*No such thing as a match made in heaven*
Well hello! Haha, I want to thank everyone who reviewed, since I got so many kind reviews *chucks flowers at reviewers* lol. Anyways, this should be a fairly long chapter...there will probably be numeral mistakes (hopefully not), and hopefully it'll spark a little bit of your interest. So why do I continue to blab you ask? That's a good question.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that's related to Harry Potter (except maybe the books, I'm talking legal rights here people). Sure, you could ask me in eighty years, but the answer would still of course be the same.
"Katie! That's cheating, and you know it!" George cried loudly, as the people surrounding him looked up suddenly suspicious of me. True George, but do I care?
"Am not!" I said, childlike immaturity shining through my usually mature nature. Mature, yeah right.
It was the day that we all were arriving back from Christmas break, and some considered the time jollier than others. I, was extremely anxious to see Oliver, hoping that he liked the present I sent him for Christmas. Of course, it wasn't much, but what does he expect when he arouses feelings within me a week before Christmas? I was still rather disappointed that he had not sent me a gift, apparently the definition of this relationship was not clear to him. Ha, that'll change pretty quick. But, he was arriving late because of car failure. I mean, what a lame excuse. Couldn't he come up with anything better? Volcanic activity easily tops that one.
"Your turn, Katie." Fred said, hostility in his voice. Yeesh, it's only a game...these guys get so competitive. Who cares if I had seen all the cards before the game? It doesn't bother me.
"And that's another match for me." I said gloatingly, as the rest of the kids loathingly stared at me. Merlin, a game of memory surely does show your true colors.
"Well I give up. I suck at this game anyways." Lee Jordan said, chucking his cards onto the floor, standing up and walking off huffily.
"That's not a very good attitude." I said softly. I'm mean tonight baby! All of the remaining players were quiet, apparently we were going over strategies in our head. Right! I'll get right to that! Before George could make his next move, a voice rippled through the prolonged silence.
"Damn the whole idea of transportation!" Oliver's voice roared, muffled by the walls in the castle. Oh, and here's my knight in shining armor now! What he's got no armor?! Just an attitude?!
"Well, we obviously don't know who that is." George said shuffling the memory game cards.
"No guess for me." Fred said sitting up in a chair, smirk consuming his face. Oliver slowly walked into the common room and immediately spotted the three of us, sitting quietly in the corner. I watched as he glanced around the room, glaring at people who decided to return the gaze. He was probably looking for a person to take out all his emotions on...let's just hope that's not me.
"Hello." Oliver said in a non friendly tone as he approached our deformed circle and sat down in the nearest available chair.
"Well howdy do to you too." Fred said, taking the chance to peek at a card while I was looking away. Unfortunately I know all and see all...yeah.
"I saw that Fred Weasly!" I declared, acting like the game actually meant something to me. How lame is it that we aren't off setting up traps for the unsuspecting fellow, or why aren't we planting dung bombs in the Great Hall? Time's a wastin'.
"You saw it, so what are you going to do about it?" Fred said slowly.
"What the hell are you guys doing?" Oliver said sounding annoyed, I glanced at him and boy did he looked pissed. No more cabby rides for Mister Wood. He caught me glancing at him, and his features softened a bit. Wow, I've never had that affect on people, must be the new perfume.
"What does it look like we're doing Oliver? Because we can't be having fun!" George said irritably. Wow, is he really that anxious for Alicia to get here? That would explain Fred also. Was I the only one left with some cheer?
"Did you guys finish Snape's essay?" Oliver said quickly changing the subject. Wow he must be learning how to avoid mood swings. Bravo.
"Yeah." I said slowly, apparently saying the wrong thing for the twins both glared at me in anger. "What?! You weren't stuck here over the holidays." What happened to 'see you next year'? Where was Angelina at a time like this, to provide the stupid comic relief?
"Oh, sorry." Fred said absently, obviously absorbed in staring at his feet. So this is the defect of the perfume? We all sat there for about ten minuets hoping that the other wasn't staring at us, and it quite possible was the stupidest ten minutes of my life.
