Confidence in Love

Authors Note: It took me a lot longer this time to update (sorry!) but I had a reason! I had like, mega writers block and it took like EVERYTHING to get out of it, but hey I did it so enjoy the story now that its here at last!

Chapter 4 – All you had to do was ask

"This is all your fault!" screamed Hermione.

"My fault! How can it be my fault!" roared Fred, "You started it!"

"You were there too, I seem to vaguely remember." He continued sarcastically.

She started to sob.

"Ron's going to hate me forever." She continued sobbing.

"Why on earth would he do that? I know he fancied you in like 1st year, but that was ages ago!" He said, thinking silently that Hermione was being too dramatic.

She replied frostily.

"He asked me out last night."

There was silence as Fred looked at her, horrified.

"Oh shit."

"Fred! Don't swear!" She hit him crossly.

"Sorry." He murmured, used to it by now.

"What are we going to do now then?" he asked Hermione unsurely.

"We are going to walk out there and face the music." She replied, trying to convince herself more than Fred.

He cocked an eyebrow, "Yeah, while Ron tries to murder me and your ditzy friend swarm round you for the 'juicy details' or whatever you call it. Good Plan." He replied sarcastically.

"The goss." She said without thinking.

"Huh?" He looked baffled, "What the hell are you on about now?"

She looked annoyed "It's the goss, not the juicy details."

He still looked confused.

"Idiot." She muttered under her breath.

"I heard that." He looked cross for a second, then stuck his tongue out.

"Think Fred, Think, we need a plan or some sort of idea." She looked at him expectedly, waiting for something at least.

"We could pretend we're married!" he replied brightly with a smile.

"Oh my God. YOU ARE SO STUPID!" She lunged at him, angry at his immaturity in a situation like this.

"AAAH" he yelled, stumbling backwards and tripping over his own feet.

She landed on top of him on the floor, he grinned, his screaming over, "Oh I see. Well if that what you wanted, all you had to do was ask!"

She let out a scream of frustration, "I WILL KILL YOU!"

"No you won't!" he rolled over so that he was on top of them.

"You…" She didn't get to finish what she was yelling because in order to shut her up he had kissed her. To his surprise, she actually returned the kiss instead of trying to beat him up or kill him some more. She went even further and wrapped her legs around his.

"Fred?"

Fred looked round to see George blearily rubbing his eyes, looking very confused, "Is it Quidditch practice today? Why didn't you wake me….." He saw them on the floor together, looking at him with wide open eyes.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!" He jumped backwards, falling off the other side of his bed with a thump.

"It was an accident! I didn't mean to get in the bed with her!" Fred was trying to explain.

"YOU SLEPT WITH HER!" He yelled loudly.

Hermione moaned and hit herself on the forehead. "Well done George, I think there are still a few people in Slytherin who didn't hear you!" she said sarcastically.

George took a deep breath.

Fred continued calmly, "We didn't mean it, and so I would appreciate it if you would help us get her back to her without anyone seeing, and kindly not tell anyone."

He nodded, still looking a tiny bit confused.

"But what about Lee? What if he's told someone, he probably has by now, I mean…"

She sounded a little hyperactive but then abruptly stopped and started touching her nose and doing weird things with her fingers to her nose.

"What the hell are you doing?" he said slowly, while George backed away very slowly with an expression of horror and disgust on his face.

She cocked an eyebrow, "Duh, its pranayama."

She continued fiddling with her nose. Then she noticed that the twins were still looking at her funnily.

She sighed. "Don't you ever read? It's in the Da Vinci code, the muggle book…"

She sighed again, "I give up on you two. It's breathing techniques that help to focus the mind."

She closed her eyes and started again.

"Right." Fred said. He coughed. "Moving on. How exactly are we going to get Hermione out of here without anyone knowing?"

George started to stare at Fred and was trying to mouth something to him.

"What?" Fred said to George.

Looking at Hermione, who was still breathing through her nostrils and feeling them, he whispered something out of the corner of his mouth. "The tunnel, should we tell her?"

"We could, what do you think?" Fred whispered back.

"What if she tells everyone? We'd be well busted!" George whispered again.

"She won't. We can swear her to secrecy."

"You're the on to know if she's trustworthy or not. You slept with her." George replied with a whisper and a smirk.

Fred gave him a dirty look. "In that case, I say she is. Lets tell her."

"Tell me what?" demanded Hermione, angry at not being part of their little discussion.

"That we..." George started

"…Have found…" Fred continued

"…A solution…" George started again

"…To all your problems." Fred finished with a wink and a smile. He continued,

"When you were in first year, do you remember any" he dithered for a second "incidents, that may have happened in the girl's dorms?"

Hermione's eyes narrowed. "What did you do?" she replied through gritted teeth, her eyes widened slightly, "wait a sec, there's a re-sliding spell on the staircases to the dorms. Boys can't get into the girls dorms. How did you do it?"

She looked suspiciously at them both, shifting on their feet and looking nervous.

"Well, you see, um, now where, and um oh George you tell her, I can't!" Fred cried exasperatedly.

George looked even more nervous. "Promise you won't tell anyone, not even your mother, though that wouldn't matter because she's a muggle… as I was saying, um, well … wehaveasecretpassage." He blurted out.

Hermione looked sceptical, "say that again, in ENGLISH." She replied.

George was looking quite the worse for wear.

Fred continued, slowly and carefully as if to a child, "We have a secret passage between the boys and girls dorms. We think the marauders built it when they were here. It's very useful really!"

Hermione replied, "Well if it's the only way… Is it clean?"

They were crawling through a relatively clean tunnel, discussing the tunnel. They were in a line, Hermione first, then Fred, then George, all crawling because of the height of the tunnel.

"Does it really matter Hermione? We use it. Leave it at that. Its none of your business."

"Okay then." Said Hermione, even though she was no way going to give up on it. She would just come back to it later.

George was still sleepy.

"What are we discussing again?"

Fred replied, "We WERE discussing what we use the tunnel for."

"That's easy, how else do you think the boys visit Parvati, Hermione?"

"WHAT?" yelled a very shocked Hermione. "What are you talking about!"

"Er, nothing, he's tired that's all." Fred hastily covered up.

Hermione pursed her lips. Another subject to continue later.

"I see light, thank the lord!" muttered Fred.

Ginny was trying to get past the gossiping Parvati and lavender.

She had had enough. "EXCUSE ME!" She rudely barged through.

Parvati smiled, "Ooh, if it isn't best friend of the slut. We were just taking bets on what your brother and his new whore might be doing in our dorm right now.

Ginny laughed, "I can't believe you fell for those rumours! Lee must be good!"

Parvati's smile disappeared. "Well lets go in there and see who's right."

They opened the door.

"Ow!"

Hermione was climbing through the end of the tunnel, still on her knees with Fred coming behind her. She heard the door open.

"OMIGOD! I WAS RIGHT!" yelled Parvati hysterically.

Ginny, Parvati and Lavender stood shocked in the doorway, staring at the scene they saw.

Hermione was kneeling on the floor, Fred, head on her bum, right behind her.

"Uh oh." Hermione muttered to Fred.

Authors note: A bit gross but hey, hope you like it! My internet crashed all week so it has taken a while to do but I did it at school eventually!