"Christmas Break at last!" I sighed as I sat with Alex in an empty compartment.
"Yeah...thanks for letting me go to the Weasly's with you."
"Oh, hun.... "
"Please...don't try to feel sorry for me ok? I REALLY can't take you feeling sorry for me."
"Sorry." I leaned back. "Finally I'm not going to be constantly be under the surveillance of the Carrows."
"I thought you were all goody goody with them." She laughed as the train came to a stop.
I grabbed my backpack and jumped up.
"Fred!" I dove off the train and into the crowd. As soon as I was off the train I had an arm around my waist.
"Hello Love!" he gave me a squeeze. I hadn't been able to make any contact with him since school had started. He tugged me toward the brick wall.
"You two coming?" George called back at us.
"Hey Sammay..." Fred asked as we sat on the couch together.
"Yeah..." I answered sleepily.
"I was wondering...Before you leave to go back to school...well...George and me..."
I turned to look at him. I had never heard him stutter before.
"What?"
"Well...We were hoping you and Alex...Well we were hoping you'd marry us."
I spun around so fast I literally fell off the couch.
I blinked at him unable to speak. "Does Alex know about this?" was all that I could say...but this seemed like the smaller of the issues as it processed in my head.
"No...but that is why George took her out to dinner tonight." He said looking at me worriedly. "Does that mean you don't like the idea?"
"No...I mean yes let's do it. But....Wh...How?"
"It'll be just the four of us. Well...and the dude that marries us...don't worry nothing extravagant."
"All right." I smiled trying to get my brain to catch up.
Fred grinned and reached out to help me back onto the couch. I leaned back against him again and we went back to watching the movie. A little while later I felt him playing with my hand. I looked down to see him slipping a ring onto my finger.
It didn't look like an engagement ring, but somehow it was perfect because it didn't. It was a gold band, but the jewels on it were in the form of a butterfly. The wings were made of ember stone, a black rock that looked like an ember that had just come out of the fire. The body was made of a diamond. It was the most beautiful and perfect ring I could possibly imagine. I turned and smiled up at him.
"You can wear it on your right hand at school, that way no one will know what it is. Do you like it?"
I nodded vigorously.
"I knew you would." We settled back to watch the movie again.
"I think we just set the record for the most unplanned and informal wedding ever.. Wait... That would probably go to a Vegas wedding." I laughed as we walked toward the burrow. The lot of us couldn't stop grinning like a bunch of idiots. We had just gotten married in the middle of an alley by a priest of some sort. We were all in jeans and t-shirts. The entire effect of the wedding was hysterical. We were all each others witnesses....now the tough part came...to tell Mrs. Weasly.
I played with my ring(that was now on my right hand), and stared out of the window.
"Can you get a more dorkier grin?" Ginny laughed coming to sit next to me.
Neville came into the compartment. "Did you two hear...Luna isn't coming back."
I looked over at him, and the world came back into focus. "Yeah, I heard. She'll be alright. She knows her stuff. But we just lost one of our leaders."
"Yeah...now what?"