Darling; George Weasley

18. Loyalty

a/n (i accidentally put 19 at forst so i had to change it to chapter 18 lol)

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xx Emilee

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The next few weeks went by pretty fast, being bored in potions, pranking with the twins, getting pranked by the twins, getting chased by an angry draco, hiding from Filches cat, you know, the usual. Nothing super interesting actually happened until this morning.

The lot was sitting in the Great Hall, chattering about whatever it is they were chatting about, they were sitting in their usual spots, of course. George and Estella next to eachother, Lee right across from them, with Fred on his left, Angelina was next to Fred, and Alicia across from Angelina and next to George. Rumors were being spread about some sort of ball for the older students that would be taking place during winter holiday. It was just like George had told Estella in The Three Broomsticks the other week. And you can't lie, that shit sounds pretty cool. A ball, especially in Hogwarts.

Dumbledore had began walking up to the podium for the usual morning announcements, except this time after saying "Good morning Students" he didn't just simply say the usual morning announcements, he started going on about just what the students have been waiting to hear.

He started off with, "Now I know there had been some rumors going around about a certain ball happening," he then began to explain what it was about, he had mentioned it being called "the Yule Ball." It was for the Triwizard tournament and it was going to be held on December 25th, Christmas. That meant that Estella and the rest of the gang would have to stay at Hogwarts during holiday, and she's not complaining, though. There had only been one other year that all of them had stayed for holiday, the amount of trouble they got in during that time was horrendous, and by horrendous, she means absolutely fucking crazy. They all take getting detention as some sort of medal, meaning the prank was that shit-wrecking to get in trouble from it. The teachers hated it, and boy were they glad to know that that was (or what they thought would be) the last year they would all be there, but alas, it was not.

Anyways, Dumbledore went on about how it was only available to years 4-7 which earned a few boo's from the crowd, but he shoved them off. He then stated that the head of each house would teach the students that belonged to that house how to ball dance, this meant McGonagall would be teaching the Gryffindor lot. Estella was exited to hear the stories from Cam about Snape teaching all the Slytherins, she couldn't even begin to imagine him ball dancing, she even let out a small laugh at the thought of it.

But out of all the things she could be excited about, the fact she would (most definitely) be going with George Weasley definitely towered above everything else. She wondered if the both of them would just assume they were going together, or if he would formally ask her to the ball. It didn't matter, really, as long as they were going together.

The whole lot of them were now walking up the steps towards the Gryffindor common room. It was George, Fred, Estella, Lee, Angelina, Ron, Harry, and Hermione. You could hear all the other students chatting and whispering about the soon-to-come ball and who they were going to ask out exactly.

"So, Ickle Ronnikins, who do ya plan on asking to the ball mate?" George messed up Rons hair, Fred then ran to the opposite side of Ron, pulling him into a head lock.

"Piss off," Ron shoved him away but laughed it off. "Dunno, I'll find someone, though."

"Good luck with that," Fred gave him one last punch before returning to his spot between Estella and Lee.