Fred waited for hermione in the library determined to get her to talk to him. She has been avoiding him ever since their last encounter in the library. She has made it quite obvious that she doesn't want to be anything like that with him. His feelings are not mutual.

But he was determined to be her friend. To be there for her. She has been distancing herself from everyone except Ginny and George lately. She needs people. Something happened and he still never forgot about what the spell translated into. He'd ask her about that when she was ready to talk to him about that.

He heard shuffling of feet and propped his legs ontop of the table.

She stared at him in her normal spot and froze. She considered running away when he spoke,"Hermione, wait please."

She walked up to sit across from him and stared at the floor avoiding his piercing gaze.

"You're avoiding me."

"That is completely untrue! I've just been extremely busy." She stated but ven to herself she sounded unconvincing.

"Whatever the matter is I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said the things I did last time we were here. It was a- um- a mistake."

"Fred..." She tried interupting but he held up his hand and shook his head,"Don't appologize. None of that. Just stop avoiding me Hermione... We all miss you. We can be Friends can't we? We can have fun."

She chuckled slightly,"Fred your idea of fun differs from my."

"I'm sure we can find some sort of mutual ground." He told her with a grin.

"Fine, then. Friends." He smiled and stood up.

"I am not daft enough to realize when you want to be alone. So I'll be off now. I expect to actually see you at the great hall tonight and then when we go to hogsmead together as Friends of course. Goodbye Herms!" Fred said quickly then ran so she could not deny his request to hogsmead.

She chuckled to herself as she saw his retreating figure fly out the library. "Fred Weasley and I friends. That's something new." She thought she'd be more upset or hurt. But instead of crying again she only smirked slightly at the thought of actually being able to spend an entire day with him. She knew she should probably bring someone. That something bad was bound to happen if they were alone long enough, but another part of her that wouldn't go away kept hoping. It kept hoping He would look at her one day and snog her senseless. Hoping he would remember her entirely. Hoping at the least that he could maybe fall back in love with her like Ginny said, it happened once.

The hope part was drowned out by misery and depresion. So she usually refused to even pay the hope any attention. She sighed and went back to her books. She was in search of the translation book she was using a week ago when she ran out in a hurry.

Hogsmead.

"Fred it is FREEZING. I can't believe I let you talk me into this!" Hermione said as the trudged through the snowy streets of hogsmead.

"It's not that bad." He said cheerfully with a skip to his step.

"Fred, I'm freezing, I'm hungry, I'm tired, I can't feel my hands, and my feet hurt!"

"They do now?"He asked as a mysterious glint shown in his eyes along with a sly grin.

She didn't even have the chance to word her suspitions before he picked her up bridal style and kept walking.

"That solves the feet problem."

"Fred! This isn't funny. Put me down your going to drop me!"

"I will never drop you Hermione... Are you doubting my huge weasley twin bicepts?" He asked faking offence.

She let out a laugh,"Fred, those aren't bicepts, they're like bags of pudding."

"Pudding? Really now Granger... Well... Woe.." HE said as he began to fake slipping on the ice.

"Fredrick Gideon Weasley I swear to Merlin if you..." She didnt get to finnish before she was dropped into a huge pile of snow.

"Sorry, I have pudding arms remember?" He said smuggly with a wide grin on his features.

"You think this is funny?" she challenged him.

"No... I think its hilarious." He said before erupting in laughter. He was laughing so hard he didn't notice the snow ball being thrown strait at his face.

He looked up and smirked slightly,"You're dead Granger."

The words acted as a trigger for her and she started running. He chased her throwing snow balls the entire way. She cursed under her breath as she stumbled upon a dead end between two buildings. Fred found her and laughed as he fiddled with the snow in his hand,"Nowhere left to run now Granger."

"I'm sorry Fred. Haven't I suffered enough?" SHe asked looking up at him batting her eyelashes with a small pout to her features. he hair was wild and untamed now and had snow all in it making it almost shine. Her face was flushed red from running.

Fred kept advancing on her until he was only a foot away. "Any last words granger?"

"Fred, you don't want to do that." She said eyeing the snowball in his hand and biting her lip

"Yeah I think I do." He replied with a smirk. He took a few more steps closer.

She had no way out, but she had to at least try. she went to run but he dropped the snowball and caught her in his arms. She kicked a few times but he only tightened his grip around her middle.

"Nope. No escaping now Granger."

"Maybe not but you dropped your snowball so I still won."

"Not yet Granger."he said as he pulled her down as he fell into the snow. She squealed loudly as she was enveloped with snow along with Fred.

"You're insane Fred Weasley." She laughed as she looked up at him with his arms still wrapped around her.

"Only a tiny bit." He grinned at her.

She realised she was staring at his oceanic blue eyes and cleared her throat. she moved out of his grip. She stood up and looked at him questioningly. He rolled onto his back. then began to move his arms and legs repeatively.

She laughed as she realised what he was doing. He stood up to look down at it.

"Well I must say that is the most sexy snowangel i've ever seen." He said cheekily.

