get this uploaded right now! So...A million and gazillion thanks! You have no idea how much your reviews mean to me!!!!