Snowballs and Fluff- Continued!

The fact that we had given the map away seriously bummed me out. I loved that thing! Harry needed it more though… and even though he had someone out there who was trying to kill him I really wanted to sneak into his dorm one day and steal it back… at least for a half hour anyways….

"Hey Allison? Did you hear what I just said?" George asked as he shook my shoulder.

I looked up from my mitten covered hands and looked at him, "What?" I asked.

"You haven't said a thing since we gave Harry the map, what's wrong with you?" He had a worried expression painted upon his face.

"Err… nothing, nothing's wrong with me…" I muttered and swiveled my head around the courtyard, "Where's Fred?" I asked with a confused voice.

"He went off to find some rocks for the snowman's face…." George sighed as I dragged my foot in the still falling snow around to make a smiley face.

"Oh…." I mumbled distractedly and squatted down to scoop up a handful of the white powdery stuff, "Do you want me to find some arms or…?"

"Sure, that will be great." He replied with a very confused expression on his face, I turned to walk away from him, "Allison…"

"What?" I sighed exasperated

"What is wrong with you?"

"Nothing! Really! Now can I just find some twigs and get this over with?"

He sighed and turned back to the snowman and began to smooth out its body, all the while mumbling something about 'girls' and their 'ruddy hormones'.

I let out a huff of air and turned back around and approached the tree, underneath the snow I knew there were a pile of twigs and sticks, some of the first and second years used them to practice their transfiguration and charms and often left them lying about after they were finished. I knelt back down in the snow and snaked my hands underneath and tried to locate the pile. All the while my mind was whirring, thinking about the reason why I was really upset. I was still kind of upset about the whole entire Julia situation. She hadn't talked to us since the day of her involuntary outburst, and whenever we saw her she would still glare at us with the greatest look of loathing that she could muster. I had actually been planning to use the map to find her alone and 'accidentally' bump into her, then finally confront her and apologize. Oh well… guess I would have to find another way to apologize now….

I had been so lost in my thoughts about Julia that I hadn't noticed the fact that someone was sitting behind the tree. I raised an eyebrow and crawled closer, "Hello?" I asked

No response.

"Um… hello? Who are you?" I asked yet again.

Yet again I received no reply.

"Are you oka-?"

The person began to turn around, but before I could finish my question Lee's excited voice cried across the courtyard, "INCOMING!"

Everything moved in slow motion… the person fully turned around to face me, her familiar bespectacled face glaring at me. But her face turned to surprise and then shock, I fell face first into the snow just before a snow ball zipped over head and hit Julia right in the middle of her face.

I cautiously picked my head up out of the snow, once I was sure no more of the wet missiles were going to fly my way I sat up… just in time to see Julia rise to her feet in a huff, give me the death glare, and turn and leave. Yet I could swear on my life that as she turned away from me that a look of sadness passed across her features. The courtyard was quiet several moments after her parting before I turned around and glared at Lee.

"You're a bloody arsehole you know that Lee?" I exclaimed, "Do you have any idea what you just did?"

"I'm sorry Allie; I was aiming for you…" Lee trailed off; I knew he didn't mean to hit Julia right in the middle of her face, but really….

I let out an aggravated sigh; I wasn't going to a pain in the arse over what just happened and ruin everyone's day, I would just confront Julia tomorrow and try to apologize. "It's alright Lee…" I sighed, "I didn't mean to snap at you… I'm just stressed and everything you know…"

Yet another thing that I had hovering over my shoulders, on top of all this drama I had to deal with my upcoming OWL exams. I wanted to do well and please my Aunt but the stress was getting to me… maybe I should take a day off…. Sometimes I wished that I could just be like Fred and George my only ambition being to own a joke shop and have fun.

It was then off course that Fred decided to show up, in his arms he was carrying a couple of metal sheets.

I raised an eyebrow, "What are those?" I asked curiously

He turned to look at me and grinned, "According to Hermione their called sleds…"

"Sleds?" I asked confused, "What are those?

"You use them for sliding down hills, have races you know?" He asked with a smirk.

A grin played across my lips, "Brilliant…"

"I know…" he smiled, highlighting his warm eyes.

I felt myself blush and Fred grinned.

"Errm… we don't mean to impose on your little romantic conversation or anything but it's a little awkward watching you to get all lovey-dovey… " Angelina cut in uncomfortably.

My blush deepened and I spun away from Fred to face the small posse of Gryffindor's that were standing before me.

