Prank Wars

Summer.

It was always your second favorite season. You got to sleep in, didn't have to worry about teachers or homework..not that you actually did your homework even in school. You didn't even have to worry about trying to be a better prankster, which you very much were, there was no trying, but still, it was nice to not worry about.
But this didn't mean you stopped doing pranks. Those are still a daily thing.
But back to summer, this summer has been a pretty good one.

You went to Cedrics house with Sam many times, spending hours and hours on a boom, passing an old soccer ball around to eachother.
You even would throw a golf ball as hard as you could for Cedric to go catch, which he was surprisingly good at. He really only dropped it a couple times and your arm was hurting from how many times you chucked it.

Sam and yourself though, would pass a pinecone together, using sticks to hit it back and forth, then Cedrics dad brought you guys actual bats for the game
You couldn't have thanked him enough cuz he told you to keep it, it'll be like a good luck thing to win hufflepuff the house cup this year.

you and Sam both showed your dad, excitedly, waving the bats around.
He thought it was funny seeing you two practice in your own back yard, but it wasn't so funny that day you walked in with a black eye from getting smacked alittle too hard in the face with a soccer ball. (it what you had to use since you couldn't actually use bludgers)

You had also been working on new types of fireworks with Sam. Staying up late most nights trying to make different kinda explosions and figure out how to make it do all different kinda tricks. The soot and black marks all over your walls were getting harder and harder to hide... especially the ones on the ceiling.

Unfortunately, summer had come to an end. You and Sam were in the middle of getting up and ready for the day, you both had a longgg train ride ahead of you. It was back to teachers and homework...again, you probably wouldn't even do it.
But that didn't matter, you were going back to Hogwarts! sure there are teachers and dumb homework, but this year is quidditch! You had also planned many new pranks for the year! OoOoo and the food, man, your mouth water just at the thought of going back to it.

You rub the sleep out your eyes a bit more before smiling, quickly finishing all your morning tidy ups.

"come on bludgers!! Your gonna miss the train!" You dad calls from down stairs, it sounds like he was already walking out the door

You and Sam both put on your shoes, thought you were struggling and hopping out the door cuz you couldn't get your second shoe on.
Sam couldn't help but laugh at you as you finally get it on and quickly get in the car. You glare and shove them, you couldn't just let them laugh at your pain.
They went to go shove you back but your mom cuts them a sharp glare in the review mirror and Sam quickly sits back on their side of the car

"buT, Wha they started it!" Sam looks flabbergasted.

"no excuses Sami, you know the rules, no fighting in the car" she gives a glance to the both of you now, watching as you both slouch in your seats crossing your arms.

This rule was enforced when you guys were 10, y'all had started a fight as normal and one of you accidentally kicked your mom's seat as she was doing her lipstick and we'll...her lipstick reached her forehead that day.

You slightly smile at the memory and look out the car window as it passes different buildings and soon making it to the train station.

You had the same feeling you did your first year. Your stomach did happy flips as you hop out the car, eagerly going to get your trunk from the back, as you do though, you notice from the corner of your eye a family of red heads walking into the station. This sparks a thought you've forgotten and you grin to yourself but then smirk at Sam

"excited Sami, you'll get to see your lover boyYyYyy" you make kissy faces to sam and their eyes go wide as their face flushes.

"you haven't brought that up ALL SUMMER WHY NOW?!" they glare, trying to shut your fingers in the trunk of the car but you are too quick and move your hands out the way.

"don't question my ways" You say casually and start pushing your trollie, walking next you your dad.

Sam just shakes their head, trying to shake the red from it as they walk next to your mom.
Once you finally make it Into the station, you and your dad are quick to speed walk to platform 9 & 3/4, It was always your guys favorite part.

Your mom and Sam sigh as they have to put a bit more pep in their step to keep up with you and your dad, but slow down when they see you two have stopped. You had to wait for the family in front of you go in first.

the family of red heads.

Sam walks up next to you, and a small smile crosses their face as they see geroge.
Both the twins were standing there, waiting for Percy to run through.
You though, notice the boy next to them. He was Shorter than them, but he had his face covered in freckles just like theirs. You look to Sam and nod your head their way, and Sam nods.

"we'll be right back" you say up to your dad, and before he can say anything, you and Sam are sneaking up behind the twins.

You slowly tip toe and you decide you'll scared Fred. A good start to the year you thought.
You and Sam go up and poke their sides at the same time yelling 'MISS ME?!"

the twins both almost jump a whole foot in front of them, it had even scared the littler one and Mrs Weasley but you and Sam couldn't help but break out Into fits of laughter, but still managing to apologize to Mrs Weasley.

Your dad chuckles a bit and your mom slightly slaps him on the arm and you wave them over.

"hey Mrs Weasley! it's nice to meet you!" you introduced and tell her your name "I'm sure Freddie has told you all about me" you say in a smug tone obviously joking and freds glares. Mrs Weasley response though, caught you off guard and it seemed to do the same with Fred.

"oh yes! I've heard all about you! same with sam over there but from George" she gives a giggle and pats your shoulder "and call me molly, dear"
She turns to your dad and mom and smiles
"oh Mr and Mrs Knoxville!! so good to see you again!" She walks over to chat with them.

You on the other hand, look at Fred.
"so....you talked about me?" you blink, and Fred ignores you completely, turning to George and Sam, who had been already deep in conversation, probably talking about summer.

"oi, George, get over here" he waves his brother over and geroge does so, still talking with Sam, and Sam stands next to you, still listening to George.

You and Fred both look at eachother, then at them.

"and you say you don't fancy hi-" before you can finish Sam snaps their head to you, slapping the back of your own head.
You groan and hold your head, rubbing it and Fred let's out a snort.

You go to say something but you stop. You noticed the boy behind them, looking rather nervous.
"ohh.. who's this here"
You and Sam both walk around to stand behind him, both resting and elbow on a shoulder of his. You both looked down at the 10 year old with grins

"I..uh, uhm Ron" he says rather shyly.

"that's our little brother there, he'll be a first year next year" both the twins say.

You and Sam smiles down at him "well hello Ron, we look forward to having you next year."

Ron didn't like the sound of that, it was like he was seeing double, you and Sam had reminded him much of Fred and George and that meant no good at all. He looks nervously at his brothers. "...are these the hufflepuffs you were telling us about?" he questions.

both yours and Sam's eyes widen a bit and your eyebrows shoot up as you look up at Fred and George who both looked speechless.

Fred thanked the heavens that's molly came back over to change the topic before you two could push anything.
"alright dears, let's go, let's not be late!"

"she right, hurry now you two" your dad goes to stand behind you and Sam.
You grab your trollie and watch as the twins run in one after the other, then Molly and Ron following quickly behind.

Next was your turn, this time, your dad decides to run in with you, both smiling big as you make you way to the platform. You glance behind you to see your mom running in with Sam.

Once you were through, you went and got your luggage taken care of, and now you find yourself having deja vu. You were standing in front your mom and dad with sam, rushing in to give them both a big big hug.

"I mean it about the glitter letters" you mom raises a brow at you and you just smile and act like you have no idea what she talking about

"Alright, go get on before it takes off without ya! good luck, make sure to send me an owl right away to tell me if you made the team or not!" you dad leans in to pull you guys both in one more big hug and your mom uses the time to give you both forehead kisses.

Your dad let's you go, and you two give one last big wave, doing you traditional I love you shout, then duck into the train.
Your parents watch as the train blows it's whistle and starts it's way to Hogwarts.

