A/N I am so sorry I know it takes me forever to write but I am really really sorry!! Anyways this chapter it's from Katie's point of view but the next one I'll try to do from Oliver's point of view but it'll be really hard because I don't know how to do it from a guys point of view. If anyone has any suggestions I am so open for them! Ok anyways after I'm done this story which will just be Katie's sixth year I will prob do a sequel with Katie and Harry and comp. fighting Voldemort with the help of Dumbledore and the order of the phoenix so Katie will be like umm 23 and Harry will be 19 so ya ok on with this chappie = )

Chapter 8

The Truth

The wind knocked me around and I struggled to stay on my broom, let alone steer it. I knew this was a stupid idea. Bloody hell, why do I always have to fly when I'm upset? Grumbling to myself, I looked around for a place to land. I found that I was just near the south tower. Hmmm, I thought to myself. If I remember correctly there's a empty classroom near here… Just then my eyes caught hold of a dark window. I flew up close and tapped gently on the glass pane. No answer. I pulled my wand out of the inside pocket of my robe. "Alohomora," I whispered. The window flew open and I had to dodge it to keep from being thrown off. Jeeze, why are all Wood's drills coming in handy? Now I can't call him a crazy Quidditch wanker.  

The room was dark and a couple desks were piled up against the side of the classroom. The chalkboard held a thin layer of dust and spider webs hung from the side. Well, at least it's dry, I thought to myself. And at least I'm inside the castle. I turned and walked towards the door at the on the far side of the room. I tried to turn the handle but I found that I couldn't. Come on, I thought to myself as I continued to fiddle with the handle. Just then I heard a tap…

I settled down in my favourite armchair in the far corner of the room, beside one of the vastvast doesn't really work here, you already have an adjective describing the window clear stained glass window. As I was about to inch into my potions essay I heard a tapping noise coming from the window. I looked up from my essay and saw Tamo, my brother's owl outside the window tapping furiously…

TAP TAP TAP… BANG! I shook my head. Get a hold of yourself Katie, I thought as I turned towards the window. Outside the window with a pissed off expression on his face was none other then Oliver Wood. What the hell is he doing here? I thought to myself as I unlatched the window.

"WHAT IN MERLIN'S NAME DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING FLYING OUT INTO A THUNDERSTORM!!" I tried to speak but Wood continued. "DO YOU EVEN CARE THAT THERE ARE DEMEMTORS ROAMING THE GROUNDS AND THEY COULD HAVE ATTACKED YOU AT ANY MOMENT?? NO YOU JUST HAD TO FLY OFF INTO THE STROM! BLOODY HELL BELL!!!"

"Well, if someone will for sure find us now," I said dryly. "Everyone this side of Hogwarts probably heard you."

"BELL I'LL KI-"

"Oh Oliver calm down. It's my choice, get over that." Then a thought hit me. "Why did you follow me?"

"No reason. Instinct," Oliver said calmly, though I thought I saw a tint of red come to his face. "So I'm Oliver again right?"

"Oh shut it," I said.

"So, what do you say we find a way out of here," Oliver suggested. "We don't want anyone, especially certain red headed twins I know, coming up with some extremely stupid and impossible reasons for our absence."

I gave a small smile. Yep that sounds exactly what Fred and George would do not to mention Angelina, Alicia and Ree. All the more reason to get out of here. "How?"

"Well I had this ingenious idea that we could walk; you know, out of that hole in the wall with a piece of wood in front of it called a door," Oliver said, as if explaining it to a three year old.

"One problem with your flawless plan Oliver," I said calmly.

"Oh and what would that be?"

"The door's locked," I replied. 

And sure enough big manly Wood had to go to check the door himself. He couldn't believe a lowly person like me. Bloody hell, I was getting pissed off. "So has your magnificent check magically opened the door?" I asked.

"Shut it Bell," Oliver replied angrily. "We could just use alohomara, right?"

"If you've ever listened to Hermione Granger she'll tell you can't magically unlock and classroom door in the school, only windows," I informed him.

"Well we might as well get comfy. I certainly don't feel like flying in that storm, especially now that it's getting dark and the storm is getting worse," Oliver said.

"Yeah, I guess you're right. Hold on, I've got an idea." I turned to the piled up chairs and racked my mind for the transformation spell we had learned last week. I may be horrid at potions but I had no problems impressing McGonagall. Most of the time I performed better then most seventh years. Ah now I remember. I pictured a luscious couch and a couple very puffy cushions and whispered, "Transformo Conformatio" and my image slowly appeared in the place of the musty chairs.

