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Dell walked into the kitchen of the cabin, to be greeted by Molly Weasley (the first) and a few others.

"Would you like some coffee, tea, hot chocolate..?" Angelina Weasley trailed off as Dell stopped in the kitchen.

"You know where the guys are?" Dell asked in response, them knowing who she meant. She'd already checked in their room to find it empty.

"Fred and James are outside….don't know where Tyler is," Mrs. Weasley, (Molly) responded to her question.

"I think he's in the attic," Ginny Potter said and this confirmed Dell's suspicions.

"Two hot chocolates please," Dell said, and soon she had what she asked for and with thanks left the kitchen, headed for the attic.

"Hey," Dell said as she slid down beside Tyler. He didn't even look at her as she sat, seeming to have expected her to arrive, and took the hot chocolate with a quiet thanks.

"What happened last night Tyler," Dell said quietly, nudging him with her shoulder. He looked towards her before looking around the attic.

"Promise you won't tell Fred or James?" He asked quietly, seemingly afraid they were listening.

"If you don't want me to, then of course I won't. Fred and James are outside," She added and he did relax a bit.

"Well…" Tyler took a deep breath before continuing.

"After you left, I took Roxanne to your guy's room, like I said. When we got there, she literally fell on the bed. I stood against the wall waiting for her dad to come, 'cause I didn't want to leave her alone. Well, Roxanne rolled onto her stomach and propped her head up on her head, and looked at me, made me feel uncomfortable."

"'Why are boys so oblivious?' Roxanne asked which really surprised me. She seemed to have sobered out a bit, but I really wasn't expecting her to talk. Well, I just shrugged; not knowing how to respond and she sighed."

"'What makes you say boys are oblivious?' I asked as I went to sit beside her, and she quickly sat up, though she grabbed my shoulder so I think she got a bit dizzy, so I got a bucket incase she puked."

"'Well, James doesn't realize what's going on with Hailey,' She said, and I wanted to ask about that but she continued on before I could. 'And Fred – well, he's just Fred.' That one I really couldn't deny. 'You're better than most, but you're so blind!'"

"Well, of course I had to ask. 'What am I blind about?' Not really understanding where she was going. I had a feeling that if she had been sober she wouldn't have said anything she had been saying."

"'Well, it's not like anybody sees. But I throw hint after hint, and you just don't get it,' She said and suddenly I realized just how close her face was to mine, I could smell the alcohol on her breath. Then, she kissed me. Don't say anything, I'm not finished."

"The kiss lasted about five seconds before she pulled away and puked in the bucket. It took me five more to realize what had happened, and another five to realize I'd kissed back. That was about when I started panicking. Luckily, her dad came in at that moment, and thanked me for taking care of her. I just numbly nodded my head and headed for the door. All I could think about was that Fred was going to kill me."

"'Tyler,' Roxanne said just as I reached the door and I paused to look back at her. She just looked at me and then seemed to look disappointed before saying, 'Our little secret'. I nodded my head ignoring her father's curious look, and quickly left." Tyler finished with his head in his hands.

"Please, explain Dell," Tyler, said looking over at his best friend with a pleading look in his eyes. Dell held up a finger as she mulled over what he had said, even though she had once been about to interrupt him.

"OK," Dell said turning to him calmly. Then she hit him hard.

"What was that for?!" Tyler yelled before realizing where they were and looked down the stairs hoping nobody to be there.

"She likes you, you dimwit, by the sounds of it, a lot and for a while! Oh, she lied to me! All the stuff she was doing…Lysander, Andrew too – oh, she wasn't trying to make Andrew jealous, probably didn't even know he liked her, she was actually flirting with you. And when she called you and you looked back – she could see all you were thinking about was how Fred would react if he found out. That was why she looked disappointed." Tyler just stared at Dell in shock.

"Roxanne likes me," He said slowly as though trying to process the fact.

"Yes. Wow, she's right, she did leave a lot of clues, I'm surprised nobody saw them." Dell said and realized Tyler hadn't heard anything past the part that Roxanne liked him decided to explain in clearer words.

"Last year when she was borrowing your notes, and you thought she was trying to get Andrew jealous and everything? Afterwards, remember how I said it didn't seem that she liked him as more than a friend? Well, she wasn't trying to make him jealous – like I said, probably didn't even know he liked her, but ended up doing so because she was flirting with you."

"Well she didn't make it obvious," Tyler muttered under his breath.

"She's Roxanne, where Louis grew up around girls thanks to his sisters, she grew up around boys, after all, James was the one who came over most and you too, and her own best friends were Lysander and Lorcan. Half the time I bet you even forgot she was a girl," Dell said with a raised eyebrow. Tyler's cheeks flushed.

"Only until she was twelve, that's when the guys started to notice her and Fred became majorly overprotective." Tyler muttered, not looking at Dell.

"Exactly, I bet if it wasn't for the fact that Fred liked me, you guys probably would have done the same with me." Dell said ignoring Tyler's protests.

"Anyways, she probably agreed to go out with Andrew in hopes to make you jealous. That's why she flirted with Lysander; after all, it was obvious she had no real interest in him. Oh, and remember what she said when she was drunk? That Lysander knew a secret? She probably told him she liked you and that's why she did that – oh, and even more, the way she said Lorcan liked that Sarah girl he was kissing, or at least, that's what it sounded like, that's probably why she picked Lysander, not wanting to mess up Lorcan's chances." Dell said with a nod of her head.

