"Katie?" A female voice somewhere near the curtain asked me.
I stirred in my bed and turned my back so that my face was buried in my pillows.
"Yeah?" I grumbled into the pillow. They pulled open the curtains, to let some sunlight stream through the curtains.
I slowly turned over and sat up on my bed and propping myself up on an elbow.
"Mm, what's the time?" I mumbled. I blinked my eyes trying to focus them on the nearby figure. I lifted an arm up to my face and shaded the light from my eyes.
"Oh, it's 10am. Why?" The voice replied.
I slowly focused my eyes and realized who it was.
"Oh, Thanks Ange'" I said as Angelina placed a tray on my lap, with some breakfast on it.
I gingerly lazily picked up the knife and I started buttering the toast. I laid the knife down gently on the tray.
"So why the morning wake up call, Sunday's are sleep in days. Remember?" I said well taking a bite from the toast.
"Just wanted to tell you, we were going to go on a walk with- " Angelina said suppressing a cheeky grin.
"-So how you feeling after last night? " Alicia asked jumping onto my bed, realising that I had awoken. This had also caused Chocolate to wake up in the process "-Oh hey there Chocolate!" She said reaching out a had and patting her.
"Just tired, you know how it is" I said smiling at Alicia and Ange'.
I picked up the Hot Chocolate and had a sip. "Mmm. This is 'So' good!" I said with eyes closed indulging in the flavour.
This caused them to both start laughing.
I finished the rest of the toast in silence, before anyone said anything.
"Ok, I think we should be off-" Alicia said getting up to leave.
"-Wait! Let me get dressed and I can come too!" I said holding a hand up to stop them.
"Ok, hurry up though, because all the guys are waiting" Alicia said blushing.
"Oh the 'guys'? So this is what the early walk is for" I said raising an eyebrow at the two. Angelina reacted first and threw a pillow at me. I caught it deftly.
"Ok, OK! Just keep an eye on Chocolate for me, well I get ready" I said well putting the tray on the bedside cabinet.
"We'll take her down stairs, and tell the guys ok?" Angelina said well striding over to the door.
"Ok, be down in 5!" I said promptly getting out of the bed.
I started rummaging through my closet. I decided to wear my favourite pair of jeans (dark denim, bootleg), the cami I had gotten yesterday and a pair of white flip-flops. (Jandals).
I quickly sprinted into the bathroom and began cleaning up.
After putting on my outfit, I walked out of the bathroom and strode quickly over to the mirror.
I decide to put on a little bit of clear lip-gloss and some mascara before heading down the stairs.
I looked at all of my friends, they just stared at me in what I think was awe and I smiled back at them sheepishly.
I took a deep a breath in. "Well stop staring! You want to go on walk? Get your legs moving!" I said smiling.
And with that they all got up and exited through the portrait. I gave Chocolate to Ginny to watch. I quickly thanked her and ran out to catch up with my friends. I ran through the portrait after my friends, I began slowing down and walked quietly up to George and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Hm? Yea? Something up?" he said obviously enthralled in the conversation with Angelina.
"Can I have a piggy back ride?" I said looking up innocently and giving him the puppy dogs eyes at him (No one can escape the wrath of the puppy dog eyes, Muahahaha!).
"Sure" he lent forward for me to get on his back. I carefully got on; well he shuffled about so he could comfortably hold onto my legs.
He ran through the corridors, than out the front doors and than stopped at the step to wait for the others and to catch his breath.
They walked extremely slowly, so I began clicking my tongue at them, after a while I began getting impatient. I took in a deep breath and yelled out over George's shoulder.
"Come on guys! Last one to the lake has to pull their shirt over their head and run around the school!" with that they all came running, I felt George jerk, and Fred pull at my arm. I fell onto the grass with a loud thud.
"Oi! No fair!" I yelled after him, before getting up and running after him and George. I pulled the back of their Shirts so that they fell backwards and into each other, well I ran off laughing.
I quickly passed Lee, who had tripped when he had turned to see why I was laughing; I over took Angelina and Alicia who had slowed down to see what was happening and then I was slowly catching up to Oliver.