"What are y'all up to?" Angelina said from behind Oliver, scaring the living daylights out of the lot of us.
"Angelina! How was your Christmas?" I said, finally being able to break the silence.
"Boring. Got a lot of muggle gifts that I don't know what to do with. I think one was called a tooster." Angelina said looking at all of us in turn. I had absently not told Angelina about what happened at the party, for fear of her reaction. Alicia, on the other hand, was too smart to not have noticed.
"Toaster, you mean." I said, being my perfectionist self. Wow, what a shocker.
"Hey Fred, can I speak to you in private?" Angelina said her head having the whole twitching thing going on. What in the hell was she trying to tell him?
"Sure!" Fred shouted, his normal enthusiasm returning. Praise the lords! Now we only have one sour faced jerk. Luckily, Alicia chose that moment to enter and when she did...George began to glow. Merlin, it's love. I sighed as George got up and gave Alicia a bear hug. Alicia smiled and waved at me in-between kisses, and soon the sight was beginning to get a little disgusting, so I turned away only to find Oliver watching me. Whoa, that's a little creepy. I smiled softly, and he moved over to join me on the couch.
"And now it's my turn to talk to you." Oliver said sweetly. Whoa. Reality Check. What happened to the pissed off Oliver. Well, I'm not complaining.
"And what would you like to talk about?" I said, in a high pitched voice. Merlin, we sounded like old people. Oliver stretched up, and somewhere in the process his arm ended up around my shoulder. Gee, now who went and did that? "Did you like your gift?" I said quickly, trying to banish the god forsaken silence.
"Katie, that's what I wanted to talk to you about." Oliver said scratching behind his ear. He doesn't like it...
"You don't like it?!" I wailed, creating the hysterical female image. People around the common room began to stare, wondering who was hurting the great Katie Bell.
"Yes Katie, I love it." He said beginning to panic, patting me on a back. What, does he think I'm a dog?
"Then what is it!" I snapped irritably. It's one thing to hurt a girls feelings, it's a whole different ball game to make her feel inferior to pets.
"I just feel guilty that I didn't get you anything." Oliver said looking down. What? Does he want sympathy? Why doesn't he just jump off to the store and buy me something?
"That's ok Oliver, I'm just into the giving mood this year." I said slowly, watching him as he began to smile. However, I was still secretly hoping that he had got something for me.
"The sweater doesn't fit." Oliver blurted quickly, as I raised my eyebrows.
"Why didn't you tell me that in the first place?" I said slowly, not able to understand what was going through his mind.
"Because I thought it would hurt your feelings." Oliver said, innocence in his eyes. Where has he been for the last century.
"Oliver." I said in-between my fits of laughter. "I didn't know your size, I guessed. In fact I'm glad I got your size wrong. Now I learned something today." Oliver smiled, and almost looked shy. What happened to him over the holidays? Somebody perform some brain operation on him or something? He suddenly grabbed me and hugged me, too tight for my own liking.
"Oliver...OLIVER!!" I said loudly, feeling my appendix bulging. Ha, I don't even know what an appendix is, let alone it's location.
"So, Katie." Oliver said, his voice instantly deepening. Ooh, that gave me shivers! "Did you have a nice holiday."
"Oh yeah sure, it was exciting here. McGonagall attacked Dumbledore looking for a little holiday cheer, Snape found his soul mate in a stray bird, you know the usual." I said as Oliver smiled even more. "And yourself?"
"Oh, mother had all those frivolous parties she always has, and dad was determined to learn how to cast a spell, and my little sister...well let's just say Barney was on her list." Oliver said looking off, probably hearing the Barney theme song. This made me giggle, the thought of Oliver sitting on a couch in a Barney t-shirt wearing a Barney hat, laughing at Barney's corny jokes.
"I love you, you love me, we're one happy family. With a," I started, trying to thoroughly tick Oliver off.
"You think that's funny do you?" Oliver suddenly got a sparkle in his eyes, and I knew I was in for it now. His arm suddenly grabbed me around the neck, and he began to tickle me. Dear God, one of my major weaknesses has now been shown to the world. The horror, the horror!
