Chapter 4-Purple Monkeys and Quidditch... Naked?

"Done," Andrea smiled as she set down the brush she had been using to apply blush to Katie's cheeks on the bathroom counter.

Katie turned around and looked at herself in the mirror. "I don't mean to sound conceited or anything, but I look HOT!"

"Of course you do," Angelina replied with a smile. "Haven't you ever noticed all the guys that stare at you when you walk past them??"

"No, because they don't..." Katie trailed off.

"Say that if you want, but just remember that we tried to tell you the truth," Alicia stated.

"Whatever," Katie muttered and looked at her watch. "Oh shit!" she cried out. "We're going to be late if we don't get our lazy arses in gear!"

Angelina looked at her watch and noted that they had ten minutes to get to History of Magic. "Katie, stop being a maniac. We can sneak into Binn's class ten minutes late, and he won't even know!"

Andrea cleared her throat before mimicking a phrase she had seen sergeant shout out a group of privates in a movie. "MOVE OUT, TROOPS!"

Alicia and Angelina looked at her like she had grown two heads while Katie burst out in laughter. She had watched that movie with Oliver, Andrea, and Andrea's brother, Patrick.

"What did you say?" Alicia gave Andrea a concerned look because she thought the girl had lost her bloody mind.

"I said," Andrea cleared her throat once more, "MOVE OUT!"

Katie began marching out of the bathroom with Andrea following close behind while chanting, "Left, left, left right."

"Stop it before someone bloody hears you and sends you to Saint Mungo's!" Alicia shrieked from the bathroom. She stepped out of the bathroom and grabbed Andrea by the shoulders and started shaking her.

"Whoa now! I think you're the one who needs to go to Saint Mungo's," Katie replied with a freaked look at Alicia.

"Isn't that the understatement of the year," Angelina muttered before stepping to Andrea's aid and pulling Alicia off her.

"I have an idea!" Andrea cried out looked above her head. "Stupid light bulb's dead again," she muttered and shook her head.

"Do you want me to buy you a replacement," Katie asked.

"They're all bloody insane," Angelina mumbled under her breath and received three death glares in return. "Well, on with your grand idea, woman," she directed towards Andrea.

"My grand idea was that we go to class, but this is much more fun," Andrea replied with a grin.

Katie gasped. "Professor's pet Andrea wants to," another gasp, "skip class. What will Perfect Prefect Percy say about this?"

"Tisk tisk tisk," Angelina waggled her finger in Andrea's face.

"To think," Alicia began with a dramatic air, "our own little prefect is turning bad. I thought she was supposed to rub off on us, not us on her!"

"Bad images!" Katie cried out.

"Get your mind out of that gutter and back in this room!" Angelina commanded. "You have definitely been spending way too much time with the twins and Lee Jordan," she muttered.

"Hey, I heard that!" Katie shouted out defensively. "And maybe I have, but that's no reason to say I've been wandering around in their gutter!"

"I was just saying..." Angelina trailed off.

"Who's up for going to History of Magic?" Alicia asked.

"You want to go to class?" Katie asked with an incredulous look.

"I'm tired! Plus," she gave a dreamy look, "George might be there..."

"Sleep is one thing I could use more of so c'mon," Katie grabbed Andrea by the wrist and started dragging her out of the dorm.

"Why do you guys insist on physically abusing me?" Andrea cried out.

"I guess because it's funny," Alicia replied.

Andrea rolled her eyes. "Oh gee, thanks guys. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your, er, generosity."

"You're welcome," the three girls chorused.

Katie looked over at Andrea and quickly turned back to her notes out of disgust. Andrea's left eye was drooping while the right one was completely closed and she was drooling really badly. Katie's conscience was telling her to nudge Andrea in the ribs and fully wake her up, but she ignored it. It was much funnier this way.

Katie turned her attention back to Professor Binns and picked her quill back up so that she could take notes. She was in the middle of jotting a few notes down about the history of Grimgott's when a folded up piece of paper slid neatly in front of her.

She opened the paper and quickly read it over. It said:

'Katie-

I was wondering if you'd like to get together this evening and study. Send me your answer.

-Cedric'

Katie was puzzled. This was the first true day of classes, so the only information they would have to study would be anything they got today. She wrote back:

'Cedric-

It's the first day of classes. There is NOTHING to study for!

