Woo new chapter! I really like this one! It took way longer to write then I thought it would be hey now it's done so whatever. Whoa and this is chapter 10 so I'm in the double digits now...weird. Well Enjoy!
It's amazing how fast time flies when you're planning a wedding. I spent the last month eating cake, and as amazing as that seems, I think I'm getting sick of cake, and this is truly saying something for me. I've been trying to decide why I'm being so silly about this wedding. Normally I would think that I would be all excited about Alicia getting married but instead I'm mad about it. Oliver thinks that it's just because I'm mad that I didn't get married first. It's is all a little weird to think that I would have been doing all of this if Jake hadn't died.
We played Turkey and won so now we just have to beat France and we'll qualify for the World Cup, but that match isn't until after the wedding. The Wasps don't have another game until May because we didn't make it into the league championships, so I've been just hanging out with Oliver a lot lately. It's really cool though because things seem to be back to normal with us, for real this time, because I don't find myself getting mad at him for being stupid nearly as much as before.
Today is the day I've been dreading, the dress trying on. I don't care about my dress; I just want to be the one in the wedding dress. I wasn't exactly anticipating going and telling Alicia how pretty she is over and over and over again.
"Angelina this dress would look fantastic on you!" Alicia said holding out a dress while I sat in the corner on a chair. Angelina appeared from behind a bunch of dresses with a big smile on her face.
"You should try it on" Alicia said to her
"But you're the one getting married not me" Angelina said and I picked at the nail polish on my pointer finger.
"So we all know you and Fred are going to get married sometime soon so you might as well see if it looks good on you" Alicia said.
"Well….alright" Angelina said and grabbed the dress and hopped into the changing rooms. Alicia followed behind her with two dresses in her hands.
"Katie you might as well try on a dress to, at least for fun" Alicia said before she went completely into the room.
"I'm good" I said as I ran out of nail polish on my pointer finger so started on my middle.
After awhile they both came out in the dresses and looked beautiful. I wish I wasn't so jealous so I could appreciate that one of my best friends was getting married to one of my greatest friends. I smiled at them as they came out and ran towards the mirror.
The way they looked made me want to try on a dress so badly. It killed me to think that I should own a wedding dress that made me look so beautiful and be married all ready. I wonder what it is about wedding dresses that make anyone who wears one look so beautiful. You would think that if they made us look so good we would just wear them all the time. I wonder if that was the case then they would loose their power of making us beautiful.
"Katie!?" Alicia yelled
"What?" I asked I must have zoned out
"Don't you think that Angelina should wear this in her wedding" Alicia asked me
"It does look really good on you Ang" I said with a smile.
"What do you think of mine?" She then asked me.
"It's the best one so far." I said
"But not the one" She said mainly to herself.
I got up and walked over to a shelf with a bunch of dresses and found a dress that was strapless with a gold trim on top and flowed down into a really big train.
"What about this one Alicia?" I asked holding it out to her and in like point two seconds she was right next to me holding it as well.
"Oh Katie its perfect!" She said taking it from me and running into the changing room. She came back out a few minutes later with this huge grin on her face and ran to the mirror. It looked brilliant on her.
"Oh Alicia that's the one" Angelina said.
"My favorite so far, but that could just be because I picked it out." I laughed and they both laughed too.
"I think I'm going to get this one" Alicia smiled and went to find the woman who ran the shop to get measurements and what not.
We finished with that and got the measurement on Ang and me for the brides maids' dresses and headed home. George and Alicia were going on a date tonight so that meant I was home alone tonight. This meant I was alone to think too much, which was never a good thing for me.
I started to think about George and Alicia getting married, and how I should be happy for them and instead I'm incredibly jealous. If only Jake was still alive so that I could be married right now and I could be happy for her and throwing her parties and jumping up and down. Who knows right now I could even be pregnant. Wow…or not because I would probably be a horrible mother. That's going to be something to happen when I'm like forty something….not in my twenties. I wonder if I would have even said yes. What am I thinking of course I would have said yes I would have been a fool not to. But what if he fell out of love with me, like he found out how crazy I am and decided that he didn't want to marry someone as crazy as I am. What if because I'm crazy I fell in love with someone else? I wouldn't doubt that it would happen. Like what if I fell back in love with Oliver? No I wouldn't fall back in love with Oliver…would I?
As if almost on cue the door to the apartment began to open.
