Chapter Twenty

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Song for the chapter: Wake Me Up-- Ed Sheeran


Bianca received two months' worth of detention for fighting with the guest school. Luckily, Cassie received detention as well. Unluckily, they had to serve their detention together. The detentions didn't start until after Christmas break, because Moody didn't want his holiday to be spent with the two girls.

"You're bloody ridiculous you know that?" Fred scolded as they made their way up to the Gryffindor common room. "You get a little buzzed and start a wrestling match with your twin? I was just about to get lucky with Angelina too and there you go ruining the mood!"

Bianca's face twists in disgust as Fred talks about his "relationship" with Angelina. Between the fight and Moody making Bianca and Cassie leave the dance while assigning them detention, Bianca had sobered up.

"She totally started it. Didn't she George?" Bianca turns to the other twin for backup.

"Balderdash. Well, technically you bumped into her," George replies with a shrug. "She did say some nasty things to you though."

"See," Bianca says like a child. She slumps down on a couch by the fireplace. "I can't believe I have to spend two months in detention with her."

"Oh, my, not the consequences of your actions," Juniper gasps and clutches her chest dramatically.

"Whatever," Bianca grumbles crossing her arms over her chest. "Can I borrow some clothes? I want out of this dress. She touched it."

"Godric you're dramatic," George says with a roll of his eyes. "C'mon I'll lend you some clothes."

Bianca follows him up the stairs to the boys' shared bedroom. When they go in the room, it's littered with different hair gels, combs, and even some scissors. Bianca can't help but think it's cute that they had tried with their appearance. She pictures them trying to gel back their hair and getting frustrated with it.

"What're you smiling at?" George asks curiously as he rummages through his wardrobe for clothes.

"Nothing," she says dragging out the first syllable. She sees a bottle of mead on George's bedside table. "Can I have some of this?" She doesn't wait for his response and takes a long pull from the bottle.

"Uh uh," George emerges from the wardrobe and takes the bottle from her. "We do not need you getting into any more drunken fights. Now put these on."

He tosses her a yellow knit sweater with a red 'G' on the front. No doubt, this was one Mrs. Weasley had given him for Christmas. He also gave her a pair of sweatpants that looked entirely too big for her. She wasn't in the place to complain though. She goes into the bathroom to get changed. When she comes back out, George is sitting on his bed drinking from the bottle of mead.

"Not fair," Bianca pouts coming to sit next to George and take the bottle from him.

"Ok but don't tell the others," George whispers as if they were listening at the door.

They began joking back and forth with each other. They made a game of telling stupid jokes, if the other one laughed at the joke, they had to take a drink. If they didn't, the joke teller drank. Between the two of them, there was barely a fourth of the bottle left. No one came to check what they were up to, so they turned that into a game as well, seeing how long they could hide up in the room.

"You know what George," Bianca slurs. She was a bit of a lightweight and she'd had a lot to drink. She slings an arm around the boy and pulls him into her. "You're my best friend."

"Don't let Juniper hear you say that," he smiles. He wasn't nearly as drunk as Bianca, but she saw him sway slightly as he stood up. "I wanna dance. We barely got to dance!"

"Okay!" Bianca grins. Her record player was still in the room, they spent a lot of their winter break working on products and fulfilling orders. Everyone liked listening to the music while they worked so she left it.

"Play that muggle bloke you played the other day. Y'know the one with the slow songs," George requests.

Bianca shakes her head and turns on Ed Sheeran. She had played Ed Sheeran the other day as a joke but George genuinely liked him. It was good music for a slow dance though, Bianca would give him that. Ed Sheeran's voice began to ring out through the dorm room.

I should ink my skin with your name

Bianca smiles drunkenly at George as she crossed the room to dance with him. He smiled back and his arms found their way to her waist. The goosebumps were more intense this time, but Bianca couldn't even feel George's fingertips through the thick material of the sweater. She shivered slightly and George grabbed her hand then spun her around. She stumbled slightly from the alcohol.

"Don't worry I got you," George whispers. They lock eyes, the light bounces off of George's eyes and they seem to glimmer like a bronzite crystal. Their gaze is so intense, neither of them daring to break it as they sway together.

