Chapter Six: Shining Armor

"Angelina?" a voice asked, as if shocked to find her sitting there. Angelina turned around slowly, and then grinned widely.

"Alicia, my dear, dear friend, how are you today? Come to do some light reading, you know I saw a book that you might like. It was over in that section... you know the one on the other side of the library. Maybe you should go check it out." Angelina rambled, smiling.

"Ven conmigo, ahora." Alicia stated, in Spanish.

"Right, coming." Angelina didn't need to ask to know that Alicia wanted her to come with her, now. She followed Alicia behind some bookshelves, well away from George's curious ears.

"Eres loco? Que pasa?" Alicia asked.

"Huh?" Angelina asked, confusedly.

"Are you crazy? What's going on here?"Alicia explained, quickly.

"Crazy? Well, yeah, a little bit. My mum's suggested sending me to the loony bin once or twice." Angelina chatted, Alicia just rolled her eyes.

"What, in Merlin's name, are you doing here with George?" she asked.

"Helping him become your knight in shining armor." Angelina replied, smiling.

"WHAT?" Alicia sputtered.

"You know, our bet." Angelina explained.

"What bet?"

"Our bet. That I can help make George your knight in shining armor." Angelina explained.

"I was half asleep, wasn't I? What have I told you about talking to me when I'm half asleep? Honestly, Lina." Alicia scolded, Angelina responded with a grin. "How much did we bet?" Alicia said after a minute of apparent thought.

"Ten galleons." Angelina informed her, hoping this meant what she thought this meant.

"And when do you need to have this done by?"

"End of the year."

"Bet's still on, then. I'd like to see you try. Oh, and since you were preoccupied when I told you the first time, I'm coming for Christmas. I already owled both of our parents." Alicia said.

"Oh, really? Well, that'll be fun! Okay, I need to go back and talk to Georgie now. You'll need to be leaving." Angelina replied.

"Okay, bye, Leesh." then she remembered. "Hey, Ali, wait!"

"Yeah?"

"George and I made a deal. He'll go along with my plans if I...if I ask Fred out." Angelina sputtered.

"Oh, good move, George! It's about time you two got together." Alicia laughed, walking away. Angelina scowled, then plastered a grin on her face.

'She was talking about Georgie in a non-menacing way...we're getting somewhere..." Angelina thought. 'Right...George...all alone at the table.'

"Ok, back." Angelina smiled at him. "I have a surprise for you, Georgie."

"Angelina, you're off your rocker." George stated when he'd come out of the bathroom.

"Maybe so, but you love me anyway." she smirked. "Spin around...hmm, a little tight on the arms and the legs are too short... too roomy of a stomach... besides that we're good." Angelina took some notes.

"Great, can I take this thing off now?" George asked, exasperated. He was heavily clad in silver armor from the neck down.

"I suppose." Angelina sighed.

'Tight on the arms, short for the legs, too roomy stomach, needs a good cleaning.' Angelina wrote. George reentered the bathroom and took the silly thing off.

"Angie's lost her mind." he decided before coming out in his regular clothes.

"Well, I've got some homework to do. So, that's enough for tonight. You can leave, but read the rest of those books I gave you, okay?" Angelina told him.

"I'm sending Fred down, telling him you want to talk to him. I'm not doing anything else until you've asked him out." George replied, and before Angelina could answer he was gone.

A/N: Yeah, yeah, yeah... you waited all this time for such a short chapter. I'd have made it longer, but I plan to combine this chapter and the last one before updating again. nods Oh, and as a special treat for waiting so long you get a sneak preview of Mystical Attraction which I'll be putting up here as soon as I'm farther along. I want a head start with it before I put it up so I don't have long periods of nothingness like I do now. Here it is:

"Who are you?" I asked, ready to remember the name to report to Kori.

"Katherine Alene Bell. And who, may I ask, are you?" Katherine replied, cooly.

"Lee Jordan." I informed her, coldly. I purposefully left out my rather embarrassing middle name.

"Hmm, well, if you ever want me to cut that hair of yours..." I glared at her, touching my precious dark brown dread locks.

"My hair? My hair! Like I'd let you touch my hair!" I snorted, completely disgusted with her.

"That's quite alright, I don't think I'd want to touch your hair anyway." she said, and I tried to walk over to her. I'm not even sure why I wanted to get to her so badly. Maybe I wanted to punch her? Well, it didn't matter anyway, because Angelina hastily stood up and blocked my way. And Angelina is not a force to be reckoned with. She's quite strong for a girl.

"Angelina, move." I said, my teeth clenched.

"Lee, stop being a ridiculous prat." Alicia said, standing up to help her friend hold me back. The combined forces of Gryffindor third years Alicia Spinnet and Angelina Johnson managed to sit me down on a chair.

"She dissed my hair, Leesh. Nobody talks about my hair." I grumbled, still glaring in the direction of that Katherine Bell girl.

"Oh, get over yourself, Lee." Angelina laughed. I rolled my eyes then looked towards the staircase. Katherine was clutching her side and giggling madly.

"Think that's funny, do you?" I asked, loudly. "I'll show you funny." I muttered, standing up and pushing Alicia and Angelina out of my way.

Okay, there you go. It'll be told in Lee's perspective. That's a chunk of the first chapter, which I particularly like. Be on the lookout for it:)