A/N: I really do hope that you enjoy this chapter. It didn't take too long to write, so I hope it isn't too short. Please read and review, and check out my other stories! Much Love- Bookworm

Hermione couldn't bring herself away from the gaze of Molly Weasley. She could hear her heart beating in her chest, and suddenly she tucked her hands under the table, as they had began to shake.

"Hermione? Hermione's your girlfriend?" Molly asked slowly, turning her gaze to Fred, and Hermione took a deep breath as the man next to her nodded gleefully.

"Yup. Took her to the ball too." He said, as he continued to eat his lunch. Hermione held her breath, expecting Molly to explode. Instead she nodded and smiled at the pair of them.

"Well, then you know the rule. She's not allowed to be up in your room." Molly said, and Fred opened his mouth to protest, but Hermione elbowed him. He looked at her and she shook her head, not wanting to argue with the woman who had just accepted that they were together. He closed his mouth and smiled at her before turning back to his meal.

"When did you lot get together?" Charlie asked, and Hermione expected Fred to answer, but when he didn't she looked up and saw that Charlie was looking at her.

"Oh erm, just since the ball actually." She said, and Charlie looked back and forth between them for a moment.

"Fred… Didn't you send me a letter a couple weeks ago saying you were going to bring a girl home?" Charlie asked, and Fred nodded.

"I knew that she couldn't resist my charms much longer." He said, giving her a wink and making her blush.

"Oh so confident." Charlie muttered, rolling his eyes.

"Why yes I am brother. As soon as I asked her to the ball, and she said yes, I knew that she was going to be my girlfriend. Eventually." He said, and Hermione heard Ginny sigh wistfully. She grinned at the girl, and they happily finished their meal to the steady sound of chatter around the room.

"So how did you ask her?" Ginny said, sitting on the ground by the fireplace that evening.

"Well dear sister. It all started at Snape's mass test before winter break." George started.

"These two were discussing the ball, and George here decided to give them a bit of a shove." Fred continued, pointing at Harry and Ron.

"And while I was asking Angelina to go with me."

"I passed a note to Hermione, asking if she would go with me."

"Obviously, she said yes."

"Which is good too, since Ron decided just then to realize that she's a girl."

"Well, she said no to him."

"Obviously."

"And the rest, as they say."

"Is history." Fred finished, and Ginny shook her head at her brothers as Hermione laughed at their twin speak.

"Quite a surprise really, Fred here didn't even tell me that he was going to ask her. Real shock when he told me after we left that blasted test." George said, pretending to sound hurt that Fred had left him out of the loop on that particular plan.

"You hadn't told him?" Hermione asked, knowing full well that these two shared everything with each other. Fred shook his head and gave her a lopsided smile.

"I really hadn't known I was going to ask you since breakfast that morning. You had your tie all lopsided and wrong, and one of your shoes were untied. I just knew at that moment that you were the girl." He said, making her and his little sister laugh.

"That's what made you ask her?" Ginny said, holding her stomach as she laughed.

"Well of course. It was the first moment that she didn't look absolutely put together, she looked perfect." He said, giving his girlfriend a smile as she blushed.

"Okay, well when did you ask her to be your girlfriend?" Ginny asked eagerly, wanting to know every detail.

"Oh. I can answer this one." George said eagerly, and Fred leaned back in the sofa, his arms crossed, and looking expectantly at his twin. George stood and cleared his throat before he began.

"This is quite a tale my sister dear. You see, these two have been dancing around each other for a year and a half now. Stolen glances cast, arguments. And my dear twin and I being absolute dunder heads. You see, the whole business with Harry's broom last year, we ended up being quite mean to Hermione last year. Finally, we got our heads out of our- err you know." He said, catching a glare from his mother before continuing. "Well after quite a bit of flirting, and trying to tear out of them what they were thinking, I finally got Fred to admit that he fancied her. Then the news came that there was going to be a ball. And of course, Fred asked Hermione. They were going to go as friends, and that I suppose would have been fine. I helped them coordinate their outfits, definitely not my forte there. But neither one of them was making a move. Fred and I agreed to have the girls meet up in front of the Great Hall. Of course, he was stunned when he saw her. All he managed to say was her name. When she saw him, she was obviously stunned as well, given his dashing looks. And next thing anyone knew, she had thrown herself at him and was snogging him. And…" And he paused, unsure of the rest of the story, he turned to Fred, looking for help. Fred shrugged and looked at Hermione next to him.

