Title: Enemies
Characters: Angelina
Pairings: Angelina/Fred
Quote: "Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart" --Unknown
Enemies
Angelina Johnson hated Katie Bell.
Alright, that wasn't quite true. Katie was a good friend, and Angelina knew it. She loved the girl like a sister.
She hated the fact that she hated her.
It was all Fred Weasley's fault, really. He made her hate Katie. It was all his fault, and so she hated him, too.
She hated how he made her feel – all fuzzy and warm and uncertain. He made her giggle – giggle – about stupid things, things the old Angelina would have scoffed at. And one wink from those gorgeous blue eyes was enough to send a treacherous heat across her face, crawling up the back of her neck.
She hated how he flirted with her. He flirted with everyone; Alicia, Katie, Leanne, Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown, that leggy blonde from Hufflepuff, just to name a few. Angelina hated that he treated her like all the others. And yet, she didn't react like the others. Every seductive raise of the eyebrows, every slight innuendo in his words carried into her daydreams, until all she could see during History of Magic was a pair of laughing blue eyes and that soft, brilliantly-colored hair.
She even hated his pranks. How he would let others in on the fun – George, of course, Lee, Katie, Alicia, Harry – but not her. He never warned her not to eat the eggs after he spiked them, or to avoid Snape's wrath after his robes had been turned pink. No, she was never special enough to help him out, or even laugh with him while the Slytherin students sprouted canary feathers. No, she was just another background character in his plots, another face in the entertained crowd.
But what she hated him for the most, was making Katie Bell her enemy. Of course, Katie had no idea. How was she supposed to know that Angelina had been pining after Fred since second year? The only people who knew were Alicia and Oliver Wood, though he pretending like he had never overheard that conversation.
She hated how close Katie and Fred were. After George, Bell was the ginger's best friend. She was in on their pranks the majority of the time, even more than Lee Jordan, George's best friend. Katie and Fred had been known to fall asleep together in the armchair in front of the fire after Wood's grueling evening practices, ignoring how gross and sweaty they were. She went to The Burrow every summer for a week, and had earned the nickname, "The Third Weasley Twin," or even, "The Other Weasley Daughter." She was a major part of Fred's life, and Angelina hated that.
Angelina also hated that no matter what, she would never be as close to Fred as Katie was. She would always be a friend, nothing more. She would never steal the title of "Best Friend" from Katie, and would never earn the title of "Fred Weasley's Girlfriend."
She was just Angelina, and she absolutely hated it.
She hated that she hated so many things, hated how confused and hurt she was, and hated that she resented someone for having a best friend.
But she knew that the hate in her heart would never die, so she accepted the fact that Katie Bell, one of her good friends and teammate, was, in fact, her enemy.
Short, I know, and lots of hate. Please review(?)!!!