Chapter 8: Anywhere But Here
"George, what are we doing?" Becky said, pulling away and sitting up.
"What do you mean?" George said, looking a little surprised.
"Well, I mean, I'm gonna leave you know. I might not be able to come back..."
"Yes... I know that... but-"
"No buts! You know that if we continue doing this we're just going to be hurt in the end." She stood up and turned away so her back was facing him.
George was silent for a while. "Well, fine," He got up as well. "Just let me... say one more thing."
After hesitating, she said, "Look George. I like you, but it CAN'T be more than that alright?" When he didn't say anything, she turned around. He was still there.
"Can I just say one more thing?" he asked again.
"Fine."
George actually didn't say anything. He just pulled her closer for a last kiss, then headed back to bed. Becky didn't go to bed though. she felt rather upset, and for the rest of the night she wished she had never taken the stupid exchange trip.
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Next week came and they were lining up on the train so Becky could visit hogwarts. As usual, it would take most of the day getting there. They were going to stay in the Gryffindor dorms that night, with Dumbledore's permission.
George and Becky had not said anything to eachother unless it was "Pass the potatoes" during dinner. Becky still felt bad about what she said, and what she did. Every since she arrived here she seemed to feel funny about George. It was true, she DID like him but she didn't want it to be more than a friendship, since she lived so far away...
The train rolled by and she didn't realize they were all talking to her about hogwarts, once again, thought hey had told her everything already. they didn't realize that she wasn't guite "there". After a while silence fell as everyone grew tired.
When the train stopped Becky got out first and stared in awe at the school. It was nothing like her own. Charlie and Bill looked up at it and sighed. "Good to be back!" Bill said.
"Can you believe it Harry? We're at school over the summer!" Ron said.
Many other people who had came over here from the US were there as well. Harry spotted a boy with the Longbottoms, (They waved at Harry as they passed) a girl with the Lovegoods,(Some of them chuckled as Luna waved and called to Harry.) and a boy with the-
Malfoys.
"Malfoy? Signed up for the exchange program?" Ron nearly exploded.
Malfoy's father was not there, of course, but Draco was bad enough.
"Who's that?" Becky asked. They seemed surprised that Malfoy didn't head over. He just smirked, and they noticed Goyle and Crabbe weren't there.
"That's Malfoy. Draco Malfoy. He's a mess of trouble." Hermione said scowling.
"Really..." Becky said as they passed him. They headed up to Dumbledore.
"Ah! The Weasleys! You're here! Splendid to see you!" Dumbledore said smiling. "And A new member for a summer I see! Having a nice time?" he added to Becky
"Yes." she said, looking up at the Great Hall ceiling. "This place is beautiful!"
"I'm glad you think so! I'm Prof. Dumbledore, the headmaster here. now don't get settled the tours are starting soon."
Becky also took a lot of pictures at hogwarts, possibly more than she took last week. she took more than one in almost every room, and then she ran out of film.
"Oh darn it!" she said. the portraits around then were very happy at this. They hated the flash in their eyes.
They got done very late and headed straight to the Common Room to get to bed.
"You'll love the Common Room it's wonderful!" Ginny said, and they headed inside.
"Wow! Can't believe we're back in here again! Good times we had in here!" Charlie said.
"It's wonderful! And cozy!" Becky said, and caught Gorge's eye. She quickly looked away and Followed Ginny and Hermione to the girls dorm.
Chapter 9: Middle of the Night
Even though the dorms were comfortble, Becky still couldn't get to sleep. She kept rolling and rolling around in bed, and finally got up. she hoped George wouldn't be down in the Comon Room as well.
She had just entered the C.R. and was going to turn around when she saw George but unfortunatly saw her.
'Don't worry. You can sit down." he said looking towards her.
She had no choice but to walk in. She sat next to him, still not saying anything. She tried to avoid looking at him. She still had that urge to grab him and kiss him, which she kept trrying to tell herself was pathetic. She kept moving in her seat as George worked on something for his shop. He glanced at her.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nothing..." she lied.