"..Your opening the first glitter bomb" your mom leans on your dad, never taking her off off the shrinking train.

-

You and Sam our looking down the rows, not finding an empty compartment again. You sigh, rubbing you face. You couldnt even find Cedric which means he's probably all the way in the back.
"really should really start getting here earlier" you mumble more to yourself as you keep looking for empty compartments.
Sam was walking in front of you, so they were a few feet ahead of you. You saw them come to a compartment and smile, opening the door and walking in.
You smile, feeling reliefed. That means Sam found one with no one or at least Cedric. You run a hand through your hair and jog to the compartment Sam went into, chucking

"man, it shouldn't be this hard to find a- oh." Your face drops.

When you look in the compartment you find Sam sitting down. Right next to George.
You also saw Cedric and Lee talking about quidditch and Fred was tossing a small ball in the air with one hand.

"hey, they waved me in so I figured we'd just stay in here with them" Sam pats the empty seat for you.

You look at it, fighting with ur thoughts. You wanted to find an empty compartment to go over fireworks, to talk to Sam about the barking fire work you had an idea for.
Though...you saw your friends in here, and they all seemed pretty happy...even Fred at the moment. So you let out a sigh and walk all the way in.
You slide the door close and sit next to Fred.

He glances at you but quickly looks away, In fear of getting caught looking, but what he'd never know, is you were giving a glance back.

You two were the only ones not talking to someone and you hated being quiet, so you swallow your ego and turn to Fred.

"Your mom seems lovely, looks like she knows my parents too" you try to make small talk.

This causes Fred to give you a small confused look before sitting up in his seat more, "yeah...I noticed that. Wonder how they know eachother"

"I think our dad's know eachother from work, so I heard last year anyway" You slightly lean back in your seat.
You glance to everyone and see how they made conversation so easy, you do anything to hop into one of these conversations..but you didn't even know what they were talking about.

You glance back at Fred and see him still tossing the small ball, so you hold out your hand for him to pass it too you, which surprisingly he does quickly, not even questioning it. You two toss the ball back and forth for a bit, listening to everyone else's conversations.

But after awhile you got bored, you grab the ball once he tosses it back to you and you shove it in your pocket. This gets Fred's attention more

"hey, my ba-" he's starts but you cut him off

"relax Weasley, hold on" you pull out your wand.

you mumble something and a small small ball of sparks falls out your wand, and you catch it, tossing it up in the air a few times.

It was like you were holding a mini firework ball and it didn't burn at all. It something you and Sam uses to play catch alot.
You toss it up one more time and catch it, but then you toss it to Fred, which He instinctively catches it. He looks at it and smiles, tossing it back.

This was a bit more fun than the normal ball, this one would do loops in the air before it fell back in your hand, and it was easy to do trick tosses with it.

You smile as you roll it off your shoulder, sending it back to Fred, he catches it with one hand, tosses it up, it does a loop above his head then lands in his other hand.

While you two were getting along, Sam and George watched, and smiled a bit. George leans over to whisper to Sam "You think this means they'll be friends this year?"

"I sure hope so" Sam says, watching the smile on your face as you toss it.

The rest of the train ride was actually pretty nice, sure..there was no pranks..well little to none, but it was nice to just play catch while the others talk around you. You could never predict how the train ride would go, but so far, it always seems to go really nicely.

Soon though, the train ride was ending and everyone had already gotten changed into their robes. When the train stops, you take the ball you've been throwing with Fred and toss it highly above Cedrics head and it explodes, sending small fire works sparks. Cedric ducks to cover his hair and face and Lee, who he was talking to, slightly covers his face, but the twins and you and Sam couldn't help but laugh a bit.

Fred is the first to stand up, then you, but you had a grin that only Sam noticed so they watch Fred.
Fred takes a step but falls flat on the ground with a thud and a groan and you start howling with laughter..see little to no pranks.
Fred just laid there face first, and geroge looks to see how he'd fallen, and to no surprise, his shoe laces had been tied together, and with how you were laughing, you were the cause.
You wipe your eyes and go to step over him, but with his face still down on the ground, he reaches out and grabs your ankles, making you fall flat on your face with a thud.

Now it was your turn to just lay there. Sam and George blink before laughing at the two of you laying on the ground in defeat.

"come on now, we gotta follow everyone else to see were we go, we don't go with hagrid this year, that's for the first years" Sam chuckles and steps over both you and Fred, walking out the train and George followed right after them.

Cedric and Lee were the next ones to step over you guys, jogging to catch up with Sam and George and after a second, you roll over and sit up.
Fred glances up at you and props himself up on his elbows
"...tying my shoes together?" he raises a brow

"what can I say, simple but funny" You grin and hop up "come on before we get lost" you chuckle and run away

Freds eyes widen a bit and he turns over to untie his shoes and quickly getting up, stumbling a bit to run after you, a slight smile on his lips.

maybe you weren't that bad.

-

This new way didn't use boats that magically pull themselves, instead it was with carriages that pulled themselves.
To get there, you had to go through this muddy pathway..which you and Sam had to much fun with.
You jumped in a puddle and try to splash Sam, but you missed because they jumped out the way quickly. Sam always had the quicker reflexes out of the two of you and that was about to get you muddy in a blink of an eye
This is because, as soon as Sam dodges the muddy water, they go a quickly jump in one right in front of you.

you couldn't even process what happened before there was mud all over your face and robes.
Sam laughs loudly running away, and you chase after them quickly
"Oi! you snot rag!!" You run after, like you didn't try to do the same thing to them. As you run you accidentally shove into one of the twins.

"watch it mate!" they both yell out, but you ignore them. Sam runs past them again, leading you to do the same, this time though, you make sure to step extra aggressively in a puddle, splashing one of the twins with mud.

your luck, it was Fred.

He looks down at his robes and then looks back up at you, still chasing Sam down and around the muddy path way. He slightly grins as you run back by him.
He waits for Sam to run by before he holds out his foot in front of you. As planned you fall forward quickly, but his plan quickly back fired as you grab onto his robe sleeve, trying to keep from falling.

You both end up falling face first right into the mud. You quickly sit up after processing you fell and wipe the mud from your eyes. You look down next to you to see Fred sitting up from the mud, his face was FULL of it, it looks like he even ate some.

You blink before howling with laughter, you even have to prop yourself up on your hands before you buckled over. The mud made his hair stick up a bit and his mud covered face looks over to where the laugh is coming from.
He wipes his face with his arm to see you laughing, mud still all over your face except your eyes. This causes him to start laughing too, it was stuck in your hair and it looked like it was falling out your ears from how close the mud was to them.

You wipe your face from the rest of the mud still laughing and freds laugh softens as he looks at you, your smile still bright.
He suddenly got shy, but didn't know why. Fred never felt shy in his twelve years of living. Maybe it was because everyone was looking at him..though his never felt that way before when he had a crowd.

You feel a pair of arms pick you up off the ground, and same with Fred. Sam and George had picked you guys up so you wouldnt be left behind. Cedric was with them and took a good look at the both of you.

"I think you tripped" he chuckles and with a wave of his wand, he cleaned both you up so you wouldn't get mud in the carriage or castle.

You look at Fred and let out one last chackle before running to walk next to Sam.
all the students finally made it to the carriages, with no horses or anything to pull them. But this was Hogwarts so you were going to question anything.

You look around a notice most the carriages only hold 4 people...well that was easy, you'd take Cedric and Sam them some lonesome strang-

"guys! come ride with us" George waves you and Sam over to ride in a carriage with him and Fred.

well that works too.

you wave to Cedric, telling him you'd see him at the castle. You felt bad not riding with him...he typically rides everywhere with you and Sam.
You sigh and hop in the carriage, and you felt it jerk and starts moving it by itself.