Tyler hit his head against the wall, his eyes closed. "What am I going to do?" He mumbled to himself.

Dell looked at him curiously. "Tyler, do you like Roxanne?" She asked.

Tyler seemed surprised by her question. "What? Why would you ask that?"

"Well, why would you need to do anything, unless you liked her?" Dell asked making Tyler look at her shocked. He then slowly began to think it over. Suddenly his eyes widened.

"I think I do," He said, before hitting his head once more against the wall and groaning.

"First of all – there's no think, it's a yes or no, secondly – why's that a bad thing?" Dell asked her arms crossed as she waited for him to answer.

It was a while before he was able to answer the first one. "Yes, yes I do," He said, not sure why he'd never realized it before. The second one he answered immediately afterwards though, as it was easy. "And Fred would kill me, Fred and James – hell, all the Weasley boys would kill me," Tyler said his eyes growing wider at each word he said. "Bloody hell, nobody can know I like her," Tyler said in panic mode.

"Tyler," Dell said in disgust, shaking her head. "You aren't going to tell her? You like her, she likes you – for a while it seems – and you aren't going to go out with her because of Fred?"

"He's my best friend, Dell. You can't go out with your best friends little sister," Tyler said as though it were some rule, which it probably was.

"What about Harry and Ginny? I believe Harry is Ron's best friend and Ginny his li-" Dell was cut off in the middle.

"It's different," Tyler said shaking his head.

"Really, because it looks scarily similar to me, the only difference to me is that there is a fourth member to our group," Dell said, and Tyler's eyes widened as he too saw the similarities.

"Yeah, well…" Tyler trailed off before speaking up again, "Have you met Fred?"

"He's my boyfriend," Dell said in a monotone voice, and Tyler just gave her a look.

"You know what I mean," He said, shaking his head. "I don't think I've ever met a sibling as overprotective as Fred. Seriously, a guy looks at Roxanne and Fred's on him like a fly on honey."

"You got a point there," Dell said with a frown thinking she needed to have a talk with her boyfriend. "But just forget about Fred." She added, knowing it would mean more coming from her.

"I can't Dell, he's my best friend. Promise you won't tell?" Tyler pleaded with her.

Dell sighed. "I already promised I wouldn't, and I don't break promises. But I really think you should just forget about Fred and ask Roxanne out – you know she won't say no." Tyler rolled his eyes at her last comment.

"Thanks," He said, standing up and grabbing his empty cup, as did Dell, though she didn't look very happy where the conversation ended and had plans to bring it up again in the future.

The two headed down from the attic, and at the bottom of the stairs found Fred and James just coming back in from outside.

"Hey, what were you guys doing up there?" James asked as the two went to meet them at the bottom of the stairs.

"Just talking," Dell said with a shrug, and Tyler nodded, giving Dell a smile when the two looked away though Dell scowled.

"Hangovers are rough, aren't they Roxanne?" James asked with a smirk, and Dell and Tyler turned to see what had caught the two's attention.

"You can say that again," Roxanne muttered, but her eyes traveled behind them to Tyler. It seemed she remembered clearly the events of the previous night. Tyler just looked at the ground, and Dell's scowl grew even more. Roxanne saw this and looked at Dell with a raised eyebrow, which caught Fred and James' attention making them look around.

"What are you so upset about Dell?" Fred asked with a raised eyebrow. Dell turned to Fred and her expression changed to that of a very angry girlfriend.

"Boys are my problem. Dominique and Lucy were right," Dell was cut off by a course of thank you from said girls in the kitchen, "Boys know absolutely nothing." Then she glared at Tyler, who seemed to shrink under her look.

"I have to ummmm…." Tyler said and just walked away without finishing, sending one backwards glance at Roxanne, who was confused, but couldn't help a small smile appear on her face in hope.

"But my biggest problem is you," Dell said, turning back to Fred once Tyler was gone, "If you weren't so – err I can't even say it." So turned to Roxanne and said, "I'm really sorry that I've got such idiotic friends," Before hitting both Fred and James, saying to James who had been laughing at Fred, "Don't think you aren't a part of it," And walked off in a storm.

By then Roxanne had realized what was going on. Tyler had told Dell everything, and he liked her too, but he wouldn't say anything because of Fred (and probably James too, but mostly Fred). Roxanne scowled, and hit both boys too before heading off to the kitchen in hopes of getting something to help with her headache.

"Are you confused too?" James asked, starring at the retreating figures.

"Yep," Fred nodded confused as to what could possibly make both Dell and Roxanne mad at him.

"OK, glad I'm not the only one," James said. Suddenly an owl landed on his shoulder and James took the letter from it and read it over quickly.

"Yes, Hailey wants to go out on a date with me once we get back to school. She's the one who asked me out." James held his hand up for a high five, but Fred just rolled his eyes and hit him in the back of the head before walking away like the others had.

"Hey, what was that for? Am I the only one not keeping secrets? Am I the only one besides Tyler who didn't hit somebody before walking away?" James yelled after Fred's retreating back.

"Hit yourself," Lucy said as she and Dominique passed which just made James scowl at her.

"Nothing makes sense," He mumbled before walking away.

Edited 2020-02-15