Fred's POV
Clunk...clunk...Clunk...Clunk...Clunk..
"George will you please stop hitting your head on the table!" I snapped looking over to George. He looked up to me taking his head of the table, slightly cross eyed and his forehead bright red.
"but..I'm bored!" He wined then brought his head back down on the table. I looked around awkwardly a few people where watching us with curious and amused looks.
"Georgie, I get that you're bored but please stop. I will talk to you in a minute just let me finish this potion's essay" I gave him a hopeful smile and he sighed. Quickly I turned back to my essay and started scratching away with my quill again
CLUNK! My hand jogged making a rather large line over my work.
"GEORGE!" I snapped pulling out my wand and vanishing the line
"I'm booooooored"
"I know" I replied stiffly
"I miss Granger"
"Dude, it's been 2 days" I mumbled exasperated.
"Exactly two days without Granger and she hasn't even wrote to me. It's feels like she isn't talking to me again" He moaned with a final Clunk from his head on the table he pushed himself back so he flopped into the chair properly.
"Well the first day she wasn't going to message you because well that's pretty needed and she would have only just seen her parents again after 4 months. Then yesterday. I dunno she was probably-"
"making the drive down to her nan's I know"
"right..driving to her nan's and you know this because?"
"oh she told me before she left. We were talking about Christmas at our houses.
"Right...Anyway, then today is Christmas eve so she's not going to message you today she's probably being all Christmas eve-y" he did a small nod of agreement
"want to charm snowballs to follow Quirrell around hitting him repeatedly ?"
"Not right now, I want to finish this potions essay. I'll forget after Christmas and I don't fancy being in detention first day back"
"we already are for the snowball thing" I let out a small laugh
"Well second day then."
"fine" He murmured and I smiled and looked back to my potions book before continuing to write.
Clunk..Really? Clunk. I am going to kill him..CLUNK
"Frrred"
"yes George" I bit back
"I'm boooooooored" Clunk! I groaned trying to think of some way to distract him
"George, Have you finished all your Christmas shopping?"
"Of course I have"
"Sent mum's,dad's bill and Charlies presents?"
"Sent them off last night"
"Bought stuff for me Ron and Percy ?" He nodded and I tried to think of more people "Got Lee Hermione and Harry things?"
"I didn't get Harry anything..did you?"
"Yeah. Ronnie kins said he wasn't expecting anything so I just brought him a little something to open"
"oops."
"the maps in my trunk make sure you don't get caught anyone and the shops close at 4" With that he sprinted up the stairs a few minutes later he sprinted back down gloves hat and scarf on and a piece of parchment sticking out of his back pocket . I smiled and returned to my essay finally I could just get it done.
"Fred" I looked round and saw Wood standing over me. "You're not doing anything are you?" I went to open my mouth to say about the essay "good, So I was thinking of some new moves we could try out after the holidays for the next quidditch match" Kill me now.
George's POV
"GEORGIE! WAKE UP IT'S CHRISTMAS!" Fred bellowed and I sat up quickly rubbing my bleary eyes as goose bumps covered my chest. I'm guessing that's why people don't sleep topless in the winter.
"Merry Christmas Freddie" I mumbled crawling towards my pile of presents. Suddenly a pillow hit me in the face and I tumbled out of my bed "Ouch"
"It's Christmas wake up a bit!" Fred moaned making me laugh. As I stood up and stretched out. Another pillow hit me this time in the stomach
"really Fred?" I threw a pillow back at him and he smiled "presents?"
"PRESENTS!" Both of us began unwrapping our presents quickly. The usual ones from mum of her knitted jumpers. Throwing mine over to him as he threw his to me pulling the jumper with a large F on I smiled.
"nice!" I looked over to Fred who was holding up a large box of dung bombs
"From lee I suppose ?"
"No Hermione" He said laughing
"what!" I jumped over to his bed and looked at the note stuck on it which was clearly in her hand writing and her name printed at the bottom. "I thought she would just give us books. Well me books you nothing after cursing her"
"Are you ever going to forget about that?" Fred asked laughing slightly
"nope" I replied walking back over to my bed and ripping open a few more presents. "have you opened Percys yet?" I asked letting out a snort and looking over to Fred who seemed to have just unwrapped Percy's present as well.
"Pet rocks..."
"Have you read the card ?" Fred quickly searched for the card as he read his mouth fell open.
"Well how rude!" I laughed in agreement looking down at my card again
Dear George,
I hope you enjoy this gift. I got it for you so you could learn to take care of something other than yourself and Fred. Who I have given the same gift.
