Chapter 212- fifth year’s Christmas (part 2)

GEORGE'S POV

If Christmas Eve was thought to be awkward, than Christmas morning was on a whole other level.

Being woke up for presents by their younger siblings was a tradition that Ron decided to forgo, as they have had fought with him more and more since Wonder Alley was founded, no, since the card dueling game was launched, with him constantly asking them for stuff as if they have so much money.

News flash, they don't.

Sure, business are flourishing, with the game becoming more and more popular even in France, and the Alley becoming somewhere worthwhile, but most of the money was invested back into Wander Alley and it's employees, creating new products and experimentations, their own, Harry's and even Luna's.

The rest of the money was split into four parts, with them gaining 50% of it.

Of course, when they tried to explain all that to their little brother at the start of the school year all he got from that was NO, and from that point forward they were in a constant argument.

So no, Ron didn't wake them up for the presents.

Ginny, on the other hand, did.

Hearing someone knock loudly while yelling "Presents!" was indeed the perfect way to wake up in Christmas.

The two of them quickly casted morning hygiene spells at each other, ending with Fred having his beard grown into the shape of a Christmas tree and him having his breath smell like mistletoe (they started a game of messing with each other's morning hygiene spells since their 17 birthday, with each day only having one thing different about them), before leaving the guest room and going downstairs.

Under the tree were hills of wrapped gifts, and Marcus, Hermione, Neville and the entire Weasley family with the exception of their mother was sitting there, Bill and Charlie, who arrived the night before at an even later time than the twins, were among them, laughing and hugging one another as they unwrapped one after the other with the exception of Marcus who was looking at the two largest piles of presents and seem to notice their arrival as he turned and looked at them with anger.

"Good morning." Fred said "Don't mind us, we will just add the presents we brought into each of the piles." Opening the handbag George had on his shoulder, he quickly summoned the presents one by one as Fred distributed them into their respective piles.

"Now than, which pile is ours?" George asked after he finished taking out all the presents.

The fingers of everyone were pointing at the two biggest piles.

"Awesome!" Fred said running toward the gifts, and as he touched them he was suddenly sucked into them, making them mix.

"Fred!" George exclaimed and took out his wand but before he did anything Fred's head Came out of the presents and he spitted a small gift from his mouth.

"Hahahahahaha" the laughter came from their dad. "It worked! All I needed was a little help from your partner but I pranked you!"

"No way!" George exclaimed as he understood what happened. "He managed to creat it?" Last year they joked about how awesome would it be to be able to swim in gold after doing a marathon of Ducktales and Harry said he would try to create a charm to mimic its affect.

"It's a dream come true My twin!" Fred said from inside the present pool. "Join me!" George didn't need any other incentives as he jumped into the pile of gifts.

"Yes, when he showed me how to cast the charm and asked I would do it on your presents I convinced him not to tell you about it as a prank." Their dad said with pride.

With a little difficulty, the twins managed to get out of the presents and hugged their father. "Thank you for the prank." Fred said. "It's the best gift we could have asked for." And it was. Knowing that their father did a prank on them made George's heart grow wormer, it was as if the bits of self-doubt, the ones they felt each time their parents admonished them for their pranks, disappeared just by knowing their father pranked them too, and George could tell it was the same for Fred.

"You have a partner?" Neville asked from the side after they released their father from the hug.

"Of course we do." George said in a nonchalant way as to deflect. "How else would we have the capital to make free cards and disks for everyone in school and open an alley?"

"Really?" James asked, "Why have we never heard of them?"

"Because they are silent partners," Fred said "they invest, we create." That wasn't entirely a lie, in the joke shop part of the Alley, both Harry and Luna were silent partners, just like how in the Safari part that Luna works on, they are.

"Who are they?" Marcus asked with his eyes narrowing "Hiding in the dark, that's not exactly a behavior of a lion."

They both rolled their eyes. "That's because they aren't lions, they are humans." Fred said

Marcus scrawled "You know what I mean!"

"Do we?" George asked with a hint of a smile.

"Was your partner s Gryffindor?" Marcus seem to demand to know.

"Does It matter?" George shot back, the tension in the air grew.

"Of course it does!" Ron jumped into the conversation. "With you-know-who back you can't 100% trust the Eagles and Puffs, they could be spies for him!"

"Ron that's enough!" Their eldest brother, Bill intervened. "You are not to judge the twins if their partner is from any of the other houses! Each and every house is great and full of history!"

"Besides," Fred said with a glare, "what do any of you care who we partner with? Neville, Hermione and Marcus are unrelated to us and shouldn't expect any answers," Hermione and Marcus bristled in anger and Neville just smiled sheepishly. "and Ron, we didn't have a fight-free conversation since the beginning of the year!"

George then added. "Only dad, Bill and Charlie, all of those who works for us, has the right to know who our partner is, and out of everyone else in the room, maybe we will tell Ginny, who is the only one who doesn't seem to be as idiotic as the rest of you all!" Ginny laughed at that. "Oh, please do! Lording it over the four of them will be so much fun!" George exchanged a look with Fred, and both of them immediately gained a grin. "Sure! We will tell you later." Fred said and George continued him. "Now we need to open some gifts."