"I don't know I've seen George's snowangels before..." She replied with a smirk.

"MY HEART! It has stopped. Thee fairest maiden of them all has chosen the jester of a brother over myself. My poor soul!" He said clutching his heart.

They began walking again and fred noticed hermione was shivvering. It was about a block until they reached the three broomsticks. He took his jacket off and gave it to her silently.

She looked at him with an upraised eyebrow but excepted it none the less.

"Feet still hurt?"

"What? Fred! What're you..." She stopped as he crouched down in front of her.

"Since my arms have proven to be worthless why not try this it's the least I can do after drenching you with snow."

She giggles but got on his back and he piggybacked her to the Three Broomsticks. He started walking but when he got bored he began to run and Jump off of any bench or object he seen. Causing an eruption of giggles and squeals from hermione.

They walked into the three broomsticks and he walked to a booth letting her down gently. he stood back up to get them drinks.

Her face was red from all the laughing she had been doing. Her eyes were practically shining. She was no longer cold and realized she had no complaints left.

She didn't notice Ginny and George or Ron and Harry whispering about her upbeat happy mood.

Fred came back and placed a butterbeer in front of her before sliding across from her.

"You have a good time?"

"Surprisingly I did."

"Why so surprised? I can be Syph-ist-ima-cated like Percykins." He said purposely mispronouncing the word sophisticated.

She rolled her eyes and chuckled,"I highly doubt throwing your friend into snow multiple times qualify as sophistication."

"Well I did what I planned."

"Oh and what was that."

"To get you to laugh again." He said with a smile and a small blush tingeing the tips of his ears.

She smiled widely and sipped her butterbeer. "Thank you Fred."

"No need for thanks." He looked at the clock it was already 10. They'd never make it back in time.

"Maybe we should just floo it's dark outside and the weathers gotten alot worse." She nodded and drank the rest of her butterbeer.

They both flooed to the common room. Hermione smiled at him and gave him a quick hug, "Thanks again I actually had fun."

"You still sound surprised Herms." He chuckled. She went to take his jacket off that she was still wearing when he said,"Nope. Keep it.. Besides it looks better on you anyways.

"No it's yours take it." She help it out to him and noticed for the first time the ring she wore on her left hand. His eyes grew wide and his heart began to race. He didn't know why, but he needed to be alone.

Hermione noticed the sudden change in emotion and said," You okay Fred?"

He nodded,"I'll see you in breakfast Herms." Before racing up the boys staircase.

Fred sat on his four-poster bed and took in a deep breath as he put his hand through his ginger hair. He noticed he was sweaty and his face was considerably paled.

"Fred? You alright?" George asked noticing Fred from his bed.

"No I'm not bloody alright." He said shooting his twin a scowl.

"What happened?" George asked sitting up quickly preparing himself for the worst.

"She's engaged! I seen the ring and... She's going to be bloody married."

George felt his stomach drop, "The ring? What ring?" He said trying to sound like he had no clue, but he wasn't even fooling himself let own his own twin. He'd never buy it.

"Stop with the lying! Stop with this game! I'm your twin I can tell when your hiding something!" Fred snapped again.

Without thinking George yelled back at his twin,"Has it ever even crossed your mind that maybe just maybe I'm doing this to protect you? Maybe just maybe It's harder for us to do then it is for you? Maybe you might be the one who has it easy?"

Fred stared at his brother and said in a stone cold voice,"What is going on Gred?"

"I can't tell you. I tell you, you might... I need to find Hermione."

"NO!" Fred yelled as he grabbed his brothers arm.

"Talk to me..." FRed pleading locking his brothers gaze.

"I can't Fred, I wish I could... Trust me?"

"I wish I could." Fred repeated the words of his twin. He could see he was breaking his twins heart. He just told him he couldn't trust him. This was obviously tearing george apart on the inside, but Fred was confused he needed answers and the only two people that could give him them were his twin and Hermion.

George's throught closed up and he closed his eyes tightly. Fred let go and George left without a word. Leaving Fred completely alone. Fred knew there was only one thing he could do now.

He had to get it out of Hermione. It would take some time, but he could do it. He had a plan now, a mission. He laid on his bed and shut his eyes. Instantly the breathtakingly beauty that haunts his dreams each night apeared.

He automatically opened his eyes and his heart began racing, "I just hope I don't fall in love with her along the way."

He tried closing his eyes again only to find her image from tonight. Snowy hair flushed face red cheeks laughing. A perfect image. He thought twice about opening his eyes again, maybe he should stop fighting it. Who would it hurt? But in the end he opened his eyes.

'Come on Freddie, that's it. Don't fight. Each time you stop fighting you get a little closer. You can do it... I believe in you.' The soft femanine voice encouraged in his mind. He didn't know why but he felt the need to obey it.

Closing his eyes again he saw them. His running through hogsmead carrying her on his back her laughter echoing the silent streets. She was perfect... and he was falling for her.

A/N Okay I know I've said it before but I'm back now for good. I'm off punnishment and back forever to write this story! Yay I'm not giving up on this story and I hope you all haven't either.

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