Chapter 6: Girls vs. Boys

A month passed and it was November the sixteenth. Maggie was feeling mixed emotions about the twins. She knew how much fun they were, but was still timid around them. The times when they were in the common room, laughing and making fun of people, she loved it. But, the other times when they went to Hogsmeade, or on midnight raids to the kitchen, it was as if she was terrified of them. She didn't ever know what to expect them to do. And that frightened and enticed her.

They're expulsion from Hogsmeade had ended, and now, she was finding herself traveling with the trio to the town every Saturday. Once there, Lee would make himself scarce as he tried to find a girl to buy a drink for. On more than one occasion, Maggie noticed Lee paying extra attention to Katie Bell.

Not that it was her business, but Maggie wondered if that was who he took to the Astronomy Tower that one day instead of the Ravenclaw girl that Fred and George said he took. He did come back looking awfully upset, and the days afterward Katie would scowl at most everybody.

But, there was no way to tell. And if anyone asked Lee about it, he'd make excuses to leave. Maggie was enjoying his absence more and more each day, finding her growing friendship with the Weasley twins to be quite enjoyable. If it weren't for her neglected studies, she would be a bit more talkative in their journey to the town.

Instead of discussing plans to seek revenge on the Slytherin house, Maggie had her thumbnail in her mouth, chewing worriedly on it. Fred seemed to notice the sudden change in her behaviour and turned to question her about it. "What's wrong?"

Maggie snapped her eyes up and glanced at Fred out of the corner of her eye. "Nothing...Just the big test in Potions tomorrow."

"Oh yea. I had forgotten about it." He replied, watching his twin give a peice of candy to a third year who took it unquestioning. It was almost humourous how the immature, adolecents eagerly took the candy.

"Forgotten about it? It's on the Veriteserum! That is incredibly hard!"

"I'll help you. I found it easy." Maggie stopped and stared at the ginger-haired boy. He had looked around in confusion, before looking her in the eye once more. "What?"

"You help me?"

"Oh, don't make it sound like you're a genius. You know deep down you always need Fred Weasley."

Maggie scoffed at his swelling ego. He puffed out his chest with a pride that could not be broken. "I need you as much as I need the flu, Mister God's Gift To Women."

Fred gasped dramatically as he pressed his palm to his chest, batting his eyelashes as if trying to force back tears. "How could you say such a cruel thing to moi?"

She laughed, pushing his chest so he stumbled a bit in his path. With another snicker, Maggie replied. "Very easily. Now, where to first?" She tried to change the subject, but her question was unanswered due to George walking over to them. He was joined by Lee.

A grin was plastered to the twin as he rubbed his gloved hands together. "Anyone up to a little rendezvous at the Shrieking Shack?" He said, moving his eyes to Maggie. She immediately glared and stepped around Fred, putting as much distance between herself and George as she could. If she were less than a foot from him, she was sure she would have punched his lights out.

"Not funny." She mumbled, looking over and spotting the boy who she fancied. He was from Beauxbatons and had arrived earlier this year. Unlike most of the students in the odd and peculiar school, he was very talkative and friendly. His name was Jaques Sinclair. While all the other girls fawned over Cedric Diggory, Viktor Krum, and Oliver Wood, Maggie was semi-fascinated by the handsome Jaques.

He had blonde, feathery hair, that he kept combed out of his face. His skin was olive tinted, and his blue eyes shined against it mesmerisingly. Maggie was concentrating solely on the way he laughed with his friends, and the way he absently reached up to brush his hand through his hair.

In fact, she was so captivated by him, she didn't see the street sign she was dangerously close to hitting. Her chest smacked against it, along with her forehead and stomach, knocking her to the gorund. With a cry of pain, Maggie reached up and grabbed her forehead.

"What the--Hahaha!" Fred clapped his knee in laughter as he caught sight of Maggie sprawled on the cold ground. Her bottom was sitting against the cold cobblestone, with her feet out in front of her body.

Her cheeks flushed an entirely new shade of red as she quickly glanced to see Jaques smiling at her. With tears forming in her eyes, she stood up and glared at Fred, George, and Lee. She would expect no more from them, and as she shoved George into his brother and best friend, she turned on her heel and stormed straight back to the castle.

With a weak scream of exasperation, Maggie stormed into the nearly empty Gryffindor common room. The few second and first year students jumped at her entrusion and watched with wide eyes as she stormed straight up to the girl's dormitory.

How could they laugh at her? That was the single most embarassing thing she had ever had happen to her in her life. Of course, there was that time when she laughed milk out of her nose in her first year. But, that was easy to get over because she did not have her main squeeze looking at her as she did so!

And to make matters worse, her friends pointed and laughed.

With a snarl, Maggie grabbed her pillow and chunked it at the headboard, wishing it were the twins and Lee, and her pillow was a two ton brick.

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