The ride was actually quite nice, you and Sam spend half of it making fun of the twins, but then half way through, you and Fred decided to team up for once to tease the shit out of George and Sam.

you started to pretend to be Fred as Fred pretending to be Sam and over dramaticly acted out a very cheesy skit of the two of them, but it was cut off by both of them lunging at you two.

From and outsiders view, you could see the carriage rocking and shaking, from you and Fred getting both your asses kicked.

When you got to the outside of the school, your carriage door swings open, and you a Fred tumble out. Your robes messed up from getting body tackled in the small space.
You quickly straighten yourself up as you see Percy giving you and Fred a suspicious look.
You bow to him, like he's royalty but in reality he knows your very much mocking the up tight boy.

"why good evening sir Weasley, what an absolutely splendid day innit" you look up from your bow to see him glaring daggers. He just turns to walk away and is mumbling 'no my house, not my problem, not my house not my problem...Why's there gotta be double the doubles.'

See Percy, he was a very uptight lad, every one knew this, and the thing that gets him more upset than anything...are his younger brothers.
Fred and George would do anything in there power to make fun of him and such and you understood completely.
In your opinion, he was far too tidy. He never let anything fun happen to him. It's like...all the fun In his life had just... not ever been there. He was born with out it. He was also too stuck up for your liking. So you made sure to make him a target, for the same reasons his brothers do. mostly anyway. Percy hated when he found out that TWO pairs of pranksters came to Hogwarts, and hated it even more when he found out they hung out.

You and Sam became the Hufflepuffs he feared.

You and Sam actually became alot of people's feared Hufflepuffs.
Well no, fear isn't the right word, you and Sam actually became quite known and even semi popular with all your pranks and bravery to do them to anyone, your humor also got you two many friends.
They were more worried and anxious that they were gonna be the next victim.

You chuckle as Percy walks away and Fred is chuckling
"he hates you ya know" he says casually

"nah, he loves me" you give a smug look.

You look back to see Sam and George talking about pranks and it took everything in you to not join in and interrupt and from the looks, Fred was going through the Same thing.

You take a deep breath, you needed to let Sam breath...you didn't have to do EVERYTHING together right..? after all you weren't twins as Fred and George were...but in a way, you felt you were...sure you didn't look identical but..Sam's been by your side since (semi) day one and you've never been apart.
You watch for a minute and shake the thought from your head. you hated thinking about it, the thought caused a deep pain in your chest. You didn't think you'd ever wanna do life with out them, but you couldn't keep them all to yourself.

You take one more small breath and slowly turn, starting to walk away. Those were thoughts to intense for a 12 year old, so there was no need to worry about it. Sam was still very much with you and your partner in crime.

Fred watches as you walk away then back to Sam and George..he seems to be having an internal argument with himself but After a few seconds he turns to follow you.

"alright there mate? since when do you not join a prank conversation?" he asks, wondering the same thing about himself.

"why of course, why wouldn't I be?" you smile raising a brow.

Fred knew why, he felt the same way about George, and he understood that you and Sam were JUST as close as him and George were, it didn't matter you didn't look the same or weren't even siblings. He just wouldn't say it out loud for a long time.

"just wondering.." he says.

You two start to talk about pranks yourself while stepping on some stepping stones to the castle. Once In, you wave to Fred as you go to the hufflepuff table.
You never realized it could be fun being friends with Fred Weasley, you'd never admitted though.
But not even minutes later Sam and Cedric join you.
Sam gives you a small look. They were nervous about how you just walked away and in front of them but You on the other hand didn't even think they noticed.
You see the look and give them a bright smile in return and they slightly smile.

Once every 2nd year and up was seated and You sat with Cedric and Sam, the three of you start immediate conversation about something dumb. You and Sam were debating on if water was wet, while Cedric watched amused, feeding into both sides to keep the debate going.

You and Sam fought over dumb debates alot. Like over the summer your mom had to hear about you two fight over who was gonna have the red mermaid tail while playing mermaids in the pool.

But the debate was quickly put to an end when McGonagall walks in with the first years, there were quite a bit of them too.
You a Sam look to eachother then the first years and a wicked grin spreads across both of your faces. Cedric was quick to notice and he sighs, shaking his head and looking to the first years..man he hoped most of them would get lucky and not be a victim of the Knoxvilles.
-
The sorting went by as slow as it did every year. Which wasn't slow at all, you just hated being forced to be quiet for so long.
So when a student got hufflepuff, you and Sam made sure to be the loudest at the table. It got the teachers to glance at you, but it made the new hufflepuffs feel more welcomed, so most just smiled at your antics.

But right now, you and Sam were shoving your face with food as Cedric talked about something random.
Though his eyes widen, and a giddy frin covers his face as though he just remembered something.

"guys! quidditch try outs are next week! You guys are still going yeah??" he says, excited smile never leaving.

"you mental Diggory? of course we are!" you both say in unison. The two of you start to feel rather excited yourself. Being beaters was a rough and even chaotic spot, which is why you believe it's the perfect spot. It'll let out some of that pent up energy you have.

"good, I wanna walk there with you guys, I've practiced after you guys left and I only dropped the golf ball like..twice when my dad threw them" he says rather proudly.

You and Sam move to where your both sitting next to him, and you both throw your arm around his shoulders. It was time to be the hype team

"well handsome, looks like hufflepuff has there seeker then" you say confidently

"yeah, no way we could catch a golf ball in mid air and sure the Same goes for the rest of these 2nd years" Sam adds, mentioning all the hufflepuffs that are eating and in their own conversations.

Cedric, ad if he was already hyped before, starts to feel even more confident about the whole thing, smiling to himself and slightly nodding.
You and Sam can't help but smile at the boy, but you two remove your arm from around his shoulder and go back to your normal seats.

You guys go back to normal conversation and you look up slightly, to see the twins already talking to first years. You couldn't help but smile to yourself a bit...they weren't doing much, but it was still funny to watch the first years go to confused to laughing.

The first feast back to school was soon over and the head of hufflepuff starts to gather all the first year hufflepuffs to show them the common room and how to get it.
It takes everything in you to not push in front of the crowd and show them the wrong pattern to the viniger start to poor.
Sam could sense it too, so they rest their hand on your shoulder to keep you in place.

The common door opens and you and Sam walk in, going straight to your dorms. You smile when you see your trunk at the end of your bed and you plop down, tired now from the full belly.

"man, this day is always exhausting" you yawn

"or your just going into a food coma" Sam chuckles, going to sit at a desk, watering a plant that was resting on it.

"..yeah youre probably right" you say and not even a few seconds later, Sam can hear your loud snoring.

They chuckle as the turn around to look at you. Your face was squished in the pillow as your mouth slightly hangs open.
Your legs were spread apart and your arms were out, laying like a star fish.

Sam sighs and gets up, walking over to you, taking off your shoes you had forgotten to kick off. They then toss your blanket over you, making sure you are comfortable.
They smile slightly and go over you, deciding to mess with you. Sure they were gonna look out for you as you did for them, but poking fun was a personality trait of yours and theirs, they just had too.

" you're a life guard...go save the pretty lady" they softly whisper as they slowly start to hold your nose shut.