"Can we just get sledding?" Lee asked impatiently

With a quick nod we headed off…

Line break!

The sleds were big enough for tag teams, and within a few moments everyone had decided who they were going to be paired off with. The teams went like this… Lee was paired with Angelina (much to his delight), Katie was paired with George, Alicia had grabbed Collin Creevy out of the snowball fight he was participating in with a bunch of other second years, and Fred and I paired up with each other.

Once we were all on our sleds Collin announced with his best mock announcer's voice, "On the count of three we'll begin!" and then as an afterthought he added "… Oh Dennis, do you have our camera?"

I laughed.

"Yeah Collin, I got it!" he smiled enthusiastically and pressed it up against his face.

"You ready love?" Fred chuckled as he placed his hands in the snow and prepared to push us forward.

"I'm ready…" I breathed and placed my hands on the snow as well.

"Good, because as soon as Dennis gives us the clear to go were going to push as hard as we can and speed down the hill as fast as we can got it?" he smirked into my hair

"I got it…" I replied under my breath.

"Okay Dennis! You can count down now!" Collin cried over our heads and arched his body forward and prepared to take off.

"All right! On the count of three! One… two… three!" The flash went off with a poof but it didn't matter because Fred and I simultaneously pushed off and took off down the hill at a breathtaking speed.

"Brilliant!" I screamed in delight as we urged the sled along with our hands, "This is brilliant!"

Fred laughed as the air blew frostily across my skin, "It's almost like riding a broomstick!" he agreed

"Yeah!" I laughed as we reached the bottom of the hill first but all of our built up momentum caused us to continue down past Hagrid's hut, threw his pumpkin patch and eventually a little ways into the woods.

When we came to a stop we were breathless from laughing, I fell out of the sled and landed on my back, Fred laid down next to me.

"That was fun.…" I sighed as I looked up into the forest canopy.

"Yeah…" he agreed, "it was…"

We were both silent for a few moments before I sighed and said, "Were in the forbidden forest… we really should get going…" as I moved to get up however Fred grabbed my gently by my wrist and held me there.

"Nah… you don't have to leave." He smirked playfully back into the snow, "were not that far in and it's still daylight out."

"But what about the dementor's?" I shuddered, remembering that night on the train.

"What about them?" he asked quietly.

"They can come in the forbidden forest cant they?"

"Dumbledore doesn't allow it…"

"Oh…" I sighed as I leaned back into the snow, after a few more moments of silence I turned to face Fred, ", if you don't mind my prying… I have a question that I would like to ask you."

"What is it?" he asked with his signature 'Fred' smirk.

"Well… I was just wondering…."

He leaned across the snow and placed a gentle kiss on my lips and I dropped off into my happy little field of flowers. I swear kissing Fred was my happy place… and it had been a long while since we had been able to visit this certain place.

Once we pulled away Fred whispered, "You were wondering if I would kiss you correct?"

"You know me to well…." I laughed under my breath.

"Well I've known you for five years; that was bound to happen eventually…."

"True…" I smiled thoughtfully and brushed some of my brown hair out of my face.

"Your cute when you do that you know." Fred blurted out.

I looked up at him in surprise, "I'm cute when I brush hair out of my face?"

"Well yes, you're cute when you do a lot of things actually…" he flushed as I looked intently into his eyes.

"Thanks," I smiled.

"You're welcome…." He replied with a grin on his face. After a few moments passed he sighed and asked me, "Should we be heading back then? The others will come looking for us soon..."

I let out a reluctant sigh, "I guess so… we really should hurry… we've been gone for a few minutes."

As I rose up onto my feet and brushed off my pants Fred said, "You look fine, now come on lets go…"

I smiled to myself as we headed out to meet up with everyone, overall the day had gone over quite well… and was definitely worth remembering.

Thank you to Carro, who bothered me daily to update, without her I'd probably be lounging in my room sleeping right now. xD I had fun writing this chapter though… although I really don't know what to think of it… x sighs x TT_TT I'm so tired. I've been working on my grades lately which is primarily the reason why I've been late with my updates…. Anyways until next chapter!

Drakefan077 :3

Disclaimer: I'm fifteen. Not however-old-JK-Rowling-is. So obviously, I don't own Harry Potter. Do you have any questions? None? Good…

(Please pause for a moment of silence in memory of those who died in the tragic Tsunami in Japan today…)