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I went to my dorm just to relax, and think about everything that just happened.
Didn't that girl know that Fred and I were dating? And how was the girl even able to get the love potion into Fred's drink?
The love potion, from what I saw, was pink, almost neon but sparkly. I would assume that it would do something to a drink; something, that you could easily notice...
I didn't want to think about it, plus I was tired and I just wanted to go to bed.
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The next morning I went to all my classes. It was a casual day today.
Everyone though, was talking about quidditch; including Harry and I.
"I want to be seeker." Harry stated as we walked to our common room.
"You were seeker last year, it's my turn." I replied.
We both went into our common room.
"Fine, you'll be seeker, and I'll be chaser." Harry scoffed.
When I got to my dorm, there was a box on my bed, it was like a gift box.
I took off the ribbon, the box opened up; inside was everything about the Tri-Wizard Tournament: newspapers, a picture of the goblet, Rita Skeeters pictures of Harry and I, and even the pins that said Potters stink on it.
"What the hell." I closed the box quickly, and I placed it hidden in my closet.
Memories flooded my mind when I opened that box, but I'd rather have it hidden in my closet than throwing it away and having some random 1st year come across it.
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I had to study in the library for some of my OWLS.
While I was, Fred approached me.
He paused for a second, "Did you not like it?" Fred asked.
"Like wha-" my voice trailed.
The box? Was he talking about-what?! No-he wouldn't do that to me...But that was the only thing I had gotten in the last month...
"No, I didn't. W-why would you do that?" I tried keeping my voice calm.
I-I thought you'd like it," Fred's voice sounded slightly frantic. "I felt bad about the whole love potion and-"
"Well that's not something that you give to someone when you feel bad about something. Especially me!"
"O-ok I won't give you stuff like that anymore." He scratched the back of his neck.
I decided to let it go, because I already had a lot to focus on.
Fred sat in a chair beside me.
"You look stressed, are you ok?" He asked.
"No, Umbridge is giving everyone twice the amount of exams that we took last year. How is she even able to do that?!" I shouted.
"I know, but you need a damn break. You're always so tense, you just need to have fun." Fred stood up. "Come on, let's go."
"Where?" I asked lazily.
"Anywhere but here." He slightly laughed. "I can't have you being a grump all day and night. You're acting like Jamie Grayson."
"Who the hell is Jamie Grayson?" I grinned.
"Exactly. Let's gooo." Fred grasped my hand softly and we began to sneak around the castle.
We crept, attempting to get to the entrance of the castle; then, we heard footsteps.
Fred directed me into a closet, we hid inside there.
"Lumos." Fred whispered, and a tiny light came to the tip of his wand.
The closet was tiny; Fred was pressed up against me, and I was pressed against him too.
"Oh look," Fred looked at the shelf behind us. "a chess board." he looked some more, "And fireworks." Fred sounded mischievous.
"Don't set those off; are you trying to get us caught?" I whispered, trying to stay as quiet as I could.
"What's the point in sneaking out if you don't almost get caught?" he smiled widely.
Umbridge's voice echoed in the hall outside of the closet.
Fred creaked the door open slightly. In one hand, his fingers were interlocked with him, and the other, he held about three fireworks. He closed the door again.
"Ok," Fred turned towards me, "I'm going to set one off, and then we're going to run to the entrance. It's not so far."
"Merlin, here we go." I scoffed with a slight laugh.
Fred mumbled a spell which lit a tiny fire at the tip of his wand.
Umbridge's heels lightly tapped on the floor as I heard her approaching.
Fred set the firework, and tossed it into the air; the firework flew in the direction away from the door.
"Come on, Astra!" Fred concealed his laugh as he tugged my hand towards the entrance.
"Show yourselves; if you don't you'll have detention for the rest of the year!" cried Umbridge.
Fred and I ignored her.
After we left the gates of Hogwarts, Fred and I didn't know what to do.
"Where are we going?" I whispered, despite there was no need to.
"I don't know." Fred replied in his normal-toned voice. "Why would I know?" he grinned.
"Because, you're the one who wanted to sneak out."
"We'll just wander around."
We did just that; we walked and walked, so much that I lost track of time; we talking about the most random and useless topics. Suddenly we stopped at a cliff, we sat with our feet hanging off the edge.
"If you had to guess, what time would you say it is?" I asked.
"It's probably either..." he paused to think, "It's either ten p.m, or two a.m."
"You seem so confident." I said in a mocking tone.
I looked at my wrist, which had a watch. The watch read 12:03 a.m. I showed Fred.
"Damn," he smiled, "right in-between."
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The next few weeks it's been getting colder and colder.
Quidditch has barely started: I made seeker. Harry, Angelina, and Ginny are our chasers. Fred and George are the beaters. And Ron is our keeper.
We all met in our locker room for our first game against Slytherin.
"Hey, Astra." Angelina called me. "Can you help me take off this necklace?" she signaled towards the back off her neck.
"Sure." I tied my shoe, then walked over to her.
I began to unclip it. After I did, and I got a better look at it, I realized I had seen this necklace before: this necklace was the exact same one that was in Fred's closet.
I looked over at Fred, who was laughing with Ron.
"Thanks so much, Astra." Angelina gave me a warm smile, as she softly grabbed the necklace from my hand.
I was about to ask Fred something, but I heard Lee Jordan announce for the players to head out to the field; we all did so.
Draco was the seeker for Slytherin, he was alright.
The game begun, and I took flight into the air.
The quidditch match was over quickly. Gryffindor won after I caught the snitch, though, Draco complained that I 'shoved him', which never happened.
Nonetheless, after the game I was ecstatic that I helped my team win, so much so that I forgot about the whole necklace thing. . . for now I guess.
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