Disclaimer: Are they mine? Nope… I tricked you they aren't…
Chapter Thirteen
Unwanted attention, a simple kiss and more problems…
His fingers digging into my flesh was sheer pain. What was wrong with Ron? He was not Fred Weasley; he was not upfront with his feelings.
"Ron let go you're hurting me." I told him staring into his oddly blue eyes.
"I want you Hermione. I love you." He said lowering his face to mine. This wasn't Ron at all. My Pheromones they were in affect that's why. I knew that Ron never really felt that way for me. I knew since the summer he confessed to being in love with someone else. Which is why we had grown closer as friends, we were in love with different people. I took this opportunity to escape while his eyes were close and did something drastic.
"I'm sorry for this Ronald." And my knees went up between his legs and he went down in pain. I ran out the door.
"I LOVE YOU HERMIONE. PLEASE COME BACK. I WANT YOU TO BE MY BRIDE. I'LL MURDER FRED IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU…" Ron continued as I raced pass the fences closer to the pond. I ran right into Bill and Fleur.
"Hermionee is everything all right?" Fleur asked as I stopped to catch my breath.
"Ron has caught my aura and he's in full tension mode." I tried to explain still inhaling air.
"Oh Professor Lupin told us about that last night." Bill kneed down placing his hand on my shoulder. I looked up only to see he had been tackled down by a redhead breathing heavily. Fred? George? Which one was it?
"BILL." Fleur screamed as her husband tried to push the angry redhead off of him.
"She's mine. Stay away from her." The redhead warned in a low tone. It was George. Oh no.
"Hermionee your fiancé 'e's hurting my husband, do something?" Fleur turned to me. But I was grabbed by my messy hair best friend and headed into the woods.
"Harry it's me Hermione. We're best friends. You don't look at me that way. You love Ginny remember." I tried as I found Ginny was standing in front us with smoke coming out of her ears.
"Ginny it's not Harry..." I began.
"I know. It's your stupid pheromones thing. But he's going to get it either way." She charged at us and knocked Harry to the ground.
"Hermione wait I love you." I heard as I took off running. Only to be caught by thick strong arms. Charlie. He had the shortest hair out of the Weasley male and he was the most built because he worked with dragons.
"I love you more than anyone here does…" He started as I bit his arm to let me go. When he did that I took off in a sprint. He yelled in pain but continued chasing after me. This is insane. Why do I have something I didn't even need in my daily life? Sure if I wanted the popularity thing it was easy to have this to help but I'm Hermione Granger and that stuff was useless. I turned to see that Ron, George, Charlie and even Harry was chasing after me now and these guys played quidditch on a regular basis which means that they were built for this kind of running were I was meant to heal people after getting beaten by this sort of thing.
I found that I was getting so exhausted that I was going to die. This was more running then I've remember doing all the years I been at Hogwarts even with Harry's and Ron's adventures. I was headed back into the house were I was sure I would be able to find my wand. Doors that should keep them away from me for a while. They were fast and I couldn't shut it in time and I had to race up the stairs. Where were Mr. and Mrs. Weasley anyways? I turned the corner to see Fred stepping out of the bathroom with a towel around his shoulders and wearing only a pair of jeans. Leaving his chest bare still caressed with water and his red hair damped. He was heading back into the room.
"FRED." I yelled so glad that he was normal still. He turned as he heard me call and I threw myself into his arms. He was caught of guard but stood his ground as I looped my arms around his neck. I felt that necklace he wore press against my chest as well. He only understood when he saw the four guys behind me breathing heavily.
"Sorry guys but she's mine." Fred smirked staring at them. "Kiss me." He demanded.
"Wha…?" Was all I got out as I felt his lips on mine. The kiss was soft but quick.
"Look." He nodded towards the four guys.
"What the hell am I doing upstairs?" Ron asked so confused.
"Could have sworn I was walking with Ginny." Harry looked around only to see the walls.
"Where's Alicia?" Charlie asked as he searched the hall and left suddenly.
"Why am I here?" George was confused and shook his head as coming out of a dream.
"Why do I feel like I been running miles?" Ron asked walking down the stairs.
"Me too." Harry and George said in unison. Then they all looked up and saw that I was entangled in Fred's arm just trying to catch my breath as well. And all this was before breakfast was even done.
"Pheromones." Fred answered them hiding the angry note in his voice. If anything he would be upset about them chasing me down like that.
"Oh." They all said nodding and turning quickly to leave before Fred decides to kill them with just his glare. I didn't realize that my grip was still tight around his neck. He didn't seem bothered by it and carried me in his arms, moments later we were back in the bedroom.
"Professor Lupin said when you and I are together the aura finds its way to surround itself with one another so that no one else can sense it but us. When were alone without the other it diffuses itself in every direction. So were going to have one hell of a time fighting off the female and male population." Fred explained. I felt that drained feeling once again. That's why he took me back into the room; he knew that I would be without any energy and needed rest.
"So when you told me to kiss you, we were pulling back the aura so that their trance could be broken?" I asked as I found myself lying on the bed resting on one arm.
"Yes. The other day when those women came at me I had no idea what to do and why they were tearing at my clothes like crazy. This pheromone makes them have desires for the one with the scent; I thought I was a goner for sure. I'm glad that Tonks and Professor Lupin arrived when they did." Then he grinned. For the first time in a long time the famous prankster smile. I couldn't resist reaching my free hand up and caressing his cheek as I found my eyes begin to close. I felt he caught my hand and placed a soft kiss on my knuckles.
