Web of Lies (A Fred Weasley Fan-fiction)

Chapter five

Fred was bored. Double transfiguration on a Thursday morning was hell on earth. Not to mention that Fred hadn't been able to see Lucianna since Tuesday. She had been in the middle of a potions essay and was so scared of Snape that she had wanted to ace this assignment just to stick it in his stupid face.

"You alright Fred?" Lee asked. "Yeah yeah I'm fine mate." Fred replied.

"Got something on your mind there?" George chirped in while wiggling his brows; which earned him a playful shoulder shove from his brother. "I'm fine okay nothing is on my mind," Lee and George shared a knowing look. "Perhaps it's someone on your mind," the three boys turned their head to Angelina who hadn't bothered to look up from her work. As she turned round to meet all their eyes shrugging her shoulders, "what? Come on, we all know he's got a crush. You boys are all the same when it comes to that stuff." Lee's eyes widened, "fuck off! Fred is it true?" With that Fred let out a loud sigh and told Lee and the rest to "fuck off." Which earned him a laugh from the three. All the while he couldn't help but let his mind wander to Lucianna.

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Lucianna was panicked. After Fred had enlightened her to the fact that Seamus had a crush on her, she had decided to create distant between them. It seemed things were going back to normal, that was until yesterday when Theodore Nott decided to talk to her. Lucianna had never talked to Theodore before this year. It had started yesterday when Nott's had helped Lucianna find a book she needed for her essay, and had even offered to help. Now here she was in the middle of potions actually having a pleasant conversation.

Snape had forced them to work in pairs and did not give them a choice in who their work partner was. Lucianna was just happy she hadn't been paired up with Draco who had been paired with Ron. She felt incredibly sorry for Ron as he was the one who had to do everything as Draco's arm was still in a sling (not that he really needed one by now).

"So when did you get your hair done?" Notts asked, "oh I didn't get it done, found out I'm a Metamorphmagus." Lucianna stated while not taking her eyes up from the potion recipe. "Whoa! No way that's so cool!" Lucianna looked up expecting to see on Nott's face a hint of sarcasm, yet there was none. "Really?" She enquired, "yes! Plus you look really pretty with pink hair." This compliment made Lucianna's face blush and her hair turn a brighter pink. Theodore smiled her and continued, "I know you probably have a bad opinion on Slytherins but I promise you we're not all bad." Lucianna smiled at that and went back to preparing the potion ingredients. "I was wondering" Theodore said "if you would like to, perhaps we could erm help eachother later today? You know with the potions essay? Could meet up in the library or the great hall?" Lucianna felt her blush grow, she coughed out "yeah! I mean, yeah that sounds good," she smiled, "great! I'll meet you after dinner." Theodore's face lit up and his grin grew.

Perhaps this year could be a normal year after all. Teenage romance was blooming yet unbeknownst to them a certain new rat was making its way around the school, keeping a keen ear and eye on two students and a certain professor.

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After lunch it was time for Defence against the Dark Arts. Since the start of term Lucianna had slowly become use to Remus' presence at the school. By now many students had stopped remarking on the fact that the new DADA teacher was one of Lucianna's dads; yet most disgustingly many older students had begun to discuss how attractive Professor Lupin was, much to Lucianna's horror.

Lucianna knew that this lesson was going to be hard. It was the Boggart lesson today and Lucianna was worried. She didn't want another reason for Malfoy to make fun of her. Ever since their encounter in the hall where Draco had claimed he knew that her birth mother was Felina Rosier, Lucianna had avoided him as much as humanly possible; to the extent she had even morphed into other students (a new and interesting development in her every expanding gift). Yet, even that didn't help. Everytime she found herself wandering the halls alone she would find Malfoy watching her and at times he would even whisper to her "hello miss Rosier." Apart from that however he hadn't actually said or done anything; there was no rumours or any comments from other students, so she wondered what devious plan Malfoy had.