"Okay, we played this a couple of years ago, but I think I need a refresher," Hermione said.

"Rules of exploding snap are simple," Ginny started. "Each player has their own cards which they place face up, and then the dealer will turn up a card, and if that card matches either one of yours or-"

"Can we join?" George asked from behind where I was sitting.

"Yeah, sure," Ginny said dismissively before turning back to Hermione and continuing to remind her of the rules.

They both slid out a chair and sat on either side of me at the table, which was expected.

"Fun game," George said to me.

"Mmhm," I said while nodding and looking down at the cards in my hand.

"Real fun," Fred added.

I nodded again but kept my head down in my cards. It scared me to interact with the two of them around their family. No one other than Hermione knew what had happened the night before, and I didn't want anyone else to know that anything was going on between us before I talked to them.

Once Hermione was confident that she knew the rules, we started the fast paced game and started to play a few rounds, Ginny and Ron sharing the lead on won games.

Other than the occasional brushing of a knee, the twins mostly stayed good during the game and just focused on playing. They obviously weren't as competitive as their siblings so they weren't trying as hard to quickly get to the matching cards, but it was obvious that they had natural skill when it came to the game.

When we finished what was probably our fourth round, Molly called from the kitchen. "Will you all come help set up for dinner?".

We all yelled back a 'yes' and began to clean up from the game to go help.

Molly had made a very extravagant meal for our first night which looked delicious, and I felt bad that I hadn't offered to help.

"Molly this all looks absolutely amazing but you should have asked me to help. I can always be a helping hand in the kitchen," I said to her with a smile as we all helped move the dishes to the long table.

"Oh, don't be silly dear, you were having fun with your friends," She said, waving off my words.

"Next time then," I said.

"Of course," She said with a warm smile. "Now would you please grab the plates from up in that cabinet up there?" She asked while gesturing to one of the wooden cabinets.

I nodded and walked over to open it, noticing that the plates were up higher than I could reach. I didn't feel like asking one of the two people in the house who were taller than me to get them, so I climbed up on the counter onto my knees so that I was tall enough to grab them and set them down on the counter next to me.

As I was lifting myself up so that I could stand on my knees, I felt two hands grab my waist and help me up. When I raised myself higher on my knees, the pair of hands stayed in the same spot and fell down to my ass.

"Oops, my hands slipped," Fred said with a cheeky smile.

I looked down and glared at him, and his hands quickly disappeared so that he could hold them up in an innocent gesture.

"Take these to the table," I said and handed him a stack of porcelain plates.

Right as I was hopping down off of the counter, loud conversation and sounds of reunion erupted throughout the house and I looked over to the front door to see that Arthur had arrived home from wherever he was for work.

"Dad!" I could hear Ginny exclaim and run over to hug him next to Ron, Fred and George.

It truly was a heartwarming sight to see how much the kids had missed him and how much he missed his kids, even though it had only been a couple of months since they had last seen each other. I had to admit that it stung just a little bit to see, as I was seeing my family during that time of the year, but I pushed those feelings aside and went over to meet Mr. Weasley for the first time.

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We all sat down at the table and ate dinner, the food disappearing rather quickly considering how much there was on the table. I had started to understand that no matter how much food Molly made, it would somehow always get eaten in the Weasley household.

Dinner consisted of lots of talking over one another and a whole lot of laughter, and I couldn't help but smile throughout the whole meal at how nice it was to be with that many people. I had never had so much fun just eating dinner, and I knew that I had so many more nights of it until it was time to head back to the school.

Once we finished dinner, Harry, Ron, Fred, George, Hermione, Ginny and I all played whatever different games we could find in the house until we were too tired to play anymore.

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The next morning, I was woken up by Ginny shaking me and groaning "Y/n".

I found it weird because I was normally the one waking her up, not the other way around. I brought my arm up to block my eyes from the light as I started to open my eyes.

"What?" I groaned in return.

"Get up. Mum's made breakfast and then we're going shopping," she said excitedly.

I peeped one eye open in interest to see her hovering above me on the bed that I had shared with Hermione. Ginny had insisted that because she was the host, she would sleep on the couch that was in the room, but I was going to steal the couch that night and let her have the bed.

"Shopping?" I confirmed.

"Yep. There's this cute little village not far from here. It's just like a 10 minute walk. Now get up, I need to go buy christmas gifts".

I groaned again but got up and stretched as my body woke up. If there was shopping involved, I was fine with waking up.

Once I fixed myself up just a bit, still in my pajamas, I walked downstairs and a smile took over my face at the scene that was in front of me.

All nine of us were downstairs, but there was still a quietness that hovered over the room. All of the kids were sitting in the living room in their pajamas, Hermione curled up on the corner of the couch reading a book, Ginny, Ron and the twins talking quietly about something, Harry drinking a cup of coffee and looking out the window. There was a certain peacefulness that came with everyone being warm and sleepy.

Molly was flipping perfectly golden pancakes onto a plate that was piled so high with them, I didn't think they could ever get eaten. She already had even more food laid out on the table that consisted of almost every breakfast food imaginable.

