A/N: Thank you so much for all the reviews. I decided I'm going to use some of them for this chapter and the rest of the ideas for the chapter after the next one so this is just a little chapter but I think it reveals a lot Also, remember to read my A/N at the bottom because I'm going to be announcing this big idea of mine and I hope you'll all love it and be looking forward to it like I am :D
Disclaimer: I am not, and sadly will never be JK Rowling, so the characters and plots are her except for my own characters and my small little tweaks ;)
Fred's POV
I was having a great day; pillow fight in charms, actually got all of my homework correct in Muggle Studies thanks to Michelle, and now me and her were walking side by side down towards the Great Hall to have an early dinner. No one was else from our fourth year group was hungry enough to eat yet and to be honest I wasn't either but Michelle had begged me to come saying she was starving and didn't want to come alone so I got talked in to coming with her. Looking back, I should have asked someone else to go with her. I thought nothing could bring my great mood down, until I met him.
"Oh look, it's Sabrina's brother Cedric." Michelle said surprised as we approached the table.
"What's he doing at our table? He's a Hufflepuff." I wondered suspiciously.
"Well, he is Sabrina's brother, maybe he's waiting for her. Can't siblings eat meals together?" She asked.
"But he's the Hufflepuffs seeker!" I whispered loudly as we got closer and closer to the table.
"Yes, but last time I checked, we don't play Quidditch while eating dinner… imagine if we did though, I'd love to see that." She smiled broadly at the idea and to my dismay she sat next to him. 'I have a bad feeling about this.´ I thought but quickly took a seat on her other side.
All through the meal I could barely hold down my dinner as I watched the Hufflepuff seeker fail at flirting with Michelle. I could barely restrain myself from punching him as I watched him constantly touch Michelle's arm or move closer to her… and watching Michelle sneak shy glances at him wasn't helping my mood in the slightest and I couldn't help making small scowls. How could Michelle be interested in a guy like him? As I watched him tease her by slightly pulling one of her locks of hair, I had all that I could take.
"Well, we're done. Now if you'll excuse us." I said abruptly standing up and grabbing Michelle's hand. I was half afraid she was going to bitch out at me but thankfully she let me drag her off without a fight.
"Nice meeting you Cedric." She called back and waved. I kept going. "Rough aren't we?" she asked after we left the Great Hall. I quickly dropped her hand and shuffled my feet awkwardly.
"Sorry…" I grumbled, wasting no time in directing us to Gryffindor Tower. I needed George.
"Wanna tell me what that was all about?" She asked gently catching up with me and walking beside me. Our arms slightly brushing.
"He annoys me." Was all I was able to say. I hated myself for how pathetic I sounded.
"Well it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. I wanna know why." She said, whirling around in front of me, blocking my path.
"I don't know… he thinks he's so handsome and popular. He tries to get with every girl he sees just because he knows he can. Did you notice how close he was sitting next to you? Honestly, if he moved over anymore he might as well have been sitting on your lap." I protested. It was as if a fire of anger was burning in my stomach.
"Honestly Fred, he's Sabrina's brother." She said amused as if I were a little kid. It wasn't helping my anger much. "And Merlin, I just met him; you know I don't date guys I just met."
" Not yet." I muttered. I didn't want her to hear that, but I could tell she did. I was expecting something, a slap, an angry outburst. But instead she sadly squeezed my arm.
"Have a little trust in me, eh?" she smiled slightly. I knew that smile. It was her sad begging smile saying 'can we please put this behind us.' That, combined with what she said, made me feel awful. I stayed still for a second, she was right. I had to trust her.
"You're right, sorry. I do trust you, just not him." I groaned, catching up with her and putting my arm around her. "This whole thing is aggravating me, let's just forget it."
"You read my mind." She said relieved and leaned back into me. I'm not sure what was going through my head at the moment, but all I knew was that some part of me needed this, to reassure me that my best friend wouldn't be going anywhere. It was selfish, I know, and part of me knew that someday this would end, and I wasn't ready to face that. Not yet. Not ever.
We walked like that in silence for a little when we heard voices coming towards us from up the corridor. I quickly pulled her with me behind a tapestry as the voices turned into our corridor.
I tried to focus on the voices of Harry and Hermione, but all I could concentrate on was me and Michelle, standing really close together, behind a tapestry, alone. 'What's gotten into me? I thought bewildered, erasing my thoughts as the voices faded away and we crept from our hiding spot.
"If you ever try to convince me of how dreamy Lockhart is, I'm going to skip the argument and just walk away." I teased, trying to distract myself.
"Wh-whatever. C'mon, we got Astronomy tonight." She stuttered and grabbed my hand again and dragged me off towards the Gryffindor Tower. I got a déjà vu feeling.
"Wanna help me finish homework?" she asked, as we finally made it into the common room. "I didn't get today's lesso-"
"Sorry." I said interrupting her. "But I really need to speak to George." I said quickly and without another thought I rushed off towards the dormitory. I knew that was awful of me, and I know I hurt her feelings, but I'd just have to make it up to her later. I needed to speak to George and get his opinion on all of this.
"That guy is unbelievable!" I groaned loudly as I entered the room. Thankfully, only George was in there taking a nap. Or was taking a nap until my outburst shook him from it.
"Who are we talking about?" George yawned, pushing himself up and sat up on his bed.
"Cedric." I huffed, taking a seat across from him on my bed.
"Sabrina's brother?"
"Yeah, seeker for the Hufflepuff Quidditch team." I pointed out.
"What'd he do?" George sighed, not liking where this was going.
