"So you know Fluer?" Ron asked in the common room that morning. "I mean, not that I was following her around… But I saw you give her a hug before she put her name in two days ago."

I smirked and put down the book I was reading. "I do know her. We started to be good friends last year but I could never hang out with her.."

"What for?? But you know her now so you could introduce us?" He sat down right next to me.

Smiling I patted his cheek, "Sure thing kiddo.. But you must know something about her, she is very superficial and part veela."

His eyes widened, "Part veela, Oh Cali she is such an amazing looking girl.. I have to know her. Thank you!"
Before I could stop him he pulled my face in and gave me a kiss on the cheek.

"Hey there cowboy, I just got her as a girl friend there is no way you are stealing her!" Fred and George came down the stairs.

Ron took no notice, "Good morning! Cali is going to introduce me to Fluer! I have to go tell Harry."
With that he ran off.

I stood up and smiled, "I've never seen that side of him."

"He takes 'a fool in love' to the next level dear." They both joined me on the couch.

Sometime yesterday Madam Pumpfry kicked them out of the hospital wing. With nothing else to do, with a pass to skip class they locked themselves in the dormitory, conducting experiments.
Fred immediately intertwined his fingers with mine.
My heart jumped when he called me 'dear' even though it was with a hint of sarcasm. Recently I have been so scared someone can hear my heart beating when he takes my hand.

"Should we go to breakfast?" Fred turned to me and asked.

"Yes I am famished!" George answered and stood up.

I laughed and stood up as well, but Fred didn't let go of my hand so I fell back down,
"You are the one who asked you know." I was now closer to him then before.

George rolled his eyes, "I'll see you love birds down there. I think I saw Lee head out not to long ago."

Fred and I were still sitting closely next to each other face to face. He smirked, "What, are you scared?"

I smirked back, "Of what? Kissing you?"

"Well we have been sitting here for awhile in silence." He moved in but I backed away.
"What is it?"

I repositioned myself on his lap, "Well technically we aren't 'dating' because we haven't been on a date… So…."

"Oh so you want a date before you kiss me? I should have figured you would be difficult."
He wrapped his arms around me, tying me to his lap.

"What can I say! It runs in the family." I tried to stand up again.

"What? You can't sit here cuddling with me without going on a date too?" He whispered in my ear.

"Oh we can sit here all day. I love this." I stopped trying to move.

"You love this? Can I ask you something?" He was whispering right in my ear which almost made me forget to breath, "Have you ever had a boy friend?"

My cheeks blushed, "No… I haven't.. Have you had a girl friend?"

"Crushes yes… But George never talked me into asking them out like he did for you. Which means he likes you too and that makes me happy."

"Really you haven't asked me out yet."

"How is that someone like you has never had a boy friend? With all your technicalities and rules. Not to mention you have a hard punch…"

"Well why do you like me then? If it's so obvious why no one else did?" I asked.

I could feel his silent laughter, "Well you are amazing… Just being around you makes me happy and I love how quickly you are to anger because you are so cute when you're angry."

I almost wanted to turn around and kiss him but one thing was stopping me. Fred and I, we could never last. It is almost like he is from an entirely different world. My destiny is to join the Dark Lord in his march to set the Wizarding World right. His is to open a joke shop with George and settle down. I could never settle down, I would have to move into hiding to work for the dark lord. Or do it in secret… Either way I would have to move around. No kids of mine will go through what I am going through. "But honestly… Did no other boy catch your eye?" Fred directed the questions back to me.

"Fred… My family isn't… like other families? We kind of do things in an odd way. It wouldn't matter who I liked, if my parent's didn't approve nothing can happen. Besides it doesn't matter, I am supposed to be betrothed… Or 'set up' with a husband one day."

I wiggled out of his arms and moved next to him instead of on joking left his face, "Betrothed? Why?"

I shook my head, "I don't know… I am a pureblood, and the purebloods I run with are focused on staying pureblood. I can marry anyone who is pure blood with a catch. My parent's pick."

Fred's ears turned bright red, "Well I am a pure blood!" My heart tore into two. Joy and pain. Fred was a pureblood, how could I forget? So technically I can marry him if we fall in love… But pain because my parent's would never in a million years choose someone who is not a death eater. Especially one who is considered a blood traitor.

Fred read the confusion in my face, "Look. Your parent's can not have the last say. That is horrible to still betroth your daughters…. But we can stop talking about it. Let's set up a date. Even if we don't get married we can at least say you broke some rules."

"Ok. When?"

"Well why don't we go on date right now? We can take all day."

"Fred, classes."

"Cali! One day. I won't make you miss anymore deal? I want to take you on a date." He reached for my hand and I took it.

"Ok. Where should we go?"

He smiled, "Well I don't have to wait for you to clean up, so let's start with a walk."
I punched his arm and he laughed.

Walking to the front gate was a bit tricky. This time of day ALL students are in a class. For some reason it is set up that there is one time for every class at 9 AM. So in order to not get caught we had to duck and hide by statues. At one point Fred pulled me inside one side, "There is a secret passageway right here."

I smiled, "You amaze me Fred Weasley. And here I thought you never broke the rules."

"Oh one day I will have to prove to you how wrong that is." He smirked. We switched hands and he led me through a statue that he pushed open.

"Alright, I am looking forward to it."

This passage took us straight outside, near the quidditch stadium. "Oh man… When were they going to announce no quidditch this year?" I asked, stepping towards the stadium.

"What are you--oh… Wow.. Yeah I demand an explanation!" We ran to the entrance which was roped off. Just then Hagrid came out.

