Fell in Love Without You

Chapter 25: He left.

No one spoke to me for the next day and a half. They avoided me at all costs so I just stayed in my room. I didn't see the point in trying to fight it. Annabelle had won. That was it.

No matter how many times I tried to tell people that I didn't do it, I didn't rat them out... no one believed me.

I sat by myself in charms and amused myself by creating birds out of thin air.

I heard a gasp from across the room and sat up straight. "What the..." Annabelle stood up and looked at her hands. "What the hell is happening?" she exclaimed. I smothered a laugh when I realised her skin was going all red and splotchy, boils covering every visible surface. She turned around and I realised she had boils sprouting on her face as well.

"Annabelle, wait!" Angelina ran out of the room after her. I couldn't help it. A giggle escaped my lips and people turned to glare at me. I shrugged and put my head down. I was just happy that something awful had happened to the cow. Karma bitch.

Whispers of Annabelle's horrible boil eruption were all over the school come lunch time and I walked down to the Great Hall in even greater spirits.

"AVERY!" Roe yelled at me when I entered through the doors. Her and Ron Weasley grabbed my arms and dragged me into the classroom opposite the Great Hall.

"What the fuck?" I swore as they dropped me on my ass in the room. I looked up and saw Harry, Hermione, Riley, Ginny, Ron, Roe and the twins all grinning down at me.

"You didn't tell!" Hermione said happily, offering me her hand.

"Well duh!" I exclaimed, rolling my eyes. "Wait, why are you suddenly believing me now?" I narrowed my eyes suspiciously and looked around for some kind of mean practical joke that would be played on me.

"Because you're not the one with boils on your face" Harry smiled.

"Huh?"

"Hermione hexed the contract we all signed. If any of us tell then we get covered in boils that have no cure. They just have to fade over time!" Roe explained happily.

"The point is, you aren't the one covered in boils so it couldn't have been you" George finished my sisters sentence.

I frowned slightly and looked at them all. "So you believe me"

"Yup... we just have to find out why Umbridge thought Annabelle was you" Riley moved forward to give me a hug.

"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry" Fred muttered from behind everyone. I glanced up and stared at him.

"Uh... I think it's time to clear the room" Roe coughed into her hand "Spread the news that she's innocent and everything"

"Agreed" George nodded.

The others peered between me and Fred suspiciously.

"How could you not believe me Fred?" I folded my arms as everyone retreated. "You know I couldn't possibly have done it"

"Avery, Professor Umbridge walked in and addressed you personally. How could I NOT believe it?" He placed his hands on my shoulder. "I didn't want to believe it, but she told us you had TEA with her and told her everything... What else was I meant to believe?"

"The truth" I murmured softly, but I didn't argue. "Annabelle warned me she was going to make my life hell"

"What? Why?" He asked.

"Because of you. I think she kind of guessed what was going on between us... what is going on between us" I shrugged. "She succeeded"

"Yeah, but now she's busted" He winked and kissed me quickly. "Come on, to the hospital wing!" He exclaimed before dragging me from the room and through the school.

We burst into the infirmary and ran over to Annabelle's bed. Alicia and Angelina were sitting next to her.

"What are you doing here?" Angelina narrowed her eyes at me but I ignored it.

"How the hell did you do it Annabelle?" I demanded, glaring at the girl wrapped in bandages. I almost felt sort for her. Almost.

"Do what?" She said miserably.

"Oh come on Annabelle... Hermione put a hex on the parchment so that if anyone told we'd know who it was" Fred shook his head. "How did you convince Umbridge you were Avery?"

"Fred! That's absurd! Umbridge addressed Avery personally!" Alicia argued.

"Then why aren't I the one with the boils?" I snapped. "How Annabelle? How did you do it?" I demanded. "You wanted to ruin my life and you succeeded. Now tell me, how did you do it"

She let out a sigh and looked away from me. "Polyjuice potion. There was a vial of it in Snape's store room so I stole it..." She said quietly, with a sigh. "And used it against you" she finished.

