Again just using the world of JKR…

I added 6 and 7 at the same time, just to warn you this is a bit of a long chapter…

Chapter 7.

Katie, Oliver, and Gavin were sitting at a little muggle café, watching the muggles go by with all of there gifts, and the hectic manor of the bus system. The three sat and talked about the school year, until Gavin started talking and went on and on about work, and his girlfriend Samantha. After 2 hours of listening to how amazing Samantha was Katie and Oliver finally got annoyed.

"Gavin, I think we got, you're in love with the girl." Katie snapped at him

"I'm not in love with her." Gave shot back.

"Sorry mate sounds like you are." Oliver chimed in.

Gavin looked shocked for a moment looking at the two off them. "Bloody hell I think I am."

"Yup." Katie and Oliver said to him nodding.

"But what about you two then?" Gavin asked forgetting that they were not dating.

"What do you mean Gav?" Katie asked.

"You and Oliver, if I'm in love with Samantha than you two are madly in love." As he finished the word love he remembered that they were not together. "I mean you would be, if you were together."

Oliver and Katie both turned bright red, and avoiding looking at each other. And as if things could get more uncomfortable just than Samantha and her little sister came into the café.

"Gavin!" Samantha called, Oliver and Katie turned to see who it was, and to make things worse Samantha's little sister seemed to be Becca. As the two came running over, Gavin jump up and hugged his girlfriend, while Oliver did the same, leaving Katie to sit and watch the situation.

"Oliver!" Becca said looking at the bruise on Wood's face.

"Because Becca, no matter what happens, Oliver will always care about me, as well I for him. Were best friends, get used too it." Katie snapped.

Gavin and Samantha looked over at Katie, Samantha glared, Gavin looked worried.

"Um Samantha, this is my little sister Katie." He said glaring at Katie.

"Oh. Hi Katie, I see you know my sister Becca." Samantha spat at her.

Katie tried to smile; everyone was glaring at her, well everyone except Oliver. "Nice to meet you Samantha. Now if you all will excuse me I have some holiday homework to do." With that Katie kissed her brothers check, and patted Oliver's arm and left the café.

The four left behind watched her go before sitting back down and what appeared from the window to be two happy couples. Katie however went home. As she climbed the steps to her room she found three letters on her bed. She opened them up and started to read.

Katie!

Hey sweetheart we all heard about how you punched Wood, can't believe you did it. Anyways I'm doing all right, my holiday is not that interesting, just one of those days when it seems slow. I really miss Fred; I wish I had stayed at school. Anyways we were all worried about you when you never found us on the train, but we figured that you had fallen asleep. Anyways write back when you get the chance, I really miss you, and tell Wood hello if you are even talking to him!

Miss you, love Ang

Kates,

Where were you on the train? And what's this I hear about you punching Wood? I am staying at Lee's for the holiday, and it has been wonderful. His family is wonderful, and I think I'm in love with him. But don't tell anyone, I think Ang would flip, and you know how much fun she is to deal with when she does…. Anyways I just wanted to make sure you are ok, and that you and Wood are ok. I know how much he means to you…

Love and miss you! Ali

KATES!

Punching your Best mate? I never thought I would see the day that you got mad at Wood that much. Anyways I really miss you around here, things are quite, and just not as much fun. Fred and I have been having a good time with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but we can't wait for you lot to come back. Well I know that losing Wood would be awful for you, so I hope all of that worked out… Even though I think losing you would kill me more than you losing Wood…

George.

Katie looked at the three letters from her friends and smiled. It was crazy how fast the news spread of her punching Wood had gone; it had however not even really been a day. Katie took out some parchment and wrote back to her friends.

Ang,

Yea, punching Wood just kind of happened. I actually was on the train with Dig. It was nice to catch up with him. Anyways my brother has a new girlfriend, and it happens to be Becca's older sister. The best part is, is that they are going to be staying with me this holiday. This is turning out to be an awful holiday. I think I might go actually stay with my parents for the first time in ages. It would be better than dealing with Becca. Anyways I miss George a lot more than I thought I would. It's crazy not to see him.

Miss you, and lots of love and hugs! Katie.

