Darling; George Weasley

2. Huffy Puffy

Estella looked at the two boys. Their ginger hair glowing from the sun rays.

"I'm Fred," the one who sat in front of her said.

"And I'm George," the one who sat next to her said.

"Weasley," they said, synchronized, and somehow, like they'd planned it, both of them put their hands up to shake, at the SAME TIME.

"Well, I am Estella, Sallow," she shook each of their hands, exchanging smiles. "But you can call me Stella."

"Ok, Stella, so this is your first year, too?" Fred said.

"Yea," she smiled.

"Yea, same, but our brother Percy is in his 3rd year," George said.

"Oh really? My sister is in her 3rd year too, her name is Pandora."

"Oh really! Thats cool-" George was cut off by an older lady pushing a trolly filled with candy.

"Anything from the trolly dear?" she said, and smiled a warm, kind, smile.

Estella reached into her pocket and pulled out a couple sickles. "Uh, can I have one pumpkin pastie and a Bertie Bott's every flavor bean please."

The plump lady exchanged the candies for the sickles and turned her head towards the boys. "Would you two like anything?"

The boys emptied their pockets, not a single sickle, and shrugged. "No thanks."

Now Estella felt bad, "Nonsense, here, what do you want, I'll pay."

"Oh you don't have to," George said.

"I do! You know what, we'll just have a couple of everything." Estella pulled out more sickles and traded with the lady.

"Have a nice day you three!" and with that the lady left.

We all sat there munching away at all the delicious sweets.

"Ewww," George scrunched his nose.

"What?" Estella asked.

"I got a bogey flavored bean."

"I didn't even know they had bogey flavored ones."

"Well apparently they do," George looked like he wanted to throw up, and we all laughed.

Suddenly we heard screaming in the hall.

"LEE JORDAN I'M GOING TO GET YOU!" a voice shouted with pure anger, Estella only knew that voice to belong to one person, Draco Malfoy.

Fred opened the compartment door and looked out, but he was soon pushed back into the booth by a small boy who ran into our compartment and slammed the door.

"Who are-" George tried to say.

"SHH!" the boy said, putting his pointer finger to his lips.

Estella, Fred, and George exchanged confused looks. After a moment of pure silence the boy peeked out of the booth and sighed in relief. He grabbed one of the Bertie Bott's every flavor beans and took out a bean, his face scrunched. "Earwax."

Each of them looked at each other in confusion.

"So who are you?" George laughed.

"Oh! Yea, I'm Lee, Jordan," the boy smiled and held his hand out.

"I'm Estella Sallow and these two are-"

"Fred."

"And George."

"Weasley."

They both held out their hands and they all exchanged shakes.

"That's quite a lot of candy you've got there," Lee said.

"The more the merrier," Fred smirked.

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The whole train ride they were laughing as usual, well, up until the end where each of them had fallen asleep.

"Wake up snuggle-bugs," Fred laughed along with Lee.

Estella rubbed her eyes, "What?" As she said that she realized she had fallen asleep on Georges shoulder.

"Shove off you two," George ran his hand through his fiery hair. Estella couldn't help but notice he had gotten noticeably better-looking over the summer, the long hair suiting him very well.

George had started blushing uncontrollably but no one mentioned it.

"We're almost here," Lee said. "Stella, you'd better get off George before that annoying Huffy Puffy boyfriend of yours comes." The three boys laughed.

"Don't call Cedric Huffy Puffy Lee," Estella rolled her eyes. And the train stopped with a loud screech.

"Whatever Sallow," Lee laughed and they each got up.

They all walked out of the train car and onto the platform, it was dark outside, just like every year.

Estella felt a warm arm wrap around her shoulder. "Hey angel," Cedric gave her a kind smile.

"Oh hey there," Estella got on her tippy toes and gave him a kiss on the cheek. The twins and Lee made disgusted faces, they didn't exactly love Cedric.

"So how was your summer?" Cedric looked Estella in the eyes.

"It was good, you know," she looked back at him. "I'm glad we got to see you at the quidditch world cup!"

"Yea," he paused. "Oh look," he pointed to his group of friends who were getting onto the carriage. "I better be going now! See you at the feast." And with that he planted a kiss on her cheek and ran up to his friends.

"I still don't get why you are dating him," Fred said.

"Yea honestly," Lee agreed. George was standing to the left of Estella in silence.

"Well come on then," Estella said. "We should get on one of the carriages before its too late!"

They all nodded and ran to claim their seats.