Chapter 12

Charlie's POV

"I knew it! All of these years I knew it!" She exclaimed, hugging me tightly. "Go and see her right now and tell her everything!"

"Mum, I can't just go there. Her mother is sick and I can't tell her, she's Ginny and the twin's best friend."

"That is the worst excuse I've ever heard. I'm sure they would all be delighted."

"What if we did get together and then broke up. She'd never come back on the holidays because of it and then they would never forgive me. She's better off not knowing anything, pretend you don't know mum."

"But Charlie dear, it would make you happy."

"It might not be what she wants, I'd rather her be happy."

Mum sighed, "If you insist Charlie dear."

"Thanks mum, I said as I left the room.

The next day Alexis's POV

I flooed back to the Weasley's and found Charlie sitting on the couch, but unlike the last time, Liz was nowhere to be seen.

"Alexis, your back! That was sooner than expected."

"Yeah, mum was just exaggerating again; she finally agreed to let me leave."

"That's good."

"I know right. It gets boring sitting at home without people to talk to."

"Can't imagine how quiet it must be at your house compared to here."

I grinned, "It's pretty dull. Anyway, I should go and get rid of my stuff and tell the girls I'm back. I'll see you later." I walked up the stairs and barged into Ginny's room. Both of the girls jumped at my entrance.

"Hey your back! That was quick." Ginny exclaimed.

"Yeah, I got a letter from Charlie yesterday explaining that he wasn't planning on proposing to Liz."

"Well that much is obvious." Hermione commented.

"They broke up yesterday, apparently both of them thought it wasn't working out and she's gone." Ginny exclaimed.

"Are you serious? That's awesome. Well, awesome for me anyway. How's he taking it?"

"He's fine, it was a mutual decision. I think it's good that she's gone; now you can move in…"

"No Ginny, he just broke up with his girlfriend, it's not the best time. If he wants to have anything to do with me he can be the one making the move, not me."

"You do realise that we go back to school in two days and you won't see him again for almost a year, wouldn't it feel better knowing that he was waiting for you rather than thinking that maybe he's gone and got himself another girlfriend?" Hermione said.

"Stop trying to talk me into something stupid." I said, "The next two days will not involve me confessing my feelings to Charlie and then we will be back at school and I won't have to think about him till next holidays."

As I had predicted the end of the holidays did not involve me confessing my feelings to Charlie and the first few weeks had gone off without a hitch. Fred, George and I were selling their products to other students and making a great profit, the twins really had a flair for business. The new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher was a toad like lady from the ministry called Umbridge. She hated us from the beginning, we landed ourselves in detention almost every lesson and she had a horrible quill which used our own blood as ink. We all had scars across the backs of our hands and the twins were planning on leaving Hogwarts without finishing their last year.

"You guys can't just leave."

"Lex, we don't need this stuff, we've got money to open the shop and we've got products to start up and we've got even more ideas, we're wasting our time here." Fred explained.

"You can come with us if you want. You've already got a position at the shop so you can leave too." George offered.

"I can't just leave, it's our last year. Just stay it's only a couple of months. You're selling heaps of products here at the moment anyway."

"But think about how much more we could be selling outside." Fred said, "Come with us when we go Lex, it'll be great."

"I want to finish. I'll stay with Angelina, Katie and Alicia. Speaking of which, Ang and Katie aren't going to be happy that you guys are just leaving them."

"We'll explain it to them. And they'll still have you."

The twins left the year early with a bang, literally. They set off their fireworks throughout the castle and rode off on their broomsticks together. Katie and Angelina were distraught at the thought of spending the rest of the year without their boyfriends but brightened at the thought of being able to spend every day with them when they finished school. The four of us stayed on to finish together and caused trouble in memory of the twins.