Hello my lovely readers,

I sincerely hope you guys are still here, reading and reviewing as always,

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas! I am so sorry about the wait but I have been so busy recently with tests, school trips, illnesses and Christmas in general so I really hope you guys haven't given up on me yet.

Sorry again, hope you had a merry Christmas and have a happy new year. Love you guys! :)

As a mini authors note I would just like to say that I have been to see two fantastic musicals recently Les Miserables and Billy Elliot and I strongly suggest them to all of my readers! They were fantastic :)

Oh and none of my family/friends know I write Fanfics but I would just like to say Happy 18th Birthday to my banterous brother Charlie :D

Anyway, I am proud to present-


Chapter 25-

(Or part 2 of chapter 24, however you wanna look at it ;)

"Fred! Jesus how long does it take to get changed? We're dying down here! Never has snow looked so soft and untouched, its practically calling for us. If your quiet you can hear its anguished screams of 'Fred, George, Nate please play in me,'"

George's whines travelled up the stairs he was currently slung at the bottom of and into the bathroom where Fred was brushing his teeth. George had managed to change almost impossibly fast and when Fred finally emerged from the bathroom it seemed Nate and Hermione had changed just as quick too. He took a look at George and realised that they had both changed into the exact same clothes, black jeans, a blue coat and blue gloves and hat. 'Oh the perks of being a twin' he thought as he scaled the stairs.

"Alright, enough with the drama Georgie. Merlin I have been away from you for so long I nearly forgot how big of a drama queen you are," Fred smirked as followed his twin and girlfriend into the kitchen.

"Moi? Dramatic? I think not! I am hurt at your accusation dearest twin, oh and I just love your outfit today Freddie," George swooned as he glared at Fred and Hermione, who were know attempting to stifle their giggles.

"Yeah whatever you say," Hermione laughed as George sat at the kitchen table and placed an excitable Nate on his knee. "Anyway, moving on to more pressing issues, how long are you staying George? I see you already brought a change of clothes but what's happening with you and this Lucy girl?"

George smiled sheepishly before rubbing the back of his neck. Fred caught the small action and knew there was some bad news coming. George only ever fidgeted like that when he was hiding something. 'For a notorious prankster, you'd think he would have sorted that out by now' Fred thought as he waited for George's confession.

"Well you see Granger I was thinking about how Christmas is only like what, 6 days away now? And I just couldn't bare the thought of not being with my other half for the holiday so I asked Lucy if I could stay here for the week and then go back to hers before we were due back at the burrow," George gave a nervous little laugh after this, something that was totally out of character and caught Hermione's attention.

"Did you not think of, I don't know, maybe asking us about this first? I mean I'd be happy to have you here but a little warning would have been nice, a girl can't just have two Weasley's sprung upon her without notice George. It's a lot to handle!"

George knew it was time to put on the charm; he batted his eyelashes shamefully and took Hermione's hand in his.

"I'm so sorry for not telling you Hermy, I promise Freddie and I won't cause too much trouble together. I'll be on my bestest behaviour,"

Fred snorted at his brother's obvious attempt at charming and Hermione simply rolled her eyes. She pulled her hand away from George and grabbed Nate's wellington boots.

"Well thanks George. I don't believe that for one second because I wasn't born yesterday but thank you for at least trying to lie," George laughed as he helped to put on Nate's wellies.

"Well I aim to please Hermy,"

Hermione stood and walked back over to Fred as George battled to put Nate's shoe on properly. She smirked before heading out of the kitchen door and into the garden,

"Oh and George if you call me Hermy again I will personally ship you back to the Burrow, so your mum can deal with you leaving your assigned family,"

Fred sniggered as George's smile dropped, "She used the mum card, so not cool Fred, so not cool,"

"I actually think it was pretty awesome, it's a lot funnier when someone else gets threatened with Mum, it's a nice change," Fred laughed heartily as he grabbed Nate's hand and pulled him and George into the garden.


"Ready! Aim! FIR-"

"DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT FINSIHING THAT SENTENCE GEORGE WEASLEY!"

"…FIRE!"

Hermione screeched as several snowballs flew through the air and straight at her. George was perched in a tree, Fred was holding Nate on his shoulders and Hermione was out in the open trying desperately to dodge the snowballs flying in her direction.

"Why do we keep doing this?" Hermione whimpered as the twin's snowballs flew in from all directions and she sunk to the floor.

"Ahh! And she's down!" George bellowed as he jumped from his tree.

Nate laughed as he tried to free himself from Fred's shoulders and followed after George, his wellies dragging in the thick snow.

Just as George and Nate had reached the curled up Hermione a loud shout came from behind.

"BUNDLE!"

Hermione screeched as she looked up from the foetal position she had been occupying, two hollering, identical red-heads and one small giggling boy were running, no charging, at her at full speed. Before she even had the chance to move, one of the twins, she couldn't tell who, had already jumped and pinned her into the snow.