Ali,

Hey hun! In love with Lee? Well congrats! And no worries your safe with me, it wont pass my lips. I know crazy that I punched Wood, but he really made me mad. Anyways my brother has a new girlfriend, and it happens to be Becca's older sister, the best part is that they are going to be staying with me over Christmas. I think I might actually go stay with my parents for that time. I can't stand the idea of living in a house with that cow… Anyways I thought things were going to be ok with Wood and I after last night, I feel asleep in his room, but I guess not… Well I really miss George a lot more than I thought I would… So I better go write to him.

Lots of love and hugs, Katie!

George,

I was so happy to have a letter from you. I really needed it too. I just found out that my brother's new girlfriend is Becca's older sister. The best part they are staying with me for a bit of the holiday. Which is just painful. I might actually go stay with my parents for the holiday… I could really use a hug from you about now… I am not sure what to do anymore. Feels like my brother is even going to be turning against me now, that his girlfriend and all is so important to him. I just hope that she is not as bad as Becca. Anyways I better get going I think hear the front door opening, which means I have to go and play nice… I really miss you George!

Kates.

After writing her letters she barrowed the owl that had stayed behind and told it where to go. She sighed and went down the stairs, she normally bounded down them, but today she slowly walked them.

"KATIE ALISON BELL" Gavin yelled up the stairs.

"Yea Gav." She said as calmly as she could as she made it to the last step.

"What were you thinking?" He snapped at her.

"What are you talking about?" She asked him.

"Treating Samantha's sister like that?" He snapped.

"Lets see, she's annoying, and not good enough for Oliver, which makes me question her sister." She said honestly.

"Of course no one is good enough for Oliver." He yelled. "And as for his girlfriends sister, who happens to be MY GIRLFRIEND. I would have expected you to treat her better."

"GAVIN THERE IS NO WAY THAT I AM GOING TO SIT AND BE TREATED LIKE THAT!" She snapped at him.

"KATIE ALISON BELL!" He yelled again at her.

"Gavin, using my full name is not going to get us anywhere." She said taking a deep breathe.

"Fine." He yelled at her a bit.

"Come on Gavin if you want me to leave than I will. I'll go stay with our parents or a friend for the rest of the holiday." She was nearly on the break of tears.

"Fine Katie, it might be better if you just found somewhere else to live for the rest of your schooling. I'm asking her to marry me." He said still angry at his little sister.

"Move out?" Her eyes became rather wide and shocked.

"Yea Katie move, get out of my life." Gavin was not really thinking about what he was saying.

Just then Wood came through the open door, Becca and Samantha in tow.

"Oh ok Gavin. I see how it is. Choice some girl over family. I'll ask Mrs. Wood if I can crash there tonight after I pack everything and I'll find somewhere to go." She was holding in her tears, although it was proving to be rather hard.

"Good." He snapped. "Ask her now."

"Ok." Katie slipped past them all, she saw Samantha go up and kiss Gavin, and Becca stayed attached to Oliver. Katie knocked on the Wood's door and Mr. Wood answered to find Katie standing outside, eyes watering and strong little girl he always knew looking like she was falling apart.

"Katie, what's wrong? Come in." Mr. Wood had taken a liking to the girl who lived next door, he treated her like a daughter, and thought of her as one.

Katie went into the living room where she sat on the couch and took a deep breathe before starting to talk. "I was wondering if I could spend a night or two here while I figure out where to go." She looked up at Mr. Wood, who was looking at the girl shocked.

"What do you mean Katie? I mean of course you can stay here but where are you going?"

"I don't know." She answered before taking another deep breath and telling Mr. Wood what happened. She had never seen him so angry before in her life.

"Katie you can move in here if you would like too." Mr. Wood said to the girl. "Your family in my book, and you just don't turn your back on family." He answered.

"Thank you Mr. Wood, but I think it would be better if I found somewhere away from here." She had than explained how she would just cause more issues and she did not want to do that.

"Katie your 15, you can't be expected to take care of yourself. I know you're a tough girl, I think your stronger than Oliver, but Katie just stay here until Gavin calms down." He was in shock at how strong this girl was, she had managed to fight back the tears and looked determined to make it.

"Thank you Mr. Wood. I don't know what I would do with out you and Mrs. Wood." She smiled and whipped her eyes. Just thank Mrs. Wood came barging into the living room.

"Katie dear what happened?" She flung her arms around the girl, and much to Mr. Woods surprise Katie still held back her tears.