"You should have seen him at Dinner. He kept touching shell's arm and poking her side and he was sitting right up against her. It was sickening to watch."
"Okaay…" George said, feeling sorry he asked. "Now I'm curious to know why it bothers you." He asked, a mischievous glint in his eyes.
"What do you mean? It bothers me because some guy, who I didn't like to begin with, is showing interest in my best friend." I scowled.
"I could ask again why it bothers you but you've caught my curiosity on the situation. Is Michelle showing any signs of interest back?" my brother asked, looking highly amused at the situation.
"She said she wasn't…"
"Then, as one of her best friends, shouldn't you believe her and leave it at that?"
"I can't. I don't trust him at all. If you saw them together you'd understand."
"Hmm… from the sounds of it I'd rather not." George joked.
"Like you wouldn't get just as pissed as I am seeing them together."
"Oh, I know I would." George said calmly.
"You're a lia- wait did you just admit to it?" I asked bewildered.
"I don't know what I admitted, but yeah I'd be pretty pissed, but if Michelle's happy about the whole thing I wouldn't get in the way. If Michelle wants a boyfriend, we have no right to say no. We're not her parents, actually she's older then us by a couple months so we definitely couldn't be her parents…" he shrugged, but suddenly the mischievous glint was bacl "Unless… you're hoping to be Michelle's boyfriend."
"W-wh-what are you talking about?" I stammered. George however was too busy falling back on his bed laughing his arse off.
"You- you should have seen your face!" he cried, after he had settled down a little from laughing. I however, had other things on my mind.
"George, what does Michelle mean to you?" I asked bluntly. At this, George looked taken aback but he recollected himself so quickly I wondered if I had imagined it.
"I was going to ask you the same thing."
"B-"
"Anyway." George quickly interrupted. "Let's stop thinking about it. If it helps just think of whacking a bludger really hard at him when we go against him in Quidditch.
"I guess." I sighed, feeling I got more questions than answers. The room grew silent and was only broken when there were clawing noises at the door. George looked puzzled but went to open the door anyway and in strolled a white tabby cat.
"Hey, isn't this Amanda's cat?" he asked, picking it up and bringing it back to where he was sitting.
"Yeah, I think her name is Sasha." I said, and noticed a small note tied around her collar. "Here, hold her still." I said as I went to untie it. Once I did I read outloud.
"Dear Fred and George,
Sorry for sending Sasha, I let Raven borrow Mayla the other day to send letters home. Anyway I've been sitting here in the common room forever waiting for you two. I'd come up but after the last time I walked into your room I'd rather not. Plus I'm really comfy right now and pretty tired. I was wondering if you two wanted to sneak into the kitchens before I fall asleep and maybe get some hot chocolate or something to wake me up. Up to you =)
-Michelle."
"P.S. Fred is so much more handsome and good looking than George." I added, causing George to crack up and grab the parchment from my hands.
"It does not say that!" he laughed, scanning over the note to make sure it didn't.
I couldn't help but to laugh and playfully punched his shoulder. "C'mon let's go find her." I said standing up and together we walked back to the common room.
We walked down and spotted Michelle and Ron playing a game of Wizards Chess in the back. Approaching them it looked as though Ron and had just out her in checkmate.
"I said to go easy on me!" We heard Michelle cry. Ron looked as though he was having a hard time keeping back laughter.
"I did! Honest!" He swore, chuckling.
"Then why did I lose…? Oh well, good game." She smiled, seeing me and George approach. "There you guys are! I've been waiting for ages!"
"You could've come up-"
"Yeah, I was just taking a nap."
"Na-uh, you remember the last time." She said, her facing turning a light shade of red. George almost doubled over laughing at the memory.
"Hey, that just teaches you to knock before entering a guy's room." I reminded her, recalling the end of last year when she had walked in on George…doing things.
"Yeah, yeah." She mumbled. "Anyway, do you guys want to go for some hot chocolate. I'm already tired and we have Astronomy tonight."
"Sounds good to us." Me and George chorused in unison.
"We brought the map with us." I added, pointing to my pocket.
"Sweetness, let's go now then." She smiled grabbing our hands and once again I dragged us excitingly from the common room.
A/N: So Fred's finally starting to catch on that other guys are beginning to look at Michelle in a new way, so what does that mean for the trio's future? What exactly are Fred and George beginning to feel towards Michelle and can she return those feelings? Hmmm… ;)
Oh yeah, big important announcement time! So I was down in my room a couple days go thinking of the story and what this week's chapter would be about and how much I was going to put ect… when my mind started to wonder and I began putting the characters and their friends in different, impossible scenarios and I began wishing "Man, I wish there was a way I'd be able to right a story about this, a story about that and then I came up with it and here it is: Once a month, at the end of every month, I'm going to make a chapter for what I like to call "Dream Mode." Little stories of the characters in some kind of story, preferably seasonal to the month. Like now it's the end of July so have a summer themed chapter :D Anyway, I won't be posting those stories on this book so I'm gonna make a new Story thing titled 'Dream Mode' or 'Something Dream Mode' and I'll update that at the end of every month :D So yeah, they're gonna be fun little stories, and nothing from this will really relate to this. I could hook up Michelle and Malfoy if I really wanted to in Dream Mode and it wouldn't affect this story at all, so yeah if you wanna read it just go to my profile and look through my stories and it'll be the only other one, I should have it up either later today or tomorrow night, sometime this weekend . And if you have any ideas you wanna see for a certain month (I'm having trouble of thinking of something for the end of September) review and let me hear you thoughts or what you think of my idea and of course review for this chapter and let me know your thoughts! :D