Sunday June 3rd
I sat down at the table in 'the Leaky Cauldron' as we looked at the menus.
"Do you have your drink order yet?" Fred asked.
"Can I have a butterbeer please." I said.
"Certainly my lady."
I smiled as he went up to the bar and came back a few minutes later with 2 frothy butterbeers in his hands. He placed one in front of me and one in front of himself.
"Thank you." I said, taking it and sipping it.
"You're welcome. You know I've been wanting to ask you out for a while now, I've just never had the courage." Fred said.
"Really? You had no courage? You're like the most courageous person I know, that's why I like you so much, well and because your just you."
"Oh you like me then ay." He teased.
"No I just agreed to this date because you repulse me." I laughed.
He joined in on my laughing and then someone came over to us, waiting to take our orders, Oh I didn't think that this was that type of place.
"Hi are you both ready to order?" He asked.
"Absolutely. Can I have the chicken, bacon and cheese pasta bake please."
"I'll have the same, thank you." Fred said.
She smiled at us before taking our menus away and scooting off to put our orders in.
"I didn't have you down for a pasta type of guy." I said.
"You kidding I love pasta. My mum makes the best pasta cheese dish, you will love it, I'll get her to make it when you come over one day."
"Sounds good. So Fred, on dates people tend to tell the other about themselves, but I feel like I know everything about you."
"Vice Versa, urm... When you were in your trance what was I like?"
"You were exactly the same as you are out here, you wanted a joke shop, but we were in our last year when I woke up so I don't know what your future looked like."
"How long were we together for?"
"Just over a year."
"Hopefully that comes true, I wouldn't mind dating a beautiful, charming and funny girl like yourself for a whole year."
"And I wouldn't mind dating a gorgeous red headed prankster like yourself for a whole year either, but I guess if we fall through I can just go to George." I joked.
"Well, harsh." He said, faking to be hurt, putting his hand up to his chest where his heart is.
"I'm just joking you clown." I said, laughing.
"Good to know." He said, laughing as well.
"So, tell me something about yourself that I don't know."
"There isn't much else to tell. Urm... my birthday is on April Fools Day."
"Yeah I totally already know that."
"Yeah, I forgot you knew me when you were dead." He joked.
"Oh thanks." I laughed.
"I'm just joking, even though you were actually dead. Okay something you don't know about me. In my first year of Hogwarts, and I'm hoping you don't know this, George and I took the Marauders Map from Filch's Office."
"Wow, I didn't know that. In my trance you borrowed it occasionally off of Harry since it was passed down from my dad, and used it to sneak around Hogwarts at night."
"Did you also know that George and I had a joke shop in the disused bathroom on the seventh floor of Hogwarts."
"No I didn't know that either. People used to come to you in the Gryffindor Common Room if they wanted to buy some products off of you."
"So there is a few things you don't know about me. Now tell me something about you."
"Okay, in my trance me, you and George, even though I was set on becoming an Auror, we used to make potions and everything, and one time we were brewing a potion in the potions classroom because Snape was supposed to be at a teacher thing and he came back and our potion blew up in his face. We got a detention for 3 weeks every night after class."
We both were sat in our chairs absolutely wetting ourselves. That was true, and you should have seen the look on Professor Snapes face, he was covered in black dust to match his greasy hair and the look on his face, he was so angry, I've never seen him look so mad.
"I bet the look on his face was absolutely priceless."
"It was, that was in our fifth year. In our sixth year we put a spell on the Great Hall doors, a spell we had made ourselves and every time a Slytherin walked into the Great Hall they would turn into a Unicorn who was covered in Rainbow colors. It was genius." I laughed.
"It sounds like we had some amazing laughs."
"We did, it was incredible. We were all the best of friends, then in sixth year we got together and we were still together when we were on our broomsticks, flying back to the burrow. We had finished our year and it was the best, we had such good times at Hogwarts and everywhere we went really."
"One question. In your trance, did we have sex?"
"Yes we did, guilty as charged." I said, blushing.
"Don't blush. Actually, that's quiet beautiful, carry on." Fred laughed.
I laughed along with him.
"So are you a virgin or not?" Fred asked.
"I am, wow, 20 years old and a virgin. Not good. No it doesn't really bother me, I'm not that type of girl."
"Was I your first?"
"Yes and I was yours. We were both seventeen."
"It's nothing to be embarrassed about, you have been dead for 17 years."
"I know, it doesn't me, I'm not that type of girl to let something like that bother me. In my head I was seventeen so that's what matters I guess. But sex isn't overly important to me."
"Me either, it's good to have in a relationship -." Fred started.
"Of course it's needed in a relationship but it is the main thing, there are much more important things."
"Exactly."
Our dinner then came over and we ate that, whilst making small talk. Once I had finished we ordered another round of drinks and sat down at the bar.
"This has been amazing Fred." I said to him.
"It really has, but it isn't over yet. Was our first date in your trance as good as this?"
"No, it was good, but not this good. Our first date in my trance we went to Hogsmeade, you took me to 'the Three Broomsticks' for drinks, then we went to Honeydukes and Zonkos and then we went back to the castle."
"That sounds pretty good actually, but this is nicer, dinner and drinks, you cant go wrong, it is a classic first date."
"It is, I love it."
"Good."
We stayed there for another hour and a half, just chatting, drinking butterbeer and then we got back into his Flying Ford Anglia and drove home, no flying for us today. Once we got there Fred got out of the car, raced round to open my door for me, held his hand out, I took it and got out of the car, Fred closing the door behind me. I smiled at him and he walked me up to the door, his hand still in mine. When we got there I stood there.
"Night Fred, I had an amazing time." I said.
"Me too, we should do it again." Fred said.
"Definitely, you name a date and time and I'll be ready."
"Hows tomorrow morning at 10?"
"Perfect. I want to introduce you to muggle London. In my trance there was this amazing little cafe, we can have some breakfast and I'll introduce you to some muggle stuff."
"That sounds amazing. I'll be here at 10."
I smiled as he leaned in to me. Our lips met, but only for a few seconds. It was a simple yet elegant kiss. I smiled at him as I waved him off and then I went inside as he got into the car. Well this was just perfect!