This very much starts to mess with your dreams. You try to hold breath for as long as possible before you start to move around, and sam tries hard not to laugh "good job, go save her mate!" they whisper encouragingly.
You though, run out of oxygen and gasp out and Sam let's go of your nose, laughing a bit and deciding they'd leave you alone now, and this was only because they didn't wanna wake everyone else up in the dorm.

Sam yawns and puts on their night clothes, crawling in bed, bundling up in the soft black and yellow blankets.
The dorms were nice, there were small arches in the wall, that your bed fit half way in, so when sleeping, you had a small bit of privacy with the wall covering your face.

Sam's eyes are heavy but the manage to yawn a small good night to you, even thought you were asleep and then fell asleep themselves.

-

The first week of school went by pretty quickly. You and Sam tried to stay quiet long enough for lectures, you threw paper at the back of Freds head, you had your first detention of the year, all the normal school year stuff.

But today you and Sam woke up with bright faces. The two of you practically sat up at the same time and look over at eachother with bright smiles.
You two looked like kids at 5am on Christmas morning.

"quidditch tryouts!!" you both say at the same time, hopping up out of bed. You and Sam both rushed around, quickly putting on the clothes you needed in a rushed manner. You started running around with the sweater stuck on your head when you couldn't get your head through the head hole. You just gave up and went to try and find your shoes blindly.
Sam runs over to you and yanks the sweater causing you to yelp but say thank you.

You two might've been in a rush, but the smile never left your faces.

Sam finishes and runs out the dorm and you quickly follow behind. You make your way to the great hall and sit down in your normal spots.
The twins noticed you two come in, you had a bright smile on and you and Sam seem to be talking non stop. There was no indication that you or Sam were planning any mayhem, this made them slightly look at eachother then back to you two.

Cedric runs in just as excitedly as you just did. he sits in his normal spot in front of you.
"guys! this is it! by the end of the day today we could be on the quidditch team!" he beams.

"yeah, we are gonna make the team so good! we are gonna win the house cup for sure!" Sam says excitedly
"they'd have to be bloody mental to not put us the team" you say confidently and Cedric and Sam both agree.

The rest of breakfast was spent ranting about the team and how the season is going to go. You couldn't hardly handle the excitement, so much so, that when breakfest ended, Cedric, Sam and you all darted out the great hall. It left the twins and a couple other students watching you guys in surprised, but you could care less about the looks you could've been getting.

You could feel the wind in your hair as you ran as fast as you could down the corridors. The smile on your face seemed to be permanent, you even looked to Sam's and Cedrics faces to see they too couldn't get rid of their smiles.
The running came to an end though when you found your way to the quidditch field.

Sure, you've been to the field many many times, you never missed a game. Though that was up in the stands, this...this was a different view. You were on the field, your feet on the grass of were many players have fallen, this was better than the stands.
You look up around yourself and see everything that's above your head. You couldn't help but picture yourself zooming around up above, hitting the bludgers to where ever you wanted.

"alright gather around!" you heard a voice yell.

You look over to see the captain calling all the people to gather around. You, Sam and Cedric all happily gallop over to stand in a circle to listen to the captain start speaking

"okay, welcome to the quidditch try outs. Not everyone will make the team, but we wish luck to ever single one of you" he looks to everyone before smiling "let's get on with it!"

So, the try outs started. You and Sam goofed the entire time, the smiles never left your face.

You and Sam were handed bats by the captain, to see how well you could handle the blugers. To say the least, you two had fun showing off.

You had hit it to Sam multiple times, laughing at eachother if it almost hit the other, but little did you notice, it impressed the captain.
You hadnt even feared getting hit by the bludgers...you seemed to not even be stressed about the try outs at all

Though, something you did had him watching intensely.

You had practiced this over the summer, but you hit the bluger to Sam, then you slowly start to stand up on your broom. You were wobbly at first, but soon gained your balance.

You yell in a cheery tone at Sam, and they do one back, hitting the bluger back at you full speed with a grin spreading across their face.

Your eyes widen a bit, but you tighten your grip as it hurls towards you. You swing at it, sending it quickly to the sky, and you hop back down to sit on your broom, almost falling off bit you quickly catch yourself.

"DID YOU SEE THAT" you yell to Sam

"YOU DID IT!" Sam throws their hands up

"YEAHHHH" You both cheer, throwing your fists up in the air, you didn't even realize you had an audience.

"you two, Knoxvilles!! down here!" the captain yells, pointing at you and Sam.

The two of you look at eachother then the captain with eyebrows raised. You weren't scared to be in trouble, you were nervous he was about to tell you to bugger off. For once in your life, you were regretting making a reckless decision.

You look to Cedric, who had a worried look and that just makes your stomach twist more. You take a deep breath before slowly going to the ground, sam following behind.

You hop off your broom when it's close enough to the ground and sheepishly walk up to the captain.

"You two...that was dangerous" he started and you and Sam winced but he continued "..and quidditch is a dangerous sport."

This made you look up at him.

"You two take risk, I've noticed that since last year. You two don't fear the bludgers and instead invite them to do their worst. I don't let really anyone know right away if they got a spot, but I wanna welcome you two to the team as our brand new beaters" he says in a hushed tone but smiling.

You and sam stand there, stunned. you could hardly process what happened, he just told you spot on you got the spot. You were on the hufflepuff quidditch team.

"..really...WAIT REALLY" you say, a smile spreading itself across your face

He nods and pats both of your shoulders "you two are good to head to the showers now. List will be posted tomorrow on who the rest your team is and practice starts next week" he smiles.

You nod quickly, sprinting off the field, Sam following close behind. You two kept rambling over eachother but yet could understand exactly what the other was saying.

you two finally turn to each other with big smiles and both say "wicked."

-

The next day at breakfast, you and Sam quickly checked the list with Cedric, searching for his name..and it didn't take long to find. Right above your name was his. He was the first name on there.

Hufflepuff seeker: Cedric Diggory.

You and Sam gasp with big smile, Cedric seemed to still be processing though.
You slung your arm around his shoulder and Sam quickly followed your lead.

"Diggory my boy you've done it!" you say shaking his shoulder a bit.

"you've made the top spot!" Sam add, shaking his shoulder as well.

Reality then sets in for the slightly shorter boy. A smile spreading across his face.

"IM THE SEEKER, DO YOU SEE THAT?!" he says pointing to his name and looking at you and Sam.
You smile brightly and nod, letting him know his eyes weren't lying to him.

The three of you jump around like a couple of school girls, gaining a couple a Snickers from some students, but none of you cared in the slightest.

"you guys! we did it! we've made the the team, we are officially on the hufflepuff quidditch team!' Cedric says to you guys like he couldnt believe it, "practices start next week, oh man, this is gonna be so fun with you guys there" he is more ranting to himself now.

You slightly chuckle and glance over to Sam who looks very amused by the ranting boy in front of them.

You were happy for Cedric, and honestly thought he was there best bet for winning the games for them, but you were still thinking about yesterday.

"𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬, 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳."

The sentence kept playing in your head. He already knew who you and Sam were. He already knew about the recklessness. That means it was working, you were leaving a mark.

You smile too yourself, yes, this was the plan, it's what you wanted, but now that it's slowly happening, it felt better than what you thought it would.
Though it's been a hot minute since you've actually thought about that plan. you had been so caught up on Weasley you had forgotten about it, only yesterday were you reminded.

Your thoughts were cut off though when heard a loud whistle go off.
You quickly turn around to see something heading right to you at a very fast speed. Failing from ducking from it, a firework blew up right in front of your face.
It didn't hurt, but it definitely scares the shit out of you. You had fallen from the big boom and looked up confused, seeing the last bit of the color firework fade.
Soot covered your face as you look around, Sam was laughing while Cedric looked worried.
He helps you up, asking if your okay, but you just look around, trying to figure out what even happened.

