A/N: So, I'm back, and this time, it wasn't very soon, but it didn't take too long either, did it?! I'm just trying to make it up to you guys, for have taken so long so post the last two chapters! And I'm hoping I'll be able to put another chapter up before Easter Holidays end, on Monday… now, as for my dear reviewers:
Beth: please, ne me déteste pas ;) Anyway, I'm gald that for a moment you believed that was THE moment, that was exactly what I wanted *lol* And I'm also glad that you think that "Plus c'est long, plus c'est bon", I couldn't agree with you more! And I guess one could say I'm sort of teasing you, yes… I'm a teaser, heehee! Oh and don't worry, it wasn't an insult. In fact, I love the word "tease"… hehe! Yes, Jen's a good friend! Hey, she had to do something to make it up for interrupting, right?! ;) Now, as for your questions, I don't mind answering at all! J'ai dix-huit ans. Almost 19, actually! And yes, I like Franz Ferdinand (that's the Austrian bloke that was murderer and his death was one of the causes of World War I, isn't it?), they sort of remind me of Foo Fighters, which is a band that I like a lot! However, I must admit that my favourite Scottish band would have to be Crambo ;) Oh and I will ALWAYS thank my reviewers… you have no idea how much what you say means to me!! So, thank you :D Beckah: I hope it's soon enough! Kathy: Aw, you spoil me! So, you shall wait no longer for their meeting. I hope you enjoy it as much as you enjoyed the last chapter. Crystal: aren't you hasty?! *lol* but I like it, you always make me laugh! *Londonrules* it makes perfect sense ;) I'm glad you like Jen, especially 'cause she's someone created by me… YAY! And oui, je parle français un petit peu… and I agree with you, c'est très dificil! I'm still learning it… but I LOVE languages! Yo hablo español un poquito también and Portuguese! Next I want to learn German!! Anyway, thank you… "wonderful writer"? Wow! Thanks a lot!! Auditoriumnazi: yes, it was a bit wordy, but I guess that's how it had to be, right?! Like you said, girls tend to be a bit deeper than boys ;) and that's one of the reasons why I love being one! Well, I'm glad you like my fic and that it makes you think… and I'll be sure to read yours! Jayne: now, who WOULDN'T rather Ollie for herself, right?! ;)
Now, I give you the chapter you've all been waiting for!
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I've always woken up early. Not that I didn't like sleeping, I loved it! But I also liked to enjoy the most of my days, especially on the weekends. Oliver, on the other hand, loved to sleep as much as he could on the days off (no one would think that based on those early morning practices he, sometimes, insisted on). That had caused many pillow fights between us. On holidays, when he'd go to my place or I'd go to his, I'd always sneak into his room and start jumping up and down on his bed saying "Good day sunshine!" or "It's a beautiful morning out there, Ollie-Wood, wake up, wake up, wake up". And he'd always greet me with kind words such as "Bugger off, Katie!" or "Get the bloody heel out of here". Since I never left, he'd try to knock me down throwing his pillows at me and that would star the fight.
Sometimes, instead of throwing pillows, Oliver would get up and tickle me until I begged forgiveness for "profaning the Quidditch God's sacred sleep". Throughout the years those morning meetings became somewhat of a tradition between us, so sometimes Oliver would wake up earlier than me and hide to try and scare me when I entered the room. I must say that, most times, he succeeded. Other times, he'd sneak in my room at the crack of dawn and would start jumping up and down on MY bed saying, "It's not that funny being on the other side, is it Kit-Kat?" which also always ended up in a pillow fight.
On Sunday, I woke up late, something that hadn't happened in a long while. All because I had stayed up until nearly 3:00 am doing homework… HOMEWORK! Bloody NEWTs! At least, thanks to that, I'd be able to have the whole Sunday free. When I got up, Jen was finishing getting ready – she also wasn't used to waking up early – to go down to breakfast.
"Damn, Kates! Two more minutes and I'd have called Madam Pomfrey to come up and check on you. I was getting worried!"
