Disclaimer: I own nothing, just my characters: Tammie, Melinda and Courtney (and any characters not related to JKR)

Note: Not the most exciting chapter but for those who love Draco he does have a surprise appearance. Those who think Fred is just obsessed with Tammie this should be a nice chapter for you to read. Gotta wonder who blue eyes is though! As usual much love/respect for SiobhanPhelps. Hope you enjoy this chapter. To everyone else, feel free to comment, feedback is awesome and I tend to use your advice to better shape my stories. Alright, enough talking. here's chapter 5.

Shopping and Surprises

"Um, yeah, Tammie" I said not quite knowing what else to say. She tilted her head a little and smiled brightly.

"It's wonderful bumping into you" she said with a smile as I tried hard to give her a sincere smile in return but all I could really do was nod. At least she was nice, I thought to myself though I didn't feel entirely better about it.

"Tammie" I heard my name being called from somewhere behind Courtney, it took me a second to realize it was Fred.

"Oh, hello" Courtney said cheerfully as she continued smiling brightly and shook his hand, her eyes sparkling just a little. "Let's see…" she said squinting a bit as she looked him over. I felt my tense as she did, no one was allowed to look at Fred like that. Except me, I thought as I shook away the sting of jealousy. "He's the good looking Weasley, right?" she asked turning back to me. I hesitated. I knew girls thought Fred was cute, I always knew that, but something in the way Courtney spoke made me want to strangle her.

"Well, I dunno about that, I do have a twin" Fred said either not catching my silence or feeling happy he was being flirted with.

"No matter" she said, her eyes still sparkling.

"He's taken anyway" I told her feeling myself finally able to find my voice. Courtney looked back at me, as if she had forgotten I had been there, that we had just been talking. "I'm dating him" I added as Fred absently nodded.

"Of course you are" Courtney replied smirking a bit as if she had just heard a funny inside joke. "I should be off, my family is probably wondering where I am" she said as she lightened her smile as she nodded at me. "I'm sure I'll see you again" she told me but without waiting she turned back to Fred. "And I hope I'll see you again" she said to him as I felt myself sneering.

"Yep" he replied as she nodded and headed back the way she came. "What?" Fred asked as he caught me staring after her, still probably sneering.

"Nothing," I said too quick with a shrug.

"She's pretty—"

"A first year" I quickly interrupted as he furrowed his eyes. "She's the girl from my vision, but that's not the point, she's a first you, you're a seventh, you can't think she's pretty" I told him as he let out a laugh and swung his arm around me.

"Now, no offense, but, there was Oliver and Lee—"

"They were older than me!" I interjected as he rolled his eyes.

"Wait, you said she was from your vision?" he asked as I nodded. "Well, I didn't see anything particularly amazing about her, I wonder why you had a vision about her" he said as I shrugged, a little relieved Fred didn't see anything in her.

"Yeah, weird" I said for the sake of saying something as George and Melinda came over to join us. "Hey" I said whispering to Melinda as I lightly took her arm and led her to the door. "What did the others say when you told them about my visions?" I said still feeling as if the word was odd.

"Hermione wanted to know why now, Ron wanted to use to predict the future—"

"I'm not a crystal ball" I replied bitterly as Melinda laughed.

"I know, I told them, Harry said the same thing I said, just, watch out, and you know, tell us" she said as I started to nod.

"Then I should probably tell you the most recent one happened" I told her as she looked around the room, probably for a quieter spot.

"The girl?" she whispered as I nodded.

"Her name is Courtney, she was flirting with Fred" I said, feeling myself sneer at the word 'flirting.' "What?" I asked Melinda who had raised an eyebrow at me. "She was, really obvious about it too" I added as Melinda continued looking at me, now trying to hold back a laugh.

"Well, she's a first year, Fred wouldn't, besides, he has you" she said giving me a wide smile. I nodded.

"He made a joke about when I went for Oliver and Lee" I told her. "But, I don't think it was really a joke," I added with a shrug, trying not to think about it.

