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"Kevin! PLEASEEEEE!" I sing as I'm dancing around the kitchen holding his firebolt above my head. "Please! Please! Please! You promised!" I give him my best puppy dog look, and he starts to smile.

"Fine but wait till Timmy is here too so I have backup," he finishes with a frown.

"YEAH!" I run to get my coat and a book. I sit by the fireplace reading and waiting for my brother's best friend, who is basically my second brother. By the time the fireplace turns completely green I'm already standing next to the back door waiting for the guys, "Guess who gets to ride the Firebolt now that you're here!?"

I beam at Timmy and give him a hug as he walks over, "And here I thought my baby sister was just really happy to see me." He finishes with a wink at Kevin who rolls his eyes.

"You don't have to live with her, so you can't call her that, but in all seriousness. Baby Kate you need to promise me you will be careful and won't ride for too long. I mean it. This broom is dangerously fast, and its freezing outside." Kevin says looking stern.

I laugh at him, "You know you would miss me if you didn't live at home with me, and I promise to be careful. Now can we go?!"

He sighs and we all walk outside, "Okay now stay within the area that I can see you.."

I nod and start running. I slow slightly and set myself up on the broom and take off while still moving. The wind in my hair feels amazing, and I know I have never flown anywhere close to this fast. Oh how I love to fly. It makes everything causing stress seem so insignificant. I make a sharp turn to my right and am amazed how little I have to move the handle. This flies amazingly!

"KATIE! MAYBE NOT SO HIGH! I THINK KEVIN IS GOING TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK!" Timmy yelled from the ground.

I throw my head back and laugh as I begin to fly lower, but decide last minute to do a barrel roll like I'm avoiding a fake bludger. "KATHRYN! YOU PROMISED!" I hear Kevin getting angry.

"I'm FINE! You taught me that move!" I laugh again as I loop again around the yard, but then decide to land before Kevin gets too mad. I look at them with a huge smile. "That was SO fun! Think Grandpa will get me one?"

Kevin frowns but Timmy just laughs, "If you ask him with those big green eyes you will get anything you want. You can use the only girl card and go places in your family."

I laugh and give the broom back to Kevin, "See I followed the rules. Maybe another time.."

"Never going to happen." He says grumpily and heads back towards the house

...

"But it's Christmas! How can you have practice on Christmas?" I ask Kevin with a pout as we walk into the family room.

"Sorry Baby Kate, but it's my job. I can't help it," Kevin says with a sad smile.

I glare at him, "You're glad you have practice. You and I both know it! You just don't want to go to Grandmum's! This isn't fair! No one else will be there after you leave and it's Christmas! I wish Chris, Zach, Dan, and Nate weren't all in Italy with their other side of the family."

"I miss them too, but we will see them on New Years. This is part of growing up," Kevin tried to assure me.

I shake my head, "Most families still get together when people get older. Look at the Weasleys!" He shrugs but doesn't reply because he knows I'm right. " Why don't you bring that girl you're always writing letters to? It would make it less obvious that no family can go. Please!"

Kevin looks at me in shock, "I don't know how you know about that, but no I'm not bringing her. She's in France spending time with her brothers while they're home from that French school. Plus, I'm not prepared for her to meet Grandmum, because Grandmum would approve of her. I'm not ready to give up my rebellious streak yet."

"I know everything, so of course I knew about her. But you don't want her to meet me? Because as soon as I'm dating someone, you will know. Unless we don't want to introduce who we're dating to each other." I smirk at him

He mumbled, "You're never going to date.." On the way over to the fire place, but then turned back. "Come on let's get this over with. I don't know why you're sad because you'll be showered with presents and attention. You're the only granddaughter they have and are perfect in their eyes. And I'm sorry but Ella is in France because all of her family moved there, so I can't bring her."

I walk over to him defiantly because I know he's trying to avoid this conversation, "I'm sure Grandmum will love to hear about this mysterious Ella. IF that's her real name."

