Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. I own characters that aren't in the books but they won't make me money so let's not even say I own them…Oh, I don't own the song that was used either (Three Doors Down does).
*** Thank you to Hermione Weasley! You're very right: Katie will wake up soon! I hope you enjoy this chapter! Thank you for being such an awesome reviewer! Andie I'm not sorry the last chapters were so sad because that's what I wanted. But I'm glad you liked it and I hope you enjoy this chapter too! Americanangel I hope you enjoy this chapter! And now I get what you wrote and yes, that's right. Katie won't (but mostly because Dumbledore said to have Mitch read her diary) wake up! Thanks for your enthusiasm! Shaunna thank you for thinking I'm brilliant! That's so nice! And since you like Mitch so much, you'll love this chapter! It's ALL Mitch! Felicia LOL! I promise you'll love this chapter! I promise, I promise, I promise! Jenny Katie was doing both actually. To some extent she was clarifying her feelings for Lee but she was largely questioning the truth of her feelings for Lee. Does that make sense? I'm glad you thought I brought up good points; I was trying to. Thanks for being an awesome reviewer! Pinkchicklet I've read all your updates so far and I love your story! It really is good! Good job! Thanks for being so great and coming back to my story even though you've been gone for awhile! Sugar Blossom you're right: the last chapter was short! LOL! But this one is longer and I sure hope you will enjoy it! Thanks for reviewing! Yyoyo woman thank you for your review! I hope you enjoy this chapter too! Vanilla Baby I hope you enjoy this chapter. It's a little on the slow side but I'm very happy with it. Thank you for reading and reviewing! Hermiones-Twin thank you for both of your reviews! I hope you like this chapter! Thanks for everything! Ednyadove I can't say I'm unhappy that you're addicted to my story—thank you! LOL! I hope you like this chapter! Babystinkbreath yes, Cedric is dead but that diary entry was written before he died. I hope that clears all questions up! Thank you for your review! I hope you like this chapter! Soupcann314 Kate & Leopold is such a cute movie! Have you seen the previews for Adam & Emma (is that the name of it? Luke Wilson and Kate Hudson's new movie anyway)? I can't wait to see that! I'm such a sucker for romance! Anyhow, on to thanking you for your review: thank you! NanoBear you won't be seeing any action between Harry/Parvati this chapter but the next one definitely! Thank you for review! I'm glad you like my story! Celeste I love that you love Katie's diary—and this entire chapter is dedicated to Katie's chapter! I hope you like it and you don't find it too boring! Triniroo I've decided we're not supposed to understand love! I hope you enjoy this chapter and I'm so glad to see you in my reviews! Radaviessweety I'm glad you enjoy this story! Thank you! And thanks for thinking my story is super! That's great! KamikazeCreamPuff sorry that it's taken a bit for me to update! I hope you enjoy this chapter! Thank you! HpFaNaTiCa you're right: you gotta love the love! I hope you enjoy this chapter! Lily Michelle I hope you continue to read and enjoy the rest of this story! I'm glad you're enjoying me stringing you all along…although I'm not doing it on purpose (OK, so I just sort of lied)! I hope you enjoy this chapter! Mina you aren't the first person to ask how long this will be…I don't know for sure but I know it won't be too much longer. I promise! But thank you for continuing to read my story! Maddy Leigh hey it's good to see you again! Thank you for the review! Marjojo we are all mixed up like that, which is why I wrote that in. I'm glad you saw her point of view! Fiona Goldfeet if you can figure away to frame the last chapter and hang it up on your wall…go right ahead! I hope you enjoy this chapter! You're an awesome reviewer! Oh yeah, I'm glad you had fun in Prague! Amanda thanks for reviewing! I have no idea where that quote came from; I just liked it! Thank you! Thank you everyone for all of your awesome reviews! I hope you all enjoy this story! Thank you!
Chapter 42: The Real Katie Bell
Angelina and Alicia told me the way to get a guy to fall in love with you is to be natural. Well, what the hell does "be natural" mean? And are men just not the most confusing species on earth? Maybe not even men but wizards. Yes, wizards must be more confusing then Muggle men because wizards have ways to make it seem like they don't like you. There are charms and spells and things. But with a Muggle man they don't have all that extra protection of charms and spells to make it seem like they don't like you. Did that all make sense?
Mitch looked up from her musings with a chuckle. She sure just said a lot and he supposed she had a valid point. And, using that valid point he should just after a Muggle woman, who didn't have tricks up their sleeves like a witch did.
He had been sitting in his corner for a good hour now. He read the words off her diary by the still dim light of the fireplace and felt like he was finally beginning to know who the real Katie Bell was.
The real Katie Bell was a hardened Quidditch player who could take a Quaffle to the head and hardly blink. She would have been able to make Marcus Flint cry if he hadn't graduated last year. She was the girl Fred and George Weasley first tried all their new pranks on.
The real Katie Bell wasn't a great student. She wasn't horrible either, but she wasn't great. She was average. Her favorite class was Potions, despite Snape. She just had a natural knack for mixing potions. She hated Transfiguration though, although she secretly thought McGonagall was an awesome professor. She had written in her diary that if any of her friends had found out that she respected McGonagall, despite her old-school ways, she would die of embarrassment.
The real Katie Bell loved going to her cousin's house because her cousin was a Muggle and she could watch T.V. and old movies all night long. She hated going to movie theaters though. She wrote they were too crowded and the floor was sometimes too sticky under her feet.
The real Katie Bell was in love with her best friend but too chicken to tell him even though she was always the most eager to try her friends' inventions, which could potentially meant death or terrible sickness for her.