"So, where did Courtney go? Was she like she looked in your vision?" she asked as I nodded toward the door.

"Back with her family and she's gorgeous" I said frowning a bit, the self-conscious part of me now rising.

"Did she have blue eyes?" she asked as I shook my head.

"No, green, really green, like fresh grass or something" I said as the twins joined us, bags of books in their arms. I frowned and looked at the bag Fred was carrying, I knew when I last saw his coin purse it wasn't exactly bulging.

"I'll pay you back" he said with a smirk as he followed George outside. I felt my pockets, realizing my own coin purse was missing.

"Great, I have a pickpocketer for a boyfriend" I said, half sarcastically.

"Just be glad he's the good looking Weasley" he called back over my shoulder as I rolled my eyes but caught up to him as we went back outside.

"What next?" he asked as I pulled my list out of my pocket.

"Um, I need cleaning supplies for my broom" I told him as Melinda nodded and looked at her list.

"I need fill up on some slugs" she said as I wrinkled my nose.

"Yeah, you go have fun with that" I replied she laughed and went to the right with George as moved closer as we went to the left.

"You seem to be taking this awfully well, the visions I mean" I said as we shuffled through the crowd.

There's no much else to do about it Tam, I mean, does it hurt?" he asked as I shook my head. "Has anyone died in them?" he asked and again I shook my head. "See, nothing to worry about. When the worry comes up, then we'll worry" he said though I seemed hesitate to take him so lightly. "Tammie," he paused to turn around and face me. "Third year you almost died, fourth year you almost died and lost your best friend. We broke up both years. I lost you in some way both years. Can we please, please try and not overthink the visions? I want to enjoy my time with you. I like you" he said as he pulled me close.

"I like you too Fred" I said for lack of more since I was a little caught off guard. "And okay" I decided with a heavy sigh. "Until something happens of course" I added as he rolled his eyes but nodded.

"Deal" he said. "Sealed with a kiss" he teased as he leaned in to kiss me anyway.

After the Quidditch supplies shop I decided to look at the cauldrons, debating if I wanted to get my own or ask the Malfoys for one of theirs. I hated depending on them, but it was nice to save money because I had everything I needed.

"Hold on," Fred said as he disappeared into a shop. I didn't get a chance to ask why he was going that way but saw Melinda and George again.

"Fred go in there?" George asked as I nodded and we watched him walk inside. I sighed and turned back to Melinda.

"Have you heard?" she asked as I leaned against the building. I raised an eyebrow, waiting for her to say something else. "New Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, again" she said as I chuckled. We were always getting new Defense Against the Dark Arts professors, they couldn't seem to hold out past a year. Though part of me was hoping it would be Professor Barrass again I knew it wouldn't. Third year was toughest on him, he needed the time off.

"Do you think it will be that Professor, er, Lupin?" I asked, the name just popping into my head. He had taught somewhere else for a while, until he was discovered as werewolf and angry and worried parents wrote the school and he was forced to leave.

"Doubt it, you know how people are about werewolves" Melinda replied but I could only shrug, from what I heard he seemed like fun.

"I'm sure he can't be the only one" I replied.

"Yea, but it's not like there's a lot of them running around applying for teaching positions" she reminded me as I rolled my eyes. "But hopefully someone interesting, but, smart. Barrass was great, but, I think he'd have a mental breakdown if he came back here this year, not that he shouldn't—" I looked back at her to see why she suddenly stopped talking but I only needed to see her faded smiled to know whoever she was looking at couldn't be someone she wanted to see.

"Well, well, well, look who's here…" Draco said walking over to us, giving his best stuck up smile. "Didn't think you'd be here" he said. Melinda and I both narrowed our eyes, it always annoyed me how he tried to keep up with his appearances and act like a true Slytherin as well as Malfoy.