"Sleep tight." I heard as I felt him place another kiss on my left shoulder and then nothing else.
This time when I woke it was dark seeing as the room was pitch black. I could hear so much noises coming from downstairs and knew that the banquet had already started. So much for showering after breakfast and writing to mom and dad. I thought as I pushed the blanket off of me and headed to the bathroom running into Ginny as I stepped out the door.
"Oh Hermione you're awake. I was just coming to get you." She smiled.
"What time is it Ginny?" I asked rubbing my eyes.
"It's a quarter pass seven." She answered.
"Do you know if I have any spare clothes here?" I asked the redhead.
"Don't think Fred brought any, seeing as this was the next place he took you after the hospital. If you want I got some extra clothing if you need it." Ginny offered.
"Yes. That would be great but I kind of want to shower and have a fresh pair of everything." I winked at her.
"Of course, I think that Fred's downstairs if you want to go home." She motioned her head towards the stairs. Great now everyone was going to see me in a mid drift tank top and pajama bottoms.
"Hermione dear so glad you could join us." Mrs. Weasley said spotting me at the bottom of the stairs with Ginny just behind me. I smiled looking around to see Ron and Lavender at one side of the room with Katie Bell and Tonks, Harry in deep conversation with Bill, Professor Lupin and Mr. Weasley. Charlie talking with his bride who was no other then Alicia Spinnet from Hogwarts as well. Wow, this was a small world after all. Fleur was in the kitchen trying to help out and there were two bodies missing. The two twins: Fred and George.
'They were just here a minute ago." Ginny said all confused now.
"Ginny please come here." Harry called as He spotted her. Why didn't Harry or Ron greet me?
"If you're looking for your husband Hermione, he was called back to the joke shop." Bill told me waving happily.
"Thanks Bill." I said dryly walking into the kitchen trying to hide my embarrassment.
"Harry and Ron are sorry you know. They're a little embarrassed about what happened this morning. Fred was glad that you weren't hurt again or else he would have murdered them. He almost did seeing the bruise on your arms." The bruises from when Ron pinned me against the wall. I looked down and there they were. Purple and green spots weren't so hard to miss. "They wanted me to tell you that they're not ignoring you. They're a shame of having done that, and you're just recovering too." Mrs. Weasley smiled at me warmly.
"I know it wasn't their fault." I told her shaking my head.
"Dinner should be ready soon, are you going to change dear?" She asked me.
"I'm sorry this is really rude of me but I haven't gotten any clothes here and was looking for Fred and just found out he was at the shop so here I am." I laughed.
"I suppose we can send one of the boys to go fetch him." Mrs. Weasley suggested.
"That's too much trouble. I'll just floo powder myself there." I said walking towards the fireplace.
"Oh you can't do that my dear they placed a spell so that only the two of them know how to enter their shop without all the jinks that comes with what they call trespassing." She laughed.
"It's fine their shop is just a couple of stores down Diagon Alley anyways. I don't mind." I stood to head upstairs to change.
"Where are you headed Hermione?" Katie Bell had wondered into the kitchen just as she seen me enter it after arriving back downstairs.
"To the Weasley's Wizard Wheezes." I answered.
"Would you like company then?" She asked looking hopefully at me.
"Of course I would like that. I'll need someone to throw at the sharks if my pheromone starts acting up again." I teased handing her some floo powder.
"George was laughing hard after that, he found it amusing and a bit disturbing to tell you the truth." She grinned.
"I'll bet. Knowing that he was attracted to me must have been mind blowing." I laughed but stopped short as Katie's expression changed.
"What's wrong with him being attracted to you? You're extremely stunning. Hermione I don't need to tell you that and this shouldn't have to be the work of some stupid pheromone thing. Please tell me you look at yourself in the mirror?" She took my hand. I smiled and nodded. Katie had always been sweet but I never knew she was so passionate about people self esteem before. I didn't have a low self esteem but I wasn't always as confident about it as Ginny was either.
"I'll kill Fred if he doesn't see how beautiful you are. Is he making you feel like a troll? Hermione you can tell me. I'll kill him in his sleep, then that way you can find someone who is willing to make an effort at calling you by your first name." I laughed at her outrageous plots.
"Let's go shall we?" I said stepping into the fireplace. After we both arrived at Diagon Alley we continued our conversation.
"He thinks I'm using my looks to seduce him." I told her.
"That poor jerk, doesn't even know that's your natural charm." Katie laughed.
"When are you and George deciding to get married?" I asked changing the subject so that it wasn't about me anymore.
"I think it'll be the third week after you and Fred." She answered. Everything was definitely rushed.
"Who's in the second…?" She had pushed the door open to the shop and was frozen in place. I looked in her direction to see the sight before us was a redhead in a lip lock match with some mystery girl leaning against the counter. Was it George? Fred I remember wore that necklace with the silver rings on it so I was sure it couldn't be him. I never thought about why he wore them like that or what they represent and this wasn't the time to find out.
"GEORGE WEASLEY YOU GOT SOME NERVE." Katie yelled drawing everyone's eyes our way. That answered my question. George how could you? Poor Katie.
(A/N: You've never guess that George was just as much a troublemaker as Fred. You've been proven wrong. How's he going to talk himself out of this one? Heehee…)