George turned back to his invention. "Why are you up so late?"
"Couldn't sleep."
"Me niether." he said, glacing at her again. She sighed.
"I guess it's for the same reason..." she said quietly.
George didn't say anything for a while. "Maybe..."
Becky sighed again. "George, I'm sorry."
George scotted closer to her. "It's ok..." he said, looking at her. "It's just that... I mean... I REALLY like you... I know you said we shouldn't, but... I can't help it..."
Becky felt herself blushing. "I... i really like you too... to tell you the truth..."
Silence.
"I really think it would be alright... to... you know... I really think you'd be able to visit often... and maybe vise versa...." George said nervously.
"I... I don't know..."
"Why not?" he asked, taken aback.
"My parents said this was a one time chance to come over here." she whispered, almost crying.
"Why is that?"
"I don't know! They want me to stay over there! I don't know what's wrong with here. They just don't want me here!" she said, and suddenly she wrapped her arms around George and started sobbing. "I really like it here you know. I like you're family. My family will never be like yours!" she sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. George just patted her on the back.
"It's alright. Cry as much as you want..." George said.
"I KNEW they were right! They didn't want me to do this. They thought I'd get too attached..."
George was still patting her, and she lifted her head so it was level with George's. she took her hands away from around his and took his face and brought it closer. She kissed him for a long time, not caring about anything else, just like last time.
Chapter ten:
"What was that for?" George asked.
They were in the Gryffindor Common Room, and everyone else was still asleep- hopefully. the fire was running low, but it was still warm.
"Come on George! We both know we love eachother. Now what are we going to do about this? Once I leave for home I'll probably never get to come back-"
George cut her off.
"Don't think of things that way. I'm sure if you explain they'll let you... I mean, don't THEY know what love is?"
Becky didn't say anything for a while. She just sat there thinking.
"Well, I guess we could do something like that Boy Meets World episode I saw once..."
"What?" George asked, confused.
From Becky's Perspective:
As you should know, George and me are in the Common room at Hogwarts. It's suck a beautiful school. I wish I could stay here with everyone else. It would be wonderful.
"What?" George had asked, obviously confused.
"Nevermind." I say. "It's a muggle tv show..."
George suddenly smiled, and it makes the room seem so much brighter, dispite the burnt out fire.
"So... what do you think you're mum and dad will say?"
"I still don't know... Doesn't hurt to try though..."
"Yeah."
There was a small silence...
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Back to the Narrator:
" AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
!!!!"
Ron burst back into the room, breathing hard and sweating like he had been running up a mountain.
'Ron what on earth is it?" Hermione said, hussling out of bed along with everyone else.
"George... Becky... Common Room... Kissing!" he gasped, and everyone let out a sigh of relief.
"Jeez Ron! I thought you'd been hurt or something!" Hermione said, sitting back down on the end of her bed.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute... George is down there... kissing Becky?" Fred said, pushing to the front.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" Mrs. Weasley hollored, pushing them out of the way to the door.
"Oooooh Ron they are going to KILL you when they hear YOU told mum!" Fred said, grinning.
"And why is that?" Hermione said, turning to Fred.
"I mean, if YOU were down there kissing Ron and having a jolly old time, then mum came in and pulled Ron away from you, YOU'D be upset too!" he said instantly.
"WHAT!" Ron said, stomping over to Fred. Hermione's mouth dropped open and she was staring at Fred. Ginny was giggling, and Harry grinning as he watched the show.
"ME kissing HERMIONE? What kind of example was THAT?" Ron said, almost flying on top of George.
"What? you DO want to don't you?" Fred continued. He was enjoying this.
"SHUT UP! NOW!"
"Ronnie's gotta girlfriend Ronnie's gotta girlfriend!"
"I SAID SHUT UP!" and with that Ron lunged.
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"GEORGE WEASLEY! BECKY FLAMEL! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Mrs. Weasley's voice instantly broke out and she snapped on the lights to be able to see a very frightened looking George and Becky, huddled on the couch.
