Chapter 24

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I awoke slowly, feeling more safe and more comfortable than I had been in a long time. It was as if there was a warm blanket wrapped around me that shielded me from the rest of the world. A tall, muscly blanket.

As I slowly came into consciousness, I realized that the reason I felt so comfortable was because I had a body wrapped around me. The one body that I shouldn't have come to for this very purpose. Well, one of two.

I reached up to rub my eyes when I started to open them, being blinded by the soft yet bright light that attacked my eyes the second that they were opened even a slit.

"Y/n?" Fred asked softly from beside me.

I cursed myself for moving; I could have just faked sleep for a little while longer and basked in the comfortable embrace from one of the people that I missed so dearly. I wished that I could have just laid there for just a few more minutes without having to confront what I had been dreading for days.

"Mmph," I murmured into my hands that shielded my face from the morning light.

I realized that they were probably both awake and waiting for me to say something, for I had been avoiding them for days and then just decided to come barge in and cuddle with Fred all night. I sat up, the comforter pooled around my waist, and I rubbed my eyes once more before finally opening them with a wince.

"Y/n," Fred asked from beside me again. "Can you tell us what happened?".

As soon as he asked that question, memories from the night before flooded through my mind and the same feeling of sadness and loneliness took over again. I couldn't help the tear that slipped out of my eye before I put my face in my hands again.

"Hey, hey," George said. "Shh, it's okay".

He had come to sit on the bed next to me, and he was rubbing his hand softly over my back. I could tell that both of them were being very conscious and tense when it came to touching me, and I felt horrible. They probably thought that if they touched me in a completely platonic way that I would mistake it as something else and run away, just as I had done these last few days.

I removed my hands from my face and decided to show them that I didn't think that they were doing anything with mal intent and I leaned my head on George's shoulder as a few more silent tears escaped my eyes.

He took the invitation to comfort me in the way that they knew how to and he shuffled over on the bed so that he was in front of me and quickly engulfing me in a hug.

The hug was like nothing that I had ever felt before. It was firm but  not suffocating, and it was more comforting than any words that could have been said. It let me know that everything was going to be okay, even though neither of them had a clue what was wrong. It caused more tears to fall from my eyes and a few sobs to escape that needed to be let out. He held me in his embrace until I stopped crying, and then for even longer than that. I had tried to let go out of kindness because he had been holding me for so long, but he knew that I needed more so he didn't let go. I hugged him even harder after that, finally taking a deep breath giving him one final squeeze before letting go.

He pulled away and searched my eyes, making sure that I was really okay. I nodded in response to his silent question, and he fully pulled back.

"Y/n, what happened?" Fred asked in a soft, comforting voice.

I took a deep breath. "Well, um," I had started to get choked up a bit again, but George placed a hand on my back and rubbed a soothing pattern, so I took another deep breath and continued on. "Harry asked me to the ball and I said yes because, well, I don't have a date and he's nice and well, I just wanted to go with somebody. But apparently Ginny likes him, or well has liked him for a while, but I swear I didn't know. I knew that she had a little crush on him last year, but I thought that that blew over because she hasn't really talked about him much this year. Or, well, maybe I wasn't listening? I don't know. Anyways, she and 'Mione got really mad at me last night and told me I was a horrible friend and then left, and I dunno, I guess I just believe them because how do I not know who one of my best friends likes? How did I miss that? I just can't believe I didn't notice. People tell me that I can be kind of oblivious at times".

Fred and George both looked at me with a 'no shit' look, and I smiled a bit. I was happy that we could joke about this.

"Well, after they left me in the room and I was all sad and then I got this letter and it was from my mom and she said that her and my dad are going on vacation over christmas break and that i can't come home. And I was really looking forward to seeing them and going home, and break is only in a few days and now I have to be here alone for christmas and I won't get to see my parents until probably either spring or summer. I really thought that they wanted to see me, but I guess going to America to go skiing with Russel and Janet was better".

George kept rubbing over my back and I could tell that both of them wanted to say something to comfort me but were letting me get everything out.

"And then there's you guys. I just- I didn't know what to do and I just missed you guys so much over these last few days and I literally didn't know what to do without you and I was so scared that I lost you guys. I don't even know how all of this happened and I just feel so bad. So fucking bad.".

They both opened their mouths to probably reassure me, but I continued talking because apparently spewing words out of my mouth was all I was able to do at the moment.

"Oh my god, oh my god. I'm so stupid. I can't believe that I came here! I'm so sorry, that's so selfish. And so insensitive.  I literally- i told you guys- and then I fucking- all I think about is myself. Oh my god, I need to leave, I'm so sorry for coming here".

I moved the comforter and started to get off of the bed, but a hand wrapped around my arm and I was pulled back to my spot on the bed.

"Hey," Fred said, looking me in the eyes. "You can always come to us. We will always be here for you. Always. No matter what".

Merlin, I didn't deserve either of them. "Yeah, but you guys-"

"No," Fred interrupted me. "Forget about us. We're fine. You can always come to us. Do you hear me?".

I nodded dumbly at him.

