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Do Me a Favour | Fred Weasleyx F!Reader

Description: The reader and Fred's relationship seen through a series of favours 

 Warnings: its kind of angsty, brief description of injury (umbridge's detention related) briefly battle of hogwarts related, miscommunication i guess

~* Fifth Year *~

"Do me a favour?"

It's a question (Y/N) has been practicing internally for at least an hour, yet her voice still wobbles as she asks it aloud. Fred, lying back in the grass, soaking in the late summer sun, peeks open one eye to look up at her with a questioning brow.

"Yeah?"

"K-kiss me?"

A second passes before he reacts, sitting bolt upright in an instant, choking slightly on the gasped breath taken in the process. Regret floods her chest with a mortified ache and she finds herself dropping her eyes to the ground and picking at tufts of grass nervously.

"What?"

"It doesn't matter," She mumbles, "It's stupid."

"Kiss you?" He repeats, "L-like on the lips?"

"I shouldn't have asked," She argues embarrassedly, "I was just- I haven't- it doesn't matter."

He blinks at her, confusion pulling his brows into a frown. Confused is probably the only word he can come up with to explain the whole thing, because quite frankly, it's not everyday your childhood best friend asks you to kiss them. Then, much to (Y/N)'s further mortification, realisation flickers across his face.

"You've never kissed anyone?"

He asks it like he's surprised, something that only goes to confuse (Y/N) herself. Yet she nods, too obviously embarrassed to even attempt to play it off as some elaborate joke or simply fib her way out of it.

"Really?" Fred asks, "And you want me to be your first kiss?"

"I just want it out the way," She explains hastily, "Don't go getting big headed about it... it's just a favour."

He's silent, the most silent she's ever heard him before even, and it does nothing but add to her growing concern that in one fell swoop, she's managed to ruin sixteen years of friendship. She's on the verge of what is bound to be an incoherent string of apologies when he finally answers.

"Okay."

Her breath catches with something between relief and sheer panic.

"Really?"

"What sort of friend would I be if I denied you such a simple favour?"

'Simple' is perhaps an underestimation of what she's asking, and she can see the nervous way he licks his lips despite the grin he throws on instantly to disguise it. She's gotten this far though, too far to chicken out now with his warm hand cupping one of her cheeks as he leans closer.

The sun has brought out millions of freckles across his pale cheeks, and for the first time she's so close she could count them. Part of her, a side of her she's never met before, thinks about tracing her finger across them, connecting them like constellations. Something in her chest twitches at the thought.

"You ready?"

"Don't make it sound so clinical," She mumbles.

"Listen, beggars can't be choosers."

She smiles, glad for the familiarity of his teasing. It has some of her nerves dissipating, her lungs expanding with a light, freeing breath before she nods.