Harry trudged along the always-polished halls of Hogwarts, his thoughts whizzing by in a blur.
'Harry?' Two feminine voices called out in unison.
'Alice? Bella?' He replied, wheeling around to face them. Two blurry figures launched themselves at him before he was knocked to the ground. He heard giggles before he sat up so he could match the voices to their owners.
'Harry?' A different voice this time. It was beautiful, musical, yet exasperated. Harry gently pushed Alice and Bella off his lap and stood, brushing the dirt off his spotless trousers. Ginny was striding confidently towards him, her hair flowing behind her as she glided towards him. In his thoughts, Harry replaced the Hogwarts uniform with a flowing white bridal gown, and pictured this march as her wedding march towards him on their wedding day.
No. He thought. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. She's Ron's sister. Ron's beautiful, irresistible, flawless, kind, sweet, generous sister. Stop it! He shook the impure thoughts from his head.
The problem with Harry was, he was stuck between Alice, Bella and Ginny, all vying for his attention, Ginny less so than the others, but still competing. And Harry liked every one of them. Who did he choose? He was leaning towards Bella at the moment but that one image of Ginny in his head had completely changed his mind. Bella was relatively recently transformed from human (well, witch) to vampire. She leaned in close to Harry. 'Boy you smell good, Harry.' She breathed in deeply and sighed. Harry turned on his heel and walked away from the three girls.
'Edward!' He called as he saw the familiar figure up ahead. Edward turned at the sound of his name. Harry knew he didn't need to call, but it was for the other students' sake, the ones who didn't know about Edward, Bella, Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper's secret.
'Edward,' Harry repeated as he strode to Edward's side, 'dude, I am so sick of everything right now. And although I like Bella, I think you should ask her out. You guys would be a great couple.'
Edward's eyebrows shot up in surprise, 'You think?'
'Course I do, mate. Go on, go ask her out. Right now. We'll go together.'
'If you're sure.'
'Sure I am. Let's go.'
Harry grabbed Edward by the arm and pulled him back towards the main corridor.
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'Oh Bella!' Harry called out. 'Bell-aaaa! Edward needs to talk to you!'
Bella turned and took a few hesitant steps towards them. Edward did likewise.
'Isabella Swan. Will you go out with me?'