"You pulled my hair out during transfiguration" I gasped, realisation hitting me like bricks. Angelina and Alicia gaped.

"Why the fuck did you DO THAT!" Ange yelled, dropping the girls hand and jumping to her feet.

"Because Avery took the one thing from me that I really liked... but then she always had him I guess" Anabelle mumbled miserably.

"Fred? You did this because of Fred?" Alicia clapped a hand to her mouth. "Are you insane?"

"I've been saying that all year!" I exclaimed. "She's a two faced, evil, manipulative BITCH" I snarled. "But you all thought she was perfect. Good work guys" I rolled my eyes and walked out.

The three of them followed me.

"Avery we're so – "

"Don't both Ange... I know you're sorry. You two are my best friends but you did have to room with her" I shrugged.

"But we're sorry. So sorry" Alicia hugged me. I smiled and hugged her.

"So you and Fred hey?" Angelina winked at me. I bit my lip and felt Fred thread an arm around my waist.

"Can't say I didn't see it happening eventually" Alicia rolled her eyes.

I laughed and felt Fred plant a kiss on my head. Annabelle ended up ruining her own life trying to ruin mine. I hate to say it, but Karma is a bitch. A total, total bitch.

Life was good after the incident. It was busy with all the seventh year stuff we had going on but I was able to be open with Fred.

Roger and I were friends again and actually talking in public. It was funny watching people gape at us because, apparently according to them, it was illegal to talk to an 'ex' when I had a new boyfriend. I just laughed and rolled my eyes.

Life was too good to be messed up.

"You know I love you don't you A.V.?" Fred mumbled into the back of my neck as we drifted off to sleep.

I smiled and rolled over to face him. "Of course" I smiled, kissing him lightly.

"You know I love you no matter what right?" He asked again. This time I could see how serious his face looked.

"Of... of course" I watched him closely, wondering what he was talking about.

"Even when I'm not around all I think about is you" He smiled. I smiled back.

"Good. I wouldn't have it any other way" He kissed me and closed his eyes. I watched him as he fell to sleep. I loved all the small details about him – the way his hair fell over his face, the freckles across his nose, the small scar in his eyebrow. They were the things that made him mine... differentiated him from George.

I woke without him the next morning. It was the first time I'd woken up alone and it worried me.

"Have you seen Fred?" I asked Angelina as I entered the common room.

"No?" She frowned and looked up from the paper she was reading in front of the fire. "He wasn't in your room when you woke up?"

"No, first time ever" I shrugged. She pulled a face and raised her eyebrow.

"He probably went back to his room for something... look, there's Lee now" She nodded to our friend exiting the boys dormitories.

"Lee!" I called out. "Is Fred up there?" I asked as he got closer.

"Nope. Neither is George... I figured they were already down here" He raised his eyebrow. I shook my head.

"Nope. Fred was gone when I woke up..." My mind flickered to the thing George and Fred had been planning this past term.

"Don't worry A.V. they probably went down to breakfast... you know how they are about food" Lee clapped me on the shoulder and squeezed it. I smiled and nodded and waited impatiently for Allie to arrive so we could go down.

I was practically pushing my friends down the staircase with impatience when we finally left. We were almost there when we heard a great deal of shouting and movement coming from the entrance hall.

"Oh what have they done now?" I groaned, knowing it just HAD to be the twins. Filch pushed past us, brandishing pieces of paper like they were gold.

"I can whip them! I CAN FINALLY WHIP THEM!" He was chanting gleefully. He skipped down the steps. I glanced at my friends and at the same time we sprinted down the last flight of stairs.

Most of the school seemed to be assembled in the entrance hall, like the night Trelawly had been sacked. Students were standing around in a great ring. The girl closests to me looked like she was covered in stinksap. Teaches and Ghosts were also in this crowd.

"Oh what did they do!" I groaned, running my hand through my hair. I pushed through the crowd to get a better look at Fred and George. Fred glanced at me guiltily before turning away.