"MUM?" George istantly stood up, facing his mother. Becky had her hand over her mouth.
"I Can't believe you two would be so stupid! SHE'S LEAVING IN A FEW WEEKS YOU KNOW!"
***
"Now THIS is a summer vacation." Bill said to Charlie. They were sitting in the hall, inbetween Ron wrestling Fred and their mum hollering at George.
"You bet it is." Charlie said, taking a sip of some coffee. It was almost 5 in the morning, and some of them had gone back to sleep, even though it was almost impossible. Arthur was trying to get Ron off of Fred, with help from the others- the ones that weren't trying to go to sleep.
Chapter 11:
"Jeez- Ron. Why are- you getting- so- mad over a -stupid - joke-"
Fred was still grinning at Ron as Aurther, Ginny, Harry, and Hermione held him back.
"Yeah Ron I'm sure Fred didn't mean it." Hermione said, who did seem a tiny bit bothered by Fred's "joke."
Ron finally settled down, but was still glaring at Fred.
"Now no more attacking eachother. I'm going to let your mother deal with this. She'll know what to do. Now I'm going to go back to bed." Arthur said, and left the room quietly. Their room was quiet, but the Common Room down the stairs was not. Mrs. Weasley might be yelling more then she ever had yelled at both Fred AND George... or perhaps not...
"Alright, Dad's gone now. So WHAT were they doing downstairs?" Ginny said, shocked at what Ron had said when he burst into the room.
"They were kissing!" Ron said simply, sitting down on his bed.
"I KNEW it! I KNEW they liked eachother!" Fred said right after, taking out one of his Exstendable ears.
"Fred... why do you need those? you can hear you mum fine from here." Hermione said, and it was true.
"Yeah, but I can't hear the other two."
Hermione rolled their eyes and looked at the others.
"Why would your mother be so mad at them?"
"I thought you were the smart one?" Ron said, and stopped laughing when he saw Hermione's face.
"Well, I mean, she does live in another country..." Ginny said.
"Yeah, but she should be able to visit." Hermione said...
And the conversation continued...
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"Mum, what are you so mad about?" George said fustrated. Becky was still sitting on the couch, devistated to be in the middle of the fight.
"Look. I know about Becky's parents. I know they won't let her come back. And that's a horrible thing because I really believe Becky has become a great friend of ours. I just don't want you two to get hurt." she said, her cross voice disapearing.
"But mum, surly we can find out some way to let her stay here... I mean, not HERE, but over here instead of over there. I mean, she's 18!"
Becky had been silent the whole time.
Mrs. Weasley sighed. "Well, maybe. I think it would probably be hard... Have you two slept at all tonight? You must get some sleep we have a big day today!"
It was true. they were going on a boat ride that day (since it's after midnight if you remember...), and if they didn't get any sleep now, they'd probably never stay awake on the ride.
George started towards the stairs gloomily, with Becky following. Finally Mrs. Weasley sighed. "I'll see what I can do... about her staying..." she said simply.
George and Becky broke out in smiled and cheered all the way to bed. They kissed goodnight and came into the room.
"Hey. I thought you guys were supposed to be upset. That's what you usualy feel when you're yelled at!" Fred said, sitting up.
"Oh be quiet1 Really good news1 I might be staying!" Becky said, unable to hold it in.
"For good?" Ginny said, leaping up on the bed.
"Yep!"
And the mini party began, though it lasted only a few seconds, for then Mrs. Weasley came back in and barked for them to get some sleep.
Becky was still not able to sleep. She was excited for the next day and for the day Mrs. Weasley would ask if she could stay. It was quite remarkable really. Since she had been there for only three weeks so far. The summer was ending so fast.
She knew she shouldn't get her hopes up. What if she couldn't stay? But wait... She SHOULD be able to stay if she wanted to. She was 18. She should be able to live where she wanted to...
she hoped and hoped and hoped until she fell asleep. And so did everyone else.
