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I wish she said what I heard

Chapter 2 – The Height Of Perfection

"What's so funny now, Katie?" Katie had just managed to stumble into the Gryffindor common room being held up by Angelina and Alicia, all three of them drenched with rain, clutching her side with tears of laughter pouring down her cheeks.

"We decided to walk in the rain," a fresh burst of mirth descended upon her as the girls collapsed on the sofa opposite the Weasley twins, "and," more amusement, we were walking like this." Angelina got up and hauled Alicia to her feet. This required a demonstration. They started far away at the other end of the room and linked arms, "Right foot first," Alicia decided. Angelina put a foot forward, "the other right." Alicia added. They stepped in sync with each other, but the foot nearest the other went towards the other's pacing direction until they reached the sofa again. The twins exchanged apprehensive looks with each other,

"Riiiiight…" They chorused.

"And we all leaned toward Katie, 'cos she was on the end, and she slipped on the grass and fell over." This brought about more waves of laughter.

"Erm, ha ha?" Fred offered. Angelina slapped his wrist and told him to shut up.

"But it was in front of-" Oliver Wood stepped through the portrait hole and the girls decided that they couldn't form coherent sentences anymore.

Oliver shook his head and lowered himself into a chair, taking Quidditch Through The Ages out. A bookmark fell out and George swooped down on it. Picked it up and stared at it. Fred let out a low whistle.

"Ol-iv-ER!" Now, now, now, what do we have here?" Oliver's mouth suddenly curved into a kind of embarrassed smirk as the twins stared at the picture.

Katie looked over the boys' shoulders and sat back down, "I am," Angelina and Alicia replaced her and shrieked as they stared at Oliver. "Well aware that some people consider that slut," Katie looked at them meaningfully until they moved back to sit with her, "the height of perfection, but-" Katie was still making comments about the girl's figure, but Oliver's mind had unconsciously taken the middle out of her sentence.

"And some girls just don't possess that kind of grace." Angelina added and smirked at Katie. Hang on, I think I've missed part of that link, Fred and George chuckled and Oliver joined in and mentally contributed, I agree. Katie stared at him.

"Why are you laughing? You said you wouldn't laugh at me." Oliver immediately stopped. Maybe it wasn't so mentally.

"I'm sorry, what?" The evils he got from Angelina and Alicia were enough to tell him he had done something wrong.

"You said you wouldn't laugh at me. Why are you laughing?" Katie repeated. All traces of her smile were gone and her eyes were glassy. Oliver was sure those tears threatening to fall were not of happiness. His mind raced through all the possible excuses he could give her, but knew they would only end up getting him in more trouble. He decided on telling her the truth and looked meaningfully at Alicia and Angelina.

Katie's tone was icy, "Whatever you want to say to me can be said in front of them, I'll just tell them what you said anyway."

Oliver cleared his throat," All right then. I'm just going to say this and you'll probably hate me for it, but I'll just say it anyway. I wasn't paying attention to the conversation because when the girls were laughing, I missed out some of your sentence." He took another glance at the two wide-eyed chasers either side of Katie and plunged on, "And, I thought you said, I am the height of perfection." Angelina and Alicia stood up and removed Fred and George from the sofa, leaving Katie and Oliver on their own.

Oliver was about to open his mouth again, when a gaggle of third years flocked to the fireplace, the two best sofas having been vacated. He gave up and shut his mouth again, hiding behind his book. Katie continued to stare at him, did he just say what I thought he did?

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