A/N: I am thrilled to announce that my computer problems are (hopefully) a thing of the past and I can now update my fiction on a more regular basis. I am going to school and working full-time but I determined to get this story to its end-which it is currently far from. This is a pretty long chapter, it's my pathetic attempt to make up for being absent for so long. Well, without further ado I present chapter five of Hermione's To-Do List.

Bored Games

Hermione's first week at the shop was a very, very long one. Hermione and Fred worked everyday hour upon hour. By Wednesday they were already exhausted; she wondered how Fred and George had managed before. She was having a wonderful time though so she chose to ignore her exhaustion. Most of the week it was relatively quiet and they used that time to concoct potions and look for new hires. George and Verity were still around since the new store wouldn't be opening for a couple more weeks. The two were even kind enough to force Hermione and Fred to take the weekend off for some much needed rest.

That Friday Hermione and Fred were closing up shop together, "Any plans for the weekend off?" Fred asked casually.

Hermione shrugged, "Probably read over some applications, unpack a little more, nothing exciting."

Fred raised his eyebrow, "You do know that having a weekend off from work means that you shouldn't you know be working."

Hermione smiled, "It's just reading over applications nothing too intense. What about you?"

"Sadly, absolutely nothing." Fred frowned, "I think I'd rather be working."

"Aww, why don't you go with Lee or Angie or any of your friends from school?"

"Lee is on vacation in Peru with his girl and I don't really talk to Angie anymore." Fred looked down with a bit of embarrassment but since Hermione wasn't looking at him she didn't notice.

"Why not? Did something happen between the two of you?"

"Well, our last breakup was pretty rough so…you know…" Fred drifted off.

Hermione looked up at him with genuine concern, "I'm sorry Fred I didn't mean to pry."

Fred smiled and shrugged it off, "It's all in the past."

They worked in silence for the next fifteen minutes or so. Hermione was in the back room making sure the registers were properly counted out and closed. Fred eyed the paper with 

Hermione's list hanging out of her sweater pocket. He casually pointed his wand to it and it floated over slowly. He had scanned the list more times than he could count and was pretty sure he had memorized everything on it but he enjoyed reading it over and over again.

"You know you're incredibly nosey." Hermione said standing in front of him as he glanced over the list.

Fred chuckled, "There's nothing wrong with being interested in my coworker's life. My favorite coworker nonetheless."

Hermione smiled, "I think I'm your only coworker." She pointed out.

Fred shrugged, "That's insignificant."

Hermione took the list from his hands and tucking it into her pocket said, "Well, I think we should be good to go now. The cash registers are counted out, the floor is full and the lab is clean."

Fred smiled, "Great, so now we can enjoy our weekend playing bored games."

"They're called board games, Fred-wait why do you want to play board games this weekend?" Hermione could not figure out where Fred had gotten the idea to play games from.

"Well, I condone working on your days off but you do have less than a year to accomplish the twenty three items left." As he said this he reached over and pulled the list out of her pocket shaking it in front of her face. Hermione almost blushed as Fred's hand brushed her waist as he pulled out the piece of paper.

Hermione couldn't help but laugh a little, "I really don't understand why you're so interested in this list." She bit her lower lip as she considered inviting Fred over to play board games this weekend.

He gave her a puppy dog face, "C'mon games are fun even though they're bored games and I've never played muggle games."

Hermione sighed, "Alright how bout you come over tomorrow at around noon?"

Fred beamed, "Sounds like a date."

Fred held the door open for Hermione as she walked out wondering what he meant by that last comment.

Later that night Ginny came over Hermione's apart to help her finish unpacking when she noticed a variety of thin boxes sitting on Hermione's coffee table. She walked over to them and read the tops, Monopoly, Apples to Apples and a variety of others.

"Hey, what's Mono-poly?" Ginny shouted to Hermione who was in another room.

Hermione poked her head around the corner, "You mean Monopoly?"

"Yeah, whatever." Ginny chuckled, "What is it?"

"It's a muggle game about money." Hermione tried to think of the best way to explain this to her best friend, "Every player gets fake money and they purchase fake pieces of land and the key is to try to be the only one left with money."

Ginny nodded slowly, "Why are all these games out on your coffee table?"

Hermione bit her lip once more, "Oh I have a friend coming over tomorrow to play." She darted back into her bedroom hoping to escape anymore questions.

