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Chapter 2: The Incident
The Waters and the Weasley have known each other for years upon years. Until my dad we were one of the few pureblood families' that while were abscessed with keeping things strictly 'pure' we didn't subscribed to the 'master race' superiority shit that most of the other family's did. The Weasley were also one of those families' which is why we all kind of grew up together. So I had known the twins pretty much since their birth. We grew up playing quidditch and hunting the woods for fantastic creatures and excursions into the village to interact with the muggles and look at all the new ways that they could come up with the same thing and all of it without magic.
I was quite the tom boy and used to challenge the boys to everything from races to quidditch to eating, anything and everything I could come up with to prove that I could fit in with them. So with their influence - or maybe it was with mine - we grew wild. Even though I was close in age to Percy he never seemed interesting enough and way too shy for my liking. Bill and Charlie were great but a bit too old and I always felt a little odd whenever I was alone with either one or both of them. I always seemed to get tongue tied and just couldn't come up with anything to say. But Fred and George and to some extent Ron and Ginny when they came along, it was great having another girl by this stage and she seemed to look up to me and that felt great … I don't know we just seemed to fit, it just felt right. I didn't feel awkward or bored or shy I was just myself.
So obviously we didn't really start getting to know each other until they were three or four and I was four or five. But in the next seven/eight years we got to know each other very well I was almost an honorary twin making us the triplets (this was a running joke in both our families). This lasted up until the summer just before the twins went to Hogwarts. Actually it lasted up until a few weeks before. It went south after the incident. So I've already told you about being a tom boy well I didn't know many boys growing up and I hadn't even kissed one until that summer. Actually George was my first kiss.
It was storming outside and all the Weasley's were at my house for the day. The original plan was to play quidditch, but mum wouldn't let us go out and play in the storm so we were stuck. So for once Percy came up with an idea that appealed to everyone. Personally I think he was relieved at not having to play, he wasn't very good or at least not as good as everyone else, so he knew he'd be letting down whoever's team he was on. I was pissed because I needed to practice. I was going to try out for my house team. Anyway he suggested spin the bottle. We all readily agreed so I snatched a bottle from the kitchen and we retired to the living room and sat in a big circle all eight of us.
So we had played for maybe three or four goes each which equates to about an hour and a half. The bottle landed on me and Bill asked in the sing song way of spin the bottle "Truth, Dare, Double Dare, Torcher, Kiss or Promise, Cass?" - the way we play is that you can only choice one once until you've picked them all and I had already used up my truth, dare, torcher and double dare - so I picked "Promise" and Bill says "The next time your alone with the guy you like you have to promise to kiss him on the lips" to this I agree because I couldn't very well duck out of it. Though it was infringing on Kiss boundaries. So then I go it lands on Ginny who choses "Torcher", and I tell her to go outside in the rain in her underwear for five minutes and then to get dressed in her clothes without drying off. Then Fred gets up to grab drinks. She does this and when she gets back (looking very soggy but excited) she goes and it lands on George who choses "Kiss" so Ginny tells him to kiss the person on his right on the lips. Which if you've guessed was me as I was sitting between the twins. I think she was trying to get him to kiss Charlie who was on his left and she was not very good with left or right by this stage, then again it would have been her right. She was much better by the next summer apparently. So we turn to each other and give as chaste a kiss as you could give when kissing on the lips. However Fred chose this moment to return to the room with his arms full of beverages.
He starts yelling and forgetting the drinks in his arms start pointing at us accusingly (this caused all the drinks to spill on to my mum's expensive new carpet) and stomping towards us apparently blind to his little sister and big brother – Percy – in the way. Bill - who is sitting on her other side and next to Charlie - pulls Ginny aside just in time for her to avoid being trampled and Percy dived to the side knocking over the lamp behind him in the process, it was almost comical. Still yelling and shouting he comes to a stop pointing a finger at George and screaming that "You knew!" and "You TRAITOR!" and that "We are NO longer brothers!" it was quite scary. Then he leaps at the stunned George and tackles him to the ground still yelling his head off.