Take care of them. Merry Christmas
Yours sincerely
Percy Weasley
Gryffindor Prefect.
"Pompous idiot" I muttered. A smile formed on my face when I saw a neatly wrapped box with a small card that had Hermione's writing on it. Ripping it open happily I saw a few boxes. One box of dungbombs. One fanged flyer a screaming yo yo and some fudge. "haha. I got more from Hermione than you! She likes me more!" Fred looked at me as if I was an idiot as I mocked him happily.
"Of course she does, she fancies you you dolt!" Oh..right. I stopped laughing and sat awkwardly. Before quickly picking up my last one which was from Charlie which was a book on Dragon's. He use to get me interesting presents but then mum found the iguana he got me and Fred which ended up in her having a hissy fit. Fred has also finished digging into a bit of the fudge the Hermione got me whilst Fred ate some of the food mum sent we decided to go check on Ron. Closing the tin on my fudge we ran out of our dorm jumping around happily.
"Fred, George Give it back!" Percy snapped as we ran around the common room. Harry and Ron where watching and laughing loudly as me and Fred through Percy's Prefect Badge between us like we were playing piggy in the middle. "I mean it! I will give you detention!" This made both of us burst out laughing.
"Fine Percy, Here just don't give us detention" Fred said glumly holding the badge out to him. Percy smiled and pushed his glasses back up his nose before reaching for the badge.
"thank you Fred" Just as Percy was about to grab it Fred threw it to me. "FRED! That's it detention and for you too George unless you give me the badge"
"You can give me detention once you catch me" With that Percy launched himself at me. Dodging out the way quickly I began to run him following me. Now the few other people who were staying over holidays in gryffindor had stopped what they were doing to watch all laughing. Climbing over the sofa in between cormack and Katie as Percy tried to run around to catch me I jumped over again. When he was just about to catch me I quickly ran up the girls staircase him following after a few steps it turned into a slide. As I expected this I managed to keep my balance and turn whilst sliding. Percy,however had fallen over very UN-ceremoniously and landed as a heap on the bottom doing a little ballerina jump over him. I landed and took a bow as people cheered laughing. I dropped Percys badge in front of his mangled body and me and Fred strutted up the stairs towards our dorm.
"Want to play with my Fanged Frisbee ?" I asked looking to the pile of presents that was still on my bed.
"sure" Fred said smile. I smiled and pulled it out of the box and threw Fred one of the gloves for it pulling my own on I picked up the Frisbee and looked to Fred before throwing It laughing as it munched through the air. Fred caught it easily in his gloved hand and threw it back. After a little while of playing there was a clicking on the window. Throwing the Frisbee to Fred I looked to the side and saw Hedwig sitting outside her beak tapping on the glass. Suddenly I felt the Frisbee collide with the side of my face taking a bite before I managed to smack it away.
"FRED!" I yelped holding my bleeding cheek
"Sorry Bro" Fred said trying to hide the smile that was twitching on and off his face. Groaning I walked to the window and pulled it open letting Hedwig hop in she held out her leg and I saw a rolled up letter attached to it with George on it. Recognising the writing I smiled and took it off. I walked over to my presents and grabbed a piece of one of the cakes mum made me and fed it to Hedwig who sat patiently. Ripping open the letter two things came out. A folded up letter and an envelope addressed to Harry Potter. Laughing slightly I quickly tied it to hedwigs leg
"take this to Harry" Hedwig let out a little hoot before flying away. Closing the window I rubbed my bleeding cheek. "Stupid Frisbee" Mumbling I began to unfold the letter
"who's it from, who's it from?" Fred chanted
"Granger, now shut up and let me read" I opened it up and another letter fell out picking it up I saw it was a small piece of paper folded up saying Fred on the front I passed it to him and he quickly started reading
George,
Merry Christmas ! I hope you had a fun day. Mine was the same as I told you it would be but I still had fun like always. Nan forgot to but my cousins food in..What a surprise. How was the Hogwarts food ? Delicious I bet. Did you get your presents ? I hope you like them, be careful with the fanged flyer, they can be dangerous. "no shit" I muttered before continuing to read. Fred's not angry I didn't get him as much as I got you is he ? I meant to get him more but I had ran out of money from buying Ron's Harry's and yours. I had order them all. I'll be getting him something else when I get back to Hogwarts just my family don't really like owls so I can't have them flying in and out of the house for orders constantly.