"What's wrong?" Oliver said as he came into the apartment.
"Nothing" I lied, I was sitting on the couch in my depressed state that had almost become my trade mark recently.
"I know that something is wrong, so just tell me what it is" He said and sat down on the couch next to me.
"It's just… no I don't know" I said and hugged my pillow
"Oh come on we were so close" Oliver laughed
"You wouldn't understand" I said
"Try me" He said
"We went to go try dresses on yesterday" I said after a big sigh
"I thought trying on dresses made girls happier" Oliver laughed
"See I told you that you wouldn't understand!" I protested and he just smirked at me.
"No I was just joking continue" He said still smirking and I glared at him.
"Well I couldn't help but think that it should be me getting married!" I said and looked down at my ring.
"Oh…" he said and instantly his smirk disappeared.
"I feel so guilty thinking so but I just can't help it. And so I was sitting here thinking about it and it crossed my mind…what if Jake had lived….what if we had a big fight and broke up or something…it's not like it's something I couldn't accomplish" I said and almost started to cry.
"Well you don't want to hear what I have to think about that" Oliver said with a sigh
"Yes I do" I said and looked up at him
"No you don't because I'd tell you and then you'd get all mad and awkward and then we'd be right back were we started" He said and I stilled looked at him intently like he was telling me something very interesting. When he looked at me he laughed.
"What if I promise not to get mad" I can't help it if I'm a generally curious person.
"You will anyways" He said
"I prrrooomise that no matter what you say I won't get mad" I said making a puppy face
"No because it has to do with my feelings for you and we both get awkward when that comes up" Well who wouldn't I just want to be friends Ollie! ...huh he's right I would get mad.
"I won't get mad" I said still holding my puppy face strong.
"I was hoping when he asked me if it would be alright to marry you that you would say no or that something would happen so that you wouldn't actually get married" Oliver said and looked down to the ground like he was ashamed of what he said. For some reason I wasn't mad at all about it, if anything it was like I expected it.
"See I'm not mad" I said and he looked at me like I'm crazy
"Seriously?" He said looking at me like he was expecting me to flip out and kill him or something.
"Not really, like I know I should be but I'm not…I told you that I'm insane" I said and he smiled again
"You're not crazy" He said and laughed at me.
"Want to go get ice cream?" He said standing up
"Sure" I smiled and stood up and got my jacket.
We walked down town and got some ice cream and then walked around the streets looking into store windows. We were walking along when we passed by a wedding dress shop.
"I wish I was getting married" I sobbed looking at the dress in the window.
"Well I can help with that" Oliver said with a joking cocky look on his face, but at the same time he seemed a little bit serious.
"In your dreams Wood" I laughed and he smiled
"No in my dreams we're doing other stuff" he said and winked at me and laughed I laughed back and then just looked dreamingly at the dress.
"Want to go try some on?" Oliver asked me
"What the dresses?" I asked stunned.
"Sure why not, I'll be you're temporary best gal pal for the night" He laughed
"That's a scary thought" I laughed
"Come one lets at least go look at them and if you see one you like you should try it on" Oliver said smiling.
"Well I can't say no to trying on dresses." I was one of those girls who at like first meeting you would never guess but I am such a girlie girl. I love trying on dresses and wearing dresses and dressing up nice and putting on make up and shopping and shoes. I actually think that sometimes I have an addiction to shoes. Fred and George stopped going to the movies with me during the summers back during school because they would get mad that no matter what type of movie it was I was always commenting on cute clothes. Once we went to see a scary movie and the girl was like being killed and it showed a scene of her feet and she had the cutest shoes on. I think that was the last movie they saw with me.
We walked into the store and the woman came out and smiled at us. I saw this dress with red on it in the corner and rushed right on over to it. Oliver laughed at my natural habit and just moved over to stand out of the way. I grabbed the dress and went to change into it. I came out and ran over to the mirrors. I'm glad Oliver talked me into this, I love trying on dresses. There is this one store in Hogsmade that every time we had a weekend to go out there I would always go and try on dresses. The woman that owned the shop actually knew me by name. It was funny she came to visit me in the hospital after my accident during my seventh year. I had never made it to her shop because one of my friends made me go into the three broom sticks and then I got cursed. The woman realized that it was weird for me not to have come and so she actually started to ask students where I was. I promised her that I would buy my wedding dress from her shop and she would always smile.
