The Quidditch Master
Chapter 5
Dinner and Lice
"I don't see him," Katie muttered through gritted teeth while looking the Hufflepuff table up and down.
"Don't worry, Katie," Angelina grinned, "he's probably just asking his best mates how he looks over and over again."
Alicia and Andrea tried to suppress their laughter, but failed terribly. Looking upon Katie's face and seeing the scowl caused even more laughter from the two girls.
"Maybe you'll just have to dream about playing Quidditch naked with BOTH Oliver and Cedric," Alicia mumbled breathlessly.
"WHAT!?" Katie hissed.
"I-I s-said," Alicia faltered before gaining the courage to speak without stumbling over her words, "why don't you dream about playing Quidditch naked with Oliver-"
Alicia was cut off by someone coughing right behind Katie. She turned slowly, knowing that it would be Oliver, and said cheerfully, "Hey captain! We were just discussing y-OW! That hurt Katie," she muttered while gently rubbing her shoulder.
Oliver and Katie both were both blushing bright shades of red.
"Here, Ollie," Katie said, pretending like he hadn't heard any of their conversation, "you can have Cedric's seat. It looks like he isn't going to show."
"Is that so?" a new male voice added in.
Katie spun on her seat and grinned at the boy standing in front of her. "Cedric."
"Katie," he tipped an imaginary hat on his head at her. "Am I to understand that that seat is reserved for me?"
"Yes!" Katie squealed and pushed Oliver out of Cedric's way.
Katie missed the hurt look in Oliver's eyes, but Alicia, Andrea, and Angelina didn't. They also saw him look at Cedric and shoot him an icy glare.
"I can tell when I'm not wanted," Oliver muttered and walked to where the twins were talking animatedly with Lee Jordan at the other end of the table and sat down.
Angelina looked at Alicia and frowned. She mouthed the phrase, "We need to talk about this later."
Alicia nodded and turned to Andrea, who was sitting beside her, and passed on the message.
Andrea nodded and looked at Katie. She rubbed her hands together evilly and started cackling. Katie noticed this and gave her a strange look.
"Do you need help putting your straight jacket back on? Or are you coughing up a fur ball?"
Alicia and Angelina snickered.
"Actually," Andrea began slowly, "it's the exact opposite. I need help taking my clothes off so I can play naked Quidditch wi-"Katie leaned over and firmly clamped her hand over Andrea's mouth before she let a certain Quidditch captain's name leak out of it.
"With..." Cedric prompted while Katie began blushing.
A muffled response came from behind Katie's hand.
"Andrea," Katie cleared her throat, "if you finish that statement, you're really going to regret it. Look who's sitting at the Ravenclaw table near Davies."
Andrea glanced over and gasped when she saw Nat Colindale. Katie removed her hand from Andrea's mouth while grinning.
Andrea shot Katie a glare before standing. "I hope you all have a nice dinner. Bye!" She said this all very dramatically before storming out of the Great Hall.
Alicia and Angelina both shot Katie annoyed looks.
"You better go apologize to her," Angelina said.
"You're right," Katie muttered guiltily.
"Of course I am!" Angelina exclaimed. "That is why you shall refer to me as 'Oh Great Angelina, Master of All' for now on."
Katie rolled her eyes and looked at the oddly quiet Cedric. She opened her mouth to speak but he beat her to it.
"So, Andrea likes my good mate, Nat?" he asked but didn't give anyone a chance to reply before going on. "You know I can set them up, right?" He flashed an amazing grin at the three girls.
"Really?" Alicia asked aloud.
Cedric nodded and asked, "So, do you want me to set them up?"
"Yes," Katie paused, "and no."
Cedric cocked an eyebrow and Katie took this as a sign for to explain what she meant.
"I'll have to ask her first. Last time the girls and I messed with her love life, it got ugly and she told us if we ever interfered again, she'd murder us in our sleep. Apparently she liked another guy and he liked her back, but we didn't know this when we set her up with the guy we thought she liked. And the guy she really liked heard that she was going out the guy she used to like and asked someone else out. Then when Andrea found out it was our fault, she freaked out and, well, bad things happened," Katie took a deep breath before adding, "Did any of that make sense to you?"
"You lost me after the murdering part," Cedric gave a small smile.
"I guess you're just going to have to pretend you listened because I'm not retelling that story."
Cedric shrugged. "You'd be wasting your breath if you did."
"Well I must be off. The longer I dawdle down here, the madder she's going to get." Katie stood up.
Cedric stood up, too. "I'll see you tomorrow?"
Katie nodded and turned towards the doors leading out of the Great Hall.
"Bye Katie!" Cedric shouted to her back. She threw her hand over her shoulder and waved and waved at him while still walking to the doors.
