Chapter 7: Start of Something New

Hermione was heading back to Grimmauld place the same night. She had to send her gift by owl post order in Diagon alley. As she arrived at the headquarters of the order of the phoenix, she heard someone cried inside. She readied herself with some bad news. Then when the door opened, it was Sirius with a grim look on his face.

"Molly already knows about Fred's disappearance" Sirius said in an undertone. Hermione looked shock and her eyes pleaded for more information. "George decided to tell them, he reckons its better to tell Molly if something happened to Fred"

"Did she—Err—know the reason why Fred disappeared?" Hermione asked as she stepped in and placed her coat on the coat hanger.

Sirius gave a little shrug. "Yea, she didn't get mad at George though, but continued in crying, Saying that what if Percy might be gone as well." Sirius said as he led her to the dining area where she found Mrs. Weasley dissolved in tears and Mr. Weasley trying to comfort her. Ron was cowered in the dark, Ginny was looking down, George was looking at the fire, and Bill was shuffling his hair. But Hermione brought them good news, this might help them.

"Uhm…I have some good news for you" Hermione started and everyone looked at her with full attention. "I know you've found out about Fred's disappearance. But the good news is I've seen him in Muggle London this afternoon." Mrs. Weasley's eyes widened and all of them seemed relieved. George looked at Hermione with a new light of Hope.

"He's alive… Arthur, he's alive!" Mrs. Weasley said. "But… why isn't he coming home?" Hermione looked at her. She's been formulating theories about that.

"You see, Mundungus said that they were hit by a car. When I saw Fred, he was talking with a muggle lady and she apparently knows him because we bumped into each other earlier. She seemed to know Fred so I followed her. Then when she gave up, she cowered in a corner and then Fred shows up and they began to talk" Hermione said. "Unfortunately, before I can get any closer, I was carried away by groups of muggles who went shopping in a mall and when I got back a t that spot, they were gone. I think Fred has Amnesia"

"Amne—"Amnesia Ron, its being in a state of temporary memory loss when something hit you in the head." Hermione said and looked at their stunned faces. Mrs. Weasley braved up.

"At least he's alive. Arthur, we're going to search for him" Mrs. Weasley said.

"I'm going with you" George said.

"No you can't, it's for us adults only. We're member of the order, we can—"

"I don't give a damn about being in the order!" George yelled. "This is about looking for my brother in the middle of nowhere, I'm his twin and I have a right to look for him as much as you do"

"George's right Molly" Sirius said

"We're coming too" Ron and Ginny said.

"I'll help, since I know muggle London more" Hermione said.

"That's sweet of you…" Mrs. Weasley said. "We'll start to look for him by morning"

Asheara and Fred ate at some fast-food shop. She was again amused to see Fred was enjoying his pizza as though it was his first time to eat one. Maybe it was his very first one… After that, they went home together.

"You know… I could find my own way back. I was born with the sense of direction y'know" Fred said and Asheara chuckled. Asheara lead him to the sofa and turned on the T.V. but not paying attention to it. They sat beside each other and were watching some movie but both not paying attentions to it. Both of them are aware about what just happened earlier.

"Why did you look for me?" Fred asked awkwardly. It was a moment or two before Asheara answered it.

"Because… I don't want anything to happen to you" Asheara said sincerely.

"I thought you were all cold towards me" Fred mumbled.

"Yea, I may be cold, but deep inside I have a warm feeling that you wouldn't believe that I had it" Asheara said her eyes still glued at the T.V.

"Really? What?" Fred asked.

"Nothing really special… you know, I thought you were mad at me for yelling at you" Asheara said.

"Me? No… I was enraged with anger at you" Fred said mockingly and Asheara laughed for the first time in 2 weeks "Just kidding. I'm not mad, I think you quite have all right to send me away for destroying your house"

"I'm sorry" Asheara said now looked at Fred. And Fred looked back at her. Asheara wished he'd glue his eyes back to the T.V, but he didn't. He stared at Asheara for a quite long moment.

"I didn't know you know how to say sorry" Fred said grinning. Asheara had this feeling of annoyance but happy at the same time. She looked at him in a fake pained face sort of way. "Don't worry; I'll get back at you"

"What does that suppose to mean?" Asheara stared at him. She noticed how his eyes shine in the light from the T.V. His wavy hair... something about his smell makes her fond of him. Then without warning, Fred holds Asheara's hand. He was looking intently at the T.V. and Asheara laughed. They were watching the Japanese movie called 'the grudge'.

"What?" Fred asked who was still white in his gaze, apparently frightened from the moving corpse crawling to the person who was paralyzed with fear.

"Nothing" Asheara said who has this bubbly feeling in her stomach that she wants to jump high. "Fred, tell me, if you can remember something about mountains…"

"Why?" Fred asked.

"Because, maybe, you're from there" Asheara said. Fred focused his gaze at the ceiling. Fred recalls anything that has to do with mountains… then he saw wide range of mountains with a nearby lake. Then he remembered something about a castle… an eerie castle. Then suddenly, his head hurt.

"Agh…" Fred held his hand to his forehead.

"Don't stress yourself!" Asheara said. "What did you see?"

"A castle… high-castle, eerie castle" Fred said gasping for breath.

"Hmm, maybe… you live in a castle?" Asheara said.

"I dunno, but I keep on having dreams seeing myself waving at me" Fred said relaxing himself.

"Come on… you need to sleep. I'll go to Dad tomorrow and tell him what happened today, okay?" Asheara said and Fred nodded.

Asheara lead Fred to his room and bid goodnight. As she turned to walk towards her room, Fred seized her hand and placed both of his hands on her face and kissed her forehead.