"Ha-ha, funny... good morning to you too, Jenny." – I said sticking my tongue out at her.
"So, what made you, the Morning Queen, wake up at 10:00?"
"Homework, of course! Are you going down to breakfast?"
"Yes, want to come?"
"Sure, I'll just wash my face, brush my teeth and change, do you mind waiting?"
"Of course not…"
"Brilliant!" – I replied kneeling in front of my trunk and grabbing some clothe. Then, I went to the bathroom and came out ten minutes later, washed brushed and changed.
"So, where are the other girls?" – I asked putting on my trainers.
"Gemma and Rachel left earlier and Charlie is waiting for me on the common room."
"So, I was the last one?! That's a first…"
"Probably!" – she said smiling – "So, are you ready to face Oliver?" – she asked with a more serious note.
"Uh… I really don't know! I'm feeling that it's going to be so weird, I'm actually DREADING to face him." – I answered getting up.
"Don't be, Kates… after all, nothing really happened and if it was like you said, just a spur of the moment thing, it didn't mean anything, so… just talk to him and you two will get over it."
"Yeah, you're right! Shall we, then?!"
"Why, we shall!" – Jen answered and we both left.
When we arrived downstairs, we found Charlie waiting on a chair by the portrait hole. As we walked towards her, I looked everywhere, hoping to see Oliver waiting for me, like he always did, but he was nowhere to be seen. That was unusual and I was sure the reason why he wasn't there was because of what had happened the day before. "Ok, so maybe this is going to be weirder than I guessed…" – I thought to myself biting my lower lip. Bollocks!
When we arrived at the Great Hall we went straight to the far end of Gryffindor's table, where most of our friends, including Oliver, were. On the way, I took a couple deep breaths, while mentally repeating: "Get a grip, Katie! It's no big deal…"
"Good morning, everyone!" – Jen said cheerfully sitting down beside Jonathan McCain, a fellow seventh year, one of Oliver's dorm mates and Charlie's crush. Charlie, after greeting everyone one, sat across from her and started to eat her breakfast, ignoring the cheeky glares Jen kept shooting at her. I simply rolled my eyes, got to love those two!
"Hello guys!" – I said to everybody – "Good morning, Ollie! Why didn't you wait for me this morning?" – I asked sitting beside him.
"Hi, Katie. Well, you weren't on the common room, and since you always wake up earlier than me, I figured you had already left. But what's the big deal, you managed to find your way down without me, didn't you?!" – he replied not bothering to look at me. Instead, he preferred to keep looking down at his bowl of cereal. Ouch, that hurt!
"Uh… yeah, sure…" – I said blushing. Lame, yes, but I really didn't know what to say to THAT!
After a few moments of awkward silence between us, I dared to speak again:
"So, when are you planning on going to see Harry?"
"As soon as I finish breakfast."
"Right… uh, still want me to go with you?"
"Sure, why not?! I'll invite the rest of the team and we can meet on the Hospital Wing" – he said getting up and I noticed he hadn't even finished his cereal.
"Whatever…" – I whispered dropping my half eaten toast. Suddenly, I wasn't hungry anymore.
"See you all back in the common room later, then." – he said and began to leave.
Everyone nodded and I said:
"Bye, Ollie!"
"Bye, Katie."
So, apparently it was going worse then I feared… why the hell was he calling me "Katie"?! He hardly EVER did that… not seriously like that, anyway, and definitely not repeatedly. Bollocks! Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks! A hundred times BOLLOCKS!
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Everything went all right in the Hospital Wing… kind of! Oliver was still clearly disturbed with our loss, but he reassured Harry it hadn't been his fault. I think it did the boy some good hearing it from the captain, specially one known to be completely obsessed like Oliver.
However, through it all, Oliver kept giving me the same cold treatment he had during breakfast. And it didn't get any better after lunch. So, by the end of the afternoon, I couldn't take it any longer.
"Ollie, can I talk to you?" – I asked approaching the far corner of the common room where he was, apparently, doing his homework.
"Aren't you already?"
