The Dinner
((Damn! Im soooooooooooo sorry you guys! Microsoft Word is being a bitch for me.. I had 6 WHOLE PAGES For this chapter! It was like my longest one and my computer just rebooted, and I had saved it, but when I went back, only the first page was there, I almost cried ( oh well.. I PROMISE the story will get better! And more exciting!))
Alicia runs up the stairs to her hotel room, she didn't have enough time to wait for the elevator. She ran into the room, finding the door unlocked.
"Dad? Diane? Jodie? Are you guys here?"
Alicia ran into the bedroom, and there was her family getting ready.
"There you are Licia Dear, go get ready! You have to look nice! Go take a shower!"
Diane yelled at her as she buttoned up Jodie's dress.
"Okay!"
Alicia ran into the bathroom, and took a 2-minute shower; she got out, and did her hair. Then with a towel wrapped around her, she grabs her bags, and runs back to the bathroom. She changes into shin-length black skirt with a slit up the side ((Diane had 'insisted' upon buying it, she thought it was appropriate for a girl her age.bleh)). She then chose a pale blue blouse with ¾ length sleeves to go with it. She put it on, and buttoned it up. She went to close her bag, and saw the bag of makeup; she bit her lower lip, and decided to take her chances with it. She reaches down and pulls out the bag, she dumps it's contents onto the sink counter, and looked at it all. She took a pale pink lipstick and applied it, she shuddered, and wiped it all off, instead she used some clear lip-gloss.
"Much better"
She took some shimmery pale blue eyeshadow and put that on to. After finishing, she looked at herself in the mirror.
"I guess it's an improvement."
She shrugs and pulls on a pair of black dress sandals; she walks out of the bathroom.
"Okay, I'm ready, let's go!"
Diane stopped and stared at Alicia, she had never worn makeup, ever.
"Alicia. You look wonderful! You should wear makeup more often."
Alicia shrugs
"We probably should get down there though. I don't want to be late."
The others nod, and they all walk out of the hotel room, and walk down to the dining area. The four people were escorted to a table, where the young couple Alicia had seen before were sitting. Alicia smiled politely, and they smiled back.
"Nice to see you all again"
Alicia waved to the little child. The little boy giggles and looks at his parents. The adults start to talk to each other, Alicia looks at Jodie on her right side, and the empty seat on her left. She then looks around to see if she could spot either Matt or Oliver. She saw Matt. He was walking around, carrying a tray of drinks. He was wearing a pair of long black slacks, and a crisp white long sleeved dress shirt. She looks over to him and tried to catch his eye, when she did, he tripped over himself watching her. "Was that Alicia?!" he wondered to himself, but smiled and waved, he had somehow managed not to spill the drinks. Alicia smiled to herself, and looked at the plate in front of her, she looked at her reflection.
"Well. This IS different.. I never thought I would wear makeup.."
Someone sits down in the seat next to her.
"'Elloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo."
Alicia looks to her left and Oliver is sitting there.
"Oh. Hello Oliver."
She smiles at him, and he smiles back. Oliver looked quite handsome there, he had such straight teeth, she had never noticed before. He always smiled with his mouth closed. Tonight, Oliver was wearing a soft gray turtleneck sweater and black slacks. She smiled again, looking down at her plate again, then up at him.
"You look very nice Oliver"
"Au contraire. I think you, look even better Ms. Spinnet.."
And indeed she did, the makeup added something to her, something beautiful, she looked like an angel there. The flames of the candles behind her were like a blur, surrounding her in a golden light. Her hair a deep brown, shiny and looked so soft, Oliver wanted to reach out and feel it. The makeup seemed to add an extra confidence to her attitude.
"Why thank you."
Alicia smiles, and blushes slightly. Oliver nods.
"My pleasure.."
They both laugh nervously, and look around. All of a sudden, at least 2 dozen men walk out of the kitchen doors, each carrying large trays with plates of food on them. A tall man with long blonde curly hair pulled back in a ponytail carries a tray to them.
"'ere you are!"