He smiles at me, "You wouldn't dare." I start to smile back, but then it falters and my eyes start to water thinking about what we're about to do. I look away and try not to cry. Kevin reaches out and wraps me in a hug, "What's the matter Baby Kate? She really couldn't come. I want her to meet you, I swear."

I put my face into his chest so he can't see the tears that have begun to fall, "It's not that. It's just.. This.. no one coming to Christmas.. never would have happened if mum were alive." I whisper, especially thinking of my dad in his office working since right after we finished presents here.

I feel Kevin kiss the top of my forehead, "Holidays are the times I miss her most too Katie. She would be so proud of you, but we can't think about what if. She would want us to be happy."

I pull back and give him a watery smile, "I know, I know. We should get going, because you have to leave early." I fix my skirt and sweater, and run my fingers through my long blonde hair. Kevin hands me some floo powder as we step towards the fire. "Montressor Manor." I shudder because I will ALWAYS hate flooing.

...

I sigh and look in the mirror. My long, blonde hair falls half way down my back. That, along with my yoga pants and v-neck t-shirt make me look my age, but the fact that I can't dry my hair with magic until summer makes me feel like a baby. "KEVIN!"

He doesn't answer, so he's probably already downstairs.. shoot! I hope he doesn't have practice this morning, because I don't want to have wet hair when I go to Grandmum's later. I hurry down the stairs and make my way towards the kitchen. I'm almost through the door when I hear all the voices. Oh no... why didn't he warn me?! I start to panic, but walk into the kitchen as if nothing is wrong and go straight to Kevin, "Can you dry my hair before I go?"

He nods and reaches for his wand while Timmy comes over and stands next to me, "WHAT?! You're going to leave and I just got here? I haven't seen you since before Christmas."

I smile at him and give him a hug, "I know Timmy, I've missed you too. But it's not like I want to be here for your qudditich reunion. Too much testosterone."

"Well what about me? This is a special occasion." Came a voice from behind me.

I turn around in shock, "Wow, Charlie Weasley I haven't seen you in ages. I didn't think you liked Kevin as much as those Dragons the twins are always telling me about. What a pleasant surprise."

Charlie laughed, "It's close but I figured I should stop by while I was home for the holidays. The twins have been telling me about you Katie. They couldn't believe I knew you when you were younger."

"You can never believe what the twins tell you," I remind him.

He laughed, "Sometimes you're right about, but they are right about one thing. You're all grown up. I've heard the boys are chasing after you."

I smile and shake my head as I looked at my brother's 7th year qudditich team. They seem to take up the whole kitchen now that they're all grown. Charlie had been seeker and captain, because he was the most mature even though he was a 6th year. Timmy and Kevin were chasers along with Patrick Finnegan. The beaters were over in the far corner, but I don't remember their names. Of course .. Oliver was there too. He was a second year with an insane amount of talent on this veteran team. Even back then qudditich was his life and he was amazing at it.

Kevin laughed, "I don't know what you're talking about. Baby Kate will always be a little baby. No boys, at all." Timmy started laughing, but Charlie just looked at me with a smirk and mouthed "Diggory." I started to blush, but Kevin didn't notice. "Okay boys let's go find those home videos we were talking about."

I look around and see Timmy smirking at me with a mischievous look on his face. Oh no, I'm probably in some of those, and they will probably be a 10 on the embarrassing scale. I don't even pause to think about it, I take off running through the house to the home theater. I NEED to get some of those tapes before the guys do.

I have about 5 tapes in my arms from the cabinet when I am suddenly upside down. I hold onto the tapes as best I can, but one of them falls. "Come on Katie! It will be funny!" I hear Timmy laugh, but he sounds a little winded from his chase after me.

"No way! These are my childhood, not for your blackmailing purposes or entertainment!" I start to struggle as I hear the rest of the guys come into the room and start laughing. "Put. Me. Down. This. Instant. Timothy!"

