Over the next couple of days, I found life at Hogwarts wonderful. I became great friends with Alicia, Katie, Fred, and George through my classes and I spent all the time between classes with them possible. I also became fast friends with Ron and Harry from the time I spent after classes in the Gryffindor common room with them and Hermione. However, I wanted to get to know Oliver better. I would smile and greet him when I passed him in the corridors, yet I never got to talk to him like I wished I could. Katie and Alicia noticed this, too.
One night I crawled into my warm bed in the carriage. My bed was right next to Fleur's, and I watched her sleep and said quietly, "I'm so sorry." I hugged my pillow, and my hand grazed a piece of paper underneath it. I snatched it up and read it, a huge grin upon my face. I laid back down, and fell asleep. A few hours later, I awoke, and blinked down at my watch. "12:28" it angrily blinked at me back. I hugged my pillow and thought over what I was doing. You sat up, and ran a hand through my beautiful, long locks. I checked my watch again. "12:29" it glared at me. "One minute" I whispered. I sang a tune that popped into my head. I checked my watch once more. "12:30" it happily glowed. I pulled back my covers and hopped out of bed, and strolled over to the closest window.
I opened the window, and saw myself face-to-face with Oliver Wood. "Ready?" he asked me. "Of course" I replied, beaming.
I climbed onto Oliver's broom clutching onto the front of it. Oliver leaned into me, placing his arms under mine. Suddenly, we took off at breakneck speed. Laughing, I yelled to him over the roar of the breeze in my ears, "Thank you so much! You have no idea how much I missed flying!" "No problem. I'd actually been thinking of asking you to do this for a while, but you asked first" Oliver shouted back. Confused, I shouted back, craning my neck to face him, "What?" I noticed that my face was inches from his. He looked right into my eyes.. almost past them, like he did before. Abruptly, I noticed that we had stopped, but we were not on ground. Oliver reached up to a golden hoop that he had parked his broom next to. As he reached up, his shirt lifts, and I noticed that he is pleasantly muscular. He pulled himself up, and sat upon the hoop. He offered me his hand and pulled me up. He placed his arm behind my back so I didn't fall backwards. The sky was beautiful that night: a deep, rich navy color with a million glittering diamonds for stars. "So, why did you ask me to do this for you? Fred and George are excellent flyers, and the three of us are terrible in comparison to Harry." Oliver asked softly. "What? You asked me to come! You left a note under my pillow saying you wanted to show me something-" Something clicked into place and I realized what happened. "Alicia and Katie set us up" I laughed, and Oliver chuckled nervously. I noticed that he looked slightly disheartened by this. "But I had wanted to get to know you, so I'm glad they did this" I said, quickly, not wanting Oliver to think I didn't want to come. "Seriously? Why?" he asked. "You really want to know?" I said, still looking at the stars. "The way you look at me.. and I noticed that you didn't look the same way at my sister. I vowed whomever did that I'd have to marry. So why did you come?" I glanced at Oliver. "Since the first day I saw you I knew you were something else. How do you do it?" he asked. I laughed, "Do what?" "Make me feel like you do! Firstly, we meet in outer space." I laughed at his metaphor, but I made a mental note of it. "Why, you're gorgeous, smart, nice, funny as hell-" "Oooh!" I cut him off, "Shooting star!" I screwed up my eyes in concentration and made a wish. I slowly opened one eye to see what Oliver was doing, and I saw him looking at me. "You are stellar" he said gently. I turned towards him, and he looked at me in that way that made me melt. I felt myself leaning in towards him. Our lips met gently, and I closed my eyes, taking in every moment.
Note: I know some of the parts of this chapter our from the Incubus song, "Stellar." In no way am I trying to copy this song. I think it's a wonderful song, and I think everyone should listen to it. I would never try to plagiarize. I just thought the lyrics would fit nicely here.. and it'll come into play later, trust me.