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I sighed as my quill broke. Maybe that was a sign. It was too late to be doing homework still in the common room.

"Are you done already?" Angelina asked in tone that had a little bit of panic in it.

I shook my head and rolled my eyes before replying, "Of course not. This charms essay has to practically be a novel."

She snorted as she tried not to laugh out loud at my dramatic comment, which caused Alicia to burst out laughing. Then I started laughing at how hard Ang was trying not to laugh. Soon all three of us were cracking up over nothing but exhaustion, and forgetting for a moment about our dreaded pile of homework.

Suddenly I heard someone clear their throat behind me, and I turned around quickly. Oliver stood in the doorway of the stairs to the boys' dorm. He looked very angry with his arms crossed and his eyebrows raised. I began to pack my things in a hurry. I wanted to try to get out of there before he freaked out. I didn't want to deal with his wrath. As I was packing the other two noticed why I was freaking out and followed suit.

"What do you three think you are doing? We have our first qudditich practice of the year tomorrow, and you're staying up late hanging out in the common room?" I glanced at him over my shoulder as I headed for the stairs with my book bag. He looked livid. We must have woken him up, because he's usually really grouchy right when he gets up.

"We were doing homework, really Oliver." Alicia tried to explain. None of us wanted to be doing extra laps tomorrow during practice.

"It didn't look that way to me Spinnet," He said looking even angrier. I could tell he was about to blow up at Alicia for lying, so I stepped in with an attempt of calming him down.

"Oliver, what would you say if I would pinky promise that we were really working on homework until a minute before you came down," He knew from our shared childhood that I would NEVER lie on a pinky promise. It may sound odd but it was an inside joke of sorts that I would probably never break a pinky promise, even if only Kevin, Timmy, and Oliver knew what it truly meant.

He just nodded and turned to go back up to his dorm without yelling at us, "You 3 better be performing at your best tomorrow at practice."

We sprinted up the girl's stairs before he could his change his mind and yell. As we reached the 4th year landing, we were giggling uncontrollably. "Way to distract him Katie! Hopefully he's not mad at us tomorrow!" Alicia said as she went towards the door.

"Oh he won't be mad. You SAW that look he gave Katie.." Angelina said as she continued up the stairs. I just didn't say anything as I continued up the stairs and got ready for bed. I didn't want to encourage them, because they insist on talking about him and I getting together. It is never going to happen. He only thinks about qudditich, and someday when he realizes all the girls want him. He will be able to pick anyone, and it won't be me.

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"COME ON TEAM! IT'S ONLY THE FIRST PRACTICE OF THE YEAR! YOU SHOULD BE MORE ENERGETIC SINCE YOU'RE NOT SORE AND TIRED!" Came Oliver's booming voice from across the field.

Oh Oliver, he's practically gone insane over the course of the practice. Being out on the pitch must have reminded him that it's his last year to win the qudditich cup as captain ..well I should have said, even more insane than usual.

"It's the first practice! We should be taking it easy!" Angelina yelled back. I had to some what agree with her on that one. We've been out here for forever.

"ALL RIGHT MATES, THAT'S A WRAP. LOCKER ROOM!" He yelled angrily, and started towards the ground.

Great, lecture time …why did Angelina have to open her big mouth? If any of us get an attitude with Oliver ..it's her. I walked slowly into the room dreading the long speech. I'm so tired already, and my Arithmancy homework isn't done yet! It's going to be a long night…

Due to my slow pace I made my way in after the rest of my team. Just my luck, there's no more room on the bench. The rest of the team was lounging around, so I just leaned against the wall and put my chin on my broom.

"By the way OLIVER I have a huge bruise on my arm from your violence at dinner the other night," Fred announced to the whole team while glaring at our captain. "You're lucky I didn't report you!"

"Katie, you can sit on my lap if you want," George joked as he leaned back and winked. What is it with the twins and them asking me to sit on their lap?

"Or you could get up, and let HER sit down," Alicia said with a fake sweet smile.

"You could sit on my lap too, you know Alicia. I can see you were jealous I asked Katie," George shot back with a smirk.

"I was not!" Alicia started to blush.

"You-" George started, but I interrupted. I just wanted to let Oliver talk so we would leave sooner.

"I'm fine standing right here, George, but thank you," I say tiredly.

"Okay, okay team, now listen up, because I've been going about this all wrong. We should have won last year, and the year before that …but we didn't. Anyways, I looked back to see why that was. Past years the first couple practices were a joke, so from now on every practice is going to count. Act as if it's our last," He began to ramble.

I yawned and leaned forward onto my broom. Pretty soon my eyes began to slowly close and the lids became heavy. This was going to be a long lecture, so maybe I'll just rest my eyes a while.

"KATES!"

I stood up straight, "I was listening!" I looked around quickly to find an empty locker room …what the? Oh, I must have fallen asleep during the lecture. Whoops, I wonder how long I've been out. I mean no one's left here but Oliver and myself, so it must have been for a while. You know you're too tired and overworked when you fall asleep standing up!