"Not until you hand over the videos! Don't make us take them by force. We are all stronger than you!"

All of the guys start to laugh harder in agreement, and I continue to struggle, "What's going on in here?" Came my dad's stern voice from the doorway.

Suddenly I am free falling, and land on my back while still holding on to the home videos. As I hit the floor, I lose all the air from my lungs, and my head whips back and hits the ground. I gasp for air, and just lay there for a second in total embarrassment.

"Katie! Are you okay? I was just really surprised by your dad. No offense Mr. Bell but you're very intimidating. I'm so sorry." Timmy is leaning over me checking my for injuries, while the rest of the room looks at us in shock.

I glare at him, "Yeah, sure you are. You got caught." I turn and look at my dad, avoiding all the other guys in the room. "Daddy they're trying to watch home videos. They're not only Kevin's to share with the whole world. It's not fair, and they were trying to use their strength to win yet again. It's a good thing you came."

Kevin, who was glaring at Timmy, turned to my dad, "Come on dad, I just want to search through them to find some of the old qudditich ones, and maybe some with the guys in them."

My dad nods and looks at me with a smile, "Come on Princess, let's go have some breakfast. Your brother has a point. We taped them, so we could watch them later on. You were so cute, these boys won't be able to make fun of you. And just think, maybe your mum will be in one. I'd like to see that."

He turns and walks back to the kitchen, while all the guys in the room look shocked. Hmm, I guess I'm a little surprised too that my dad wants to watch for my mum in home videos, "Wow, every time I see it. I'm always so shocked that it's possible."

I look over at Timmy's shocked expression, "What? That my dad actually sided with Kevin? Yeah, it doesn't happen often, so he shouldn't get used to it!" I stand up with as much dignity as I can and throw the tapes at Kevin, which he of course catches every single one of them with his qudditich reflexes.

Now Timmy is looking at me with a shocked expression, "You have no idea, do you?"

I give him an annoyed look, "And I'm the one who hit my head."

He looks over towards Kevin and Oliver. The latter of which I was trying to forget was there, "I have never seen him smile at anybody besides Kates, and it's so shocking every time because usually I'm not around to see them."

Oliver nods, but Kevin just picks up the other videos, "It's always been that way. But anyways, I want to try to find the celebration tape from when we won the cup my 7th year. Seriously one of the best moments of my life."

I roll my eyes and walk towards the door. "You all are pathetic, and need to get a life outside of qudditich." I make my way back to the kitchen, and decide on a bowl of oatmeal. My dad is nowhere to be found, but I make it quickly and hurry back to the room with our muggle TV. I stand in the doorway eating as we watch the chaos unfold on screen. The boys are all yelling in the Gryffindor locker room, which is weird because it looks familiar to me because I'm there many days of the week, but there's different people there. I'm not sure who is filming, but Kevin and Timmy are dancing in the benches tossing the trophy in between each other. The beaters and Patrick are all congratulating Charlie, who is still holding the snitch.

All of the guys are laughing at how little they look on screen, but I'm a little sad because the one person I wanted to see isn't on the screen anymore. Suddenly all the guys start yelling as young Oliver came running into the locker room in full uniform. He runs over to Kevin and Timmy and tells them something. They start howling with laughter as 2nd year Oliver, who looks very proud of himself, starts to take his robes off. He looks so young, and is not as tall as he is now. His brown hair was even then permanently windblown, but it's the boyish look on his face that has changed the most. Oliver is now a man compared to this small boy, but he is fundamentally the same. Just a guy obsessed with qudditich, who I unfortunately still have a crush on. I was hoping this situation with Cedric would help me get over my crush, but just seeing Oliver for a short amount of time today shows me I still have feelings for him ..Even though I shouldn't!

"Hey Oliver! Wasn't that right after you kissed that 5th year you had been staring at all year?" Kevin asked, acting like a proud father. "Tman and I taught you well the ways of getting the ladies!"