"Wow Kates I haven't seen you looking this good in a dress in a long time." Oliver smiled and I stuck my tongue out at him.
"Because I don't need a dress to look this good" I laughed and stuck my tongue out at him.
I tried on a few more dresses until I found this one that was red and gold at the top and flowed down to be white at the bottom. It was amazing.
"Oliver I think I just feel in love" I laughed and he just put his hand on his head. The woman in the shop heard this and came over to us.
"Does it seem like the one for you're big day" she said with a weird smile.
"Oh…I'm not getting married any time soon" I laughed and so did Oliver.
"Oh I thought…the ring" She said and pointed to my hand.
"Yeah I was getting married awhile back…" I said and Oliver looked at me in his worried look.
"I'm so sorry" The woman said quietly
"Thanks…but for now just a couple of friends trying on dresses for the fun of it" I said
"Are you trying them on too?" The woman asked and gave a weird look to Oliver.
"No…I'm alright just watching" Oliver laughed
"Ha Ollie you should try one on!" I laughed
"I'm sure if you wanted to I could find one to fit you're…figure" The woman laughed
"I'm good honestly" Oliver said
"Come on Ollie live a little!" I pressured him and he just smiled at me
"….alright" He said with a chuckle and his huge smile on his face.
The women giggled and went towards the back of the store to grab a dress and brought it back and handed it to Oliver. He just looked at it and laughed obviously wondering what he was doing.
"I have the same dress in your size if you want to try it on too" the woman laughed and handed me a dress. I laughed and rushed Oliver into the dressing rooms with me. I've become a pro at putting dresses on so I got mine on in less then a minute and then went out to see if Oliver was good but he wasn't out of his stall yet.
"What's taking so long" I laughed
"I'm sorry I don't think I've ever put one of these on before…." He laughed
"…And I think I might be stuck" He laughed even harder
I opened the stall door to see Oliver half way into a wedding dress and wished so badly that I had camera with me.
"Put you're arms through the top" I said almost not in English because I was laughing so hard.
He put his arms up and I pulled the dress down over top of him.
"You're supposed to step into them" I laughed
"Well sorry I didn't know" He smiled and I went and tied the back for him
We walked out into the main room and the woman running the store just burst into laughter at the sight of Oliver. He had the stupidest look on his face. Like a little boy all dressed up for family pictures that wanted to be playing in the mud. I loved ever minute of it. I felt sort of guilty but then I would look back at him and the sight was just too funny to feel badly about.
"How did I get talked into this" He chuckled
"I don't know, but I have to say this made my day. Possibly my year" I was laughing so hard my eyes were tearing
Oliver looked in the mirror and sighed and laughed a little bit.
"Haven't you ever worn a kilt?" I asked
"Well yes but that is a lot more manly then a wedding dress" He laughed
"We'll do something manly after this I promise" I giggled feeling guilty for briefly taking away Oliver's pride.
"Want to go to the pub?" Oliver asked
"I thought you were done with alcohol" I said
"No I'm just done being drunk….I don't think it's possible for me to give it up as a whole…I'm a Scot, we like alcohol so much we made our own type" He chuckled at his own stereotyping of himself.
"Alright" I went back into the dressing room and changed back into my own clothes.
"Um…Kates….I'm stuck again" I heard Oliver say from his stall and I just burst into laughter.
I went in and helped him out of his dress and then we returned the dresses to the woman who ran the shop and she still had tears in her eyes from laughing so hard. She told us to come back anytime.
We walked down the road and saw a pub so we went in.
"If it isn't Oliver and Katie, gosh do you two ever go anywhere alone?" Mica, one of the other chasers on the national team, said from the bar.
"Of course not Mica, we're Gryffindors we have to travel in prides" I laughed and sat down next to him
"Prides?" Oliver asked
"Yeah it's what a group of lions is called" I said
"Hmmm never knew that" Oliver said and tried to get the attention of the bartender.
"Well you're better then the Ravenclaws….they travel in murders" Mica laughed
"Yeah but you Hufflepuff are all lame. Traveling by yourself, now that's pathetic."
"Yeah well Hufflepuff defiantly has the weirdest of mascot like things" Mica laughed
"Indeed, I never thought that a lion, a raven, a snake, and a badger would ever get along" I laughed
"Well they didn't" Mica said and the three of us laughed
"Well if you're playing it that way Gryffindor and Slytherin would never be a competition…because I don't see a snake putting up a good fight with a lion" Oliver said with that look on his face that he used to get when ever he was thinking about quidditch back in Hogwarts
"Oliver I didn't know you came here" Carrie said from behind us. I hated her voice…I wasn't even drunk yet and it made me feel like I was about to throw up.