"Hey Ollie!" I yelled out to him in an attempt to make him turn around and trip over.
"Your gonna have to try harder if you want to beat me!" he yelled at me, well his eyes faced where he was running.
He stopped at the tree by the lake and began composing himself. I kept running and than as I got close to the tree I turned to see if Angelina and Alicia had caught up with me yet.
I didn't look where I was going and crashed into Oliver causing us both to fall into the lake.
"Gee, didn't know you were this kinky, Kates." Oliver said well helping me up. I hit him playfully on the arm; well Angelina, Alicia and Lee were giggling and staring at Oliver and me.
Fred and George soon came over which gave me an excuse to change the topic.
"Oh, look who lost!" I said well getting out of the lake, Oliver behind me. Both Fred and George looked at each other and smiled. They pulled their shirts over their heads and started running around the field like blind mice.
We all cracked up laughing when they ran head on, into each other. Our back turned away from the lake.
I heard a few twigs crack and an eerie presence filled the air. I shivered in spite of myself.
"Hello Katie, I do admire your choice of clothing, it's very…flattering" said a cold drawling voice from behind me. They pulled my elbow, so that I was standing in front of them.
I looked up into the person's eyes, to see none other than Marcus Flint. He smiled a horrible toothy smile, well his eyes trailed down my body but stopping partially at my chest. I look down and realized what he meant and relinquished my arm from his grasp, quickly crossing my arms covering my chest.
Fred and George had decided to come over at that point and 'accidentally' ran into Flint causing him to stumble backwards.
Oliver decided at this point to pull me away from Flint's grasp and held me securely against his chest; with an arm wrapped tightly around my waist
"Go away flint" he growled angrily, his hatred showing through his eyes.
"Why should I listen to you? When I'm here to see 'my' girlfriend," Flint said winking in my direction. I shuddered at the thought and Oliver held me closer.
"Keep dreaming Flint! Now Bugger off!" He replied angrily, his face reddening from his fury.
"Katie, he won't always be here to protect you, I'll get you someday," Flint said angrily before turning on his heel and leaving.
No one said anything until he was out of eye's distance.
"Ok! Now that the troll is gone, let's play tag- you're it!" Angelina said well tapping Fred and running away, after a couple of hours and a few drying charms, everyone tackling each other. After a while we all thought it would be a good time to eat. So we went inside for lunch.
I sat down and pulled a salad towards me and began eating after a while I was just picking at the salad in front of me, rolling the cherry tomato with my fork and thinking about what Flint had said. I shook my head trying to forget the thought.
'I hope that the day never comes that he gets me -' I thought frowning slightly.
"-Katie? Are you alright?" I looked up at who had interrupted my thoughts and saw that it was Oliver who was talking; he looked at me with concerned eyes.
"I'm fine, I'm just not hungry," I said with a slight smile.
He smiled weakly back, though still with a worried expression.
"I'm going to go and finish off that potions essay, see you guys later" I said well getting up and leaving.
I went upstairs into my room and pulled out the essay from my bag and brought it downstairs. I strode over to the desk by the window and sat down, quill, ink and parchment waiting for me to begin writing.
'Ok, so boomslang is not to be added until …' I wrote before I started tapping my fingers on the table, my mind trailing to the time at the lake earlier 'Wow, I never noticed Oliver was so hot when he is-' I slapped myself on the head 'cannot think about this! Cannot think about how hot his body – NO! Bad Katie, BAD KATIE! ESSAY, WRITE ESSAY! ' I shook my head and I looked out the window. 'Ok, after adding the boomslang… ' Returning back to the essay.
I spent 3 hours writing the essay and eventually fell asleep on top of the open book.
"Katie? Hey Katie? You should go to sleep Hun," A female voice called to me from a distant place, well gently shaking my shoulder.
"I donwannago mommy," I mumbled into the book. There was some giggling followed by some whispering.
Somebody had than gathered me up in their arms and carried me up some stairs and placed me gently into my ready made bed.
"Thank you, nightie-night," I said, well kissing the person on the cheek and falling back into my pillow.