Darling; George Weasley

15. Night

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sorry for the long wait...
but chapter 15 is finally here luvs

hope u enjoy xx Emilee

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Estella sat, alone, on the couch in the Gryffindor common room. It's late, around 11, dinner had ended a while ago and most students have gone to bed by now.

It's Friday now, and Estella is no where near tired, she can't stop thinking about tomorrow. The date to hogsmeade with George. Although, some nerves struck her and she was a tad anxious, for the most part, she is exited.

Estella was curled up on the couch, a quill and notebook in hand, she was sketching out doodles of her and her friends like usual. She is a pretty talented artist, or she likes to think she is. She can remember her younger brother, Orion, used to admire her artwork as kids. Orion. She hasn't talked to him since his first year, which happened to be her third. Oh how she missed him, he was her best friend as kids, and now he hates her, and she is supposed to hate him, too. But she doesn't, she can't.

Her drawings mostly consisted of Lee and Cameron, the two loved posing and were fairly fun to sketch, others were quick, messy doodles of her cat, Casper. She did have a few, though, of Luna, that she had taken her time on, making sure she got everything perfect. And they did look pretty realistic. Estella loved using Luna as a model for her drawings, she was so ethereal and beautiful and lovely to draw. Her essence was pure and soft and just so peaceful. All of Luna's features popped out on the drawing and connected so perfectly, there was one time, in the beginning of 5th year, when she was finishing the sketch up in the common room when Neville had struck up a conversation with her.

"What are you drawing? Is that Luna?" Neville took a seat next to Estella, leaning over her shoulder to view the paper.

"Yea, how do you like it?" Estella pointed the book towards him so he could get a better view.

"Wow," his face was struck with amazement, and for a moment he was speechless. "She's gorgeous-" he paused. "uh- I mean the drawing of course."

"Yea.. of course," Estella smirked and looked back down at her sketch, filling in the last few details. "Do you want it?"

"Want what-?" Neville stuttered, the boy was clearly in love with Luna, it was so obvious. He just needed to work up the courage to ask her out.

"The picture dummy, do you want it? I have plenty," Estella signed the bottom corner to mark her work.

"I- uh... why?" He scrunched his eyebrows and shuffled awkwardly.

"Oh god Nev," Estella rolled her eyes and chuckled. "When are you going to ask her out? You two are obviously meant for each other."

"How'd you- uh- how did you-" the boy shuffled in his seat and he began to whisper. "How'd you know I like her?"

"It is quite obvious," she laughed and tore the picture out of the book. "Here, take this."

"Oh, no, I- I can't," he pushed it away.

"Honestly just keep it Nev, I have many more of her," she shoved it toward him and he took it, flashing her a shy smile.

"Thanks," he stood up. "Also, if we are going to talk about obvious things, are you going to date George any time soon? Or is the flirting never-ending?" He chuckled, Estella's eyes went wide and she couldn't help but laugh, too.

It all went downhill after that moment, though. She started catching feelings for the Hufflepuff, Cedric, and lost her feelings towards George. Now, of course, its the opposite. She would never trade George for the world.

Estella continued on her sketch, she was drawing a polaroid that she has of her and George. He has his arm wrapped around her shoulder and they are snuggled in a blanket on the couch of the common room. Both blushing with huge smiled plastered on her face. What she loved most about the picture is the way George was looking at her, no one else had ever looked at Estella that way before, he looked at her like she was the only girl in the world. And she loved him for that.

Time passed as she finished the outlines of their body's, and the quick marks of where everything was going to go. It takes quite a long time to finish the drawings, especially the ones she plans to add color to eventually. Since it was beginning to get late, she closed the sketchbook and placed it carefully into her bag. Estella neatly folded the blanket that she had over her and placed it onto the top of the couch. Then, grabbing her bag, she made her way up the stairs, saying goodnight to the remaining 6th and 7th years.

When she got into her dorm, both Angelina and Alicia were still awake, Angelina reading, while listening to Alicia ramble on about something. Both girls were laying in their beds, already in their night clothes.

"Hey guys," Estella smiled at them and climbed into her bed, pulling the covers over her.

"Oh hi, Alicia was just talking about-" Angelina got cut off when Alicia eyed her. "-oh uh.. never mind." She gave Estella a sorry smile.

"Oh, well night then," Estella flicked off the night lamp that stood next to her bed.

"Night," both girls flicked off their lights as well and sunk back into their beds.

Estella was as tired as ever, but she couldn't sleep, she was too anxious waiting for tomorrow. Her thoughts buzzed around her head, she knew how fun it was going to be. Her and George's first date, the thought of it sent chills through her body, and she couldn't help but smile to herself.

She closed her eyes, attempting to fall asleep, and after an hour, she almost did, until she heard the dorm room door creak open. She lifted her head to see both other girls sound asleep, but over towards the door a tired George crept in.

"George?" she whispered, he curved his lips to a grin at the sight of her.

"Oh hello love," he walked over to her and motioned for her to scoot over, giving him room.

"What are you doing George?" Estella moved over, allowing George to sneak next to her and pull the covers over him too.

"Goodnight Darling," without context, he snuggled his head into her and closed his eyes. She didn't question it anymore and cuddled into him as well.

It only took a few seconds for her to fall asleep, with his warmth next to her she felt safe and all the buzzing thoughts soon dozed away.

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Im so sorry this chapter is so short, there will be another chapter tmrw though

also TYSM FOR 4k reads, and 100 followers on here, AND 8k followers and 300k likes on tiktok! this is crazy ily all

sorry it took forever for this chapter to come out and its so short, too, thanks for all the support luvs <3

xxEmilee