Invisible String | A Harry Potter FanFiction

Cormac McUgllen (Fred's POV)

My thoughts aren't about the shop this morning, as I watch Winnie check people out. There's people that need my charm and my attention for the things in the shop that I can't help with. This whole summer with her has been a dream come true. It's always been her, every time I think about our childhood it's always been her. She's always been the keeper of my heart. A drug that spreads around my every thought. Now that she was mine it felt unreal.

"What's this?" A random shopper asks.

I explain what is it and they just go back to browsing. She works around the counter, checking people out, and getting some easily accessible small items from the selves behind the desk. She smiles, her gorgeous contagious smile, and wishes them a good day.

Of course today was also the day that almost every student of Hogwarts goes to the alley to get their stuff for the new year. Winnie already got her shopping done a day prior, because she's always found it easier to shop when there's less people. She also saw how much a firebolt cost and almost fainted knowing that she now owns one herself. I smiled, watching the charm bracelet jingle in every motion she made.

"Quit staring Freddy, I know she's your girlfriend but let's focus on business now!" George said, patting me on the shoulder. "She won't disappear if you take your eyes off her Yknow?"

But that's just it, she will. She'll be going off to her final year at Hogwarts, around guys and all her friends, and people that now know how excellent she is, and I won't be there to make sure they don't get too comfortable. I won't be with her everyday, and the truth is, if any guy made a move on her, I think I'd might as well kill him. Too harsh? Maybe. But I should probably trust her. Trust that her head won't turn.

Winnifred Benson had always been my secret. She was this amazing, intelligent, beautiful thing I'd known about but others seemed to miss. A hidden treasure in plain sight. It wasn't fair, I saw her first, I saw her for her excellence first, but no, she was with Cedric Diggory.

Sometimes I felt like a silly boy, following her around for so long. But I don't know, there was always just this force that attracted me to her. And it always led me right back to where the force was coming from. Now that she had finally let the force lead her to me, I was never gonna let it pull us away. But it was going to. She was going to Hogwarts again. And I won't be able to be apart of her final year until the 7th year Gala, and where, even then, I won't be able to be with her fully. She'll invite me, and then I'd go to the dance, we'd fool around a bit, and then I'd have to go right back home.

I don't wanna control her, don't get the wrong impression, but I can't bear to think about some guy charms her, and that force is broken between the two of us. I talked to my mum about this, because it's the only mature thing a 19 year old can do, hide and cry to his mummy. She told me I had to have more trust in her, that I would believe that she's happy and she'll come back to me. That the force will never break.

I suddenly feel the stench of her perfume, covering my olfactory as they recognize the intoxicated, addictive smell. I could inhale her forever, and not in a creepy way, she just smells so good. And the smell sends a sort of wave to my brain letting it know that Winnifred Benson was coming up to me. God, I am hopeless aren't I?

"What's on your mind pretty boy?"

Me? I'm still processing that when she says this, it's issued to me. Me!

"Just thinking of you, I'll miss you at Hogwarts." I sighed, wrapping my arms around her.

"I'll be back for the holidays Freddie, there's no one I'd rather spend them with than you." She kissed me, and her and my lips formed in perfect alignment. Like they were shaped for one another. I kissed her back as she pulled away laughing. I groaned a little at the separation, I could kiss her all day, then wake up and do it again.