Ginny, however, noticed Hermione's hesitation and knew that this was no ordinary friend coming over, "Hermione, do you have a boy coming over?" she teased as she walked into Hermione's bedroom. Hermione was lying on her bed with her hands over her face, "Oh my god you do have a boy coming over!" Ginny squealed excitedly.

Hermione removed her face from her hands and scowled at her friend, "It's not a date."

Ginny squealed even more, "It is a date! Who's it with, anyone I know?"

Meanwhile, Fred had just walked into his shared apartment where he found George relaxing on the couch. Fred walked happily into the kitchen ignoring the perturbed look on George's face.

"Good day, I take it?" George inquired.

"Why yes it was, my dear brother." Fred replied happily as he made himself a sandwich.

"I take it you now have plans for the weekend?" George knew that Fred was not looking forward to his weekend off because he didn't have anything to do and he's one to always keep himself preoccupied.

"How'd you guess?"

"It's that whole twin connection thing." George joked, "So, what are you doing?"

Fred walked into the living room and took a seat in the chair next to George, "Going over to Hermione's to play board games."

George raised both eyebrows at this remark, "You're hanging out with Hermione on your day off?"

Fred shrugged, "Yeah, what's so weird about that?"

"We've known for how many years now and I don't think I've ever seen you two spend this much time together, don't you think that's a bit strange?"

Fred shifted a little uncomfortably, "She's pretty cool, we get along well." Fred wished he could prevent his ears from turning red at this precise moment.

George's face broke out into a complete grin, "You fancy her a little don't you?"

"We're just friends."

Back at Hermione's place Ginny was seated on the edge of the bed trying to get Hermione to tell her who she was seeing tomorrow.

"C'mon Hermione just tell me who it is, I'm not one of the boys I won't make fun of you." Ginny told her seriously.

Hermione sighed and sat up facing the young red-head, "Alright I'll tell you but it's really not a date we're just hanging out." Ginny nodded, "I'm actually hanging out with Fred."

Ginny stared at her blankly before smiling a bit, "Hermione, you're not gonna get out of this so easy."

Hermione furrowed her brow, "I'm not lying Fred is coming over tomorrow to play bored- I mean board- games with me."

Ginny crossed her arms and stared at the older girl, she didn't look like she was lying, Ginny slowly lowered her arms, "Wow you're being serious."

"When am I not serious?" Hermione pointed out.

Ginny ignored Hermione's comment as flashes of her older brother and Hermione dating and getting married flashed before her, "I can't imagine a stranger couple but they do say opposites attract."

Hermione rolled her eyes as she got up, "We're not dating! I don't even like him."

Ginny raised her brows in a way that reminded Hermione of Fred, "You quit your job to work with him and now on your day off you've invited him over to play games."

"Well, he invited himself over I'll have you know. I had no intention of seeing him the entire weekend." Hermione replied huffily.

"You didn't say no though." Ginny pointed out, "And you've laid out a variety of outfits on your bed."

"So? What's wrong with looking nice?"

"There's nothing wrong with looking nice." Ginny replied.

Hermione smiled, "My thoughts exactly."

"Except for the fact that you never dress this nicely and you're now pulling out all these cute outfits for my prankster brother." Ginny grinned evilly.

"Ginny, I think you are reading far too much into this." Hermione said dragging the girl out of the bedroom.

Ginny shrugged, "Maybe you're not reading into it enough."

Ginny spent the next hour helping Hermione unpack and thought it wise to not pester Hermione anymore. Instead she chose to not talk about anything and to instead let Hermione think about everything with Fred. If Hermione was thinking about Fred Ginny was impressed with how well she was hiding it. Hermione was indeed thinking about Fred but was trying very hard to ignore any thought that involved the charming attractive red-head, especially any thoughts that involved the words charming or attractive.

Saturday finally rolled around and Hermione found herself wrapped in a towel staring at the clothes on her bed. She knew Ginny was right that she was putting way too much effort into picking out an outfit. First off this wasn't a date and secondly she was just hanging out with Fred. Her wet hair was sticking to her face and she was running behind schedule. It was already 11:45 and she was still only wearing a towel. She raced around pointing her wand at her hair so that it could dry while she decided on an outfit. In the end she picked a pair of dark wash flare jeans and a short-sleeved gathered v-neck top in a bright purple color. Just as she pulled on her shirt she could hear a knock at her door.

Fred was about to knock once more when the door opened revealing Hermione who looked a little disheveled, "Hi!" he said happily smiling at her.

