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Update: Well I got my report card with which my parents were really pleased, well except for some of my exam grades only some of them were bad. And today I had to watch some boring pep-rally that wasn't very peppy. I am no offense to any cheerleaders out there but the ones at my school were bad. The motivation speaker early in the month for black history month was Puerto Rican and he just told us his life story and how he dropped out of college. So in the end how was he motivating?

Life's Gifts

Chapter 10: Indifference

Katie walked in to the dining-hall on the arm of Cedric Diggory. People whispered about them the whisper reaching farther than they thought.

"Is she dating him now?"

"Is she going for the slutty front?"

"Heard Roger dumped her?"

"I heard she's been with all the house teams' captains and this is the last one she needs to complete the list."

Angelina and Alicia stared at them. Fred and George's jaws dropped. Oliver stared at her with hurt in his eyes, "Can I talk to you Katie?" His brown hair was neatly combed and lay flatly on his forehead. His shirt had been tucked into the khaki's he was wearing beneath his robe. Without waiting for a response he took her by the elbow and walked to a corner. As he walked he hollered over his shoulder, "I'll have her back before you know it Diggory."

"This better be important, Wood. I am hungry and Cedric is waiting." The lithe blond looked at him rather peeved at this.

"Katie, why are you doing this, you don't even like him!" Oliver said.

"You know nothing of my life, who I love or not. After all you don't really seem to love me just something to say. After all you were snogging Lyra Stonebrook. She isn't even that pretty, she has great legs but that she has. So know you tell me what is wrong, that was your chance Oliver, now you have to let someone else have a turn."

"Katie, she kissed me, I am swearing upon my honor." Looking her in the eyes he pleaded with her. "I am telling the truth, it is the absolute truth, I would never hurt you."

She laughed and just before she turned to walk off she said, "Oliver, you have a fine way showing your emotions." Blonde hair Alicia had layered before dinner, swung as she turned. Green eyes sparkled angrily. Walking back over to where Cedric was sitting with Angelina, Alicia and the twins, she sat next to them.

"Are you okay?" Cedric whispered worriedly into her ear. Seeing Oliver's eyes upon them he brushed a kiss upon her cheek he pulled away.

"Oliver is being so infuriated. I think I am falling in love with him and then I see him kissing Lyra. He doesn't approve of me dating you or me dating anyone else. I can hear the tongues flying." Stopping Katie shoved a bite of the salad in front of her into her mouth. The Grilled Chicken Caesar wasn't one of the best she had ever had but Hogwarts food was always wonderful. Next, she sipped her water and then she looked up at Oliver sweetly, "So what is the news on you and Lyra. I heard that thing were serious, but then again her mother is one of the best in Public Relations for Quidditch Players." After saying that she turned to Cedric, "I am leaving."

Oliver choked on the hamburger he was eating, and started coughing rather hard. As he watched Katie walk out he sighed and turned to the twins, "Fred, George can we talk."

"Of course," the two of them chimed together as they stood up and grabbed his arms and dragged him out.

"What is it my friend," George chimed.

"She loathes me, absolutely loathes me. I bet she thinks I care nothing for her at all. Lyra kissed me and she doesn't believe me, you heard that shot she threw at me back at the table. It was the worst that has ever hit me."

"I must act indifferent." Katie chanted as she showered, she had to ignore Wood. Oliver Wood needed to be removed from her life permanently. But that couldn't happen because she couldn't live without him. Turning the shower off she wrapped a towel around herself and went to the box she had packed earlier. Flipping the lid, a blade's silvery blue metal glinted up at her. Taking it she cut herself not deep but lightly. Watching the crimson rivulets as she bandaged them up she thought of what her father had once said:

The crimson that stains these hills is that of brave men, my dear. Brave men gave us what we sought then and they will again. Bravery is what we don't see enough of, just other's ideas of bravery. They mixed up and slaughtered it until we know nothing. But if we look back we can see some of the truth. Bravery is what the Potter parents did; it is what the truth is. It is the hope, Katie, never lose the face of what bravery is.

If her father saw her now he would be ashamed, slitting and cutting herself. She had lost bravery. That is what ran through her head as she got dressed. Inside her room she curled up on her bed and sobbed. She couldn't think clearly here, grabbing her cloak from her closet she fastened it and pulled the hood up as she ran out. As she reached the Quidditch pitch she went out to the center and sat down. Looking up she saw the stars and finally she spoke, "Daddy, have I lost sight of my goals. Just let them all slip away. I though I could give up my old habits but they just kept coming." Quotes ran through her head, things her father had said to her. Things he had said to her in the best of interest, the wise little proverbs you are always told.

"Don't shoot yourself in the foot."

"Don't throw stones in glass houses."

"If wishes were horses beggars would ride."

"If life was fair we could all be happy."

"Katie, what are you doing out here." Came Oliver's questioning voice from the darkness.

When she snapped her head up she realized that she head tears running down her face. "Oliver, please just leave me alone. I need to be alone; this isn't the time for anything."

"Katie... I can't it pains me to see you hurt;" Coming over he pulled her into her arms. "Katie, I love you so much it hurts."

"Oliver is this is not all it can ever seem." Katie protested as she tried to push away.

In response Oliver just bent down and brushed his lips against hers.