That is untill you caught a glimpse of the twins.
They were laughing so hard they could barely stand up straight. Though one was laughing harder than the other. Fred Weasley.

You blink before you give a shit eating grin, slowly crossing your arms.

So it continues. War must go on.

-

"hey, calm down now, do we really need to go in there" Sam asks nervously

You were sitting on your bed, looking over some notes on your paper while Sam was on their bed, writing a letter to your guy's parents.

"yes Sam, if I'm correct, the twins stole the map, thee...the what's it called. I over heard them talking about it in class...uhmm..OH the marauders map!" You say proudly

"..and that is?"

"well what I got from their conversation, was it's a map were you can see where ANYONE is going"

"okay...that's pretty cool, but what's that have to do with us going into the forbidden forest" Sam says deadpanedly.

"I'm so glad you asked Sami, the twins are nosey, SO if they see us going into the forbidden forest, they are wanna follow us. So when they do, we are gonna give them the fright of their life's" you explain matter of factly

Sam thinks for a moment before they smile and nod, agreeing with the idea. They thought it'd be fun to scare George, they wanted to see his reaction. It made them smile a bit, to think about the other, maybe they'd get to hug him to make him feel better if he got scared too ba-

"stop thinking about George and how you fancy him and would protect him if he got 'too scared'". you say in a monotone voice, not looking up from your paper

Sam face turns a bright red as they look over to you with a shocked expression..more of how you knew exactly what they were thinking, but they'd never say that

"I WASN'T I- SHUT UP. when are we doing the stupid idea. which I find it suspicious you wanna one up Fred so bad, like yout obsessed with him" they say, trying to get under your skin.

See, they had a theory about you and Fred. You two had been butting heads since day one..but yet getting closer as friend as the year goes on. They are secretly suspectimg you'll feel about Fred they way they feel about George soon. But it was a theory. Nonetheless,That didn't stop them from making sly comments

You though, completely ignore that last bit. "after our first quidditch game tomorrow, Which is actually against Gryffindor"

"aren't they the new beaters as well?"

"yes i think...so that'll be fun" you smile and so does Sam.

You both agreed..playing a game against them would be interesting.

So, the next day came fairly quickly, you were eating breakfast and you could feel your stomach turn in knots though you'd never dare to admit it. This Knoxville feared nothing, not even a first game.

Sam seemed to pretty nervous as well and we'll Cedric..he didn't hide it at all. The poor boy was literally sweating from nerves.

"You okay there princess? almost seem nervous you do" you look to Cedric and tease a bit.

He looks at you and nervously smiles but it fade as quick as it appeared.
"what if..what if I make a fool of myself? fall off my broom? lose the game for the team." he quietly ranted.

you and Sam look to eachother before looking back a Cedric. You let out a small sigh and get up, walking over to sit next to Cedric rather than in front of him and sam does the same.
Then you both wrap your arms around him, giving him what your guys called the comfort hug.

This was something you two only did with eachother, it was a rare thing. You hardly did the comfort hug because well, you hardly ever needed it. You always just laughed at your situations. But Cedric seemed to need it right now, he looked as if he was gonna faint.

"oi, mate, if anyone is falling off the broom it'd be us" you speak with a soft chuckle

"yeah, and your the best 12 year old seeker I've seen! your gonna do brilliant!" Sam adds.

Cedric was shocked by the sudden affection, it wasn't like you two AT ALL.
Though as soon as the shock wore off, he melted into the hug and actually let the comfort take over, you two both rest your head on top of his and let him have as long as his needs

Soon he was smiling and nodding to himself "yeah...yeah you're right!..thanks guys" he says as you to let him go and pat his back.

"there's our Cedric!" you both say in sync.

You had a few glance at the three of you, no one has ever seen you genuinely hug someone with such comfort, it wasnt in your nature really, but little did people know..you and Sam were actually some of the biggest teddy bears you'd ever meet.

Though the moment was cut sort by two figures standing behind the three of you.
You and Sam both pause and slowly look up to see the twins staring down at you, wearing their quidditch sweaters, just as you three were.

"odd way of getting ready for a game Knoxville" Fred raises a brow down at you and you notice George kinda kick his foot.
You just smile though and stand up "awww were you wanting one too" you open your arms

Fred cheeks go pink and he looks at you confused, he thought you were genuinely asking him, but before he can actually think about it, you keep talking

"it's normally with the both of us, it ain't a comfort hug with out two pairs of arms" you say teasingly and Fred takes a step back as he sees Sam open their arms as well.

George though smiles "hey, hugs are great, Im nervous, let me have a comfort hug"

you were caught off Guard for a second, not expecting someone to act want one, but soon smile as you look at Sam, they already were smiling widely and wrapping their arms around him.

The two wore a smile and you almost felt like you shouldn't join. This was until you saw Sam look at you, mentioning for you to complete the comfort hug.
you slightly sigh before walking in and giving the red head a long hug, you both envelope him in a hug, it was like one you just gave Cedric. It was full of nothing but comfort. It was like a parent giving their kid the biggest hug after they had woken up from a nightmare.

This caught George off guard. He wasn't expecting the comfort hug to be...so comforting. His smile slowly fades as he takes in the feeling, it was warm and he felt...safe.
Fred notices his brothers vibe change and he got curious, was it an awkward hug? it didn't look like it..maybe it was just painfully long.

Cedric chuckles a bit watching George melt into the hug as he did. It was definitely nice, and could make anyone feel better, but he knew this wasnt something that was typically shared, so he knew it'd be a miracle to ever see it again.

You pull away, before Sam does, leaving the other two still in a hug.
You glance at Sam and George, then look to Fred with a smirk and an eyebrow raised.
Fred was giving you the same look, you then both make a gagging face.

You and Fred slightly clear your throats causing George and Sam to jolt apart and before you can even say anything Sam grabs you and Cedric, forving you two out the great hall

"wELL WE REALLY MUST BE GOING, SEE YOU ON THE FIELD" they say quickly to the twins before you three turn outta sight.

George face was red and Fred let's out a dramatic sigh "ahhHH, young loveeee"
George punches his shoulder "no you git! The hug was actually...the hug was nice Fred. It really is a comfort hug"

"you just liked it cuz Sam was hugging you" Fred wiggles his eyebrows

"no! aw nevermind, let's get going" George huffs and start walking away as Fred laughs

"oi, you sure are laughing a lot for someone who go red when Knoxville offered a hug" George shoots a glare

"i- wot? nu uh" Fred crosses his arms, completely in denial with realizing it.

"...sure, come on Fred" George slightly sighs but smiles.

-

You were walking out to the field with your team, Cedric was standing in between you and Sam, slightly looking up at the two of you from you two being taller.

You glance down at Cedric and pat his shoulder giving him a comforting look. Cedric smiles a bit before looking back to the entrance to the field. The captain tells everyone to get ready on their brooms, whichis done so.

You and Sam looks down at Cedric "Ready Diggory?"

"ready Knoxvilles."

The team then kicks up of the ground and to the field circling above the ground, you were face to face with Fred.
It was hard to tell them apart with the uniforms but you could just tell. The way he looked, the way his smile was worn on his face, and you could tell he had the straighter nose..so you were no doubt in front of Fred.

madam hooch looks up to all her players, holding a quaffle

"I want a nice, fair game. understand?" she looks around the circle of players looking down at her nodding. She then blows her whistle and throws the quaffle up in the air

and the game begins.

