A/N:
Hello, lovelies! Two stories in two days. I must be on a roll or something.
So, I was once again bored in Sacraments class (see Perfect Imperfections for more details… and because it is a really cute story, if I do say so myself) and this idea randomly came into my head.
This is a Katie Bell/Oliver Wood Romance/Humor story with two chapters. It takes place in Oliver's seventh year and Katie's fourth (and Harry's third if that helps), but age doesn't play a role at all. In this story, Alicia and George are a couple as well and Fred and Angelina.
If there is all of a sudden a bunch of stuff in italics, odds are it is Katie's thoughts. Only other time I use italics is to stress certain words, but I think it is pretty obvious which is which.
So now, TIME FOR THE STORY!!
Awkward Silence
I'd Lie
Katie Bell and her two best friends, Alicia Spinnet and Angelina Johnson, were walking slowly back to the locker room after a three hour long Quidditch practice. Katie was listening to Angelina go on and on about Fred, and quite honestly, it was becoming rather annoying. Katie was trying to catch Alicia's eye because together they had a pretty good chance at getting Angelina to shut up about her boyfriend. Alicia, however, was too busy staring at her George to notice Katie.
Honestly, Katie thought, How the hell do they tell them apart. The only way I can tell is by which girl they are snogging. Thank Merlin Alicia and Ang aren't identical. Oh, God, no, I don't even want to think about that… Great, now they're discussing how good of kissers the Weasley twins are. That's just what I need to know.
Katie closed her eyes and shook her head. Only problem with that was she was still walking. In the air, Katie was one of the most graceful people you would ever see, but on the ground, well… let us just say clumsy does not begin to cover it.
"OW!" Katie, of course, had tripped over her own feet and fell face first into the dirt. Luckily for her, Oliver, the twins, and Harry were already in the locker room so they did not see her fall. Unluckily for her, Angelina and Alicia did see this.
"Oh, my God! Katie, are you okay?" Alicia asked this as she rushed over to Katie's side with Angelina right behind her.
"Ow." Katie repeated. Then, when she looked at her ankle she sighed. Her ankle was already beginning to swell noticeably. "I think I sprained my ankle." The other two girls looked down and saw that Katie's ankle was already two times the normal size and still obviously swelling. Alicia became panicked.
"Oh, my God, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not g-"
"ALICIA, SHUT UP!" Alicia quieted at Angelina's outburst but still looked somewhat panicky. "How bad does it hurt, Katie?"
"Pretty bad."
By now Alicia had calmed down enough to ask, "Can you move it?"
Katie looked thoughtfully at her ankle. "I don't know. I'm going to try." With that she began to move her foot. She was wincing noticeably, but then there was a loud popping noise that nearly caused Katie to faint from pain. She was now laying on the ground looking up at Angelina and Alicia, the latter had paled drastically upon hearing the sickening POP! from Katie's ankle. "Okay, that definitely hurt." Angelina and Alicia just nodded in agreement.
"Does it still hurt?"
"Actually, Ang, I'm pretty sure it hurts like ten times worse now than it did before. Fun, huh?" Angelina winced sympathetically.
Alicia looked timidly down at Katie and seemed to be thinking before she spoke. "Katie, we need to tell Wood you hurt yourself." Katie looked stricken. "Don't give me that look. You know just as well as I do that he'd be able to fix you up better than anyone else on the team. Besides, it's either your crush Oliver- yeah, Katie, I know about that- or Madam Pomfrey. No one else is going to be able or willing to fix your ankle."
Katie was thinking fast now. No way was she going to the hospital wing. She hated anything having to do with anything related to a hospital. But, she could not let Oliver see her like this! She wanted Oliver to think she was perfect, not some clumsy little girl who hurts herself when she falls. Then, she got an idea.
"Ang, you still have that medical wrap in your locker right? The one that we used to hold your wrist steady when it was sore?" Angelina nodded. "Well, there you have it! I can just borrow that! I'll wrap my own ankle and walk back up to the castle and just rest it and keep ice on it. It'll be better by tomorrow!"
Alicia and Angelina gave her quizzical looks. "And just, how, may I ask, are you going to get to the locker rooms without the guys noticing that we're helping you walk?" Alicia asked.
"Easy! Painful, maybe, but easy. I'll walk on my own. You know, a grin and bear it type of thing." With that Katie stood up, wincing as she put pressure on her injured foot and began to walk towards the locker room once again. Angelina and Alicia just stared on with incredulous looks on their faces.
Finally, Alicia sighed and said to Angelina, "So much for her crush fixing her up."
"I know. They need to just get together already."
"Yeah, and this would have been perfect too! Little Captain Ollie would have been able to play the hero, and save Katie from her misery."
"Pain."
"Pain, misery, same difference."
"Yeah… Hey, Leesha? What would you say if we could still work this to our advantage and get them together?"
"I'd say, 'tell me how.'"
Angelina looked up to see that Katie was only about halfway to the locker room. Angelina decided this gave her plenty of time to tell Alicia her plan, and they would still be able to catch up with Katie. With a wicked grin fit for a Weasley twin, Angelina said, "Come here, Alicia. Let me tell you our plan."
REVIEW PLEASE! And if you noticed any typos, please tell me so I can go back and fix them. Love you all! Second chapter will be up probably before you finish reading this! EOshipper2010 I gave all the chapters new titles. They are all songs. Usually only the song titles match and the lyrics don't, but I don't care. This chapter is titled for "I'd Lie" by Taylor Swift.