Enchanted [Fred Weasley]

Forty-Six

"Cheater!" Grace hollered.

"You can't cheat at wizards chess! Besides, it's not cheating if you just stink at it."

"Benjamin!" Emily yelled from the kitchen.

"It's just the truth!" Grace gave her father a blank stare.

"Since when have you been such a wizards chess fanatic?" Grace asked with her arms crossed.

"Never."

"He just likes winning." Emily whispered to her as she entered the family room.

"No, that's not it at all!" Grace and Emily just stared at Ben.

"Grace, could you help me with dinner? We have guests coming over." Emily informed her.

"Guests?" Grace cried. Emily and Ben looked at each other.

"You didn't tell her?" They asked in unison.

"Me? You're her father!"

"You're her aunt!"

"Who's coming over?"

"You'll see sweetheart. Since you still haven't showered or gotten ready, I suggest you do that first, you smell." Ben informed her.

"Rude." Grace muttered as she walked upstairs. Once upstairs Grace showered and got ready. Instead of having her hair down, Grace put it in a bun.

"Grace, do you think you could finish making dinner? I have to go help your father set up the table outside and you can't use magic outside of school yet." Emily said.

"Why are we eating outside?"

"It's summer and lots of people are coming."

"What is this a wedding?" Grace muttered once Emily walked outside.

Grace washed her hands and began to finish dinner. As Grace put something in the over there was a knock at the door. Startled, Grace jumped and hit her bare hand off the rack. Grace squealed in pain and grabbed her hand.

"Coming!" Grace yelled. She closed the oven door with her foot and walked to open the door.

"Grace!"

"Couldn't stay away?" Grace asked the twins with a teasing smile. She opened the door wider and let the rest of the family in. It wasn't all of the Weasley's, but Fred, George, Ginny, Ron, Arthur, and Molly.

"Grace, good to see you." Molly cried. She quickly noticed Grace's hand. "What happened to your hand!"

"Oh, I burnt it off the oven."

"Come here dear." Molly and Grace walked into the kitchen. "Run your hand under the cold water." Molly instructed as she turned on the sink. Grace stuck her hand under the cold water and felt instant relief.

"So, you're Grace?" Grace turned to the youngest Weasley and the only girl.

"I am."

"Fred and George have talked about you."

"Don't believe a word they say."

"I never do." Grace laughed. The back door opened and Ben and Emily walked in.

"You're here!" Emily cried when she spotted the Weasley family. Grace should've waited for further instructions from Molly, but she turned of the water and ran upstairs. The burn wasn't too bad, just stung a little.

Grace walked into her room and noticed Desiree sitting in her cage.

"Ah, there you are." Grace closed her window.

"So, this is where you spend your summers?" Grace screamed and jumped at his voice.

"Fred, what are you doing?"

"You just walked off so I came to say hi. You couldn't even say hello to us first." He teased. Grace laughed.

"Well, hello."

"Hello." An awkward silence greeted the two.

"Where's George?"

"Talking to your father about those party packets." Grace laughed.

"Speaking of that, you never told me what kind of shop you're running."

"A joke shop of course! What other shop would we want to run?"

"No idea." 

"Is this your mother?" Fred asked as he picked up a picture on Grace's desk. Grace walked over and looked at the picture.

"It is." In the picture Anna was holding six year old Grace. All it was, was the two laughing at something. Then Anna leaned in and gave Grace a kiss on the cheek.

"You do look like her."

"Never heard that one before." Grace said with a smile.

"Dinner!" Emily called up the stairs.

"Alright, time for you to hear a bunch of embarrassing stories my dad enjoys telling." Grace remarked.

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"I did not!" Grace defended as her father laughed.

"You did!" He called back.

"At least I don't cheat at wizards chess."

"I do not cheat! I'm just better than you."

"Ben, you're telling embarrassing stories of Grace, but you cried when there was a spider." Emily remarked. Everyone burst into laughed, except Ron who seemed terrified by the sound of spider.

Grace finished her dinner and her and the twins talked about the shop. George informed that Ben would supply them with party packets. Ron also went up against Ben in wizards chess. It was a very short game that Ron won. After the Weasley's left it was only a few minutes before Grace was asleep on the couch.

"Her and those twins seem to get along good." Emily told Ben as they sat at the dining room table.

"Yes, they seem to get along great."

"Honestly, I prefer her with one of them than that Lewis boy."

"You've never met him. Grace makes him sound like a great kid."

"His mother though!"

"He's nothing like his mother Emily, and she loves the boy."

"As long as she's happy."