The man smiles and sets the tray down, placing a plate of food in front of each person at the table. Alicia looks at the plate, 4 thin slices of roast beef, some scalloped potatoes, and 3 spears of asparagus were on the plates. Glasses of wine were set in front of each of them, except for the little boy and Jodie, who got apple juice instead.
"It all looks so good."
Oliver nods looking at his plate hungrily.
"VERY good."
Alicia grins and takes a sip of her wine, she looks up at the hosts, and they start to eat. So does everyone around her. She and Oliver eat in silence, listening to the adults talking at the table.
"So what are your names?"
Came the cheerful voice of that EVIL woman Diane.
"Oh" The woman smiles, and points to her husband. "This is my husband Adam, this is our son Timothy, and my name is Annette."
Little Timothy swung his feet back in forth underneath the table as he hummed the muggle tune "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" his long blonde hair fell in his face. Annette sighed and combed it out of his face with her nails.
"I want to cut it so bad! But Timmy won't let me within a mile of him with scissors.."
"The boy wants to be a rebel Annie.. Not a baby.."
Adam finally spoke his voice deep and 'manly'. He had very dark hair that reached down to the base of his neck and thick dark eyebrows that met above his nose. He reminded Alicia strongly of Victor Krum, the quidditch player. Annette nodded and the little boy grinned like a madman. Alicia could tell he was spoiled rotten by his father, he was possibly their only child. Alicia turns to Oliver.
"So.. Uh, how is your family doing?"
Oliver sighed.
"Well, my mother is living with 'Stepheno' and his two kids, Isabelle and Miralee. They're terrors. 12 year old twins."
Oliver makes a face.
"And dad is living in London with his new girlfriend Patricia.. She's 'with child'... As for DeLaine ((Oliver's 22 year old sister)) and Joseph ((DeLaine's husband)) just had their first child. A little girl, Jennifer Nicole Shwartz. But they call her Jenna for short."
((A/N: I'm always going to work myself (((Jenna, for those of you who are too lazy to look at who wrote the story))) into the story somehow, I just decided that lol))
Alicia nodded and smiled.
"Wow. That's a lot of stuff going on.. As for us. Well, I'll be turning 16 in December. Jodie is going to be 9 in two weeks. And Dad and Diane are just fine and dandy."
Alicia smiled slightly and Oliver smiled to. They finished eating and sat chatting for a while.
Jodie is making faces at someone across the room. She giggles and looks at Alicia.
"Li? Who is that?"
"Damn nicknames."
She murmurs to Oliver who smirks.
"What Jo?"
"Who is that girl over there?"
Jodie pointed to a pretty little girl at the Host's table. She had waist length black curly hair, and dark brown eyes. She was wearing a pale yellow skirt and a white blouse. The little girl smiled and waved at them.
"I think that's Briggite. Matt's little sister"
Jodie nods. Oliver rolls his eyes at the mention of Matt. Alicia, being as clueless as she is, doesn't notice.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Matt sits at the Host's table with his father, uncle, aunt and his little sister. He looks around and sees Alicia and Oliver. Matt REALLY disliked Oliver, it was just something about him that Matt couldn't quite put his finger on. Maybe it was that Matt envied Oliver, but that wasn't it. Alicia and he would have kissed if Oliver hadn't shown up. The prat.
"Father?"
"Yes Matthew?"
"Can I go sit with Alicia over there?"
Matt points to Alicia laughing with Oliver.
"If you promise to be back to help with desert."
"Alright. I'll be back"
Matt stands and walks to Alicia and Oliver's table. He sits down next to Oliver since Oliver had the seat next to Alicia.
"Hello Alicia. Oliver"
Matt smiles pleasantly.
"Hey Matt!"
"'Loa."
Were all Oliver said, Matt still smiles.
"How is the food?"
Matt asked, directing the question more to Alicia than to Oliver.
"It's been wonderful! Did you cook it?"
Matt shakes his head.
"Me? No way! I can't boil water without filling the kitchens with smoke"
Matt laughs, and Oliver rolls his eyes.
"Well, I can cook.. I learned at a young age, and am excellent in the culinary arts.." He smirks. "If I do say so myself.."
Alicia smiles, completely clueless as to their little competition.
