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A slumber party?
After they had finished their dinner and cleaned the table they all went into the living room and sat down to talk.
Mrs. Weasley left the room to get them all some tea.
She came back a minute later holding a tray with 8 tea cups, "So, are you three staying for the night?" she asked Fred, George and Julia, looking hopeful at them, "you could all have a… what's it called… a slumber party, that's it. We could conjure some beds up and you could all sleep down here?"
"Yeah, that's a great idea mum!" Ginny screeched "Please stay Julia, it could be so much fun, like when we were younger. Pleeeeaaaas!"
Julia laughed softly at her friend, and great fully took the tea cup Mrs. Weasley handed her "Alright, I'll stay, it'll be fun" she said and smiled, Ginny jumped up and hugged her.
"I suppose you two are staying as well?" Mrs. Weasley smiled at her two sons as she gave them a cup of tea each.
Fred and George looked at each other and Fred said "Of course, you guys would be bored to death without us" and they both grinned.
"Oh how lovely, you're all staying" Mrs. Weasley said and hugged her twins.
They were all laying in their beds, which had been conjured up in the living room.
They had all changed into their pyjamas', Julia had borrowed one from Ginny, they were almost the same size, Julia was a little taller than Ginny though, so it needed to be made a little bigger.
Fred and George had left some clothes at the Burrow when they had moved out, so they would have something to wear if they were staying over night.
They had been eating popcorn, talking, singing along to the songs that was played in the radio and they had even had a few pillow fights until Fred threw a pillow a little too hard at Ron which had made his nose start bleeding and Mrs. Weasley had told them to go to bed after she had yelled at Fred.
They had now all fallen asleep, well, no, not all.
George couldn't fall asleep because he kept thinking about Julia, and of course Charlie.
He sighed and lay still, listening to his 3 brothers snoring, Ron was the one who snored loudest.
He looked over at Julia who was sleeping peacefully, next to Ginny, without making a sound.
He sighed again, and kept looking at her for some time, then turned his attention towards the ceiling.
Come on, fall asleep, he thought, but the only thing it did was making him even more awake.
He decided that since he couldn't fall asleep he would have to do something because he had to get his mind to think of something else.
He looked out of the window and decided that he would go out in the garden.
It looked as if it was a warm night and the sky was clear and it was a lot better than to lie in his bed and look at the sleeping people around him.
As silent as he could, he got up from his bed and walked over to the door, opened it, making sure that the others didn't wake up, and walked outside.
As he had thought, it was a warm night and the sky was very clear and full of stars.
He sat down at the grass and watched as a garden-gnom tried to crawl up in an apple tree.
"Stupid thing" he muttered as the gnom fell to the ground and watched as it tried to crawl up again.
He looked at the gnom for a little while, but decided that it wasn't really that interesting, so he looked up at the sky instead.
"Hey" a sweet voice came from behind him and he turned his head to look at Julia.
"Hey" he said back.
"You couldn't fall asleep?" she asked him.
"Not really" he said, looking away again, feeling his heart go crazy over all the feelings he was feeling right now.
He was in love with her, but was her and Charlie together? He was mad at Charlie for doing that to him.
He could at least have said something to George about it, but he hadn't.
"Are you alright?" Julia asked, worry showing in her voice, as she came over and sat down next to him.
He just nodded his head to answer, he wished that she would stop being so sweet, if there was something between her and Charlie then being sweet wouldn't help George's feeling's much.
"Are you sure?" she asked again "Since we came here you've seemed, kind of, sad" she said trying to catch his eyes, but he tried to look anywhere else than at her.
"I'm fine" he said, in a not very convincing voice.
"You're just like me" Julia smiled.
He didn't answer but kept looking at other things than her.
"Hey" she said and placed her hand on his cheek and turned his head so he would look at her, "what's wrong?" she looked him deeply in the eyes.
"Nothing… I… No, nothing" he said looking back into her eyes.
She nodded her head, but he knew that she didn't believe him.
He looked up at the stars and out of his eye he saw Julia doing the same.
After a few minutes Julia spoke, "It's a beautiful night" she said still looking up at the stars.
Not as beautiful as you, he thought, No, stop thinking that way George, you're just making it worse.
He sighed, and looked at Julia, without being to obvious.
He wanted to ask her if her and Charlie were together, but he was too afraid to hear the answer, what if the answer was 'yes'?
He shook his head at himself, no, he was not going to ask her, but his mouth apparently didn't feel the same way as he heard himself say "Are you and Charlie together? Like a couple?" he saw her look a little confused at him "I mean I saw him kiss you and hold your hand so I thought that maybe, you know" he said.
The confused expression turned into a smile "Charlie? And me?" she laughed the soft laugh that George loved so much "Sorry," she said and held a hand in front of her mouth and tried to stop laughing.
"But, honestly? Charlie and me? Together? As a couple?" she saw that he looked like he meant it seriously "Charlie is like my big brother and I'm like his, second, little sister" she said honestly "Would you never kiss Ginny on the cheek if you hadn't seen her in a long time and you missed her?" she asked him.
He hadn't thought of it that way before, yes he would kiss Ginny if he had missed her and hadn't seen her in a long time.
"And wouldn't you take her hand to help her if she was weak?" she asked again.
Yeah, he would, of course.
So, was that true, was Julia and Charlie just like a brother and a sister?
Well that did make some sense, didn't it? After all they had all known each other since Julia had been born, and he knew that Bill felt like Julia was his second sister too, so did Ron and Fred.
He had even heard Percy say that she felt like a sister a few years ago.
And Ginny had always seen her as her big sister and had always asked her for advice.
So George was the only one who didn't feel like she was family, but felt like she was the girl of his dreams?
"Oh" he said.
"You really thought that Charlie and I were together?" she asked looking into his eyes.
"Yeah," he said, not letting it show how happy he really was, but he had a little smile on his lips.
Julia looked at him for a little while, she seemed to be thinking "was that the reason why you've been a little down since we got here?"
Oh no, had she figured it out? "Eerm," he said, and felt himself go a little red as Julia kept looking at her "I… eer… I was just a little hurt that… you guys hadn't told me if you were… you know…" he said, hoping she would believe it.
"Oh," she said "you know that's a stupid lie," she smiled, she knew that he wasn't telling the truth.
"But don't worry, I'll let you keep it to yourself" she looked him in the eyes and he looked back.
She smiled and he smiled back, glad that she hadn't figured it out after all.
Julia gave a small yawn, and looked up at the sky again, sighing.
George kept looking at her and saw that she had tears in her eyes, he wondered what she was thinking about when she turned her head and looked him in the eyes again.
He blushed as she had caught him looking at her, again.
She smiled at him, "I think I'm going to go to bed again, and you should to before it's getting to late"
He nodded his head and smiled at her, "goodnight" she said and reached over and kissed his cheek.
He felt the same feeling as he had when she had kissed his cheek earlier, warmth that spread to his whole body and the butterflies began to fly crazily around in his stomach again.
He watched her as she walked inside and when he couldn't see her anymore he sighed and stood up.
He couldn't remember when he had last been as happy as he was now.
He walked back inside, and saw Julia already sleeping in her bed.
He smiled and lay back down in his bed.
He took a last glance at her before he fell asleep.