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Sweet Sixteen, Sweet Kathleen

Chapter one:

Pizza

Kat looked at Harry for a moment before she went and opened the boot of the family's silver car. A second later she straightened up with two handfuls of bludging plastic bags

"Dad's gone berserk" she said as she quickly took the bags inside, Harry went up and collected the remaining bags before he followed her through the door.

After he had deposited them in the hall with the rest, Joann appeared with a coat wrapped around her shoulders

"Thought we'd walk" she said, David descended from upstairs a moment later with two jumpers in his arms, he tossed one to Kat and she rolled her eyes

"Dad's cold again" she muttered as David slipped the other jumper over his head.

Harry arched a brow

"I don't get it," he whispered and Kat shook her head with small a chuckle

"Tell you later" she said,

"We'll see you there" she said before she once again took Harry's arm and dragged him back outside.

What is it with her and doing that? He wondered,

"Do you know where this Pizza place is?" she asked as she tied the jumper around her waist, Harry smirked

"Yeah, on one of my 'nightly masquerades' as the Dursley's call it, I went there, come on, it's this way" he said and Kat gave a lop-sided smiled

"Nightly masquerades?" she asked, arching a brow, the boy beside her smiled

"Long story short, I'm a night person. It's easier to avoid my Aunt and Uncle that way," he explained

"Ah" she said as they left Privet Drive.

Harry tried to look as relaxed as he could but at every noise he jumped. He was an easy target out in plan sight …Harry felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickle just before he heard the tell tail 'pop' of an Apperation, Kat laughed as Harry almost ran into her

"Why are you so jumpy? It was just a car backfiring" she said, Harry tried to fake a smile

"Yeah, er…too many scary movies" he said lamely, bloody hell! Is that the best I can come up with! Oh yeah, she's going to fall head over heels for me now he thought sarcastically. Kat laughed as she shook her head.

Calming himself Harry pushed his hair from his eyes, (ready to draw his wand in an instant) and Kat frowned slightly

"How'd you get that scar? It kinda looks like a lightning bolt," she said as she squinted at his brow in the darkness, Harry felt himself pale.

"Er…In the car crash" he answered finally, remembering the lie his Aunt had told him and he'd believed for all those years.

"You were there when it happened? Do you remember much of it?" she asked quietly, her features illuminated briefly as they past beneath a streetlight.

For a moment the flash of green light blazed through his subconscious…yeah he remembered some of it. The screams of his mother where always at the back of his mind…

"You don't have to answer that," Kat said suddenly and Harry was jolted out of his thoughts. He frowned slightly before he remembered where he was and whom he was with, he looked down at her (she was a head shorter then him) and was startled to see concern burning brightly in her blue eyes. She's only known me for an hour at the most…and­ Harry stopped himself at that.

"Yeah, I remember a bit of it" he said, Kat nodded slowly…Harry decided to change the subject

"So what was that about with your Dad and the jumpers?" he asked, it had been the first thing he had thought of.

Kat sniggered

"As soon as he's cold he starts asking me and Mum if we are too, or he starts forcing jumpers and jackets over our heads. And now one of us always says 'Dad's cold again' when he brings out something warm…He's been doing it since before I can remember" she added with another smirk. Harry once again found himself wondering if his father would of done anything like that.

"He obviously loves you both" Harry said, thinking aloud. Kat looked up at Harry's face and suddenly paled

"I'm Sorry! I shouldn't be talking about-" Harry quickly stopped her by saying

"Don't worry about it, I like hearing about this kinda stuff," smiling slightly at the look of horror that had pasted over her face.

"I have a friend who has five brothers and a sister, I love staying there just because of …how can you explain it? I guess the atmosphere, if that doesn't sound too lame" he said and Kat once again smiled

"Five brothers? How does he or she stand that?" she asked, Harry laughed

"He doesn't," he said before they both laughed.

Again they passed under a streetlight and again her face was illuminated by it's slightly orange light. Harry couldn't help but smile at the sight of it, when she laughed she seemed to glow…Where do I get this stuff from?

"Oh! There it is!" Kat exclaimed as she pointed to the flashing neon lights proclaiming 'The best pizza in town'. Harry suddenly stopped in his tracks. He didn't have any money; he couldn't even pay Kat's family back if they brought him something! And he wasn't about to try and give them a handful of Gallons! Kat looked back at him, having just noticed he had stopped

"What?" she asked, Harry felt his face blush. He stayed where he was, cast in shadow compared to Kat who stood in the centre of a streetlights beam.

"Idon'thaveanymoney" he muttered, blushing even more for admitting it. Kat frowned as she backtracked and stood before him

"What was that?" she asked, Harry bit his lip.

"I…Er. Don't have any money," he repeated. Kat smiled

"Is that all?" she asked with another of her heart-warming smiles, Harry scratched the back of his neck uncomfortably

"You can pay us back another day then, I'm sure my parents won't mind" she said. Harry closed his eyes

"I mean, I don't have any money," he said quietly. Kat couldn't hide her astonishment

"Oh…well. I have-" she dug her hand into her pocket and brought out a handful of crumpled notes, she quickly counted them

"Three pounds, that should be enough for a pizza" she said before she reached out and took his hand, placing the money in it. Harry looked from the crumpled green notes in his hand to Kats still smiling face.

"I can't take this" he blurted, Kat smirked

"Suuuuure you can't" she said before she turned and made her way to the Pizza place.

It took a moment for Harry to follow, slowly putting the money in his over large pockets. She is the strangest girl I've ever met he thought as he pushed open the glass door. As soon as he stepped inside the smell of baking pizza's and melting cheese wafted to his nose.

"Smells good don't it?" Kat suddenly said from beside him. Once again Harry jumped and she laughed.

"So what are you going to have?" she asked brightly, a second later a bell tinkled as the doors opened once again. Harry turned and saw Joann and David both already looking to the menu behind the counter.

"I'll pay you back Kat. Thanks" he said to her quietly, she was the only one who heard him and she smiled

"Your welcome. Now…get something with extra cheese and salami so I can steal some of it" she said, eyes twinkling. Harry laughed before he went up and ordered just that.

Having his order in Harry went and sat at one of the tables, the whole place was very Italian, the walls where pale blue and pink, plaster arches lined them at intervals, and on the back wall there was a huge mural of the canals in Venice. Harry smirked at the overly fake vine leaves that covered the walls.

"It's disgusting isn't it? I mean, who ever decorated the place had no style at all!" Joann said as she looked around the room like it would contaminate her with some awful disease.

"Er…-"

"Once again. Don't answer that" Kat interrupted from behind him, Harry turned in his seat to see her smirking at her mother. Kat took the seat beside Harry while her parents took the two seats opposite them.

"So where did you live last?" Harry asked as they waited from their Pizza's. Kat opened her mouth to respond but Joann beat her to it

"In the Lake District, almost in Scotland" she said, Kat wrinkling her nose

"It was so boring" she muttered.

"What school do you go too? Is it around here?" David suddenly asked and Harry gulped ever so slightly

"Er…Boarding School, and I think it's up near Scotland" he said, David arched a brow

"You think?"

Dammit!


HAHA! Is Harry sprung? will be get out of answering again? will he get to eat his Pizza!

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