"Um I don't normally, Kates and I were just near by and decided to stop in and get a drink" Oliver said pointing to me next to him. Carrie looked at me with an evil glare and I just smiled back, and Mica laughed.
"I'm here with some friends" She pointed to a group of girls sitting in a booth on the other side of the room. "You should come over and I'll introduce you to them" She said playing with her hair and Oliver just looked uncomfortable.
"Umm I just ordered a drink so I'll wait here for it" Oliver said
"Well after you get it come on over" she said
"I wouldn't want to just ditch Kates though" Oliver said once again pointing to me causing me to receive the same look and me to give the same smile and Mica once again to laugh.
"I'm sure she wouldn't mind letting you come over to say hi for a bit" Carrie said shooting me a look as if to say that I better let him go say hi.
"Sure I don't mind! Come on Ollie go ahead and say hi to the girls. I'll save you're beer for you" I said in a cheery voice and he shot a heated look at me and I just smiled
"See Oliver, she doesn't mind." Carrie said and looked at me weird for not putting up a fight
"Alright I'll come over for a quick hello" Oliver said and looked back at me like he was trying to send me a silent curse.
"What just happened there" Mica asked me
"What do you mean" I asked
"Don't you dislike Carrie" Mica said
"Well obviously I don't like her who could"
"Then why are you letting her get her way?"
"Ha because as much as I hate her I know it annoys Oliver and in a way it's pay back and plus its just super fun to annoy the heck out of him" I said
"Payback for what"
"For making me play quidditch again" I said and he just looked at me strange
The bartender set down our beers and I began to drink mine and looked back at Oliver who was standing at the table with a fake smile on his face but glaring at me with his eyes.
He said something to the girls and then walked back over to us.
"I hate you" he said sitting down
"What was it that you said at practice that one time… oh that's right... Yeah apparently" I said mimicking his voice….well not really I just made my voice really low and tried as hard as possible to have a Scottish accent…it didn't work well so I just smiled and he actually chuckled at it.
"You two confuse the hell out of me" Mica laughed
"It happens" I said and Oliver laughed
"Are you two ready for the game coming up?" Mica asked
"It's going to happen soon?" I asked
"Yeah" Mica said
"I thought it was after Alicia and George's wedding" I said to Oliver
"Their wedding is Saturday" Oliver said
"Really?!" I basically shouted
"Yeah…" he said
"I need another beer then" I laughed and singled for the bartender
"Oh goodness" Oliver laughed
I had at least two more beers.
"You should stop before you get drunk Kates" Oliver said
"But it was my plan to get drunk" I laughed
"Well then I should stop before I get drunk too" He laughed and winked at me
Owww what the heck sun what did I ever do to you? Ugh…beer sucks….my head hurts….I want coffee. I got up and wobbled into the kitchen to get some coffee.
"Well don't you just look like death" Oliver laughed at me
"Oh well thanks, it's nice to see you too" I grumbled and started the coffee machine
"I told you to stop drinking like five times and you never listened" Oliver said
"Yes well….shut up" I said and took some ibuprofen.
"Oh Katie you look horrible are you okay?" Alicia said coming into the kitchen area
"I'm hung over people get over it! Ow…" I screamed…and it hurt Oliver laughed at me
"Well I hope you'll be better by tomorrow" Alicia said
"Why what's tomorrow?" I asked rubbing my neck
"My rehearsal dinner!" Alicia yelled and I winced
I got my cup of coffee and grunted.
"I'm just going to assume you're unenthusiastic-ness is because you're hung over" Alicia said and left the apartment.
"If only she knew that your hang over was from getting drunk at the thought of her wedding" Oliver laughed
"It was not at the thought of her wedding" I said
"Yes it was" He argued
"What makes you think that" I asked
"At the mention of her wedding you decided to get drunk…seems logical to say that you wanted to get drunk because of her wedding" He said
"It's not because of her wedding" I said
"Oh then why is it"
"Because it's not my wedding" I mumbled
"You still are thinking that?" He asked
"Yes I mean I'm almost 24, which is almost 25, which is halfway to 30. I feel like I needed have gotten married and started a family by now" I said
"Well however mental that is I still can help you with that problem" Oliver said sitting down next to me
"Oh and how do you suppose you could help me" I asked
"I could marry you. Then you'll be married before you're 25" He said and I laughed
I finished drinking my coffee and then went back to bed.
