You hadn’t meant for it to happen there.

Honestly, you and George had only slipped into the sitting room because everyone else was outside in the garden. Arthur fixing something, Bill and Charlie arguing about who could lift what, Fred tormenting Percy, Ron and Ginny chasing the gnomes and Molly bustling around her herb patch.

The Burrow was loud and chaotic. Never still.

So the quiet felt rare.

You were standing between George’s knees as he sat on the arm of the sofa, his hands warm on your waist, your fingers curled into the collar of his jumper. You’d only meant to steal a quick kiss, just a small one, but then he tugged you a little closer and everything else slipped away.

His lips were soft. His smile pressed against your mouth. You giggled when he deepened the kiss and muttered something smug like he always did.

You forgot where you were.

George definitely forgot where he was.

Your hands slid into his hair. His arms wrapped tighter around you, pulling you between his legs, and he murmured against your lips, “Finally. I’ve been waiting all day to get you alone.”

You kissed him again, longer this time, warm and breathless.

Someone cleared their throat.

Loudly.

George stiffened beneath your hands like he’d been Petrified.

Your stomach dropped straight through the floorboards.

Slowly you turned.

Molly WeasIey stood in the doorway, arms crossed, eyebrows raised so high they practically touched her hairline.

Molly’s gaze flicked from your flushed face, to George’s tangled hair, to the space where his hands had very obviously been moments ago.

George let out a strangled noise. Something between a squeak and a cough.

“Mum—” he started.

She held up a hand.

“I was coming in to ask if you two wanted tea,” Molly said, voice perfectly calm, “but clearly you’re both… occupied.”

Your face burned hot enough to ignite the curtains. George’s hands dropped from your waist so fast it was like he’d touched something scalding.

“Mum, we weren’t— I mean, we were, but it’s not—” George stammered.

You wanted the floor to swallow you whole.