Chapter Five
"Why do you put up with her?" Aurora asked Ron as they walked back to the common room, "She doesn't treat you right,"
"Very true, but I don't treat her right either sometimes. She loves my attention and can be a bit barmy sometimes,"
"You're telling me," Aurora chuckled.
"You really don't like her do you?" Ron asked.
"I think we just got off on the wrong foot but are both too stubborn to start again," Aurora answered after a pause of thought, "We'll work it out,"
"You better do, especially if we're all going to be family soon," Ron winked and laughed.
"Don't jinx it," Aurora joked. Suddenly they stopped dead in their tracks as they saw Hermione standing at the end of the corridor. She marched over to them, her face red with anger.
"Hermione…" Ron gave her a warning tone but Aurora was quick off the mark and stomped over to her before she could reach them.
"No, Hermione, you listen, nothing is going on with me and Ron okay? You need to stop this now! How would you feel if you had lost your twin brother? And someone knew the key to how he died; you'd be in the same position as me, so seriously, get off your high horse and listen just for a second because not everyone is out to get you!"
Hermione just stood there and blinked. All that could be heard was Aurora's deep breathing trying to calm herself down.
"I…" Hermione stuttered, "I'm sorry," she choked out as though it was poison, "I think I forget my place sometimes,"
"It's not me you need to apologise to, it's him," She thumbed towards Ron who stood there oblivious. Aurora stepped out of the way and Hermione embraced Ron quickly. He mouthed a thank you to her as she walked down the corridor, giving them a moment.
Soon she was approaching the common room and her legs began t ache with tiredness. She checked her watch and saw that it was getting quite late. She looked around to the big clock tower to check if her time matched the Hogwarts express time as she liked to be in sync with the trains. Two minutes past, twenty two minutes past and thirty nine minutes past, Aurora recited. As she turned around she bashed into someone and fell to the floor.
"Ow, watch where you're –," Aurora started but looked up and saw the person she'd been wanting to see all evening. She smiled as the familiar strong hands helped her up off the ground, "What're you doing out?" She asked.
"McGonagall calls it 'earning myself a prefect badge, I call it 'an excuse to be out after hours'," Fred smirked, "I might ask you the same thing young lady," He winked.
"I've been speaking with your brother actually," She smiled, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"My you are working your way through us Weasley's aren't you?" He joked and she swatted him playfully on the arm.
"I worked my magic and Hermione is no longer on my case, Ron is happy, you're happy," She Eskimo kissed him.
"Are you happy?" He asked.
"Very much so," Aurora whispered.
Tentatively they kissed, knowing they could be caught at any moment what with Umbridge's spies on the loose.
"Rora," Fred groaned into the kiss and they pulled apart, "I'll walk you," he told her and they walked towards the entrance of the common room.
Aurora gave a goodnight kiss to Fred and climbed the stairs to her dormitory. She pushed open the door to find Astra and Aurelia sitting on their beds, they looked over towards her a giggled loudly.
"I am going to kill the pair of you," Aurora chuckled, crossing her arms over her chest.