Oliver just laughed and rolled his eyes. He watched the screen uneasily as the young him was down to his tight, black, boxer briefs while he spun his t shirt over his head while running around the locker room. Of course he already had defined abs... "Okay I don't think I knew we were taping this. Maybe we should turn it off."

All the guys laughed, "It's not like we haven't all seen it before." Charlie smirked at him.

Oliver started to blush, "Yeah well Kates hasn't, so maybe.."

Timmy turned quickly and saw me in the doorway. He stood up and grabbed my hand. He knelt down on his knees before me, "Please forgive me for my earlier misstep, oh Princess! I did not mean to bring any harm to you." He winked.

I smile at him, "I could never stay mad at you Timothy."

"Good! Come sit by me. I'll cover your eyes if little Ollie on screen decides to take off anymore of his clothing. I wouldn't want him to offend you, because men from our side of the family have very large-"

"TIM! DO NOT SAY THAT WORD AROUND MY BABY SISTER," Kevin gives him a glare as I sit in between them on the couch.

I roll my eyes and lean my head on Kevin's shoulder and whisper, "I'm nervous about seeing mom on one of these."

He puts his arm around my shoulder and kisses my forehead, "I know, me too."

We watch the boys continue to celebrate, and next Timmy puts in one from a game earlier that year. Why did they tape these? Oh yeah, because they had no life and were obsessed with qudditich. Timmy was trying to find another one to put in when he starts laughing. He looks back at me and smirked, "Remember when you said you could never stay mad at me?"

I glare at him, "Don't do anything you will regret."

He puts in another tape and smiles at me, "I can take you."

I look nervously at the screen, and am relieved to see Timmy and Charlie on the screen pretending to fight like ninjas. Kevin is behind the camera yelling out instructions and commentating. "Tman backs C Weasel into the corner, and it looks like our epic battle is nearing its end! How could he ever recover from-" Suddenly on screen Charlie, who looks about 11 runs at Timmy and tackles him to the ground. Timmy screamed like a girl and fell over and landed on his butt. Charlie and Kevin are laughing really hard when suddenly another noise is heard from behind camera. A higher pitch laugh that sounds so cute starts, and suddenly the camera is focused on about a 5 year old me. Long blonde hair held out of my face my a headband with a big purple bow. My almost too big for my face pale green eyes are filling with tears from laughing at Timmy.

Suddenly the little me realizes the camera is pointed at me, and a gasps and steps back, "Kevi, momma and I are almost finished with the cookies."

"Thanks Baby Kate. Tell mum we will be-" Kevin began in his young, high pitched voice.

"HEY CHARLIE! ARE YOU HUUUUUUUNGRY?" Timmy yelled from behind the camera.

The camera, which is still focused on me, shows my eyes that look so big on my small face already grow wider in fear. I take a step back and begin to shake my head no with a pleading look on my face.

"YOU KNOW WHAT TMAN? I AM HUUUUUNNNGRY!" Charlie yelled back and suddenly he's in the view of the camera too.

I look at him with a pout, "Momma and I made cookies..."

Timmy looks at Charlie with an evil smirk as he walks towards me, "Hey Charlie, I think a sandwich sounds good. Don't you?"

I start to look at Kevin with a pout when the other boys are suddenly running around me holding hands, so I'm stuck between them and can't get away. They stop suddenly, and start to walk towards each other. I'm frantically trying to push them away, and Kevin starts to laugh, "Don't hurt her guys."

They're basically both hugging me tightly between them AKA sandwiched when they start to yell out that now they're thirsty. They start talking to me in hushed voices and begin to dance all around the room while shaking their butts. I look at them with an annoyed look and walk out of the room. "COME ON BABY KATE, YOU'RE A WAY BETTER DANCER THAN THEM!" Kevin yells after me. Everyone in the room is dying of laughter as Charlie and Timmy shake their butts on screen.

