I am sooo sorry for the extremely long wait, but I hope this chapter makes up for it!
I would just like to say that this chapter is dedicated to Panda818, who has been waiting patiently for the bowling scene for quite a while. I hope you enjoy it :)
Chapter 14-
"MIONE! Wake up, today's the big day! We're going booooowwwwllinggg"
Hermione rolled onto her side and covered her face with a pillow. She let out a long groan before removing the pillow and tossing it, fairly accurately for that time in the morning, at Fred.
The pillow hit his face with a satisfying thump before crashing down onto the floor.
"So that's how you want to play, eh Mione? Well two can play dirty." Fred smirked.
Hermione had less then a second to respond before Fred's lean body crashed down onto her bed and began bouncing up and down like an over excited 3 year old.
"Fred! Gerroff! Please!"
His hands slid down her pyjama clad body and stopped at her waist. A small blush crept onto Hermione's face before she figured out exactly what Fred was planning. With one quick Weasley Twin smirk, Fred started to tickle her ribs.
"NOOOO!"
Fred continued to tickle her until Hermione went red from the laughter. She had tears of mirth forming in her dark eyes and was struggling to breath with Fred's large body towering over her. And the tickling wasn't helping either.
"Ohh…Please…P-p-please Fred… stop!" she managed to gasp out between laughs.
"Fine, you win. But you need to get up, we're going bowling today!" Fred whimpered jokingly.
Hermione looked down her body and realised that Fred was practically straddling her. His knees were on either side of her hips and he was leaning over her body, making him eye level with Hermione. His hands were still on her smooth stomach and were moving in small subconscious circles.
"Umm, Fred. I would get up but you're kind of on me."
Fred looked down at the position they were in and blushed a bright red. He smiled a goofy little grin before removing his hands and getting off of the bed. As he stood up one of his large, rough hands skimmed the side of Hermione's stomach, making her shiver slightly at the touch.
She blushed again and looked up to Fred and she removed her duvet.
"We're going bowling about 11. What time is it now?" Hermione asked as she wandered over to her wardrobe.
Fred looked a little sheepish and replied "It's about 10:30"
Hermione snapped her head out of the wardrobe and looked at the alarm clock. She never slept in this late!
"Fred, why didn't you wake me? We're going to be late!"
She started to rush around the room, gathering clothes and various shoes.
"Mione, relax. I just thought you'd appreciate a lie in. You're always up so early and its not like you've had many early nights recently so I just thought you might need some beauty sleep… not that you aren't beautiful already or anything, I just thought you might want it… I mean you are beautiful but everyone needs a healthy amount of rest and…"
Hermione laughed at the slightly panicked look on Fred's face. Even he looked confused at what he was saying.
"Fred's it's alright, I get it. Thanks for thinking of it though, it was sweet."
Fred let out a small puff of air he hadn't realised he was holding in. 'What happened to Fred 'charm-your-socks-off' Weasley, eh? You are one big, stuttering idiot at the moment aren't you...' Fred thought bitterly.
"I will go make you some quick breakfast and we can head out in 10. How's that sound?"
Hermione turned back around and smiled sweetly, "That sounds great, thanks Fred."
"Do you remember what I told you yesterday?"
"Yep, throw ball. Knock down white things. Got it."
"Good and don't mention magic, none of my friends know I'm a witch."
Fred and Hermione had been walking for around five minutes and were now standing outside of the bowling alley. It was fairly busy but as it was only 11 o'clock there were still a lot of empty lanes inside.
"So, when are we meeting all your friends Mione?"
"Well, Kali said that we were booked in for 11:30, so it should be anytime now."
Hermione glanced around and smiled when her eyes landed on a tall blonde boy and a slim red-head who were holding hands. She waved them over and soon 3 other people came around the corner.
"Hermy!" The red head screamed before launching herself into Hermione's arms. Fred had to stifle a giggle as he heard Hermione groan at the nickname.
