*No such thing as a match made in heaven*
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"Men are from Mars Katie, don't let it bother you." Angelina said sounding annoyed. Well jeez, I did have a right to be pissed off at all of the human race right now. Or maybe I'm just wallowing in self pity. Either one is fine.
"Yeah, I'm sure that's a proven fact." I said looking at my reflection in the mirror. It had been two days now since my little encounter with the one who's name shall not be spoken, and I was finally getting over it. Kind of. I mean who in the world can get over Oliver Wood in two days? I mean, I didn't ever really have Oliver Wood, but a girl can dream up the scenario, right?
"What's that supposed to mean?" Angelina said coming out with her usual stupid question. I stared at her, while she continued to magically curl her hair. I got to get that spell.
"Forget it." I said slowly looking outside of the bathroom, towards Alicia's bed. Apparently Alicia wasn't feeling to well this morning. Ms. Perk shall not be making an appearance today. Too bad.
"You ready for the Quidditch game tomorrow?" Angelina said, obviously desperate for conversation on this cloudy Friday morning.
"Quidditch, we're not talking about that right now...remember?" I said with a dirty glare as Angelina finished with her hair.
"You have to get over it sometime. I mean, would you rather just quit Quidditch so you can avoid Oliver permanently?" Angelina said, knowing that I would never in this lifetime agree to that.
"No." I said walking out of the bathroom, Angelina several paces behind me. "Quidditch is my life, and I'm kind of getting used to using Oliver for target practice. I mean who cares about getting the quaffle in the hoop anymore. That's so overrated." Katie Bell has officially switched to the dark side. I glanced over at Alicia, whom had decided to get out of bed. Alicia scares me in the mornings, her hair seems to be posessed, and she doesn't seem to understand kindness before she's had her morning breakfast.
"How's it going with Cedric?" I whispered to Angelina after Alicia slammed the door to the bathroom. She raised her eyebrows, and the gossipy smile plastered itself on her devious face.
"Not too good. Apparently Cedric likes to flirt with different girls, and Alicia seems to be getting bored with him." Angelina said rubbing her hands together, reminding me of Frankenstein's assistant, Igor. Ok, she totally doused up that story, for one thing Alicia will be true to one guy, until that particular loser decides to dump her. That's of course a bad idea, because revenge then follows, and of course I'm in on it. No wonder why I've never been asked out before....everyone must be afraid of me!
Alicia decided to come storming out of the bathroom at this particular moment, and she decided to give me a horrifying glare.
"Where's my scrunchi?" she croaked. I wasn't going to defy her unless I wanted to be hunted down within the next hour.
"I'm not sure," I said as she began to look extremely pissed, "but, I can lend you one of mine so there won't be a problem." Alicia gave me a weak smile, and then stormed back off to the bathroom.
"I guess we know what we'll be getting Alicia for Christmas." I said slowly.
"Yeah, mood swing pills." Angelina proclaimed followed by laughter. I of course sat staring at her horrified at what she had just said. Ok, so Angelina needs something better to do with her time.
"Are you interested in seeing anyone?" I said catching her off balance. Ah-ha! So she does like someone. I watched as her face went from pale, to pink, then to red. Man, we have a full color rotation going on here.
"C'mon, who is it? You know I'll find out, and if you don't tell me I'll embarrass the heck out of you when I do find out." Alas, some true threats fly in the dorm room. I waited for her to answer my question, unfortunately Alicia decided to make her dramatic entrance at the moment, declaring what torture we were going to get due to our lateness.
"Bins." I said staring George straight in the eye.
"McGonagall." George threw back at me.
"Flitwick." I said, as George looked astounded.
"Snape." George declared as laughter rang from my throat at the mention of Snape. George and I always had the conversation on who we thought was going to be singing 'Five Little Pumpkins Jumping on the Fence" at the Halloween dinner. Unfortunately it never happened, but Snape seemed to be the universal candidate. Go ahead Snape, proclaim the good news of the pumpkins. It was the day before Halloween, and boy did the year seem to be going by fast! Not.
"So what should I be looking out for tomorrow? Bats that swoop down and cling to your face until you pass out from lack of breath, or pumpkins that seem to suddenly suicidally jump off the staircases to see how much their target practice has improved from last year?" I said staring at the twins who were giggling madly by now. "So, what is it?"
"You know Katie, we never thought of pulling those pranks this year, but since you seem to be so worked up about out change in plans," Fred said smiling at me.
"Oh yeah, my emotions are running wild over this decision." I rolled my eyes, and switched my glance to the drooling Angelina. Is she staring at Fred? Woo-hoo! Katie knows the secret. I looked at her and caught her attention, and then pointed to Fred, and then back to her. Then I decided to elaborate, and I made two little deformed puppets out of my hands and forced them to kiss each other. I grinned up at Angelina who by now had turned a shade of red not familiar to humans. Alicia was looking at me curiously, but I wasn't exactly to gloat right about now that I knew something that she didn't. It would be entirely satisfying however.
