Fred followed him, and got into a seat. "Woo..."
Tirza and Ginny plopped down, leaving Hermione and Maddie on either side of Severus.
Maddie tugged on his shirt for a moment. "Mr. Snape?" she whispered.
"Yes dear?"
"Don't get mad at me if I get scared and grab your hand, ok?" Maddie blushed. "Sometimes roller coaster types rides make me scared, but I love them anyways."
They went up to the top of a very high hill and then like a shot they were off at speeds of more than 70 miles an hour. They did 3 complete loops and more corkscrews and a few hairpin turns before slowing down to come into the unloading area.
Maddie clung to Severus' side, her eyes closed. Tirza and Hermione were screaming happily, while Ginny swatted at George's hand as he pulled at her hair for fun.
Fred spat off the side of the ride, smirking evilly as it hit another rider.
"Guys behave," Severus sighed as he helped Maddie off. "That wasn't too bad considering I've never in my life gone upside down for fun."
"Dude that rocked!" Tirza danced around.
Fred got off, and smiled innocently at the ride controller. "Hey, good job running the ride."
The teen girl smiled "Thanks!" she said, in a clearly American accent. "You British? I just LOVE British guys." She continued to grin at him, her blue eyes sparkling, and her blonde hair in pigtails.
Fred walked to the girl, and smiled. "Really?"
She nodded. "Oh yeah. How long you here for?" she leaned over by him.
"Hmm. A little while longer." He grinned. "Could I take you out for supper, or something?" He offered.
"Come on Fred there are race cars you can drive over there," Hermione said trying to get his attention.
"I would adore that," she said dreamily. "Here's my cell number" she handed him a sheet of paper. "Call me," she whispered in his ear as Severus began pulling him away by the collar.
George smirked. "Good job bro! Does she have a sister? She's a nice one."
Fred winked at her. "I'll be sure to do that!" He then looked at Severus. "Hey, let go." He whined, putting the number in his pocket.
"Time for more rides NOT socializing"
"But... I like socializing. It builds my social skills." Fred pointed out.
"I vote for Dumbo," Ginny offered. "Anybody with me?"
"That movie made me cry," Tirza commented. "But it looks fun."
Fred smiled innocently. "While you all are on the Dumbo, can I go find a loo?"
Maddie rolled her eyes. "You're gonna go find the girl, aren't you?"
"No, I'm going to… use the loo," He said.
"Race cars are on the way to Dumbo," Hermione pointed out after consulting the map. "Right there in fact." She indicated a track where a dozen mini cars raced around.
"Well how about you come on those, and then go to the loo while we go Dumbo?" George suggested. Neither twin really had a clue who or what a Dumbo was, or why they were going on one.
Fred sighed; he was desperate to get back to the cute American girl. He started to do a fake 'gotta go to the loo' dance. "I really have to go to the loo," he hissed.
Severus indicated a restaurant nearby. "There's one there; that's where I took the girls to this morning."
"Woo, I'll be back!" Fred waved at them. He headed towards the restaurant, only to dash off towards the space ride as soon as Severus and the others were out of site at the cars.
"Cars are fun to drive. My dad let me drive his once; I sat on his lap. We hit a mailbox though and mum had a fit!" Maddie told them.
"Yeah!" Hermione exclaimed. "I've been waiting for this ride!" She raced through the queue with everyone trailing behind. They soon began bonking each other like mad with the cars, and racing one another.
Fred managed to make it back just as they were getting off the ride. His face was beat red, and he sighed happily. "Hee hee, I love being British."
At the same time, the American girl came back from her extra long bathroom break, giving her apologies to her replacement, and hoping her lipstick wasn't too smeared.
"What's her name?" George whispered, his eyes fill of mischief.
His twin frowned in thought. "I think I caught it. Erm…" He pulled out the piece of paper with her cell number and read it. "Nicole… Apparently."
George nodded his approval. "Nice. Oh, you have a mark." He swiped at some lipstick on Fred's face.
"On to Dumbo," Severus called, not noticing the exchange between the Weasley boys.
A few hours later, after a wonderful meal, the American girl named Nicole was seen in the hotel lobby as they left the restaurant. Her hair was still in pigtails, but she wore a blue flowered sundress.
Fred, who had of course invited her, was wearing a clean t-shirt and had gel in his hair. "Glad you could make it," he smiled at her.
Nicole grinned at him. "Yeah, no prob." She looked behind him and saw George and the girls. "Wow, who are they?"
"That's my twin brother George," Fred pointed. "And our friends; Tirza, Hermione and Maddie."