The game was going smoothly, you made sure to watch Cedric nearly the whole time, you didn't want any of his fears to come true, but it did get a little difficult with the bludgers, they seemed to be everywhere, but that wasn't an issue for you.

speaking of bludgers, you see one heading right for Cedric as he seems to be chasing something. Your eyes widen and you lean forward on your broom to go faster and faster. You started to get worried you wouldn't make it, you didn't have to ready your bat, it was already to close, so you fly right in front of Cedric, taking the hit of the bludger.

It hit you right in the shoulder, making you do multiple spins in the air on your broom before you could settle yourself
You held your shoulder tight and saw Cedric looking at you worried

"Diggory!! I'm fine don't stop!! go get it!" you yell waving for him to keep chasing it

Cedric slowly nods before zooming off again. You slightly smile and pant, holding your shoulder, you took a minute to yourself before shaking it off, you'd definitely need ice after this.

You were about to fly off when a flash of red was suddenly in front of you.
You got ready for some Gryffindor to make fun of you..but instead you saw Fred lifting up his googles

"Knoxville! are you okay? that looked like a nasty hit.."

You blinked and couldn't find words..was he asking you? was there another Knoxville?

"uhm..yeah no, it sore, but I'll manage..heh you aren't worried are you? you do know we aren't on the same team right" You raise a teasing brow.
"wh-what no! uhm, Sam looked worried and you know how George gets whent they are worried" Fred says quickly.

You look at him and softly smile before chuckling and zooming off, a bludger was about to hit a chaser, so you went to stop it, but you gladly hit it and sending it to Fred.

Fred tried hitting it, but it hit the tip of his broom, making him do barrel roll, so he holds onto his broom like a sloth on a branch.

When he stops spinning he shakes his head and looks at you dazed at you can't help but laugh.
Just as he was about to yell something at you, you could hear Lee over the announcement

"AND CEDRIC DIGGORY HAS CAUGHT THE GOLDEN SNITCH! HUFFLEPUFF WINS!"

Your head snaps over to Cedric who was cheering, waving the snitch around in his hand.
You throw both your fist up, cheering loudly

"SEE I TOLD YOU" you and Sam both shout, clapping loudly.

The teams make their way to the ground and you and Sam bolt to Cedric, tackling him in a hug.
Cedric hugs you both smiling brightly

"you guys were right! I did it!" he says with a bright smile

"of course we were!" you both say, picking him up to let him sit on your and Sam's shoulders, but you make sure he's not in your shoulder that got hit.
The crowds started to swarm as we all cheered.
Hufflepuff had won the first game of the season.

You walk with Cedric on your shoulder all the way to the common room, the rest of the team following behind and same with mist Hufflepuffs.

You and Sam sat Cedric down, patting his back while the crowd starts to crowd him.
You and Sam step back so he can meet the new people and get the attention he deserves. It was known to everyone the seeker got the most attention off the team, which you were completely fine with, watching Cedric happy with the attention was enough for you. This means he wouldn't be scared of the next game.

Sam pats your shoulder but quickly moves there hand when you wince harshly and move away a bit

"hey woah are you okay? it still hurts" they say worriedly, getting alert.

"nah, just sore, it's all good" you smile up to Sam, but mentally refuse to move your arm.
Sam knew this wasn't true, but they knew it was pointless to argue with you.

"alright then...let's go get changed for dinner then, it was a long game today" Sam says, worry still slightly in their voice

You two disappear, getting into your normal robes for dinner, it took you a little longer than normal to put your shirt on though which Sam was quick to notice.

"are you sur-"

"I'm fine Sam, really, let's go eat, im starving" you smile to Sam before walking out. Sam just sighs, following after you.

You made it to your normal seat, smiling when you see your food already there. You take a seat and grabbing a plate and fillimg it as much as you could. Sam took their normal seat next to you and started doing the same..but something was missing.
You look around and noticed Cedric seat was empty..hm must've still been getting congratulated. You shurg it off and smile to yourself, happy for the lad.
But with him gone, you had better view of the twins, it was weird..they didn't seem be planning anything like they normally are when you look over. instead, you actually caught one of them giving you a worried glance.

This was confusing, why did he give you a worried glance..you thought Fred didn't care. Maybe George is annoying him about how worried Sam looks. yeah. that's probably it.

"hey...let's do the forbidden forest a bit later in the year..save it as a good one" you say slightly rubbing your shoulder but quickly jerking your hand back.

"thank God you have good ideas" Sam's sighs a breath of relief and laughs at your offended face.

"all my ideas are good." you huff

"mhm.." Sam glances at you but looks up to see Cedric walking over, but he has a group of people with him. more than normal.
This made you and Sam look at eachother for a second, then to the table trying to figure out how'd they make room for everyone.
Cedric though, had waved them all goodbye and sat in his normal spot.
His popularity was climbing, but you and Sam were his best friends and meals were meant to be with you guys, same with walking to class and all that good stuff. It honestly made you and Sam feel special in a way, like he was your little brother (who was your age but a couple months older actually) and he saw you guys as big siblings he looked up too. So just because he has air of new friends, didn't mean he'd stop talking to you guys any less.

Cedric looks to you though, eyes full of worry "how's your arm?"

"ah, it's all good" you give a thumbs up.

"oh really?..try to lift it" he slightly crosses his arms.

You confidently go to lift it but regret it immediately, you let out a yelp, quickly going to hold your shoulder and you look at Cedric already knowing the look he gave you.

".. your pain tolerance says high, that means if that hurts you something's terribly wrong" Sam sighs.

that was all Cedric needed to hear, he gets up quickly and walks over to your side of the table and when he makes it to you he's gently forcing both of you up.
"come on. we are going to the hospital wing now" he says

"Cedric, I really do-"

"now." he states bluntly.

you and Sam blink and don't dare fight back, he seemed to be in serious mode and Cedric was the only one you didn't mess with when he was this way, so you defeatedly follow him.
The twins look as you the three of you get up, they didn't like the look that was on Cedrics face and for some reason, it made Fred heart drop

"follow? follow." they both say as they turn to look at eachother. With a nod, they both get up, following the trio down to the hospital wing

"oh yes, that's definitely a broken shoulder you've got there" madam pomfrey says as she's walking to you quickly with stuff to fix it.
You avoid Cedrics AND Sam's I told you so looks, forcing you to look at the entrance. When the door opens your look of shame turns into a look of curiosity then it turns into a grin when you see the bright red hair peak in.

"so you were worried" you tease, looking right at Fred from your cot.

Fred tried his best to ignore your smug look and shake his head "no, geroge was worried about Sam here"

"what? hey it wasn't ju-" George starts but is jabbed in the side by Fred, so he shuts up, but is very confused about it.

"well then, Sam's just fine they are" you smile at George and then look to Sam wiggling your eyebrows.

They shoot you a glare then look at George smiling like they weren't just shooting daggers at you..in all honesty it reminded you alot of mom.
Sam walks over to George and pulls him to the side, to talk to him privately. You would like to think it was them confessing so they could start their childhood lovers trope. Ya know, they meet at 11, fall in love, and stay together through thick and thin, but from the worried glances Sam was giving you, you didn't think it was a confession.

Cedric looks to you "are you good alone? I'm going to get some sleep"

you nod and Cedric smiles, Patting your head and walking out the hospital after telling Sam bye.

Though Cedric was wrong, you weren't alone. Now it was just Fred looking down at you.

