Disclaimer: I don´t own anything except the plot and more than my fair share of imagination.

Author´s note: I love reading stories about George/Alicia, but there are still too few of them out there so I thought I´d write one myself. It´s my first fanfic, so please review!

But baby can't you see

There's nothing else for me to do

I'm hopelessly devoted to you

- Olivia Newton-John

Alicia´s PoV:

"Oi! Angelina!" Fred called out across the room. I felt the well-known knot in my stomach as Angelina turned to answer him. I knew what would come next...

"Want to come to the ball with me?"

"All right, then," Angelina said before she turned back to me with a bit of a grin on her face. I quickly put on a smile on my own face too before she understood how I really felt.

"I never thought he would ask me," she said quietly, a relieved look on her face.

"Oh, I knew he would ask you all along," I answered. And that was the unfair part. Angelina, the one Fred had a crush on, didn´t realise his feelings, while I, the one he didn´t like, understood perfectly well what he felt. And I didn´t like it.

It´s not like I don´t like Angelina, don´t get me wrong. She is my best friend, and I want her to be happy. But sometimes it seems like she has all the luck! I mean, just look at her! She is one of the prettiest girls at school, with chocolate-coloured skin, long, black hair, high cheekbones and almost black eyes, and she´s got all the right curves. I guess I can understand why Fred likes her and not me. I´m skinny, with grey eyes and a so-called delicate spreckle´ of freckles, and while my hair is just as black as Angelina´s, it´s not thick and silky like hers, but thin and with these annoying curls. In other words, I´m nothing compared to her.

"Leesh? Are you listening?" I woke up from my thoughts and stared at Angelina for several seconds before I realized that she was talking to me.

"No, not really," I admitted. "What were you saying?"

"You´re hopeless, girl! I asked you if you had a date for the ball yet."

"No," I said. "A couple of guys have asked me, though, but I didn´t want to go with any of them." Because I want to go with your date, I added inwardly. They probably only asked me because I´m on the Quidditch team anyway.

I really didn´t feel like discussing the matter with her, but it didn´t look like I had any choice. Luckily our conversation was interrupted by Katie coming in.

Katie´s my other best friend, and the only one who knows about my crush on Fred. She´s really beautiful to, but in a different way than Angelina. Katie´s blonde, with blue eyes and perfect skin. I´ve never seen her having a pimple. She´s also quite short, and looks almost like a porcelain doll. And last but not least, she´s the most forgetful person I´ve ever met. Right now she was looking for her sweater, which she appearently for some reason had left in the Common Room.

"Have any of you seen my new sweater? It´s pink, and very pretty. I´m sure I left it here!"she said. Then she noticed the grin on Angelina´s face.

"Hmmm... And what can we get from that expression, Angie? Could it possibly be that... Fred´s asked you to the ball?" She grinned and joined us.

"Yup, of course" Angelina answered matter-of-factly, even though we all knew that she´d been really nervous about whether Fred would ask her or not. Katie then turned to me, snickering. Here it comes, I thought...

"What about you, Leesh? Have you gotten a date yet?" Yes, there it came. Just like I knew it would.

"Not you too!" I exclaimed. "Angie´s just been bugging me about it, and now you´re in it too. It´s easy for you, you´ve always got Lee."

"Yeah, talking ´bout Lee... Has he asked you yet?" Angelina asked, leaning forward.

"Asked me yesterday," Katie said, beaming. "I have to admit, I almost thought he would be too shy to ask me. But then he came up to me, just like that, and asked." She giggled happily and then looked at me again, with a look on her face that told me she was up to something.

"So, that leaves only you, Leesh," she teased. "Guess Angie and I will have to find a boy for you then..."

Angelina smirked and joined in.

"And who could that be? Can you think of someone, Katie?"

"Well... I suppose there´s always... George!"

"All right, that´s it!" I stood up and scowled at them. "I´m going to bed!" I stomped off hearing them giggling behind me. Why did they always have to drag in George? I mean, he´s cute and stuff, but he´s my best friend. It would be like dating my brother or something. Besides, I´m in love with Fred, even if he doesn´t love me back. And that´s all that matters to me.

Weee, finally finished with first chapter! blows up ballons and eats large amounts of cake

I know it´s a bit boring, but it´s just to get to know the setting. I promise it´ll get better soon! Remember, the Yule Ball is coming up!