November 7, 1993

George had been mad at us for less than an hour and I was already missing his company. What can I say? I missed his jokes when Fred and I walked up the stairs. I just couldn't last another hour with George being mad at us… I already felt bad enough about having Julia mad at us, and I barely knew her! Having George mad at us was an entirely different situation and I was going to fix it sooner or later….

I rustled through my trunk, going through uniform after uniform, past sock after sock, and eventually past my hidden potion storage box… I couldn't find it anywhere! Where could I possibly have put my newest invention? I really needed to use it tonight! I leaned forward and shoved my face down into the trunk… after a moment or two I finally realized how stupid I was acting, pulled out my wand, and said, "Accio box!"

My pile of socks on the bottom of my trunk shook and then a small wooden box came soaring out of the trunk, promptly hitting me in the head.

I fell back on the floor and rubbed my head in pain, "Bloody hell…" I swore under my breath before I reached for the box and opened it to reveal my pride and joy, my—

The sound of heavy footsteps running up the stairs caught me off mid-thought as I hurried to slide my secret into my pocket. The door slammed open just as I shoved the box back under my sock pile.

"Allison!" Angelina smiled as she entered the room, "Fred sent me up to tell you that it's time to go to your detention with Snape."

I let out a sigh of relief, "Right… tell him I'll be right down."

"Okay." She smiled and turned to leave the room.

Slowly I pulled myself up from the floor and slid my wand into my right pocket, then after quickly pulling my (now brown) hair back into a pony tail I headed downstairs to meet up with Fred who was waiting reluctantly by the door.

"Hey Fred…" I sighed as I walked over to meet him

"Hey Allie, you ready to go?" Fred asked as he opened the portrait hole.

"Yup…" I sighed as we headed out into the Grand Staircase, "So… where's George?"

"He's already at Snape's office… he completely ignored me when he left." Fred muttered as we headed down the second flight of stairs.

Everything was quiet for a few moments and we headed down three more flights of stairs, finally I broke the silence, "I feel like a ruddy bitch." I sighed as a ghost drifted past us mumbling something about 'hobswatch and fissle'.

"I wouldn't date a bitch." Fred replied quietly, an odd volume for him… the fact that George was mad at him was obviously hard for him to take…

"Well it's my fault that we spiked Julia's drink and-," I was cut of abruptly.

"I poured the potion in." he sighed

"So? It was my idea!" I snapped

"Allison…" Fred groaned and came to an abrupt stop.

"What?" I asked as I came to a stop beside him.

"Please stop attacking yourself… it's not your fault that both of them are mad at us okay?"

"I still feel like crap." I muttered before he grabbed me by my shoulders and turned me to face him.

"Look it's both of our faults… and to be quite honest, I feel like crap to." Fred whispered harshly and held me close to his face.

"W-well…" I stuttered and Fred gave me a stern look, after several moments I caved in "Fine, it's both our faults…"

Fred gazed into my eyes for several moments before he muttered, "We'll get George to hear us out later tonight… he's forgiving you know that."

I bit my lower lip and stared at him for several long moments, "I know… let's just hurry up and get to detention before Snape chews us out for being late."

"Right…" Fred sighed and with that we headed down into the dungeons…

It was the usual protocol when we entered the dungeons, Snape held out his hand, I pulled my wand out of the left pocket, he took our wands, and we headed over to clean cauldrons. George was already there with his shoulder turned coldly away from us.

Once Snape was safely tucked away in his office we began to beg for forgiveness… or well at least I did anyway…. Fred sort of started out with a rather abrupt, not so pathetic, pick up sentence.

"George, stop acting like a git." Fred snapped and I saw George tighten his grip around his rag.

I punched Fred in the shoulder.

"Ouch… what the bloody hell was that for…" he hissed and I glared at him.

"Are you two going to work or just sit there and make plans for your next prank?" George muttered darkly and grabbed yet another cauldron to wash.

I rolled my eyes and pulled my wand out of my right pocket, with a flick all of the cauldrons flew back into the wall, not a single smudge was on them.

Fred and George turned to stare at me.

"How the bloody hell did you do that?" Fred asked in surprise, "you handed your wand over to Snape didn't you?"

"No, I handed him a prank wand…. Now George has no excuse to ignore us, because these next two hours are going to be torture if he spends them trying to avoid us…"

"Can't you two take a hint? I don't want to bloody talk to you right now!" George snapped angrily, his bright orange hair highlighting his angry features in a rather intimidating fashion.

"Look George, we didn't mean for any of this to happen! Fred and I came up with the idea on our anniversary… we were so excited we had forgotten to tell you-," I exclaimed as I took a forceful step towards him.

"Oh, and I'm sure you came up with a whole bucketful of other new pranks then as well right? You've probably been pulling them all year!" George fumed

"We haven't been! George that was the only one I swear—," I was cut off abruptly

"You swear? You swear? Allison, I don't know what to think off you two! Do you have any idea how it feels to be left out?"

That struck a nerve, "George! You're acting like a ruddy git! I know why you're really angry, so why don't you just stop snapping at us and…"

"I'm not going to stop! Like you two didn't stop when you came up with your 'brilliant plan' to get Julia to talk like that!"

I felt a lump form in my throat, "George…"

He paused and stared at me, and I could see behind his furious gaze that he was hurting inside… he didn't like being left out….

No one said anything for several long moments as George and I stared into each other's eyes, electricity seemed to crack in the air as the tension from the last couple of moments lingered dangerously….

"George… I- I know, that it… hurts to be left out…. I also know that this is the first and last time that you're ever going to be left out…. Fred and I—well we just forgot to tell you and you've finally cracked from all of the times that we haven't included you in our outings and…" I gulped and my throat tightened, "We've been taking advantage of you and your good temper, and were… sorry." I looked up at him, his face had loosened up considerably and he was gazing at me in regretful way.

"It's not that Allie…" he sighed and ran his hand through his hair, "Well it is, but—."

He groaned, "I did act like a bloody git… things aren't like they used to be, I've known that since last year… and I know that you two tend to do some things without me because… well your dating."

The tension in the air began to lighten considerably.

"I shouldn't have snapped like that…. It was immature of me… I should be the one who's apologizing right now, not you two."

"Since when have any of us ever acted mature?" I asked with a smirk on my face.

Just like that the tension was gone and everyone broke out into hysterical laughter… it was then of course that Snape decided to gift us with his presence…

"Is that the sound of laughter I hear?" he sneered as he entered through the door.

"Ah Snapey… pleasure to see you sir!" I bowed towards him.

"Miss. McGonagall… you three are already done with the chore I assigned you?" he asked in his usual deadpan tone of voice.

"Well Professor," Fred began with a smirk on his face

"After five years of experience…" George picked up

"We've finally mastered the art of cleaning cauldrons!" Fred finished

Snape sneered, "Well then… seeing as there is nothing else that I can assign to you tonight I have no other choice then to excuse you an hour early." He grimaced at the thought, causing his rather large nose to twist on his face in disgust.

A cheer went off inside my head.

"However you three are going to have an extra hour added on next time… here are your wands back, you are dismissed."

I couldn't help but feel happy as we walked down the halls on the way back to the Common room, despite the extra hour added on to the end of next week the detention had gone rather well, George was talking to us again, and that was the important thing. Now if only we could get Julia to talk to us and everything would be back on track!

A/N

As you can see I am not grounded! :D My dad was in a good mood xD anyways what did you think of the chapter? I thought it was kinda rushed but hey, it was about twice as long as the last one! Anyways, review and tell me what you think : ) If I get at least five reviews by Monday there will be a surprise waiting for all of you xD

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