"Merlin Bell, when did you learn how to do that? Half the people in my class can barely transform one chair let alone seven of them," Wood said, admiration clearly in his voice.

I blushed. I had always hated being noticed for my smarts; it made it seem like I was bragging or something. "Well, do you want to sit down, or stand admiring my work all night?"

"Sassy, aren't we now?"

"You know it."

An awkward silence fell over us. Wood seemed to be wrestling with something. "Come on, just spit it out Wood."

"Spit what out?" he asked.

"You look like you've just swallowed a lemon," I responded.

"Okay fine what I want to say is umm… well okay I'm kinda well… sorry for the way I umm acted after, well the…"

"Incident," I supplied for him.

"Yeah that's it. Anyways I'm sorry; I never should have reacted that way," Wood finished.

"You're perfectly right, you shouldn't have," I replied, my face displaying nothing.

"Umm are you still mad?" Wood asked tentatively.

"Depends. You have to do me a favor," I replied. "Well, actually two."

"Wow, demanding aren't we? Okay, tell me your favors and I'll decide."

"First I don't want you to give Harry any grief for losing the game. He's the best Seeker we've ever had, and he's never lost a match till now. He's probably feeling a lot worse then you are. So just leave him alone okay?"

"Of course. I wasn't planning on yelling at him, I agree with you. I'm sure he feels bad enough already," Wood responded.

"Second, I want you to stop calling me Katie Kell," I said, trying to keep my voice from breaking at the mention of my brother's old nickname for me.

"Fine, that name was getting old anyways. Besides Ree made me stop a while ago.  Or … now are we cool?" he asked.

"Sure, sure… wait what did Ree say to you? Did she tell you about my brother?" I asked frantically.

"Umm no, she just said stop or she'd hit me in an uncomfortable place," Oliver said. He paused for a moment before suspiciously asking, "Why, what happened to your brother?"

"Shut it Wood. I'm not going to tell you," I said a bit harsher then I meant to.

"Sorry Bell, I was just trying to help. I won't say anything else," Wood promised.

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Fi-"

"Don't say it."

"Fi-"

"I said don't say it!"

An awkward silence fell upon us again. Bloody hell, this is really uncomfortable. Then all of a sudden Wood burst out, "No it's not possible. Your letter said from Nathaniel. But wait no it's not…"(A/N For those of you who don't remember this was the letter Wood stole from her in the fourth chapter I think you know the one where he figures out about the nickname Katie Kell)

"What's not possible? What are you babbling about Wood?" I asked rudely.

"My father said someone named Nathaniel got killed fighting for our side against some Death Eaters. But he couldn't tell me anymore, said they wanted to keep it confidential. So that's you… but no your brother can't be-"

 "DON'T SAY IT!" I screamed.

"Bloody hell, it's true. Oh, I'm so sorry Katie," Wood said gently.

"Just shut it, leave it be," I whimpered.

"I can't-"

"Shit, can't you just leave me alone," I interrupted. "I was starting to get back to my life. To shut out that world, my one with Nathaniel and you have to come and ruin it all. I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!" And with that I began to sob gently into a pillow I had conjured just a few moments ago. Then I felt a warm hand on my back.

"I know what you're going through Katie, trust me I do."

"No you don't, how can you?" I asked through my tears.

Taking a deep breath he began, "Four years ago my family and I were visiting our cottage. One day we went out for a boat ride but Maggie, my sister, refused to come. So we left her at the cottage with strick rules not to leave the inside of the cottage. We came back an hour later and she was not there anymore. We spent hours searching and finally my dad found her body under the dock." The tears that covered Wood's eyes silently started to fall. I reached over and pulled him into a tight hug. We sat there, rocking together, letting our pain fall for what seemed like forever. Finally Wood pulled back and looked up into my eyes, and I finally realized how close we were…

(A/N Would I do that to u lolz)

Slowly we both leaned and finally our lips touched. Once we began to kiss it seemed like we couldn't stop. I had somewhere, deep down, been wanting this for a long time. His lips were soft against mine and his hands lightly caressed my hair. This was nothing like kissing Matt. When I kissed Matt it was just kissing. With Oliver it was like, well like we were joining. Slowly he eased back from his kiss and pulled himself away. He stared at me for awhile and in his eyes I saw, I know it's corny but I saw love. That look of love gave me such a feeling of warmth and security that a smile lit up my face. I saw the sides of his lips slowly curl up into his trademark smile. It seemed as if I was the only one in the world. Gosh, I'm pathetic. I mean listen to me. I kiss one guy and suddenly talking like Juliet, and we all know how that ended.

