Chapter Twenty-Six: Quiting

The next day, Alicia came up to Oliver in the Great Hall and told him Katie was quiting the team.

"She says she's sorry to leave the team," Alicia said, stressing the word 'team'. "In such a bad spot, but she can't bare even being around you right now." Alicia finished. Before Oliver could respond, Alicia turned and walked away. Oliver heaved a loud sighed and let his head fall to the table. He hadn't slept the night before. All he could think about ways to get Katie to believe him. Every way he thought up just ended up proving Casey's words as truth.

Katie watched Oliver from the entrance of the Great Hall.

"Prat's probable upset that his precious quidditch career just took a down turn." Alicia said as she came up to Katie. Katie looked over at Alicia and gave a sad smile.

"You don't have to hate him." She said. Alicia raised her eyebrows.

"That's the best friends job. We can hate him together." She said. Katie shook her head sadly.

"I don't hate him." She said. Alicia opened her mouth, but Katie cut her off. "He hurt me more than words can describe, and I wanna hate him, but I don't." She said, turning away from the Great Hall and heading back to the stairs. Alicia went after her.

"But, he was an arse! He cheated on you!" Alicia said. Katie gave a bitter laugh.

"Thanks for reminding me." She said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. Alicia sighed.

"You know what I mean. I just don't understand how you can not hate him." She said. Katie bit her lip.

"My head says hate him, but my heart won't let me." She said.

"You could answer me, you know." Fred snapped at Angelina as they sat in the third floor corridor. Angelina sighed and bit her lip.

"I don't know what to say." She said. Fred looked a bit angry.

"You could say it back." He muttered.

"It's not that easy." Angelina said.

"Actually, it is quite simple," Fred started, sound more hurt than anything else. "Do you, or don't you....." Before Fred could finish, the door leading into the corridor started to open. Without think, Fred grabbed Angelina's hand and the two ran into one of the many small hidden doors in the wall. Once they were inside, they both pressed themselves against the door, trying to see they a medium size crack that nobody would notice unless deliberately looking for it. They both had to stifle loud intakes of breath when they saw that it was Oliver. At first, they thought he was alone – and he was – but then another person came through the door into the third floor corridor. It was Flint.

"What do you want?" Oliver asked before turning around to face Flint. Flint gave a grin, showing off his grotesque teeth.

"I just wanted to ask you, How was Casey?" He asked smugly. Oliver seemed to have to stop himself from lunging at Flint.

"Fuck off." Oliver snapped. Flint made a 'Tutting' noise.

"Wood, do watch your language. I figured you'd be happy. Having somebody like Casey be so eager and willing to screw you. I thought you'd jump at the chance to get a pieces of arse that was guaranteed to be a much better fuck than Bell." He said, almost trying to seem innocent. Within a second, Oliver had jumped at Flint, sending a punch straight across his jaw. There was a very distinct cracking sound and Flint flew to the floor.

"Don't ever talk about Katie like that. Ever." Oliver said, gritting his teeth together. Flint pushed himself off the floor, a new smirk taking over his face.

"Isn't that all she was? A terrible fuck? That's how it looked to me." He said. Oliver pulled back and punch Flint in the gut before he had a chance to blink. A second latter, Oliver kicked Flint in the groin.

"You bastard! You fucking set me up! You and Casey. Because of you two, the one person I love is never going to forgive me." Oliver started. He then pointed a finger at Flint. "But, if I ever here you talk about Katie like that again, you will be sorry." Oliver finished before stepping over Flint and walking out of the third floor corridor.

After Oliver was gone, Flint let out a laugh as he wiped some blood from his lip.

"Bell'll never believe him." Flint muttered to himself, a smirk on his face. Angelina and Fred stepped out of they're hiding place.

"Maybe she won't believe Wood," Angelina started.

"But she'll believe us." Fred finished. Flint pushed himself off of the floor. He had heard a bit of there earlier conversation, and he knew exactly how to turn it on them.

"Why would she believe two people that can't even get their own love lives in order?" He asked, crossing his arms over his chest. Angelina glanced over at Fred and noticed his eyes hardening at the memory of they're earlier conversation.

"You know," Fred said slowly. He then looked at Angelina. "You're right." He finished before walking around Flint and out of the door. Angelina immediately went after him. Before Angelina could get out of the door to go after Fred, she heard Flint muttered something.

"I don't know why anyone would ever love that cloned Weasel." He said. Angelina back paddled and stopped in front of Flint. With out saying a word, she brought her knee up and berried it in his stomach. Flint doubled over and Angelina stepped around him, leaving without saying anything.

Katie sat in the common room writing in a note book. Normally, to avoide running into anyone Katie would've sat up in her room, but she was tired of being in there. When the portrait hole started to open, the thought Hide flashed across Katie head. It quickly dissipated when Katie saw Fred walk through. She was about to yell to him, when she noticed the angry yet sad look on his face. Katie mouth clamped shut. She had never seen Fred that angry. I guess you could say that seeing George angry was the same thing, but George had looking nothing like this. Fred looked like his heart had just been stomped on. The way his eyes glassed over softly made it seem at any moment tears could start running down his cheeks. The sight truly amazed Katie, and before she could muster up an words of comfort for whatever was bothering him, Fred ran up to his room.

About 10 seconds after Fred went up to his room, another person came through the portrait hole. The only thing was, once this person was inside the common room, she did burst into tears.

AN: End of the chapter. Sorry it was short. Hope you got some new info. Out of it. R/R!:)