She thrashed around as the boy above her attempted to put snow down her back. Whilst Hermione was struggling under his weight, the twin's hat had slipped down near his eyes; after Hermione had regained her breath she leant up slightly and moved the hat out of his eyes.

She smiled gently but soon screamed as a cold snowball hit her on top of her head. The snow split on impact and was all over her face and hair.

As the boy on top of her laughed Hermione smirked as she attempted to remove the snow that was covering her eyes. She moved her head from side to side as she prayed the snow would fall from her face and hair. Unfortunately, Hermione's head movements were a little too powerful and they caught the red head of guard causing them to roll over in the snow.

Hermione collapsed laughing on his stomach as he tried to regain his breath. His hat had fallen back over his face and this time as Hermione lifted it up she leant in for sweet kiss.

Just as she had let out a last short laugh her lips had touched his. They were both cold but kissing Fred made her all warm.

"What the fuck?!" George shouted from behind the couple.

Hermione snapped up, her face beet red at being caught kissing Fred. She had completely forgot they hadn't told anyone yet and she turned to look at Geor-

"Oh shit."

She looked down at the boy she thought was her boyfriend to see George smirking and stifling his giggles.

"Something you'd like to tell me Granger? Any undying love you'd like to confess?" he asked through laughter.

"George! Why the hell didn't you stop me!" she screeched as she hit his shoulders repeatedly.

"Whoa! Calm down Hermy, I just assumed you had come to your senses and decided to go for the better twin is all," he replied as he tried to grab her hands.

"George!" Fred scowled from the side. Hermione stood as she forgot Fred was still standing there waiting for an explanation as to why she had just kissed his brother.

"Fred! I'm so sorry; I honestly thought it was you! I had snow in my eyes, his bloody hat was in his eyes and when I kissed him he didn't say anything and- I- I please don't hate me, I didn't mea-" Fred stopped Hermione by placing his hand over her mouth.

"Shh, Mione! I know you didn't mean it, it was a mistake, I mean George and I are wearing the exact same thing, could have happened to anyone," Fred smiled reassuringly as he gave Hermione as small half hug.

"Thank you," Hermione breathed in relief as she hugged him back.

Fred laughed at her obvious relief and turned to George who was now dusting of the snow from his jacket.

"You however, have some explaining to do George. You and I may look a like so Mione may have been confused but I see no one else here that looks like my girlfriend so why didn't you stop the kiss?" Fred scolded as George looked smiled.

"Girlfriend, eh? Freddie finally got himself a girl! Way to go bro, Hooray, god bless the skies, Christmas came early, happy Hanukah and every other expression of happiness!" George laughed as Fred started to smile.

"George, not the point! Why didn't you break away?" Hermione asked as George beamed like an idiot.

"Well it was kind of obvious that you two had a little thang going on as soon as I saw you on the sofa but Freddie-no-balls here wouldn't admit it to his very own brother," George turned directly to the frowning Fred and added,

"Still hurt about that by the way brother, so I decided to take some action. You're a sucker for jealousy and little Hermy gave me the perfect opportunity to make you admit you liked her and my plan worked, albeit a little too well. See, I wasn't expecting you two to actually be a couple yet, I thought you'd just been crushing on Granger for a while. So umm sorry for kissing your girl and all that, but it was for a good cause!" George defended as he put his hands up in surrender.

Hermione looked up at Fred to see him shaking his head almost in disbelief, still unsure of his reaction she watched him bend down and scoop up some snow.

"You know George, as umm thoughtful as your little plan was, I can handle the ladies by myself thanks, and you're still a git for kissing Mione,"

Fred smiled as he threw the snow straight at George, who was too laughing. Hermione smiled and joined Fred as the pelted the cowering George with snowballs.

"Okay! Okay! I'm sorry, I surrender!" George squealed.

"Alright the man has had enough, just George promise me one thing?" Fred asked as he wrapped his arm around Hermione's shoulders and started to steer her and Nate inside.

"Yes dearest brother?"

"You kiss Mione again and I will personally make sure Mum will only be getting one set of mischievous grandkids. Understood?"

"Yes sir!" George quipped as he tried to dodge the arm Fred was swinging at his head.

"Oh and don't go telling anyone yet, no one knows were a couple, and we'd like it to stay that way for a little while, or at least until I'm back at the Burrow,"

"Of course I won't say anything," George smirked.

"Thank you geor-"

"But I didn't say I wouldn't sing anything,"

"Oh Merlin," Fred and Hermione groaned as George picked Nate up and began to sing his now classic tune of

"FRED AND MIONE SITTING IN A TREE, K-I-S-S-I-N-G"

"Oh shut up George!" Fred laughed as they went back into the house, George and Nate skipping behind them.


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And there we have it! The long awaited chapter 25!

I promise that from now on my updating will never get as bad as it has been lately, it may even become one of my new years resolutions to get chapters up quicker! Anyway, sorry this chapter isn't as long but I hope you all enjoyed it and please drop me a review.

And finally, thank you to all of you who have been reviewing during my absence it was lovely to know people were still reading.

Love always, SophieSolemnlySwears :')