Chapter 3

Fred's POV

Alexis had just taken the love potion and not even a minute after she had swallowed it the effects began. She looked around the room and her eyes grew wide at the site of me.

"Hey Fred!" she said brightly, running her hand on my leg, "I was just wondering if you had any plans for tonight?"

I glanced at George who was taking down notes.

"Well I don't really have any plans. What did you have in mind?"

"Just you and me, alone together," She whispered seductively. "I really love you Fred, I want you so bad."

She straddled me and pushed me back onto my bed, kissing me as she did so. I kissed her back; just like I would have if she wasn't under the influence of a love potion and ran my hands over her body. I felt a sharp blow to the head and someone pulled her off me. Oh, that's right George was still here. Opps. He gave Alexis the antidote, which she took quickly and left the room to 'document side effects', as George told her.

As soon as she left the room my twin turned to me. "What the hell were you doing?"

"Just going along with it for the experiment."

"Don't lie to me."

"Fine, I got caught in the moment. What did you expect; she's smart, funny and sexy and was on top of me. I couldn't help myself."

"Self-control," He muttered. "She likes Charlie remember"
"Yeah but still. The potion worked though." I said, attempting to change the topic.

George nodded, "It worked very well by the looks of things."

Alexis's POV.

I had just left the twins room as I realised I had just made out with Fred and had wanted to do so much more, even with George in the room. That was so wrong. I decided to find a secluded boy-free place to sit while I considered avoiding the twins for life. Sure, I had kissed both of the twins before but never had I wanted to have sex with them. They were going to embarrass me about this forever. Maybe I should just leave. I decided against leaving and marched back to the twin's room where George ushered me inside.

"No side-affects." I told him.

He scribbled on his clipboard "Excellent. Just so you know, you won't have to test any more love potions."

"Thanks"

"Because Fred is a prat and only thinks of himself."

I nodded, expecting Fred to disagree but a quick look around told me he wasn't here.

"The thing is he's liked you for a little while. He would have taken advantage of you if I wasn't here. He's a little pissed that you admitted you like Charlie. And he's more pissed at me for cutting you off."

"I feel a little bad now. How far…?" I began not wanting to ask the question.
"Given a chance, all the way. He wouldn't do it to just anyone, it's just that he thinks likes you. He'll get over it."

"What do you mean thinks he likes me?"

"There is someone else, he just hasn't really realised I yet I don't think. He will though."

I was so glad that George had been there, I did so not want to have sex with one of my best friends, especially while under the influence of a love potion.

As promised, Molly organised a huge feast to celebrate my birthday. Tables were set up outside loaded with delicous food that Mrs Weasley had spent hours preparing. Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet, Katie Bell and Lee Jordan flooed over to the Burrow, as did Remus, Hagrid and Tonks.

"Happy birthday!" the three girls said, hugging me in turn and giving me gifts.

"What happened to your face?" Angelina asked, abrupt as always.

I grinned, "Well, Charlie took me to Romania this morning to see the baby dragons for my birthday. Apparently I pissed one of them off when I moved it, so it scratched me. No biggie."

"Charlie took you to Romania?" Alicia squealed.

"Did you tell him?" Katie whispered, glancing around to make sure Charlie wasn't in earshot.

I shook my head, "I can't. He thinks of me as a sister if anything, not as girlfriend material."

"Alexis Laura Fuller," Angelina began, using my full name, "you are the bravest girl I know and you won't tell a guy that you like him. What has gotten into you? You have told boys at school that you liked them and it never phased you. What is different about this one?"

"They were nothing serious. That was more entirely based on looks than anything else and I knew it would be short lived and I didn't care. This is different, I like everything about him, this is something I really want. I can't imagine not having him in my life so I don't want to ruin our friendship. I'd rather have him as a friend than not at all."

"Sounds like someone's in love." Lee said, coming up behind me and putting an arm around my waist."

"Hi Lee," I said, hugging him, "how are you?"

He brushed aside my change of topic, "Good, who's the unlucky guy? And I don't mean that in a bad way, I just mean they're unlucky because you are persistent and know how to get what you want."

"I'm not telling you anything."

"It's Charlie," Fred said loudly as he walked past.

I glared daggers into the back of his retreating figure, "I'm going to kill him. If he tells Charlie I will murder him in his sleep."

"What's wrong with him?" Angelina asked.

