Cold Skin

Twenty-Nine: Miles Apart

Fred sulked at the breakfast table even after Lee's grand speech about 'Plenty of witches in the cauldron.' He simply ignored him and ate an English muffin drenched in strawberry jam and black coffee, as if having things around him that she loved would lure her back to him like she were a dog.

Would she be a big black dog with shaggy hair? No. She would be a pure-blood passing poodle bathed once a week in lavender bubbles. Pampered. Perfect.

    He got up and was immediately pushed over by a small brunette witch. "Fuck Katie. Will you watch it?"

    "Sorry, Fred. Parvati pushed me. I didn't- I'm-" She rushed in the other direction before Geroge and Lee eyed him.

    "What do you want?" He growled at them. They cowered and grabbed their things from the table and trotted off. He looked to his left and saw Ron sitting with Luna. She was drawing a large dragon on a napkin with her wand and it cut itself out and floated around his head. He looked into her eyes. She stared intently into his pale blue ones. Luna grabbed his face and smashed his lips to hers.

    "Ronald Weasley. We have been hanging out since September and I want to be your girlfriend." Luna said in her usual dreamy voice. His eyes glazed over and he nodded vigorously.

    "Mhm." He said as he gazed into her eyes and continued nodding.

    "And she wants to tattoo her name across your large forehead," Ginny said.

    "Mhm." He said again. He looked over and realized Ginny spoke and shook himself out of the trance. "What! No!" He turned to Luna. "No offence, your tattoos are beautiful. But mum would bloody kill me and I would like to live long enough to kiss you again. We kissed right? I'm not dreaming."

    Luna kissed his cheek before skipping off to class. He melted in his seat. Hermoine visibly gagged at the sight. Fred just about cried as he put his hand over the 'G' tattooed over his pectoral muscle that she would trace and kiss and held his hand when he put himself through the slight pain. He missed her dearly.

    When he got to potions. Katie took her seat which made him furious. He got up and sat on the other side of Alice. Katie shook her head and went and sat with Angelina. By the time class was over Angelia approached him and kicked his shin causing him more excruciating pain.

    "What is wrong with you! Katie is a sweet girl and you're being a dick!" She yelled.

    "Fuck off, Angelina. Leave me alone."

    "Is this because of Gia? News flash Freddie. She's been gone for two days and took her N.E.W.T's early. I don't think she's coming back."

    "She will." He growled. "She has to. How is she not fucking dying!" He felt the soreness creep up his neck and into his head causing an explosive migraine.

    She sighed and looked at the boy who was visibly hurting from this breakup. "You are adults. She can move on. I suggest you do the same. I can ask my mum if she's heard anything about property buying in muggle cities."

    "How would she know anything? Angelina, I don't-"

    "Shut the fuck up, yeah? She's in the International Confederation of Wizards. She handles muggle money which also deals with people buying property. I heard that Theodore Nott went out with a cloaked woman this morning, it was even in the society section of the prophet."

    Fred ran to the kitchens and looked for Dobby. "Dobby! Do you have a copy of the Daily Prophet!" He yelled. Dobby shook at the volume of his voice and nodded.

    "Yes! Did you see that picture of mistress Gia? She wrote to me this morning. Said I could come see her this summer."

    "WHERE!?" Fred demanded. He collapsed to the floor when he opened the prophet and saw a witch that was just over one and a half meters tall. Theo had his hand around her waist as they disappeared inside a shop. He saw her take down her hood and reveal the long black curls tied up by a silk blue ribbon. It was her. Shopping. 238 miles away. She was so far and she didn't seem phased. Maybe he could stop the pain.