July 3, 1994

"I couldn't believe we are actually doing this…." I muttered under my breath as the breeze ruffled through my hair and I adjusted my position on the borrowed cleansweep with a determined glint in my eyes.

Fred just chuckled as he pulled up next to me, his shoulder length fiery wisps of hair breezing around his face with an annoyingly effortless way, "What are you muttering about McG? This was your idea in the first place wasn't it? Sneaking out in the middle of the night to rescue Julia?"

A small frown shifted across my face as I yet again attempted to unsuccessfully remove this annoying particular piece of hair from my face, "Yeah, it was but I hadn't expected it to be this friggin cold out here!"

Fred smirked as his twin pulled up on the other side of me, an equally carefree smile on his face, "Come on Allie, at least try to look at the bright side Allie, your aunts off at a meeting and won't be back until late tomorrow morning! Even if we don't succeed you won't get in trouble!"

I rolled my eyes, "And you two wont? Don't forget what we had to do to get you two to come along-"

Both of them snorted, but it was Fred who spoke up, "Honestly Allie, in all of your six years of knowing us has there ever been a time when we weren't in jeopardy of getting in trouble for one thing or another?"

I furrowed my eyebrows; "Well…" honestly he was right but… "When you're both sleeping?" I asked hesitantly.

George grinned cheekily, "Nope still plotting!"

I snorted, "In your dreams!"

"Precisely." He winked earning another eyeroll from me as I redirected my attention to my boyfriend with a pout on my face, "Freddie… you must have dreams that don't revolve entirely around pranking right?"

A playful smirk spread across his face, causing my heart to speed up just the slightest, "Nope!" he just had to pop the 'P'….

I leaned across the gap between us and gave him an equally playful slap to the shoulder, "You jerk! Did you just openly tell your girlfriend that you never dream about her?"

He just laughed as he swerved away from me, "It's not that I never dream of you love, it's just when I do were usually doing something that falls under being 'up to no good'!" he laughed at my frowning expression, "What?"

"When you do dream about me?" I huffed in disbelief, "Fred, let's just get one thing straight, when that little situation happened last year and we were broken up for a few months there was nothing I did other than dream of you."

George wolf whistled, earning him a pointed glare from myself, "Woo Fred, looks like you've got one devoted girlfriend there!" he laughed and I felt myself blush despite myself before redirecting my gaze to the said brother.

"He does…" I hummed as I went to pull out the magical compass that I had found in my Aunt's trunk sometime before third year, it belonged to my mother, I always admired her muggle habits that my Aunt spoke so fondly about, she was an inventor, a tinkerer just like me. I smirked as the compass began to blink towards the east, I honestly couldn't believe that we were on our way to Julia's house! After a month of her not responding to any of our owls we had planned for just the right moment for everything to fall into place, and it had finally had, just this morning when my Aunt had left for a meeting at Hogwarts to help 'make arrangements', I honestly had no idea what in the great name of Godric she was talking about. But it certainly hadn't been easy getting everything arranged with on such short notice….

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"Do we have the explosives?" George called from downstairs as I worked hurriedly with Fred to locate all of my secret stash of gear for the night, I honestly couldn't believe that my closet was such a mess! Why did I have to ruddy throw the most important bag in here so carelessly? And why did Fred have to be here to see me in this pathetic case of disorganization?

I flushed as I caught sight of Fred's cruelly smirking face as he looked into my top left drawer of my dresser…oh Merlin don't tell me… "My Allison this is quite a girly book you've got here..." he laughed at my flabbergasted face before he pulled out the embarrassing pink frilly book, upon which was written in big swirly white cursive My Diary. Oh no… I had gotten that shortly after telling my Aunt about my 'allergic reaction' to Fred, some student had apparently left it in her class completely empty and since they never claimed it she gave it to me to jot all of my feelings down. I knew ruddy well why they left it then, but even though the thought of writing in the book embarrassed me I had, there was a whole bunch of embarrassing details in there!

"Wh-what! No don't open it!" I squealed as I pulled a box out from under the assorted pile of robes, muggle clothes, and old chocolate frog cards out with and with an oomph the whole mess came falling down on me, burying my whole entire being under the garbage, Fred simply laughed before he began to read the book, "Dear Diary," he said in a girly mocking voice, and I growled, I had never written that! "Something very strange happened at school today with Fred and I," he gasped dramatically as he put his hands over his mouth and gave me a teasing look, "it turns out that I'm not allergic to him after all-" he snorted, "Still can't believe you thought that…" he chuckled, "my aunt says that I apparently err… feel love towards him? How is that even possible? But when I do really think about it, I can actually see where she was kind of coming from…" he trailed off as he read my next few words before grinning yet again, "Funny, sweet, and caring I can understand, but cute?"

I flushed under my pile of gunk, oh he wouldn't!

"GEORGIE! ALLIE THINKS I'M CUUUUUTE!" he ran out of the room to call down the stairs, "CUUUUUUTE GEORGIE! CUUUUUUUUTE!"

I heard George's muffled laughter, "Oh do please tell me oh dearest brother of mine how you could ever possibly fall under that title?"

My fists clenched as I began to push aside the clothes and tried to move my way out of my trap.

"Dear Diary, something happened today that I will never forget-…"

My face burned as I shoved the last of the clothes off of me and pulled my way out of the closet, the bag that I had been looking for conveniently dragging along on my ankle, but I payed no mind to it as I sprinted out into the hallway, I knew what he was going to say next…

"Fred-" we both said at the same time, and he looked up from the book in shock, as my glaring eyes fell upon him, "YOU GIVE ME THAT BLOODY FRILLY PINK BOOK BACK RIGHT NOW BEFORE I RIP ALL OF YOUR PRECIOUS GINGER WEASLEY HAIR OUT!" I screamed before leaping forward to hopefully tackle it away from him, his loud protests echoing all throughout the house as I chased him….

