Lovers and Laughter

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Sarah and Tony were approaching the two double doors to Hogwart's. The walk back from Hogsmeade had not taken long. Their conversation had stayed manly on the Hog's Head Meeting, Quidditch, and Umbridge, but it had had no awkward pauses. Sarah had found it surprisingly easy to talk to Tony. Of course she had known him before, he was in her year and they had had the usual amount of classes together. However he was on the quite side and Sarah had never really gotten to know him.

When they got to the double doors, Tony reached them first, pulling the open he stood back, letting Sarah pass first, she smiled at him and he gave her a small shy smile back.

"So I'll see you around." Sarah said as she made to go up the marble staircase.

"Yeah, I can't wait for DA to start."

"It'll be great." Sarah agreed before adding, "Thank you so much for walking me back. It was fun." And she took the bags that Tony had been carrying. "We have Herbology together tomorrow right?"

"Yeah I'll see you then." Tony said.

"Bye." Sarah called as she began walking up the staircase.

"Bye." She heard him call.

She was barely paying attention to where she was going as she walked up to the Gryffindor tower room. Her mind was abuzz with what had just happened. She liked Tony but what about Lee? Was she just kidding herself that she liked Tony more? Was she just giving herself an excuse to try to make Lee jealous? Would she ever get over Lee?

"I need to talk to Raye and Kat." Sarah said aloud.

"Great now who's talking to themselves."

Sarah found Kat and Raye in the common room, unfortunately with Lee, Fred, and George.

"Hey." Kat said as Sarah she walked up, "How was your walk with Tony?"

"Good." Sarah said, unsure of what else to say, her eyes shifted to Lee, he was watching her with what Sarah thought could have been interest in his eyes.

You're just imaging it. Sarah told herself.

"I'm gonna put these bags in our room." She said.

"We'll come with you." Raye said, immediately jumping up.

"Yeah." Kat said, also standing.

As soon as they were alone in the staircase Raye asked, "So how was it really?"

"It was good. Tony is really sweet. We didn't talk about anything too in depth, but it wasn't award."

"He's a nice guy." Kat agreed, "Cute too."

"Yeah but I still don't know, I also like Lee." Sarah sighed as they entered their room, which was thankfully empty.

"Well why don't you let things carry on just see how they work out? If Tony turns out to be more than a friend then you can see how you feel. If you don't feel anything then just tell him."

"Your right, Tony might not even like me." Sarah blushed for getting ahead of her self, "It's not like he asked me out."

Kat snorted, "When a guy offers to take your bags and walk you back to school, it's not for a work out, he likes you."

Sarah looked down gloomily, "Great so now if I'm leading him on."

"Sarah, just act the way you would normally, just because you like Lee, it doesn't mean you can't like someone else. Maybe you'll get over Lee. Just see how things are in a couple of days. You don't have to pretend anything, just be yourself." Raye said seriously.

"She's right." Kat agreed and as the three began heading down stairs she asked, "Do any of you have that book we could use for that Herbology report? I totally forgot about it and I have most of it done but I need a little more information."

"Sorry." Sarah said, "I returned the copy I got."

"Me too." Raye said, "Sorry."

"That's okay, I'm going to go down to the library see you guys later." Kat said as they reached the common room.

"I am sorry but all of our copies of that book are checked out." Madame Pince said in a tone that Kat thought sounded smug.

"But I need it to finish a report that's due tomorrow." Kat protested, "They can't all be gone."

"Well you shouldn't have waited to the last moment." Her tone was definitely smug now, but before Kat could say anything, she was walking away. Kat sighed and leaned up against a bookshelf.

"You can share with me."

Kat turned around at the voice, "Really? Thanks, that would be-" Kat began but then she saw who it was. It was Sam, one of Mark's friends, one of they one's who had mocked Raye.

"Never mind." She said and turned to walk away.

"Wait." Sam began and Kat stopped, apparently taking this to mean he should continue, Sam went on, "Look I know that I've been a jerk lately, especially to Raye. And I don't expect you to let that go, and I'm not asking you to. I'm just asking you to share this book so you can do that Herbology report."

"Why do you care?" Kat asked. The last time she had been close to him, he had been insulting one of her best friends.

"It's just," Sam began but trailed off, "I don't know, I guess I'm sick off being an asshole. You know, I thought I might try something different." He said with a tentative smile.

Kat almost smiled, but held it back; instead she sat down next to him.

"Fine, thanks." She said grudgingly.

Sam grinned, "That wasn't so hard was?"

This time Kat let out a small smile for a second but added, "Don't push it."

They spent the next twenty-five minutes in silence, bent over their reports and the book. Kat gradually became more and more aware of Sam sitting next to her. They knew each other through Raye and Mark and classes together but other than that, Kat hadn't really had much contact with him. Sam was player, and with his dark skin, dark brown eyes, and cropped short black hair, he didn't have a hard time getting girls.

After finishing her last sentence, Kat began rolling up her parchment.

"Thanks." She said half heartedly, looking down at Sam who had just finished too.

"No problem." Sam said standing up; he was a good three inches taller than her. "I'll see you around."

"If you're lucky." Kat muttered as she walked away, behind her she heard Sam chuckling.

"Nice seeing you too." He called after her. Kat couldn't help but smile, immediately, she stopped, it was Sam.

The next morning George looked up from his eggs to glance over at Angelina who was looking at him. When she saw him looking at her, she smiled. George felt his heart drop at her smile and grinned back. Her smile grew wider.

Over the past few weeks they had been spending more and more time together. He couldn't help feeling jolts of electricity every time he saw her. He hadn't even told Fred how much he liked her. Unfortunately there was small voice in the back of his head that told him that Lee was the one in love with Angelina. But he always forgot about it when Angelina was around, he told himself Lee didn't really like her. It was just a joke.

The rest off breakfast went on without event until George remembered he had to finish the conclusion to his Herbology essay for that day. Getting up he said, "I gotta go. I didn't finsh that essay." And got a bunch of 'bye's' in response.

Once he got to the Gryffindor Portrait hole he said the password, 'Hippogriff", and walked in. Looking up his stomach dropped when he saw Angelina. She was bent over the couch. When she heard him walk in she turned around.

"Hey." She said smiling, making George's stomach drop even more.

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

"I realized I left my earrings up here and came up to get them before they got knocked around. But now I can't find them. What are you doing here?"

"I need to finish that essay, but that's okay, I can copy off Fred, I'll help you look."

Angelina flashed him another smile, "Thanks."

They spent the next five minutes looking around the common room, under furniture, in between the pillows, and on the tables. George was kneeling on the ground when he saw a glimmer out of the corner of his eye. Crawling over he found a pair of dangly gold earrings.

"Angelina" He said.

"Yeah?"

"I found them." George said, grinning and holding them up.

"Really? Thanks you so much!" She crossed the room and gently took them out of his hand before putting them in.

"I was so worried. They're my mom's." She said before throwing her arms around him.

George breathed in her sweet scent, not wanting to let go. He felt tingly all over. When she pulled away, they still had there arms around one another, their faces inches apart. George looked at her, her huge grin was gone but a small smile had taken its place. He tightened his grip around her and leaned in just as she did.

Their lips met just as the portrait hole opened and Fred, Kat, Sarah, Raye, and Lee walked in.

As George and Angelina Broke apart, no one knew what to say.

So I hoped you guys liked this chapter, a lot of stuff happened so please review on what you think. I'll try to update soon.

-LayRay