"Teegan, I told you not to call me that anymore!"
Teegan nodded, which caused her brilliant red curls to bounce around her face.
"Sorry, it's just I haven't seen you in so long, how's school been?"
"It's been going alright I'm just…" Hermione was cut off as several shouts of "Hermione!" filled the air.
The tall blonde boy, who Fred remembered was Jamie smiled and gave Hermione a quick hug before heading back to his girlfriend Teegan. Then the brown haired boy, Preston, and his girlfriend Kali hugged Hermione before the only single girl stepped up and gave Hermione a hug.
"Nice to see you again Hermione, it's been a while." Mel said as she stepped back from the hug.
"I know; I've really missed you guys! It's nice to finally catch up" Hermione smiled.
"Well then, how about we get bowling now?" Preston asked as he turned in the direction of the doors.
"Hang on Preston, you forgot someone. And who exactly is this Mione?" Mel said as she pointed a finger towards Fred.
Hermione seemed to remember that she hadn't introduced Fred properly so she walked over to stand at his side. Fred smiled his trademark grin and winked at down at her, which caused a small blush to start rising.
"Well everybody, this is Fred. Fred Weasley. He's my friend from school who's staying with me for the month."
One by one the group greeted Fred with a smile of a quick handshake/hug, until it was just Mel left. She looked up at him through her eyelashes and flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder slightly before giving him a tight hug.
Hermione frowned slightly at Mel's obvious flirting but decided to ignore it. 'Its not like Fred and I are dating anyway..'
Mel put her arms around Fred's neck and leant up to his ear. She breathed out letting her warm breath cascade down his neck. To anyone else this would have been fairly sexy but to Fred it just felt rather uncomfortable, especially when she said in a sweet voice "I'm Mel and I can't wait to get to know you more Fred" before pulling away from the hug.
Hermione scowled slightly at Mel's smug face before heading in the bowling alley after everyone else.
"So Fred, how comes your staying with our little Hermione here?" Preston asked as they entered their lane and began to set up the scoreboard.
Fred looked nervously over at Hermione who seemed to understand his panic. They had forgotten to make an alibi as to why Fred was staying at Hermione's and Fred had no idea how to answer Preston.
The whole group turned to Fred, who was still silently stuttering to himself.
"Fred's family live in the deep countryside up in Scotland so I said he could come and stay with me to experience some of the more city things down here in England."
Fred silently thanked Hermione who just smiled and nodded.
"You must be pretty special Fred, you're the first school friend we've ever met and Hermione had been going to boarding school for 5 years." Jamie joked as he sat down on the bench on their lane.
"Yeah, not even Hermione could resist my charms." Fred smirked as he bumped his shoulder against Hermione's.
Everyone laughed at Hermione's frown but she soon smiled along with the others.
"That's not true, you have no charms. And the only reason you haven't met any of my other friends is because they all live in Scotland!" Hermione lied.
"You said that Fred lived in Scotland, what makes him so different?" Kali asked innocently.
"Well… h-he's…He's…umm…"
"I'm what? Hermione?" Fred asked as he wiggled his eyebrows, causing a few snickers form Teegan.
"Well if I didn't know any better I'd say Hermione brought you down here because you're going out. You two are awfully flirty." Mel said bitterly.
Hermione blushed a bright red and Fred's smirk slipped a little before he recovered.
"Me and Mione aren't going out." Fred said a little more sternly then he meant to.
Hermione gave a small nervous laugh and she looked at the floor, a small bit of sadness at Fred's words filled her chest.
"So you're single then?" Mel asked as she placed a hand on Fred's chest.
"Uhh, yeah. I guess" Fred replied nervously as he gently removed Mel's hand and sat beside Jamie.
"Brilliant…" Mel muttered under her breath.
"Hermione, seeing as this gathering is in honour of you, you get to go first." Kali smiled as she handed Hermione a purple bowling ball.
