I stared at her. "Huh?" was all I said.
She looked down. "You heard me."
I was confused. "Wait, so are you saying……?"
"I'm saying that you should give me a chance!" Anna yelled. "Everybody gets one but me! I'm always the friend, never more!"
"Anna, I didn't know-"
"That's right, you didn't! And you know why?" she asked. "Because you're so damn oblivious!" A silence fell between us and she went back to staring at her feet.
"How come…… how come you never told me?" I finally asked.
"Oh yeah, that makes sense," she mumbled. "'Oh, hey Andrew, I like you. I've liked you since I was five.' Yeah, that sure makes sense."
"It does make sense!" I said back.
"You wouldn't have cared!"
"Who says I wouldn't?"
She stared at me. "So what are you saying?"
"I don't know what I'm saying," I muttered. "I just…… I don't even know." Neither of us said anything for a few minutes, though it seemed like hours. "So, uh, do you still want to hang out?" I finally asked.
She looked appalled. "I just told you that I like you and you want to hang out like it's no big deal?"
"No," I replied. "I just need to…… think about it."
"What's there to think about?" Anna exclaimed. "Look, Andrew, I understand you don't think of me that way, but honestly, it must have meant something to you!"
"It does!" I answered. "A lot. And I just want to think it over."
"Andrew, you either like me or you don't. Which is it?"
"I don't know," I answered. "I just…… don't know. Just let me think about it."
She went back to staring at the floor again. After a few moments, she looked back up. "Want to go flying?"
3rd Person POV
"That was about the worst party I've ever been to," Katie complained, kicking her shoes off. "That bald man was really getting on my nerves. He about talked my ear off!"
"And that man in the flannel shirt wasn't much better," Oliver added. Katie stared at him.
"Ol, that was a woman."
Oliver looked shocked. "Are you sure?"
Katie nodded. "She said her name was Cecelia and she had a husband. What did you think of that reserve Chaser from the Arrows?"
Oliver shrugged. "I didn't really talk to him."
Katie smiled. "I did. He was cute." Oliver gave her a look and she shrugged. "He had a girlfriend anyway."
"Like that would have stopped you?"
Katie's smile grew wider. "He didn't have the accent anyway."
"You used to make fun of my accent back at school," Oliver pointed out.
Katie shrugged again. "That was before I knew you had great abs." The couple fell back onto the couch and Katie sighed. "What are we going to do about Andrew?" she asked.
"I don't know," Oliver replied. "I mean, he's still young, I doubt they're going to get married or anything."
"I know, but I was so sure the Davies were finally out of our lives," Katie said.
"So did I," Oliver said. "But it won't last."
"I suppose you're right," Katie agreed. Moments of silence passed and she sighed. "Sara's got a boy after her as well."
"Well, she's a Wood. She learned from the best," Oliver said.
"Life was so much easier when boys had cooties and our clothes didn't have to match," Katie mumbled.
Back to Andrew's POV
Going flying with Anna didn't help me think about anything like I thought it would. It just confused me even more. But it wasn't until we began walking back to Gryffindor Tower that the truth finally came to me.
"Anna! Hey Anna!" Anna and I turned around and I watched as a Hufflepuff boy hurried up to us. "Hey, Anna," he said, ignoring me. "Are you still up for studying in the library?"
"It's a Saturday," I pointed out. Anna gave me a look and I quieted down.
"Sure," she said to the boy. "I guess so."
"OK, let's go," he said, gesturing towards the library.
"Now?" Anna asked. He nodded and she shrugged. "OK."
"Wait," I said. "Anna, what are you doing? I thought-"
"We're just studying," she said. "I'll see you later."
She began to follow the boy towards the library when I finally realized what the sinking feeling I felt was. "Anna, wait!" I called after them. "That question you asked me earlier…… the answer is yes, I do."
(Sorry for the shortness. My head hurts so bad I can barely see straight. Review or else I'll kidnap Sean Biggerstaff……)
