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God am I tired, although I liked potions class it did not mean it wasn’t hard. No to mention there was a certain annoying redhead blabbering in my ear the entire lesson. George and I have never really gotten along, not like we were enemies or something but definitely not friends either.
Now I could finally walk back to my dorm and rest before the test I had tomorrow. As my friends and I were talking to class we hear THE laugh, the laugh of the infamous THE Weasley twins. of course they were laughing while running around the halls. They pranked probably filch again, but as they are running one of them bumps into me and of course it’s George. All of my book and papers fall to the ground and standing right above them is him.
“Do you have anything else to do besides terrorizing the school with your unfunny pranks” I tell him trying to keep my temper cool and not blow up on him.
“Well actually no, and those unfunny pranks made you laugh yesterday in transfiguration, so ho unfunny are they love?”
“I was laughing at you not with you”
“Mhmm sure you were, anyways do you need some help with that” he says looking down at the ground.
“No. Now please go away”
“Whatever you say” and of course he had to wink right after he said that with his annoying smirk of his before he turned around to leave.
God why was he so annoying all he does is talk and prank and talk and flirt with anyone is line of vision. And If I’m being honest I have no idea what he gets out of terrorizing me. It’s not like he cares what i think of his jokes and pranks. Anyways I need to go to bed because if not I’m going to die from stress of the test and a certain someone.
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Today was going to be a good day, I could feel it. I woke up on time, had a good hair day and the one person who I expected to annoy the hell out of me was actually calm today. Now all I had to do was ace my test in potions then head out to Hogsmade because to day a Friday.
When I walked in the seats had been moved for the tests. I sat down and a few minutes later HE sat down next to me. _Not Again._ For being calm all day he had a pretty mischievous look on his face. I had a feeling him and Fred probably had a pan to prank Snape but it wasn’t my problem. All I had to do was do good on this test so I could finally be free from the stress of potions and have the best ever. That is until IT happened.
I was in the middle of taking my test when I see something flying by the window. It was George… but George was sitting next to me. I looked closer and see it’s Fred in class, they had swapped spots. Now I hade made eye contact with George and he was smiling. I tried to ignore him and focus on my test but I see him lifting something in his hands. It’s a blue liquid in a small vile, George opens the window and slips me a note.
“Do we a favor and hand this to Fred would you darling?”
I immediately look up at him and shake my head no. He tries to give me a pout that is a little cute ( I’m not going to lie, he’s cute but it doesn’t outweigh the headaches he’s constantly giving me) but it just makes me roll my eyes, and to that for some reason makes him smile.
He scoots close the window on his broom and tries to ask me to take it. I keep on telling him no and that’s when he uses his wand to force my hand to come up, he hands me the vile and our hand brush a second longer than they should have. And that was the second that absolutely ruined my night, because of course that’s when snape decided to get up and turn our way.
“What do you think you’re doing you two” he yelled from across the class room as our hands are still connected. I immediately let go and the vile falls causing an explosion of color and glitter all over the floor and myself.
“Detention for you and Mr. Weasley, whichever one it is”
“But professor I didn’t do anything! It’s a misunderstanding I promise.”
“Quite. Detention on my classroom at 6pm sharp”
My day had officially been ruined. All thanks to George fucking Weasley. Not to mention I was covered in glitter. Just great. Not to mentions after class when I was in my common room my friend came with the most wretched idea about George Weasley. “What if he likes you? I mean he’s always teasing and winking and flirting, I wouldn’t put it past him.” “You must be going insane. George Weasley? Likes me? Your funny. He’s like that with everyone and we don’t even like each other normally.” “Well… you never know.” She told me doing the worst wink known to man kind. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————I walked into detention already in a horrible mood. I knew all he was going to do was talk and try to make jokes that weren’t even remotely funny. Also Snape would probably have us doing the most boring detention ever. I was so not ready for this. I was supposed to be in Hogsmade right now, not in here.
“About time you two arrived. You will be cleaning out the old storage cabinet and arranging all the potions in alphabetical order. And once you are done don’t come to me because there are four more to do.” Snape said practically yelling. George and I walked next to each other on the way to the cabinets, I tried not to look over at him but it was hard trying to ignore that stupid smug smile on his face. What as he so happy about? He’s the one that got us here and ruined both our Friday nights.
“So.. did you have any plans today?”
