((Happy delayed Valentines day!))
The morning Josie was to head back to Hogwarts was a whirlwind. The stained light filtered in through the windows into the guest bedroom as the sun rose into the sky, Josie already wide awake, showed and dressed to leave, her uniform packed in her school bag and Georgette in her cage. She double checked that her gifts from New Year's that she was taking with her were all in her suitcase, looking under the bed in case one of the cards from her chocolate frogs had fallen. She gave all of them she got to the twins, and all the ones they had no use for to their younger brother, Ron.
Paxton ate a very large breakfast, while Josie ate nothing at all, her stomach fluttering from nervousness. Andrea packed Paxton and Josie large sandwiches for lunch on the way there, making sure to give Josie an apple in case she got hungry before then due to her lack of breakfast. Emanuel made sure both students had everything they needed, slipping an extra six galleons into each of their pockets when his wife wasn't looking. One by one they filed into the fireplace, each disappearing to Diagon Alley. Paxton went first, followed by Emanuel, leaving the two women in the living room together. Josie was just about to grab a handful of floo power when Andrea caught her arm, sets of blue eyes meeting as Andrea's red lips turned into a smile.
"Josephine, I'm very proud of you. I've been begging Andre to send you to Hogwarts since you were eight. Paxton says that the school was in a hushed uproar when you transferred, but I suppose that's just how teenagers are when something new shows up." She said, Josie looking at the ground awkwardly. She felt Andrea crouch down, back into view, and averted her eyes. She wasn't in the mood for a heart to heart at the moment; her heart was longing to be somewhere else. "Keep them in an uproar. As soon as thoughts of you disappear from their minds, kick them in the face with something fantastically new." Josie looked up at her aunt at this, smiling a little bit. "You have every reason to be important, and you have it in you to be the first spark of the fireworks soon to come." She smiled and patted her hand, returning to her towering height to nudge Josie into the fireplace. "By the way, the Weasley twins are a good choice. Paxton ranted about them for days when the kicked his ass in their first Quidditch match." With that, Josie disappeared into the green flames, cheeks pink with embarrassment. Her mother was going to get an earful...or at least a very long and strongly worded letter.
The four ran into Florrish and Blots to grab extra quills and parchment before arriving at Kings Cross with a half-hour to spare, grabbing warm drinks at a muggle café before heading through the barrier. Josie handed her suitcase and Georgette's cage off to be put into the storage cars, and stood against the wall with Paxton and his family to wait. Lana appeared soon after they settled their backs against the bricks, followed by their parents. Lana's parents quickly fell into a conversation with Andrea, talking excitedly about their children and the latest news. Their significant other wrapped his arms around Lana, shoving his hands into the pockets of their ripped jeans and setting his chin on top of their head. Josie shrunk into the wall, holding her bag close to her and watching the crowd. Soon enough she was nudged into the crowd towards the train, Emanuel hugging her tight and Andrea kissing her cheeks before wishing her goodbye. She hadn't seen any of her friends at all, so she climbed onto the train behind Paxton, moving through the cars until she found someone familiar. When stepping into one of the back cars, she immediately heard Lee Jordan's voice yelling excitedly down the hallway. She smiled, holding herself steady as the train jerked to a start before she headed towards the sound. Josie stopped when she could hear what they were talking about, not being able to help herself from listening when she heard them mention a "her".
"You were right there and you didn't do anything! What the FUCK is wrong with you? Did you have any contact at all, or did you don your cornette's and revert back to abstinence? Hot girl, plus boys she likes, minus supervision, should equal SOMETHING." Lee was yelling, obviously annoyed with someone. Josie had a feeling they were talking about her, but wasn't sure what Lee was fully implying. She decided to go in and save the poor souls she knew were in there, stepping into view and sliding open the door. Lee Jordan looked at her with wide eyes, clamping his mouth shut in the middle of an obscenity before looking at the twins. Fred and George were almost in the floor laughing, hollering about the hilarious look on Lee's face. She waited until they calmed down to sit herself in between them, the thought of what their conversation had been punted from her mind as the twins went into the very detailed story of how they covered Percy's entire room with wrapping paper and hidden his glasses under it somewhere in the room. She thought she caught the twins rake their eyes over her, from her red flats and dark tights to her cream knit sweater, but her mind was surely playing tricks on her. They wouldn't do that, they're not as desperate for contact as I am.