All of a sudden, the little girl with the black curly hair is tugging at Matt's shirt.
"Mathew!" Her voice was heavily French tinted. "Fazzer ((A/N. It's hard typing a French accent ^^)) needs you to 'elp 'im with ze deserts!"
Matt sighs.
"Tell him I'll be there in a minute Briggite."
Briggite stands, placing her hands on her hips.
" 'E said NOW Mathew!"
"I'm going. I'm going.. See ya later Alicia"
He winks and walks off. Briggite takes Matt's vacated seat.
" 'ello. My name is Briggite."
She smiles brightly.
" I am Mathew's little sister."
Jodie reaches out her hand.
"I'm Jodie! I'm Alicia's little sister!"
Alicia smiles at the two, and Oliver does also.
"Nice to meet you Jodie! Would you like to come and see my bedroom? I 'ave a REALLY nice doll'ouse zat my fazzer made for me."
Jodie gasps.
"Reeeeeeeeeeally? Mommy!" Jodie turns to face her mother. "Can I go? Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?"
Jodie gives Diane the 'puppy dog' or 'precious moments' eyes, and folded her hands, sticking out her lower lip. Diane laughs and nods.
"Of course Jodie dear."
Jodie smiles widely and hops out of her chair and runs to Briggite on the other side of the table. They giggle then run out of the room. Alicia shakes her head and looks at Oliver, he smiles.
"I love it here. Don't you?"
Alicia asks Oliver.
"Yes. It's very nice." Oliver says stiffly. What he wanted to say is: 'It would be better if that stupid French guy wasn't hanging on your every word.' But he didn't want to be rude.
Alicia smiles, then the men come from the doors again, and the blonde man came again, this time with trays of desserts.
"Whoa.."
Alicia's eyes were wide as she stared at all the chocolate, which was pretty much all that was there. Her eyes traveled over a simply delicious looking brownie, with caramel and chocolate sauce drizzled over it, a perfect sized dallop of whipped cream is on top, and a sprig of fresh mint is placed delicately in the whipped cream, making this desert picture perfect.
"I want that one."
She pointed to the brownie.
"Excellent choice Miss. I find it quite delectable myself."
Alicia nods as the man hands her the plate. Oliver chooses a piece of home made strawberry pie.
"That looks good to Oliver. "
Oliver nods, and looks at what she has.
"Whoa! That's a lot of chocolate.."
Alicia laughs and nods.
"I'll have to let you try some."
"Then you have to try some of mine. Do you like strawberries?"
Alicia blinks.
"Who doesn't?"
Oliver nods.
"Exactly."
Alicia and him exchange grins and start on their deserts.
~*~25 Minutes Later~*~
Alicia sits back, her brownie thing ((A/N nice choice of lingo eh? Lol)) half finished. Oliver looks at Alicia's brownie.
"Are you going to finish that?"
He asks hopefully, a little bit of strawberry goo on the corner of his mouth. Alicia laughs and shakes her head.
"Take it. I couldn't eat another bite."
Oliver grabs her plate, and cleans off his fork with his napkin, he then starts eating it as if he hasn't eaten in 40 days. Alicia shakes her head, thinking how he could eat so much, and still stay so well shaped. Oliver finishes the rest of her brownie, then wipes his mouth. Diane and Donald stand.
"Come on Licia dear. Time to go.."
Alicia nods and dabs at her lips with her napkin, Oliver laughs and takes out a quill, writing a note on the paper napkins they were given to rest their drinks on, and hands it to Alicia as she stands.
"Read it when you get back to your room."
He whisper, Alicia nods, and the family walks out of the room and enter their hotel suite. Donald phones Briggite's bedroom, and they decide for Jodie to spend the night with Briggite. Alicia walks into the bathroom, with her pajamas, and changes, she sits on the edge of the bathtup, and unfolds the not, it reads:
Dear Alicia,
Meet me in my room at 11 PM sharp tonight, I shall be expecting you..
Signed, Oliver Wood
Alicia smiles, and walks out to the living room, and sits on the sofa while Donald and Diane go to their rooms. Alicia waits patiently for 11 o'clock to come..
((Woooo! I finished the chapter! Yay!))
