This was the request: “Hey lovely author! I was wanting to make a request for Fred Weasley if that's alright! I was wondering if it could be like, based on the song Older by 5 seconds of Summer! If not that's ok, maybe it could be like the reader (she/her) is a Ravenclaw and she's never had a first kiss. She is best friends with Fred and George. She is in love with Fred, and he loves her too. They both kind of know but have been dancing around it and then something happens and he's her first kiss! You don't have to do this if you don't want to I understand! Have a wonderful day/night!💛💛💛”
"Y/n! It's filch! Come on!" Fred says as he grabs your hand. You run, guided by the man dragging you down the hallway. The portraits wizz by as you chase the red headed brothers around the victorian hallways, sparing glances behind you to make sure you are evading a boil covered filch.
You were a year younger than the twins. Shortly after you were sorted, you were trying to find Ravenclaw tower when you finally gave up and asked the help of a tall red headed boy leaning against the wall.
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"I'm so sorry, I can't seem to find my way around" you started "do you happen to know where Ravenclaw tower is?"
He smiled politely, "I'm afraid I can't help you, see I'm a Gryffindoor myself and still barely know my way around."
You looked down sheepishly "oh, sorry to bother you..." you started to walk away in no particular direction
"Wait, hey!" he shouted. You turned around on your heel to see him walking towards you.
"Sorry I just realized I never asked your name" He stuck out his hand "I'm Fred Weasley, at your service" you shook his hand and he bowed down eccentrically, making you giggle.
"Y/n y/l/n, pleasure to meet you" you returned his bow with an eccentric curtsey and he laughed to himself.
"Lets see if I can help you find where you are going, y/n"
That night, you walked around lost for at least 2 hours laughing and talking when you finally arrived at the door.
"You have to meet George, y/n!" he said as walked you up the stairs toward the common room.
"It seems so! If he's anything like you, we will get along just fine! Oh-" you slapped your head "of course he is gonna be like you, he's your twin brother!"
You both chuckled and he made you pinky promise that you would meet him and george in the great hall the next day. You went to your dorm and went to bed, thinking about how you haven't laughed so much in years.
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That was 5 years ago. You three had been inseparable ever since that night. You stayed at the burrow last summer and met their family. You had felt more at home there than you ever have with your own family.
You realized that you couldn't ever be without either of the twins, but Fred especially. You realized your massive crush on him as a second year, but you didn't want to ruin the amazing friendship you two had grown into. You said this year that you were going to tell him, really tell him how you felt. Then again, you said you were going to do it last year too.
You finally stop running when you hit the entrance to gryffindoor tower, painfully aware of how Fred still had a hold of your hand. You let go quickly and look down to hide your embarrassment. You lean against the wall, heaving to catch your breath.
"We need to go to bed, the first task of the tournament is tommorow. Do you still need help getting bets?" you ask. Many students were betting on who would win the first challenge of the tri-wizard tournament. Of course, the twins decided to make money off it.
"We already have 50 bets placed!" George said enthusiastically.
"Yeah, we are gonna make a mint off this!" Fred agreed.
"Go to bed, goofballs" you say looking each of them in the eye. "Don't get caught!" you call out as head toward your common room for the night.
"We won't!" they say in unison.
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You lean on your arm as you see the last of the student's trickling into the big empty space. All the heads of the Hogwarts houses were supposed to teach us all… something, but no one knew what. You chatted with the 4th year you've become good friends with, Luna Lovegood.
You look up just in time to see professor Flitwick dragging a gramophone double the size of himself into the large room.
"Luna, any idea what this is about?" you asked, breaking her out of a trance.
"Maybe they finally listened to my idea of using music to keep the nargles away. They are everywhere this time of year you know" Luna says in her usual dreamy voice, proceeding to go back into deep thought. In all the time you’ve known her, you still didn’t know what a nargle is.
“Attention! Attention Ravenclaw students!” Flitwick squeaked out. “I have been asked to share another tradition of the Tri-wizard tournament with you all today….” He paused for a moment before clarifying “A dance!”
All students turned and murmured in excitement. Hogwarts had never had a dance so long as you had been there. Your mind wandered to the twins, wondering if they were hearing the same thing. Knowing them, they already figured out a way to profit off it.
“Attention!” Flitwick squeaked once again. “So as not to embarrass ourselves, we will be practicing our dancing during this time. Please find a partner, and I will teach you how to do so properly!”
