It was the third day and I was having trouble looking Fred straight into the eyes. After yesterdays panic attack, I couldn't even talk to him. I would stick to nodding or shaking my head and last night I showered first and pretended to sleep before Fred and I could talk. Now I was stuck in a truck as we made our final stops.

We hadn't seen another team since this morning, which was all my fault. If it wasn't for my freak out yesterday we would've been in at least 2nd and now we were in third with no help of catching up. I bet Fred was pissed that he was losing because of me. I didn't dare about looking over at him and when I felt his gaze on me, I could only guess it was a glare.

When we pulled up next to the Russian River, near the box I hopped out of the car quickly to get some fresh air. Fred followed after me.

"Auden!" He called after me.

I walked faster until he grabbed me by my wrists and spun me around.

"Look at me." He said.

When I didn't, he used his hands to guide my face towards him. I averted my eyes from him.

"Please just look at me." He said in a half whisper. His thumbs stroked my cheekbones, and then his hands tightened their grip. "Damn it Auden!"

He dropped his hand and walked away. He stopped to run his hands through his hair and pull it upwards. Then he turned back to me and I ducked my head.

"What did I do? Please just tell me because I can't stand letting you just ignore me anymore. You really suck at fake sleeping." He yelled and I cracked a smile. He walked back to me and ran his hands over my arms down to my waist. "Thank you for smiling. Now tell me what's wrong?"

"Yesterday…" I started, not really wanting to say more.

"I don't care that you had a panic attack." He said. "Ron had them all the time when he thought of spiders. Misty was pretty scary and if I had to deal with that when I grew up, I would probably freak out too."

"I'm sorry…for making us lose." I said glancing up to his eyes, but the concern that filled them made me keep them locked on mine.

"I don't care. I got to spend three days alone with you, that was the best reward anyone could get." He said and gently laid his lips on mine, but pulled away before anything could happen and rested his forehead on mine. "I love you."

"I love you too." I said weakly.

"I have your Christmas present." He whispered against my lips. He dug into his pocket and pulled out a small box.

Before I knew what was going on, he was getting down on one knee. My heart started to pound in my chest.

He isn't…not now…he wouldn't.

"Auden." He started, his deep voice sending shivers through my skin and resonating on my skin. "You have been the best thing to happen to me. I mean as soon as you started trying to one up me on pranks I knew that you were perfect for me. I think you are the only person in the world who was stupid enough to do that."

"Hey!"

"I mean that in the most wonderful way possible. You challenge me. And this semester, I didn't realize how much I missed you until we finally started talking to you again. I don't know what I would've done if I hadn't. I love you and I would love for you to be mine for the rest of my life."

He opened the box and a thin white gold band and a small diamond sat erect in the center of a black pillow.

"Are you…?" I started to ask. "Because I don't know if I'm-"

"I'm no proposing." He said quickly. "This is a promise ring." He started to take out the ring and push it on my finger. "I promise to always be there for you when you want me, gone when you don't, and I will love you until I die."

He got up when he finished sliding the ring up my finger and pulled me into his chest. I was in shock. For a second I thought he was asking me to marry him, which I definitely wasn't ready for. Instead I was wearing a promise ring were a wedding ring would eventually be. I felt all to comfortable thinking that an engagement ring would be from Fred.

"Why don't we just go home? We're not gonna win anyway…and I'm fine with it." He added.

"Sure." I shrugged as we walked back to the truck.

"I want to see how comfortable your bed is."

"What?" I stopped and turned around, Fred walking into me.

I didn't know why I freaked out. We slept in the same bed before, but Fred, in my bed, felt too real. Like the past two nights have been a dream. A really good dream, I will say.

"Although, it probably wont matter, it's not like we're going to be doing much sleeping." Fred said wickedly as we got in the car, my face flamed. "Especially with all of Ginny's gifts…"

"Will you stop?" I practically screamed, lightly slapping his arm while he laughed at my weak attempts to prevent him from talking about…serious parts of a relationship.

"Never."

Okay quite a few things to talk about. 1. So sorry I haven't uploaded in 3 weeks (right? I don't know it's been a while). The reason wast because I was planning on doing most of the work last weekend because I had four days but then I got this huge assignment and couldn't. So sorry again. 2. Sorry for the short upload. I've been trying to write this chapter for awhile. I even added a game of cut throat mafia but it just felt weird so it ended up like this. And I wanted to get something up so yay 900 words! Also needed to say the third thing. 3. I think this might be the last chapter. I'm just kind of annoyed with all the characters right now. And I'm swamped with my writing in Wattpad. I had another 10-15 chapters planned but I just can't seem to write it down. Sorry if your disappointed. I like where Fred and Auden leave off and I think all the little details about Auden's "real ability" with magic (hint: she's really not that special. She actually is really bad and the reason Dumbledore accepted her was because Humbolt wouldn't and her parents begged.) and what's going down with Pansy and Draco and Zach and Slytherin in general wasn't really that important. Thanks for reading. I might do an epilogue later. Like way later, but yeah.