"Bye, Cedric," Alicia and Angelina said in unison before hurrying to the other end of the table with Fred, George, Oliver, and Lee.
"Andrea!" Katie wailed when she stepped through the portrait hole and into the common room.
"Katie!" a wail came back from the couch in front of the fire.
Katie hurried to the couch and sat down on the edge before she began profusely apologizing for what she had done earlier. She stopped halfway through, though, when Andrea erupted into a giant fit of laughter.
"What's so funny?" Katie asked, flabbergasted.
"You-think-I'm mad-at-you," Andrea said between laughs.
"Well you kind of stormed out after getting real dramatic. What was I supposed to think?"
"I don't know."
"Anyhow," Katie grinned, "how would you feel about going out with Nat?"
"Hmm, let me think about that," Andrea looked thoughtfully at the ceiling. "I'D LOVE TO!"
"Great. Do you mind if Cedric sets you two up?"
"N-YES!"
"Why?"
"I don't want him to go out with me because someone tells him to or because he feels sorry for me. I want him to go out with me because he likes ME."
"BRAVO, BRAVO! That was a great speech!" Katie replied sarcastically.
"Oh, shove it!"
"No thanks."
Andrea stuck her tongue out at Katie, who rolled her eyes in response.
"Stop being so damn childish! And speaking of childish," Katie paused and glared and Andrea, "stop telling people about my dreams. That was last year!"
"And you're point is?"
Katie scowled before opening her mouth to reply. She quickly shut it, though, because people began making there way into common room.
Alicia, Angelina, the Weasley twins, Lee, and Oliver made their way over to the two girls.
"Hey, wanna play a game?" Alicia asked.
Katie and Andrea both nodded.
"Great," Alicia beamed. "We're gonna meet the twins and Lee in their dorm in ten minutes." She nodded at the three boys and they ran up the stairs to get ready.
Alicia and Angelina sat on two easy chairs while Oliver sat in between Andrea and Katie.
"So," Katie asked suspiciously, "what game are we playing?"
"Well, it is a little game I like to call," Angelina paused dramatically, "you'll find out in ten minutes."
"Better make that eight and a half," Andrea nudged Oliver, because he was sitting beside her, in the ribs.
"No she didn't," Alicia said with attitude.
"Oh, yes she did," Angelina replied with attitude while snapping her fingers in the shape of an 'S' in front of her face.
"Where do we find these people?" Oliver cried out.
"I think we found them at the freak circus, but I can't remember for sure," Katie said with a snicker.
"Hey, at least get it right. It was Cirque de Freak!" Angelina exclaimed.
"So sorry, Angie," Oliver grinned. "I didn't know you were so protective of your birth place..."
"Aren't you protective of your home?" Angelina gave a fake sniffle.
Katie turned her head and looked at Oliver. "Hey Ollie, do you want to tell me what game we're playing? I have a bad feeling about this..."
"Let me think about that," Oliver scratched his head.
"Do you have lice?" Andrea asked with a disgusted look.
"No to Katie and no to Andrea."
"Are you sure?" Andrea asked while leaning close to Oliver's head and examining it.
"No," Oliver replied sarcastically and began scratching his head with both hands.
"OH MY GOD!" Andrea screamed and jumped up from her seat. "OLIVER HAS LICE!" She ran up the boys' dormitory stairs and went out of sight.
Every Gryffindor in the common room had stopped what they were doing and were staring at Oliver.
"What? Do you want some of my lice?" he asked. His fellow Gryffindors looked at him like he was crazy.
"KATIE, ANGE, ALICIA, OLIVER!" Andrea called from the top of the boys' stairs.
"Sorry guys," Oliver directed towards the common room, "but that's my cue." He stood up and stuck out a hand for Katie to grab a hold of. She gratefully accepted and he pulled her onto her feet.
"Thanks," Katie flashed her pearly whites at Oliver, "now I have a game to go play." She ran up the stairs, closely followed by Alicia, Angelina, and Oliver.
Author's Note: Alas, you don't get to see what game they're going play (and it's not truth or dare). OH WELL! I guess you'll just have to give me lots of reviews so that I will write and post it faster.
If anyone wants to beta my chapters, please email me.
Thanks Kathy, MysticTraveler, IHopeForAnarchy, Blind-Sight, and phat duck.
phat duck- The way they act is based loosely upon my friends and me. I think someone should tell JK Rowling she's not allowed to wait so long to write the next book. Some crazed fans are going to, like, kidnap her, tie her to a chair, and force her to write! (Especially about Ollie Wood!)
IHopeForAnarchy- My mum is THE most insane one, EVER! But yes, Oliver Wood naked. I was drooling when I wrote that chapter, and a little of this one. Time to go think about Oliver Wood naked...
-ilovecaptainjacks