"Oh, for Heaven's sake, Oliver, will you stop cutting me off?! You've been doing this the whole day, it's getting old really fast, you know?!"
"Sorry…" – he mumbled not daring to look at me.
"It's all right. So, can we talk?"
"I… I'm busy right now."
"Can't it wait? Just a wee bit? Please, it's important."
"Alright" – he said dropping his quill – "speak!"
"Can we go somewhere slightly more… private? I really don't want someone overhearing us."
"Yeah, sure. We can go to my dorm, I guess, the blokes are all down here."
"Ok…"
As we proceeded silently to his dorm, I tried to go over the things I wanted to say to him, but I couldn't come up with anything. Nothing, not a word… my brain was completely empty, my mind was blank!
"So, what did you want to talk about?" – he asked entering the room and holding the door open to me.
"Can't you guess?"
"No, not really." – Oliver answered turning to me after closing the door. I noticed he was staring at some point above my shoulder.
"Really? You don't have a clue?"
"Uh, it could be million things…"
"You're not willing to make this any easier for me, are you?!" – I began, sighing – "Fine! I'm talking about what happened between us yesterday!" – I said rather sharply.
"What? Nothing happened…" – he replied simply, still not looking at me.
"Oliver, how can you say this?" – I asked a bit too loud. I was beginning to get angry.
"Well, I'm simply stating the facts, nothing happened!"
"Yesterday, in the locker rooms, we nearly kissed!!" – I sort of yelled. – "And will you please look at me when I'm talking to you?"
"Fine" – he said, this time moving his gaze to my eyes – "But like you said, 'nearly'. Something that nearly happened didn't actually happen, did it?! No! So nothing happened!" – it was his turn to use a sharp tone.
"It didn't 'actually happen', but almost! That's why we need to talk about it, if Jen hadn't arrived–"
"Well, we'll never know what WOULD have happened, 'cause the fact is that she DID arrive, isn't it?"
"Yes, but–"
"No 'buts'… Look Katie, nothing really happened, so it didn't mean anything… right?!" – he asked, as if waiting for my reassurance.
"I… uh… yeah, right! It didn't mean anything."
"So, there's nothing to talk about!"
"No! We have to sort it out, and the only way to do that is talking about it." – I said, starting to get irritated again.
"But there's nothing to talk about, 'CAUSE NOTHING HAPPENED." – Oliver shouted, clearly getting irritated as well.
"Will you stop saying that?! I've got it, NOTHING HAPPENED, but it's not that simple, so YES, THERE IS SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT!"
"No, there isn't! Because, AGAIN, nothing ha–"
"Do NOT finish that sentence!"
Oliver looked down and I looked at the window, not really seeing what was out there. We remained quiet for a few seconds, until he mumbled.
"But nothing happened." – hadn't it been the circumstances, I could almost have laughed at that.
"IN THE NAME OF GODRIC, YOU'RE ACTING LIKE SUCH A CHILD! But you know what, Oliver?! I quit! If you want to be a baby about it, fine, be a baby about it! If you simply want to state nothing happened, then FINE, nothing happened! If you don't want to talk about it, FINE, WE WON'T TALK ABOUT IT!"
"Fine!"
"FINE! HAVE IT YOUR WAY THEN… AND SEE IF I CARE!" – I finished, storming out of the room and banging the door behind me a little too strongly.
I was really mad and panting. My eyes were filled with tears, but I didn't know if they were tears of anger or… something else! I also didn't know why I was so upset by the fact that Oliver kept saying that nothing had happened. And most of all, I didn't know why it had bugged me so much when he said that it hadn't meant anything, after all, it hadn't… right?!
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A/N: So, another chappie done! I know it's not very long, but I hope you all liked it anyway! It was short, but quite emotion-filled, eh?! So that's something, right?! ;) So, what can I tell you all about Chapter 10? Hmmm, let me see… oh yeah, it's going to snow!! How is that relevant, you're all wondering?! Well, you'll see… heehee! On a side note, I've reached 50 reviews, yay! How exciting!!!
