"You know it would be a lot better if you just asked her," George said as he stood beside Oliver.
"You really have no idea how much we would all love it," Fred added as he handed his brother his bat.
"I don't know what you two are talking about," Oliver said as he folded his hands across his chest and tore his gaze away from the rest of his team doing drills in the air to look at Fred and George each wearing matching smirks.
"Why is it that everyone is always saying that?" George asked looking at Fred.
"No idea," Fred replied still grinning.
"Should you two not be out there running drills with them?" Oliver asked changing the subject.
"And what are you doing Oliver?" Fred and George asked in unison.
"Waiting for you two to get your lazy ars—" Oliver began.
"I think you were looking at Katieee," they both sang together.
"I think you both need to get on your brooms! It wasn't easy getting this pitch!" Oliver retorted as he turned to hide his slowly reddening face as he stalked off towards the bench to get his broom.
Fred and George were laughing as they mounted their brooms and flew up into the air where the rest of the team was waiting.
"Well?" Angelina asked as George came to a stop beside her broom.
"We're working on it," he whispered back as he checked over his shoulder to make sure Oliver wasn't in earshot.
"Well hurry up, I'm tired of them being too shy to-"
"Oi Johnson, Weasley get out there!" Oliver yelled as he approached.
"I'm already out here Oliver! Honestly check your eyes," Fred called from where he was passing the quaffle with Katie and Alicia.
"What did I do to deserve a team like this?" Oliver mumbled to himself.
"Well I can tell you what you can do," George smirked as Oliver grabbed the quaffle from Alicia and threw it hard in his direction.
***
"So what was up with Oliver today?" Harry asked turning to Fred as they changed after practice.
"Well we're waiting for him to man up and ask out Katie," Fred said letting his voice carry so that Oliver could hear him from across the room.
"Really? About time, I always hear Alicia and Angelina whispering about it," Harry said as he turned to shove his uniform in his locker.
"Weasley! Stop telling Harry-wait what did you say?" Oliver stopped mid-sentence.
"That we are all waiting for you to man up!" George yelled from in the shower.
"No, not that," Oliver said looking confused.
"That it was about time?" Harry offered looking just as confused.
"Or that he hears the best friends of the girl in question are gossiping?" Fred smirked.
"What do you mean gossiping?" Oliver asked as his face slowly turned red.
"Now we've got you interested," Fred said as he sat down on the bench knocking Harry's broom over.
"I didn't say that, I just don't want our team gossiping," Oliver said glaring at Fred.
"They wouldn't have to if you'd just ask Katie out!" George called from the shower.
"Well I'm going to go, Ron and Hermione are waiting," Harry said-not wanting to get into the middle, as he picked his broom up off the floor, and headed towards the doors.
"Wait Harry don't leave me here with them," Oliver exclaimed as he ran across the room to grab his broom.
"He's only saying that because he wants to know what Katie is saying about him," George said as he walked into the room wearing a towel.
It was easy to remember how it started, how the twins had given Oliver the push he needed – or the headache and stalking- to finally find the courage to ask Katie out, it was even easier to remember every moment they spent together.
The days they spent together while they were both at Hogwarts, hogsmeade, with the rest of the team, snogging in the astronomy tower, or flying side by side on the Quidditch pitch. Oliver could remember it all. Even when he got picked up by the reserve team on Puddlemere United, Katie went to all his games. Katie was perfect, Oliver had had a crush on her since he recruited her to the Gryffindor team; he just never imagined she could like him back.
Everyone thought they were perfect, the last 8 years they spent together were perfect, and that's why Oliver couldn't understand why she left him.
