Hello again, I just wanted to take up a line to thank everyone who reviewed so far. You guys made my day. (Plus you completely rock =P)

F.Y.I.-I plan on updating about once a week. I don't like keeping people waiting too long.

Well, here's the next chapter. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Thank you J.K. Rowling for creating the awesome world that people everywhere like to write about.

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'Cause everything you do and words you say, You know that it all takes my breath away'

Lyrics from Boys Like Girls 'Two Is Better Than One'

The next few days at Hogwarts went by without any resemblance of what happened on the train. It was like a distant nightmare that Katie tried vigorously to forget. Oliver had been checking up on her every so often, asking to make sure she was okay and if she needed anything. She could see why she had fallen for him in the first place. Give it up Bell; he doesn't like you like that. Katie knew that was the truth and as she was walking out of her Divination classroom, she kept repeating it in her head. Her thoughts were disrupted as she ran into a student, her book and papers dropped right on her foot.

"Katie," she looked up to see Miles Bletchley, a Slytherin fourth year who played keeper on his house team. He had been popping up everywhere ever since they had shared Herbology and Transfiguration last year. Miles was like a fly that she had to keep swatting away. "It's good to see you again."

"Yeah, a real pleasure," Stuffing the last piece of parchment into her book, she made a move to get around him.

"How was your summer?" Miles was now following her down the spiral staircase.

"It was fine," Katie rolled her eyes. She cursed how far up the North Tower Divination was.

"Mine was fantastic! Me and my uncle, he's one of the undersecretaries to the minister, did you know that? Anyway, we went on a trip…" Katie had started to tune him out, she really didn't care about Miles's uncle or where he went. Only a few more corridors to Charms, you can do this.

"Course I met loads of girls over there, but none of them really caught my interest. I have my eye on someone else this year," Miles was looking over at Katie to see what her reaction was to this. She seemed like she was concentrating hard on something.

"Well it was nice talking to you, but here's my class," Katie gave him a smile and tried to open the door, but noticed it was locked. "What the-"

"Your class got moved to the library, I can take you there," Miles gave her a hopeful look.

"I can handle it," Katie hurriedly backed away from him. Glad to finally be free of Miles, she almost skipped down to the library.

"What are you so happy about Bell?" Marcus Flint was leaning against one of the stone pillars.

Sighing, Katie flashed him the fakest smile she had, "Oh nothing, I just got really good marks on a test."

Scoffing, he moved closer to her, "It's only been a few days into term; you can't have had any tests."

"What do you care?" She really didn't have time to entertain Marcus, at this rate she might as well blow off Charms.

"I like taking interests in my father's employees. You do know that your dad's review is coming up?"

"He's good at his job, I'm not worried about him," It was actually just the opposite. Katie knew that her father had a slight disadvantage in the wizarding world. Her dad was a muggle-born, which meant that people either felt sorry for him or thought he couldn't do magic well.

"Aren't you brave," Katie couldn't stand being in his presence any longer.

"Don't you have a class to be at?" She asked.

"I have a free period now, but I believe you have a class," He laughed at the look on her face. She had obviously forgotten that she had somewhere to be. Katie pushed past him and began running down the hall.

"Oh Katie," He couldn't help but taunt her one last time, "Give Wood my regards!"He knew that Katie liked that smarmy, quidditch-obsessed captain. At any chance he got, he would bring Wood up just to see her cheeks go pink. Unfortunately for him, he could never quite figure out if Wood liked Katie back. Marcus had tried every possible way to try make Wood's life hell. If only he liked her, then we could have some fun.

Katie could feel every student's eyes on her as she entered the library. Looking down at the floor, she quickly made her way to a table in the back.

"You're fifteen minutes late, Miss Bell," squeaked Professor Fliltwick, "I believe that's fifteen points from Gryffindor. Now if you please, we are researching the proper wand technique for a Summoning Charm."

Grumbling, she made her way into the bookshelves. Stupid Slytherins, she thought.

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The rest of the day went by so slowly, Katie could hardly stand it. All she wanted to do was sit in one of the comfy armchairs in the Gryffindor common room. So when her final class was over, she raced upstairs to nab her seat. It was common knowledge that the seats by the fire always filled up first. After pushing her way past a bunch of first years, Katie saw Angelina, Fred, George and Alicia all sitting by the fire. Alicia saw her first and motioned for Katie to take her seat, while she moved onto the couch next to Fred. George and Angelina were being all cute by sitting in the same armchair.

"Thanks for saving me a seat, I've been thinking about this all day," Katie said, as she plopped down into the seat.

"No problem," Alicia reached down and grabbed a quill and some parchment, "Does anyone have any ink handy?"

"Here," Fred reached for his back and pulled out a small glass bottle.

"Thanks," Alicia took the bottle and began to furiously work on some sort of essay.