I sighed and explained the love potion incident to them. Angelina, who had like Fred since last year, did not look impressed.

"Go see if you can cheer him up Ang." I said, giving her a sly wink.

She grinned and took off after Fred.

"How come you never tell anyone to cheer me up?" Lee asked, pouting, as he snaked an arm around Alicia's waist.

"Because you don't need it." I said, smiling as the two left.

Katie rolled her eyes at the lovebirds, "Sometimes those two make me sick. Always so kissy and cuddly."

I laughed, "You're just jealous that a certain twin is not as quick on the uptake."

She sighed, "Yeah, that's true. Don't turn around but someone keeps looking at you."

I turned around and caught Charlie's eye and smiled, he quickly looked away.

Katie hit me, "I said don't turn around. I think he does like you. He keeps looking."

"He's probably just waiting for a chance to apologise again. It might interest you to know that the afore mentioned certain twin is looking rather lonely at the table, I think he could do with your company."

She glanced at the lone red head over her shoulder, "I think you're right. I'll talk to you later."

I went to find Hermione and Ginny and was stopped by Tonks.

"Happy birthday Alexis, don't let Molly see this, she will flip, but I think you will like it." She said, handing me an envelope.

I opened it and read the paper inside, she had given me a voucher to get a tattoo, it was something that I had been speaking to her about the past few times that I saw her.

I hugged her, grinning, "Thanks Tonks, this is awesome."

"That's alright, I couldn't think of anything else to get you. And it's nowhere near as good as your gift from Charlie."

"It's up there though."

"I told you shouldn't have given her that. Her mother and Molly will murder her for getting one and you for encouraging her." Remus said, coming up behind Tonks and handing me a small box.

I opened it and inside was a tiny, moving glass replica of a dragon.

"Remus it's beautiful! Thank you." I said hugging him.

We were soon joined by Hagrid who gave me a voucher to buy Quidditch supplies with. "It's all I could think of and Quidditch gear always comes in handy."

I hugged him awkwardly and thanked him before walking over to a certain red head that kept looking at me.

"Hi Charlie."

"Hi Lex. What did you get?"

"The girls and Lee gave me jewellery, Hagrid got me a voucher for Quidditch stuff, and Remus and Tonks gave me these." I said handing him the dragon and the voucher from Tonks.

He looked at the dragon and got a sad look in his eyes, "Lex I'm sorry."

"Why? Because I got presents?"

"Because I took you to Romania. It was stupid of me to put you in danger like that."

"No it wasn't, you do more dangerous stuff than that every day but anyway. Look at what Tonks gave me!" I said as I indicated the present in his hand.

He read the parchment and his eyes widened, "You are not getting a tattoo."

"Yes I am."

"No you are not. They are expensive to get removed."

"Why on earth would I get it removed?"

"Because you'll get something that you don't really want and a few years down the track you will regret it and want to get rid of it."

"No I won't."

"Yes you will. I've seen it before, girls go and get tattoos of their boyfriends name and then they break up and they spend thousands of galleons getting it removed."

I laughed, "For starters Charlie, I don't even have a boyfriend, secondly, do you really think that I would be stupid enough to do that?"

"Well no but it was just an example. I just don't want you to do something you'll regret."

"The only thing I've ever done in my right mind and regretted was letting you bring me back here instead of staying in Romania."

"And I regret taking you there."

"How can you say that? Going to Romania with you was the best thing that's ever happened in my life."

"You don't mean that."

"I do."

"Alexis I could have gotten you killed, that cannot be the best thing that's ever happened."

"But you didn't. You do that every day, you know what you're doing and I trust you. All I've ever wanted is to see the dragons and you were the one that gave it to me."

"Well you shouldn't trust me, next time there's something you want I won't be giving it to you. I'm not risking your life again."

"But you'll risk yours every day?"

"That's different. It's my job it doesn't matter what happens to me. You on the other hand have so much to live for, think about how many things you would have missed out on if I'd killed you, think about all of your friends and family that would have struggled without you. It doesn't matter what happens to me."

"Yes it does." I said fiercely.

"I don't have anything else to do. Only my family would miss me, and most of the time they wouldn't realise I was gone. I don't have anyone else who would miss me that much."

"Yes you do." I said softly.

"Who?"

"I would miss you every day." I whispered, not meeting his eyes.

"You count as family, and you wouldn't even know that I wasn't around anymore. Enough talk, go and enjoy your party." He said walking away.