The four friends arrived back at Hogwarts hours later, after a ride consisting of much talking, Lee getting every bad Bertie Botts Bean in a row, the twins stuffing the chocolate frog cards they didn't want into a box to explode onto Ron, and Josie falling asleep on Fred's shoulder. She woke up to her stomach growling painfully, having forgotten to eat her lunch due to excitement. "I think our girlfriend is half dragon Georgie." Fred said jokingly as they got up to change into their uniforms, Josie's stomach growling loudly as she stood up. Lee disappeared after going into the next car to change, leaving to chase after the sweets trolley, and letting the three of them have time alone.
"If you don't get over here I'm going to breath fire." She muttered, grabbing Fred by his shirt. She faltered when his eyebrows raised in surprise, stopping short of yanking him down to release the pent up desire she'd had to be around them. Doubt tickled her mind, her palms becoming damp with nerves. She felt his breath of laughter under her knuckles, his head tilting as her towered over her. "Well, go on then." He said softly, his voice dropping in pitch like it always did when he got more excited or devious than usual. Josie's stomach twisted, a spark tingling its way through every nerve and her heart picking up in rhythm. He was challenging her, and she was accepting it. She fisted her hands in his sweater and pulled him down to meet her lips, kissing him deeply enough to clash her teeth against his, a soft whimper crawling up her throat. Seconds later she was turning into George's chest and taking his jaw between her fingers to crush her lips into his. He grunted softly, triggering a very quiet moan from her as she caught his lips between hers. They broke apart moments later, Fred and George trapping her between them long enough for them to gruffly mutter "You should do that more often." Before leaving her alone in the cabin to change like the gentlemen they are.
Josie was shocked; the gravity of what she had just done settling in her mind as she flushed scarlet and sat on the seat to take a second to slow down her breathing and allow the throbbing in her pelvis to die down. She quickly changed into her uniform, folding her clothes and tucking them into her bag as the boys walked back in. Lee came back with caldron cakes for each of them, Josie almost tackling him in joy because he got her something to eat, the sandwich and apple forgotten in her bag until after dinner that night when it was eaten while finishing an essay she had forgotten in the wee hours of the morning.
A week or so later they had fallen back into their normal behavior, the twins back at Quidditch practice, Josie back to watching them, and all four of them back to being buried in homework most nights. The argument she had overheard Lee having with the twins began to dwell in her mind, the lack of physical contact between her and the twins worrying her. Maybe they're second guessing liking me. She thought one night when they had all gathered in the boy's dormitory, Josie sitting on the floor in front of Fred's bed as she finished deciphering ancient runes. Her mind was focused on her homework, wanting it get it done as soon as possible, but could not help but pick up the three boys in the room talking in hushed tones. Blue eyes glanced up at them, catching Lee's dark eyes as she quirked an eyebrow. He grinned innocently before returning to muttering something into Fred and Georges ears. Josie was lulled back into boredom when she went back to her work, hardly noticing Lee move to search around his bed.
"Oh bloody hell!" Lee's obscenity caused Josie to jump, nearly knocking over her ink well as she turned to look at him tear his bed apart. "I forgot one of my books in Lupin's classroom. If I don't finish that charms paper by tomorrow Flitwick is going to hang me from the chandelier by my toes." "Why don't you just borrow one of our books?" Josie asked, closing her ink well and standing up. "My paper is in my book!" Lee yelled, grabbing Georges arm. "I'm going to get it and George; you're coming with me so Filch doesn't catch me and skin me alive." With that and a confusingly pointed look at Fred, he disappeared out the door, dragging George behind him.