Hermione grimaced slightly as she took the heavy ball in her hand. The truth was Hermione was an awful bowler. Her father used to take her when she was younger and her average score was usually a measly 60 points, her father on the other hand had no problem getting a perfect game. 'I guess bowling skills are not in the family genes...'
She staggered up the lane with the heavy ball and swung her arm back in a rocking motion. On the third swing she let the ball go in mid-air causing it to crash to the floor with an almighty thump.
Several heads turned to her in amusement but Hermione just kept her eyes on the ball which was now rolling painstakingly slowly towards the pins.
'Come on…just a bit faster...'
The ball swerved slightly as it reached the pin and knocked 4 of them over. She jumped in the air and clapped with a quick 'yes!' before heading back to get her second ball.
Kali handed her a lime green ball that was a lot heavier than before. Hermione repeated her swing and the thump followed again. The ball had more speed this time but absolutely no direction whatsoever.
Three quarters of the way down the ball swerved dramatically to the left and neatly settled itself in the gutter. A few sarcastic whoops and laughs could be heard form Preston and Jamie but Hermione couldn't help but smile as she sat back down next to Fred.
As Teegan got up to have her turn Fred leant over so his mouth was centimetres from her ear.
"Why are you smiling? I thought the aim of the game was to get the most pins?"
"I'm smiling because I never usually get any pins until my 5th go."
Hermione was on her last go and only needed to knock down 4 more pins to get her highest score yet-70 points. She was currently losing and to her surprise Fred was winning.
He seemed to be just as good at bowling as he was at charming. Mel hadn't left him alone the entire time they had been there. Everything ended with a giggle, or a flick of the hair. At one point she even pretended that the ball was too heavy to pick up and made a big deal of bending over in front of Fred, only to then swing the ball back and forth and get a strike.
Hermione replaced her frown with a fake smile as she turned to Teegan who gave her a thumbs up. She walked up to the white line and threw the ball as hard as she could. The ball spun and knocked into the pins with so much force it knocked them all over.
"I GOT A STRIKE!" she turned around to find all of her friends bowing and laughing.
"Make way for the queen of bowling." Jamie shouted as she headed back to the seats.
"Oh, shut up. That was my first ever strike, I'm allowed to celebrate." Hermione laughed as she gently hit him on the shoulder.
"Right you are my lady. Well done on your strike." Fred said from behind her.
Hermione spun on her heel and was engulfed into Fred's muscular arms. She buried her head into his firm chest and breathed in his smell. Fred leant down and whispered in her ear "Maybe next time, I should give you lessons. I did win after all."
She lifted her head up to look at his bright blue eyes that were teasing yet soothing. She hit him lightly on the chest before pulling out of the hug. A smug smirk spread across her face when she noticed the frown that was plastered on Mel's.
They returned their bowling shoes and headed back to the car park after they finished the game. Preston and Kali had stayed to eat at the bowling alley and the rest were about to head home.
"Oh guys, I forgot to ask but next week I'm having a small party and I just wondered if you all wanted to come." Jamie asked.
Teegan and Mel nodded and Hermione looked to Fred. He seemed to be okay with a party so he shrugged his shoulders, whilst nodding.
"Yeah sounds great. Text me with the times and everything okay?" Hermione replied as she gave Teegan and Jamie a small hug.
Mel gave Hermione an awkward half hearted hug before she turned to Fred. She walked over to him, swaying her hips sexily as she did so. She stopped and wrapped her arms back around his neck, this time pulling him down to her.
Fred lamely wrapped his arms around her waist as she whispered "Can't wait to see you there, I might even see you before. Bye Fred."
He stepped back and moved over to Hermione saying a goodbye to Teegan as he did so.
"We will see you guys next week, bye!" Hermione shouted as she grabbed Fred's hand and tugged him away from the bowling alley.
With a quick glance behind her she saw Mel glaring at her and Fred's entwined hands.
'Two can play dirty Mel.'
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