More Than That

Chapter 19

Sage stepped back into her room wearing a pair of Fred's clothes, freshly showered and with wet hair. When she thought about it, there really hadn't been a reason for her to shower at Fred's. She had to change into his clothes just to walk back to her room to change into a pair of her own. She had a feeling Fred had planned that though, was probably hoping that she would be too lazy to change into clothes of her own. He really liked it when she wore his clothes for some reason.

She shut the door behind her quietly in hopes to not wake Hermoine, but when she turned around she saw that Hermione was already sitting up in bed.

"Where were you? And why are you showered? And why are you wearing someone else's clothes?" she asked tiredly, wiping her hands over her eyes. Sage assumed that she had just woken up.

Sages mouth dropped open for a moment as she searched for an answer. She never prepared an explanation for Hermione because Hermione rarely asked questions that required one.

The two girls had never been too close. They were friends, of course, but Hermione couldn't compare to Ginny or even Fred. They didn't ask too many questions about each other's lives, at least when it came to more personal things. They were respectful roommates, they hung out in their group and even alone on the occasional Sunday night when they both had nothing to do.

Sage guessed that maybe she had been absent from the room a little too much lately for Hermione to not notice that something was going on. Sage just didn't think that she would ask about it.

"Uh, I went for a run."

Hermione raised an eyebrow and sat up straighter in her bed. "Why are you showered then?".

Sage paused again to think. "I went to Fred's room after I finished to ask him something and he offered to let me shower over there. I didn't want to wake you."

Hermione nodded, still looking to be unconvinced. "And you just borrowed his clothes after?".

Sage shrugged and walked into their closet to look for clothes that she could change into. "Yeah. I mean, I didn't want to put back on my sweaty clothes." Hermione didn't reply, but Sage could feel her suspicious nod through the wall.

After a few minutes of looking through her clothes and in the middle of the process of her getting dressed, she heard some movement in the room, and then Hermione was calling out, "You got a letter from Fred!".

Sage immediately hurried out of the closet to grab it from her, only wearing a pair of baggy, unbuttoned jeans and a bra. She didn't know what Fred had written and she wasn't going to take a chance and let Hermoine read it for her.

"Thanks," she said as she grabbed it from Hermione's hands. Hermione raised her eyebrow at her again, a small smirk pulling at the corner of her mouth. If Hermione hadn't already been suspicious before, she definitely was now.

Sage walked back into the closet before she opened the letter. She let out a breath of relief when she read the luckily tame letter. All it was was Fred telling her that he and Ginny were going to take a walk around the grounds and that Sage should come find them whenever she was finished getting ready. No booty call, no explicit letter. Sage thanked Merlin that Hermione wasn't in the room to open Fred's letter that one time he had written Sage just to tell her how much he loved her ass. In detail.

"What's it say?" Hermione asked and walked up to stand in the doorway of the closet.

Sage pulled a shirt over her head before replying, "Him, Ginny, and I are going to do something a little later. He was just confirming."

Hermione nodded and a moment of silence passed before Hermine broke it. "Listen, I have to ask. Is something going on with you and Fred? We've all been wondering for quite a while now."