Chéri || Fred Weasley

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Sunday morning arrived quicker than expected and in only a matter of hours, Fred and Angelina were to be married. Fred wasn't able to think clearly after the last thing Maddie had said to him. "Falling in love with you, is the best thing that has ever happened to me."

He felt the same way, he didn't want to go through with the wedding but something inside his head was as if it was stopping him from leaving Angelina. Hours turned into minutes in a blink of an eye, and he now found himself pacing around the groom's dressing room, sweating and tugging the collar of his dress shirt.

"Am I making the wrong choice Georgie?"

"Well it's kind of too late to start overthinking your life choices Fred," George rolled his eyes.

"I need to tell you something but you can't say a word to anyone," Fred stopped dead on his tracks to look at his brother, "not even Lizzie. I need you to promise me that."

"Fine," George huffed, "I promise, what did you do now?"

"Last night I did something and I'm not sure if it was good or bad," Fred sighed and took a seat next to his twin. "I went to look at the stars at our spot, you know."

"Yours and Madeleine?"

"Yeah," Fred nodded, "and she got there after I did."

"Fred what did you do?"

"We slept together," he gulped. "It was like the final goodbye, but I don't want to let her go."

"So you cheated on your fiancée? The night before your wedding Fred?" George frowned. "I know that you still have feelings for Mads but I know her and I know you, and I know that whatever happened, you started it. And I know that I fucking hate Angelina but cheating is not okay Fred."

"It's not all my fault George! She told me she loved me! She told me she loved me since we were fucking eighteen and that she hasn't stopped loving me! I kissed her first last night but she told me she loved me!" Fred said loudly. "Merlin, do you know how long I waited for her to say those three words? YEARS GEORGE! And she had to go and do it the night before my wedding!

"She's like my own personal drug and I can't get her out of my head! George, I love her so much but she told me that it was time to let go, but I don't want to let go! She could break my heart in a million pieces over and over and over again and I would still want her, I love her."

"And you realized this the night before your wedding?" George stifled a laugh.

"But, I have to marry Angelina," Fred stood up almost robotically, not understanding why words he didn't want to say left his mouth. "I promised I would marry her, and now, I have no choice."

"You're a big boy and you're capable of making your own decisions," George scoffed, not understanding as well why his twin was going through with it despite the feelings he had just confesed. "I won't tell you what to do this time Fred."

"I don't know what went over me George," Fred whispered and look at himself in the mirror, feeling something strange happening inside him, "the old feelings resurfaced or something."

"What old feelings Fred?" George said frustratedly. "They're still there you idiot and they never left! And I am sure that that wasn't the first time she said I love you alright, so don't be thick and don't marry fucking Johnson."

"I have to marry her," Fred repeated. "I have to marry her and I have no choice!"

"You know what? I'm done with your bullshit Fred," George groaned. "You're a fucking idiot so I guess I'll see your idiot ass at the altar."