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I blinked a few times readjusting myself on my broom 'That had really slowed us down….' I thought with a sigh as we began to head north towards East Grinstead, Julia lived just outside of that small town about thirty miles outside of London. According to her, her home repelled muggles from being able to lay eyes on it, however when a magical being caught sight of it, it was rather hard to miss… so we were going mostly off of that vague description….

"Tired of being in the air already Al's?" Fred chortled as he awkwardly ruffled my hair

"Yeah," George continued with a mischievous smirk, "we've only been up here for what? Three hours?"

"Hnnph!" I groaned, as I tried to ignore the consistent horrible pain that was shooting up my spine through my tailbone, "Not all of us spend endless hours of our summers up in the air you ginger gits…."

George wolf whistled as turned my head away from his brother with yet another annoyed sound, "Being a bit harsh there aren't you Allison? Wasn't it just ten hours ago that Fred was reading about how attractive you found him back in fourth year? You didn't deny anyof it if I remember correctly."

My eyes widened in mock indignation, "You have got to be kidding me! I wrote that thing two years ago, that could have nothing to do with what I feel for him now."

Fred made a strangled sound that caused me to snort with laughter, "A-allison-," he began feebly, "Y-you don't really mean that do you? You don't really find me unattractive-"

"Even as an ugly git Fred, I'd still love you to pieces." I laughed, causing a rather substantial bug to go flying into my mouth, and down my throat, its wings tickling the edges and causing me to gag.

Fred and George began to laugh as we flew over the village that was coming into view "Looking for some extra protein Allie-boo?" George cooed as the faint honking from a horn on the street below echoed up into the sky as we passed over a club that was blaring muggle rock.

"Shut up George, before you wake up with a bunch of boils all over your face." I smirked into my hand as we began to fly over the country side, the blue glow beginning to twitch before turning an obnoxious shade of green. "We should be getting there soon; the compass is going off…."

Fred and George didn't respond, and I felt a sense of dread fill me, "Guys?" I asked faintly as I looked up from my mother's invention, which was now beginning to shift into a shade of yellow and red, "What's wron-, oh Merlin's sagging pants…" I breathed faintly as a massive pine tree surrounded manor came into view.

Julia's place was HUGE to say the least, and it simply oozed the word 'rich'. It was at least three stories high and was more than five time as large as my home, there must have been more than thirty rooms! The whole outside of the building was made of gray, precisely cut, stone blocks that reminded me of the ice blocks that I had used back in my second year to make an igloo.

As we came closer into view I was able to make out more details, such as the massive double staircase that lead up to the front entrance which lay on the other side of the home and the intricate carvings all along the sides of the back wall that portrayed lions being suffocated by large snakes. It looked like someone took house rivalry way to seriously…. Beyond the stone wall that surrounded the property lay extremely large and complex gardens which one could walk out into through the back twelve foot long glass doors, which looked to be inlaid with… gold?

"She has a fountain showing a lion being strangled by a snake…." Fred gaped, at a loss for words.

"It's all over the walls to…." George nodded

"Why in the name of Godric are their doors inlaid with gold?" I asked in disbelief as we crossed over the large gate and began to swoop past the empty curtained windows, "Do you have any idea how many hungry families and people you could house in this place? This place is a complete waste of money!" I exclaimed under my breath as we began to check for some tell-tale sign that one of the rooms belonged to Julia, most of them had the exact same shade of curtains.

"It's a good thing her mum's asleep…" George murmured as we passed under the largest walkout balcony on the back that had enough space to fit at least two Hogwarts classrooms, "Wouldn't want her to see us…."

"Yeah… or hear us…." Fred nodded, with a cautious glint in his eyes, "I'm surprised there aren't that many security barriers on this place."

I sighed as we turned a corner and began to fly towards the next largest balcony, "Well it was designed to not be seen by muggles so I imagine the Slytherin extremist didn't see any threats outside threats…."

"True…" Fred mused, his thoughtful expression changing to one of exhileration as he looked forward, "Allison, George! Look a stand for an owl to sit on!"

Georges face lit up as his eyes feel upon the set up, it looked hastily done and messy, much unlike the rest of the perfectly groomed home, "That must be Julia's room…."

My heart began to pound rapidly as we came to a halt in front of her room; the double doors to her room were behind a large metal bar that lay diagonally across them to prevent their opening.

"The curtains are blue." I murmured, a grin shifting across my face as I realized what she had done, "Little rebel!"

Fred and George laughed as I began to make preparations for our departure, everything should go smoothly… we didn't even have to explode anything! We would be in and out in a matter of minutes; Julia would have plenty of time to pack up her most important belongings….

"George take my bag," I hissed before chucking it over to him, "We have less than a half hour for the portkey to go off, we need to get out of here."

"Right Al's let's get this over with as quickly as possible." He nodded and with that all three off us flew over the railing of the balcony and dismounted our brooms, instantly causing a blaring alarm to go off, we all froze. This definitely wasn't part of the plan.

Oh hippogriff shit.

Yeah, I know, I know people I told you I'd update within a week but there were a few complications that I don't really want to get into because the list is to long…. Anyways, how was it? I told a few people that this would be longer then it is, but I thought it would be a dramatic cliffhanger! Of course, because of this I'll probably update faster and get back in the swing of things. I was actually losing interest in this story but with the plotline for this year. *whistles* I have reason to write~! So review me for encouragement this is going to be one wild year.

I'd like to wish a happy birthday to my friend Astale5, my loyal reviewer and for the past few chapters and friend from lunch! Happy Sweet Sixteenth!

Disclaimer: I'm fifteen, I don't have a lawyer.