"..I knew that had to hurt" he looks to your arm in the sling

"eh, It didn't hurt too bad, I didn't think it'd be broken-"

"broken??" Fred cuts you off, looking a bit worried. This causes you to raise a brow

"mhm....pomfrey wants me to stay here tonight, keep an eye on it cause apparently 'i don't know how to if it hurts to the point it's dangerous' or something along those lines" you say with a sigh.

Fred chuckles and sits on your bed and you slightly move you legs so he can get a better seat.

"heh...you should've seen the your face when your broom spun out" he Snickers and you crack a smile

"me?! Fred you clung to your broom like there was no tomorrow when you spun out" you laugh, smiling brightly at the memory

And there is was, that shy feeling. Fred quickly tries to shake it off and covers his face with a slight smile "Hey, there could've been no tomorrow"

you raise a brow "oh, come on, there hasn't been a quidditch death in yearsssssss, just a missing case...but they always find them!"

You chuckle and playfully shove his shoulder and Fred just laughs a bit, nodding.

"hey...I appreciate you coming to see if I was okay though, even if it was for George to see Sam. Heh those two seem to be getting closer don't ya think?" you raise a brow

Fred softly smiles, he didn't know why, but he started to liked being around you, he still firmly believed he was the better prankster but you were a close second. The mention of George and Sam though had him turn his head to look at the two.

He had his hand on Sam's shoulder, talking to them about something and the look on Sam's face said it all.

"you think that was finally a confession?" Fred asks, still looking at the two.

"possibly. Sam's never made that face before..and they've never had a crush before. So it adds up" You say looking at them, slightly sitting up.

You forget why your even in the hospital wing so, you use both hands to sit up and you can feel the pain shoot through your shoulder and you try to hide your wince. Though with Fred sitting on the bed with you he heard it.

"hey you alright? lemme help" he looks to you and holds out his hand, to help pull you up.

You give his hand a glance before grabbing it and he slowly helps pull you to a sitting position.

"anyway..yeah no maybe.. possibly." you look to Sam, you could still see that look.

"heh ew...that's how mom looks at dad" you make a fake gagging noise and Fred agrees and fake gags as well.

This was very much noticed by Sam and they snap their head to you
"OI, YOU NEED TO SLEEP" they point at you, already trying to avoid the topic on why you were 'gagging'

You and Fred start to laugh as Sam and George walk back over.
"alright Freddie, we should go" George grabs his robe sleeve and drags him to the door. You and Fred were still laughing but right before the walked out, all four of you said bye at the same time.

Now it was just you and Sam again
"Madame Pomfrey said I couldn't stay...I'll be right back in the morning okay?" they sigh

You nod slowly "I'll see you then, good night Sami"

They smile and say your nickname while bidding you good night, and then they were gone.
It was just you in the hospital wing...it was actually quite lonesome and far too quiet.
So you look around, slightly grinning at the idea popping up in your head, you snuggle into bed, falling asleep to the idea.
-

The next morning was quite chilly, the sun was barely rising. the whomping willow had shed it's leaves it one shake. Before you know it, the snow would probably start rolling in, but it was okay because snow on the castle was breathtaking.

Though as we look into the hospital wing, we see the Knoxville peacefully slee-

no you weren't. Your cot was actually empty, nothing there but messed up blankets and a pillow at the foot at the bed when it should've been at the head.

YOU were actually up by the door, setting up string for a prank, humming an upbeat tune to yourself, slightly mumblings the words and bouncing your head to the rhythm playing in your head.

You hook the end of the string where it needed to go, smiling proudly to yourself but you snap your head up when you hear footsteps coming to the door. You make a face and quickly tip toe run back to your cot, laying down like a starfish (which is how you sleep anyway) and close your eyes pretending to sleep, you only peak an eye open to see who's walking in.

It was the twins and Sam...in all honesty you were only expecting Sam to walk in on this prank, but the twins were with them..hm, interesting.
None the less, it just made you more excited for the prank. The three talk about something random, but Fred was slightly walking ahead of them. So he's the one to step on the string.

Fred eyes widen when he feels his foot press down on something and he looks down to see the string.

"bloody hel-" but he's cut off by glitter hitting the sides of his face at full force, covering him from shoulder up.

some glitter got onto Sam and George, but it was Fred who got the blunt end of it.
You start laughing uncontrollably, sitting up with out hardly any pain. You held your stomach with both arms as you look at the sparklly looking boy.
You attempted to stop laughing but you see a few sparkles fall off him when he blinks and that just makes your laughter take over you again

Fred does a fake laugh "ha. ha. very funny" he rolls his eyes but can't help the small smile that tugs on his lips.

You wipe your eyes and get up, walking over to the three, George and Sam slightly laughing at eachother.

"God! Freddie you should've seen your face!" you pat his shoulder, still laughing and he scoffs playfully shoving you away

"oh shove off Knoxville" he chuckles "help me get all this off."

"what's the magic word princess" you givea smug grin and he just huffs, rolling his eyes at the nickname. He wipes his face, trying to get it off but it seemed to be a bit difficult.

"oh come on you muppet, just say pleaseeee"

"fine... please help me get this off" he sighs.

You smile sweetly and grab your wand, and with a wave of it, the glitter was all off him a cleaned up.

"now. that wasn't so hard was it" you give a smug grin.

Fred just mumbles and you chuckle
"alright, my arm is fine, let's not stay here before madam pomfrey chops off my head" you say, ushering the three of them out as you hear her footsteps coming closer.

once out the hospital wing you let out a sigh of relief
"welp, see you weasels later, gotta get to practice"
you and Sam wave

"practice? but you guys JUST won a game yesterday" George points out

"just because we won, don't mean it's guaranteed to happen again." Sam says with a smile

"I mean, with us it is a guarantee" you say all cocky like and Sam just elbows you and you wince rubbing your sides.

then without another word, you two walk off to practice.

-

The day has gone by pretty quickly, you and Sam had given your captain a heart attack a few times during practice. You two were trying to jump from eachothers broom to the other while 50 feet in the air, then you kept acting like you were falling off your broom to laugh at people's faces, you even ended up dangling off your broom because you couldn't hook your leg back up on it so you just dangled from your broom in a corner of the field. Sam definitely laughed at you before they helped you.

Right now though, it was finally dinner in the great hall, and you and Sam were extra excited because the two of you had a little something planned out.

You see the twins walk in, talking to one another and you give a grin. You watch as the sit down and you decide to pull the one of the first pranks you pulled for old times sake.

You pull out some fire crackers as does Sam, you both make sure they are deep in conversation before you light them then throw them over onto their plates. You say a small 'yes' to yourself when they quietly land themselves where they're supposed to.

Now you wait, slowly counting to five.

one....two...three...fou-

POP.

Dang, you were slightly off count but it doesn't matter cuz the twins looked very confused.
You smile brightly and you and Sam give eachother a high 5 under the table before going back to eating like nothing happened.

The twins look over to you. They knew this prank was one of your signature pranks. They wipe the food from theit faces and give a slight glare, but their was a small grin with it.

"oh just you wait. we'll get em good soon" Fred says to George who nods

"yeah, I've already got some ideas"

-

Ideas they did have. You and Sam have had buckets of water spilt on top of you, then in return you gave them cockroach clusters telling them they were peanuts.

another day they handed you and Sam candy while out in the court yard. Your hair was bright green for weeks.
Later that day, you gave them a candy of your own. Their voices were squeaky high for the rest of the day.

They even bewitched snowballs to hit you and Sam at full speed with stoping. In result, you make them trip falling down a large hill, rolling in the snow and almost being buried under it.