((Damn! Im soooooooooooo sorry you guys! Microsoft Word is being a bitch for me.. I had 6 WHOLE PAGES For this chapter! It was like my longest one and my computer just rebooted, and I had saved it, but when I went back, only the first page was there, I almost cried ( oh well.. I PROMISE the story will get better! And more exciting!))
Alicia runs up the stairs to her hotel room, she didn't have enough time to wait for the elevator. She ran into the room, finding the door unlocked.
"Dad? Diane? Jodie? Are you guys here?"
Alicia ran into the bedroom, and there was her family getting ready.
"There you are Licia Dear, go get ready! You have to look nice! Go take a shower!"
Diane yelled at her as she buttoned up Jodie's dress.
"Okay!"
Alicia ran into the bathroom, and took a 2-minute shower; she got out, and did her hair. Then with a towel wrapped around her, she grabs her bags, and runs back to the bathroom. She changes into shin-length black skirt with a slit up the side ((Diane had 'insisted' upon buying it, she thought it was appropriate for a girl her age.bleh)). She then chose a pale blue blouse with ¾ length sleeves to go with it. She put it on, and buttoned it up. She went to close her bag, and saw the bag of makeup; she bit her lower lip, and decided to take her chances with it. She reaches down and pulls out the bag, she dumps it's contents onto the sink counter, and looked at it all. She took a pale pink lipstick and applied it, she shuddered, and wiped it all off, instead she used some clear lip-gloss.
"Much better"
She took some shimmery pale blue eyeshadow and put that on to. After finishing, she looked at herself in the mirror.
"I guess it's an improvement."
She shrugs and pulls on a pair of black dress sandals; she walks out of the bathroom.
"Okay, I'm ready, let's go!"
Diane stopped and stared at Alicia, she had never worn makeup, ever.
"Alicia. You look wonderful! You should wear makeup more often."
Alicia shrugs
"We probably should get down there though. I don't want to be late."
The others nod, and they all walk out of the hotel room, and walk down to the dining area. The four people were escorted to a table, where the young couple Alicia had seen before were sitting. Alicia smiled politely, and they smiled back.
"Nice to see you all again"
Alicia waved to the little child. The little boy giggles and looks at his parents. The adults start to talk to each other, Alicia looks at Jodie on her right side, and the empty seat on her left. She then looks around to see if she could spot either Matt or Oliver. She saw Matt. He was walking around, carrying a tray of drinks. He was wearing a pair of long black slacks, and a crisp white long sleeved dress shirt. She looks over to him and tried to catch his eye, when she did, he tripped over himself watching her. "Was that Alicia?!" he wondered to himself, but smiled and waved, he had somehow managed not to spill the drinks. Alicia smiled to herself, and looked at the plate in front of her, she looked at her reflection.
"Well. This IS different.. I never thought I would wear makeup.."
Someone sits down in the seat next to her.
"'Elloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo."
Alicia looks to her left and Oliver is sitting there.
"Oh. Hello Oliver."
She smiles at him, and he smiles back. Oliver looked quite handsome there, he had such straight teeth, she had never noticed before. He always smiled with his mouth closed. Tonight, Oliver was wearing a soft gray turtleneck sweater and black slacks. She smiled again, looking down at her plate again, then up at him.
"You look very nice Oliver"
"Au contraire. I think you, look even better Ms. Spinnet.."
And indeed she did, the makeup added something to her, something beautiful, she looked like an angel there. The flames of the candles behind her were like a blur, surrounding her in a golden light. Her hair a deep brown, shiny and looked so soft, Oliver wanted to reach out and feel it. The makeup seemed to add an extra confidence to her attitude.
"Why thank you."
Alicia smiles, and blushes slightly. Oliver nods.
"My pleasure.."
They both laugh nervously, and look around. All of a sudden, at least 2 dozen men walk out of the kitchen doors, each carrying large trays with plates of food on them. A tall man with long blonde curly hair pulled back in a ponytail carries a tray to them.
"'ere you are!"
