Moving On

Chapter 6 Book 1

"So, let me get this straight, you pretended for /weeks/ that you were in love with another girl just to break my heart and get me to admit to you that I liked /you/ because you're too much of a jerk to admit to /me/?" Makayla questioned as she tilted her head at him with raised brows.

Fred huffed in annoyance. "Well when you put it like that if makes it sound mean.." He mumbled as he threw a few cheez-its in his mouth and pouted slightly.

The boy was sitting in front of her had his feet up on the counter, barely balancing himself on the backless stool he was sitting on.

After he had finally admitted to her, things had happened, we don't talk about those things, and now it was the middle of the night and they were sitting in the kitchen eating snacks.

Makayla chuckled a bit at his pout. "Well it was," She told him as she took apart an oreo, ate the middle out of it and put the rest of it to the side.

He huffed once more. "Either way, It was the best prank I've ever pulled." He grinned as he finished off his bowl of snacks and threw his legs off the counter, hopping up and moving towards his bedroom to get dressed for the day. Makayla followed.

"And Rihanna was just-ok with all of this?" She asked curiously as she leaned against the doorframe, watching as he took off his shirt and pulled his suit out.

He looked at her in his mirror and shrugged a bit. "She seemed to be, never made any complaints, just went ahead and went through with it. Wasn't like she had to do much. All I had to do was think about her and you were visibly jealous." He smirked a bit as she rolled her eyes.

"Well now that I think about it, you've been really tryin' hard haven't you?" She questioned with a raised brow.

He rolled his eyes. "You realize how hard i was trying to get you to admit it? Was full on flirting with you and you brushed it off every time. Bloody handful is what you are." He huffed before he waved her off. "Now go on and get ready, we open in an hour and we still haven't even restocked what's missing from yesterday." He said.

Makayla nodded and turned to go to her own room, neither of them even closed their doors as they got dressed, wasn't like they hadn't already seen it. She put on her uniform, which still remained as a white t-shirt with orange and purple striped shorts with orange suspenders. Obviously the colors for the shop were Orange and Purple. Honestly she didn't look half bad with the uniform on. She just had dark purple flats, with orange and purple makeup to go with it and that was it.

She tied her hair up into a magical looking ponytail, smiling at herself in the mirror before she made her way back out of her bedroom and made her way downstairs, Rihanna was already there restocking the shelves for the day.

"Morning! Ready for day two?" She greeted. Makayla smiled and nodded.

"Morning, and yeah. Today should be fun. At least this time we're prepared for what's coming. Thanks for coming in early and restocking everything." Makayla said as she began to help the other girl with everything until the shelves were sloppily stocked, just the way Fred and George liked them.

Fred eventually came downstairs and examined the people standing by the store doors waiting for it to open.

It was nowhere near as busy as it had been the previous day. Though Makayla assumed that was because people had been waiting for the shop to reopen for ages, had come and gotten everything they needed, and this was just the people who hadn't gotten everything they needed, or hadn't realized that the shop had reopened yet.

She figured that the shop wouldn't be as busy from then on.

"Morning Ladies, today is going to be a little different, I had a nice little call with Georgie just now, and for one, he's loving his honeymoon and second, both him and I have come up with several new ideas for things to sell, so during the slow times of the day, if we have any of course, one of you two will be able to come up here and help me make some new things to sell." He leaned against the railing of the circular staircase, nearly slipping because- it was a circular staircase, kinda hard to lean against the railings.

Making new pranks? That sounded epic! She had had ideas for ages that she'd always wanted to be able to do but hadn't been able to. Ever since she had been thrown into the lives of Draco and Hermione she hadn't really been able to do much pranking or anything, which had been one of her favorite things before she met them.

Maybe it was about time to get back into pranking. Now that she was on good terms with Fred... the next few weeks would most certainly be fun. She smirked to herself as she continued to stock the shelves.

"Ten minutes until we open up!" Fred called a few minutes later.

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The day wasn't too terribly busy, but it was busy enough that they didn't end up having time to go upstairs to begin working on any cool new pranks. Though they did at least get a full lunch break,they just took turns eating so that was fine.

The only real problem that day was that one of the customers had accidentally set off one of the stink bomb things. Let's just say that it wasn't pleasant for anyone.
Especially the ones that had to clean it up..

Makayla made her way upstairs with Fred after they both said goodbye to Rihanna for the evening.

"Hey, out of curiosity. When you said you had a boyfriend... who was that?" Fred questioned as he undid his tie. Makayla looked over her shoulder at him as she pulled her hair out of the ponytail she had it in.

"Oh it was Neville, I was trying to help him make Luna jealous because they were on bad terms while I was mad at you. But I don't think he ever even told Luna that we were 'dating' and they just sorted out their problems on their own." She explained with a shrug. Then she smirked as she realized. "It really made you jealous didn't it?" She asked.

He huffed as he made his way over to her and hugged her from behind, kissing her shoulder gently. "Maybe it did. Wouldn't tell you either way." He smirked against her skin as she shook her head heavily.

"How did you hide your true thoughts from me anyways? I never once saw your thoughts falter when I was reading them. That's why it messed me up so much." She looked to him once more as she moved to the kitchen to get both of them a mug of hot chocolate.

"I'm stubborn. You have no idea how hard that was." He shrugged.

Then there was a crash downstairs that Fred's attention snapped to. "Stay here." He told Makayla sternly before he moved to go downstairs and see what we up.

She was certain that he had locked the door when the store closed.

"Hey!" She heard Fred shout before there was more crashing, a loud bang and then glass shattering. Makayla quickly made her way to the stairs, stopping half way down to see if anyone was still there. She heard Fred groan.

"Kay get back upstairs." He told her quickly. The only reason he would tell her that would be if- she let out a scream as something sharp hit her leg and forced her down, she would have fallen down the stairs but she held a tight grip on the railing, even if it left her in a really uncomfortable position.She knew falling down the stairs would be worse.

The other person ran out of the store with whoever they had been with.

Makayla took the dart-style object from her thigh and aparated it to her bedroom so she could figure out what was making her leg burn so bad later. She quickly limped down the stairs to where Fred had been shoved into one of the shelves, knocking him and it over.

"You ok?" She asked as she examined him. The same dart thing they had hit her leg with, they had put in his right shoulder. She carefully pulled it out of him and looked at the shattered window that the two thieves had run out of.

"I'm fine, I told you to stay upstairs.." He groaned as she helped him off of the shelf.

"I know but you shouted, can't expect me to just sit there and wait.." She mumbled to him as she began to feel lightheaded. "You know what was in those darts?" She questioned, placing her hand on her head.

"No idea, if you feel anything like I feel, then we should probably get to-" He cut off as he fell back over. She managed to catch him before he hit the ground and apparated with him to the Malfoy Manor, it being the first place she thought of.