How it Began

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She wakes up as a thumb rubs against her hip bone. She opens her eyes and takes his hand, rolling over to face him. "Morning handsome." She says as she snuggles into him.

"Morning." He says, kissing her softly. "How'd you sleep?" He asks as he runs his fingers through her blonde locks.

"Better with you in my bed." His arm curls over her waist to bring her even closer. She just hums and buried her face in the crook of his neck.

He just holds her, stroking her hair, as they lay in the silence of her bedroom. "We should probably get up." He says, reluctantly.

"I don't want to." She whines.

"I know, I don't either but we have to." She starts peppering kisses up his neck and he shuts his eyes.

"We still have to?" She asks, her voice vibrating against his skin. He just nods. She starts kissing and sucking at his pulse point and he groans. "You sure?"

"Alice." He breathes out before wrapping an arm around her waist and rolling her onto his back. "It's only the second day, we can't miss it already."

"When has that ever stopped you?" She asks, looking up into his dark brown eyes.

"Since it's senior year and I can't really afford to fail."

"Well neither can I but one day isn't going to screw you over. And besides," She says, wiggling out from underneath him to straddle his lap. "if you do fail, I'll be your tutor."

"Yeah like you'd actually help me learn." He scoffs, reaching out to hold her hips.

"Need I remind you that I get pretty good marks."

"Just not in participation."

"Can you blame me? The people at our school irritate me."

"Everything irritates you."

"That's not entirely true. I like you, Fred, Hermione and Mary. You know the people we hang out with everyday?"

"Please you might want to change that statement to just Fred and I." He says and she raises an eyebrow at him. "You make fun of Hermione for being a cheerleader, make fun of Mary for being a nerd, and Hal... well, he's Hal."

"Well that's why I didn't mention Hal." She says.

"Now get off of me, we gotta go." He says, patting at her hip.

"FP!" She whines. "Please let's at least skip first period or something. What do you say?"

He ponders it for a moment and then looks up at the beautiful blonde straddling his hips. "Fine, you convinced me." And then he reaches for her and flips them over as she squeals and laughs in delight.

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"Where are those two?" Fred says as he and his friends wait around their lockers.

"Your guess is as good as mine. Don't they usually come over in the morning?" Hermione says, leaning up against a locker.

"Yeah, FP mainly comes just to see what mom made for breakfast."

"That boy has an appetite that can't be matched." Fred nods and they all head off to class.

Alice is in his first period class and it's boring without her there to talk to him. Where are those two? He wonders.

He can hazard a guess as to where they are and what they're doing. They left Fred's house the night before, hand in in hand and sneaking in little kisses. He knows they went home together or at least snuck in through a window. So he stops thinking about it, deciding he really doesn't want to think about his two best friends having sex, and moves on to try and do the work in front of him.

They show up at lunch, taking a seat at the table their friends are at. "And where exactly were you two this morning?" Hermione asks.

"Oh just slept in, that's all." Alice answers, but the newly sucked hickey on her neck says otherwise.

"Mhm... together?" Mary adds, raising an eyebrow at the two of them.

"Yeah, he spent the night and my alarm didn't go off, set it for pm by accident." The group of friends all look between each other, sharing the same knowing glance. "If you guys already knew what we did why did you ask a million questions?" Alice exclaims.

"Just wanted to see if you'd tell us the truth is all." Fred says.

"Mhm. Well you're half right. We didn't want to go to class, so instead we had sex and then had a nap."

"Gross, Alice." Mary says, pulling a face.

"What, don't want the details?" Alice teases, stabbing a fork into a strawberry.

"God, please no." Fred exclaims, the other two just laugh.

"Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to then." FP smiles at her and kisses her cheek as his arm tightens around her waist.

The other three make fake gagging noises at them. Alice just rolls her eyes. "So what'd I miss?"