"Well now Kates, you need to get more sleep and not be up late partying in the common room. You need to be able to stay awake during my pep talks on strategy. They're really important. I was discussing new formations." He started sternly.

"I'm sorry Oliver. I just had a lot of charms homework that I was doing until late that night, and then today I was working on Arithmancy before practice. You know how I am with that particular subject. I promise to make sure to get more sleep on practice nights," I assured him as I took off my practice robes so I was just wearing my navy blue sweat pants.

"You're still having trouble? I can help you again. If you'd like," He said sincerely as he was referring to last year.

I smiled, "When have I ever not been having trouble with that class. Thanks, it'd help a lot."

"It's not a problem. Just tell me on the nights you need help, and we'll go to the library. Maybe after we're done we can even go over some formations, since you slept through my ideas for the season," He finished with a raised eyebrow.

I smiled at him guiltily, "I SAID I was sorry, Ollie. What more do you want from me?"

"HEY! We agreed on never using that nick name!"

"I don't ever remember agreeing to that," I protested as I put my hands on my hips "Plus you still use mine."

"But I made my own variation of it! Ollie, just doesn't sound manly enough for me," He smirked at me.

"You're many things Captain, but manly is not one of them," I laughed as I walked up the last flight of moving stairs.

"I am very manly!" He said in a deeper voice.

I glanced over at him while we continue to walk towards the common room, "You just keep telling yourself that"

He mumbled something I couldn't hear, "What will I do with you Kates? I try to lay down the law after you fell asleep during my first practice talk, and then you end up giving me a hard time. I have my work cut out for me this year with you and the twins. Too much trouble to handle."

"Look Ollie, it's not my fault! Your Scottish accent just puts me right to sleep. It's like a lullaby. And as for trouble, you know I can't help it. Kevin just taught me so well"

He narrowed his eyes at me, "Well, if that's how it's going to be… I'll just leave you to make fun of me, and the way I talk," he called over his shoulder as he went over to sit with the twins. He's always been a bit self-conscience when people bring up his accent, but most of the girls at Hogwarts think it's sexy. Not that I could tell him that.

Whatever, he's not really mad. I have some homework to get done, so I sat at the furthest table from the fireplace and got to work.

About an hour into my arithmancy essay, the twins came over, "Hey Katie, you see those 5th year boys near the fire?"

I glanced over there and was embarrassed to make eye contact with 3 out of the 5 boys over there. I glared at the twins thinking they wanted me to make awkward eye contact, "Yeah, why?"

George was laughing so Fred spoke up, "We just thought we would inform you that they were debating the prettiest girls in the room and you were one of them."

I rolled my eyes and looked back down to my homework. I was trying to ignore them, but they sat at my table and continued the subject, "Well Katie, do you think any of them are cute? I bet if you went after them, they would be thrilled!" George smirked at me.

"Who would be thrilled?" Came a Scottish voice from behind me.

I turned around and smiled at him, "Someone normal to save me! I told you two to stay out of my love life."

He laughed as he sat down, "I thought it looked like the twins were harassing you. How's the essay going."

The twins started cracking up as I replied, "It could be worse. What now you two?"

George took a deep breath to calm his laughter, "Your admirers are now glaring at Oliver! I wonder if they were going to come over here!" As soon as he finished his sentence, the twins began to howl with laughter again. I just looked down at my homework, refusing to look at the 5th year boys.

"What is he talking about Kates?" Oliver looked so confused as he noticed the 5th year boys were indeed staring/glaring at us.

"The twins probably pulled a prank on them and said it was you," I shrugged tried to get back to work. There was no way they were glaring at Oliver because he was talking to me.

George shook his head, "They think Katie's pretty, so they're jealous."

I laughed, "You two are too bored for your own good! Don't you have homework to be doing right now?"

They both pretended to think about it before they shook their heads. Then they walked across the room and sat in the corner whispering to each other. It was probably about some prank or product. I'm glad they didn't stay over here, because I was almost done and I wanted to finish this horrible assignment.

As I finished, I noticed that Oliver had begun to work on qudditich plays. Does this boy ever give qudditich a break? "Can you look over my arithmancy?"

"Switch you. Look at the plays I thought up last night," He said without looking up. I passed him my homework, and I looked at the plays as he read my homework. They're complex as usual, and very unique. I also noticed that the twins actually looked as if they were finishing up some essays. wow that's a first. Or maybe they're due tomorrow.

"Your Arithmancy is pretty good. We can meet in the library tomorrow to go over your next assignment. I know I'll have transfiguration homework from McGonagall, so I'll be there anyways," Oliver said as he stood up and stretched. "But I'm off to bed, and you should go soon. Night Kates."

"Night Oliver," I said but I was distracted. My essay was just good? I had worked so hard on it. After I finished rereading it I packed my things and walked up to my dorm. Angelina was sitting on her bed reading, and I sent her a glare as I got ready for bed.

"Hey, you can't be mad at me. Oliver told us to leave quietly, so he could talk to you about sleeping during qudditich lectures. He was already mad enough at me, but the twins were trying to be loud on our way out but you were in a deep sleep!" Angelina apologized looking guilty.