Suddenly my mom walks on the screen with a tray of cookies. She laughs at the scene before her, and looks lovingly at Kevin behind the camera, "I love your creativity Kevin Michael, but your father will not be pleased when he cannot find it for Katie's qudditich league game tomorrow. I told him a little bit ago to make sure the batteries were charged. I think you should go put it back in his office before he notices."

Timmy, Charlie and I had all grabbed cookies while my mum was talking, but suddenly looked nervously behind the camera, "KEVIN WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE CAMERA!" And the screen went blank.

I put my head into Kevin's shirt and try not to cry. I hadn't heard my mum's voice since... forever. On screen is now me at one of my little league qudditich matches. Kevin is running up the sidelines coaching me, while my mum is simply muttering about how nervous she is. I am flying through the air with ease.

Suddenly her dad's voice was heard from behind the camera, "Relax Sweetheart. Our Katie is by far the best flyer on the team. She's a natural."

From across the room Oliver looks impressed, "Wow Kates, you have always been great at flying."

Mum laughed on screen, "She's also the most beautiful. You're going to have your work cut out for you when she gets older. Mum was telling me the other day at tea. Apparently, at the ball while we were dancing, the Diggory heir came up and told Katie she was going to be his wife someday."

The camera stopped following me in the air, "WHAT?"

"Yeah, mum was bursting with pride when she told me. Our Katie is apparently already on track to finding a suitable husband." Mum laughed again on screen, and it made me miss her so much.

Suddenly the TV turned off and Timmy stood up, "Alright men! Let's go do what men do best!" The rest of the guys got up, but Oliver was still staring at the TV. Timmy glanced at him nervously, but didn't say anything. huh.. did seeing my mum effect Oliver as much as it effects me? I remember how much he loved my mum when we were growing up. He always listened to her when Timmy and Kevin did not.

Kevin stood up and offered his hand to help me up, "Want to play with us?"

I shake my head, "Cant. I already have plans. Remember, you're taking me over to Grandmum's for my final fitting. I simply must look perfect at the ball for my future husband." I wink.

Kevin looked annoyed, "Okay just come get me when you're ready. I'll apparate you, ya big floo baby."

I smile sweetly at him in thanks as I make my way to the kitchen to put my bowl in the sink. All of the guys are walking out the back door of the kitchen. Oliver pauses in the doorway, "Looks like you and Diggory were always meant to be. Too bad he's a bloody hufflepuff.." I stick my tongue out at him as he smirks and walks outside.

I hurry upstairs and decide to wear a soft blue cashmere sweater and black skirt with tights and heels. Grandmum should like this outfit. I curl my hair and smile at my appearance after I apply some make up. I grab a nice sweater for Kevin to wear when he drops me off and hurry outside.

All the guys are still up in the air, "KEVIN! I'M REAAAADY" I yell as I wave at him.

All the guys land around me and Kevin shakes his head, "I'm not putting that sweater on just to apparate you over there."

I hand it to him, "For me Kevin? Grandmum is always so sad that you never visit her. Give her 5 minutes. She's so old."

He sighs, "She's never going to die... I'll be back in less ten boys. You can keep playing. Oh and Katie, what are you going to do when you get a job and may have to floo to work?"

I glare at him and wave to the boys as I walk to the point in the back yard where we can apparate. With a pop we arrive in the familiar entry way of my Grandparent's grand home.

"Oh Kathryn! Did your brother stop by? Oh Kevin how sweet of you! I haven't seen you in ages! Come! Sit, sit!"

Kevin kisses Grandmum on the cheek and sits down, "I actually have guests at the house, but decided to bring Katie over and say hello Grandmum."

She beams at him, "Oh that is so thoughtful of you. The pictures in the papers don't do him justice. Don't you think Kathryn? He really should have a girlfriend. He's not getting any younger and as the sole Bell heir his family is depending on him..."

I smirk at Kevin and sip my tea, but am distracted as I spot the gorgeous baby blue dress in the corner that can only be for me to wear to the New Years Ball! I love being a girl!

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~Grace