Love, Black || Fred Weasley

𝟔: 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

This is definitely a bad idea. What made me think that I know the entire castle like the back of my hand after being at Hogwarts for not even 10 hours?

I walk down the empty corridor as paintings around me snore away. Tomorrow is the first day of school and I don't even have a clean cloak to wear. Everyone is either terrified of me or hates me. If I had stayed at Ilvermorny none of this would be happening. I wouldn't be walking alone at two am trying to clear my mind... and it's not working. I should be mad at my father for causing me to be the punching bag of the year but I'm not.

I want to hate him for everything he has done, yet I am intrigued by him. Obviously, I hate his guts for leaving me alone in an orphanage and then killing a bunch of people, but he is the only family I have and because of that I want to know more about him. The non-killing side of him. No, Jane, that's stupid, I correct myself. I'm sure that if he were to see me he wouldn't recognize me - and if he did, he would probably try to kill me.

I turn a corner ready to start climbing up a large set of stairs. Something shifts under me and I look down to see the staircase floating in the air. A foot slips out from underneath me as I lose my balance. I reach out and grip onto the staircase railing for dear life as it moves, connecting to another hallway.

Someone told me that the stairs moved but I thought they wouldn't move if someone is on them?! They should have some sort of sensor thing that stops them from moving if a person is on them because I could have just died. I sigh dramatically once the stair connects to level ground. I keep my head low focusing on the ground beneath me as I step off the stairs walking down a hallway that has more light than the others. I pull my sleeves over my hands keeping them warm from the breeze bouncing off the walls.

"I'm positive! it was some Slytherin," A familiar voice tingles in my ear. I look up and see a light source down at the end of the hallway. I'm not the only person walking around right now?!

"But what if it wasn't?" Another voice speaks up as I move my body to the side of the wall trying to stay as hidden as possible. I can't get caught walking around in the middle of the night and have a teacher take away points, that'll just make everyone even madder at me.

"Then the Slytherins get pranked for being Slytherins," Its Fred speaking. It's Fred speaking?! My body relaxes realizing that it isn't a teacher about to catch me but the twins planning on pranking something. I loosen my grip on my sweatshirt sleeve-

crap

my wand falls out of my sleeve and starts to roll down the hall. Crap crap crap. I should run away, right? No, I should go and get it. But then I have to face the twins while looking like this.

" Who's there?!" Fred jumps up as the wand hits him in the heel. Both of the twins grab their bags and start walking down the hallway... towards me...

The light grows stronger as they near me, their red hair getting brighter.

" Jane?" George questions as the light fully reveals my face, practically blinding me.

" Ya caught me!" I throw up finger guns at the gingers as they stare at me expressionlessly. Tough crowd, I guess...

" What are you doing here," Fred steps closer to me as I involuntarily gag.

" Did you just-" Fred starts. "Gag?" George finishes. I couldn't help it, they reeked of dung bombs. I need to let Monica know that her prank worked!

" Yes. You guys smell disgusting and I could be asking you two the same thing because it is a 2 am school night and you are crouching mysteriously in front of a door," I stare down the twins slightly lecturing them but not getting halfway through before having to plug my nose at their stench. Why did we think dung bombs would be a good idea?