The man smiles and sets the tray down, placing a plate of food in front of each person at the table. Alicia looks at the plate, 4 thin slices of roast beef, some scalloped potatoes, and 3 spears of asparagus were on the plates. Glasses of wine were set in front of each of them, except for the little boy and Jodie, who got apple juice instead.
"It all looks so good."
Oliver nods looking at his plate hungrily.
"VERY good."
Alicia grins and takes a sip of her wine, she looks up at the hosts, and they start to eat. So does everyone around her. She and Oliver eat in silence, listening to the adults talking at the table.
"So what are your names?"
Came the cheerful voice of that EVIL woman Diane.
"Oh" The woman smiles, and points to her husband. "This is my husband Adam, this is our son Timothy, and my name is Annette."
Little Timothy swung his feet back in forth underneath the table as he hummed the muggle tune "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" his long blonde hair fell in his face. Annette sighed and combed it out of his face with her nails.
"I want to cut it so bad! But Timmy won't let me within a mile of him with scissors.."
"The boy wants to be a rebel Annie.. Not a baby.."
Adam finally spoke his voice deep and 'manly'. He had very dark hair that reached down to the base of his neck and thick dark eyebrows that met above his nose. He reminded Alicia strongly of Victor Krum, the quidditch player. Annette nodded and the little boy grinned like a madman. Alicia could tell he was spoiled rotten by his father, he was possibly their only child. Alicia turns to Oliver.
"So.. Uh, how is your family doing?"
Oliver sighed.
"Well, my mother is living with 'Stepheno' and his two kids, Isabelle and Miralee. They're terrors. 12 year old twins."
Oliver makes a face.
"And dad is living in London with his new girlfriend Patricia.. She's 'with child'... As for DeLaine ((Oliver's 22 year old sister)) and Joseph ((DeLaine's husband)) just had their first child. A little girl, Jennifer Nicole Shwartz. But they call her Jenna for short."
((A/N: I'm always going to work myself (((Jenna, for those of you who are too lazy to look at who wrote the story))) into the story somehow, I just decided that lol))
Alicia nodded and smiled.
"Wow. That's a lot of stuff going on.. As for us. Well, I'll be turning 16 in December. Jodie is going to be 9 in two weeks. And Dad and Diane are just fine and dandy."
Alicia smiled slightly and Oliver smiled to. They finished eating and sat chatting for a while.
Jodie is making faces at someone across the room. She giggles and looks at Alicia.
"Li? Who is that?"
"Damn nicknames."
She murmurs to Oliver who smirks.
"What Jo?"
"Who is that girl over there?"
Jodie pointed to a pretty little girl at the Host's table. She had waist length black curly hair, and dark brown eyes. She was wearing a pale yellow skirt and a white blouse. The little girl smiled and waved at them.
"I think that's Briggite. Matt's little sister"
Jodie nods. Oliver rolls his eyes at the mention of Matt. Alicia, being as clueless as she is, doesn't notice.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Matt sits at the Host's table with his father, uncle, aunt and his little sister. He looks around and sees Alicia and Oliver. Matt REALLY disliked Oliver, it was just something about him that Matt couldn't quite put his finger on. Maybe it was that Matt envied Oliver, but that wasn't it. Alicia and he would have kissed if Oliver hadn't shown up. The prat.
"Father?"
"Yes Matthew?"
"Can I go sit with Alicia over there?"
Matt points to Alicia laughing with Oliver.
"If you promise to be back to help with desert."
"Alright. I'll be back"
Matt stands and walks to Alicia and Oliver's table. He sits down next to Oliver since Oliver had the seat next to Alicia.
"Hello Alicia. Oliver"
Matt smiles pleasantly.
"Hey Matt!"
"'Loa."
Were all Oliver said, Matt still smiles.
"How is the food?"
Matt asked, directing the question more to Alicia than to Oliver.
"It's been wonderful! Did you cook it?"
Matt shakes his head.
"Me? No way! I can't boil water without filling the kitchens with smoke"
Matt laughs, and Oliver rolls his eyes.
"Well, I can cook.. I learned at a young age, and am excellent in the culinary arts.." He smirks. "If I do say so myself.."
Alicia smiles, completely clueless as to their little competition.