-Katie'

Katie folded the paper back and used her wand to levitate the paper over to Cedric. He picked up and grinned before quickly scratching something on the paper with his quill and sending it back to her. The rest of the conversation went as follows:

'Oh damn, you caught me. I just wanted to see you. Is there something so wrong with that? –C

Well, you still can. Are you up for dinner at the Gryffindor table this evening? –K

I don't know. There's some pretty shady characters over there... -C

I'm taking that's a yes. –K

Of course. Anything for you, Katie. I'll see you at dinner, then. –C'

Katie would've replied if the bell hadn't rung at the precise moment the note landed back on her desk. She read his comment then crumpled the paper into a little ball and threw it away in the waste basket.

She glanced back at Andrea, who was still partially asleep, and tapped her on the shoulder

Andrea was startled back to the real world by Katie's tap and shouted, "Don't let the purple monkey eat me!"

The class erupted into laughter when Andrea screamed out the earlier comment and didn't die down until they were in the hallway.

"So, Andrea," Katie began slowly as they stepped into the hall, "how are those purple monkeys?"

"Shut up!" Andrea shouted and smacked Katie's shoulder. "It was JUST a dream! Besides, I know what you dream about."

"Oh, and what would that be?" Katie asked with an interested grin. She didn't think that Andrea had any dirt on her.

"Would you like to hear about the Oliver dreams or the Cedric dreams?" Andrea asked Alicia and Angelina while Katie turned a deep shade of red.

They both shouted 'Oliver' at the same time, so Andrea indulged there interests.

"Well there was the one where they were riding brooms and playing Quidditch..." Andrea let the suspense rise before finishing the statement, "naked." Katie was beginning to turn purple. "And I believe the game was if Katie scored more than Oliver blocked, he'd have to give her special, erm, favors, and vice-versa."

Angelina grinned. "I always knew you had a thing for dear, old Ollie!"

"That wasn't even the best of her 'fantasies.' The best was the one where they were playing do-"

Katie clamped her fist tightly over Andrea's mouth so that her statement was cut off. "You had you're fun," she growled. "Now I'd advise you to stop-"She was also cut off, but by Oliver joining the conversation.

"Stop what?" he inquired.

Katie let out a squeak and turned a very deep purple. "I've, um, got to go. Yeah, I've got to go." She ran off towards her next class, Transfiguration, faster than she thought possible.

"Did I say something?" Oliver scratched his head in confusion.

"Do you have lice?" Andrea asked after observing his scratching.

Oliver rolled his eyes and asked, "Why'd she run so fast?"

The only response he got was a bunch of giggling.

"I suddenly have somewhere to be," he gave them a confused look and then took off towards the Dungeons.

"Do I look all right?" Katie asked nervously while hurriedly smoothing her hair.

"Yes for the millionth time!" Alicia shouted.

"I just want to look good for Cedric..." Katie trailed off.

"If you looked like shit, we would have told you that the first time you asked!" Alicia shouted.

"I suppose that's true," Katie muttered.

"Of course it is!" Andrea exclaimed. "We are very truthful people!"

"How about we just go before she asks us how she looks again?" Angelina asked with a bored look upon her face.

"That is a very good idea," Alicia stated and began walking towards the Great Hall.

Angelina and Andrea quickly followed but Katie stood there thinking for a moment.

"Are you sure I don't look like sh-"she stopped when she realized she was talking to herself and ran to catch up with her friends.

Author's Note- I suppose that's a cliffie. Don't worry, I'll make it up to you next chapter, I promise!! And no, my fingers are not crossed.

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Thanks IHopeForAnarchy, Kathy, Lia06, , Doodleflip, BlindSight, and Book Lover990.

IHopeForAnarchy- Is it better than military school, though? Because my mum actually got a form and filled it out and said if I have one more 'slip up' (her words, not mine) she was gonna send me there.

- I don't know who you are, but you are now my savior!! I didn't even realize that mistake, but thanks to you I went and fixed it. You, sniffle-sniffle, are a great person! You deserve a whole box of cookies. Nay, you deserve a whole fleet of ships full of boxes of cookies!!

Blind-Sight- No you didn't ::does the finger snapping thing:: Are you trying to, gasp, steal my Oliver?? I will be the one to hug him!! Remember, hands off wench. And don't feed me that 'Look ma, no hands' shit. I know where you live...

-ilovecaptainjacks