let's go, just me and you. he whispered softly in my ear. his voice tickled my neck and made me giggle. he grabbed my hand and led me out the door and we were off into the night. I had no idea where we were head and for once I didn't care. I was with him and that is what matter. he led me down the broom storage and wink at me as he opened the door. I looked inside, frightened at what he was thinking of doing. "you can't expect me to get on that thing." I whispered, not wanting anyone to find us and ruin the night. Fred didn't say anything, he just smiled and pulled out a broom. "get on" he said kindly. I stood and shook my head, "I can't. I've never been on one. I'll surely fall." "no you won't, I'll catch you." I took a deep breath and climbed on. Fred pulled my hands around him and said, "hold on tight, I don't want to lose you." he pushed off hard and we were flying.
we flew to the middle of the quidditch field. "what are you up to?" I asked. "I just wanted to be with you." he smiled. "why? weren't you having a good time?." "oh of course I was but you weren't." "I don't matter, let's go back. you matter, you matter a lot to me." fred's face was very serious, "don't ever say you don't matter, you have made a great change in me. you make me think, you make me care. I am a better person because of you. I care about you very much." I was speechless, what did this mean? we spent the next three hours just sitting and talking, talking about nothing and everything. he showed me all the stars and what he had named them. nothing in the world mattered as long as we stayed on this field. voldemort could never touch us as all as we stayed right here. but as the sun began to rise we quickly stuck back into the tower. Fred kissed my cheek as I left to go to my room.
I had never been this confused in my entire life. the next few weeks didn't help at all. Fred and I were nearly inseparable. one day after the da we walked passed a young boy sitting and crying on a bench. "what's wrong?" Fred asked as he crouched down next to the boy. he held out his hand to see words cut into his hand. "oh we can fix that." Fred smiled and pulled out his wand. after the boy's cuts were healed Fred pulled out a couple puking pimples. "here take these for your next umbridge class." "thanks!" the boy took them and ran off. "that was sweet", I smiled. Fred and i started walking again until we heard the screeching voice of none other than herself, umbridge. Fred grabbed my hand as we turned around. "detention for the both of you!" she yelled. I squeezed Freds hand. "tomorrow after class, great hall". and she turned to leave. "we best get back" I said.
the next day fred and I went to detetion and when we left both of your hands read "I will not walk the halls at night" in bloody cuts. "I'll fix that as soon as we get back to the common room". Fred looked at my hand, "I'm sorry" he looked at me. "it's not your fault", I felt bad for him. he shouldn't blame himself, he could do nothing wrong.
we made it back to the common room where Fred and George discussed umbridge and how they would get back at her. George said, "Fred I think this is the end of our academic career". fred smiled. "I think I agree with you brother". I stayed silent, this would mean that he would leave me here. i would be alone again, I didn't want to think about it. I'm going to sleep, I stood up and left. Fred barely noticed he was too busy planning his grand escape. the next couple days I was very quiet even around Fred.
by the third day he began to notice. "what's wrong?" he asked as we sat out by the lake. "nothing, why would you ask?" "you've just been very sad lately. something is wrong." I looked into his eyes, he knew me too well. how did I let this happen? "it's just, you're leaving….hogwarts." I wanted to say me but it slipped away. "i have, i don't belong here. I belong at a joke shop, you know this." "I know, it's silly really." "if it makes you sad it's not silly. look, I'm sorry. I know I'm leaving you here. I want you to come with but you need to finish school and go on and be successful and find someone who deserves you."
"you deserve me, you deserve more than me!" I broke, I couldn't hold it in anymore. he needed to know I needed to tell him. I started crying I was so mad. "I love you Fred and I need you. and you're abandoning me. you're leaving me."
fred grabbed me and looked into my eyes. "I love you too but this is for the best. I wish it could be different. but I'm not the one for you, I can never be the one for you. I'm sorry."
I stood up, "fine then goodbye!" and I wanted to storm off but i just stared at him.
"this isn't goodbye, this is see you later". he tried to smile but he was holding back tears as I turned and left him sitting by himself at the edge of that lake.
I didn't speak to him for the next week. he would stare at me in class and try to talk to me at meals but I couldn't talk, I could barely look at him without crying. I knew soon he would disappear and be gone forever.
we were sitting in the great hall for an exam. I didn't care anymore and just looked down at my empty paper. Fred and George were both missing. umbridge stood at the front and watched the students like a hawk. until there were loud bangs coming from outside the doors. umbridge stepped down and walking quickly towards them. the doors flew open and Fred and George were flying in on Brooms and dropped fireworks everywhere. i stood and watched Fred flying around. he was smiling and laughing. this was it, this is the last time. at least he was happy, that is what mattered. as they dropped the last of their fireworks they led all the students to the court yard. Fred was searching the crowd and i knew he was looking for me. I stepped back into the shadows so he could not see me. a tear fell down my face as George slapped him on the back and they turned to fly off into the distance. "bye Fred" I whispered to myself and walked back inside.