Hermione smiled back and moved out of the way to let him in. This was one of the few times she saw Fred out of his robes and wearing muggle clothing. He was wearing a long sleeved button down shirt with a pair of jeans. Hermione couldn't help but think how nice he looked in the form fitting shirt. Fred, likewise, couldn't help but notice how the jeans and v-neck shirt hugged Hermione's slim body in all the right places. Both of them shook their heads hoping that would eliminate any of the potentially naughty thoughts.

Hermione cleared her throat, "So, um how are you?" Hermione walked briskly past him refusing to look at him and instead focusing on the floor.

Fred, however, was not as good at hiding and found himself staring at her backside, "Oh you know…"

Hermione turned around with peeked interest, "Well, no not really." They both stood there for a moment before laughing they didn't have this awkwardness at all throughout school and definitely not this last week so why should now be any different. After their initial awkwardness wore off Hermione showed Fred the many board games she came to own over the years. As they were picking through the boxes there was another knock at Hermione's door. Neither of them noticed this as they were both sitting on her couch laughing about a joke Fred told. There was a second louder knock which cause both of them to stop laughing and they looked at each other.

"Oh…you invited someone else?" Fred said with slight disappointment.

Hermione shook her head, "I have no idea who that is. The only person I told was…" Hermione remembered telling Ginny about the plans for today and was sure that Ginny was the person on the other side of the door. "Ginny."

Hermione got up and opened the door and sure enough Ginny and Harry were standing there with Butterbeer and an assortment of goodies. "Hi Ginny, hi Harry." Hermione said hugging her friends, "What are you guys doing here?"

Ginny walked past Hermione and saw Fred sitting on Hermione's couch with a box on his lap labeled Risk, "Oh, hi Fred I didn't know you would be here." She said with fake surprise.

"Hey Gin, what's going on?" Fred replied smiling at his baby sister seeing right through her phony shock. The siblings stared at each other smiling, attempting to read the other one. Hermione and Harry, took no notice of this and Hermione helped Harry bring the assortment of goodies into her kitchen.

"What brings the two of you over?" Hermione asked, "Not that I'm not thrilled to see the two of you." Harry smiled at her.

"Oh well you mentioned the bored-" Ginny started.

"Board games." Hermione and Harry corrected her.

"Yeah those things." Ginny said waving her hand, "And I told Harry about it and he said that they're supposed to be a lot of fun and he never got to play them when he was younger so we thought we'd drop by and join you and Fred. That's alright isn't it?"

Hermione smiled, "Of course, the more the merrier."

The group settled down in Hermione's living room and had an incredibly fun day playing everything from Monopoly to Risk. Fred was surprisingly good at Risk and Monopoly but Hermione beat everyone when it came to Scrabble while Harry and Ginny owned Uno (even 

though it's not a board game Hermione still brought it out). After a few hours of games they put the boxes away to enjoy some Butterbeer and some of the baked goods that Ginny brought over.

They didn't pay attention to how many Butterbeers (as well as other alcoholic beverages) they consumed and soon the small gathering went to a whole new level. They attempted more board games but were unsuccessful as they kept on forgetting whose turn it was and the majority of the rules. Later on in the night Hermione's living room floor was covered with empty bottles. Soon Harry and Ginny were having a songfest on one of Hermione's chairs while Hermione and Fred were relaxing on the couch.

"I guess these are bored games." Fred teased looking at Ginny and Harry.

Hermione raised her brows, "That was very lame Fred Weasley."

Fred pretended to be hurt but both of them burst out laughing. Hermione was not one to drink much and she quickly found herself feeling very queasy.

"I'm going to vomit."

"You're funny Hermi-one." Fred laughed.

"I'm not joking." Hermione said as she leaned forward and vomited all over Fred's lap. The duo remained on the couch even as bits and pieces of vomit dribbled down Fred's lap and onto the floor. Fred was suddenly not as drunk as he was before and put his hand up to Hermione's forehead checking for a fever. She didn't have one so Fred was sure that in a few moments she'd be feeling better. Fred pulled his wand out and cleaned up the mess. After the he pulled the hunched over Hermione next to him and let her rest her head on his chest.

"Mmm." She murmured as she cuddled up to Fred. Fred laid his head down on top of hers and that is how they slept.

So that brings us to the end of this very, very long chapter. I introduced some subconscious attraction on the part of Hermione and Fred. And that should hopefully get the ball rolling on their relationship. Hermione has also accomplished another task on her list-so what should the next one be? I love hearing suggestions so feel free to give one 