Bumblebee (A Fred Weasley Fanfiction)

- CHAPTER EIGHT -

The First Kiss

Ravenclaw played Slytherin a week after the start of the term. Slytherin won, though narrowly. According to George, this was good news for Gryffindor, who would take second place if they beat Ravenclaw too. This was also good news for Emmie as it meant that the number of team practises were increased to five a week which made it easier for her to avoid Fred. She had spoken to him a couple times and it was clear that he couldn't remember a thing from the party.

*

January faded into February, with no change in the bitterly cold weather. Emmie was sat in front of the fire in the Hufflepuff common room when Fred came in,
"oi," he said, she looked at him before turning back to the fire. He walked over and sat next to her, "hey," he said, "hey," he repeated, "hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey," every time he said it he pushed her, "heyyyyyyy."
A smile crept onto her face as she exhaled, "hey! I saw that!" He shouted, Emmie couldn't hold it anymore, she snorted loudly making Fred laugh, "what was that?" He asked, she giggled,
"I don't know."
"Seriously, what's wrong?" His tone turned serious,
"nothing," she replied,
"you sure?" He asked,
"yeah," she replied confidently.
"Alright then," he said, "you'll be coming to the match on Saturday then?"
"Of course I will."

*

Emmie went down to breakfast on Saturday morning. As she was eating she noticed everyone turning to the door, she turned too to see Harry entering the hall, heads turned in the direction of his Firebolt and there was a good deal of excited muttering. He sat down with the rest of the Gryffindor team, Emmie ran over to the table too, "good luck," she said before smiling at Fred.
At a quarter to eleven, the teams set off for the changing rooms and Emmie and the rest of the school made their way to the stadium. The weather couldn't have been more different from the match against Hufflepuff, it was a clear, cool day with a very light breeze.
The Gryffindor team walked out onto the pitch to tumultuous applause, the Ravenclaw team, dressed in blue, were already standing in the middle of the pitch. Wood and Davies shook hands and they were soon all in the air, "Gryffindor in possession, Katie Bell of Gryffindor heading for goal..." Lee Jordan commentated.
Harry urged the Firebolt forward as they rounded the Ravenclaw goalpost and Cho Chang fell behind just as Katie succeeded in scoring the first goal of the match.
"Gryffindor lead by eighty points to zero and look at that Firebolt go." Lee said.
Ravenclaw were pulling back; they had now scored three goals which put Gryffindor only fifty points ahead - if Cho got the Snitch before Harry, Ravenclaw would win.

The whole stadium gasped, three Dementors appeared below, plunging a hand down the neck of his robes, Harry whipped out his wand and roared, "Expecto patronum!" Something silver white erupted from the end of his wand, with his other hand he grabbed something from the air, the Snitch!
The teams landed safely on the ground and the Gryffindor supporter's started to get out of their seat, Ron was the first to run onto the pitch but soon he was followed by the whole stadium. As they engulfed Harry, Fred found Emmie, he hugged her and lifted her off of the ground spinning her around. When he finally put her down they stayed in their embrace, Emmies head on Fred's chest, looking up at him.
"congrats!" She shouted over the cheering, Fred didn't reply, he just stayed smiling at her before leaning in and kissing her. Emmie pulled away and I'd her blushing face,
"Sorry," she said laughing,
"For what?" Fred asked,
"I don't know," she replied before kissing him again, more passionately this time.
Someone behind them cleared their throat comically making them break their kiss to see George stood their, "congratulations," Emmie said to him bashfully, "Party! Gryffindor common room, now!" George shouted to the whole crowd.

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The party went on all day and well into the night, Fred and George disappeared for a couple hours and returned with armfuls of bottles of Butterbeer, pumpkin fizz and several bags full of Honeydukes sweets,
"how did you do that?" Emmie asked Fred as he started throwing Peppermint Toads into the crowd,
"with a little help from Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs," he replied with a wink.

The Gryffindor party only ended when Professor McGonagall turned up in her tartan dressing-gown and hair-net at one in the morning to insist that they all went to bed.

- Princexiero xx