Love:
A warm and tender liking; deep feeling of fondness and friendship;
great affection or devotion.
Obsession (Obsess): Fill the mind of; keeping the attention of
to an unreasonable or unhealthy extent; haunt.
I guess you can say that my love for this guy started my first year
at Hogwarts, at my first school Quidditch match.
He was a third year and the best keeper i ever saw. And he was
totally cute!
I saw him more
often after that first match because we were in the same house but i
never once spoke to him. In fact, everytime he entered the same
room as me, I ran!
My
friends, the good ones, tried to encourage me to talk to him.
My other friends, the bad ones, said i would never have a
chance.
I refuse to listen to
the bad friends.
Second year
was the year i tried out for the Quidditch team, the year I finally
came sort of close to Oliver Wood, who was now a fourth year.
Second year was possibly the year my obsession started to grow?
Possibly. I'm still trying to figure that out.
Third year was the year Harry Potter joined the team and the year
Oliver became Captain and finally talked to me.
"Hey, Daily!"
"Yeah?" I called back, breathless. Trust me, i was
not breathless because he talked to me. I was breathless
because we had a brutal practice. I swear!
He
motioned me over to where he and Harry Potter stood. As i
joined them, he slipped a friendly arm over my shoulders, making my
face get hotter than it already was.
"Harry, this is Nicole Daily," Oliver said.
"Nick for short," I said, throwing in my two Knuts.
"RIght. Well, Daily here is our fastest Chaser."
I grinned, sort of knowing where this was going. Harry had a
nimbus two thousand. I did too. But, i have more
experience. I climbed on my broom.
"If you can catch Daily, then you can catch the Snitch."
I shot up in the air and, a moment later, I heard Harry come up with
me.
"Try and keep
up, Harry!" I called.
For a good while, Harry was far back but he surprised me by getting
horribly close. His fingertips almost brushed my broomtail, but
i pulled a flip and flew, upside down, under him. Harry gaped
in surprise and i grinned at him.
As Oliver
called us in, I smiled and said, "Nice try, Harry. You
almost got me. Next time, huh?"
Harry
simply smiled and nodded. He was a good kid.
Oliver did that training thing with me and Harry often. Harry
never managed to catch me (even though he caught
the Snitch).
My
fourth year, i started to realize that i only had this year and next
to get Oliver to notice me. I mean, actually notice
me (as a girl, not just a Quidditch player). Crap.
Fifth year. He was leaving this year. Double crap.
Towards the end of our year, towards our very last game, i took my
broom out and flew around the pitch a couple of times, doing flips
and reverses and straight down drops.
"You shouldn't practice so hard," came a voice from the
stands.
I grinned and flew
towards him. "Coming from the guy who eats,
sleeps, lives, and drinks Quidditch."
Oliver Wood shrugged and I down next to him.
"It's going to be wierd, you know, leaving here," he said.
"No matter where i go or what Quidditch team i'm on, there'll be
nothing like Hogwarts."
I didn't say anything because i figured that wasn't what he
wanted me to do. Plus, i didn't think i could talk if i wanted
to.
"What about
you?"
I turned to look
into those deep brown eyes. Big mistake. "M-me?"
"Yeah. You've got two years left. It's never too
early to start planning."
"Well . . . I plan to be the first girl on a male's
Quidditch team."
I felt
stupid after i said it. He was going to laugh, i knew it.
Everyone did.
But he smiled.
He just . . . smiled. "I think you can do it."
"Really?"
"Really.
I think you're a fantastic Chaser. Johnson hardly has a one up
on you. Plus that, you've got spirit, Nick."
I
smiled. He thought i was a fantastic Chaser. He called me
Nick instead of Daily.
"There's
just one thing i need you to do for me first," he said.
"What's that?"
Oliver stood and reached out his hand. "Help us win the
Cup tomorrow."
I grinned
and took his hand. "Deal."
And,
with mostly Harry's help, we won the Cup.
Oliver left and Quidditch seemed less there, though i still gave my
all to it. But i missed him horribly. I thought of him
every day, every night . . . .
And that's what lead me to ask myself if i loved him or if i was
obsessed.
By definition, i
suppose you could consider me a little bit of both.
But technically, if you're in love with someone, wouldn't you think
about them every day, every night?
That's what i'd like to think, anyway.
It's not healthy to be obsessed.
