"OY! Oliver!" Angelina yelled as she and Fred stepped onto the grass.

Fred looked around the field, which now contained 4 players.

"We're not late, are we?" he joked.

"Not funny...you don't know where your brother or Alicia is, do you?" I ask.

"Or Harry?" Katie asks.

"I think I saw Harry...with my brother Ron," Fred answered.

"Ok, where is your brother?" I keep asking.

"I don't know. So, Katie, what's this I hear about you and Diggory?"

Katie blushed a crisom red.

"Tell me it's not true." Fred says, mockingly. When Katie didn't answer, Fred gasped.

"KATHERINE PATRICIA BELL! I thought you knew better!! Not only is he older than you are..."

"By one lousy year, Fred!" Angelina interrupts.

"He's also on the Hufflepuff Quidditch team! For all you know, he could be using you to get some of our secrets!" Fred cries, throwing his hands up.

"FRED!" Katie and Angelina cry out indignantly.

"Well, aren't you a bit mad, Oliver?" Fred asked, turning to look at me.

Me, I'm tapping my feet, watching my look, and lifting my head every now and then, hoping to spot Alicia, George, and Harry on their way.

"Katie can date whoever she likes," I say nonchalantly.

"Knowing you, Oliver, I thought you'd be more upset..." Fred said.

"Knowing me?"

"Hey! Sorry we're late! We went looking for Harry...seems to have gotten a bit lost," George said, dragging Harry with him and Alicia following.

"This year's going to be great!" Alicia said.

"Okay, let's begin..." I announce.

~*~

"Hey," katie says, as she catches up with me on my way to the lockers.

"Hey yourself,"

"You're not upset about...me dating Diggory, are you?" she asks, her bright blue eyes looking into mine.

"Like I said, you can date whoever you like,"

"So you're not just putting on an act," Katie asks.

"Do you want me to put on an act? Do you want to see me suffer?" I ask, stopping to actually look at her.

"No, Oliver, thats not what I meant.." she frowns.

"Ok Katie, I feel pain whenever I hear you mention his name! My stomach hurts when I see you together! My whole body aches, when I can't touch you, kiss you, hug you..."

I want to go on, but Katie shuts me up with a kiss. I try to pull back, but, it's so satisfying, that, I deepen it. Finally, she pulls back and we're both gasping for breath.

"I'm sorry," she says, her blues eyes covered with tears, as she runs to the girl's locker room.

I watch her run off, wiping the tears from her face. I can still feel her lips touching mine, the scent of her hair.

What the hell just happened?

~*~

Walking into the Great Hall with Bill Ozwell, I looked for Katie. I found Angelina, Fred and Greorge, but no Katie.

"Hey, Oliver, who are you looking for?" Bill asked me as we sat down.

"No one..."

"Looking for Sammie, are you? Lucky man..." he murmured.

"Hey, if you want Sammie, you go ahead! There's nothing between us, in fact, I encourage you..."

"Ok, man, I gotta know. Who is she?"

"She...has no concern to you," I told him bluntly.

"Come on, Oliver. All right, I'll make you a deal. Me and Sammie will hook up, and you tell me who you fancy?"

I've known Bill since 1st year, and I've known him long enough to understand that he is awfully shy. There was no possible chance he'd ask out Sammie.

"All right." I said, shaking his hand.

"Wish me luck!" he said, getting up from the table.

"What, what are you doing, Billy?"

"I'm going to ask out Sammie. Did you forget our deal already?"

Before I could answer, he made his way to Sammie McGill. I can't lip- read, but the expression on Sammie's face told me I didn't have a choice. Other than to lie.

Billy came back to me with a huge grin on his face.

"Okay, man, spit it out. Who is she?"

But, lying to your best friend isn't always that easy.

"Katie Bell," I told him miserably.

"Katie...Katie...KATHERINE BELL? As in, Gryffindor chaser, the girl-who-had-a-make-over-and-looks-totally-hot, that Katie Bell?" he asked in complete shock.

"We dated over the summer. Broke up...and now,"

"Wait, wait. You guys went out over the summer, and didn't tell me?"

"Well...no," I said.

"Why'd you break up?"

"You want the truth or the she-had-started-to-change, answer?" I asked him, still sounding miserable.

"Truth...in all honesty."

"You know when you get this, I don't know, this, tingly and warm feeling...just thinking about her? When you feel like, you just could'nt live without her?"

"Uh...not really," Billy told me.

"She was so different than...than the other girls I've dated. I wanted to be with her every second. And, when I wasn't with her, I felt...tired. Sad, I don't know."

Bill hooted, which caused some stares our way.

"Oliver, my friend, you're in love!" he said loudly.

"What is this, I hear?" Jack Daniels asked.

"Everyone hear that? Oliver Wood's in love!" Bill's voice boomed down the Gryffindor table.

I threw my head down in embarrassment.

"Whose the lucky girl, Oliver?" Sally asked me.

"Oliver! Who is she? Do we know her?" Angelina asked.

Katie still hadn't showed up. I was glad; I don't know if I could handle the embarrassment if had been here.

"Come on, Ollie boy! Who is she?" Fred shouted.

"Bill, couldn't you have just kept your mouth shut?!" I ask, before removing myself from the table and walking out of the Great Hall.

~*~

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