The little things we do for love

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Prologue

Oliver sighed as he watched her running towards the locker rooms, trying to keep track with Angelina and Alicia. He knew he shouldn't be doing this, but he couldn't help it. Hell, he couldn't have helped it for the last two years.

He closed his eyes, swallowing slightly and hoped to ease the pain a little. Not that it had ever worked.

Oliver force himself to move and he slowly started to put the different balls back into the coffer.

Right now it was already hurting, but Oliver didn't even dare to think how much it would hurt when the year finally ended and he'd be leaving school. Like a knife in his heart. For a second he couldn't breathe.

He asked himself if love always felt that terrible. Because then he really couldn't understand anyone who liked it. But then again, those who liked love probably weren't in love, head over heels in love, with Katie Bell.

And Oliver was in love with her since he met her. He smiled slightly at the remembrance of that faithful day two years ago when Katie, a second year back then, had introduced herself for the position of a chaser.
He had liked her instantly because of her cheekiness and then he found out that she was as obsessed with Quidditch as he was and she was quite the star chaser of the team by now. She, Angelina and Alicia were quite a good team, but Katie was the best. And that wasn't just his opinion as a smitten guy.

Until that day Oliver had never even looked at girls. He sure knew that many of them were quite fond on him, but he didn't care. Until he met Katie. And suddenly, Quidditch and practice weren't the only thing he always thought about. Suddenly, the blond, cute girl was the his first thought when he got up and his last when he went to bed at night. She was always on his mind, constantly.

He sighed again, picking up the coffer and taking it along to the boys' lockers. Aside from the fact that he always had been terribly afraid of her rejecting him, he knew why he had never made a move.
Katie war three years younger, for Merlin's sake! She had just turned fourteen, how could he date a girl young enough to be still playing with dolls.

He rolled his eyes slightly. Yeah, right, as if Katie had ever played with dolls. He knew her first toy had been a little broom. They had so much in common!

And because he knew he was way too old for her, he had decided last year that he just would stay close to her, care for her without her knowledge and keep her save.
Yet, he knew it couldn't stay this way forever. Next summer he would leave school and it was already October.

When he finally reached the lockers, Katie ran out of the girls' and nearly crashed into him.

"What's the hurry?", he asked chuckling.

Katie grinned at him, her cerulean blue eyes nearly knocking him off. "I have to finish this essay for Flittwick. And because of your late night practice I never have the time." She grinned at him one last time, showing that she wasn't mad at him at all and started running towards the castle again.

Oliver asked himself if it'd be to obvious if he would cancel tomorrow's practice.


Alright, my very first take on a KB/OW fanfic, so tell me what you think ! :))