'Cause maybe you're loveable, maybe you're my snowflake

"Have you guys fallen asleep- what the fuck is going on?" Fred's voice rings through the room. The trance is broken and George and Bianca jump away from each other. Bianca could feel the heat in her face as she blushes. Her stomach was doing weird flips again.

"We were just dancing," George says a slight edge to his voice.

"Ok brother," Fred smirks walking over to him. He whispers something in George's ear that causes George's face to turn red and he elbows his brother.

"Anyway, let's have a sleepover!" Lee says excitedly.

***

The next morning Bianca wakes up in George's bed. She is groggy and her head aches. She rubs the sleep from her eyes and rolls over. She comes face to face with Juniper who is wide awake and smiling at her.

"Bloody hell," Bianca gasps. She didn't know anyone else was awake, so it scared her to see Juniper staring at her. "Were you watching me sleep?"

"Don't say it like that," Juniper responds crinkling her nose. "I just like seeing people sleep. They're so relaxed and carefree like nothing can hurt them. Especially you, you're always so tense and anxious. When you're sleeping though, you remind me of little Bianca again."

Juniper had a small smile as she explained her quirk. It made more sense to Bianca and her heart swelled listening to how wholesome it was. "You're such a softie," Bianca teases budging Juniper lightly.

"Well we can't all go around attacking people now can we?" Juni smirks.

"Ugh," Bianca groans rolling back over and shoving her face in the pillow.

They let the boys wake up on their own. Bianca took a page out of Juniper's book and watched how peaceful they looked while they were sleeping. No worry lines, no clenched jaws, just the faintest of smiles. It was beautiful.

Once everyone was awake they decided to open Christmas presents. They never got around to it yesterday between the snowball fight and the ball. The group of five went down to the Gryffindor common room where they met Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny. Everyone sat in front of the fireplace as Ginny and Juniper handed out the presents.

"Now should we go youngest first or oldest first?" Ginny asks once everyone was settled.

"Oldest!" Bianca responds excitedly.

"It's only because you're the oldest," George says from beside her on the couch.

"You're one of the oldest you should be on my side," Bianca counters.

"I reckon I'll be in the middle either way," George shrugs. "I just don't want you going first."

Bianca sticks her tongue out at him then turns back to the group. They'd all been watching their encounter with various looks of entertainment on their faces.

"Right, well, if you're done with your lover's quarrel we'd love to continue Christmas," Juniper says. This shuts Bianca up.

They ended up going oldest to youngest, much to Bianca's delight. They each opened one present and it went around like that until there wasn't any left. Bianca had given her friend group their SPEW badges. She got the boys each a different variety pack of prank products from Zonko's. For Juniper, Bianca went the sentimental route and gave her a moving photo of them laughing at the end of last year and some makeup she'd been wanting. She gave Hermione some books she thought she would enjoy. Bianca gave Harry and Ron each a Quidditch poster and some sweets.

Bianca received muggle artist records from Hermione. Ron got her owl treats because he loves Lady apparently. Harry gave everyone a broom polishing kit, George also took Bianca's since she doesn't fly. Juniper gave Bianca an alarm clock that yelled in Juniper's voice. Juni said now Bianca would have the joy of Juniper waking her up no matter where she was. Lee got her new quills and ink and Fred gave Bianca her own copy of 1001 Potions for Her. George gave Bianca a picture of their friend group from earlier during winter break. In the picture, Fred was putting bunny ears behind Juniper and his face was scrunched with laughter. Juniper, who was giving Lee a nuggie, looked insane in a funny way and Lee was smiling up through Juniper's arm. Bianca was on George's back leaning over his shoulder with her tongue out and George was looking up at Bianca with a huge grin on his face.

"And if you press here," George says taking the frame and pushing a button on the back. "It plays a random song."

Sure enough, the same song from last night began playing out of the back of the frame. It was only a snippet of the chorus, but still beautiful. Everyone listened as the frame sang:

And then you lie with me 'til I fall asleep

And flutter eyelash on my cheek

Between the sheets

And you will never know

Just how beautiful you are to me

But maybe I'm just in love

When you wake me up

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