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Cause you and me
We disagree
On everything and everyone
I only want to be your friend again
-Save Ferris
George´s PoV:
I walked slowly across the Quidditch pitch towards the girls´ locker room. Who was waiting for me inside? I wanted to find it out, but at the same time I had a bad feeling about it.
I swallowed hard and opened the door.
To my surprise, I found Alicia waiting for me. When I entered, she got up and moved over to me.
"Alicia?" I said, rather stupidly. "You sent the flower?"
"Oh, stop talking, we have better things to do," she commanded.
"Like what?"
"Like this." At this, she leant forward and kissed me.
The kiss seemed to last for a long time, but at last she broke free. I looked down at her, full of surprise. What was going on? Just as I was about to ask for an explanation, she gave me one. But not one I expected.
"I love you, Fred," she whispered softly as she lifted her face to look at me.
"But I´m not Fred!" I protested. "I´m George!"
"Oh, whatever. You look just the same to me. But it´s him I love, of course," she said matter-of-factly. I was totally shocked.
"Don´t say that, Leesh! It´s not true, it can´t be." I shook my head.
"It´s true, silly!" She snickered at the look on my face. "I love him, I love him, I love him..."
"Oi, George, come on! Big day today!" It was Fred. What was he doing here? I was supposed to meet her alone.
Then Lee came in too. "What are you still doing here? We´ll be late!"
Why couldn´t they leave me alone? I was talking to Alicia... But she was gone, and where she´d been standing now stood our former Qudditch captain Oliver Wood.
"You need to practise more, George. If you lose us the Cup I´ll drown myself in the shower. And by the way, I´m gay," he said gravely.
"Right! That´s enough!" I turned to George and Lee. "I´m gonna wake up now, guys. Bye, Olly. I want you to know that I´ve always known you´re gay."
I opened my eyes and looked up at my brother and Lee. They were standing over me with a bucket of water.
"There´s no need for that! I´m awake!" I yelled before they could tip the bucket over me.
"Are you sure?" Fred asked. "´Cause, you know, we could always do it just to make sure you´re awake..."
"I´m sure! Just let me get up!" I jumped out of bed quickly to keep them from changing their minds.
We went down to breakfast together. I noticed that Alicia wasn´t there, and wondered why. I couldn't remember her missing a single breakfast during our six years of friendship. Of course she could have eaten before, but for some inexplicable reason I didn´t think so. Ok, maybe not inexplicable. She's just not much of a morning person.
Pretty soon, however, I had other things to think about. Felicity and a couple of her friends were coming over to our table, and it looked like they were heading for me.
"Oh, crap!" I groaned. "Not her again."
"Why not? She´s hot!" Fred said, earning a smack from Angelina.
"Ow! What´s that for?" he said indignantly. Angelina muttered something about being the world´s biggest prat´.
Meanwhile, Felicity had reached our table. Sighing, I turned to talk to her.
"Hey, Felicity! What´s up?"
"Oh, nothing much." She smiled at me. "I was just wondering if you would like to... you know... go out with me again?"
I groaned inwardly. I didn´t want to go out with her again, but how was I supposed to tell her that? This time I didn´t have Alicia as an excuse.
"Well... Sure!" I said, trying my best to smile and sound convincing. Apparently it was good enough for her. She smiled happily and then suddenly bent down and kissed me on the cheek. I stiffened, but since she caught me by surprise I didn´t manage to stop her.
"Great!" she announced after getting back up. "I´ll talk to you later!" Then she left, with her friends throwing glances at me and giggling all the way back to their table.
Fred was watching me with an amused look on his face. I glared at him.
"What´s so funny?" I asked grumpily.
"Oh, it´s nothing," he replied quickly before changing the subject. "So, I guess this kinda rules her out as your date."
"Probably." I nodded in agreement. "Of course it could just be a cunning plan to lead my suspicions away from her, but somehow I don´t think so."
"No, I can´t imagine her thinking up something that clever," Angelina commented wryly. "So, what´s this date you´re talking about?"
"Oh, nothing much. Someone left a flower outside our dorm yesterday, asking me to come to the girls´ locker room today. It sounded like a date."
Lee hadn´t said a word during our conversation, as he tends to get very absorbed in his food. If you put a full plate in front of him he´s lost for the world until he has finished it (which doesn´t take him so long). Now, however, he came up to the surface for a quick comment.
"Hey, George, you have any idea who sent it to you?"
I shook my head.
"Too bad. Pass me the toast, will you?"
We all simultaneously rolled our eyes. Never expect anything useful from Lee during a meal.
