Wow, I'm updating again. I should be cleaning my room though…oh well. I'm glad you people liked the last chapter and are anxious to finally get to the wedding, but it ain't gonna happen yet. The wedding is at least 2 chapters away…I think. It may change.

Insanitysplea About the dress…No. That has nothing to do with Jenna's parents. It's just that she and her mother don't exactly live in the life of luxury and it was one of the most beautiful things she had ever owned and she was treasuring it. A Weasley-esque situation. The necklace on the other hand…

Oh, and the pretty box in the shop was magical…don't know why I told you that, but I thought it was a cool idea.

Chapter 25

The Stress of Being a Twin

The wedding was only a week away, but the excitement between the three girls was palpable. Every conversation revolved around it, from what the bridesmaids were going to wear to what Jenna was going to say to her mother when they got back.

"Just say the match was great." Rhea stated matter-of-factly as they tried to stay awake during History of Magic.

"That won't work. My mum is going to ask a lot of questions. She has a severe interest in my life. I need to come up with something good, which is going to be hard considering I'm not very good at the game."

"Well, that's your alibi, isn't it?"

"Will you two please stop talking? I can't hear the lesson."

"Shut it, Addy. We're discussing important matters here."

"What could be more important than something that may be on the final?"

"Oh, I don't know…maybe just about everything?"

"You are so infuriating!"

"Excuse me Miss Weasley? Is there something you wish to discuss with the rest of the class?" The ghost of Professor Binns looked angry.

"Sorry, Professor. It won't happen again." Addy shot a death glare at Rhea before beginning to scribble notes feverishly to make up her discretion. Rhea and Jenna chose to ignore the peeved ghost and continue their conversation.

"What's my alibi again?" Jenna asked, leaning closer to Rhea, so they wouldn't get caught again.

"Your alibi is that you thought it was fantastic, but since you didn't know any of the finer points of the game – and neither does your mum – you can't really go into detail about it."

"That just might work. Rhea, you're brilliant!" Jenna whispered as Addy looked over curiously before going back to her notes.

"Of course I'm brilliant," Rhea stated knowingly. "You don't think I get by on looks alone, do you?"

Jenna grinned. "I always thought it was Addy with the good looks." Rhea made a face and then burst into silent giggles. Luckily, the bell rang before they became loud enough to hear.

Final exams were upon the school, and students of every grade were in a rush to relearn everything they had been taught in just a few short days. This applied to one person in particular.

"You've been sitting there for hours! When are you going to take a break?" Jenna asked as she settled down next to disheveled looking Addy. The common room was filled with Gryffindors who were trying to fit in a bit of last minute study, but Addy had been there the longest and looked the worst for it.

Her hair was sticking up worse than usual, her robes were askew on her body and parchment, quills, ink pots, and at least ten books were spread around her on the coffee table. Her eyes were red from reading so much and skin took on the color of spoiled milk. It was not a pretty sight.

"I can't take a break, Jenna. There is so much I haven't looked through yet. I just barely stared on the goblin rebellions of the 1520s and I haven't even started to memorize all of Uranus's moons. Speaking of which…why aren't you studying? And where's my dolt of a sister?" She added as she finally looked up from her notes and scanned the room with her large brown eyes.

Jenna sighed. "She's outside practicing charms on unsuspecting people. Last time I saw her she was turning Jack Summer's hair a brilliant shared of purple." Addy gasped.

"Jack? How could she? Rhea could get in trouble for this! She could get detention! And why did she have to go and make Jack Summers look like an Easter egg?" Addy cried out as she stood up and left the Gryffindor Tower for the first time since breakfast. Jenna ran after her to make sure no blood was spilt.

A half hour later, all the Weasley twins and Jenna emerged through the portrait. Rhea laughing her head off, Addy looking like she was about to kill, and Jenna who was smiling widely at her two best friends.

"But why Jack?" Addy asked, sounding a little hurt. Rhea either didn't hear it, or chose to ignore it because her next sentence caused a book to go soaring towards her, courtesy of her sister.

"You put charms on him because I fancy him! I can't believe you'd be that mean." Addy sat down on a nearby chair and huffed for a moment before standing up, smoothing out her robes and settling herself amidst her notes and books once again.

"Come on," Rhea motioned for Jenna to follow her out of the common room. "We can go study somewhere a little less stuffy." She put emphasis on the last word, pointedly staring at her sister as she did so.

Jenna looked back and forth between her two best friends before grabbing her things from the table and following Rhea to the library where they spent the next hour going over their notes together.

Jenna had a knot in her stomach the entire time. Finally she couldn't take it any more.

"Don't you think you were a little harsh on Addy?" Jenna whispered, putting aside another page of notes she had been reading.

"Please, Jenna. Addy's got thick skin. She can take anything I dish out and vice versa. It's a twin thing."

"Are you sure? Addy sounded really hurt…maybe you should apologize."

"Na…like I told you, Addy is a big girl. She'll forget about it in an hour or so." Jenna had been taught that apologizing was the only right thing to do, even if the other party didn't seem hurt. It was common courtesy, and Jenna told her so, while adding that she wouldn't go to the wedding if they didn't make up.

Rhea stared at her friend as though she had just started speaking Parseltongue, but at Jenna's persistent glared, finally acquiesced.

"Fine, have it your way. I'll apologize, but I'm not happy about it." Rhea emphasized this fact by crossing her arms in front of her chest and sighing loudly for the next fifteen minutes. Finally, Jenna couldn't take it any longer and slammed her copy of 1000 Magical Herbs and Fungi closed with a deafening crash.

"Rhea, would you just grow up?" Jenna's voice was louder than she had meant it to be, but right now, she didn't really care. She gathered up her notes and books and loudly stalked out of the library, much to the annoyance of the elderly Madame Pince, who, in her later years, had been required to wear a finely tune hearing aid to keep her position in the usually still library.

Rhea stayed in the library long after dinner, and didn't enter the common room until Madame Pince shooed her out from behind her textbooks at closing time. No one noticed her tear-stained cheeks and red eyes. Or her sad disposition, or the fact that her usually open and wordy mouth was shut tight, and that she slumped up to bed earlier than most of the denizens of the common room.