"Katie wake up we have to be at the church in 2 hours!" Alicia yelled into my room….did I sleep through the whole day?!
"Oh good you're not dead…I was contemplating how I was going to explain to Henry how you died. And Alicia would be mad because her bridesmaid would be even more uneven…plus it would be depressing to know that you died in jealousy of her wedding..." A Scottish voice was rambling in my room.
"How the hell did I sleep through the whole day?" I asked sitting up in my bed
"I really don't know, but if you ever figure it out tell me. It seems like something I would want to do someday" He laughed and left my room.
So today was the wedding rehearsal, I wasn't really all that mad about it actually. We got to the church; it was beautiful, more a cathedral then a church. Alicia could barely talk all day. The whole Weasley family was there with their spouses or boyfriend in Ginny's case. Bill and Fleur's son Bodon was going to be the ring bearer and Charlie and his wife Crystal's daughter Evelyn was the flower girl. I was a bridesmaid along with Angelina and Ginny. Fred was the best man of course and Ron, Charlie, Bill, and Oliver (the only one with out red hair) were also men of honor. Alicia's family were here for the wedding to, I think after this her mother was going to not have any tears left.
The dinner afterwards was fun because I got to sit next to Oliver and we basically just made fun of all the people there.
"So you seem to be cooler about this now" He said
"Well yeah, I'm not anti wedding, I just wanted to be getting married. But I'm over it now" I smiled
"Well you know my offer still stands" He said
"And so does my answer" I said
"You didn't answer…you just laughed and walked away" He said
"Exactly, well and I answered the first time you brought this up" I laughed and he kind of chuckled.
The dinner was actually pretty fun. Afterwards back at home was a blast too. We got home and had a little party of Alicia, George, Fred, Angelina, Oliver, and I. It was a blast, but sad because it was like we were loosing this, now that George and Alicia are getting married and Fred and Angelina will be getting married and then will be the friends of the two married couples. Like in movies were your friends get boring because they got married.
It was still fun though, we danced around like idiots beer in hand. There really is nothing better then just dancing around like an idiot with friends. I was head banging at one point to a song and fell backwards into a table and then on to the couch. Oliver just burst out into laughter.
Once Fred and George ran into each other and Angelina laughed so hard she choked on her spit and then gagged causing herself to puke. It was completely disgusting but hilarious because the entire time she was puking she was still cracking up and it wasn't even that funny.
For the first time in a very long time I was completely happy, I wasn't sad about the wedding, or lonely, or depressed. I was just generally happy. My cheeks started to hurt from smiling so much and my stomach was killing me from laughing so hard.
It was like a scene from a chick flick or a chick lit (girlie book). We were all laughing at nothing and having a blast and it felt like everything was going in slow motion.
The sun started to come up so George and Fred went to spend the night at Angelina's because George wasn't allowed to see Alicia before their wedding. Oliver fell asleep on the couch not to long ago but was refusing to go home. So I went to bed and so did Alicia.
I woke up probably five hours later to Alicia jumping up and down on my bed singing "here comes the bride". I just laughed and got up to jump with her. We started squealing eventually like a bunch of school girls who just saw a hot movie star or something. I think today is actually going to be fun.
I jumped off my bed and out into the kitchen…Oliver was gone surprisingly. I turned on the radio and Alicia and I started dancing in the living room. She ran into her room got into her pre-dress clothes and I got into mine, a pair of jean shorts and a short sleeve red t shirt, and we ran out the door and headed towards the hair dressers. Angelina and Ginny got there shortly after us and we all sat down to get our hair done. The woman that was doing my hair kept yelling at me, because when a good song came on I would start dancing and move my head. The girls would always laugh and Alicia would yell that if my hair got messed up I wasn't allowed in the wedding anymore.
After hair we went to Alicia's mum's house and got into our dresses and took a bunch of pictures with all the bridesmaids and family and what not. Then we all got into a limo and drove to the church. About half way there Alicia started to freak out.
"Guys I'm getting married!" She screeched
"We know we're in the wedding" I said to her
"But I'm getting married! To George! I'm going to be Mrs. Weasley!" Alicia laughed
"Alicia Weasley…I like it, it sounds nice" I said to her and she chuckled.
