When Redheads Collide (George Weasley Love Story)

"Wow," I breathed.
King's Cross was bigger than I had remembered.
I was the first kid to go to Hogwarts of my family. I was kind of upset that my parents couldn't come, but I understood. My little brother, Caleb, broke his arm, and Mom had to go the hospital with him. She's a muggle, so she couldn't cast a spell and, you know, poof, it's all better. Anyway, she was at the hospital, and Dad was on a business trip for Gringotts, where he works. He has to travel for his job a lot, because it involves recruiting goblins to work. They don't generally like humans recruiting them, but Dad has always been all for goblin rights, and the goblins trust him because of that.
So there I was, all set and ready for my fifth year of Hogwarts.
I'm Avery Taylor. My Hogwarts house is Gryffindor. I like Quidditch and classical music. I’ve got a crush on Fred Weasley, but only my best friend knows about it!!
Anyway, I boarded the train and sat down in one of the compartments.
Tulip Master, my best friend, came in and squealed, "AVE, I'VE MISSED YOU SOOO MUCH!!"
"Tulip!! How have you BEEN!?"
"I'm good, I'm good, what about you!?"
"Im fine, I'm good!"
Then Tulip said, "I saw Dave in the next compartment. Should we go say hi? He'll love you forever!!"
I said, "All the more reason not to go over! Let's NOT try to cultivate his delusional crush, OK?"
"Whatever you say, Ave!"
I huffed at her. Dave was a kid from Ravenclaw, and he had a crush on me.
Tulip and I talked and giggled for a while, and then Dave came into our compartment.
"Hey, Dave!!" said Tulip.
"Hi," I murmured.
"Hey, Tulip. Hi, Avery!! How was your summer? Mine was great! I went to France and Canada and the United States! My parents have family EVERYWHERE so we just stayed with them. There is this great wizarding school in the U.S., and my parents were about to send me there, but I said, 'OOOOOH, NOOO! I'm gonna stay IN HOGWARTS, because that's where all my friends (here he winked) are!', AND THEY LISTENED! So here I am!" he informed us.
"Uhm, wow Dave, that sounds like . . . fun," I said.
"Oh, it was!" he said.
I grimaced to Tulip. She just smiled and began asking polite questions about where in France he was. She also had family in France.
I looked out the window and saw the countryside rushing past. Then I turned and looked out the other window, facing out into the corridor. I saw the Weasley twins pass by and then disappear into a compartment. George came out with Angelina Johnson, and they walked out together, Angelina giggling and George chuckling along. Fred hung back a bit, and he looked bored. I started daydreaming about how he would slip in and ask if I wanted to hang around with him and George and Angelina.
"Avery!"
"Avery . . . ?"
Tulip's voice called me back to reality.
"Yeah? What's up?"
"What were you looking at?"
"Oh . . . nothing. Just . . . nothing."
"OK. You looked kind of out of it."
"Yeah, sorry."
"Well," said Dave, "I'll see you around. I've, uh, got to go. My, um, girlfriend is expecting me back, and, heh-heh, you know how girls get!"
"See you around!" said Tulip.
"'Bye," I said.
"See you around!" said Dave.
I let out a deep sigh as he shut the door and leaned back to doze off.
Tulip woke me up when we were about twenty minutes away and told me it was time to put on our robes.
"Mmm, OK," I said.
We went and changed and once we finished, we were only about ten minutes away.
"OHMYGOSH, I'M SO EXCITED!!" I yelled.
"That's just 'cause you're so smart that your brain doesn't even fit in your head. It's in your . . . torso . . . or . . . somewhere," Tulip explained.
"Oh, of course!" I said, "It's in my torso! That makes sense," I said. Then I whacked her.
"OOW!!" she yelled.
"Yeah, I bet you didn't think that that much pain could be inflicted upon you by someone with a torso-brain, did you?" I asked.
She just glared at me. Then we started giggling. Just then, Fred and George Weasley walked in.
"Talking about our dashing good looks, are you?" George asked.
I rolled my eyes. Tulip blushed.
"Yeah, actually," I said, "we were! In your dreams!"
"OH IT BURNS!" Fred yelled.
"What are you doing here, anyway?" Tulip asked.
"Yeah," I said, "weren't you happily torturing someone?"
"We, for one, are very civilized human beings, and though we DO draw immeasurable amounts of joy from the occasional tease, prank, prank, or prank, we also immensely enjoy, uh, reading," Fred bluffed.
"Of course you do," I agreed, "And tell me, what book were you reading?"
"Uhm, Hogwarts: A History," said George.
"Do you even own that book?" asked Tulip.
"Well, we did, but then we used the pages to protect our floor the one time we . . . well, never mind what we did, let's just say we don't actually own the book anymore," Fred offered.
I rolled my eyes.
By now we were at Hogwarts, and the train was slowed almost to a stop. We kept chatting, and left the train. We all got into a carriage, and we were on our way to Hogwarts.
"OH!" I said, "Do you know if Dave Holmes from Ravenclaw has a girlfriend?"
"OOOOOH, new LOVE interest, Avery?" Fred asked.
"Yeah, why do you care?" asked George.
"No, Fredward, he is not my love interest, and if you must know, George, I care because he told me that he has a girfriend, and frankly, I don't think he could keep one! Unless it's that awful Hufflepuff, Rebecca Equi! She'll go out with anyone just so she can say she has a boyfriend! Do you know that last year, she went out with a SECOND YEAR who had a crush on her?!" I asked.
"Oh, well, I know he doesn't have a girlfriend," said George.
"And I think I heard about that second year," Fred said.
"I knew he was bluffing!" I punched the air.
"He was just trying to impress you or make you jealous," said George.
"AS IF I'd EVER be jealous of DAVE HOLMES' girfriend," I said.
"I'd even feel bad for her!" said George.
I shook my head.
"At least she'd have a boyfriend. Unlike SOMEONE I know . . .," Fred looked at me teasingly.
'WHY OH WHY must he be so ADORABLE!?!' I thought to myself, 'This year, I'm GOING to make him fall in love with me.'

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