"George, what are we doing?" Becky said, pulling away and sitting up.
"What do you mean?" George said, looking a little surprised.
"Well, I mean, I'm gonna leave you know. I might not be able to come back..."
"Yes... I know that... but-"
"No buts! You know that if we continue doing this we're just going to be hurt in the end." She stood up and turned away so her back was facing him.
George was silent for a while. "Well, fine," He got up as well. "Just let me... say one more thing."
After hesitating, she said, "Look George. I like you, but it CAN'T be more than that alright?" When he didn't say anything, she turned around. He was still there.
"Can I just say one more thing?" he asked again.
"Fine."
George actually didn't say anything. He just pulled her closer for a last kiss, then headed back to bed. Becky didn't go to bed though. she felt rather upset, and for the rest of the night she wished she had never taken the stupid exchange trip.
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Next week came and they were lining up on the train so Becky could visit hogwarts. As usual, it would take most of the day getting there. They were going to stay in the Gryffindor dorms that night, with Dumbledore's permission.
George and Becky had not said anything to eachother unless it was "Pass the potatoes" during dinner. Becky still felt bad about what she said, and what she did. Every since she arrived here she seemed to feel funny about George. It was true, she DID like him but she didn't want it to be more than a friendship, since she lived so far away...
The train rolled by and she didn't realize they were all talking to her about hogwarts, once again, thought hey had told her everything already. they didn't realize that she wasn't guite "there". After a while silence fell as everyone grew tired.
When the train stopped Becky got out first and stared in awe at the school. It was nothing like her own. Charlie and Bill looked up at it and sighed. "Good to be back!" Bill said.
"Can you believe it Harry? We're at school over the summer!" Ron said.
Many other people who had came over here from the US were there as well. Harry spotted a boy with the Longbottoms, (They waved at Harry as they passed) a girl with the Lovegoods,(Some of them chuckled as Luna waved and called to Harry.) and a boy with the-
Malfoys.
"Malfoy? Signed up for the exchange program?" Ron nearly exploded.
Malfoy's father was not there, of course, but Draco was bad enough.
"Who's that?" Becky asked. They seemed surprised that Malfoy didn't head over. He just smirked, and they noticed Goyle and Crabbe weren't there.
"That's Malfoy. Draco Malfoy. He's a mess of trouble." Hermione said scowling.
"Really..." Becky said as they passed him. They headed up to Dumbledore.
"Ah! The Weasleys! You're here! Splendid to see you!" Dumbledore said smiling. "And A new member for a summer I see! Having a nice time?" he added to Becky
"Yes." she said, looking up at the Great Hall ceiling. "This place is beautiful!"
"I'm glad you think so! I'm Prof. Dumbledore, the headmaster here. now don't get settled the tours are starting soon."
Becky also took a lot of pictures at hogwarts, possibly more than she took last week. she took more than one in almost every room, and then she ran out of film.
"Oh darn it!" she said. the portraits around then were very happy at this. They hated the flash in their eyes.
They got done very late and headed straight to the Common Room to get to bed.
"You'll love the Common Room it's wonderful!" Ginny said, and they headed inside.
"Wow! Can't believe we're back in here again! Good times we had in here!" Charlie said.
"It's wonderful! And cozy!" Becky said, and caught Gorge's eye. She quickly looked away and Followed Ginny and Hermione to the girls dorm.
Chapter 9: Middle of the Night
Even though the dorms were comfortble, Becky still couldn't get to sleep. She kept rolling and rolling around in bed, and finally got up. she hoped George wouldn't be down in the Comon Room as well.
She had just entered the C.R. and was going to turn around when she saw George but unfortunatly saw her.
'Don't worry. You can sit down." he said looking towards her.
She had no choice but to walk in. She sat next to him, still not saying anything. She tried to avoid looking at him. She still had that urge to grab him and kiss him, which she kept trrying to tell herself was pathetic. She kept moving in her seat as George worked on something for his shop. He glanced at her.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nothing..." she lied.
