Where The Sage Shrubs Grow,

Chapter 99

Sage's POV:
"Is it Christmas yet?" I whined laying my head down on the table
"Oh come on, you're fine. I know you miss Fred but he's not dead." Hallie retorted
"I need him." I whined
"Come on! Pull yourself together! What happened to Sage and Hallie the no man show? Huh? We don't need men." Hallie shook Sage
"That's easy for you to say! You still have your boyfriend." I complained
"That's fair."

Hallie, Clementine and I headed to the quidditch pitch. I wanted to watch the tryouts and Clementine was already going.
"There's Lee!" I smiled going over to sit with him
"Hello Flower." He smiled
The tryouts went interesting, Cormac loosing to Ron, Some girl cheering for Ron that wasn't Hermione. Lee making sure I actually knew what was going on. It was a nice way to forget my troubles.

I headed back to my dorm to take off my warmer clothes.
"Hello Neptune." I smiled greeting my small owl who was perched on my desk
He hooted happily dropping the letters he had. I fed and petted him until he was ready to head back to the owlry.

Dear Sage,
How are you my love? I am doing alright, things have been kind of strange though. I miss you more than you know and I am counting the days till I can see you again. The shop is going good, our mother Pygmy Puff finally gave birth. All the little babies are so small and cute, I know you would love them. I don't know, I've been having this strange guilt like I've abandoned you. George keeps telling me it's not abandonment if you agreed to it. I guess I'm just really missing my girl.
Yours truly and Forever
Fred

I sat down at lunch feeling almost more down than I was earlier.
"Come on you have to eat something, Fred wouldn't like hearing that you're skipping meals."
"I don't care, maybe that'll make him come back to see me."
"Come on, what sounds good?"
"Fred." I sniffed
"That's disgusting Sage eat some food." Hallie spoke turning away from me

I wrote Fred back telling him how Lee was still taking care of me and how Harry was acting weird but also more like himself. I told him about quidditch tryouts and how Ginny made it, I told him about pretty much everything. My only consolation was Halloween was right around the corner and we were planning a party.

"Floweeeerrrrr~" Lee cooed
"Hello Jordan." I rolled my eyes playfully
"I was wondering if you wanted to come hand out with me and some of my friends?" He asked
"I don't know, aren't they all like, older than me?"
"Like your boyfriend? Like George your best friend? Like me also your best friend?" Lee replied
"Fair enough, sure." I said getting out of my slump

"It's pretty much just people from the quidditch team, except Harry since he has his own group." Lee explained
"Oh, ok." I replied "Speaking of which weren't you supposed to graduate this year?" I asked
"Yeah, and I would have but I decided to take an extra class so I can go into the profession I want." He said proudly "No I did not get held back a year."
"Oh wow, what profession are you wanting to go into?" I asked

"Quidditch announcer. Basically what I do now only professionally. I'm taking a speech class which in its self is also a language class so I can have more experience and be able to say I can announce in different languages."
"Wow! That's so cool! I could help you with the language part I speak different languages." I said excitedly

"You speak different languages?!" Lee exclaimed
"Um maybe." I said calming my excitement down
I forgot for a moment I don't like talking about that stuff
"When did you learn?" He asked
That's why.
"Um my mother taught me from the time I could walk till I left." I mumbled
"Oh. Sorry. That's still really cool though. What languages to you speak?"

"Um, a lot." I laughed lightly
"Wooooooooow, so specific." Lee rolled his eyes
"French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, German, Korean, and Japanese. Oh and Dutch."
"Bloody hell, that's a lot." Lee remarked "Why don't you ever bust out in another language? That would be wicked!"
"Because I don't want to, I'm probably really rusty anyway." I laughed
"Say something in a different language for me!" Lee urged
"I'm good thanks." I laughed walking ahead of him
"Party pooper." Lee fake pouted

"Does Fred know?" Lee questioned
"Nope, not even Hallie knows. Only my parents and my brother, and now you apparently." I replied "Just not something I reminisce about honestly."
"That's fair I guess."
"So who are these friends I'm meeting?" I asked

"Oh no one, I lied! I wanted to get you up and moving." He smiled
I gasped up at him. He really just pulled a fast one on me.
"Jordan!" I shouted starting to chase him around the castle threatening to strangle him with my scarf
"YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET THIS!" I bellowed waving the end of my scarf at him

Once I caught up to lee we strolled around, trying to catch our breath.
"I can't believe she would date someone older than her. Isn't that like illegal?"
"He was only one year above her silly." Another girl continued to whisper
Lee looked at them angrily knowing full well who they were whispering about.
"Don't listen to them, age doesn't matter unless the gap is more than five years." He joked trying to comfort me

I laughed at his silly comment and we walked away.
"So what about you?" I asked "Is there any special someone?"
Lee's demeanor changed slightly "N-no." He spoke
"Oooh, he's lying." I smirked wiggling my eyebrows at him
"Shut up." He laughed shoving me slightly

Fred's POV:
I had just finished restocking some of the products and fixing a display when I was interrupted.
"Excuse me?" A voice spoke from behind me
"Yes. How can I help you?" I asked
"A-are you Fred Weasley?"
"Yes ma'am." I replied
"You're dating that one girl aren't you?"
"Uhm. That depends on which one girl you're talking about."

"Her name was some type of herb. Basil?Rosemary? Oregano?-" she spoke
"Sage?" I corrected
"Yes!" She perked up "Well I had a letter from one of my friends in her year. When I read it I thought you aught to know about it. Apparently she's been doing things with other men, in private. If you get what I mean."

She placed a gentle hand on my arm trying to comfort me. She didn't seriously think that I would believe her? Or maybe she wasn't lying.
"If you need someone to talk to, I'm here for you."
I stood up straightening my posture.
"Thank you for letting me know, have a nice day." I said excusing myself from the conversation
Anxiety racked my whole body. Surely not, we've been though too much.
"What's wrong?" George asked
"Nothing." I spoke going back to work

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