“Yes. I did. Before you and your brother decided to try and pull a prank that had no way of working by the way.”
“It did. It’s not my fault you didn’t want to help for two seconds.”
“I didn’t want to help because I don’t know if you noticed but I was in the middle of taking a test. And why my window? There were like seven other windows you could have tried. Why did you have to terrorize me.”
“That one just so happened to be my favorite.” Right as he said they he stopped in front of a broom closest. I thought it was a cabinet not a closet, no way please don’t tell me I have to o in there with him to organize these potions.
“Well looks like we got to get in there love.”
“How do you know theres even potions in there?”
“Well it says potions and there’s four more down there line.” He said and I knew he trying to not be snarky, I could see it in his face.
“Whatever.” We got in there it felt a lot smaller than it looked. We decided that each one of us would work on a side, our backs against each other. THAT’S how small it was. The first 15 minutes were fine but it was hard to focus when his elbow kept on bumping into me.
“Would you stop moving so much. You’re going to make me drop these.”
“Sorry. What can I say, I’m a big boy.” He was laughing as he said that.
“Ew.” Although it was possibly the most atrocious thing that has ever come out of his mouth I found myself trying to not laugh but it didn’t work very well. Hearing me laughing he turned around.
“And here I thought you said you laugh at me and not with me.” “Don’t flatter yourself, you made one good joke.” As I said that I finally noted how close we were and how tall he was. Our chests were probably an inch apart from each other and I was looking up at him and once again he was smiling his crooked smile but this time it was ever so softer
. “Take a picture it’ll last longer.” Surprisingly that made him laugh even though that was not my intent. It felt like we-more like he- were shifting closer to each other. I immediately got out and took a deep breath.
“Okay you finish this and the next one and I will do the last three.”
“Alright, that’s fine.” He had a look on his face that looked like a mixture of happiness and somehow disappointment at the same time. “Okay.” We stayed looking at each other for about 5 second before I left to get started on the other cabinets.
The next two and a half hours sucked. It took forever; I was tired, dusty, and most of all bored not having George bugging me. Although he did make a living out of annoying me I can’t lie at times it was entertaining. As I was half way done with the last one the door opened.
“Need some help?” It scared me a little bit before I realized it was George.
“Relax, it’s just me. But do you need help finishing?”
“Oh sorry. But no, it’s okay I can finish it off on my own. You can go though.” “Are you sure? I don’t think it’s a good idea for you to be alone in the castle when you’re done.”
“You seem awfully concerned about me for someone who gets a kick out of watching me suffer.”
“I don’t like watching you suffer. I just like watching you get flustered and feisty with me.”
“I wouldn’t use the word feisty” “Oh yeah? What word would you use then?”
“Mmm, aggravated, vexed, and the list goes on. Would you like me to continue?”
“No it’s okay. But are you sure you don’t need help?”
“Nope. I got it, thanks though”
“Alright then, see ya”
“See ya”
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The rest of the time I spent cleaning was fairly boring. And if I’m being honest I took much longer than I should have, I was thinking George a little but mainly why he offered to help me finish when he could’ve just gone to his dorm. But I singled up and walked out of the broom closet. I walked out of the room with all the cabinets/closets and turned left. As soon as I turned I saw someone leaning an against the wall. It immediately scared me making me scream and jump backwards, before I could fall on my ass the person got up and caught me bringing me up right with one hand on the small of my back and the other on on my upper back.
“Woah, easy there” The voice said laughing and I recognized it almost immediately. It was George. What in Merlins name was he still doing here?
“Oh my god George you scared me. What are you still doing here?”
“Like I said, I don’t think you should walk alone and plus I wasn’t quite ready for bed yet.”
“Oh, okay. Thanks I guess.”
“Of course. Can I take you? To your dorm I mean. Can I take you to your dorm?” He for some reason sounded nervous or flustered which is far from the George Weasley I know.
“Umm, yea sure.”
“Nice” His cheeky little smile was back
The walk back to my dorm was not at all what I expected. Yes we did bicker and fight a little on the way but he was actually being pretty funny for once. When we got to the entrance we stayed just looking at each other for a few seconds before I thanked him and walked in. I looked back and saw him lingering a while. As I went to bed i realized what a strange experience that was. Never have George and I gotten along that well. It was strange, not unwanted but strange in a good way.