All of a sudden, the little girl with the black curly hair is tugging at Matt's shirt.
"Mathew!" Her voice was heavily French tinted. "Fazzer ((A/N. It's hard typing a French accent ^^)) needs you to 'elp 'im with ze deserts!"
Matt sighs.
"Tell him I'll be there in a minute Briggite."
Briggite stands, placing her hands on her hips.
" 'E said NOW Mathew!"
"I'm going. I'm going.. See ya later Alicia"
He winks and walks off. Briggite takes Matt's vacated seat.
" 'ello. My name is Briggite."
She smiles brightly.
" I am Mathew's little sister."
Jodie reaches out her hand.
"I'm Jodie! I'm Alicia's little sister!"
Alicia smiles at the two, and Oliver does also.
"Nice to meet you Jodie! Would you like to come and see my bedroom? I 'ave a REALLY nice doll'ouse zat my fazzer made for me."
Jodie gasps.
"Reeeeeeeeeeally? Mommy!" Jodie turns to face her mother. "Can I go? Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?"
Jodie gives Diane the 'puppy dog' or 'precious moments' eyes, and folded her hands, sticking out her lower lip. Diane laughs and nods.
"Of course Jodie dear."
Jodie smiles widely and hops out of her chair and runs to Briggite on the other side of the table. They giggle then run out of the room. Alicia shakes her head and looks at Oliver, he smiles.
"I love it here. Don't you?"
Alicia asks Oliver.
"Yes. It's very nice." Oliver says stiffly. What he wanted to say is: 'It would be better if that stupid French guy wasn't hanging on your every word.' But he didn't want to be rude.
Alicia smiles, then the men come from the doors again, and the blonde man came again, this time with trays of desserts.
"Whoa.."
Alicia's eyes were wide as she stared at all the chocolate, which was pretty much all that was there. Her eyes traveled over a simply delicious looking brownie, with caramel and chocolate sauce drizzled over it, a perfect sized dallop of whipped cream is on top, and a sprig of fresh mint is placed delicately in the whipped cream, making this desert picture perfect.
"I want that one."
She pointed to the brownie.
"Excellent choice Miss. I find it quite delectable myself."
Alicia nods as the man hands her the plate. Oliver chooses a piece of home made strawberry pie.
"That looks good to Oliver. "
Oliver nods, and looks at what she has.
"Whoa! That's a lot of chocolate.."
Alicia laughs and nods.
"I'll have to let you try some."
"Then you have to try some of mine. Do you like strawberries?"
Alicia blinks.
"Who doesn't?"
Oliver nods.
"Exactly."
Alicia and him exchange grins and start on their deserts.
~*~25 Minutes Later~*~
Alicia sits back, her brownie thing ((A/N nice choice of lingo eh? Lol)) half finished. Oliver looks at Alicia's brownie.
"Are you going to finish that?"
He asks hopefully, a little bit of strawberry goo on the corner of his mouth. Alicia laughs and shakes her head.
"Take it. I couldn't eat another bite."
Oliver grabs her plate, and cleans off his fork with his napkin, he then starts eating it as if he hasn't eaten in 40 days. Alicia shakes her head, thinking how he could eat so much, and still stay so well shaped. Oliver finishes the rest of her brownie, then wipes his mouth. Diane and Donald stand.
"Come on Licia dear. Time to go.."
Alicia nods and dabs at her lips with her napkin, Oliver laughs and takes out a quill, writing a note on the paper napkins they were given to rest their drinks on, and hands it to Alicia as she stands.
"Read it when you get back to your room."
He whisper, Alicia nods, and the family walks out of the room and enter their hotel suite. Donald phones Briggite's bedroom, and they decide for Jodie to spend the night with Briggite. Alicia walks into the bathroom, with her pajamas, and changes, she sits on the edge of the bathtup, and unfolds the not, it reads:
Dear Alicia,
Meet me in my room at 11 PM sharp tonight, I shall be expecting you..
Signed, Oliver Wood
Alicia smiles, and walks out to the living room, and sits on the sofa while Donald and Diane go to their rooms. Alicia waits patiently for 11 o'clock to come..
((Woooo! I finished the chapter! Yay!))