✓ 𝕴𝖙'𝖘 𝕬𝖑𝖜𝖆𝖞𝖘 𝕭𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖄𝖔𝖚 : 𝕱𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝖂𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖑𝖊𝖞

𝖝𝖎 : 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖐 𝕸𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖌𝖞

𝕷𝖎𝖑𝖆

"I swear you two." I shake my head as George and Fred continue to take bets. "What, it's just business darling." Fred winks before walking ahead. "Come on girls." I chuckle, making sure I have the three girls. "I'm scared for Harry." Ginny sighs. "Oh, we know." Dahlia chuckles from beside Luna.

The two have become extremely close since the ball but haven't made anything official. "Play nice girls." I tease as we get settled on the dock thing.

"Welcome to the
second task. Last night something was
stolen from each of our champions. A
treasure of sorts." Dumbledore says over the loudspeaker. "Have you guys heard from Ron today?" Ginny asks. "He's your brother." Dahlia replies.

"These four treasures,
one for each champion, now lie on the
bottom of the black lake. In order to
win each champion need only find their
treasure and return to the surface.
Simple enough. Except for this, they
will have one hour to do so and one
hour only. After that they'll be on
their own."

"I know he is but- hey I don't see Hermione either." Ginny looks around the Gryffindor crowd, neither is in sight "You may begin at the start of the cannon." The cannon fires and the champions enter the water, three of them dive in while Harry is pushed.

"What's the matter with him?" Someone asks. "I don't know I can't see him." Another student replies. "Oh my god, I've killed Harry Potter!" Neville cries. Just then Harry flies into the air like a dolphin and the crowd's cheer.

"The Beauxbatons champion Miss Delacour has unfortunately been forced to retire. She will take no further part in this task." Dumbledore announces. We wait anxiously for what feels like forever. Cedric and Cho emerge and the crowd cheers. Viktor and Hermione
are next and the crowd chants 'Krum, Krum, Krum'. On the other hand; The Beauxbatons girls look worried.

Ron and the girl come up, they are coughing, but safe. They're helped out of the water by a girl from Beauxbatons. "Where is Harry?" My mind races thinking of everything that could possibly go wrong underwater. "Lila, look at me." Fred says. I turn to look at him. "He is going to be okay, okay?" I search his eyes for any sign of a lie but don't find one. "Okay."

Harry casts a spell that propels him towards the surface, he flies out and lands on the decking not too far from us. "Harry!" Dumbledore shouts. "Get him another towel." An adult orders. "I want all the judges over here now." Dumbledore says. I let out a sigh of relief that everyone was breathing.

"I told you he would be okay." Fred teases causing me to slap his chest. "Ow!" He pouts. "Suck it up, Weasley." I smirk. "Attention! Attention! The winner is...
Mr. Diggory For showing unique command of the bubblehead charm." We all cheer at the news.

"The way I see it, Mr. Potter would have finished first had it not been for his determination to rescue not only Mr. Weasley but the others as well. We've agreed to award him second place! For outstanding moral fibre." Dumbledore explains causing me to roll my eyes playfully.

We begin walking back to the castle with Harry.

"All that moral fibre eh?" Fred smirks. "Blimey even when you go wrong it turns
outright." Ron laughs. "Well done 'moral fibre'." George pats Harry on the back before lacing his hand with mine. I frown at the lack of warmth I used to feel at the action. Ever since my attack a few weeks ago things between George and I have been, tense.

He tells me he loves me more than usual which worries me, is he uncomfortable with our relationship?

"Stop overthinking, I can feel it." Dahlia stands on her toes to ruffle my hair. "Yeah sure." I giggle as I fix my hair. "Does my hair look okay?"

"Yes" "No"

The twins look at each other with a questioning look. "You should've gone with the joke!" Fred groans causing me to laugh. George's smile falters for a moment before reappearing. "Shoot I forgot I have to study for a test." George groans. "Aw, I wanted to hang out at the astronomy tower." I pout. "I know, make Fred go with you or something." George says before kissing me goodbye.

"Okay then- hey get back here!" I chase Fred as he tries to run away. "Ugh, why do I have to hang out with you." Fred groans sarcastically. "Oh well if you don't want to-" "no I do!"

♥︎

"Fred stop distracting me! I'm trying to read stories to you!" I say in a hushed tone. "Okay okay fine." He chuckles. His head is rested on my lap, something we have done since we were kids. On our way to the astronomy tower, I picked up my book on Greek mythology, one of my favorite topics.

"This one reminds me of Romeo and Juliet a little, it's really sad though." I explain before reading. "Go ahead." He mumbles already half asleep.

"This is the story of Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower of Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont and Leander, a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the narrow strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her. Hero would light a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way. Succumbing to Leander's soft words and to his argument that Aphrodite, as the goddess of love, would scorn the worship of a virgin, Hero allowed him to make love to her. These trysts lasted through the warm summer. However, one stormy winter night, the waves tossed Leander in the sea and the wind blew out Hero's light. The young man lost his way and was drowned. When Hero saw his dead body, she threw herself over the edge of the tower to her death to be with him."

I look to my lap to see Fred sleeping peacefully. "Only you could fall asleep to me reading that story." I chuckle quietly to myself, wondering how the hell I am going to wake him when he looks so content.

"Fred, I need you to wake up, my legs are falling asleep." I whisper into his ear. "Not now I'm comfy." He mumbles. "Do it and I owe you whatever you want." I reply. "Even head scratches?"

"Even head scratches."

:𝕬𝖚𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗'𝖘 𝕹𝖔𝖙𝖊:
Got a little carried away in this chapter sorry I just really wanted to add more Lila and Fred.