George turned back to his invention. "Why are you up so late?"
"Couldn't sleep."
"Me niether." he said, glacing at her again. She sighed.
"I guess it's for the same reason..." she said quietly.
George didn't say anything for a while. "Maybe..."
Becky sighed again. "George, I'm sorry."
George scotted closer to her. "It's ok..." he said, looking at her. "It's just that... I mean... I REALLY like you... I know you said we shouldn't, but... I can't help it..."
Becky felt herself blushing. "I... i really like you too... to tell you the truth..."
Silence.
"I really think it would be alright... to... you know... I really think you'd be able to visit often... and maybe vise versa...." George said nervously.
"I... I don't know..."
"Why not?" he asked, taken aback.
"My parents said this was a one time chance to come over here." she whispered, almost crying.
"Why is that?"
"I don't know! They want me to stay over there! I don't know what's wrong with here. They just don't want me here!" she said, and suddenly she wrapped her arms around George and started sobbing. "I really like it here you know. I like you're family. My family will never be like yours!" she sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. George just patted her on the back.
"It's alright. Cry as much as you want..." George said.
"I KNEW they were right! They didn't want me to do this. They thought I'd get too attached..."
George was still patting her, and she lifted her head so it was level with George's. she took her hands away from around his and took his face and brought it closer. She kissed him for a long time, not caring about anything else, just like last time.
Chapter ten:
"What was that for?" George asked.
They were in the Gryffindor Common Room, and everyone else was still asleep- hopefully. the fire was running low, but it was still warm.
"Come on George! We both know we love eachother. Now what are we going to do about this? Once I leave for home I'll probably never get to come back-"
George cut her off.
"Don't think of things that way. I'm sure if you explain they'll let you... I mean, don't THEY know what love is?"
Becky didn't say anything for a while. She just sat there thinking.
"Well, I guess we could do something like that Boy Meets World episode I saw once..."
"What?" George asked, confused.
From Becky's Perspective:
As you should know, George and me are in the Common room at Hogwarts. It's suck a beautiful school. I wish I could stay here with everyone else. It would be wonderful.
"What?" George had asked, obviously confused.
"Nevermind." I say. "It's a muggle tv show..."
George suddenly smiled, and it makes the room seem so much brighter, dispite the burnt out fire.
"So... what do you think you're mum and dad will say?"
"I still don't know... Doesn't hurt to try though..."
"Yeah."
There was a small silence...
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Back to the Narrator:
" AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
!!!!"
Ron burst back into the room, breathing hard and sweating like he had been running up a mountain.
'Ron what on earth is it?" Hermione said, hussling out of bed along with everyone else.
"George... Becky... Common Room... Kissing!" he gasped, and everyone let out a sigh of relief.
"Jeez Ron! I thought you'd been hurt or something!" Hermione said, sitting back down on the end of her bed.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute... George is down there... kissing Becky?" Fred said, pushing to the front.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" Mrs. Weasley hollored, pushing them out of the way to the door.
"Oooooh Ron they are going to KILL you when they hear YOU told mum!" Fred said, grinning.
"And why is that?" Hermione said, turning to Fred.
"I mean, if YOU were down there kissing Ron and having a jolly old time, then mum came in and pulled Ron away from you, YOU'D be upset too!" he said instantly.
"WHAT!" Ron said, stomping over to Fred. Hermione's mouth dropped open and she was staring at Fred. Ginny was giggling, and Harry grinning as he watched the show.
"ME kissing HERMIONE? What kind of example was THAT?" Ron said, almost flying on top of George.
"What? you DO want to don't you?" Fred continued. He was enjoying this.
"SHUT UP! NOW!"
"Ronnie's gotta girlfriend Ronnie's gotta girlfriend!"
"I SAID SHUT UP!" and with that Ron lunged.
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"GEORGE WEASLEY! BECKY FLAMEL! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Mrs. Weasley's voice instantly broke out and she snapped on the lights to be able to see a very frightened looking George and Becky, huddled on the couch.