At half past twelve I started to walk down to the Qudditch pitch. On my way, I passed the lake, and of course Felicity and her friends had to be hanging out there just then. Felicity jumped up at the sight of me and started waving furiously, but somehow managed to keep it graceful. I wonder how she does that. I forced a smile and gave her a small wave, but I didn´t walk over to her. I didn´t think I could handle talking to someone who calls me Georgie twice on one day.
At last I reached the Quidditch pitch. It still wasn´t one, and I wasn´t sure if I should go in yet. I decided to sit down for a while and think.
Who could have sent the rose? I couldn´t think of anyone else who would send it to me. Of course, there were always girls thanks to the Weasley charm fixed that. But at the moment the only one I could think of was Felicity, and apparently she was out of question. I sighed and looked at my watch. Still ten minutes left.
My thoughts once again drifted over to the subject of Alicia Spinnet. She was the girl of my dreams and I knew it. I had known it for ages. It was something about her smile, about the way she looked, about the way she teased me when I had done something stupid. She had been my best girl friend since first year, and I could still remember the shock I´d gotten when I understood that I wanted her to be something more. I wanted her to be my girlfriend.
The realization had come to me one day at Quidditch practise. I had been trying to teach her how to use a Beater´s club when she was hit by an unexpected Bludger, which caused her to fall from her broom. She hadn´t been hurt, but from that moment I knew that it was her, and only her, I wanted.
For a long time I had tried to deny it, hoping that it would pass. Then I had started dating other girls to forget her. But when I realized that it wouldn´t pass, and that I couldn´t forget her, I had just settled with being her best friend. I had never dared to make a move on her. Up till now.
Suddenly, the object of my thoughts came out from the girls´ locker room. When she saw me sitting there, she stopped, startled. I quickly got up.
"Alicia? What´s going on?"
She looked almost like she was going to faint, and I assumed that something was wrong with her.
Just as I was about to ask her if she was all right, she cried out: "This wasn't how it was supposed to be!"
"What?" I said, confused.
"You shouldn´t have been here this early! Now it´s all ruined!" There were tears in her eyes, I noticed.
"Leesh, calm down. What´s ruined?"
"Everything! I was going to surprise you, and tell you that I´m sorry. But now I can´t!"
"Of course you can," I assured her. "Just go back inside, and I´ll come in, and we´ll pretend that this didn´t happen." She nodded, still teary-eyed. I smiled at her and shoved her gently towards the door.
After this, I didn´t think that I would be surprised by whatever I was going to find in the locker room. Upon entering, however, I found that I was wrong.
The room was completely filled with roses, except for one wall, which was decorated with a large banner bearing the word "Sorry". After taking it in, I turned to Alicia, who was standing in a corner.
"See, this was how it was supposed to be," she began nervously before I could think of anything to say. "I was going to hide behind the door then step out as soon as you had seen this, and tell you how sorry I am..."
"There´s no need for that, Leesh," I interrupted her.
"What?" she said, and now it was she who looked confused.
"I´ve forgiven you," I said. "I forgave you the moment I saw you coming out of the door."
"Oh... Of course, you called me Leesh! You haven´t done that since... Since the Ball." There was an awkward silence, which was broken when she threw her arms around me and hugged me.
"I´m so sorry, George. I really shouldn´t have done it."
"I´m sorry, too. I shouldn´t have been so stubborn when you tried to talk to me."
She laughed softly and let go of me. "You've always been stubborn, George Weasley. And so am I. If it hadn´t been for Katie, I probably never would have talked to you again."
"Really? What did she do?" I asked, curious.
"Well, after my attempt to say sorry, I was so mad at you that I never wanted to see you again. Katie convinced me that I should give you another chance. She was the one who came up with this plan, too."
"She did?" I was impressed. I really needed to give Katie more credit (That one´s for you, Lillemor!).
"Yeah," Alicia answered. "Though at first, she suggested that I should hide in your dormitory and jump out when you came in. She only gave in after I reminded her that you have roommates who would probably be scared to death if I jumped on them." She grinned.
"That´s more like the Katie I know," I agreed and chuckled at the thought of Lee´s face if Alicia had jumped out from behind the door when he entered the room.
There was another silence, not awkward this time. It was a friendly silence, like the ones we used to have before the fight. I´ve always liked to be silent with Alicia.
"You know," she said at last, looking up at me, "Just in case it makes you feel better... It was a really good kiss."
I laughed and pulled her into another hug. Perhaps I could live with just being her best friend. It was very unlikely, but I could at least try. I owed our friendship that much.