Year Four
Isla laughed as she ran away from her sister. Julian and Thom were laughing at the two girls. Thom had thought to remedy the gap between the twins and had decided that a holiday at the beach would be a good idea. Isla looked at her brother and saw for the first time in three years the brother who loved her. While she was looking at Julian, Aiden had managed to catch up. Aiden tackled Isla and the two girls ended up in the water. The boys just laughed. The girls looked at each other, grinned, then tackled their uncle and brother into the water.
"Okay, time to go back to the hotel," Thom said as the sun was setting.
"Do we have to?" Julian and Isla asked at the same time, then looked at each other with wide, shocked eyes.
"Yes, we do," Thom said while trying not laugh. He knelt down and Aiden got onto his back. Isla looked at Julian with pleading eyes. He rolled his eyes, but also knelt down to let her get on his back. The two guys looked at each other and smiled as they carried the girls up to the hotel. The girls had a shower and went to bed, they were asleep almost instantly. The guys smiled and sat down to watch some TV.
Isla, Julian and Aiden were dropped off at the train station by Thom and he noticed that Julian immediately became a Slytherin again. He saw the disappointment in Isla, but she shook it off and she and Aiden went to find the twins. He grabbed Julian before he could walk off.
"Ease up on Isla, she's your twin, no matter what houses the two of you are in. Don't push her so far away that she won't go to you if she needs help."
"I know what I'm doing Thom," Julian said and pulled out of his hold. Thom sighed and left them to it, he had a feeling that those words would blow up in Julian's face.
Isla glared at her brother, he just smirked at her. Fred and George were standing on either side of her and were ready to defend her. She was glad that the twins were there, but she knew that she could handle Julian, even at his worst he never went too far.
"Why don't you go screw yourself Julian?" Isla asked him venomously.
"Ooh, such language from such a little girl. Then again, I shouldn't be surprised with the way you were raised," he knew immediately that he had gone too far. Isla took a step back, her eyes wide and he could see tears welling up in them.
"Isla-" he started.
"I hate you," she said, then turned on her heel and ran away from him. Fred and George looked at each other, then followed her, needing to make sure that she was alright, even when they knew that she wasn't.
"That was overly mean Julian," he looked at the owner of the voice and saw Aiden. "Stop trying to hurt her, you already succeeded beyond the call of a Slytherin, and she's our sister, she's your twin." Julian sighed as Aiden walked way.
Isla walked along an empty corridor, it was Halloween, as well as her birthday. And for once she didn't want to share it with anyone. She walked up another set of stairs and crashed into someone. A hand grabbed her arm to prevent her from falling and she regained her balance. She looked at the person she had crashed into and smiled.
"We have got to stop crashing into each other Oliver," she said and he smiled at her.
"I still say that it was the twins that knocked me into you yesterday," he said and she laughed. "Why aren't you down in the great hall celebrating your birthday?" she looked away from him and out a window.
"I... I'm not in the mood to celebrate," she felt her lip tremble a little and bit it to keep it hidden from Oliver.
"What did he say this time?" she glanced at Oliver and looked away again. Oliver could practically see the hurt coming off of Isla in waves. He wrapped his arms around her, wanting to comfort her but not know how to exactly.
"It's nothing I haven't heard him say before. I just... I can't deal with seeing him celebrate his birthday at the same time as I celebrate mine," she sniffed and Oliver turned her around in his arms so that she could cry against his shoulder. He didn't let her go until she had stopped crying.
"Isla, I know that I can't possibly understand what you are feeling. But I want to help you deal with it," she blinked at him in surprise. "Isla, I'm asking you out. And, if maybe you wanted to be my girlfriend." She smiled at him and nodded her head.
"Yes to both Oliver," she whispered and he pulled her into another hug. Both were unaware of a pair of red-heads watching from around a corner. Nor did they hear the pair say 'finally'.
Isla sat on the edge of the pitch, she was doing her homework. Well, she was meant to be doing her homework, but the sight of Oliver without a shirt had her looking up at him every few moments instead of doing her potions assignment. He looked down at her and winked. She blushed and looked at her work, knowing that pretending that she hadn't been staring when he looked at her wouldn't work.
"You ready to go love?" she looked up at the voice and saw that Oliver was in his school uniform once more.
"Is practice over?" she asked as she put her things into her bag.
"Yeah," Oliver helped her up, then took her bag. She smiled at him and he kissed her. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and they headed back to the castle. Isla didn't notice her brother watching from a distance.
Isla didn't want to say goodbye to Oliver, not for the two months of summer holidays. And although the Twevils were making silly comments, she and Oliver refused to break their hug.
"Promise you'll write?" she whispered and his arms tightened around her.
"Promise. We should really get going, before the twins run out of voice," she snorted slightly at that, but pulled back a little.
"I'm gonna miss you Oliver."
"And I, you, Isla," he leant down and gently kissed her, well aware that Mrs Weasley was watching.
"See you in two months," She whispered when they parted.
"See you in two months," he whispered back and she left with the rest of the Weasleys.
"Bill! Charlie!" Isla shouted as she got out of the cab first. She ran over to her two eldest foster brothers and threw her arms around Bill. He went with the flow and spun her in a circle before setting her on her feet and she tackled Charlie.
"When are we going to the Pyramids?"
"Of course that's the first thing you ask," a voice said and isla looked around the two redheads and grinned.
"Uncle Thom!" she shouted, then proceeded to tackle the man.
"Get off," he complained as she wrapped herself around him.
"Never!" she shouted and then felt hands peeling her off her uncle. She pouted as she looked at the twins.
"You can attack him later. We're going to the first Pyramid."
"Yay!" she shouted and skipped off.
"Alright, which one of you gave her sugar?" Thom asked the twins.
"We didn't do any-"
"Such thing, we think-"
"She's trying not to-"
"Show how much she-"
"Misses Oliver," the twins said, going back and forth between them.
"Ah, that actually does explain a lot," Thom said and they set off to the Pyramids.