The air in the room became suddenly tense, and Josie could feel Fred's eyes boring into the back of her neck. Josie bent back down to roll up her Ancient Runes homework and place it back into her bag, glancing at Fred as she put away her quill and ink. He was looking down at one of his text books, long fingers rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly as fiddled with his quill. Ginger hair swung into eyes that seemed to be staring at nothing, his brow furrowed and jaw tight. Caught up in admiring her boyfriend, Josie didn't realize he had raised his eyes to look at her, chuckling when he caught her staring. Josie realized too late that she had been found out, not having time to turn away blushing before he spoke.
"Hey, can you come help me with this?" She blinked, standing up slowly before moving to stand by his bed side, looking at his work. "What is it?" She asked softly, her hands folded behind her back. "Astrology, due tomorrow." "You know I'm terrible at Astrology." "You're loads better than I am." He replied with a grin, leaning back on his palms as she sat next to him. Tucking her hair behind her ear as she looked over his paper, she found he had already done all of the constellations assigned. "What exactly do you need help with?" she asked, turning to find him closer to her than before, her shoulder almost against his chest. "Just hoping you could help me see the stars more clearly. But perhaps I should be the one helping you see stars."
She was stuck on what was just said when he pressed his lips against hers, her eyes fluttering closed when he didn't pull away moments later, his lips moving slowly against hers as he shifted his work from his lap onto the bed. The skin at her waist dipped in as he gripped it, turning her body to press against his chest as he leaned into her and tilted his head to deepen the kiss. She had to pull away for air, her cheeks and lips flushed from exertion. Breathy laughter escaped her throat when she fully realized what he had said earlier, her brain catching up to his actions. "That was absolutely terrible." She muttered, giggling as she looked into his eyes. They burned back into hers, the corners crinkling as he grinned. "But it worked." He said as his tongue darted out to wet his lips as his eyes dropped to glance at hers, flushed and caught between her teeth. The look he gave her was enough to send fire down her spine to the tips of her toes and her heart to pick up rapidly. Her small hands gripped his tie and pulled him to her, her lips finding his. They kissed fiercely, Fred getting to his knees to lean over her. He pulled back when she was panting, breaking the kiss long enough to softly ask "Is this alright?" and hear her approval before crawling over her, his arms on either side of her shoulders and one of his thighs nestled between hers.
Her heart threatened to break out of her ribcage, beating so loudly that it thudded in her ears, almost drowning out the sound of their breath mixing. Her gasp broke through the rhythm as he ran his tongue over her lips before slipping it between them when they opened. He chuckled when she didn't react by moving her tongue against his, instead allowing him to have control. The shudder that ran though him when a soft moan vibrated the back of her throat only amplified the tingles that were running through each nerve she had. His hair tickled her cheeks as she sank further into his pillow, his weight shifting when he moved to set a hand on her hip, gripping it tightly as she flicked her tongue against his and slid her fingers up the back of his neck to tangle into his hair.
His chest flexed under her fingers when he pulled back, a trail of saliva linking their lips, broken when he smirked at her. Kissing her lips gently and tucking hair behind her ear, he set his forehead against hers and waited for his breathing to settle down. "I reckon they'll be coming back soon." He said softly, stroking his thumb across her jaw as they looked at each other. "Oui, I guess it has been quite a while." She answered, watching him sit up. She couldn't hardly move, blood rushing through her veins and a certain area of her body throbbing frustratingly.
Lee and George appeared minutes later, after Josie had sat up and fixed her clothing and hair, catching her and Fred in the middle of looking at each other admiringly, her face etched with the desire she was feeling. The three gathered their things, Josie's legs shaking as they headed out of the dormitory and up to the Astronomy tower for class.