Nicole smiled. "The redhead must be your sister? Fun group."
Fred laughed softly. "Oh yes, that's Ginny, my little sister."
"Hey everyone," she waved shyly. The girls waved back and giggled. "Hello George," she smiled at George.
"Hello" George said smiling "my brother hitting on you again?
She nodded. "But I like it!"
The girls giggled again and George sighed, "Where are you two off to?"
Fred smirked, and wrapped an arm around her waist. "We were going to hang out..."
"In the room, watch videos, maybe eat pizza. My brother works at the pizza place, gonna see if he'll snitch us a few. Everyone wanna watch and stuff?" Nicole invited them all.
"Can we Fred?" George smirked
Fred narrowed his eyes at George, and gave a nod of his head. "I guess."
"We don't have to," Ginny offered.
"No, I want you too.' He smiled at Ginny.
"Come on girls," Nicole smiled and they all followed Fred back up to the room, to order a video and snitch pizzas.
When Severus came back from some time in the hot tub, he found a strange girl, four boxes of pizza, and a Peter Pan playing on the TV in the girls' room. Not to mention, the strange girl was sitting in Fred's lap!
"Hi dad!" Tirza called with a wave.
"What's going on here?" Severus asked, an eyebrow raised.
Fred had his chin rested on the Nicole's shoulder, with his arms around her waist. "We are watching a video."
The strange girl nodded and waved shyly. "Hi"
Ginny grinned. "She's Nicole and she's in love with Fred."
Nicole's face burned red, and Fred blushed as well and rolled his eyes at Ginny.
"Doesn't she work around here?" Severus asked, still trying to understand it all.
"Yep. She runs the space ride." Fred smiled proudly.
"The space ride" Nicole said, giving him a thumbs up
"Isn't she great?" He sighed dreamingly.
Nicole blushed and ruffled Fred's hair, then gave a cute giggle.
Hermione rolled her eyes "Shoot me if I ever act like that, k?" she asked the other girls seriously. They nodded, all very serious that they would never act like dopes like Fred was.
Severus stared at Fred and Nicole for a moment longer, then finally shrugged.
"And she got us free pizza dad!" Tirza informed him.
Fred grinned, and kissed Nicole's cheek softly, looking at Severus. "I don't want to go home."
He decided. She giggled and they rubbed noses, while the girls made gagging noises.
George slapped Fred upside the head. "Course you have to come home! Mum'll have a nervous fit if you don't"
"Your mother would kill me," Severus replied firmly.
"Well, can Nicole come with us?" Fred asked hopefully.
"No, my mom would miss me like crazy," Nicole, sighed sadly. "And then my brother would take over my room."
Fred pouted, and looked at Severus. "Please, can I stay? I like it here. I'm the cute British boy." He said proudly. Nicole nodded and giggled again.
"No," Severus stated.
"She could come with…"
"Her mother would miss her, she just told you that." Severus was sure he had a counter argument for nearly everything Fred could think up by way of protest.
Nicole nodded. "Yeah, and I don't know anything about like--- British schools"
"Mum has Ginny, and George, Bill, Charlie, Percy... And Ron." He looked at Nicole's back, and sighed sadly. "She wouldn't miss me. Besides, here I'm not "the prankster" and I'm not "the Weasley twin" I'm Fred..." He smiled.
"We can't leave you," Tirza insisted.
"Absolutely not. Are you truly that anxious to dance over my grave Fred Weasley?" Snape half-growled.
"Cool growl!" Nicole praised him. "And we can like write Fred." She then looked at her watch and sighed. "I gotta get home, or mom'll call the police on me if I'm late. Curfew's in twenty minutes."
Fred looked at her, and frowned slightly. "Oh... Want me to walk you home?" He offered.
She kissed his cheek and nodded. He picked her up, and stood up. He set her down, taking her hand. He led her out, looking down at the ground as they walked.
When they got to her house, she gave him a kiss, on the lips, then pulled away blushing. "I'll call you sometime..." she whispered. "And you call me; you have my number Bye bye."
Fred nodded, and gave her a small kiss back. "Yea... I'll call you." He vowed.
Nicole nodded, squeezed his hand one last time, and then went inside her house.
The next afternoon, the girls waited with Severus for the boys. Their plan had been to meet at the teacups after having lunch.
"Oooh, teacups." George said sarcastically.
"Yeah, they are cool. They spin and stuff if you want them too," Tirza replied.
"Make out with Nicole again?" Ginny whispered to Fred.
Her brother blushed darkly. "None of your business."