Mitch loved finding out all these new things about her. He loved learning what her quirks were; what she was interested in and what she thought was disgusting (and there wasn't much that grossed her out, for the record). Mitch enjoyed reading her handwriting. It was so neat and succinct and exactly as he would imagine Katie Bell's handwriting to be.
Do you ever wonder where you will be twenty years from now? I'm always wondering that. It's hard to imagine twenty years from now. What do you think you'll be doing then? Where will you be; who will you be?
If I had to answer that then all I could answer would be "I hope." There are lots of "I hopes." Not just mine either, but everyone's in the world. We all hope to be happy, right?
Twenty years from now I hope to be married and have a couple of kids. I hope I have a good job but I can't possibly know where I'll be then.
Sometimes I would like to know the future and then other times I know I wouldn't like to know the future. The future is a scary thing. I think the reason we don't know the future is because if we knew the future a lot of us wouldn't want to continue living.
Would Cedric have done something different if he had known he would die when he was 17? I guess we'll never know.
These are just midnight musings. I suppose they sound really dumb to you, don't they? Oh well; I've got a game in the morning so I should get to bed.
Good night.
It was as if she had said the words directly to him. He could hear her soft voice telling him good night.
Mitch snorted. "You're insane, mate," he muttered irritably to himself.
Then he leaned his dark head against the wall and shut his eyes. He thought about what she had asked: would Cedric have done something different if he had known he would die when he was 17? Mitch didn't think so. Or at least, he liked to think Cedric would have continued with life the way he had.
Cedric Diggory would have laughed at them all for mourning his passing the way they had, Mitch realized.
His eyes flew open.
A soft rustling wind passed through an unnoticed open window. The wind blew across Mitch, cooling his warm forehead and hot feet. The wind washed across him in his own little corner. The pages of the diary were disturbed from their silent rest and the wind blew them into a frenzy until they finally fell apart to reveal an entry Mitch hadn't read or even noticed before.
"The Road I'm On"
Three Doors Down
She said life's a lot to think about sometimes /
When you're living between the lines /
And all the stars they sparkle and shine every day /
He said life's so hard to move in sometimes /
When I feels like I'm towin' the line /
And no one cares to ask me why I feel this way /
I know you feel helpless now and I know you feel alone /
That's the same road, the same road that I'm on /
He said life's a lot to think about sometimes /
When you keep it all between the lines /
Of everything I want and I want to find, one of these days /
What you thought was real in life somehow steered you wrong /
Now you just keep drivin' tryin' to find out where you belong /
I know you feel helpless now and I know you feel alone /
That's the same road, that same road that I'm on /
My cousin gave me that CD for my birthday. I love that song, which is why I wrote it down. It says a lot to me. It says a lot for me too.
I think everyone must have that time when they just feel alone. I think the idea then is to find that perfect person who also feels alone and then you won't be alone anymore. Quite juvenile theory, I know, but I'm sick of being all technical and things when it comes to love. Maybe we are supposed to be young and in love, you know? Maybe that's why six year-olds that are a couple work so well—because they're too young to forget what real love is.
Mitch had to think about what she said and agreed with her. It wasn't that he thought two kids that were in love could make it work but they weren't tainted yet with the ideas of the world, were they? They would know what a perfect, unconditional love was.
He yawned.
It was closer to dawn then it was to twilight, he knew. The air just had that feel to it. It was an odd time of day to be awake, he reckoned. The world wasn't sleeping so deep but they weren't near waking up yet.
It was still black outside.
He was in love with her.
The truth was glaringly real in the dark of the night.
Love or not, did he want to be? His thoughts were heavy with apprehension. He didn't know if he could handle the blow of her waking up. Mitch was quite aware of what might happen if he admitted how he felt for her and she regained consciousness. She might smile sadly and shake her head. "Thank you for your efforts Mitch. Unfortunately though, I don't feel the same for you. My heart is Lee's. You read my diary; you know that."
He couldn't imagine her being so cruel but weirder things had happened to him before and that was why he was having misgivings all of the sudden.
His dark eyes fell upon the diary again.
Do you really think I'm so horrible, Mitch? the diary seemed to ask. Katie seemed to ask through her diary.
Heart thumping wildly he shook his head. No, he didn't think she could be so cruel but what if she was?
Isn't love worth the risk?
Mitch was having a conversation with a diary, he realized. Stupid though he felt he sighed for an answer.
The diary talking was all in his head anyway.
Why not tell me you love me? I already know you do. It's alright. I'd never laugh at you, Mitch.
He rubbed his eyes tiredly. He didn't know what to think or do or believe.
You know what to do. The "voice" coming from the diary was condescending but sweet and delicate. It was Katie's voice coming from the diary.
Mitch please. You can't speak to a diary for the rest of your life. It's not real. It's not me. Don't you want to speak with me? Don't you want to speak with the real Katie Bell?
Mitch supposed he did. "Then tell me what to do," he urged in a quite voice.
A soft laugh floated over his ears. You know what to do Mitch. I'm right where I've been all along…
So tell me, how was that? I thought it was pretty good. I actually really liked this chapter. Sorry there wasn't a whole lot of movement in it…nor was there Ron/Hermione or Harry/Parvati but I really wanted to do the chapter this way. I like Mitch and I like the whole Mitch/Katie thing. Thank you for reading! Please review!
The fighting part of the war is basically over, so now I ask that you all pray/light a candle/meditate/whatever-it-is-you-do for those who lost loved ones, no matter what side they were on. And I ask you give support to our government and I pray personally that you pray our government(s) make the right decisions in the coming days. I apologize if this request has offended you.
Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain.
