Fred led Hermione up the street a bit more until they reached a small café.

"I've never noticed this place before." said Hermione. "Is this place new?"

"It opened a few months ago" replied Fred, "so… yeah, it's still pretty new" he opened the door to let Hermione in. "Ladies first" he said, bowing sarcastically.

"Wow… Fred Weasley is a gentleman" said Hermione, putting her hand over mouth in mock surprise. Fred grinned, and they both went inside.

They took off their coats and sat at a nearby table and ordered some food and some butterbeers and started eating.

"This food is actually pretty good" said Fred.

"I know" replied Hermione, "almost as good as the food they serve at Hogwarts. I wonder why not very many people eat here." Fred looked around, she was right, there were only a few people eating there.

"Many people have probably not heard of this place yet" he replied "considering this place is still new." and continued to eat. After they finished eating, Fred paid the bill and they both went back outside.

"So…" said Fred, in hopes of striking up another conversation "what do you want to do now?" Hermione checked her watch.

"Oh… I nearly forgot!" exclaimed Hermione "I was supposed to meet the others at Honeydukes five minutes ago! I can't believe I forgot… Oh what are they gonna think? What if they think that I ditched them? Oh what am I going to do?" she went on like this for a while until Fred told her to calm down.

"Hermione don't bust a blood vessel" said Fred, half-laughing. "Calm down, you know perfectly well what all of them are like. I bet once we get to Honeydukes they won't be there yet, they would have lost track of time as well." Hermione obviously considered what Fred had just said.

"You're probably right" she said.

"Of course I am" said Fred smirking. Hermione smiled as she shook her head. And they both started making their way to Honeydukes.

Hermione was thinking to herself. I never thought Fred could be so sweet. The whole, opening the door for me and paying for my meal thing. So far, he's behaved in a way I never thought was EVER possible… she smiled in spite of herself.

"What's so funny?" asked Fred, who had apparently seen her smile. "Care to fill me in on the joke?"

"Oh… it's nothing" replied Hermione still smiling.

"Ok then" said Fred and started thinking to himself. I never thought Hermione could be so… well… FUN! I always thought she could never take a joke, but I guess I was wrong. Of course, there's a lot of stuff I didn't know about her.

They reached Honeydukes a few minutes later and Hermione noticed that there wasn't a trace of her friends.

"I guess you were right Fred" she said. "Not a sign of them in here." Fred smiled, trying very hard not to say 'I told you so', but he couldn't resist and said it anyway.

"Told you so" he said, sounding like a five-year-old. They both laughed. A few minutes later, Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Lavender came through the entrance of the store.

"Sorry Hermione" said Ginny, "lost track of time." Fred whispered another 'I told you so' to Hermione.

"Its ok" replied Hermione, trying hard not to laugh at what Fred just said to her.

"Hey Fred!" said Ron "Where is George?"

"Well…" started Fred. "I don't really know…I should go and look for him now… see you guys back at the castle" and headed towards the door with one final backward glance and a wave at all of them.

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