Anyway, how are your holidays going apart from Christmas ? Have you completed all your homework, you don't want to have to do it on the last night now do you ?. Have you seen Cho, or did she go home for the holidays ? How's Fred ? Wait I wrote a letter to Fred he can answer that himself. How are you ? Is it snowing still? there's a bit of snow here but not much. Enough to have a snow ball fight though. Do you like snowball fights ? Am I asking a lot of questions? I am aren't I..
Thank you for my present. I loved it. I can't believe you remembered the book I wanted. I've already read it. My family watched a show called east-enders on a muggle thing called a Television. Honestly it is the worst show ever the plots are so repetitive.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your Christmas.
From Hermione xxx
P.s Did you send/give Harry's letter to him ? And Fred's. If not can you, thanks x
"I got more kisses than you" I looked up and saw Fred hovering over me
"Yeah right" I replied not believe him
"I did and Love not just from"
"let me see that!" I grabbed his letter and started to read.
Fred,
So, since you're reading this George gave you it. Props to him. How are you and how is your Christmas going ?
I'm sorry about my present to you I promise I will get you something else soon, I ran out of money. The present you got me is amazing thank you ! It's so pretty!
I hope you have a great rest of holiday and that you had an amazing Christmas
Love From Hermione
xxxxxx
P.s If you reply could you put it in the same envelope as George's. My family aren't to fond of owls.
"I thought she liked me!" I exclaimed
"naww, Someone Jealous?" Fred mocked smirked
"no!.. I..I just. I didn't think she was so fickle!"
"maybe she thought you would take love and more kissed the wrong way as she did like you and didn't want it to get extra awkward."
"That makes sense" I smiled happily. "write a reply quickly so I can go send them" He nodded and we both quickly got to work on our replies. When something popped into my mind "Fred.."
"Hmm" He hummed continuing to write
"what did you get her ?"
"Just a necklace."
"Seriously? I got her a book"
"Well she likes books"
"yeah..But a necklace is cooler"
"Really George!"
"What?"
"First you reject the girl now you're all like 'ohh no you got more kisses she obviously likes you how could she do this to me' and now you're all like 'uhh you got her a better present' either you like her or you don't figure it out" As he imitated me he did a strangely high pitched voice.
"I don't like her ! And I don't sound like that ! It's just I'm her best friend. I should be the one getting her better presents and the notes with love from instead of just from"
"we've already said why she didn't say love from! Look Georgie, I'm pretty sure she didn't expect a very good present from me probably a quill or something so yeah she's going to be more shocked that I got her a necklace than she is that you got her a book. Like you said you're best friends she expects it from you not from me. Now finish your letter so we can go send these"
"fine" With that I quickly finished my letter and we both folded them up before running to the owlery to post them.
"GRANGER!" I screamed. The bushy haired girl turned around and saw me her face lighting up. Running over a few people gave me weird looks as I engulfed her in a hug "I've missed you my little grangy-poo!"
"I've missed you too. But never call me that again" Letting out a loud laugh I agreed. Draping my arm around her shoulders I began to lead her up to the carriages
"how come you're here. I didn't know you were aloud"
"you're umm..not meant to. But I was in the area."
"You're breaking rules!" She screeched placing her hand over her mouth I let an awkward laugh as people looked at me
"just on my way back to Hogwarts after a holiday at home." I saw looking at me looking slightly amused and the smile fell from my face. Hermione obviously noticed him as well
"Hagrid!" She ran over and I followed awkwardly.
"hullo 'ermione. How was yer Christmas?"
"Great thanks Hagrid. How was yours ?"
"A'right. Fred"
"I'm George actually" He gave me a scrutinising look "Honest. Aren't I George Granger!"
"He is."
"So I'll be tellin' Dumbledore that George Weasley were out of school without per'ison then?"
"Only joking I'm Fred" Hagrid let out a booming laugh covering up the sound of Hermione's small one.
"off yer go or ya'll miss the carriages" I did an awkward wave before walking after Hermione who gave a warm goodbye. Finally managed to get into a carriage and sat waiting for it to leave. She sat opposite me and we sat with out wands out doing random spells for a few minutes as she had missed being aloud to do magic.
"So how did you get out of school?"
"oh um, The school isn't very good with security" I lied my mind on honeydukes cellar. The carriage door opened and Cho and Roger Davis
"George!" Cho said happily sitting next to me.
"Hey Cho, this is my Friend Granger"
"Hermione" She corrected
"Oh, you're the one who got hit by that curse whilst duelling Fred aren't you"
"yeh." She replied awkwardly before sinking into her seat slightly.
"So George" Cho turned back to me "how was your Christmas ?"
