A/N I'm so sorry I have not deserted you! I've been really busy and I'm going back to school tomorrow so I may only be able to update once a week but I'll try my best! Thanks for sticking with me :D

Truth Will Out

George had been right, only moments after Fred had caught him with Katie had his story been all over Gryffindor tower. He'd tried to avoid the attention – which was a surprise for a Weasley twin. Katie however had lavished the attention by telling people that George was the best she'd ever had. This only caused the tension between Fred and George to increase and to make matters worse Hermione couldn't seem to look him in the eye.

It was coming up to the Hogsmeade weekend, which Hermione had been looking forward to, that was until George had slept with Katie Bell. After the embarrassing confrontation between the twins, she had run upstairs into her dorm. Ginny had followed quickly and Hermione had spent a couple of hours crying on the younger girls shoulder.

"You know what I think?" Ginny declared

"What?" Hermione replied with a small sniff

"He's trying to make you jealous"

"How did you work that one out?" Hermione enquired

"I saw the way George looked at you and Fred in the DA meeting," she paused before continuing "it was only after Fred put his arm around you that he went over to Katie,"

Hermione stared in bewilderment at her friend before finally saying "so that must mean he likes me then?"

"I think he might do" Ginny admitted

Hermione was quiet for a few moments. She was feeling happy inside by the prospect of George liking her and then it hit her "he must have slept with Katie because he thought I was dating Fred! This is my entire fault" Hermione vowed that she would find Fred and explain the whole situation.

-0-

Hermione had spent the past hour searching the entire castle for any sign of Fred. As her luck would have it he came out of a classroom just as she was about to pass it. She pulled him to aside.

"We need to talk," she stated

"Well if we must but there is something I much rather be doing with your mouth" he replied, the trademark grin plastered across his face.

Hermione groaned at this comment before launching into her story explain in detail about how she had liked George since that day on the train and she hadn't meant to kiss Fred. She continued by saying that she had only asked him to be partners with him to make George jealous but her actions had seemed to make things worse. He nodded slowly. He was upset that he had lost the bet with his brother but kept this to himself. He told Hermione not to panic so much as he knew George felt the same and that he would be friends with her instead of anything more. She breathed a sigh of relief before they walked together slowly back to the Gryffindor common room.

-0—

On the morning of the Hogsmeade trip Hermione woke up late. She had no intention of going as she didn't have anyone to go with. Harry was in detention and Ron had decided to tag along with Dean and Seamus and Hermione didn't want to spend the afternoon in the company of those two boys.

She dressed quickly before deciding to take a walk to the lake. It was a cool, crisp November morning and the cool air felt marvellous on her face as she walked in the weak rays of sunshine soaking up as much of it as she could. As she approached the lake she noticed a figure sat under the willow tree. She walked towards them, instantly recognising the red hair and sat down.

George looked to his left at the person who had just sat down next to him. He had a puzzled look on his face as he saw that it was Hermione and he had expected her to be in Hogsmeade with Fred. Nevertheless he looked down at her and took in the small smile she had on her face.

"Beautiful morning isn't it?"

"Erm yeah?" he replied "I'm not being rude but shouldn't you be with Fred. You can't be that bad at telling us apart" he asked with a small laugh.

"No" was all she said

They sat in silence for a few moments before Hermione decided to tell George exactly what had been going on the past few weeks. She told him everything she had told Fred and he sat there silently waiting for her to finish.

"…what I'm trying to say is that I really like you," she finished

George didn't reply but instead Hermione felt his lips on hers and he gave her a small, almost shy, kiss. He pulled away from her and said

"Hermione will you be my girlfriend?" she nodded quickly before she pulled him down to her again for another kiss. This one had much more passion. She opened her mouth allowing his tongue to enter her mouth. It was different from her kiss with Fred, it was like a million fireworks were going off around them – though once again knowing the Weasley twins that wouldn't be surprising.

They pulled away from each other and George placed a protective arm around her shoulders. They stayed like that for a while until George broke the silence.

"I think I should find Fred and clear things up" she agreed and the shared one last kiss before walking up to the castle. Hermione said that she was going to find Harry as his detention must have finished by now and George admitted that he needed to find his brother.

-0-

Hermione walked slowly down the corridor to the classroom where Harry's detention was being held. She paused when she heard a noise coming from under the staircase. She turned to look and saw a two boys kissing. She couldn't make out who they were but sure enough as the blonde boy pulled away she recognised the lightning shaped scar on the other boys forehead.

"What on earth…?" she didn't get to finish asking as the boys pulled her under the staircase with them and one placed a hand over her mouth. She looked up with frightened eyes to see Draco Malfoy of all people glaring down at her.

"Try to keep your voice down Granger!" he hissed

Hermione nodded silently her mouth still openly gaping at the two boys. "How long?" was all she could manage.

Harry and Draco shared a look of worry before they finally decided that she could indeed be trusted. They went on to tell her everything that had happened over the past few months. Hermione had calmed down considerably and accepted her friends decision. She took a step backwards before a hard grabbed her wrist.

"You won't tell anyone will you?" Draco asked. He had a scared expression on his face, something Hermione had never encountered before she almost felt sorry for him.

"I promise" she replied and with that she walked away.

-0-

Before Hermione could believe that she had, had enough drama for one day she walked in to the Gryffindor common room. Fred and George were standing side by side with a fuming Katie Bell in front of them.

"I thought you loved me" the hysterical girl screamed. Hermione's eyes widened in shock as she believed George had told everyone about them dating. They had promised to keep it a secret.

"Now where did…"

"..you get a stupid idea.."

"…like that from?" the twins asked.

"We had sex George! You can't just dump me after something like that," she was becoming more hysterical by the moment.

"So did we Katie" Fred pointed out "and you never thought were dating"

"And anyway like you said we had sex Katie, we were never dating," George finished.

Katie, realising she was losing the argument let out one more frustrated scream before storming out of the room.

Fred and George looked at each other with smiles of pure glee on their faces. They turned to face Hermione who was still a bit shell shocked from the scene she had just witnessed.

"Don't worry…"

"…Hermione, the evil girly…"

"…has been defeated…"

"….and Fred is going to keep our relationship a secret as he is…"

"…quite honestly the sexiest guy you have ever seen" Fred finished causing both Hermione and George to glare at him.

"Well better be off then," Fred joked before he to left the room leaving the couple alone.

Well there was a lot of drama again wasn't there? And Hermione and George have finally got together :)