We pulled up to the church and Alicia started to hyperventilate with this huge smiled on her face and looked closed to tears. Ginny, Angelina, and I just burst into laughter at the sight.
We all stumbled out of the limo and into the cathedral and Alicia still had the biggest smile on her face. Ron, Bill, Oliver, and Alicia's dad were waiting in the backroom for us. Fred, Charlie, and George were already at the alter…we figured this was the best way to walk in with uneven numbers of men and women in the wedding.
"Well you look nice" I said to Oliver
"Thanks you too" He said moving his legs and looking at his pants
"Something wrong with you're pants" I laughed
"No…I'm just not used to wearing pants in a wedding" He laughed
"What?"
"The only other wedding I've ever been in was my older cousin's and I wore a kilt" he smiled
"Oh gosh" I said putting my hand to my face
"You all ready?" A person said poking their head into the room
Alicia squealed and they took that as a yes.
Ron and Ginny walked down the isle first and then Angelina and Bill and then Oliver and I and we all stood to the sides while Alicia and her father came down the isle. She looked so beautiful it just plastered her same stupid smile onto my face.
By the time she got up to George she was crying and he just laughed with the same goofy smile on his face. They looked so unbelievably happy.
The ceremony was over pretty fast and we went to this restaurant for the reception. The cake was huge…like almost touching the ceiling. I found myself just staring at it almost drooling.
"Hey that looks like something out of one of your greatest dreams" Oliver laughed knowing well that I was a sucker for cake.
We sat down at the long table meant for all of the people in the wedding. George and Alicia were introduced and they came in and we all danced. I was surprised at how normally the reception was going. I mean for a Weasley twin event this was going all too normally.
This was of course until they were told to cut the cake.
"Wait hold on…where's my wand" George said at the cake and reached into his back pocket and pulled out his wand to perform a silent spell on Alicia.
"What did you just do?" Alicia said in a motherly tone…oh great she really is an Mrs.Weasley.
"You'll thank me in a moment" George said with one of his famous Weasley grins and Alicia looked at him funny.
They grabbed the knife and went to cut the cake. They put the knife into the cake and it popped throwing cake all over the room. Alicia actually found it funny and shoved a handful of it from the ground into his face. George responded with the same and of course a cake war broke out. Even Alicia's grandparents started to throw cake. It was fantastic.
The spell George did was a protecting spell on her dress so that it wouldn't get ruined by cake. My dress of course was covered and my hair was dangling in my face. Apparently cake kills hairspray.
Oliver got a huge handful of it and smashed it into my face. I responded by getting a bunch and basically rubbing it in his face and then jumped on top of him getting all of the cake off of my dress and onto his tux. The whole room was cracking up and eventually covered in cake. People actually just ignored it and began to dance.
"Can I have this dance?" Oliver asked…his hair sticking to the front of his face
"Sure" I laughed and we went to dance.
During one dance George slipped on some cake and fell taking Alicia down with him then not to much after they fell while everyone was still laughing at them Ginny and Harry fell and slid across the dance floor….this was more a Weasley Wedding. I laughed.
Thinking that this wedding couldn't have anymore surprises we started calming down and Alicia threw her bouquet. Angelina caught it. Before she even realized Fred was on his knee right next to her holding open a little black box.
"It could be sooner then you think" He laughed and she squealed and laughed
"Yes!" Angelina said and Fred put the ring on her finger and she leapt up into his arms. Everyone in the room cheered.
"I guess we're going to be back here in a few months" Oliver laughed
"Yep, silly twins, do they have to do everything together" I laughed
"You're not mad" Oliver said
"No…I told you I'm over it now" I smiled
"Well my offer will always stand" He smiled making his right cheek wrinkle from the dried icing.
I laughed at him and walked over to squeal with Angelina about her ring.
"I think it's bigger then mine!" Alicia said holding her hand next to Angelina's
"I could get you a bigger one" George said coming up behind us
"No…this one's perfect" She said and gave him a kiss and Angelina and I giggled.
"Hey gorgeous" Fred said coming up behind Angelina she smiled and kissed him and suddenly I was standing alone in the circle with two couples who were either making out or gazing into each others eyes. I started looking for some place else to go.
"Oh well now I feel awkward coming into this group" Oliver said behind me.
