Together Chapter Eleven

A.N: Finally another chapter! I am sorry for the slow updating but I have been having trouble with finding inspiration for this story. I know what I want to do with it, but writing it is another thing all together. Well... I hope yo like the chapter.

Halloween was almost a week and a half ago and still Luna has not found the courage to ask George out. And what is worse is that her new feelings have caused her to be very nervous around George, shes starting to think that he is noticing. She hasn't been able to hold a normal conversation with him, she keeps making her self look like a complete idiot, and she is constantly knocking things over and dropping things when he is around her. Its rather embarrassing really, but she can't help her self, when ever he is around her mind goes out the window and she can not think straight.

What is really bad is that her friends are making it harder to ask him. They keep showing up at the shop and give her these meaningful looks, encouraging her to do it. But it's just to much pressure and its making her go crazy, its to the point were she wants to go to the shop roof and just scream.

It all started on Monday when Ginny showed up at the shop during her lunch break. Her and George were doing their regular thing, sitting on the counter talking and joking around, when Ginny walked in. The first thing Ginny did was give her a knowing smile and then asked George if he was coming to dinner. The whole time Ginny and George talked, Ginny kept glancing at her. While Ginny did this Luna sat there feeling uncomfortable and messing with her sweater trying to avoid Ginny's and George's gaze.

If that wasn't bad enough the next day Harry came in while Luna was stocking the shelves. He tried to act like he was not looking in on her, but Luna knew what he was doing. He didn't really try to hide it, he kept looking at her and then to George hoping to see anything different. To bad for him Luna was to afraid to ask George were to put the new products let alone ask him to dinner. It was all thanks to Ginny coming in the day before and freaking her out. Harry just made her feel worse, and it didn't help that Harry informed her that Neville and Hermione also know about her little crush on George, Ron is to thick to understand.

So the next couple of days were filled with Neville and Hermione coming into the shop and doing the same stuff Ginny and Harry did. Then after that the four of them took turns coming in and asking if they could help her in any way. Ginny wanted to give him a love potion, Hermione said just to tell him, Harry asked if he could tell him for her, and Neville didn't really know what to do since he is not very good with romance. All of this was to much for Luna and it is why she is so worked up.

Really what she should do is just ask the guy, what is the worst that could happen, him saying no? 'Yes' Luna thinks to her self. 'I don't think I could deal with that right now. I have a lot of other stuff to worry about, I do not need this too.' She thinks,'But then again if I don't do anything about my feelings I will just keep worrying about it and I will always wonder about the what if I did ask him to dinner and he said yes? And what if we have had a good time and then went out again some other time? Then what if our friendship turned into something else? Something more. I would miss out on all of that.' She ponders as she watches him from the checkout.

She watches him help a little boy with getting something from one of the displays. She smiles thinking that George is so good with people. People always seem to light up when he's around, he is always so filled with joy that it is contagious and spreads to everyone. She wonders what it would be like to be held in his arms when they are awake. What would it be like to be so important to him that when she wasn't around that he would feel like something was missing from his life.

Luna realizes that she has been staring at him for the last few minutes and that she has a grumpy looking man waiting for her to ring him up. She smiles sheepishly at him and starts ringing up his purchases.

Later towards the and of the day, George is sitting in his office doing paper work. It has been a hard week for him, his new products came in and he had to find places to put the new supplies, a whole lot of people came in and the shop has been packed with people. Also something has been going on with Luna, she seems to be really anxious and jumpy lately, plus she seems to be more spacey lately. She is for some reason not as with it, she keeps knocking things over and miss placing things. And another thing is that she and him have not had a normal conversation and a week. That what worries him the most, they have always had free flowing conversation. Never has George felt weird about telling Luna anything. Now it seems that Luna has been holding something back, like she is not telling him something.

His chain of thought is interrupted by the shop door jingling and then Angelina Johnson walking into his office. George looks up at her and is mesmerized by her appearance, she is wearing a pair of black pants and a flow-y white blouse with a fitted navy blue jacket, her hair is up in a high pony tail with her glossy hair falling over her shoulder. George mentally shakes himself and greets her.

"Hey there." He says smiling but a little confused at why she is in his office all dressed up.

"Hello. How are you?" She asks walking around his desk and sitting on it next to his paperwork.

"Busy." He answers. "How was your's?"

"Normal. I'm hoping to make it extraordinary though." She says with a flirty smile.

"Oh, how so?" He asks curious. She continues to smile while messing with his shirt collar. George gulps a little worried about what she wants to do.

"Nothing much, just dinner with an old friend." She suggestively says. George smiles.

"An old friend eh? Who might that be?"

"Oh, you know him. He has red hair and brown eyes, I know him from school and we were in the same house." She says still flirting with him.

"I see, you are talking about Ron." He says with a bemused smile. "I'm sorry to inform you but he is with Hermione now. You missed your chance."

Angelina smiles, "No silly, I'm talking about you. So how about it? Me, you, dinner?" She asks.

"Sure." George says forgetting about his paperwork.

Out in the shop Luna as been giving herself a pep talk for the last half hour and has finally gotten up the courage to go and ask him to dinner. She gets up from her seat on the floor between the shelves that hold the love potions and other potions that the devilishly inclined would walks out from the between the shelves and sees George and Angelina Johnson exiting George's office laughing at something George said. They start to walk towards the door together and to Luna's dismay, Angelina's arm is being held by Georges.

About half way towards the door George sees Luna and shouts out to her. "Close up the shop will ya?" And continues on his way laughing at something Angelina whispered to him. Luna nods and then George and Angelina exit the shop leaving Luna standing there crestfallen.

'What am I going to do know?'