Tell Me One Hundred Times
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Honour
He is Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team at thirteen. It's a great honour for one so young. He should be happy. But something is missing from his life. He has good grades, Quidditch skills, the friendship of many, the admiration of more and the teachers like him. But he has no one to love.
Perhaps thirteen is young to be thinking about marriage, settling down in a cottage somewhere with a pretty young woman and a couple of cats, but he thinks about it. He's part of a large but tightly-knit family. They all love each other and there's barely a dull moment with them pouring in and out of each other's houses. But he sees his older brothers and cousins with their girlfriends and he wants the same as them.
There are plenty of pretty girls around for him to choose from. But he doesn't want to do that. He wants a girl to love him back like he loves her. And the girl he has chosen to love is Maybelle Greengrass, a brunette beauty with soft amber eyes. She is a Hufflepuff, sweet and innocent. She is the same year as him.
"Maybelle, if you were a flower, I'd pick you," he says to her one morning. She giggles sweetly and hugs him. He takes this opportunity to kiss her in his muddy Quidditch robes in the middle of the corridor with hundreds of people pushing past her.
He sees a future ahead. A future where every time he puts on his Quidditch robes he'll smile at his wife and remember their first kiss.
This chapter was some more Valentine's fluff, dear readers. The pairing was Oliver Wood/Maybelle Greengrass. Maybelle is one of my many OCs. Thanks for reading!