"Don't even think about Oliver Nolan" I said knowing exactly what he was thinking
"How did you ever figure out my middle name" He asked
"I saw it on a paper once when I was helping McGonagall tidy up her office." I said
"Yeah….quidditch practice just wasn't the same after you learn" He laughed and looked past me like he was reflecting on old times.
"No it was twice as fun" George laughed
"Especially because you got so bothered by her calling you by your full name" Fred chuckled.
He would he would be showing off to a group of girls walking by the pitch or something stupid like that and I would just yell from where ever I was "Oliver Nolan Wood" and he would jump up and grab onto his broom like he just heard a blood curling scream near by.
"Well only my mother ever called me that when I was in trouble…it brought back bad memories" He chuckled
"Don't I know what you mean" George laughed
"When mother pulls out the full name then you did something wrong and should run and hide" Fred laughed
Almost on cue their mother came over and gave them a huge hug smiled at them and walked away.
"Ha apparently we didn't do anything wrong today" George laughed.
"Yeah, you'd think she'd be mad about the cake" Fred said
"Actually I think the cake was hit to most people" Alicia giggled
"Interesting word to use" I laughed
"Yeah I know that the cake hit most people…whether they liked it is another story" Oliver laughed
Professor Flitwick came over to talk to Fred and George and Alicia and Angelina went off to talk about wedding things.
I wobbled over to the table to sit down for awhile. I was beat. I laid my head down on the table and started to drift asleep.
"Oh no I thought we were rid of this Katie" Oliver laughed sitting down next to me pulling me farther from sleep.
"No I'm just tired. I've been up and doing something all day today and I didn't get a good nights sleep last night either" I smiled at him
"Yeah…today was a fun day" Oliver said
"Yeah it was…we're all growing up" I smiled and he smiled back
"I know! It makes me feel a little pathetic that Fred and George Weasley are growing up before I am…that has to mean something" Oliver laughed and looked like he was thinking really hard.
"Haha yeah well we all knew even back in Hogwarts that you'd be the last to get married. Because the girl who marries you has to be insane…. or a quaffle" I said sticking out my tongue and laughed at him.
"Yeah I guess so" He chuckled
"Man Wood you've gotten boring in you're old age" I said
"How so" he asked
"If I was to have said that back in Hogwarts you would have put up a big fight about it and made me run laps…even though Quidditch takes no leg effort at all" I said
"Well that's because push ups aren't as fun to make people do for long amounts as time….and I don't know I change with the times" He said
"Well don't I want back the old Oliver…the quidditch Nazi of an Oliver"
"Ha I never thought I would hear any of you say that" He laughed
"Well just because we complained about it doesn't mean that we hated it" I said
"No I'm pretty sure on numerous occasions one of you would complain about hating quidditch practices because of me" He said
"Only the ones that were at 4 in the morning and any normal person would complain about that" I said
"I personally like the morning"
"My point proven"
"Well at least I don't sleep on the locker room floors…maybe I should start getting you up at dawn again" He smiled
"Or not…plus I was more asleep in Gryffindor practices"
"It didn't seem like it to me"
"Oh?"
"Yeah when you're asleep you can't throw quaffles at the back of my head when I'm talking to Harry"
"Ha! You finally figured out that was me"
"Yeah I figured it out a year later when I realized that Angelina and Alicia just followed what you did so neither of them would have thrown it"
"Well Fred or George could have done it"
"Yeah except theirs would have been a bludger" He laughed
"Yeah…" I yawned
"Ready to go home?" He asked
"Yeah but I'm not going to leave in the middle of the party"
"No come on let's go" he said standing up
"No see this is what I mean… the old Oliver would have made me stay and made me like jump up and down to stay awake because if I went to bed to early I'd get too much sleep and would be to tired for practice tomorrow"
"Fine…you want the old Oliver" He said reaching over and picking me up out of the seat.
"Then lets dance" He continued carrying me over to the dance floor
"This is more like it" I laughed
"Alright then" he laughed and we danced for awhile. Slowly the people started to leave the party and the six of us were sitting at the table just talking and laughing at each person that came to congratulate George and Alicia and then Fred and Angelina and then they would always just look, smile, nod, and walk away when they got to Oliver and I. Every time we would all burst out laughing. I'm so glad that we are all getting back to normal again… and yet changing so much at the same time.
I actually fell asleep at one point with my head on the table and Fred and George drew on my face of course. I woke up when Oliver was carrying me home.
Today was a good day.