DISCLAIMER: I only own Cecily and the plot. Everything else belongs to the genius JK Rowling

CHAPTER 6 - GETTING ACQUAINTED

The next morning Cecily walked past George's sleeping form and stopped to look at him. He looked angelic as he slept she thought. She shook her head and said to herself, I'm still not marrying him though.

She took a shower and dressed in the bathroom since her bedroom had no door on it. When she stepped out of the bathroom George was still sleeping. She figured she might as well wake him so they could get started on their day. She sat on the edge of the bed and put a hand on his shoulder to shake it. She said softly, "George, it's time to get up." George mumbled something but she didn't hear what it was. She shook his shoulder again. "George.George" He scrunched his face up, but didn't open his eyes and said, "Mum I don't want to get up yet it's too early." Cecily smiled and said, "Well maybe your Mum wouldn't make you get up but I am. Get up George!" George sat straight up and said, "Where am I?" Cecily just laughed and said, "Get in the shower and get changed. We've got things to do today."

"Ok Mum" he said looking at her.

"You're not a morning person are you George?" she said as she stood.

"Gee, how'd you figure that one out?" He was rubbing his eyes and stretching his arms. He pulled the covers off and swung his legs over the side of the bed. He looked up at Cecily and noticed she was starting to turn bright red. "What's your problem?" he groaned.

She was stuttering. "Um.uh." she pointed at him and continued stuttering, "Uh George.I think.ummm.."

He was frustrated enough as it is and snapped, "Just say it already!"

"I can almost see your penis through that gap in your boxer shorts. Do you think maybe you should do something about that smart guy?"

George looked down and his hands quickly went over the hole in his boxers. Now it was George's turn to go red. "Ooops, sorry about that. I'll just pop into the shower and umm.well you know."

"Sounds good" is all Cecily said and then she walked out to the kitchen.

Once George emerged from the shower he was awake and ready to start his day. He sat down at the kitchen table and said, "Where's breakfast?"

Cecily just started laughing. She turned around with a hand on her hip and said, "You expect me to cook for you?"

"Isn't that what wives do?" he asked

"Well first off, I'm not your wife and secondly you're big and tall enough to make your own breakfast if you want it. No magic either fella, I don't want to" she used her fingers to make the quote sign "'raise suspicions' around here. You're gonna have to be off the magic stuff unless it's an absolute emergency and there are no muggles around."

George frowned and said, "Well my Mum cooks all of us breakfast."

Cecily said, "How many of 'us' are there?"

George smiled and said, "Well including Mum and Dad there's nine total. My three oldest brothers, Bill, Charlie and Percy don't live at the Burrow anymore. So there's only six of us at home. On holidays it's an absolute MADhouse witth the wives and grandchildren and all. Mum must go crazy. I don't know how she does it."

Cecily said, "Doesn't anyone help her?"

George said, "Ginny, my sister does. Ron, who is another brother by the way, well his girlfriend Hermione helps out."

"Holy crap George! Let's see if I got this straight. Bill, Charlie, Percy, You, Ron and Ginny" she was counting on her fingers as she said the names. "We're missing someone, you must not like that sibling much huh?" she teased.

He laughed and said, "No not really. The one missing would be Fred, my identical twin."

Cecily's eyes widened and she gasped. "Identical twin?!! You mean there are two of you walking around England? What's Fred's wife's name?"

George really laughed now. "He's not married. He likes to keep his options open as he says." George was shaking his head. "He had a girlfriend at school, Angelina, and she was a great girl. He said she was getting too serious and he wasn't ready to settle down yet."

"How about you George? What's your girlfriend's name and is she happy you've flown to America to marry a stranger?" she asked.

"I don't have a girlfriend. I'd hate to think how I would of explained this to her if I did have one."

Cecily shook her head. "I don't believe it. Two of you walking around England and neither have been snatched up." Cecily stood silent for a minute after she realized she said that out loud.

"You think I'm a pretty good catch huh? Must be my animal magnetism. It drives the girls wild" he said grinning.

Cecily put her hands to head and shook it again while she groaned. "Let's get going. We have to run some errands. Since my Uncle said I'm not allowed to go ANYWHERE without you, I don't want you complaining about anywhere we go either."

"No complaints. Professor Dumbledore trusts me with protecting you and I'm going to do whatever it takes to carry that through." George was shaking his head after saying that.

"What?" Cecily asked.

"I just don't get why Dumbledore trusted me with this. At school Fred and I were the king pranksters and jokesters. Hell, that's why we're opening a joke store. I just don't understand why your Uncle picked me."

Cecily put her hand on his arm and smiled at him. "George, I'm sure my Uncle saw bravery and confidence in you to entrust you with this task."

George felt better then. "Thanks Cecily."