It was quite a montage of the year-

This went on and on, you class mates even started to keep track of it. The school had even seemed to make teams 'team Weasley' and 'team Knoxville'.

most all the hufflepuffs were with you and Sam, while the Gryffindors with Fred and George.
You also had most the Slytherins too, due to their dislike of Gryffindor, the ravensclaws were actually spread out pretty evenly.

But the day finally came. Your forbidden forest prank.

You and Sam where getting ready, most people were already laying in bed, getting ready to visit dream land. Though you had very different plans

"ready Sami?" you look over your shoulder at them

"ready" they grin

You smile then start to head out the common room entrance, You didn't know of any passage ways that would lead out to the Forrest, so you'd have to be sneaky. Good thing that was a skill of yours.

You felt nothing but excitement. Youve been waiting to do this one for ages and now that it was the end of the year, Hufflepuff still in the lead of Gryffindor with points (slytherin is still in the lead..but that's not important), it was the perfect time.

You sneak around the corner and run to an exit, Sam following behind quickly, just missing Mrs. Norris.
Though...when you felt the since of being watched, you couldn't help but smile.

"they are following us with that map thing, I can feel it. we gotta run into the Forrest, don't think about it, just charge In" you say grinning wildly

Sam seems taken aback by this but nods, they knew you wouldn't stop and they weren't going to leave your side.

You two picked up speed when nearing hagrid hut. You look at it, and take a deep breath. You close your eyes and grab Sam's hand and run into the forest without stopping.
Once a bit in the woods, you stop running, catching your breath.

"I..don't know if that map shows the forbidden forest. Hopefully we can still scare them either way." you pant, wiping your forehead.

Sam doesn't seem to be listening and you look at them, they were looking around in awe.
you raise a brow, but quickly realized you were in the forbidden forest, like really In it. You start to look around and your face fills with awe.

It was dark but it was.. beautiful. To you at least, it was quite and you could already see a few things around. There was a normal rabbit..but you felt that was not the only thing around.

"okay..okay, so what's next" Sam finally looks at you.

"well, if they are smart, they'll keep going straight, then we'll start making werewolf howls, dont worry I made sure tonight wasn't a full moon so their isn't any real ones out, then we spook em by jumping out. a simple magicless pranks" You smile proudly

Sam chuckles and nods, and as if right on cues, slight foot steps can be heard, you and Sam quickly hide behind a tree listening. soon you hear faint voices.

"why would they be in here?" George asks Fred, and he sounded nervous.

"George, there's some great stuff in here, not only am I curious about them, I wanna see if there's anything prank worthy in here, and I bet they are doing the same" Fred whispers

"huh I guess that's true...you think they are alright? I hope Sam hasn't gotten hurt" George looks around and you glance to Sam and they are slightly smiling at Georges concern and you fake gag silently

"oh George, I'm sure there fine, don't be going soft on me" he huffs

"oh I'm not! I bet your worried about em too" he says. but he's not talking about Sam, he's talking about YOU. and Fred knew it.

He turns pink and slightly waves George off "rubbish..."

Sam glances to you, not fully convinced of that 'rubbish' but you 100% believed it.
You just shrug it off and nod to Sam, ready to start the prank.

You cup your hands over you mouth and make a deep howling sound and you can hear Fred and George freeze immediately. Sam moves to a different tree and does the same thing. Fred and George start to back up slowly, trying to find out where they howls are coming from. The two boys huddle together, feeling fear start to over take.

You take a deep breath to keep from laughing and you can see them whispering to eachother. they looked worried but they seemed to be...looking for someone. But their faces said not someone dangerous..but someone they were worried about.

..where they looking for you and Sam instead of running from the howling?

You make another howl from behind them and they start to call out for you and Sam in a panic, hoping you two were alright.

Sam made another howl, and you two start to creep up on them from behind. They were too busy looking forward that this was gonna be very easy.

You and Sam both grab there shoulders, making loud growling sounds and both Fred and George let out the girliest scream you've ever heard while jumping 10 feet in the air.

You blink, processing the sound you just heard before you and Sam break out Into laughter

Fred and George quickly turn around, feeling relieved to see the two familiar faces.

George doesn't hesitate to rush in to hug Sam tightly and Sam stop laughing to blush and glance up at him. they slowly start to wrap their arms around him and pat his back, telling him it was gonna be okay.

You softly smile but you feel two pairs of arms around you. You jolt a bit and look up, seeing Fred hugging you. He never hugged you before...it was odd. not a bad odd though.
Once the shock wears off, you slowly wrap your arms around him.

"you okay there Fred?" you softly ask

"yeah...just thought I almost lost a good friend" he says. This also caught you off guard but smile as well. you pat his back "come on you big baby...let's get you back to the castle before the centaurs find us"

you chuckle and he lets go of you, giving you a small shove for the nick name.

"alright then! let's see if I ever show concerns for you again" he teases pointing a finger at you.
You just smile and start walking out the forest and he is quickly to follow behind you.

Fred was going to walk with George, but once he looked back,he saw George walking closely with Sam. He slightly sighs and walks next to you instead.
You give him a small look and pat his back. You didn't need to even say anything to tell what it was about cuz he already knew. He looks at you and gives you a small smile.

You gladly return it before grinning wickedly
"race you!" you shout before darting away.

Fred eyes widen as he watches you run away, "oi! no fair you git!" he shouts before running after you.

Sam and George look at eachother then smile

"at least they are definitely friends now" Sam chuckles

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And so, the year ends. If you guys weren't known before, you were definitely known now. It had been an amazing year and hufflepuff ended getting more points than Gryffindor again which was a big flex you used against Fred the whole train ride home.

Cedric even joined in a bit, teasing Lee about having more points. You and Sam were really starting to run off on him.

When the train got into the station you decided to walk off with Fred this year, so the other two could get in their last good byes.

Fred faces you and sticks out his hand "rather good year I must say Knoxville" he faked a proper like accent. which made you chuckle.
You grab his hand and shake it "Indeed, I agree Weasley. I look forward to do it again next year."
you make the same accent.

As you two shake hands mrs Weasley walks up greeting you

"hello dear! did you have a good year?' she smiles

You put on you innocent front and smile "yes ma'am! very good one I must say"

she smiles and looks to Fred which nods in agreement but she notices the other half of Fred missing
"where George dear?" she asks look around

You point over to where George and Sam are talking and Mrs Weasley just smiles "ah, gotcha" she chuckles

"well hurry up now and get your brothers Fred! let's go see your father before he's off to work, he wants to hear about your guys years!" she says happily.

you look to her "I best go fetch Sam, it was good seeing you Mrs Weasley! have a good summer, don't let the twins drive ya mad" you joke and molly chuckles and says she'll try.

You wave to Fred and go and get Sam, forcing them to say goodbye to George

"it's only a summer, you'll live" you huff as Sam dramaticly sighs as you guys walk away. they chuckle and playfully push you.

As you go to shove back you hear a familiar voice

"blugers!" you dad calls

"dad!!" you both yell, running to give him a hug.

"where's mom?" Sam looks around for her

"she's waiting in the car for you guys, how's was the year" he asks with smiles

The two of you started talking and rambling over eachother. You dad though, just smiles. He raised you two, he could decipher the rambles really well by now. he's had almost 13 years of practice.

"well, you two have seem to really make a mark huh?" he says as the three of you start walking to the car

you and Sam look at eachother and smile, speaking at the same exact time-

"yep, and it's only going to get bigger"