"How could you just leave me?" I asked sadly as I lay down on my bed. "You and Alicia probably went along with it so we would have time alone."

She smiled and muttered something under her breath. I sighed. I love my friends and I'm very close with them. We hang out a lot every day, but they've always try to push me towards Oliver, and that's clearly never going to happen. They don't understand no matter how many times I saw it!

..

I got up as soon as my alarm went off, even though I felt terrible. I slowly walked to the shower, and got ready for school.

"GET UP ANGELINA!" I yell from the bathroom, and can hear her grumbling as I pull my hair back into my usual high pony tail.

"Why do you always get up soon enough to glam yourself up, but then never do your hair. You ALWAYS wear your hair back." Angelina whined as she walked into the bathroom.

"You know it bugs me if it's down." I protest, as I put on a little make up.

"You could use a headband or something, but okay I know I'm going to lose this battle. Why don't you just go force the twins to do their homework. McGonagall will probably kick them off the team if they don't do the assignment again," Angelina yells before she starts the shower.

I smile to myself. She wouldn't want FRED off the team! I put my transfiguration and potions books in my bag and make my way down the stairs. I was surprised to find the twins already in the common room.

"Good morning Katie!" Fred greeted me. Oliver and George gave me a wave from the table closest to the fire.

I smiled at them as I walked over there. why are they up? They appeared to be doing homework, but they had to have been doing something else. I just sat down and began to read over my transfiguration essay due today. Just to make sure that there weren't any mistakes.

Before too long Alicia came running down the stairs, "Oh whew, I thought you guys left without me!"

"We would never leave without you," George said, turning on his charm.

"Oh, hmm, Katie do you remember earlier this week? Yes, I believe they ran to breakfast without us." Alicia said raising her eyebrow.

I laughed. "You did leave without us, something about missing the cooking of Hogwarts."

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Fred sit up straighter as Angelina walked over to our table, "Let's go. I'm starving," He said and we all headed down to breakfast.

I sat down next to Alicia, until George wedged himself between us. I put a waffle on my plate and listened to the conversation going on between my friends, but I didn't feel like participating. I still wasn't feeling my greatest. I was just a little off since I woke up. It didn't help that I got a letter from my Grandmum in the post and she seemed to be upset with Kevin again for not writing last month.

"Well I better be going. See you in Transfiguration Angelina," I said before I walked out of the Great Hall in a hurry to the bathroom to throw up. I made it up to class and found my seat just in time. My detour to the bathroom had taken a while.

Angelina sent me a questioning look on my almost tardiness, but I just gave her a look telling her I would explain later. I focused on paying attention in class, so I could try to ignore my churning stomach. I definitely caught some sort of bug. Hopefully it lessens before practice tonight.

"Good job Miss Bell! You were the first one in the class. Five points to Gryffindor!" McGonagall said with a smile as she looked at my tea set. I smiled and began to pack my books. I needed to head to the library to finish my potions essay before class. I had over an hour, but I was still worried about getting done.

I sat at a far table with all the books I needed around me and began to work. I was nearly finished when Oliver walked up, "Hey Kates, how's the homework going? You appear to have the whole library here before you to reference."

I smiled tiredly at him, "I just really need to be thorough. You know how Snape is."

Oliver nodded gravely as he sat down and got his own homework out. We worked in silence for some time, "I also meant to ask Kates, do you need to work on Arithmancy tonight after practice?"

I set my quill down and sighed, "Honestly Oliver, I really need to be doing arithmancy with you tonight, but I'm not sure I'll be up for it. I've been feeling terrible all day and I got sick before transfiguration. I think I need to just focus on getting though practice."

He gave me a once-over looking worried, "Were you going to ask if you could skip practice today?"

"No, no Oliver. I know I need to be there." I began to explain, but he surprisingly held up his hand to stop me.

"I better not see you at practice tonight if you're not feeling well. I mean it," Oliver said in a stern voice, and I was completely shocked. I had thought he would be super angry if I said I needed to miss practice, but he's the one who told me not to go. Huh, well I guess life IS full of surprises.

"Thanks Oliver," was all I could say due to shock.

"Not a problem, I guess I'm just a little more than stressed because my star seeker may not be able to practice without a ton of supervision. Surprisingly Snape is the one who volunteered to oversee our practices. We all know that's not a coincidence." Oliver finished angrily.

"What are you talking about?"

"Apparently Sirius Black has been spotted near Hogwarts, and that's apparently a concern for Harry's well being. What isn't though. He comes with a lot of baggage." Oliver finished quietly. Almost as if he were thinking out loud.

I smiled sadly at my captain, "Well speaking of Snape, I need to be off to potions. Don't worry though. We will think of something to fix this!"

Oliver smiled sadly, "Bye Kates, good luck in potions."

I waved and hurried out of the library. I wanted to be a little early, so Snape couldn't remark on my tardiness. I sat down and got my books out before many other people were even in the room.

As Cedric walked in right as class was starting I gave him a friendly smile and began taking notes.

Well? Little more of Katie and Oliver together.. Review and you won't be dissappointed!

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