Mr. Wood explained everything to Mrs. Wood, who looked outraged and wanted march over and give Gavin a piece of her mind. Mr. Wood tried to talk her down, but Mrs. Wood would not hear of it. She marched out of the house just as Oliver came running into the house. He got a dirty look from his father, and looked to a rather upset Katie. He felt like his heart was breaking at the way she looked up at him.

"Katie." He whispered and bent down into the chair and hugged her, this time Katie could not hold in her tears and burst into them. Mr. Wood smiled at his son who had at once taken Katie up into his arms. The poor girl had enough of family problems, but to have her brother kick her out that seemed to almost kill the poor girl.

After a few minutes Becca came into the house to see Katie in Oliver's arms crying.

"Oliver what are you doing?" She asked him outraged.

"Trying to calm down Katie, what does it look like?" He asked her rather calmly.

"Well your Mum yelled at Gavin for a good amount of time, and he seems to think that Katie should stay here while Sam and I stay at her house, and than she can go back to her Quidditch room." Becca stated.

"Ok." Oliver answered, still holding Katie.

"Why are you still holding her?" Becca answered.

"Because she's my best mate and she's hurting." He answered softly.

"It's ok Oliver, don't let me break you two up." She whispered to taking a deep breath and gathering herself up. She hugged him tightly for a moment before standing up. "I have some packing too do. Excuse me." She gave a small bow and walked out of the living room, as she went down the stairs and looked up at her and Gavin's home, she had never felt more like a stranger.

She walked into the house, to see Mrs. Wood glaring at Gavin, and Samantha sitting on Gavin's lap. She walked into the living room where they are.

"I'm going to go pack my things, and be out of here in a few hours. I hope your happy Gavin, but don't be surprised if I choice not to come back." She looked him dead in the eyes.

Mrs. Wood smiled at Katie. "You know Gavin, I think you did something right, she is a strong young woman, stronger than you'll ever be. And Samantha, the only reason your sister hates her so much, is because Katie is 100 times the women Rebecca will ever be."

"Thank you Mrs. Wood." Katie gave a short nod and walked up the stairs. She looked around her room with a rather large sigh. She did not know where to start. So she pulled out all the bags she could find and started with her clothes, her shoes, and moved to all of her books, and Quidditch things. After an hour her room was mostly blank.

There was a knock on her door, and when she did not answer Gavin walked in.

"What do you want?" Katie asked him as she started to take things off of her walls.

"I wanted to talk to you." He answered taking a seat on her bed.

"Alright talk." She said turning to pick up a few of her old robes.

"Well, I know this is not fair to you. You moving out because of Samantha, but Katie I love her." He said and took a breath in, just as he was about to start talking Katie cut him off.

"Well if this girl means more to you than family, that's your choice, not mine, but this is not the first time my family choice something over me." She looked him dead in the eyes. "So don't expect me to understand."

"Katie that's not fair." He answered.

"Ok." She said not wanting to deal with it.

"Katie you're my sister, she's the love of my life, you're placing me in a hard place here."

"No Gavin you put yourself there. I never put you anywhere. I'm not the one who is kicking someone out. Nor am I the one who picks someone else's family over my own. So the next time you want to go on about poor Gavin, talk to your bloody girlfriends sister, she seems to dislike me as much as you do." She said throwing his Christmas present at him. Too her surprise he caught it and none of the shot glasses broke.

"Katie…"

"Gavin don't try. I have no family anymore." She looked coldly at him, of course she was over reacting, but at the same time she was rather heart broken.

"I'm your family." Gavin answered.

"Really? I never knew family could turn so cruel." Katie's anger was starting to build up as she finished taking everything off of her walls. When she looked around, her room had almost nothing in it. Except for the furniture, and a few pictures of Katie and Gavin.

Gavin looked at her with nothing to say.

"Well I'm packed." She said, and with that she called Mrs. Wood to see if she would help her with her things, and she did, sending them flying through the window, and into the room she would be staying in at the Woods house. "Looks like you have another guest room Gavin."

As she said that Samantha came running up the stairs into the room, and nearly knocked Katie over. "Gavie, I just talked to Rebecca, and she and Wood are going to go for a walk, do you want to come!" She was smiling and did not even take notice to Katie. "Anyways I just think that it is so great that both my sister and I have found such wonderful men." She kissed Gavin and purposely knocked into Katie as she left, treating her like she was just part of the room.

