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George winced as his warm fluffy blanket was yanked off him and daylight seeped through his closed eyelids.
"Rise and shine, Georgie!"
George sat up abruptly. "Alicia!" he yelped, squinting around.
Lee and Fred were laughing hysterically.
"It works every time!" Fred choked.
George groaned and fell back into his bed. "Yeah, funny. REAL funny guys." Fred had the annoying talent of mimicking Alicia's voice perfectly. Hearing the girl of his dreams voice coming from his twin brothers' mouth was not something he particularly enjoyed. It was rather creepy.
"Oh wow!" Lee explained, looking at George. Fred gasped.
George looked at them strangely. "What?"
Silence.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Er…"
Fred grabbed George's arm and pulled him to his feet. "You might just want to see for yourself mate," he said, leading him to the bathroom while Lee followed trying not to laugh. George looked into the mirror.
"Oh…no," he groaned.
"Uh, it's not that bad," Lee offered, unable to hide the grin on his face.
George glared at him and he immediately wiped the smile from his face.
"She couldn't have hit me that hard," George mumbled, staring at the large swollen purple thing where his eye used to be.
Fred poked it.
"OUCH! What did you do that for!"
"Is your eye actually somewhere in there?"
George shoved him away. "Piss off. I look like the bloody Hunchback of Notredame!"
Fred laughed. "Well as least no one will mistake us today. I was afraid people were going to think I was the one who kissed Ali."
George made a face. "Ugh, don't even say her name."
Lee started chuckling. "You know you should probably go to Madame Pomfrey about that."
"Hell no am I going to Madame Pomfrey for this! What would I tell her, I got punched by a girl?"
Fred scoffed. "So you're going to breakfast…like that?"
"Yeah!" George replied curtly, pushing past them to go get ready. Lee and George exchanged looks.
"But people will know that—"
"Yeah I know that," George interrupted pulling on his school shirt.
"Breakfast is going to be pretty interesting," Lee sighed.
"Alicia, you have to get up!" Katie said while trying to tug Alicia out of bed.
"I'm nut hongy," came Alicia's muffled reply from where her head was buried in her pillow.
Angelina went and stood next to Katie. "You have nothing to worry about, just come to breakfast. What's going to happen?"
Alicia brought her head up from her pillow and fixed Angelina with a glare. "What's going to happen? Brady's going to hate me, Elliana's going to hate me, Fred and Lee are probably going to hate me, George hates me already, which is fine because I could really came less if I ever talk to him again, and everyone was there last night probably told everyone who wasn't so now they're going to talk about me!"
"You don't even like Elliana," Katie pointed out.
"That's not the point!"
"Why would Fred and Lee hate you? They have no reason to hate you."
"And I'm sure nobody will even remember the part when I said I had kissed George."
Angelina perked up. "Oh I had completely forgotten about that!"
"When did you kiss him and why in Godric's name would you ever keep something like that from us?" Katie whined.
Alicia squealed and buried her face in her pillow again. "Do oo rely thin I won to tokbout kissing Gorge rit no?"
"Somehow, I actually understood that. But don't think you can avoid the question forever!" Angelina said, jumping on top of Alicia who was still engulfed in blankets.
Alicia moaned and shoved her off. "Just go down already! I'll be down soon, I promise."
Angelina and Katie finally left her along and went on down to breakfast without her.
Fifteen minutes later the boys were heading towards the Great Hall. They hadn't seen the girls in the common room so they supposed that they were already down at breakfast. Snickers, gasps, and chuckles followed George as he sat down between Lee and Fred. Angelina and Katie sat across from them. No one said a word.
Lee coughed and rubbed his nose while Fred started humming and pretended to be interesting in the wall across the room. George decided to ignore everyone and eat his food.
"Nice out isn't?" Fred asked Angelina.
She looked up at the ceiling which was charmed to look like the sky outside. "Er…no, not really."
"Come on, there's nothing better than cloudy skies!"
Angelina and Katie started talking about homework but Lee couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Where is Alicia?"