Ginny merely giggled and hugged him. Fred returned the hug, then whispered back, "You going to tell mum?"
The young redhead shook her head. "Nah, course not." She grinned at Fred's sigh of relief.
"Are we finally ready to ride?" Severus asked the group.
"Oh yeah!" Tirza exclaimed, running for the line.
Maddie chased after her. "This ride is cool looking!"
Severus chuckled at their excitement over sitting inside large teacups. "Just don't spin too fast," he advised as he followed the girls.
"Spinning is fun." Fred grinned. George nodded his agreement.
Maddie, Tirza, Hermione and Ginny filled one teacup, while Severus sat with Fred and George.
"Not too fast boys," He warned the. The twins could only smirk broadly.
George began to spin the cup, as the girls just sat and enjoyed the ride in their own.
Fred spun the cup as well, grinning evilly.
"Boys," Severus said warningly but still laughing.
They continued to spin the cup. "Woooo, my stomach is swirly!"
"Mine toooo! YAY!"
Suddenly, George turned rather green. Severus mentally cursed all teacups that were large enough for people and shouted, "STOP THE RIDE! They're getting sick! Help!"
Fred began turning green as well. "Eww," he moaned. Before the ride could stop, Fred and George threw up all over Severus.
"Sweet Merlin," Severus said looking horrified.
The teenaged boy who ran the ride finally got it stopped. He used his walkie talkie to contact the cleaning crew, and then ran over to the cup. "Are you all alright now?" The boy cringed at the stench, and at the mess Severus was.
"Looks like we'll have to go back to the hotel and change," Severus sighed. "But other than that we're alright I think."
"Would you like one of the little cars, sir, to take you back to the room?" The teen offered.
"Thank you, if that's not too much trouble," Severus said "and the girls may come with us?"
"Oh sure," the boy said. "I need two cars for resort customer with a slight emergency at the tea cups please," he said into his walkie talkie.
A mere few moments later, two gulf cart like cars pulled up by the teacup ride. "Alright, go ahead and head off now. FOLKS! The rest of you can ride again, sorry for the interruption! The cleaning crew is coming!" the boy announced.
The girls scrambled to one cart. "No puking by us please," Maddie requested. Tirza nodded, while Ginny plugged her nose.
"I know right now I could never be a nurse," Hermione commented.
Fred scrambled into a cart, and flopped down. "Geh."
George moaned and lay on the other seat. "I never want to see hot dogs and pizza and milk shakes again," he moaned.
"Me either." Moaned Fred, hanging his head over the side.
Snape fought the urge to strangle them after cleaning up, and sat by the driver, giving him the name of their hotel.
"I'll get you there quickly folks," The driver said. "Mind you we are going backstage so no photographs."
The man drove them back threw the backstage area. He kept it at a safe speed hoping not to make them sick again. Don't want Mickey to get puked on the guy thought to himself
They arrived safe and sound back at the resort. "Thank you sir," Severus said.
The twins stumbled off the cart and headed for their room.
The driver nodded. "No problem, anytime. Get better guys."
"If we hurry," Severus said, looking at his watch as he followed the twins. "We won't miss the fireworks tonight."
"Oooh, guys, are you gonna be better in time?" Ginny asked.
"Hopefully..." Mumbled Fred.
"If the guys don't feel well we can still go," Severus told the girls. "They aren't dying, and definitely old enough to rest here on their own."
Fred shrugged. "Sure. Wait... Must get better... Promised to meet girl."
"Awwww!" Tirza giggled. "That's sweet!"
Severus laughed at Fred's enthusiasm over the girl. "Here are the potions, guys you know the rules."
Fred blinked and took the potion. "I have to brush my teeth! She said we could... make out." He said thoughtfully, dashing off.
George took his, and then rolled back over, intending to sleep. "No wanna fireworks, wanna bed."
Severus nodded "I think the ones across the lake can be seen out our window in a bit if you get bored, let's go girls."
The girls followed Severus from the hotel room, with Fred in hot pursuit.
The last day finally arrived, with a mixture of both happiness and sadness. It would be nice to get home, but it was sad to leave behind such a fun time; and for Fred, to leave behind his beloved Nicole.
"Woot, she gave me like a charm and everything for a key chain," Fred grinned. "To remember her by! Wait, what's a key chain?"
Tirza giggled and pulled a Mickey Mouse one out of suitcase for him. "Here, this is it."
"Interesting…"
Four extra bags of souvenirs had to be shrunken for the return home, but they were soon on their way. It wasn't long until they were standing in the Ministry of Magic back home.