There was a golden light that poured in through the windows and filled the wooden house, and the sweet smell of breakfast filled the air and made it even more homey.

I smiled and stepped off the bottom step of the stairs and headed over to the coffee machine to fill up a large mug with coffee.

"Good morning dear," Molly said with a smile as she flipped another pancake onto the overfilled plate. "Breakfast is almost ready".

"It smells really good. Do you need help with anything?" I asked.

"Oh no, you go sit with your friends over there while I finish up," she said kindly.

I smiled and nodded and headed over to the living room.

"Morning," I greeted as I walked in.

Everyone returned my greeting with sleepy smiles and I decided to go sit next to Harry, who was sitting on the couch on the opposite side of the room from everybody, looking out a window.

"Hey," I said while plopping myself down to him.

After that talk with him that I had during the party, I had decided that I couldn't be weird around him just because we both now knew that I knew of his feelings. I knew that that would only make things weird, and I also had realized that Harry was actually a good guy and that I should become closer to him as friends.

"Hey," he said with a friendly smile.

"Did you um," I said before leaning closer to him and glancing towards the other side of the room to make sure that Ginny was still in the middle of a conversation with Hermione. "Think about what we talked about during the party?".

"What?" He asked confusedly.

I rolled my eyes and started again. "About Ginny?".

Oh," he said with realization. "I mean yeah, a little".

I waited for him to continue, but he just took another sip of his coffee. I rolled my eyes again and asked, "And?".

"I dunno. I mean, i've always kind of seen her as a little sister I guess? I mean, I first met her when she was like 10, i've never really looked at her in that way".

I sighed and leaned back on the couch, defeated.

"But," He started again, giving me hope. "After you mentioned it, I can't help but um, y'know...".

"See her in that way?" I finished for him, sitting back up with a smile.

He nodded and I couldn't help but let out a little squeal. His eyes opened wide and his hand shot up to cover my mouth from letting out any more loud noises, my noise of excitement having gotten the attention of everyone else in the room.

I reached my hand up and removed his from my mouth, mouthing 'sorry' and hoping that everyone else would go back to their conversations, which they did.

"You're an idiot," he said quietly and took another sip of his coffee.

"I know, sorry," I said and leant back onto the couch with a smile of excitement on my face.

That smile didn't last for long however, because when I looked up I saw Fred and George on the couch that was seated opposite from the one that Harry and I were sitting on in a very close proximity. George was glaring at where my knee had been touching Harry's, something I very quickly resolved when I saw the deadly look on his face, and Fred was busy glaring at Harry himself. Harry luckily remained oblivious to this, probably lost in his own new thoughts of Ginny.

I rolled my eyes and stood up from my seat causing both of the angry twins to look at me instead of Harry, and I walked over to where Molly was finishing up breakfast. I insisted that she let me help set the table, and she reluctantly gave in and handed me napkins and utensils.

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After we ate, us kids all got ready for the day and left for the little village that Ginny had been talking about.

The short walk went by fast, just as Ginny had said it would. We walked on a dirt road for most of the time, passing by many beautiful little homes with even more beautiful gardens as well as a little stream that ran underneath a small bridge that we crossed over.

Once we arrived at the village, Ginny and Hermione and I set off by ourselves as we normally did, wandering through the stores. The little village wasn't as packed as any of the places in Wizarding London. There were people wandering around the cobblestone streets with thick sweaters and coats who carried little wicker baskets, but it was nowhere near as populated as Diagon Alley or Hogsmeade.

We went into a few different stores, and I bought a whole bunch of gifts for people as well as a few things for myself. I also grabbed some wrapping paper and some ribbon. I had already had a few christmas gifts ready that I had brought with me from home, and I bought the rest of my presents and the stores that we went into.

After finishing up buying everything that we needed, the time when we agreed to meet the boys at a little bistro was nearing. We slowly made our way to the little cafe, talking about our gifts for all of our friends with each other as we went.

When we walked into the little restaurant, we saw that the boys already had a table and walked over to them.

"Hey," Ginny greeted the boys, Ron and Harry with their noses buried in the menu as the hungrily looked for what they wanted.

Harry looked up from the menu and stared at Ginny, who obviously sat down next to Fred and started looking the menu over.

I sat down next to Harry and playfully elbowed him, giving him a teasing and knowing look once he looked over at me. He rolled his eyes and elbowed me back then went back to reading his menu instead of looking at his new crush.

When I looked back at the others, I noticed that Fred and George were again looking at Harry and me with jealous looks, obviously having missed the ogling at their sister and only seeing the interaction between the two of us.

They stayed bitter for the rest of our lunch, still making everyone at the table laugh all throughout the meal but not looking at me once.

After we walked home with our bags and unloaded all of our individual purchases into our rooms, we all resumed our spot in the living room from that morning. Molly and Arthur had gone out to run some errands, so we were alone in the house.

Ginny and Ron started up a game of exploding snap, and Hermione and Harry quickly joined in. Fred and George got up from where they were sitting and began to walk over to the table to join as well, but I quickly got up and stopped them.

"Can we go talk?".

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