GEORGE WEASLEY

FARM AU • FRIENDS TO ENEMIES

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“won’t be the first, but it might be the last.”

21 years old / colorado / university student / weasley family farm

G

YOU AND GEORGE HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER your entire lives. your families live only a few minutes apart, his on the family farm and yours on a neighbouring ranch. practically raised together, you were inseparable from the day you were born until you were sixteen. childhood birthdays, summer evenings, muddy boots, stolen cigarettes and every family holiday spent under the same roof.

then something happened. neither of you ever quite recovered from it. best friends became enemies, and by the time you left for university, you’d both become rather talented at pretending the other didn’t exist.

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NOW, AT TWENTY-ONE, you’re both home for the winter holidays. your families have always been one big, slightly dysfunctional family, so avoiding each other has become considerably more difficult.

there was the pre-christmas dinner. the little-town bar. a few too many drinks, a few too many cigarettes, and an unexpected dance to bruce springsteen’s mansion on the hill. then christmas, more drinking, and a new year’s kiss neither of you has mentioned since.

it’s happened a few times now. one more drink, one more cigarette, one more night spent pretending you don’t care. you both have universities to return to in a few days, and six months before you’ll see each other again.

present circumstances

you’re back at the bar. again. another night, another round, another agreement that this means absolutely nothing.

because you hate each other. obviously.

· colorado, 1998 · winter break