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Chapter 14
Connections
Caras POV
We soon arrived at Hogwarts and made our way up to the Great Hall for the feast. I left the Hufflepuffs and joined my girlfriends at the Gryffindor table.
"What are you so happy for?" Nicky asked.
"I was just wondering what you thought of a certain Hufflepuff called Darren?" She shot me a bewildered look.
"What, he's cute, don't tell me your going out with him! I'm so jealous!"
"Jeez not so loud! I'm not going out with him, you are!" Giggle giggle. I caught Darrens eye and winked at him, she likes him! I love being a matchmaker, pity I couldn't work miracles with Wood.
"WHAT?" Now they are both looking at me confused!
"I said you are going out with him because you like him and he likes you and I'm setting ye up!" I love that smile on her face, see I'm making the world happy!
"Are you serious?"
"Yip, do you agree then?" She nodded. "Right so, back in a minute!" I walked over to the Hufflepuff table and squeezed myself between Cedric and Darren.
"Hey guys, Darren you are officially going out with Nicki Parker, meet me after dinner and I will officially introduce ye!"
"But I already know her!"
"Officially, as a couple!" I tossed both their hair and went back to my seat. Aw they both look so happy, damn it they're just staring at each other!
"Hey break it up and eat!"
Olivers POV
I watched her walk to the castle with him. They were all laughing, I felt a fire burning in my stomache. When she finally joined our table, they kept glancing at each other, then I heard it, 'What, he's cute, don't tell me your going out with him! I'm so jealous." It was Nicki, guess she just told them she's with Diggory. Great, she just winked over at the Hufflepuff table, man I have it bad. She looks happy, I should give her a break, it's my fault I bloody jumped her!
"Ol mate, you ok, you don't look too good." I grunted at the twins and they got the message when they watched my eyes follow hers to the Hufflepuff table. She sat beside him for a minute then ruffled his hair. Man I'm depressing myself, snap out of it Ol!
One week later
"I know you've all been waiting for this announcement so I'll call out this years line up for the quidditch team. Keeper-Wood" said bitterly with a glare, damn he looks cute.
"Chasers-Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinnet" the crowd gasped,
"What about you?" Fred shouted. I ignored him and continued.
"Seeker-me, Beaters- Gred and Forge Weasley!" Everyone cheered.
"I know it's an abrupt change but the three girls were brilliant together and I didn't want to split them up and we hadn't any seeker, and I used to play there so that's the line up!"
"Don't worry Cara, we think you're a smashing seeker!" George shouted through his victory lap of the common room!
I went to bed early that night. After a couple of hours tossing and turning, I decided to go down to the common room. I crept across the dorm and headed to the stairs in my skimpy top and baggy pj bottoms. Oh great! Of all people to be down here, Oliver Wood was sitting on the couch. Oh what the fuck, I am far too tired too care right now! So I walked down and plonked beside him.
"Spray cream?" I questioned noticing he had a can of that muggle spray cream.
"Ya want a shot?"
"Ya." he squirted some cream into my mouth, hmm that's good. God we both look depressed.
"Make it a double." He squirted some more in, I swallowed and opened my mouth again. He squirted more in but didn't stop! Instead he put it all over my face!
"Hey!" I turned it on him and soon we had cream everywhere and were wrestling each other for control of the can!
"That's what you get for going out with that prick Diggory." He snapped in the midst of our wrestling. I stopped.
"Excuse me!" I said angrily. We were both standing in the common room covered in cream, really angry with each other.
"Nothing."
"No you said I'm going out with Diggory!"
"Well you are, I saw ye on the train, and in the hall..."
"Wait a minute, why do you care?"
"Why do I care? Are you kidding me?"
"No Oliver I'm not kidding, we kissed, then you regretted it and started acting like a bloody jerk! So why the hell do you think you have a right to be pissed off even if I was going out with Cedric!" I shouted at him.
"Because I bloody love you. Alright I said it, I kissed you because I couldn't help it. I acted like a jerk because I thought I'd ruined everything, and you ran off when I pulled away!" What. He loves me. I can't move. Did he really just say that? I just stood there dumb.
"But it doesn't matter you're with him, now, I blew it!" He ran a furious hand through his hair.
"Ol, I ran because you basically told me that the kiss meant nothing, and I am not going out with Diggory!" My voice had softened .
"But I saw you."
"You saw wrong, we were dared to snog, that was it, were just friends, that's all we'll ever be. Ol when you kissed me, I realised that I love you too, I just didn't know it before."
"You... Really!
"Ya." He moved towards me. His hand cupped my face and he kissed me gently on the lips. My lips returned the kiss with all the passion that had been in our first and more. Our tongues connected and my knees went weak. He supported me with his strong arms as we both stood in the common room, covered in cream, kissing like there was no tomorrow!