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Chapter 3
Mom always made the best food for holiday dinners. For as far back as I can remember the holiday dinner tables were always filled with buns, stuffing, turkey, and pies. All baked by hand by my mother of course, nothing store bought would ever touch this table.
The best part of the holidays weren't the food though. It was the conversations with every body. Mom was telling bill to cut his hair and look more responsible. Fred, Charlie and Harry were talking quidditch. Ginny and Alicia and all the other wives were talking about…well what ever it is mothers talk about. The only people that didn't seem to be talking were Hermione and myself. She seemed to be looking around at everybody with great concentration. Hermione was looking at everybody with this look in her eye that I had never seen. She then started to eat in perfect silence.
"So Hermione, where do you like now? Over your book shop?" I asked trying to start a discussion. She still looked down at her plate. "Hermione?" I said a bit louder. At this her head shot up and turned my way. "Wha-? Sorry Fred just got caught up in my thoughts. What did you ask?"
"You still live over the book shop?" I repeated.
"Oh,ya. It's only temporary I plan to move out to someplace bigger soon. Well hopefully…" she started to go silent. "What about you, still live over the WWW?"
"Ya, but as you said it's only temporary. Till….well you know. It's not really big enough to hold more then one person." I said as if trying to defend myself. But wasn't she in the same boat I am? Why defend myself?
The rest of dinner went by normally. We talked a little about our jobs and lives. Although I feel like we both had the same attitudes towards our current standing. Single and well….single. That word seems to sum up my life lately. Dinners were one; movies for one, place settings at parties were once again for one.
I heard scratching in my head and looked up; the family was all getting up and clearing the table. We all moved into the living room once more and sat down. Presents were to be opened tomorrow morning and all we could do now was rest and talk some more. I love talking but I knew what conversation was about to come and I wasn't in the mood for it at all.
"Fredrick?" my mother asked "you've been so quiet all night. It's not like you? Anything in your mind?"
"No mum. Just not myself I guess"
"You know what would cheer you up, what about that girl over at work? What's her nickname….Aqua?"
Hermione looked at me with an odd face. "Aqua?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"She swims a lot." I said simply. "And no mum. We're friends. That's it, nothing new since last time." I said picking up a book of the table end.
The time didn't seem to pass. After a few chapters I joined in on the game o exploding snaps and chess. I lost in both but did manage to singe off Ron's eyebrows so that was entertaining. At least till he threw that burning card back at me….ya…that kind of ruined the fun. Anyway sorry getting of topic…
I sat back on the couch and started to read Quidditch through the ages.
In 1398 the wizard Zacharias Mumps set down the first full description of the game of quidditch. He began by emphasizing the need for anti-muggle security while playing the game: "Choose areas of deserted moorland far from muggle habitations and make sure you can not be seen once you take off on your brooms. Muggle repelling charms are useful if you are setting up a permanent pitch. It is advisable, too, to play at night."
I blinked my eyes to think about what I just read. I just couldn't concentrate, between the noise of Charlie and Harry arguing over the topic of which I was reading and George trying to change back Ron's not purple hair, it was just too much going on. Plus I had this thing poking in the thigh. This couch is to old I though. I went to go move the spring of the push whatever was poking my thigh and came up on Hermione's foot. She had been sitting with her back on the couch and her legs taking up the extra room.
"oh" she looked up from her book, "sorry I didn't realize." She went to go sit in a different position: so not to take up the whole couch.
"Don't worry about it, its fine, really."
"No, really I'll move" she insisted
"Hermione its fine." And as if to prove my point I took her ankles and lifted them on to my lap. She looked at me for a second and then shrugged her shoulders.
Some more time went by along with a few more chapters. Suddenly the couch sank away and I was flying on a broom. I was soaring through the air and clouds. It was a beautiful and nothing was going to stop my ride. Suddenly my broom began to shake so hard I was close to falling off. I lost grip and was falling through the air. About to hit the ground I was waiting for the impact…
"Fred!" somebody shouted
My eyes flew open expecting to be in a hospital wing somewhere but oddly enough I felt fine.
"Fred" Bill said a little firmer "we are all going up, mom said to wake you. I think you might want to wake your girlfriend too." he said with a smirk then went upstairs holding hands with is wife.
I looked around trying to understand what Bill meant. Girlfriend, but I don't have a girlfriend. And just as I was about to move I felt something on my lap. I looked down to see Hermione little feet in my lap then followed them to her body as it slowly raised with each breathe that she took. Lifting them up and slipped around them standing up. I was just going to go upstairs and leave her in the couch till tomorrow morning till I saw her book about to fall out of her hands. With out thinking I took the book and placed in down on the table not to loose her page then looked at her face. She seemed to be scrunching her noise to move a wisp of hair that feel out of place. Bending down on my knees I reached over and ever so gently touching her forehead I tucked the piece of hair behind her ears. Her eyes twitched I automatically stood up and froze. She snuggled deeper into the couch and laid still. I reached over for the blanket and spread it out over her. As she laid there sleeping I couldn't help but think that I want to have that one day. Not exactly her but that feeling that there's a person that completes you in life. I needed to something to show me that I'm not alone in the world. Something that shows that I'm a part of something bigger and that I'll reach my goal somebody. I needed time to think. I needed to be somewhere new. I couldn't think of anything else to do but go outside and see the world in all its glory and to think that I was just a pawn in it all.
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