They start wrestling when the grownups bust in looking a little crazed and rumpled, apparently quite startled from all the noise. All they see is the fight and then they jump to conclusions and Molly and Arthur - Mr and Mrs Weasley - start yelling at their sons to get of one and other while Bill, Charlie and Percy are trying to break it up - physically trying to pull the twins off of each other - looking back now they all did it with a resigned air as if this was a common practice in their house hold. I can image that it is actually what with all those kids and six of them boys… me I'm an only child and I was always determined to have more than one child, so as not to be as lonely as I was before I spent all my time with the Weasley's or my other friends.
It looked like it all might be alright until my mum saw the multi coloured soon to be stain from the drinks that Fred had dropped earlier on her nice new vintage white shag carpet. That was when all hell broke loose. First she was frozen the she grew horribly pale and started to sway, then as suddenly as she had paled she grew red. Now when I say red I mean red she was tomato red. Stop sign red. Traffic light red. I mean she practically glowed, that's how red she was. Unfortunately that's also how mad she was.
Now my mother is usually the perfect lady but just then she could have been a sailor with the amount and frequency of curses that came tumbling out of her mouth. I don't mean the spell type of curses either. No matter how angry my mum was she would not curse an innocent child, even if that innocent child was one of the twins. I would swear that she was possessed at that very moment! Normally she wouldn't give two figs about the carpet but we had VIP's coming over for dinner that night. In fact she probably would have kicked the Weasley's out in another couple of hours if it weren't for the incident.
The VIP's were a couple of Witches from Witch Weekly coming to inspect the house for their House of the Year segment. There was also both my mothers and fathers bosses coming over. I think they were trying to butter them up so that they could get promotion or raises or something. My parents are … were both very carers driven. They both worked for the Ministry with Mr Weasley. Mum worked in the Underage magic Department and Dad worked in the Auror Office but he wasn't an Auror he just coordinated strike forces kinda like a muggle Dispatch officer, so I watch a few muggle shows, sue me. Whatever the reason was that set mum off… well it did a fantastic job. Her rant went for ten minutes - I swear she didn't even breathe - then at the end of it she took a deep breath and started screaming at the Weasley's to get out and "to never disgrace my doorways again! Don't even think of stepping foot in my house again!" that was a direct quote. I mean if your mother who was usually so calm and serine starts going off like that that you are worried for not only her physical health - and for that of the people in the room - but mental state of mind, you'd be memorising the words too. They were so ingrained in to my memory that I can still remember it all these years later.
Well that was the incident. I did get to see the Weasley's for the rest of the summer. I didn't see them until September 1st on platform 9 and 3/4. My mum was still slightly pissed and Mrs Weasley was still cross over the injustice dealt out too her son, and rightly so.
I tried to talk to the boys on the train but by the time everyone was on board we were moving away and I could only find Percy. The rest of them had gone. Percy was in 3rd year, Charlie was in 6th Bill was in 7th but he would have gone to the prefect cabin or have already been patrolling the corridor. Charlie was probably rounding up the Gryffindor Quidditch team for a meeting or something. Percy was reading in a half full cabin and I couldn't find neither hide nor hair of the twins. In hind sight I think they were hiding from me.
I gave up trying to find them after I couldn't get Percy to look at me let alone talk to me after trying for ten minutes. I figured they had been cautioned not to talk/look/interact with me. This really hurt. Even though we were in different years and different houses we were all still such great friends. At least I thought we were.
I went and sat with my friends from my house. One of which was Cedric Diggory. I was quiet and passive for most of the journey though. That was the last time I really spoke to Bill, Charlie or Percy until I got married to Fred that was.
I stopped trying to talk to the twins about two month in to the year. Actually the last time I tried was on Halloween night. It didn't end well. I was the recipient for their first harmful or more accurately hurtful style prank. Actually that was there last of this particular style of prank. I guess I was just lucky. Well they certainly accomplished their goal and I was humiliated and stopped trying to talk to all the Weasley's then. I suppose you want to hear what they did?
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