Being on the Gryffindor quidditch team with a bunch of them, I came to learn a lot about the Potter-Weasley family members over my past three years of being on the team. For example, I learned that Dominique will say anything to anyone, regardless of consequence and James Potter will do anything for a laugh. Dom is a dead useful beater, especially during Slytherin matches since she gets so riled up. The other beater is Scorpius Malfoy. Albus is our brilliant seeker. I am a chaser along with Molly and Hunter Wood-Oliver Wood's oldest son. Molly is new to the team and is the weak spot, unfortunately. James is the keeper and I think the only thing he is serious about is keeping quaffles out of the goal posts. He is easily the best keeper Gryffindor has had in ages.
I was the first one at the quidditch pitch, as usual, the Monday before our first game against Ravenclaw on Friday. It was the first game of the year and my nerves were on edge. I haven't been able to focus on anything but Friday since it was announced. Gryffindor and Ravenclaw are easily the best teams. Slytherin is good but they foul too much to be that much competition. Ravenclaws are smart and strategic but play it safe while Gryffindors were daring and willing go the extra mile and sometimes it costs us.
Since I was so early, I ran a few laps around the quidditch pitch then took out my broom and polished it. Then I heard the door open and I didn't look up because I was pretty sure it was Albus Potter who always got here a little after me but I didn't want to bother him. Al was a nice guy but he was not a morning person. I don't know why he gets here early if he hates mornings though.
But it wasn't Albus. It wasn't even anyone on the quidditch team. It was bloody Louis Weasley.
"How's it going, Preston?" He says but the words are hard to hear over the arrogance, just like everything else he has to say.
"What are you doing here?" I retort as I glare at him.
"I was running around the lake, like I do every morning, and saw someone was on the pitch. I thought it was Al so I was going to come pester him- he's not a morning person- but now I see it's you and that is just so much better." He quips but I ignore him and continue polishing my broom. "I know we don't know each other very well but when people ignore me, I tend to just keep talking so feel free to stop me at any time." He continues when I don't reply. He begins to recount his last few weeks of classes but I just walk out of the locker room and out onto the pitch.
"So why are you here so early?" Louis follows me outside and I can feel anger rising in my throat. I still don't answer him.
"I bet it's because you like sunsets. I just knew behind your tough shell is some hopeless romantic who likes sunsets and long walks on the beach." Still annoying, still no answer.
"I wonder what else you're hiding under your tough shell." He says flirtatiously. My back is turned to him but I can tell he's smirking. Louis Weasley is always smirking. Most girls drop their panties at the sight Louis Weasley's smirk. I would rather drop my fist onto his face when he gets that expression. With a great deal of restraint, I continue ignoring him, even though I feel like flipping out at him. I flick him off instead.
"Just tell me when and where, Preston." Louis retorts, seriously testing my patience. I get on my broom and try to take off but something stops me from getting off the ground. It's Louis Bloody Weasley holding onto my bloody broom! My patience snaps and I jump off my broom.
Shouting in Louis Weasley's face is not an unfamiliar event. One time at the Burrow, I caught him trying to put a dungbomb next to me while I was reading a book and he thought I was too distracted to notice. Another time I caught him on a foul during a Weasley family quidditch team and pointed it out because no one else saw. He told me I had a stick up my ass and we got into it.
"You are such an ass! Can't you take a bloody hint?!" I yelled which apparently he found amusing.
"And you're stuck up but I wasn't going to point out the obvious. And yes, I can take a hint. I just prefer to ignore hints unless there's something in it for me." God, I can taste the arrogance and ignorance in the air around him.
"Do you always have to be so absurd!?" I retort.
"You make me this way, love. I just can't help it when I'm around you." Louis practically coos. Merlin I wish I had my wand right about now- it's in the locker room.
"You're fucking insufferable. Leave. Me. Alone." I shoved him away from me as he was moving closer. I was a little shocked when my hands hit his chest. His chest was stone hard.
"Oh, Leah! I just can't stay away from you! You have such a kind and magnetic personality!" He sneers sarcastically.
I storm back into the locker room and of course, he follows. If he had any sense at all, he'd stay the hell away from me. In the locker room, both Albus and Scorpius are inside and Molly is coming in the front entrance just as I enter as well.
"Now, now, Preston. You can't just let a guy profess his love for you and then run away!" Louis taunts me. I grab my wand but Albus steps in between Louis and I.
"Hey. Hey. Leah, calm down. You don't want to do anything you'll regret." Albus tries to tell me. I snort and reply, "Please. I could Avada this prick and not think about it twice afterwards."
"No, no. I think you'd miss me. Actually, I think you would melt from the guilt. Afterall, you couldn't the man you love! I mean, that's why you always get so angry at me when you catch me snogging other girls. It's okay, sweetheart. I won't tell anyone- oh, I don't know about Albus here, though." Louis continues and I see Albus blush. Albus doesn't mean to but sometimes he lets out secrets. This only proves what a jerk Louis is though. He's willing to pick on his cousin whose only role in this so far has been protecting his undeserving ass.
"Considering Albus is saving your ass right now, Louis, you should probably shut up." Scorpius cuts in.
"Oh, I'm not scared of Leah. She's harmless, all bark and no bite, I'd say. I bet she's great in bed- all that feistiness." He winks at me. Scorpius laughs and Molly looks scared for Louis. Albus looks conflicted. I duck around Albus and shoot a stinging jinx at Louis. I was aiming for his, um, private parts but Albus tried to pull my wand away and I hit Louis' stomach.
"Bitch." Louis huffs out, clearly in pain and Albus and Scorpius pull me away before I can hurt that prick again for calling me a bitch. Louis stands upright, even though he's still clearly in pain, and begins to walk out but not without saying, "And if you want to indulge me so I can test my bedroom theory, meet me in the Room of Requirement tonight." He winks at me and is outside the curtains before I could get out of Scorpius and Albus' arms.
I'm irritated for all of quidditch practice and I nearly snap at Hunter when he approaches me after whether I've done the herbology essay after practice.
Louis Weasley is the bane of my existence and I hate that I'm the only girl outside of his family that isn't head over heels for him. Louis has annoyed/tortured me for six years and as I walk down to the quidditch pitch on Friday before the game, I make a decision that I'm going to get him back. And I do.
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