My Deal with a 7th Year

Part Nineteen

Back at the castle grounds I was still sprinting, looking for any signs of George or Fred. I checked all the nicks and crannies they will sometimes be in and I realized I had no clue where they were.

I ran through the courtyard and finally ran into Ron, "Oh my gosh Ron! Thank goodness!"

I was completely out of breath and sucking in every bit of oxygen I could get with my hands on my knees from running.

"y/n? what's wrong? what do you need?" He put a hand on my back and sounded really worried.

I looked back up to him, "no everything's fine, I just need to know where George and Fred are."

He looked at me, "oh uh... I have no clue where George is but I think Fred is on his way to Gryffindors common room? You could probably catch him if-"

I immediately ran off in the direction of it and shouted back a quick "Thanks!"

At this point I didn't care how stupid I looked or how much I was panting, I just had one goal, to get to Fred. I was pretty sure I could make it and my face split out into a huge grin as I raced through the empty hallways, pillars turned to blurs on the side of me as I raced up the stairs to the third floor.

I got up there and saw him walking with his hands in his pockets down the hall.

"Fred!!" I screamed as I ran towards him.

He turned and in waves of confusion his face changed from resting to happy to confused to worryingly to a mix of all of them followed by me almost running into him.

I grabbed both his shoulders with my hands to steady myself as my heart was pounding in my chest, "I... I was... uh... looking... for uh... you" I was breathing extremely heavy and could barely get the words out between breaths.

My hands went to my sides as I heaved in and out, "now I remember... why... I never run... oh my gosh... yeah this is awful"

His eyes searched behind me as if something could've been chasing me, "hey what's wrong did something happen? was it mattheo?"

"no, well... yes but like he's not why i'm running."

This time he put his hands on my shoulders, "y/n what's up, you're kinda scaring me, you never run and now it looks like you've been running miles!"

I looked at him, "Fred I am so sorry! for everything! I mean seriously. I way overreacted and I just-"

He cut me off, "no! no no no! not at all! I'm the one who should be apologizing. We should have told you about the parties and nothing can make what we said better."

I threw my arms around him and gave him the biggest sort of bear hug ever, "so I guess we're even now."

After a split second of shock hesitation he returned it back.

"I missed you so much" We both spit out at the same time after some silence.

He stepped back, "okay now that we're back on track..."

I looked at him, not quite sure where he was going.

"uh? Mattheo?!" He looked at me with huge eyes.

I laughed, "oh yeah, uh. that"

My eyes shot open, "OH MY GOSH MATTHEO"

I threw myself into another hug before stepping out and looking back, "I'll tell you all about it in a bit!"

I started my run back in the opposite direction again before yelling back to him, "I have a date!"

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The End :)