OMG ya tenth chapter! We've come so far! ;) Please keep reading and reviewing! I appreciate everyone who reads this, as most of the time no one does. I hope you like this story so far, I have the whole thing planned out in a summary! Can't wait to get towards the end, that's my favorite! I hope you don't think the surprise about one of the Weasley girls is out of nowhere or anything. Well, it was supposed to be, but I hope you don't think it's stupid! This chapter just builds up to what is going to happen in the next chapter. Okay, I'm going to stop blabbering now and get on with writing.
"Will she be okay, nurse?" Someone asked. "She'll be fine." Someone else said. Allie groaned and opened her eyes. She blinked a lot as the blurry figures around her began to focus. "Allie! Thank Merlin you're okay!" Mary pulled her into a huge hug. She groaned as Mary hugged her sore body. "Stop, Mary! You're hurting her." Cole said and Mary immediately let go. "Oh, I'm sorry!" She said, looking concerned. "S'kay." Allie tried to smile. Her whole body ached with a weird passion, and her head throbbed with pain. She clasped a hand to her head and closed her eyes. "Ugh, what happened?" She asked eventually. "Well, you fell off of Nigel while you were flying 300 feet in the air." Chase explained. "Jacob caught you on his broom while practicing for Quidditch." Allie remembered how she saw the Slytherin practicing for the upcoming game. "He suffered a bit, because he suffered the fall for you." Allie's eyes flew open. "What? Where is he?" She asked urgently. Kaitlin pointed over to the bed on her right. She sorely turned her neck to see him. There he was, staring up at her with his ocean blue eyes. His arm was the only thing bandaged and broken. Relief flooded into Allie's eyes. "Jacob, I'm so sorry! Thank you, for everything!" Allie began but Jacob stopped her. "Hey, it's okay. I'm fine; you're fine, everyone's happy." He shrugged, embarrassed. Just then, the nurse spoke up. "Alright, it's time all of you leave. These two need sleep." The nurse said. Allie glanced out of one of the windows to see it was nighttime, the stars shone bright and the moon was full. Allie's cousins all gave her tender hugs before leaving. Allie glanced over at Jacob, wanting to say more, but he was asleep, or pretending to be. Allie sighed and snuggled into her own bed. Slowly, sleep overcame her.
The next few days, Allie and Jacob both rested up. They talked sometimes, casually, but it was never a full conversation. Piles and piles of homework were brought to them, and sometimes they did their homework together. Allie began to long to get out of the Hospital Wing; it was too boring for her.
Finally, they were let back out into the world. Constantly, her cousins kept at her side for no particular reason. It began to annoy Allie that she didn't get any alone time. The other thing that was bugging her was that she didn't know what to feel around Jacob. He saved her life, and now, she didn't know whether to be nice to him or just avoid him. She tried both, sometimes hurrying down the halls to avoid his looks, and sometimes smiling and talking nicely to him. Jacob didn't really seem to like it when she was nice, he always thought that the relationship should be as it normally was. So the two kept going at it, Allie trying to be nice yet avoid him as long as possible, Jacob trying to get things the way they were. Her family was no help. Alison tried to explain her dilemma to Wendy, but she said just to become friends with him and so she didn't do her any good. The moments were Allie and Jacob were next to each other were the most awkward. Jacob would begin to tease her, making Allie feel like he regretted saving her.
And so the days went on, and both the girl and boy avoided each other. Allie felt particularly bad when someone would sign Jacob's cast. He had to wear one now, and pretty much every Slytherin, even some Ravenclaw, signed it. The Slytherin were very nasty to her. They always blamed her for making him save her, even though she could have done nothing about falling.
One day, they were positioned in Transfiguration class together. "Why are you all of the sudden so nice to me?" Jacob asked suddenly. The sound of his voice made Allie's heart skip a beat. He had scared her, since they never really talked after realizing it was better off when they avoided each other. It took time to regain her composure. "Well, you saved my life, so I can't necessarily be mean to you, can I?" She asked innocently. He shrugged. "I don't know. But I liked it when I always teased or joked around with you, and you would roll your eyes or laugh. I don't like this new attitude with each other." He sighed and fiddled around with his wand. Allie frowned. "Well, what can we do about it?" She asked him. He sighed again and shrugged. "I want things the way they were. Can we be like that again?" He asked and looked at her. Allie almost laughed. "You mean like you annoying me and me becoming annoyed?" She asked. He nodded, grinning. "Yes! Like that!" He exclaimed. Allie gave a small laugh. "If you want." She smiled. Personally, she liked that idea better than the being nice idea. "Perfect. Thanks, princess!" Jacob smirked and punched her lightly on her shoulder. Allie laughed and punched him back, much harder than he did, so he almost fell out of his chair.
And their relationship was back to normal, just as they wanted it. Only it's much kinder. Jacob holds back on some of his insults and actually smiles at her when they aren't bickering. Allie did the same; she laughed at some of his pathetic jokes and smiled back at him when he smiled at her.
Weeks and weeks passed, Winter became Spring and everyone basked in the warmth gratefully. Jacob and Allie still were at each other throats, everything was the same. The middle of the year was approaching too quickly, and everyone was amazed at how the year had flown by. The Weasleys and Potters didn't care much; they just wanted summer to come already. But none of them had in mind for what was going to happen very soon.