I lay there staring at the ceiling waiting to hear the front door open. I
turned to look at the clock, 5am had come and gone. It was nearing 6 am
when I heard the car pull up in front of the house.
The house was eerily quiet; Kevin was going to bust her sneaking back into the house. But then I heard a noise I never thought I would ever be grateful to hear. Giggling, coming from the kitchen, Emily and her friends must be awake. Great I wonder what they were talking about.
I heard the front door click open.
"Where have you been?" I heard Emily ask
"Out, don't worry about it." came her reply
"Where's Oliver?" a voice I did not recognize asked
"Most likely where I left him."
I laid back down and closed my eyes pretending to be asleep. I heard the bedroom door push open the rest of the way
"You're awake, I know you are" Amy said as she entered the room.
I didn't move, I knew she wasn't buying it, but we'd see how long she'd leave me alone.
I felt her pull the covers back and climb into bed. I could feel her staring at the back of my head.
"Ok maybe you are asleep" She said and I felt her shift. Good she'd going to let me sleep for a while. I settled in.
But wait that was way to easy. No sooner had I thought it that I felt two ice-cold hands pressed against my back. I must have jumped 2 feet.
"What's the matter, are my hands cold?" she asked sweetly
"Nope, not at all." I said laughing
We laid there in silence for awhile, when it hit me, she was on the only girl, I'd ever spent the night with, out of all the women I'd been with, I had never spent the entire night. Kind of sad. She was the only girl I've ever cared about in any way, so I don't know why that would surprise me.
I opened my mouth to share this realization with her.
"Thank you." I heard very softly
I rolled over to face her "For?"
"For whatever you said to Ryan," she stated like I was stupid "You did put him up to all of this didn't you?" she questioned
"Actually Ryan came up with most of it on his own. I just told him where to take you."
She looked embarrassed but recovered quickly "How did you know about that place?"
"I have my ways, now let me sleep, we have to leave for the train in 4 hours." I lay back and try to sleep, but the truth is that it had been my idea. Ryan had come to me because I know her better then anyone. He'd asked if I knew any place special he could take her, or something he could do that she would really like. If the guy had half a brain he would have figured it out on his own, but hey, I did the right thing and gave him the hint about the stars. As if he'd never been in her room.
I must have drifted off. Movement from the other side of the bed woke me up. Once I became aware of my surroundings, the sun became very obnoxious. Damn why hadn't I pulled the curtain before I went to sleep.
More movement.
'Now I know why I never spend the night with my lady friends' I thought to myself, 'they move to much'
"Stop it" I groaned
Giggling was the response.
My eyes shot open 'oh god' I didn't want to move. I don't want to know who ended up in bed with me. I thought back to last night's events. Did I meet someone?
No I'm in Amy's room she wouldn't have allowed that.
"Out" I heard Amy yell from the doorway. "You heard me. Out" She walked to the end of the bed. "Now!" she grabbed the girl, whom I didn't recognize by the arm and dragged her out of the room, slamming the door behind the girl
I sat up "I swear I didn't touch her"
"I know you were drooling when I left you 20 minutes ago."
"Who the hell was that?" I asked rubbing the sleep out of my eyes
"Her name is Catherine, I think she's in Hufflepuff, not sure about that though, 3rd year I know that for sure, she's actually better then most of Emily's friends."
She was standing soaking wet at the end of the bed. Running a brush through her hair.
"I feel like I've been violated." I said throwing the covers off of me. And standing up to get ready. I glanced at the clock 9:30, ok I have a half an hour till we have to leave for the train. I am so tired; I guess I'll have to catch some sleep on the train.
"You should feel violated, they must have been waiting at the door for me to leave." She threw my jeans at me, "Get dressed and we can get some breakfast."
I did as I was told; I pulled on some clean clothes and ran my fingers through my hair. I was too lazy to search for brush, I ran down to the kitchen. And stopped dead in my tracks 'oh god they were multiplying' there had to be at least 8 of Emily's friends in the kitchen, Scanning the room, I noticed that Potter and Weasley were also there, I looked through the kitchen into the back yard, all of the Weasley's were there, with a whole bunch of other parents that I didn't know.
