LOVE ISN'T EASY (but it sure is hard enough)

JANUARY 7TH, 1995 (CONT)

Juno Lennox was completely and utterly pissed off.

She was convinced he thought he was being subtle with all the angry looks shot at the screen, biting his tongue and keeping quiet in order to keep on her good side. But she knew. She knew that Fred Weasley was completely and utterly jealous of a man who posed absolutely no threat to him. Her eyes narrowed more and more the more she thought about it, scoffing to herself as the side of his eye looked her up and down as if analysing her reaction.

"What the fuck is your problem?" She snapped, his eyes finally meeting hers in an angry stare.

"My problem?"

"Yeah, your problem! You've had a stick up your arse all night!"

"Really?"

"Really."

George pulled Liv closer into his arm, pulling her away from the argument. Lee sat uncomfortably between Juno and Fred, staring anywhere but on either side of them.

"Maybe I wouldn't be if you were throwing yourself all over some guy."

"What, Dom?" She asked, pointing at the screen

"Yeah!"

"What the fuck are you even on about?" She asked, sighing as she looked away from him.

"He's all over you!"

"Why do you care?" Juno spat, "We're not together."

"We could be!"

Lee stood up, leaving a gap in between them as he walked over to the other side of the common room. In an attempt to turn on the CD player on the table that went horribly wrong, saxophone music started blasting from the machine. His eyes widened, desperately fiddling with the volume dial trying to turn it down. Unfortunately, the dial came off in his hands, completely broken. George followed him, screaming over a sultry song creating an even more uncomfortable atmosphere. Liv, however, felt as though she was stuck to the couch, unable to move as she watched two of her best friends yell and point fingers. It was difficult to make out what they were saying, music drowning them out.

"You snogged me and then asked out someone else in the way I said I wanted to be asked out! How am I supposed to forget that?"

"So what do you want from me? I'm trying to fix things!"

"I don't know what I want!" Juno screamed, her voice cracking ever so slightly as tears fell from her eyes. Fred stopped, nothing coming out even though he tried to force the words.

Angelina came back downstairs to George and Lee fumbling with the CD player, and Fred staring at the door Juno had left from seconds before.

Liv walked over to the boys, taking the device from their hands and pulling out the batteries. She sighed deeply, her head pounding from all the noise.

"What happened?" Angelina asked, the question falling on deaf ears as Fred fell back onto the couch, holding his face in his hands.

Liv walked over to sit beside him, rubbing her hand over his shoulder as his breathing became unstable.

"I really fucked up, didn't I?" He whispered to her, voice breaking.

"You can fix it."

"How? She hates me."

"Fred."

He finally looked up at her, any evidence of his usual self completely gone and replaced with bloodshot eyes.

"Dom isn't interested in Juno at all."

"How do you know?"

"Because Dom isn't interested in women."