Everyone around you gets up and starts heading toward someone, even Luna. You didn’t know many boys in your own house so you found one of the other 5th years you knew from potions. You spent the hour or so trying not to step on his feet while he was trying to do the same. By the end of it, you had laughed with him a bit and promised to help him write one of professor Snape’s awful essays.
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“Y/N!!!!” You hear someone shout from the other end of the hallway. You look up from your book to see Fred and George running at you. You just stay there until you realize they aren’t stopping. You try to move out of the way when Fred and George both pick you up.
“Put me down!! You know I hate it when you do that!” You whine.
“Sorry Y/n, couldn’t resist seeing your face” George says.
They set you down on your feet and you go over to the bench you were sitting on before the rude interruption. You put a bookmark in your book and stuff it in your bag.
“Reading? At a time like this?! Merlin’s beard y/n, you should be out getting a date to the ball!” George says as he snatched your book bag from you.
“Isn’t it more customary for the boys to ask the girls George? And for god’s sakes stop holding my book bag over your head! I have homework to do!” You say as you jump for the book bag you can’t reach. “Speaking of which, why are you two coming to bother me if you have dates to go get?” You ask. You felt your heartbeat quicken. You were hoping with everything in you that Fred would ask you to go.
“Well I already have a date” George starts “It’s dear Freddie here that needs some help!” He hands your book bag down to you and you all start instinctively walking towards the great hall for dinner.
“Is that right? Something stopping you from turning up the charm Fred?” You tease, trying to get an answer out of him.
“You first y/n!” He teases back, nudging you with his elbow.
“I have to go talk with Luna, talk to you guys after supper?” You ask.
“Deal!” The twins say in unison as they walk to Gryffindoor table.
Maybe if you got the time after dinner, you could ask Fred to the ball. If you could get over your nerves that is. Ravenclaw is clever, but not always the bravest. You were hoping Luna could help you figure out a plan.
“Just ask him straight forward, y/n. You’ve known him for years, something like that couldn’t end a 5 year long friendship.” Luna said. You knew she was probably right, but your nerves made the advice hard to follow.
“Okay, I’m gonna do it!” You told her nervously.
The end of the dinner hour just came and you were supposed to meet with the twins. You could feel your throat close up. Your heartbeat was in your stomach.
“Now or never” you mutter to yourself.
“Hey wait up!” You called after the twins.
Now or never
Now or never
They didn’t hear you and kept walking around the corner where you normally met after dinner. They looked like they were having a heated conversation. You have seen the twins argue, but this looked different.
You stopped behind a pillar. Far away enough that they couldn’t see you, but close enough to hear them.
“Fred what were you thinking!” You heard George say. “She would’ve said yes you bloody idiot!”
“You don’t know that!” Fred quipped back.
They both looked around making sure no one was there.
“Why did you ask Angelina to the ball?! Are you mad?!” George said angrily
Your heart dropped.
He asked Angelina to the ball.
He asked Angelina Johnson to the ball.
Tears welt up in your eyes. You tried your best not to sniffle in order to give away that you were listening. You slid down on the wall and sat on the floor, not daring to do anything else. Just for a moment, you look around the corner.
“You have liked Y/n for years Fred! Merlin…” George trails off.
“I know…” Fred replied, looking down at his shoes in guilt. “What do I do now?”
“I don’t know.” George said solemnly. “Where is she anyway? She was supposed to meet us after dinner…” He stopped as he locked eyes with your tear filled ones. You got up as quick as you could, fleeing across the hallway. “Y/n wait!” George called out to you.
You could barely hear anything. Adrenaline running so fast everything was muffled. You looked back only to realize you left your bag where you were hiding earlier. Fred ran to pick it up just as you ran to get it.
“Y/n, y/n please” Fred started
“No it’s fine, I’m over reacting” You laughed dryly through your tears, not looking Fred in the eye as you grabbed your bag. “Please, I’m sorry I shouldn’t have ease dropped, I’m just gonna go to bed”
You grabbed your things and fled to your house. You were sitting on your bed when it all hit you. This wasn’t the end of the world, but you couldn’t stop crying. You rolled over and just tried to get some rest. You could deal with this tomorrow, but tonight it was too much.