"You don't know how long I've been waiting to do that for," Wood said gently.

"What do you mean Woo-"

"Oliver."

"What? Whose Oliver?" I asked confused.

"Me, you can call me Oliver now right? And I can call you Katie," he stated. It wasn't a question.

"Fine."

"Please don't start that again," Oliver said. I let a small laugh, my eyes never leaving his.

"Now what did you mean by you've been waiting to do that?" I asked him, trying not to pry but wanting to know.

"Well umm I've kind of fancied you for a while now. Well, while I was trying not to hate you," he said jokingly.

Wow. Just wow. Oliver caring about more then Quidditch. Wait that's mean,; he is a nice guy if he tries to be. But how do I feel about him? I mean for the past little while something seems to have changed. Do I like him too? Bloody hell, when did things get so confusing?

"Umm Katie, are you there?"

"Oops sorry Oliver, just thinking," I replied.

"What about?" he asked, clearly trying to mask his nervousness.

"Nothing bad don't worry, just wondering how things got so confusing lately," I said.

"You have no idea. I mean it's you, Katie Bell. Late arriver, back talker, superb chaser Katie Bell. How was I supposed to like you?"

"I'll take that as a compliment."

"You should. Now how about one for me?" Oliver said, his playful smile shining on his face.

"Sorry can't think of any," I joked.

"You know there is one thing I forgot to add to that list," Oliver remarked slyly.

"And what would that be?" I asked suspiciously.

"Very ticklish." I screamed and tried to jump off the couch, but Oliver grabbed me and started to tickle me. I shrieked with laughter and tried to squirm away from him. "Now can you think of one?" he asked.

"Fi- hihihi fine," I finally managed to spit out. He stopped and looked slowly into my eyes, waiting gentlyyou can't really wait gently, try to fine another adjective for an answer. "Great kisser," I whispered. Oliver smiled and leaned in to kiss me again. Then I heard a small cough from behind us before I heard a loud, angry shriek. Oliver and I sprung apart and turned to see Dumbledore and McGonagall standing behind us. It looked as if Dumbledore had walked in first and tried to give us a warning.

"What do you think you are doing? Miss Bell, Mister Wood? For your information, we have spent the last half hour searching the grounds for you, hoping the Dementors hadn't gotten you. One of your teammates is in the hospital wing and you two are in here doing who knows what. Maybe Filch is right, you children have very one track minds these days!" McGonagall shouted out, hardly pausing to breathe.

"Professor you don't understand," I started to say.

"You see we were locke-"

"Oliver, don't interrupt me."

"You were done talking."

"Was not."

"Were to."

"Just be quiet and let me tell the story. When the match finished, when the Demetors came, well they kind of caused me to remember. Then I flew off because I didn't want Oliver to see me but then he followed me-"

"Wait you're making it sound like I was breaking the rules," Oliver wined. "Let me tell the rest. So I followed her to a window where she flew in. I decided to enter and we both got stuck-"

"Because the door was locked and the storm had gotten worse," I added.

"I was going to say that, just let me finish. Anyways we talked and then well umm you know then we... well we-"

"We kissed," I finished. "Why can't you say it Oliver, are you embarrassed?"

"Katie come on, you know I'm not, it's just that there are professors in the room and it's awkward," Oliver replied.

"Are you sure that's the only reason?" I asked tentatively.

Oliver was about to respond when we heard a chuckle. We turned and saw McGonagall covering her mouth with her hand and Dumbledore's eyes sparkled with amusement though his mouth was stern.

"Alright you two, you can go, but remember no more public displays like this in inappropriate places," McGonagall said sternly but the amusement showed in her eyes.

I felt Oliver reach for my hand and I entwined my fingers in his. We walked out towards the door, brooms in our other hands. And together we raced down the hall, headed towards the hospital wing…

A/N Okay again I apologize for this chappie it took me to long. I'll try and hav the next chappie out on sat ok anywyas i g2g bye bye oops ya the site isn't workin so I cant do shout outs sorry I luv u all

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