Wow, so I'm am freakin' sorry about taking so darn long! Firstly I was at Florida for a week visiting the lovely Disneyworld for my birthday, while there my computer totally crashed on me! The Geek Squad had it for three weeks where they figured out the hard drive crashed, I had to order recovery discs, and then I got sick, twice. All while moving into a new house so I've had a pretty ghastly last few weeks. Gah. Anywho, I am finally managing to update so I hope you guys enjoy and sorry again about the long wait. ;)
~Fluffy

PART 13-DOWN

If Brooke hadn't wanted to get up the day before, she doubly didn't want to get up the following morning. Her slip to Fred last night was only going to end badly and she really didn't want to be there to see that happen. Maybe if she stayed in the same position long enough on her bed she would sink into it and disappear forever. That was her first choice. Second choice was forcing herself out of her bed and facing the oncoming disaster with a bit of dignity.

Personally she would have preferred the latter but it seemed anymore she didn't get what she wanted. Well, in truth, she did get what she wanted but the price was very, very, very high. The loss of possibly five friends being said price. Option two stood however and Brooke pulled herself out of bed and quickly got ready for the day. She walked out of the dorm and was immediately met with the sounds of an argument.

When she drew closer she saw it was Fred and George. Brooke turned around with such agility she wouldn't have been surprised if she had done so in a blink on an eye. Obviously though it wasn't quick enough and she heard the boys call her name. She froze, then forced herself to turn and walk down to them.

"Brooke," George said, and Brooke swallowed loudly. "Fred swears it was second year when we pranked Flich by replacing Mrs. Norris with that male look-a-like cat. I think it was third year, well, I know it was third year. You have to remember what year it was cause you cast that spell to make Mr. Norris' eyes red."

Brooke almost let her mouth fall open, which would have been a clear indicator of how shocked she was. She was expecting something completely different than what George had asked her. Right now he and Fred were having a very Weasley brother fight, which they often did when it came to old pranks.

"Earth to Brooke," Fred said, waving his hand in front of her eyes.

"I was thinking," Brooke said, swatting his hand away. Then she really did think about the prank. "It was third year cause Ron had just started school here."

"Ha! Told you it was third year!" George stated smugly. Fred rolled his eyes and Brooke found herself smiling. They were bantering playfully like they always had; maybe they had thought things over and decided on a truce. Since they both liked Brooke neither one would try to kiss her again. That sounded really great to Brooke. Fred patted George on the back to show he didn't have any hard feelings.

"I have to go find Lee, he wanted to know the year too," Fred said, then left the common room. Brooke folded her arms across her chest and then George turned around to look at her.

"Why did you leave?" George asked, the sparkle in his eyes gone. Brooke was getting tired of this question; both of them were making her feel like she was the one who was in the wrong.

"What did you expect me to do?" Brooke asked.

"I expected you to stay, to tell me what I did wrong."

George stepped closer to Brooke and took her hand.

"What were you thinking, George?" Brooke asked, wanting to pull her hand away but not being able to. "We were friends, best friends, then you kissed me and now how are we supposed to go back to how we were?"

"Why would we have to?" George asked. "Don't you like me?"

"I do but Fred, he feels the same way too, and I like him like I like you and that's not right."

"What do you mean Fred feels the same way I do?"

"Well kissing me too might have been a clue."

George dropped Brooke's hand and she looked up at him oddly.

"Fred kissed you?" George asked. This time Brooke's mouth fell open, she thought Fred would have told him.

"I thought….he…when we talked last night, I told him…you," Brooke tried to say, but she couldn't form a coherent thought.

"You talked to him last night?"

Brooke just nodded, not being able to speak. George shook his head then left the common room looking very angry. Brooke stomped angrily and almost pulled her hair out. She was really not that good at keeping a secret and now she had told George something she shouldn't have. If only they'd talk to each other, settle this whole thing, then they could all go back to being friends. Brooke didn't like this, she didn't like having to worry about what she said or worrying that she was going to lose everyone she cared about. Why did Fred and George have to kiss her?

She couldn't talk to any of her friends, especially Angelina and Katie. The only person she could talk to was Bailey and there really wasn't much more she could say to her.

"Brooke, are you okay?" she heard someone ask her. Brooke turned around and saw Angelina.

"I'm fine," Brooke lied, straightening out her hair. "Just…dancing…..I'll talk to you later, Ang!"
Brooke turned around and quickly left the common room, after slipping twice to Fred and George she was afraid she'd slip to Angelina to. She knew her class would start soon so she headed towards it, hopefully it would take her mind off Fred and George. At least till the end of the day. As she had hoped her classes kept her thoughts from wandering and she didn't think about Fred and George the whole time. When school was over her mind was still filled with what she'd learned and she happily skipped into the common room. Once again she heard an argument and once again it was Fred and George but this time she could tell it wasn't banter.

They were yelling at each and the looks on their faces about broke Brooke's heart. She'd never seen the twins look at each other like they hated each other before. The thing that saddened her was because she knew it was her fault, it was because she existed. Had she never been in the world none of this would have happened, the twins would have had no one to fight over.

"Why did you do it, Fred?" George shouted. "Because I told you I liked her you had to go and snog her!"

"You knew I liked her before you ever mentioned anything to me about your liking her, I told you I was attracted to her last year!" Fred shouted back.

"But you never did anything about it and I wasn't about to wait around until you did!"

Brooke couldn't take listening to them argue, they had never argued like that before, she could feel the tears streaming down her face. She could hear her own sobs and wondered why the boys hadn't yet. Not looking up she ran past the twins as fast as she could and before they could object got into the girl's dormitory where they couldn't get to her. She fell back against the wall and pulled her legs up to her resting her head between her knees. There she began to cry even harder, she couldn't do anything, there was no way telling them that she didn't like either of them was going to fix things now. Not after the way they had fought, that was something that no one could get over easily.

The only way to make sure she had at least one of them was to choose one. In her head it sounded so easy just pick one and then her best friend would also be her boyfriend. She knew it wasn't that easy though and had no idea how she was going to do it or when she'd even have the strength to. How could she break one of their hearts? She'd never forgive herself if she did but that was what she'd have to do in the end.