Complicated (Charlie Weasley x reader)

Chapter 20 What kind of dragons do you think they have?

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The last year of Hogwarts has finally come, or well, finally wasn't really the right word to use as you had never minded going there. Anyway! Everything was back to normal. The sorting-hat had sung it's song, the first years had been sorted and Dumbledore had spoken his speech. You, currently sitting and enjoying the feast, felt like nothing could bother you. Charlie sat next to you and was trying to explain to Percy why not becoming head boy wasn't something to be ashamed of, the twins tried to scare a first year boy by saying something stupid you couldn't catch and most people generally seemed happy. Or that was what you thought until-

'(Y/n) help me!' Charlie had turned to you and gave you a pleading look.

'With what?' You, who hadn't really been paying attention to his conversation, didn't understand what he needed help with and gave him a confused look.

'Explaining to Percy here that it's not shameful if you don't become head boy!' Charlie looked a little stressed as he said that, and you couldn't help but smile. 'It's not funny (Y/n)!' He's really cute when he's stressed, you thought to yourself.

'Sorry! I just couldn't help it.' You smiled brighter, but did help him explaining, though in the end you couldn't change Percy's mind. You did get him to ease down, but only because you reminded Percy that Charlie is the Quidditch captain of the Gryffindor team, so he had in a way accomplished something according to Percy. Though one thing leads to another and suddenly you were the topic.

'Why aren't you head girl (Y/n)?' Percy had suddenly asked which caught you off guard. What was you supposed to answer? Honestly you didn't know why.

'I don't know... maybe because I lack friendliness?' You remembered that was what you had said to Charlie two years prior when he had asked you why you didn't become the new prefect, but deep down you knew it wouldn't work with Percy.

'Friendliness? I've never heard you needed to be that before...' Percy seemed deep in thought and you took the opportunity to change the theme.

'So, are there any classes you're looking forward to this year?' Not the best you could have chosen, but you felt like that was the only thing that would get Percy on other thoughts. Charlie gave you a look that said something like please don't, but it was already too late as Percy had started to tell you about transfiguration.

*****

You and Charlie sat for what felt like hours listening to Percy talking about classes. Charlie had almost fallen asleep six times by now and you had to push his shoulder every time to keep him awake. Let's just say that he almost ran out of the great hall when Dumbledor had said that it was time to return to the dormitories, though Charlie waited for you right outside the hall.

'Never ask Percy a question like that ever again!' He put his arm around your shoulder as he said it, almost seeming to threaten you.

'I won't make any promises.' You took his hand away and laughed, continuing on your way to the Gryffindor tower, Charlie following right after.

'I'll never ask for your help again!' Charlie said as he reached you again, but you knew he didn't mean it as you saw the smile on his face. Though you still decided to mess with him a little.

'That was my plan!' You laughed getting Charlie of guard.

'Really? You planned that?' He gave you an are you serious look, but soon smiled as he caught on and put his arm around your shoulder again, pulling you closer to him.

Why did he have to do that? You couldn't help it, but you really loved it when he put his arm around you like that. It made you feel safe and almost like you were a couple.

Almost.

He let go of you again and you walked up the stairs next to each other, but deep down you really wished he would hold around you again. Aaaah! Stop it! You really needed to stop doing that to yourself! Charlie's your best friend! You had a little war with yourself, and Charlie must have noticed.

'Something wrong?' He looked concerned.

'Huh? What? No... just thinking.' You smiled at him, and he smiled back, but there seemed to be something else behind the smile.

'Oh, were you thinking about me?' He half smirked at you. Your first instinct was to say something like in your dreams, but since he was being like that you choose to be like that too.

'Of course, who else would I be thinking about?' You gave him an innocent smile while he blushed slightly, seeming not to have expected you to say that. He stopped walking for a slight second but shook it of and caught up to you again. You were actually proud of yourself for pulling that one off. You were about to blush when he asked, but put yourself together and made him blush instead, though how he knew you were thinking about him did slightly blow your mind. He was most likely joking, but still!

'I never thought you would admit it.' Oh sh*t. You could feel a blush creeping up your cheeks but pushed it down. You looked at him and he started to laugh. 'I'm joking (Y/n)! You don't have to give me that look.' He lightly pushed your shoulder with his but didn't say anything else. You shook your head at him but smiled anyway.

'You're so lame.' You lightly pushed his shoulder back and walked next to him in silence.

*****

The first week hadn't been anything special. It was kind of the same as every year before, except the fact that you were already told to start studying for your N.E.W.T.s. Right... you had absolutely forgotten about that... not that you didn't believe you would make it, as you had done really well on your O.W.L.S two years prior, but one never knew. Everything could happen! You could get sick right before, making you unable to study, or you could break your wand or something, not that you were worried about that. There could even be a new curse that made everyone dance like maniacs, but really... what was the chance of that? And if something like that happened the exam would just be postponed. Why were you even worried about that? You had never been worried about that any years prior, but the years before the curses hadn't affected you in any way.

Anyway! Another thing that was currently happening was that everyone in their seventh year would be able to go out and explore different jobs! Both you and Charlie had already signed up for visiting the dragon reserve in Ireland, since that one's closer than the one in Romania, through either way both of you were excited.

'Do you think we'll see any dragons?' You and Charlie sat in the common room and worked on an essay for History of magic, though you hadn't got that far as you were too excited about going to the dragon reserve.

'Why wouldn't we? We're there to see how they work, so it would be strange if we didn't get to see any.' You answered Charlies question.

'What kind of dragons do you think they have? I have heard that they've got some Welsh greens and Swedish short-snouts, but what else?' It looked like Charlie had completely abandoned his essay by now and was leaning back in his chair while wondering about the reserve. You chuckled to yourself.

'I think they have some of almost every type. They can't exactly refuse to take in a dragon, unless they have a certain reason to do so.' You wrote a few more sentences to your essay before you put your quill down so you could look at Charlie.

'Yeah, you're probably right there.' You discussed the topic for over an hour before you finally got your focus on the essay again, though by now there were more people in the common room, making it harder for you to focus, but you did manage to finish it in the end! After maybe fifteen interruptions from different people, you managed it. Maybe not your best work, but who cared right now? Certainly not you, as by now you were really tired and kind of wanted to go to sleep, but also wanted to stay up and talk to Charlie. Sometimes life could be full of tough choices, but eventually sleep won, since you were yawning all over the place. Saying goodnight to Charlie and a few others that had decided to join in on your conversation and went up to your dormitory so you could get some sleep. Your last thought of the night being about the dragon reserve.

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