"Stop it! Dammit!" I said through laughter, as the rest of the common room emitted a chuckle, at our immaturity. Screw them.
"What's the magic word?" Oliver said, grin a mile long on his face.
"Uncle!" I screamed short of breath.
"I don't see any uncle's around, Katie. I think your are becoming delusional." Oliver said pinning my arms above my head.
"Oliver!" I said gasping for breath as he finally stopped tickling me. As soon as I regained my breath, I looked up into Oliver's eyes. A slow smile spread across my face, and Oliver took one of his hands a pushed a piece of hair out of my eyes.
"I missed you..." I said slowly.
"I missed you too..." Oliver said in this deep voice that got me shivering again. Before either one of us thought about moving, Oliver closed the distance between our lips, and slowly he began to kiss me. I felt the needs to put my arms around his neck, so when the impulse stuck me, I followed it's implication. I don't know how long we were sitting there, because the outside world to me was oblivious, all I could see, hear, and feel, was Oliver. A part of me regained my senses, and I heard silence throughout the common room. Regretfully, I pulled away from Oliver, out of breath, and not to my surprise I found the whole common room staring at us.
"Ah, dammit." I said in a whisper to Oliver and he looked up suddenly too, and began to move off me quickly.
"It's about time!" Percy's nasal voice sounded from the other side of the common room. "I thought the both of you were dead. Well, it's not like that's a shame or anything anyways."
"Shut up." Oliver said getting angry. Woah, what was this side of him? I'm truly beginning to believe that Oliver has multiple personalities. "C'mon Katie. I have something for you."
"Ok," I said as he pulled me up off the couch, and didn't release my hand. Oh my god! I was holding Oliver Wood's hand! We walked over to where his luggage still stat, unmoved, and he let go of my hand to reach down and unlock the suitcase. I watched the back of his head, as his hands moved throughout the suitcase, searching for a particular item. Look at his hair, it's perfect, very unlike my own hair...although ever since that incident it's overall condition has improved. Oliver obviously had gotten what he wanted, because he quickly hid it behind his back, and stood up facing me.
"What is it?!" I said, my greedy bad self coming out.
"I know it's not much," Oliver began, the humble speech preparing to be announced.
"Oliver, as long as it's from you is what counts." I said sweetly. Ok, now give me the damn present! He slowly brought his hands around, and they were holding a jewelry box. Awwwwww! I slowly picked it out of his hand, and opened it in silence. It was a silver bracelet, that had various designs all over, and there was a small button on the bottom of it. Me being the curious cat I am, I pressed the button, and soft gentle music started to come out. Merlin, this is the best gift I've ever received.
"Oliver..." I said, in that emotional female voice of mine. He gently took it from me, and slipped it on my rest, letting his touch linger. I instantly jumped on him, into a fully fledged bear hug. He laughed, and I decided to release him.
"Do you like it?" Oliver said, suddenly concerned. Merlin Oliver, can't you read the signs?
"I love it. But it doesn't fit." I said slowly, smile emerging.
"What?!" Oliver said panicking, jumping and grabbing my wrist.
"Oliver! I was just kidding!" I said, shocked at how quick he was to react. I slowly watched his face become enraged, but slowly, his featured softened and before long a smile appeared. I looked around, suddenly aware of how late it was.
"Damn, I better be off...it's far past my bedtime." I said innocently. I'm such a freak.
"Ok..." Oliver said, giving me another hug, and then releasing me.
"Goodnight." I said softly.
"Goodnight." He said, leaning over me to land a kiss right on my forehead. I slowly walked away, admiring the bracelet, and when I reached the stairs I turned around to find Oliver's gaze still on me. I smiled and then quickly ran up the stairs, happier than I had ever been. Am I in love?
Yay! I loved that chapter, Oliver was like totally sweet with the bracelet and all. Hopefully, the kiss this time was more romantic than last time and to all of the readers satisfactions. I'm totally ecstatic that I received so many reviews! Thanks to all you guys you're the ones that motivated me to write this chapter...sooner than I would have. Thanks to the beta's, you are the best! (I sound like I'm receiving an award or something....haha) Thanks for readin'!
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