"Oh hello there ya Fred. And er Cali was it?" Hagrid was holding a bottle of grow spray.

"Hagrid, what is going on with the pitch?" Fred asked.

"Hasn't anyone told you? They announced it at breakfast this morning. The field is closed due to the tri-wizard tournament… Did you two skip out breakfast?"

I glared sarcastically at Fred, "Yes, because of somebody!"

Fred just laughed. "Anyways ok so what are you growing in there?"

Hagrid coughed, "I can't tell you but it is going to be amazing, I get to use all my favorite creatures."

I cringed, from stories I've heard from everyone Hagrid's creatures are not the normal everyday creatures Instead he has things like dragons or three headed dogs. I heard one year a hippogriff attacked Draco. (which he tried to play up in his letter to 'impress' me.. Didn't really work.)

Once we finally said goodbye to Hagrid, Fred took my hand again, "You know.. Now you can't show me how awesome you are at quidditch."

"well I will have to show you my flying skills some other time then." I smirked. "I am sad I can't play this year. It killed me that Beaubaxton didn't have a team."

"Hm yes very strange. Maybe because it is all girls. Now before you hit me let me tell you if we go up this way there is a town called Hogsmeade. At the three broomsticks we can get the best butter beer known to mankind."

I smiled, "Sounds like a date!"

"Oh that is not the date part. I am going to take you to Honeydukes. You strike me as a type that hasn't had too much candy in your childhood. Anyways then we will go for a nice romantic walk, kind of like this one…. To the shrieking shack. Then we will wait until we are hungry again and we go eat at Madam Puddifoots. You will be all romanced out after stepping into that place. It mainly has tea but we can order sandwiches. Then I am taking you to zinkos and letting you in my world of joking."

"For a last minute date you surely have this thing panned!"

He smirked, "Last minute huh? I strategically made you stay with me alone in the common room. I just assumed you would say yes."

"Assumed?"

"Well how could you resist me?" He prepared himself for a punch but I let that one slide.

The three broomsticks turned out to be very interesting. Butter bear has odd effects on me. Nothing embarrassing but I am more open to talking and laughing.

"So you agree to get married to me!" Fred was laughing so hard. We were the only students in the bar but everyone let us stay. In fact we sat with a married couple coming to visit.

"Oh… Oh you see I would, I do think love you, is that weird? Since we barely know each other?.. But Fred my parents want me to marry Marcus." I started laughing hysterically. Not at what I said, but the thought.

Fred also had one too many butter beers, "Marcus and you? That would go over real well… Cali you deserve someone who can count to ten!"

Later I would regret this conversation. I started to even as we moved on to our next stop on the date.
The high feeling was starting to come down, "I am convinced they slipped fire whisky into ours." I nodded but he stayed oddly silent.

"Alright, welcome to honeydukes baby!" He wrapped his arm around my waist.

"OH my goodness! So much candy!"

I ended up buying the candy for us. I knew Fred was getting low on money anyways.
"That is embarrassing, I am sorry…"

"Fred don't be… I understand. That is why there is two of us, I have your back you have mine."

He smiled, "I feel very safe with you on my back."

I smiled, "And I you. Alright so how about that romantic walk?"

The butter beer high started to turn into a sugar rush. Also because it is autumn time it started to get colder. Fred pulled me closer and closer as the sun fell behind the mountains.

"This is the shrieking shack."

"I've heard rumors that it is haunted." We sat on a rock facing the building.

"Maybe it is, maybe it's not… One day you and I should find out." He smiled, "but you could just ask Harry, Ron and Hermionie."

I smiled, "yes I have heard somewhat about that." And not from the sources he named. I happened to be at the Malfoys house for a week when Peter Pettigrew randomly showed up. Since Draco was still at school I was alone in sneaking and listening in.
"I will have to sometime."

"You know.. When we were back in the three broomsticks, you let something slip… You have to marry Marcus?" He looked pained.

I shrugged, "Nothing is set in stone… But my parents are leaning towards Marcus… Or Draco."

"Don't you know what kinds of families they come from?" Fred asked, "Well… They are death eaters!"

"How do you know?" I asked, scared. No one was supposed to know this.

"Well you can just tell.. No real hard evidence yet. But Cali, you are too pure to be married off to such a… loser."
Fred pulled me onto his lap. "What if we really do love each other? You and I?"

I shook my head, "We have known each other for two months.. There is a whole side of me you don't know.."

"What are you saying?"

"I am just saying… I don't know how in love we can be. This was our first date.."

"and I love it."

I dearly wanted to say 'me too' but the words didn't come. Marcus's promise to stop Fred and me from being together kept coming back.

"You are shivering. Come on… Let's get dinner." He pulled me off the rock. Luckily we went to Zinkos before we came to the shrieking shack because it was now getting must have lost track of time, we ended up getting hot chocolate and some muffins to go. We have to get back into the castle before they lock up for the night.

"I had a great time." I said as we walked up the steps to the doors.

"I am glad." He smiled and held the door open for me.
As his back was turned I saw a figure slipping past us into the Great Hall wear the Goblet of Fire was. I recognized him immediately. Moody. Tonight the plan must be starting. Crap, if Fred turns around… Later he might put two in two together.

I had only one option, distract Fred. "I'm glad you're glad." I whispered with a flirting hint in my voice and pulled him in for a kiss. He was so shocked he dropped his muffin.

The kiss felt amazing, if anything it confirmed that I think I love him. His hands stayed respectfully around my back and mine were around his neck. I knew Moody was watching us, but I didn't stop until the door was closed heart broke into two as I let him go.

"I should have taken you on a date sooner!" He smiled. We walked hand in hand back up to the common room.