Kelly had been sitting in the Great Hall for over 20 minutes and Harry, Ron and Hermione were nowhere to be seen. "Maybe Snape held them back", she muttered to herself. She looked out the window and saw rain pounding down. This was going to be hard to find Oliver in a mess of screaming kids and the added rain.
Finally, after another 10 minutes, Kelly spotted the red gleam of Ron's hair and went running up to them. "Where have you guys been?" She said, hurrying them up to the common room, "I've been waiting for ages."
"Snape got a little mad at Ron because his potion turned Neville into a bunny." Hermione said, Harry started to laugh. Kelly had to admit it was funny but now they had less time to find Oliver, that is if he even showed at all.
"We have to get going, its pouring out there and if we don't find him fast, well..." Kelly trailed off, "Well, Rachelle will find him first."
Harry, Ron, and Hermione put there books on one of the many tables in the common room and then were rushed out the door by a hectic looking Kelly.
"Kelly, calm down, we'll find him." Ron pleaded, as Kelly pulled him by his robe collar down the corridor. Kelly didn't calm down though. She wasn't just worried about finding Oliver but also about playing in the harmful rain. What if the game was cancelled. Then her and Oliver would be really screwed. Doubledore wouldn't cancel a game just because of rain or would he? Thousands upon thousands of things were running in her mind.
Soon, they came upon the huge stone door, that led outside. Once outside, they would have a whiles to walk to get to the Quidditch field. As they stepped outside, a loud crack of thunder was heard. The sky was a grayish black, a storm was on the way, a very powerful one. The thought that the game would be cancelled flew back in Kelly's mind but was quickly pushed out. She saw the hundreds of people in the stands, screaming for their teams and knew that Doubledore wouldn't cancel this game.
"Ok, Ron and me will go this way." Harry pointed to the left of him. Kelly saw Hermione shaking with cold and silently cursed herself for bring them out in this mess, "You and Hermione will go that way."
"Hermione, I'm sorry I dragged you into this. I don't know what I was thinking." Kelly confessed.
"Kelly, were going to find Oliver, not go on a guilt trip. It's not like I wasn't going to go to the game anyways."
Hermione didn't leave Kelly open for words. She pulled on Kelly's robe and pointed to Rachelle, who was looking for someone. Oliver. Kelly didn't have to be told twice and started searching for him.
Her and Hermione had looked everywhere when they saw Harry and Ron coming towards them.
"Sorry Kelly, no luck." Ron muttered.
"It was stupid of me to have brought you guys out here." Kelly said, but Ron and Hermione comforted Kelly, telling her it was alright and there was no need to be sorry.
Soon it was time for Kelly and Harry to go to the locker rooms. They walked in awkward silence for half the way their, them Harry spoke up.
"I'm sorry."
"For what?" Kelly asked, "I wasn't your fault that he didn't show up. How many times do I have to tell you."
"No, its not that, it's..." Harry didn't think he had the nerve to tell her. She had to know, she just had to, "The whole Oliver thing was fake."
"Huh?" Kelly said.
"The note you got. It was from me and Ron and Hermione. We thought it would cheer you up." he muttered. He felt stupid. the rain had made his hair and robes stick to his body and he uncomfortably tried to loosen their grip on his flesh, "You just looked so sad. We didn't want to see you this way. He really was suppose to come, we sent him a note too. It was suppose to work."
Kelly stopped dead in her tracks and looked at Harry. It was hard for him to read her face. It was a look of, of absolute nothing. Not a single expression could be read on her face. Then she hugged him.
"Thank you." she whispered in his ear.
Not another word was said between them on the way to the locker room. Word's just failed to express everything. the hug that Kelly had given to Harry meant everything. Even though Harry had lied to Kelly, sent a her a letter that was supposed to be from Oliver but wasn't, even though he lied to her all that time, she still hugged him, just for being her friend and caring.
Kelly walked to the girl's locker room with her head looking at the ground. She wasn't sure she could play feeling like this. The intensity of it all was gone. The rain had made her once perfectly done hair look more like a nest. Her make-up was smeared, mascara running down her face. She wasn't sure if it was rain or her tears that was making it run.
Still looking at the ground, she open the door to the locker room and was about to have a sob-fest with the other girls on the team until she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up. It was Oliver.
