Blue Belle {Fred Weasley}

Chapter 58

Belle woke up the next morning to the smell of coffee and the sound of Lyall and Remus talking downstairs. She kicked back the covers on the bed and climbed out. She changed out of her pyjamas and pulled on some jeans and a t-shirt. She left her hair down and followed the scent of coffee to the kitchen.

Lyall was the first to spot her, "Good morning, sweetheart. Sleep well?"

"Morning, and yeah I did." She smiled sitting beside her father. "I couldn't help but wonder, was that someone else's room before mine?"

Lyall handed her some squash nodding, "your cousin Harley uses that room, though, most of the time she used to sneak in with Remus."

"I have a cousin?" She asked.

Remus nodded, "technically second cousin. But same difference. She's actually in a relationship with your boyfriends older brother."

"I'm sorry? She dating Percy?"

Remus chuckled, "No, Bill. They've been with each other for just over a year now. They live in Egypt and both are curse-breakers."

"Ohhhh...Fred mentioned that, she spent Christmas with them didn't she?" Remus nodded. "Yeah the twins told me how she played a prank on Bill, avoiding him and ignoring him. Apparently Bill got very frustrated." She laughed.

"Sounds like her." Lyall joined her in laughing.

Remus placed the newspaper he was reading down on the side and turned to his father. "Are you going to tell her the news or am I?"

"Tell me what?"

Lyall nodded, "a friend of mine has managed to score me a ticket to the Quidditch World Cup and a certain boys father has got in touch with you father and I asking if you would accompany them to the cup?"

Belle furrowed her brows, "So I'm going to the Quidditch World Cup? But who with, you lost me there?"

"The Weasleys, Belle, you'll be going with the Weasley's." Remus reiterated.

Belle's was lit up, "thank you so much, Grandpa!" She exclaimed hugging him. "It's Ireland vs Bulgaria isn't it?" The man nodded, "Ireland will win. Hands down."

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A few weeks later, Belle was fully settled in with her grandpa and dad. The three were expecting Harley to be joining them for the day as she travelled back from Egypt to visit for the day.

Belle was nervous to meet Harley but from all of the stories she had been told about her she was excited too. Remus was sat reading a book in an armchair whilst Lyall took a nap on the sofa. Belle was sat on the floor completing some homework with some help from her father every so often. "Now, now, Remus isn't that cheating you telling her the answers?" They heard a voice ask from the doorway.

Remus and Belle looked up to see Harley, a blonde woman with bright blue eyes and faintly tanned skin. "Well, I'm not a professor anymore so I don't think it will matter. Looks like you've tanned for once though, Harley."

"For once, yes. Took me three days basking in the sunlight during the evening and I'm still pale but with a little colour." She chuckled hugging her cousin. She turned to Belle who was smiling at the pair. "It's nice to finally meet you, I'm Harley."

Belle grinned as the woman hugged her, "Same to you. I expect you know my name."

"Yeah, I do." Harley replied and perched on the floor beside her glancing at her work. "Potions. Ouch." She winced. "Is Snape still being a prat?"

"He's gotten worse since I was in third year." Belle replied shrugging. Placing the sheets in her bag which was resting against the bookshelf.

"The twins mentioned that at Christmas. But They don't do work so they can't really complain."

Belle laughed, "Snape lives to punish them. And Lee too. Lee Jordan. He ran at the wall and did a back flip off of it after our last O.W.L was finished and Snape gave him detention. Yet, it doesn't deter them, they only prank him more."

"So you are the famous Belle that has swept Fred off of his feet?" Harley raised an eyebrow.

Remus looked at her in amusement and put the book down. "How many Belle's do you suppose there is in that year at Hogwarts?"

Harley scoffed, "I wasn't sure, okay? I had to tell the twins not to say anything about me just in case I was wrong."

Belle looked between Harley and Remus. "I'm confused." She said, "they knew you were my cousin?"

"Well they knew I had a cousin called Belle. Baring in mind this was Christmas and I had only known of your existence for two days. I wasn't one hundred percent sure it was you that they were talking about."

Belle nodded, "please tell me it was all good things."

"Oh it was." Laughed Harley, "you and Fred weren't together then were you?" Belle shook her head.

"No we got together around March."

"He couldn't stop talking about you at Christmas. His siblings teased him so much."Belle blushed and looked down at her legs. "He was smiling so much and blushing so much too. Between you and I, I think he fancies you!"

"I wish he didn't." Grumbled Remus.

Lyall, who nobody had noticed wake up, leaned over and whacked his son on his arm. "Don't be mean. That's your daughters happiness you are talking about."

"But she could be happy without him!"

"What's wrong with her having a boyfriend?" Harley asked.

Remus sighed, "it's not that...entirely. It's the facts it's Fred Weasley."

Belle groaned, "he's not that bad."

"Not that bad! It's Fred Weasley!"

Harley looked at her cousin, "ignore your dad, he's being overprotective and annoying. Fred really isn't that bad, a bit annoying and out there, but he's not a bad lad at all, Remmy."

"Apologise, Remus." Said Lyall.

"Sorry." Said Remus.

Belle shrugged, "it's okay it was him that out the rubber ducks in your drawers." She laughed remembering a prank that Fred had done in March but didn't cause a big scene.

"What?!"