"I hope you're happy." Katie said. The last thing that was in her room was her two broomsticks. She picked them up, looked at her brother one last time and bounded down the stairs. When she walked into the Woods house Mr. and Mrs. Wood were waiting for her in the room she was staying in. She tried to smile, but the day's events had almost knocked her out.

"Katie I know you have had a really hard day, and we just wanted to make sure that you know we are here for you if you need anything at all." Mr. Wood said in a rather stern voice and smiled. "We've sent owls to your parents, who have moved to America."

This shocked Katie. Her parents had moved, without telling her, and her brother had kicked her out.

"They have agreed that you should stay with us until you graduate, or at least until your brother comes to his senses. And you are more than welcome to stay as long as you need too after you graduate." Mrs. Wood continued. "Now we will let you unpack, and settle in. This is your home now Katie. We'll call you for dinner. And don't worry about Oliver, he knows what's right."

With that the Wood's left Katie to her new room. She unpacked and started to try and make it 'her' room, but she could not help but feel like a guest in the room. After a few hours someone knocked on her door.

"Come in." Katie called.

Oliver opened the door at looked into the room. "Wow Kates that was fast." With that he sat down on Katie's bed and looked around. "I'm really sorry about everything." He said looking at a rather stressed looking best friend.

"My parents moved to America." She said as she started to put up one of her posters.

"I heard." He said looking at his feet. "I also picked up the rest of your things from your house. Looks like you left all the pictures of Gavin and I."

"Well I took the ones that were just you and me Wood." She stated.

"Yea…" He looked up at her. "Katie I'm worried about it."

"Don't be Oliver." She said.

"Kates I'm your best mate, let me worry?" He snapped at her.

"Ok." She looked at her shocked.

"Well its time for dinner." He said getting up and wrapping an arm around her shoulder and leading her to the dinning room.

As they sat down and ate dinner, it was the first time Katie felt almost like she was home. After all the Wood's have always been there for her, so it really was not that different.

After dinner Oliver left to go get ice cream with is girlfriend and Katie went to her room to write to her boyfriend and tell him what had happened. It was a rather long letter explaining everything, with lots of tearstains on the paper. She asked the Woods to borrow their owl, and of course they let her.

After sending her letter she fell right into her bed, trying her hardest not to cry.

The next few days passed rather slowly, she was waiting for a letter from George, but nothing seemed to be coming. She was not to surprised, but she really could have used something from him. She had not talked to Gavin at all, and she almost never saw Oliver. The few times they were together, she manly just sat in his arms not saying anything. It was the only time that she felt slightly safe. Not that she did not feel safe living at the Wood's, who could not be nicer, but she was just upset about the rest of her life.

Finally on Christmas Eve, after dinner there was a present and a letter sitting on her bed. She opened the letter first, and smiled at seeing George's handwriting.

Katie,

I don't know what to tell you. I have tried writing a letter to you for the past few days ever sense I got your. But the idea of you even crying scared me to no end. You don't cry, you're strong, beautiful and amazing. So when I saw the tearstains it ripped at my heart. I never thought I would say this, but I am really happy that you have Oliver there to look out for you. Although I am sure he is not there as much as he should be…

Katie I don't know what to say to you. And it is killing me. Fred and the rest have been looking at me crazy for mopping around the common room, but how can I not when my girl is going thought something this hard. I guess it's just one of those times when all I can tell you is I am here for you. And the second you get back your going to be wrapped in my arms really tightly until you feel better.

I know its hard feeling like you lost your brother, and to some degree Wood, but I'm sure they will both come around, and if not you can share my family. I am happy to here that you are able to stay with Mr. And Mrs. Wood, they seem to really care about you.

I guess that's all I can say to you at the moment, other than Katie I think I'm starting to fall harder for you….

Truly yours,

George

Ps- I hope you like the present. I was going to get you something expected from me, but than I thought for you, this is better.

Katie read the letter over a few times, and than looked to the present. She was nervous that I was going to jump up at her, but when she opened it she found a silver chain with a silver quaffle on it. This truly was the best present she ever got from anyone. After putting it on she curled up into bed and fell asleep.