"And that's it." He said, grinning at Hermione's flushed face.

"Are you telling me that you never actually asked her to be your girlfriend?" Ginny asked shrilly, and Fred shook his head.

"Do I need to?" He asked, and though Hermione was shaking her head, Ginny nodded hers roughly.

"Of course you do!" She said.

"Well alright then. Hermione." He said, turning to her and taking her hands seriously, making her laugh. "I know that we have kissed, held hands, and even went to a ball together. But obviously that means nothing. Would you do me the honor of being my girlfriend?" He asked her. She was shaking from laughter, this was absolutely over the top and ridiculous, just like the man next to her.

"Oh I don't know Fred… do you really think after all of that, we might be able to make it work?" She asked holding her laughter back so she could ask him that. He laughed with her for a moment before speaking again.

"Okay, really though. Will you appease my sister and answer. I fear I may never know what we are if you refuse to answer." He said, still smiling.

"Oh I suppose so. Fine. I'll do it." She said, and he turned back to his sister, who was glaring at him.

"Satisfied?" He asked, and she let out a huff of air before nodding. "Good. That was bloody embarrassing, having to do that in front of you lot." He said, slinging an arm onto the back of the couch behind Hermione, who secretly agreed with him.

The rest of the winter holidays went by quite quickly, and before they knew it, they were well on their way back to Hogwarts. Lee, Hermione, and the twins were sharing a compartment on their way back to school, Hermione reading a book while the boys around her discussed what pranks and experiments they would be doing the rest of term. Hermione only half listened to them, figuring that she would be less inclined to stop them if she didn't know what they were going to be up to. That was, until she heard Fred say her name.

"Sorry, what?" Hermione said, closing her book and looking at the man next to her.

"I said, what do you think? Something that you could use to listen in on a conversation? Like, you hold one end maybe and the other end is small, it could stay hidden, but it would transfer the sound to you so that you could hear what was happening?" He said, and she sat back, thinking.

"Well… I suppose that.. if you used something like a backwards sonorous charm, it could work. And an extension charm could make what went between you and the conversation stretch, so that you could have it close or far away." She said thoughtfully.

"That's brilliant that is." Fred said, opening up a tattered notebook and writing something down. "You're absolutely brilliant." He said, giving his girlfriend a smile.

"Well thank you." She said, and the boys started to discuss names and semantics for the listening device. Once they had the blueprints drawn out, the focused on the name.

"Well…" Hermione cut in, and all the boys in the cabin turned to look at her. "Since you put an ear on the hearing end, why not…" She thought for a moment before coming up with an idea. "Extendable ears?" She suggested, and the boys around her nodded in agreement.

"It'll take a while to actually put one together." George said, and the other two boys nodded in agreement. "Hermione, would you be willing to help us with some of our other ideas?" George asked, turning to his twin's girlfriend, who bit her lip.

"As long as they don't hurt anyone, then I suppose I could help some." She said to the glee of the boys surrounding her. The conversation then turned to what the boys wanted to do once they left school next year.

"No, no, no. I don't want to keep selling stuff from our bedroom." George said when Fred suggested it.

"Well what would you prefer?" He asked.

"I want to open up a shop." George said, and Hermione could sense an argument on the way.

"Boys, you still have a year and a half to figure it out. If you don't want to keep selling from your bedroom, which I know for a fact when your mum finds out she wont like it one bit, then why don't you save up the profits from what you are selling now, and maybe work a little over the summer to get some more money, then think about getting a shop?" Hermione suggested, and the boys looked at her eyes wide.

"Good thinking Hermione. It's like you can read our minds and make it one." Fred said, kissing her on the cheek.

When they did arrive back to Hogwarts, it was already late and they went straight back to the common room. Hermione claiming to be tired, kissed Fred goodnight and went up to the girl's dormitory.