Never Is Our Always

I Solemnly swear 5

(Fred pov) (last week of holidays)

We finally got the booklist in the mail, it was very late, you know? It usually comes earlier in the holidays.

"This isn't gonna be cheap, Mum," I told her.

"We'll manage as always," mum replies, then she furrowed her eyebrows, "can you go get Minnie, dear?"

I look around and then sigh, she's upstairs still, "sure mum." I reply before getting out of my chair and left the room.

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"Min," I call, I walked into my room, she's skipped breakfast again. "Babe?" I didn't hear anything in my room, so I opened the door.

Minnie was sound asleep in my bed, I smiled as I took in the view of her for a moment.

Her arms were covering her face, she was lying on her stomach. Minnie's dark, curly hair was everywhere so you knew it was her that was sleeping.

"Minnie?" I walk over and sat on the bed, she rolls on to her side, back facing me, I sighed as I touch her back and softly rub it.

"No," she groggily whines. "I'm tired."

"You've been sleeping in all week," I reply, "come on, you need to get out of bed." She ignored me, "come on." I dug my hands under her side and started tickling her.

"Ah! Stop it!" She giggles as she then clenched her jaw so she wouldn't laugh.

"Come on!" I kept tickling her as she squirmed and giggled at me.

"No!" She laughs loudly as I kept tickling her so she would laugh, and there it was.

That smile I've been craving to see.

"There's my girl." I grin as she was on her back, smiling widely as she laughing, god her laugh was amazing.

"What's up?" Minnie asked me, putting her glasses on. "Why did you wake me up?"

"You skipped breakfast and our booklist is here, we got a new dark arts teacher, dunno who it is though," she suddenly stopped smiling.

"Oh..." my eyebrows furrow at her tone, "right, sorry," she sat up and then sighed.

"Come on, let's annoy Harry, Ron and Hermione with George, I know he'd want a piece of that." I smile.

"Only if you carry me because I'm tired," she yawns before smiling at me.

"Come on, sit on my lap," she does what I asked and crawled into my lap, I dug my hands under her thighs and stood up.

"Whoa!" She giggled as her legs wrapped around me like her arms did loosely around my neck.

"Ready?" She nods as I grabbed my wand and grinned at Minnie.

Crack!

"George?" He looks at us and then grinned, "time to annoy the others."

"Right-o." George got up and he grins again.

Crack!

Me, Minnie and George Apparated right beside Harry.

"We were just wondering who assigned the Slinkhard book," I said conversationally as I hoisted Minnie up, she had her head on my shoulder quietly.

"Because it means Dumbledore's found a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher," George said.

"And about time too," I said.

"What d'you mean?" Harry asked, jumping down beside us.

"Well, we overheard Mum and Dad talking on the Extendable Ears a few weeks back," I told Harry, "and from what they were saying, Dumbledore was having real trouble finding anyone to do the job this year."