Destiny

Chapter 18

That next Friday night, Lindsay and George went on a midnight stroll and fell asleep on a blanket next to the lake. They had thrown all caution to the wind, not caring if they ended up near each other or not. Lindsay was feeling a little better since she had a chance to vent her feelings, and she, George, Fred, Lillian, and Cedric had become much closer.

After Lindsay shared her fears, the rest of their little group began to open up about their own personal fears, promising to keep everything confidential between the five of them.

Lillian shared that her nightmares frightened her to the point where she couldn't sleep. She'd lie awake at night, trying to make herself tired so that she could fall asleep easily. But it seemed that no matter what she did, Lillian couldn't shake the bad dreams.

While Fred and George's deepest, most paralysing fear was losing the other, they were also afraid of anything happening to their family and closest friends, the girls and Cedric included. George even admitted to having an odd fear of storms.

Cedric's fear seemed to be the worst. He had a persistent fear of death, afraid of what would happen after, but mostly scared for the pain of dying, if there was any. He knew about what happened after a wizard died, they could become a ghost or move on, but no matter how much he knew about the afterlife, the lack of control over the unknown scared him to his core.

Together, the five of them faced the smaller fears, such as spiders, storms, and snakes, in the hopes that they would all face their worst fears as a team too.

Gryffindor ended up winning the Quidditch Cup, and rightly so. They had worked hard overtime all year long. Lillian and Lindsay were extremely proud of their unbeatable Beater boyfriends, and Cedric was just happy that Gryffindor had won fair and square.

The first of April came, bringing with it the two most famous holiday's at Hogwarts. First, it was April Fool's Day, which meant that everyone got pranked in some way, shape, or form. But second, it was the Weasley twin's birthday, which then meant that they did most of the pranking while the rest of the school did much more hiding.

Lillian and Lindsay had a yearly tradition of waking the twins up with dungbombs in their dorm and confetti in their faces. This year was no exception, however, Cedric also participated in the "festivities."

At about seven in the morning, Lillian, Lindsay, and Cedric ran up to the boys' dormitories with an armful of dungbombs each. They opened the door and threw all the bombs in at once, also disturbing the rest of the twins' dorm mates. The girls and Cedric waited outside the door, listening.

Finally, the twins emerged from their room after it had exploded with stinkiness and swear words. Their faces became full of confetti, and Lindsay and Lillian ran down the stairs into the Gryffindor common room. Cedric hid behind a wall so he wouldn't be noticed by the twins right away.

Fred reached Lillian, smelling of dung with confetti, grabbed her by the waist and twirled her around in the air while kissing her. George did the same with Lindsay, finally taking part in a well-deserved kiss.

Cedric emerged from his hiding place and became quite uncomfortable when they didn't stop kissing, but let them have their moment.

"Happy birthday, Fred." Lillian said once Fred had pulled away to take a breath.

"Happy birthday, Georgie." Lindsay said against George's lips.

"Thanks," both twins murmured at the same time.

Unable to take it any longer, Cedric handed Fred and George the gifts he had gotten them. The twins tore off the paper to find some Zonko jokes including Stink Pellets, Dungbombs, Hiccough Sweets, and a few Nose-Biting Teacups.