"Yeah you did, we told you—" Melinda started but Draco snorted and turned his nose up. I knew if the streets were less crowded Melinda would smack him. I myself took a step closer but suddenly heard Fred's voice.

"What's all the fuss about out here?" he asked walking over to us.

"Oh there everyone is, come on you lot, let's go get some ice cream and then head back, I think we're just about done" Mrs. Weasley said happily appearing from nowhere as she completely ignored Draco as she pushed Fred and George along. Ginny and Hermione tagging behind her while Ron and Harry rushed next to the twins. I motioned for Melinda to join as we followed the rest of the group.

"And what money do the Weasleys have to afford ice cream? Can't even afford new books, don't know why you're here in the first place…" Draco said as he started to walk off. I didn't look back as I grabbed Melinda's arm and dragged her along, mainly stopping stop her from reaching in her cloak for her wand.

That night we slept sound, though it took forever to convince Fred to go to his own room and Melinda seemed to take even longer to venture up back to Ginny's room The following nights and days were just as entertaining, Mrs. Weasley seemed to be in even more of a cheerful mood now that the twins seemed to be enjoying themselves with people instead of whatever mess they had been inventing when they were off by themselves.

"Why can't the train come later?" I whined as we shuffled around getting ourselves together for the long train ride to Hogwarts. Being up at the crack of dawn was never my thing and though I was glad to see no one else looked remotely excited it still didn't make me cheerful.

"Something about something" Melinda replied as we finished getting changed so we could join the others for breakfast and then head out.

The twins decided to use apparition and meet us at Platform nine and three quarters, Fred asked if I wanted to join but I quickly said no, ever since using the portkey in Melinda's shower our third year I was strictly against any methods of transportation involving twisting of the body or pain. Melinda didn't hesitate on George's offer, though I figured it had less to do with the tight space in the Ford Angelina car than it did with her desire to spend time with George. That left Mrs. Weasley, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Harry and I all to travel in the car. It seemed a lot more comfortable this way. We talked, or rather listened to Hermione's conversation about the classes she was taking and the O. , which Ron didn't seem too pleased about her remembering.

Once at the station we quickly made our way through the bricks and joined the others, as well as a load of students and their families, though most of them were already gathered on the train. We quickly said goodbye to Mrs. Weasley and headed to find seats, we only had about five minutes until the train would be taking off. I never really cared for trains, for some reason they made me worry, though I didn't have any reason to be, especially not on the Hogwarts Express.

I sat with Harry, Hermione and Ron; Melinda joined us about an hour after we started moving and then Fred and George popped in, Lee with them but only stayed until the trolley came around. I pulled out a smaller sized money bag, completely ignoring Fred's admit to pay for the candy since I paid for his books. Melinda bought a bunch of her favorites, I knew they'd probably last all year if she wanted, mine, however, would be probably be gone by the end of the week.

I stayed up and talked as long as I could, but soon after a game of Exploding Snap I decided it was time to take a short nap. I was also partly avoiding Fred's questions. I awoke at least ten minutes before reaching our destination, which was perfect time considering I still had to change. After doing so I hopped off the train to follow Melinda and the others in a nearby carriage. As I let Fred pick me up and set me down in the carriage I tried not to look at the creatures pulling us along. I felt Melinda looking at me, as far as I knew we were among the few students who could see the Thestrals. To me it was not only a reminder of the death we witness our third year but also the almost death of my best friend and favorite professor. Somehow knowing what I was thinking Fred distracted me by asking about Quidditch. Even though it was dark as we travelled I could just make out where the Quidditch field was. Slowly, I felt my smile crept up. I was back. Hogwarts. Fifth year. Fred's seventh year. I thought as I squeezed his hand. We were going to make this count. I told myself as I scooted an inch closer to him.

"There it is" he said cheerfully as he pointed toward the castle. I held breath, it was stupid, but I couldn't help it, the excitement bubbling up. The one thing I could rely on repeatedly was seeing Hogwarts and knowing I was going to get that same build up excitement. Knowing this was home.