"It was great. How was yours ?" She went on for a little while talking about her Christmas. My eye flicked to Hermione to see if she was okay but she was just sitting talking to Roger. Maybe she was actually over me. I shall test this theory.
"George are you even listening?" She asked after a while
"wha ? Sorry..It's just,you look really pretty today it's kinda hard to concentrate" I lied trying to act nervous. She obviously brought it because she started blushing furiously. My eyes flicked to Granger and she looked to me and smiled before turning back to roger. She's over me. Turning my full attention back to Cho. I couldn't help but smile. I could act fully normal around her again.
"That's really sweet George"
"You don't think it's really lame?"
"Of course not. It's really sweet" She said putting her hand on my arm.
"So you're a fan of cheesy lines then ?" I asked with a small smile
"Hu ? Were you just saying that to flatter me?"
"what ? No! I just..If you find that cute you must like cheesy lines am I right?"
"I'm not sure. Maybe you should try a few on me and we'll see"
"Fine, but first..Are you lactose-intolerant ?"
"no. Why?"
"Because things are about to get real cheesy!" I did an over exaggerated wink and she laughed loudly. "You know, if you stood in front of a mirror with 11 roses you'd be looking at the 12 most beautiful things on the planet" she once again laughed "Your eyes are bluer than the ocean and babe..I'm lost at sea"
"Is it hot in here or is it just you" I looked over and saw Hermione smirking slightly.
"is that the best you can do Granger?"
"you do better"
"I'll show you my tan lines if you show me yours"
" 1 all" I looked to Roger.
"if I said you had a great body would you hold it against me?"
"2-1"
"I'd like to get between your legs and eat my way up to your heart"
"Let's go back to my room and do some math: Add a bed, subtract our clothes, divide your legs, and multiply."
"If I flip a coin what do you reckon my chances are of getting head?" none of us had noticed we'd stopped
"you don't even have to say lumosmaxima to turn me on"
"I've been whomping my willow thinking about you"
"lovely Mr Weasley" all of our hears shot to the door and we saw professor Mcgonagall.
"professor!" Hermione gasped
"you have been stopped for 2 minutes now out and put your wands away" she looked between me and Hermione
"I'd let you handle my wand any day" I replied without thinking a small smirk on my lips until I saw her face. I could even see her lips. "sorry Professor. Come on kiddies time to get to school" I quickly jumped out of the carriage.
"Detention Mr Weasley. Thursday night you will be helping filch" Groaning I let my head fall slightly as I walked towards the steps everyone following me
"Sorry Hermione, Weasley wins for the fact he used and chat up line on McGonagall"
"shut up" I mumbled as we walked through the doors. Hermione stopped at one point talking to someone whilst me Cho and Davis walked up to the 5th floor. Davis walked of quickly but Cho lingered.
"I didn't get to hear that many cheesy chat up lines aimed at me"
"Sorry about that. How about I repay you. I promise to give you loads next Saturday. 12 at that tree by the black lake?"
"Okay"a huge smile formed on her face as she replied she turned to walk the way of her common room
"how about one more for now" She did a little nod "I bet I can kiss you without touching you" She looked confused for a second as if trying to work out how that would work. I quickly leaned down and pecked her lips. As I pulled away I looked at her innocently "I lost the bet" I gave her a little wink as she giggled "now..away with you young Ravenclaw!" She did a little nod and turned around walking quickly down the hall.
"Smooth" I turned and saw Hermione standing a few steps down
"Very" she jogged up the last few stairs and we started walking towards our common room in silence.
"can I just ask..I'd let you handle my wand any-day" I looked to her "what in Merlin's name where you thinking ?"
"honestly Granger. I don't think I was. I think I was just distracted by the raw sexuality of Minnie" She let out a laugh and I smiled "where did you learn your pick up lines?"
"My other cousin Sam. He told me some that I shouldn't fall for when I was around 8. then told me a few funny ones"
"he had some good ones. I'm guessing you made up the lumos one"
"yep"
"how? You don't learn lumos in first year"
"You left your charms book on the table before and I just learnt it" I laughed again. Just like her to sit learning.
"I've got to go. I told harry I would meet him and Ron in the Library on my first day back. Could you give this to Fred please?" She took out a large wrapped box from the bag she was holding and handed it to him. It was then I noticed the necklace hanging loosely around my neck and even I had to admit. It was pretty.
"course Granger. I'll see you soon"
"bye George" She started to descend the stairs again.
"Granger!" She turned "it's nice having you back at school" Smiling she gave me a little wave before running off.