I could see Amy sitting on the hammock all by herself way in the back of the garden. So I grabbed some stuff off the table and made my way outside, through the flock of people who had 'magically' appeared here. When I brushed past Percy he decided to accompany me to visit Amy. Deep down, actually not so deep, I think that Percy had a slight crush on our dear Miss Snow, but he would never admit it to anyone, especially since he already had a girlfriend, who conveniently was also here.
"Aren't all these people going to make it difficult to get to the train on time?" I asked as I sat down next to her
"Don't know, woke up and they were all already here." she said through a bite of something
Percy and Penny sat down on the bench to the left of us "Dad was loaned some cars from the ministry for us to use today, so we decided to stop by to see if you all needed help getting there."
Yah I'm sure that why you're here Percy. I heard a squeal from next to me, and Amy was up "Charlie?" he grabbed her and lifted her a good two feet off the ground into a huge hug. I wasn't sure where they knew each other from; except that this happened every time they saw each other, except normally he spotted her first which meant she was attacked from behind into a fit of laughter.
"What are you doing here?" she asked as he put her back on the ground, Percy glared. The nerve of him right in front of his girlfriend, made me laugh though
I didn't hear his answer I just know that she sat down next to him at the picnic table across from his parents, and next to I'm guessing one of Emily's friends parents.
"So I hear you had a visitor in bed this morning?" Penny asked
"The weird little creep crawled right into bed with a complete stranger." I said taking a drink of my juice "I didn't even recognize her, Amy swears she's a fellow student though."
"Which one was she?" Percy asked arching his neck to see the group that had gathered not to far away.
"uhhhh," I say while scanning the crowd. "Blonde one farthest to the back"
Penny turned to look "She's kind of cute maybe you should go for it." was this chick serious, I have enough issues without throwing a third year into the mix.
"We are leaving in 10 minutes, everyone going to school had better be down here and ready to go in 10 minutes." I barely heard him; I was engrossed in my conversation with Percy
"Oliver that means you, get up and get ready." My dad called from across the yard.
"See you on the train." I said before getting up and moving into the house.
I ran up the stairs to Amy's room. Placing a packing spell on my things, summoning them all into place. It was great to be able to do magic outside of school. Nobody could tell me that I would get in trouble for using a simple summoning charm. Before I was allowed to do these, my father used to place things on the other side of the room, so that I would have to get up and get them. Really quite mean if you ask me.
"Just me or is Percy kind of creepy today." she said putting the rest of her stuff in her trunk, and placing her owls cage on top of it. She had let Took go this morning, so he would meet us at Hogwarts. Beautiful great horned owl.
She stopped pacing and looked straight at me
"What?" I asked
"Are you ready?"
"Didn't anyone tell you not to answer a question with a question?"
"I could ask you the same thing."
"Percy has definatly shown his true colors today, I'm positive now that he's in love with you Am."
"No he doesn't, you shut up, that's just wrong." she said rolling her eyes at me
"Alright I'm just saying."
"Well don't." she said walking out in front of me
We made our way to the station without and problems. Everyone made it in one piece. 10 minutes before the train was to leave we filed on and found an empty compartment. I had originally taken, the seat next to the window, but Amy had other plans. She came in and forced her way between the window and me.
"Don't mind me." I said moving over
"Don't' worry I won't." she said searching through her bag.
As we sat there the rest of my team began to join us. First the twins, then Lee, then the girls, minus Katie, probably off with the boyfriend, we'll have to tone that down when our season starts.
Then my favorite Ravenclaw girl joined the car. Sitting directly across from Amy, Teri now there's a real beauty, to bad she had a boyfriend for at least the last 4 years. Hugh Randall graduated last year. Every guy in the school loved Teri; she was beautiful, sweet, smart, and athletic, just about everything you wanted in a girlfriend. Hugh was one lucky son of a bitch. Teri was a prefect as well; She and Amy had known each other since they were children. They went to the same muggle school neither one knowing that the other one was whom they are.