Katie looked at him with wide eyes. "Are you stupid?" She mouthed across the table. "Uh, she's coming a little later," She answered, shooting a quick glance at George, who was still concentrating on his food.
"Why?" Lee asked, ignoring Katie who was signaling for him to drop it.
Angelina shook her head. "She's not ready yet. I mean she's not finished getting ready."
Katie leaned forward to Lee so George couldn't hear. "She doesn't want to see Brady, Elliana or anyone who was watching. Especially after some of the things that slipped out…like that kiss she still won't tell me about. And you can guess why she doesn't want to see George."
Lee nodded and Fred, feeling left out yelled, "What are you guys talking about? Don't leave me out!"
Katie shook her head and nodded towards George. George, feeling like he was in the way, stood up to leave. "I forget something in the room, I'll see you guys in class."
"Look what you did, Lee!" Katie scolded.
"What? I didn't do anything."
Katie groaned. "You made him feel uncomfortable, that's why he left!"
"No…George doesn't get uncomfortable."
"You are so insensitive sometimes!"
"Oh no!" Angelina squealed interrupting Katie and Lee.
"What?" Fred asked, followed her gaze. Katie and Lee groaned. Alicia was heading towards them. Meaning her and George were going to have to pass each other.
"Who thinks they get into another fight?" Fred piped.
"I say they're just going to ignore each other," Lee responded.
"Ten sickles?"
"Deal."
The girls rolled their eyes.
George and Alicia weren't far away but they hadn't noticed each other yet because they were both looking at the floor ignoring the whispers that were strangely growing louder. They looked up at the same time to see what all the fuss was about and by then they were a mere five paces away. George's eyes (or in this case, 'eye') locked on to Alicia's. They both slowed down.
Alicia looked at George's eye. She smirked. Ouch.
George glared at her. Fred, Lee, Katie, Angelina and some fellow Gryffindors held their breath in anticipation.
"Wow Georgie, that looks really bad. Who did that to you?" She sneered sarcastically.
George gave her a false smile. "Don't worry about it. Some dumb girl got mad because I didn't like her," he shot back, brushing past her without a second glance.
That's ridiculous. Alicia's smirk faded. Oh was that really true? Maybe he really never liked her and she just thought he did. No, that couldn't be true. Could it?
Finally realizing she was still standing in one place, she continued down the great hall where she took a seat between Angelina and Katie. She definitely wasn't hungry anymore.
"What happened?" Angelina asked, looking concerned.
"What? Nothing, I'm just tired," Alicia replied picking at a piece of bread.
Fred asked the question the others were dying to know. "What did he say?"
Alicia looked up from her bread and shot Fred a glare, making him lean back in surpise. "Nothing," she muttered angrily.
"Uh-oh," Lee said, sensing trouble.
"What are you mad at me for? I didn't do anything!"
"It's practically all your fault this happened!" Alicia couldn't help but be mad at him. He was always telling her that George liked her and George wanted—if he hadn't filled her will false hope of anything happening she probably wouldn't have acted the way she had last night. All along she had probably just been making a fool of herself.
"What do you mean my fault? I didn't—" and then it dawned on him. She must have found out about the plan.
He turned to Katie and Angelina. "You told her."
"What! No we didn't!" Angelina exclaimed.
"Fred, why would we tell her?" Katie asked.
Fred shook his head and stood up dragging Lee with him.
"Fred stop! We didn't tell her anything!" Angelina pleaded.
"Told me what?" Alicia asked, now thoroughly puzzled.
Katie groaned at the way things were turning out. "Nothing."
"But—"
"We'll tell you later Alicia, you have to go to Divination now," Angelina said standing up to go.
Alicia sighed decided to drop it. "Oh well that reminds me," she said, standing and digging through her book bag. "I wanted to show you guys the chart I did for Divination…I don't think it's…"
"What?"
Alicia groaned. "Crap, I think I left it on the table in the common room, I have to go get it, I'll see you guys later." She turned and ran out of the Great Hall.
Katie yelped, "Alicia wait…George is up there!" But Alicia was already gone.