"Are you ok with talking about Oliver?" Alicia said obviously sensing that something was up, and she was trying to annoy it out of me.
"Let me ask if you are ok with talking about Cedric?" I said raising my eyebrows at my brilliance. If you ever want a question avoided, call Katie Bell.
"I guess." Alicia said unexpectedly. "Things are going fairly well. Now with Oliver, have you exactly made up? I mean we cant go on for very much longer with the two of you not speaking to one another."
"What are you talking about? We never talked before the whole coincidence? How would it affect you anyways?" I said taking the defensive side.
"Our Quidditch team isn't exactly doing our best with you constantly trying to find ways to make Oliver fall off his broom. And he's not talking to you, making the Chasers perform at a lesser level than usual." Alicia began to plead.
"I'm not apologizing until he does, he called me, basically an 'it'." I said glaring at her.
" 'it's' are good things too." Alicia said hopefully. Whoa, was she taking the wrong approach here.
"You don't understand, Oliver Wood totally...." I was going to use the most colorful language I could produce, but Oliver Wood came up behind me.
"Oliver Wood totally what Bell?" Oliver said, as I mentally slapped myself. It had to be a setup, my whole life had to be planned so the worst things would always run smoothly.
"Oliver Wood totally rocks at playing Quidditch." I said flatly, as I could sense him smiling at my unease.
"Thanks for the compliment, but I actually came over here, would you believe it or not, to apologize." Oliver said as I stared blankly at the wall. Finally I turned around to face him.
"I never thought that I would see the day." I said smiling at him. Stupid Katie, now he won't apologize ever. He was staring at me, and so was the rest of the hall. "Oliver...I'm waiting."
"I wanted to apologize to you in private." Oliver stated, as the mood of anger swept over the hall. No one ever wanted to miss Oliver's groveling. His voice can reach pitches that are not normal.
"Fine," I said standing up quickly, the napkin that was on my lap falling to the floor. I bent over to pick it up, but Oliver was faster. Damn him. I glared at him, as our hands touched briefly while he handed it to me. It was all I could do to stop from smiling in pleasure.
"Come on." He said grabbing my arm without notice. Jeez, what a grip. I don't think anyone could get out of this type of a grip.
"You don't have to hold my arm, you know. I'm not four years old, and I'm pretty sure there is no danger of being run over by a semi." I whispered, as we walked by rows and rows of staring people. Oliver chuckled at that, and I wondered if he was laughing about me not being four years old, or the picture of me shaking violently on the road after being hit by a semi going 15mph. "Where are we going? The North Pole?" I whispered loudly emphasizing my annoyance.
"Just a little bit further." Oliver said as we walked out of the Great Hall. Merlin, he must have planned the whole thing. How professional. We finally reached a window, that was wide open letting in a cool breeze.
"Ok, here we are." I said jerking my arm out of his grip as he smiled.
"Katie, I want apologize." Oliver said looking into my eyes. He brought me all the way over here to tell me something that I already knew? "I know that I was being extremely rude the other night, and I wish I could change the past but I cant. I was just angry because you did to me what I have been doing to you the past few weeks, and I'm sorry for treating you that way. And what you said about Maggie was true." I stared up at him, not believing it. I was right? "She didn't care about me. I broke it off that same night we had the fight after realizing how stupid I was. Now I know that right now you are extremely ticked off at me for what I said, and that is very understandable. I would be ticked off too, actually I would be downright pissed off but that doesn't matter. You are one of the most intelligent, beautiful, and lively person I know, and you've been my friend for such a long time and I can't afford to lose you right now. I know I've been acting crazy around you for a while...and I still haven't figured out why I did that but eventually I will have an answer for you. So, I beg of you when I say this....Please forgive me Katie Bell. If you don't I will be sent into eternal peril." Hmm, eternal peril or forgiveness?
"...Of course I forgive you Oliver. Who wouldn't." I said softly.
"Can we go on like this never happened?" Oliver said raising his eyebrows.
"Yeah." I said even softer.
"Now, don't you go off and get shy with me again. I'm not frightened of you, so there is no reason that you should be frightened of me. Let's just have a normal friendship that doesn't involve any intimidation." Oliver said hitting me lightly on the shoulder.
"Ok, sounds good. Hmm, you're not afraid of me? I guess we'll have to be changing that." I said as his deep laughter sounded, and for the first time I felt comfort in his presence. Yet, his actions towards me earlier this year still confused me...and I guess now I'll never know.....
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