"MUM?" George istantly stood up, facing his mother. Becky had her hand over her mouth.
"I Can't believe you two would be so stupid! SHE'S LEAVING IN A FEW WEEKS YOU KNOW!"
***
"Now THIS is a summer vacation." Bill said to Charlie. They were sitting in the hall, inbetween Ron wrestling Fred and their mum hollering at George.
"You bet it is." Charlie said, taking a sip of some coffee. It was almost 5 in the morning, and some of them had gone back to sleep, even though it was almost impossible. Arthur was trying to get Ron off of Fred, with help from the others- the ones that weren't trying to go to sleep.
Chapter 11:
"Jeez- Ron. Why are- you getting- so- mad over a -stupid - joke-"
Fred was still grinning at Ron as Aurther, Ginny, Harry, and Hermione held him back.
"Yeah Ron I'm sure Fred didn't mean it." Hermione said, who did seem a tiny bit bothered by Fred's "joke."
Ron finally settled down, but was still glaring at Fred.
"Now no more attacking eachother. I'm going to let your mother deal with this. She'll know what to do. Now I'm going to go back to bed." Arthur said, and left the room quietly. Their room was quiet, but the Common Room down the stairs was not. Mrs. Weasley might be yelling more then she ever had yelled at both Fred AND George... or perhaps not...
"Alright, Dad's gone now. So WHAT were they doing downstairs?" Ginny said, shocked at what Ron had said when he burst into the room.
"They were kissing!" Ron said simply, sitting down on his bed.
"I KNEW it! I KNEW they liked eachother!" Fred said right after, taking out one of his Exstendable ears.
"Fred... why do you need those? you can hear you mum fine from here." Hermione said, and it was true.
"Yeah, but I can't hear the other two."
Hermione rolled their eyes and looked at the others.
"Why would your mother be so mad at them?"
"I thought you were the smart one?" Ron said, and stopped laughing when he saw Hermione's face.
"Well, I mean, she does live in another country..." Ginny said.
"Yeah, but she should be able to visit." Hermione said...
And the conversation continued...
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"Mum, what are you so mad about?" George said fustrated. Becky was still sitting on the couch, devistated to be in the middle of the fight.
"Look. I know about Becky's parents. I know they won't let her come back. And that's a horrible thing because I really believe Becky has become a great friend of ours. I just don't want you two to get hurt." she said, her cross voice disapearing.
"But mum, surly we can find out some way to let her stay here... I mean, not HERE, but over here instead of over there. I mean, she's 18!"
Becky had been silent the whole time.
Mrs. Weasley sighed. "Well, maybe. I think it would probably be hard... Have you two slept at all tonight? You must get some sleep we have a big day today!"
It was true. they were going on a boat ride that day (since it's after midnight if you remember...), and if they didn't get any sleep now, they'd probably never stay awake on the ride.
George started towards the stairs gloomily, with Becky following. Finally Mrs. Weasley sighed. "I'll see what I can do... about her staying..." she said simply.
George and Becky broke out in smiled and cheered all the way to bed. They kissed goodnight and came into the room.
"Hey. I thought you guys were supposed to be upset. That's what you usualy feel when you're yelled at!" Fred said, sitting up.
"Oh be quiet1 Really good news1 I might be staying!" Becky said, unable to hold it in.
"For good?" Ginny said, leaping up on the bed.
"Yep!"
And the mini party began, though it lasted only a few seconds, for then Mrs. Weasley came back in and barked for them to get some sleep.
Becky was still not able to sleep. She was excited for the next day and for the day Mrs. Weasley would ask if she could stay. It was quite remarkable really. Since she had been there for only three weeks so far. The summer was ending so fast.
She knew she shouldn't get her hopes up. What if she couldn't stay? But wait... She SHOULD be able to stay if she wanted to. She was 18. She should be able to live where she wanted to...
she hoped and hoped and hoped until she fell asleep. And so did everyone else.