"So Katie," George was finally able to untangle himself from Angelina to notice she was there, "Anything interesting happen today?"

"Not unless you count talking to stupid Slytherins," Katie sunk deeper into the chair, and tried to put her feet on the coffee table but found that it was just too far away.

"Who was it?" George asked, pushing the table closer to her.

"Miles," she said. Katie didn't feel comfortable talking about her confrontation with Flint.

"He's still sniffing around you?" Angelina asked, sporting a very stunned look.

"Yeah I guess," Katie gave a half-hearted shrug.

"Are you talking about Miles Bletchley, the Slytherin keeper?" Fred asked.

"That's the one," Katie said, nodding her head.

"He's an awful keeper, only stops the quaffle once in a game," George was now looking rather amused.

"D'you remember last year when he kept swerving to the opposite hoop that the quaffle was going to?" Fred was holding back laughter.

"I thought he was sick that game," Angelina had a very confused look on her face.

"What does it matter?" George asked, "The point is he's a crap keeper."

"You lot aren't talking about me are you?" Oliver had just come in through the portrait and was now making his way towards the rest of his team.

"You've caught us Wood," Fred had turned around to face him, "That's what we do in our free time, bad mouth you."

"Seriously?" Oliver stopped in his tracks, unsure whether to continue walking over.

"No you dolt," Alicia suddenly joined the conversation, while she wrapped up her essay, "We were talking about Miles Bletchley, the Slytherin keeper."

"Oh good," Oliver finished his last few meters to the fireplace, and sat down on the arm of Katie's chair, "Why were you talking about him?"

"He's still being delusional," Angelina said, getting up from the chair to stretch her legs.

"Delusional about what?" Oliver wasn't sure if he missed something or not. He knew that Miles was in Katie's year and played quidditch. That was about it.

"Katie," George said, as he suddenly pulled Angelina back down and onto his lap.

Oliver gave them a puzzled look. He still wasn't getting it.

"Oh for Godric's sake," Alicia threw her hands up into the air, "Miles is in love with Katie and doesn't know that she hates him."

"Don't say it like that," Katie didn't like the way it made her sound.

"It's the truth isn't it?" Fred was giving her a suspicious look.

"Well yeah-"

"Then what's wrong with how I said it?" Alicia was giving Katie the same look as Fred.

"Nothing," Katie didn't really hate Miles; he was just annoying and clingy, "I just- never mind."

"You can't say something like that without giving-"

"Everyone please go to your dormitories!" Percy Weasley was standing in the middle of the common room.

"What for?" George asked, "It's not even ten-thirty."

"New school policy," Percy hated being undermined, "Everyone must be in their dormitories no later than ten o'clock."

Grumblings and complaints were heard throughout the room as students marched they way upstairs. George and Fred were looking particularly annoyed. Katie just shook her head and began making her way to the girls' dormitories.

"Katie wait," Oliver hadn't moved from his spot on the armchair.

"What is it?" She was curious to hear what he was about to say, Oliver was rarely up for breaking "school policies".

"How come you didn't tell me about Miles?" Oliver thought they were pretty good friends. Why would she hide something like Miles from him?

"I didn't think it was important," The actual reason was because Katie thought that Oliver wouldn't care. The dream in her mind was that Oliver would save her from Miles's annoyance and then ask her out, saying how much he loved her and how he wished he had done something sooner. The nightmare in her mind was Oliver saying that she should go out with Miles and stop wasting time with him. It was childish, but Katie still feared the possibility.

"Kates, anything you tell me is important," He was surprised that Katie thought she couldn't tell him something. Didn't she know how much he cared for her, how much he wished he had the courage to ask her out?

"Really?" She couldn't help but feel really dumb in that moment.

"Of course," Oliver smiled at her, "I want you to tell me everything; even if it's something small and stupid."

"You mean it?" Katie was having visions of them talking by the fireplace late into the night.

"I do, I care about you Katie. Don't you know that?" Oliver's face felt like it was on fire.

"I guess I just forgot," She gave him a small smile.

"Come here," He held out his arms to her and wrapped her in giant hug. It felt so right, having her in his arms like that.

Katie took mental pictures of everything that was happening. She wanted to remember how safe and comfortable she felt in his arms.

"Oi, you two! Off to your dormitories," Percy poked his head around the corner of the staircase.

Pulling away from Oliver felt like the hardest thing Katie had ever done. She felt a flash of anger towards Percy for being so obsessed with school rules. As she left to go up to her bed, she caught a few moments of dialogue between Oliver and Percy.

"You have the worst timing, you know?"

"Well if you just asked her out, like I did with Penelope, then you would have all the time to-"

"Shut up, Percy!"

"I'm just saying that-"

"I said shut up!"

All Katie could think about that night was Percy saying 'If you just asked her out…'