"Now," George said, causing me to turn and look at him. "Hermione and Ginny. They are both really understanding, just go apologize and explain that you didn't know. Ginny can be really hot headed and stubborn when she's mad, so she probably didn' t give you a chance to explain last night. She's always better the next day".

"Don't her and Hermione both have dates?" Fred asked, to which I nodded in response. "Tell her that you just really want someone to go with so that you all have dates and that you don't really have feelings for him. Because you don't uh... have feelings for him, right?" He asked.

"No," I said, chuckling.

"Okay, good. For uh, Ginny's sake," he said while scratching the back of his head. I just shook my head and smiled at him.

"Yeah, I can just say that but they told me that they didn't understand why I couldn't just go with one of you guys or something," I said with a chuckle, soon realising that I probably shouldn't have joked about that.

Both of them thankfully let out genuine laughs and Fred asked, "Did you um, tell them about us and stuff?".

I shook my head. "No, I didn't know if you guys would be okay with me telling anyone," I said quietly. We were approaching awkward territory.

"Merlin, you're so sweet," George said, causing a familiar blush to rise to my cheeks. "Of course you can tell you're two best friends. We knew that it would probably reach them when we told you and we are fine with that".

"Just tell them why you can't really go with us and why you want to go with Harry as friends," Fred said.

"Not that either of us wouldn't love to go with you," George added in sweetly. "I'm just not sure if I could handle getting to dance with you all night". He said it completely seriously, almost as if it was an afterthought.

"You guys," I said, feeling tears start to rise again. "I'm so sorry, I'm so-"

"Don't apologize," Fred said sternly.  He then glared and George for saying what he had said and George looked at me apologetically. I wasn't sure why he was looking apologetic at me, I was the one that needed to be apologizing. "Anyways," Fred continued. "Tell Gin that and I promise she'll understand. She's just not very understanding when she's upset".

I nodded and said, "Okay".

"Now for Christmas," Fred said with a smile. "Just come home with us".

"What?" I asked in disbelief. If I was raised to be anything, it was to be polite and respectful, and to never intrude into other peoples homes.

"Seriously. Our mum invited you herself, or she wanted us to invite you at the beginning of this year, but we all figured you would be going home like you always do. She really wants to meet you. We kind of talk about you a lot," he said with a wink and a cheeky smile.

There it was again. Apparently they were going to continue the teasing and flirting, even after I had rejected them. If anything, I was actually relieved. This hopefully meant that we would be going back to normal. I just didn't want to hurt them in any way, and I hoped that going back to normal like this would be okay.

"You can ask her yourself if you'd like," George offered. "Everyone really loved the idea of you coming for the holidays. We just didn't think that you were available".

"Are you sure?" I asked.

"Yep," they said simultaneously.

"And I wouldn't be intruding?".

"Nope," again, said at the same time.

"Harry comes too, and Hermione's there a lot of the time during the holidays and summers. You wouldn't be the only non-Weasley," Fred said.

"I don't know," I said. I mean, there was the whole thing with the twins and I didn't even know if Ginny and I were okay. I would need to talk to her.

"Pleeease," George begged childishly.

I gave in. "Fine," I said and they both got really excited. "If Ginny says it's okay. Only if she's okay with it".

"I'll bribe her with candy from Honeydukes until she says yes," Fred murmured.

"I'll go if she says it's okay without being bribed by either of you," I said.

"Fine," Fred said with an eye roll.

A moment of silence passed before I said, "Thank you guys, really".

"No problem, Princess," George said.

I chuckled and raised an eyebrow at him, silently asking 'really?'.

He just shrugged and we fell into a comfortable silence.

I truly, utterly did not deserve them. They treated me like a, for lack of a better word, princess; I couldn't believe that I had been lucky enough to find people like that. I found people who were sweet, funny, caring, had everything that you could want in a person, and then I went and stomped all over their hearts. I didn't understand why I couldn't feel the same way, they were literally perfect. I just had to hurt the people who treated me wonderfully. I just had-

"Stop beating yourself up," Fred said, interrupting my thoughts.

"Hm?" I asked, feigning innocence.

"I can tell you're mad at yourself and feel bad, but please don't," he said sincerely, his brother nodding along with him. "We caught feelings for you and we decided to tell you , even though we knew that you probably didn't feel the same way. If anyone should be feeling bad, it's us. We were too selfish and did something that could hurt our friendship, which could end up hurting you. Nothing is your fault".

"But-" I started.

"No. You are way too sweet to see that you did nothing wrong. This is on us. Just please promise that you'll stop beating yourself up," Fred said seriously.

I nodded. "Okay, okay," I gave in, causing both of them to relax a little. "I still get to feel a little bit bad though".

A moment passed.

"I'll never say no to a sympathy blowjob," George said, completely taking me by surprise. If I had a drink in my mouth, it would have been all over the floor.

Fred was snickering at his brother and my jaw was basically on the floor. "George!" I scolded, smacking him on the arm.

"What? Too soon?" He asked, even though he already knew the answer.

"Way too soon," I tried to say seriously, but couldn't help the small smile that took over my lips. "Now let's go do our last day of testing".











A/N Thank you guys so much for reading and thank you guys so so much for all the sweet comments you guys make my day every day


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