"So!" Umbridge sounded triumphantly from behind me. I turned and saw her standing on the stairs, looking down at the twins. An analogy between a eagle and a mouse flickered through my head. "So you think it's amusing to turn a school corridor into a swamp, do you?"

"Pretty amusing, yeah" Fred said, looking up at her without the slightest sign of fear. Filch tapped the headmistresses shoulder happily.

"I've got the form Headmistress. I've got the form and the whips, please let me do it" He said gleefully, grinning meanly down at Fred and George.

"Very good Argus" She said "You two, are about to learn what happens to wrongdoers in my school" She gazed down at Fred and George. My heart hammered in my chest.

"You know what?" Said Fred "I don't think we are" He turned to George "George, I think we've outgrown full time education"

"Yeah I've been feeling a bit that way myself" George said lightly.

"Time to test out talents in the real world, d'you reckon?" asked Fred.

"Definitely" agreed George. He grinned at Ange who was beside me. "Sorry I've got to run love, I'll talk to you soon, I promise" He kissed her cheek lightly before raising his wand like Fred had just done.

"Accio brooms!"

A crash was heard somewhere from a distance but I didn't look around. I just kept my eyes trained on Fred. He didn't look at me. Why wouldn't he look at me? George kissed Angelina and they weren't even together... yet, I didn't even get a goodbye.

Fred kept his eyes trained on where his wand was pointing. Soon their broomsticks, still trailing the heavy chains and iron pegs that Umbridge had used to fasten them to her office wall, hurtled along the corridor.

"We won't be seeing you" Fred told Professor Umbridge, swinging his leg over his broom.

"Yeah don't bother keeping in touch" George said, swinging his leg over his own.

Fred looked around at the students in the crowd. His eyes didn't even pause on me. "If anyone fancies buying a portable swamp, as demonstrated upstairs, come to number 23 Diagon Alley – Weasley's Wizard Wheezes" He said in a loud voice "Our new premises!"

"Special discounts to Hogwarts students who swear to use our products to get rid of this old bat" George said gleefully "And friends of course" He looked at me and winked. I tried to smile but it didn't quite work. All I could think about was the fact that Fred was flying away without even a goodbye.

"GET THEM!" Umbridge shrieked, but it was too late. As the inquisitorial squad closed in, Fred and George shot 15 feet into the air. The iron peg swung dangerously from the chains as they hovered.

"Give her hell from us, Peeves!" Fred yelled at the poltergeist clapping his hands in delight. He didn't look down at me once as he licked the fuses on the Wet Start fireworks. He threw them into the air, saluted the student body with George and then sped off out of the doors.

The crowd screamed in delight as they were showered with dragons and all sorts of shapes from the fireworks. Instead of laughing and screaming with my friends, I ran out the doors after the twins. I watched him fly off into the distance, my heart breaking as he left. He hadn't even left me with anything, not even a kiss or a wave.

I'm not gonna lie. It hurt.

A lot.

"So that's what you get hey? You fought for him and he just left you, without a word" Annabelle smirked from behind me. I could tell she was smirking just from the tone of her voice.

"I don't know how you're even a Gryffindor, Annabelle" I said without turning around.

"Why's that Avery? Because I'm not sweet, cute and innocent like you?"

I turned around.

"No... Because you're a fucking bitch!" I yelled before slapping her across the cheek. Her surprised expression comforted me slightly as I walked back inside, completely alone and heartbroken.

It was over. I wanted to desperately believe it wasn't... but he left without even a goodbye. It was completely over.

Plea's Note:

Well this is it guys. This is the end. I'm so thankful to all who read the story. I'm thankful to my reviewers and well, my fans. I suppose I could call you my fans couldn't I? I'm not sure.

Never Fear, I'm totally lying about it being the end ;) I have an epilogue to upload very soon. Probably tomorrow after work.

Thank you again and I'll write a proper thankyou then.

till then my friends,

xo
Plea Of Insanity