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A/n: Well, this chapter is sorta short and crappy. Sorry about that. Still, it had to be done, and it could have turned out worse.

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Such a cute girl

I´m so jealous

I wish I looked exactly like her

What´s it like to have that body?

I´m gawking while I wonder

-No Doubt

Alicia´s PoV:

George and I walked together back to the castle. I still felt a little awkward around him, but I figured that it would get better soon. After all, we´d just made up, so I didn´t expect things to be back to normal straight away.

Anyway, it was good just to be with him. I hadn´t realized until now how much I´d missed him. He was so funny and smart (though he didn´t always show it), and being his partner made Potions less unbearable.

"Georgie!" The pretty blonde Hufflepuff girl who´d gone mental when George didn´t take her to the ball jumped up from her place in the hall when we passed her. She scowled at me, not surprising considering our last encounter, and then flashed bright and shiny smile for George.

"About that date of ours, Georgie... I was thinking we could make it the next Hogsmeade weekend? Just hang around, visit Zonkos and Honeydukes... Wouldn´t that be cool?" She batted her eyelashes. I tried to keep the look of disgust off my face.

"Sounds fun," George replied. "When´s the next Hogsmeade weekend?"

I looked up at him, surprised. I´d thought he didn´t like this girl, but apparently he did. Well, maybe no brain was this year´s fashion.

"It´s actually next weekend." The girl again flashed her abnormally white teeth in a smile. "So, how about it?"

"Sure. But now I really need to get back to the common room. See you later!" With this, he grabbed my hand and dragged me towards the stairs.

"So, you´re going on a date with her?" I said in a light tone as we hurried away.

"Yeah, she asked me and I figured I might as well go. She´s really pretty and stuff and she seems to like me," he answered.

I nodded to this, but couldn´t help wondering if he really liked this girl. There was no way she was good enough for him – she was too stupid. But of course, if he liked her, it was none of my business. I wasn´t going to ruin our friendship again just because I didn´t like the girl he was dating.

Back in the common room, we found Katie waiting for us. When she saw that we came in together, she squealed excitedly and ran over to greet us.

"You made up!" She grinned and looked at me, obviously very happy with herself. "So, was my plan brilliant or what?"

"Of course, Katie. Your plans always are." George laughed. "Although I´m glad you didn´t convince her to hide in my dorm. Lee probably would´ve had a heart attack."

Katie blushed, but her self-confidence didn´t seem to falter. "Still, you´re back together. That´s what matters the most."

I looked over to George, who was laughing at Katie, teasing her about her boyfriend being her second priority. He was still holding my arm, but he didn´t seem to notice it or think that there was anything weird about it.

I smiled to myself. We were definitely back together.

xxxx

Hogsmeade weekend was coming up quickly, but I wasn´t looking forward to it as much as usual. This was partly because the thought of George´s date kept nagging me for some reason, and partly because I had a feeling I´d be stuck as fifth wheel with the two happy couples.

And I was right. When we first arrived, we all headed to Zonko´s together and had a great time there. Lee was in one of his funny moods, where he kept hitting people for no reason, telling them that he is a cow and generally acting like he´s insane. Which he probably is, come to think of it.

We then headed over to Honeydukes and that´s where things started to go wrong. Lee had finally gotten back to normal, but now he and Katie were acting kinda... indecent. And after Fred had told them in strong words to get a room, they disappeared, leaving me with Fred and Angelina. It´s a wonderful world, isn´t it?

With Katie and Lee having thus deserted us, we went into the Three Broomsticks to grab a Butterbeer and warm up a bit. I went to get the Butterbeers while the others tried to find a table.

As I was heading back to the table, I couldn´t help overhearing what Fred and Angelina were saying.

"You know Angie, I really like you," Fred said. He sounded nervous.

"Yes?" Apparently Angelina had noticed his tone too.

"I just wanted to say that..." He hesitated then said softly, "Angel, I love you."

I froze on the spot and put down the Butterbeers on the nearest table, which earned me some weird looks from the people who were already sitting there. What was going on? They´re too young to be that serious!

"I love you too," Angelina answered. She leant across the table and kissed him. I turned abruptly and stumbled away. I had to get away to think clearly.

Finally I stopped outside the Shrieking Shack, sinking down on a bare patch of ground. He loved her. That was the bottomline of it all. I´d never even had a chance, and I never would...

I sat there for a long time, crying my heart out. But after a while I heard a sound which made me lift my head. Somebody was coming.

George´s PoV:

"Georgie! Come have a look at this!" I turned to Felicity, who was holding up another item she wanted me to see. I smiled and made my way over to her.

The date had been much better than I´d expected. I´d had a quite a lot of fun. If Felicity just could´ve refrained from her stupid habit of nicknaming me, I might even have liked her. But as it were, I wasn´t sure I wanted to go out with her again.

"Let´s go up to the Shrieking Shack!" she said now. "It´s so romantic up there!"

I gaped at her. There are many words I´ve heard used to describe the Shrieking Shack, but romantic is not one of them.

"Well... Of course," I said at last. "The Shrieking Shack it is, then!"

She insisted on holding my hand all the way up to the Shack. I didn´t mind this too much as long as she kept quiet, but I could still feel a surge of annoyance towards her. She was acting like she owned me! But I had agreed to go on this date, I reminded myself. It was my own fault that I was with her.

"Georgie?" Felicity suddenly said. "What are you doing?" I realized that we had reached the Shack, and that I had almost walked past it. I grinned stupidly.

"Well, I´m... er... Can you stop calling me Georgie?" I hadn´t meant to say it, it just came out because I was looking for something to say. Still, it felt good to have said it. If only her reaction had been different.

"Stop calling you Georgie? I thought you liked being called that!"

"Actually, I don´t. So if you´ll stop, you´ll make me very, very happy."

She looked confused for a moment then smiled. "Sure. If that´s what you want, it´s no problem."

"Cool!" I said happily. "I like you much better already!"

It was only when her mouth fell open that I realized what I´d just said. Quickly, I put my arms around her and kissed her deeply on the mouth. It´s what they call damage control.

Alicia´s PoV:

I watched in shock as George kissed the Hufflepuff girl. As soon as I heard the footsteps approaching I had scrambled behind some trees, determined not to let anyone see me cry. But I couldn´t resist peeking out to see who the people disturbing me were. And of course they had to be the two last people I wanted to meet right now.

George seemed like he was wandering around in his own world, while the girl was trying to get his attention. I smiled to myself, he couldn´t be that wrapped up in his date if he didn´t even realize it when she was talking to him. Unless of course he was busy thinking about her. About how pretty she was and how she "really seemed to like him"... Suddenly I felt worried again.

And I was right to worry. They hadn´t exchanged more than a couple of words before George was suddenly kissing her. I didn´t want to watch it, but at the same time I couldn´t tear my eyes away. I felt some sort of sick fascination. And all I could think was:

He got over me this fast?

A/n: I´m sorry to tell you that this will be the last chapter in quite a while, the reason being me going on holiday. I´m going to France! Yay! And then to Wales! Yay again! I leave this Saturday, so there´ll be no more chapters before I return. But I´ll try to write a lot while I´m gone, and July 12 I´m back!