"Geez its rainin' cats and dogs out there." Lee said, sitting down with the boys in the common room with hot chocolate in hand.
" Yeah, better now than when we have to play again. I don't think Wood would survive another lose, man. Did you see him last time? I thought he was all but about to throw himself off that balcony." George said tinkering with one of his new gadgets he's been trying to make.
" That wouldn't have been that much of a lose." Fred grumbled, holding his hands out and motioning for his twin to throw him the gadget and let him give a go at it.
" What do you have against Wood, mate? Tell you the truth, I like him more and more. Makes me wish he would have loosened up a long while ago." Lee asked, blowing on his hot chocolate.
"You know exactly what about Wood gets Fred's knickers all in a twist. He gets to spend all his time with Angelina. Somethin' for some reason he's still not ready to go .I tell you the other girls are all about to pop about that."George informed.
"Wood is a grade-A wanker." Fred said, giving up on the contraption and throwing it back to George for him to try again.
"Wood isn't the one in your way, man, you are. And maybe Mandy." He answered, catching the item and leaning back to try again.
"Could we leave her out of this for once?" Fred said annoyed
"I'm just sayin', I don't get what you are waitin' for. I mean, everyone in the house sees it—George and Ali, Katie and Dean, Angelina and You, me and—maybe..I don't know somebody good." Lee started finally cooling down his hot chocolate enough to drink "What in the world is stopping you?"
"I guess if you put it like that nothing." Fred said, not realizing how much pressure was being put on this him and Angelina thing.
"Mandy?" George asked quietly, not wanting his brother to get anger. "Is it Mandy, mate?"
"Of course not, Mandy couldn't compare to our Angelina." Lee said
The portrait hole opened and a soaking wet Angelina entered, hair sticking to her body and clothes clinging to her body.
"Get caught in it did ya?" George laughed
She seemed in quite a daze and walked by all of them, then turned around half way to the stairs to her dorm and went back. She walked over to Lee and took his drink from him and then headed back to her room.
"My gosh, Angelina!" Alicia exclaimed when she entered the room, "What happened?"
Angelina finished the drink, trying to warm herself back up from the walk she had to make in the rain to get back in the castle. She went straight to the bathroom and ran the warm water, stripping quickly and getting in. After a long wash, she went back into the dorm room in her robe.
"More ignoring us, Johnson?" Katie said beyond irritated as she barely looked up from the parchment she was scribbling to owl her mom.
"What are you squawking about?" Angelina asked putting her hands on her hips
Alicia just shuffled all of her school books on her bed and began to move them to put them away, "If you are cross at us, I would hope you would just come out and tell us. I never thought I would have to make an appointment to see my best friend. All you do now-a-days is spend your time running. You get up and run alone in the morning, go to classes, spend your evenings running with Wood, do your homework and go to bed just to do it all over again. If you don't wanna spend time with us, it's almost summer now. Just say it. I mean, if you think we aren't taking this cup championship thing seriously you are wrong, we want to win it quite badly too."
"Oh no, that is not it at all." Angelina said making her way to sit at the foot of Alicia's bed. "I'm sorry guys, I had no idea you felt this way. It's just Wood and I are really good for each other now, I think I help him not focus on somethings and I can talk to him about stuff that I can't with anyone else."
"What?!?!?!?" Katie squalled from across the room, making her way over to join them and pushing the books off Alicia's bed to do so.
"Angelina, if you feel like you can trust him more than us right now than by all means." Alicia said, still frowning at the idea of Angelina being mad at them. "I'm sorry if we made you feel like you couldn't come to us."
"It's not like that at all, it's just, Wood and I are so much alike and he just knows..."
"Bullshit!" Katie called, "Bullshit. We've been your friends, bunkmates, team mates for years now and he comes in and takes that all away? He's breakin' up the group. And what is the deal with telling him things you can't tell us?"
"Katie! I'm sorry; he's not breaking anything up. He would never dream of it."
"He's ruining everything." Katie said angrily.
"He makes me better. He ….he hears me when no one else can"
"If you aren't talking to us, sweetie, how can he hear you?"
"It's not that easy…I mean you guys have been able to have relationships and be with guys and I haven't gotten there yet, I just haven't. I know you don't mean it when you poke fun at me about it but still, it doesn't make things better. I'm just slower than the lot of you. I had it all planned out first and I'm still here with nothing. I mean, I had it all figured out. Fred and me. Since third year, it was suppose to be us. Holding hands in the rose garden, spending hours talking till every detail about ourselves were no longer a mystery , summers at the burrow, new years at my parents, secret mini holiday breaks in Hogsmeade," Alicia sighed as she looked over at a now understanding Katie. Angelina began to get lost in her old thoughts as she spoke them to her friends for the first time. " his fingers raking against my skin, his red hair mixed in on mine on his pillow, no longer being two but one mass unit of love that just thrived on the heat he make between us, no needing anything to survive on other than.."
"Geezus Angie, keep at it like this and I am going to need a smoke. This is hot." Alicia said fanning herself,
"Then why the hell did you stop her." Katie said, "Keep at it; you are just getting to the sex part."
Angelina laughed, "Well, that's what I use to want. I mean, no offense, but I never thought you two would actually get it. I mean you and George happened so fast and Katie you….well..You always worked a little quicker with whoever you were with."
"Hey! Don't blame me for maturing faster." Katie defended.
"Angelina, we never meant for to feel left behind. Work at your own pace, I mean George and I felt that it was right and so we did. We are much better now that he have slowed down. There is nothing wrong with waiting, it's a lot harder than not." Alicia said understanding.
"I honestly don't know how you do it." Katie said, "I mean…."
Angelina laughed at her friend and shook her head, "It's okay. I'm okay. I am."
"I just can't believe you told Wood all this, you must have been greatly desperate." Katie said.
"Not at all, Wood has been a savior." Angelina insured.
"Well, let us do the saving from now on. Got to go, I'll be back quick." Katie said getting up and heading out the room
"Where is she off to?" Angelina asked getting off of Alicia's bed and making her way back to her own.
"I don't know. Who knows with that one? Probably to meet Dean for some goodnight kisses or something." Alicia said gathering her books off the floor.