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You hadn’t spoken to Fred since then. You would exchange awkward ‘Hello’s and ‘How are you’d, but not like you used to.
George came by the next morning to check on you and brought you coffee for your early morning class. He clearly felt sorry for you and apologized for everything.
“You can’t apologize for something that never was, George. But I appreciate you trying”
Now it was time to walk into that ball. You decided to go alone and meet up with friends there. Your dress was a beautiful blue gown. A dark blue bodice topped the dress as the long sparkling material became a lighter blue as it went down. You couldn’t imagine anything better to represent you and your house, except for maybe someone to appreciate it.
You descended the large steps in the great hall as your dress flowed with your delicate steps. You waltzed into the winter decorated hall, amazed at the time and care they had taken for this. You caught a lot of attention, but you could only notice Fred’s eyes on you. His mouth parted slightly as he looked at you and nudged George with his arm. He looked at you with amazement in his eyes as well.
You found your friends at a table in the corner of the hall. You made jokes and laughed a lot more than you expected to, but still felt sick to your stomach. The food served on the table looked delicious, but just as you were going to dive in you watched Fred take Angelina to the dance floor. Suddenly you weren’t very hungry anymore.
Hours passed and you were on the dance floor with your friends, dancing to some fast paced tune you didn’t recognize.
“Y/n, we are going to get some fresh air!” They yelled over the loud music “Wanna come?”
“I think I’ll just grab some punch and sit down for a bit, you guys go ahead!” You yelled back, fighting to get out of the crowd. You headed toward the punch table and grabbed a glass. You then sat in the deserted corner you had been sitting in earlier. You watched as the crowd dwindled down, and more and more left with their dates.
You found a somber looking Fred talking to Angelina. He kept fiddling when he was talking, which you found odd because he was never nervous. She put a hand on his shoulder and muttered what you could barely read as ‘I understand’. You then watched as Angelina walked away from Fred, leaving the hall. As if on cue, the song switched to a much slower melody. One that you recognized. One of your favorite muggle songs was playing.
I don't wanna get older
Without your head on my shoulder
On the day that you leave me
I'll forever be bleeding, love
He crossed the room straight towards you. You set down your glass and prepared to get up when you saw him almost run to get to you.
“Wait please y/n don’t leave” He pleaded. You turned around standing right in front of him. “I told her to leave.” He breathed out.
“What?” You asked.
“I told her to leave, Angelina” He said almost as if he was out of breath. “I told her that I needed to go with you, and that if I didn’t do this… I would regret it for the rest of my life.”
You stood there, shocked. Your eyes ran him over. He had brand new dress robes and his hair gelled back. You could hear him swallow hard, waiting for you to react. He instead extended his hand.
“Dance with me?”
“Always” you breathed out, taking his hand.
He took your hand and guided you out to the dance floor, spinning you around the face him and putting his hands on your waist. You put your arms around his neck and rested your head on his chest. You could feel the vibrations as he hummed the melody to the soothing song.
As forever comes closer
Hope the world will spin slower
I don't wanna get older
You held onto him like it was the last thing you would ever do. Your bodies rocked side to side, the natural feeling of you two together overwhelmed you. You raised your head from his chest to look into his eyes and he raised one of his hands to cup your cheek.
Our love is tailor-made
But we let the edges fray
Your wicked smile, it says it all
Mixed with my sad and cynical
“I love you, Freddie” You say, barely above a whisper.
He leaned down and brought his mouth to your ear “I love you too, y/n.”
He raised his head just enough so that your noses were touching. He started to lean forward when you stopped him.
“Freddie I’ve never…” You looked down, feeling a wave of shyness.
He took his hand and raised your chin. “May I do the honors?” He said sweetly. You nodded.
Before you knew what happened he tilted his head and gently touched his lips to yours. Time froze and you just stayed in that moment forever, the contact taking the breath from your lungs immediately. You were drawn back to reality as he broke the contact, but lingered around very close to you.
You tangle one hand in his fiery red hair and pull him slightly closer and make contact again, more confident this time. You could feel him smile into the kiss. Eventually you broke to breath once again.
“What took you so long?” You tease him. A smile brightening up both of your faces as you buried your head in his chest again.
I don't wanna get older
Without your head on my shoulder
On the day that you leave me
I'll forever be bleeding love
As forever comes closer
Hope the world will spin slower
I don't wanna get older
I don't wanna get older