I turned away from the two of them, because they were deeply engrossed in conversation, about the prefect meeting they had just had. I was just turning around to join the twins conversation, when Fred through something across the car at me. Completely missing hitting the window, and splattering the whole car with one of there new concoctions. Shrieking filled the cabin. And then wrestling, Between Fred and Amy, with a little Teri thrown in, whenever it looked like Fred was close to winning the match, Teri would reach down and tickle him until he was gasping for air and then Amy would pin him. This continued for about 2 hours.
The train suddenly began to slow down. The lights began to flicker
"What's going on, why we stopping?" Angelina asked
"Must have broken down, we can't be there yet." Teri said
The compartment began to grow very cold, and I felt Amy press into the side of me, and I pulled her in to protect her. I like the older brother role it was fun. We stayed like that none of us daring to move for the next 15 minutes before the train began to move and the lights came back on.
"We'll be right back." Amy said grabbing Teri's arm and moving quickly out of the compartment. "We'll find out what happened."
Just as they opened the door, they ran into someone that I can only imagine is the new Defense against the Dark Arts professor; we do seem to go through them pretty quickly. As they left the compartment, I turned to talk to my teammates.
"Anyway, I've spent the whole summer, working with Kevin, Amy's dad ya know. He's come up with a whole new program for us guaranteed to get us that cup; we have to win this year. Fellow team mates."
"Wood, do we have to start this on the train, Quidditch doesn't even start for another 4 weeks." George wined
"Well if you guys don't want to win, you can be replaced. I bet I could easily find a few people dying to get on the best team in the school." I said
"We all want to win Oliver, you know that." Alicia stated, "We just aren't even within the Hogwarts walls yet." They all looked at me hoping she had gotten through
Sighing, I registered my defeat.
Amy and Teri appeared in the doorway "Well?" Fred asked
"Dementors."
"What about them?" George asked.
"That's what stopped the train. They were searching the train for Sirius Black."
"Are you sure? They are letting Dementors n a school train?" I ask
"I doubt they know whether it's a school train or not. Better that they are searching for him, then just letting it go unnoticed." Amy said forcing herself back in between me and the window.
"But they didn't find him, all they've done is scare the hell out of people, even made poor Harry pass out." Teri said
"Is he alright?"
"Yes Oliver your star seeker is just fine, don't worry your cup is still safe." Amy said staring out the window
"Can't I genuinely be worried about him?"
"You could but your not, you're just afraid he will hurt himself and ruin your chances."
The house was eerily quiet; Kevin was going to bust her sneaking back into the house. But then I heard a noise I never thought I would ever be grateful to hear. Giggling, coming from the kitchen, Emily and her friends must be awake. Great I wonder what they were talking about.
I heard the front door click open.
"Where have you been?" I heard Emily ask
"Out, don't worry about it." came her reply
"Where's Oliver?" a voice I did not recognize asked
"Most likely where I left him."
I laid back down and closed my eyes pretending to be asleep. I heard the bedroom door push open the rest of the way
"You're awake, I know you are" Amy said as she entered the room.
I didn't move, I knew she wasn't buying it, but we'd see how long she'd leave me alone.
I felt her pull the covers back and climb into bed. I could feel her staring at the back of my head.
"Ok maybe you are asleep" She said and I felt her shift. Good she'd going to let me sleep for a while. I settled in.
But wait that was way to easy. No sooner had I thought it that I felt two ice-cold hands pressed against my back. I must have jumped 2 feet.
"What's the matter, are my hands cold?" she asked sweetly
"Nope, not at all." I said laughing
We laid there in silence for awhile, when it hit me, she was on the only girl, I'd ever spent the night with, out of all the women I'd been with, I had never spent the entire night. Kind of sad. She was the only girl I've ever cared about in any way, so I don't know why that would surprise me.
I opened my mouth to share this realization with her.
"Thank you." I heard very softly
I rolled over to face her "For?"
"For whatever you said to Ryan," she stated like I was stupid "You did put him up to all of this didn't you?" she questioned
"Actually Ryan came up with most of it on his own. I just told him where to take you."
She looked embarrassed but recovered quickly "How did you know about that place?"
"I have my ways, now let me sleep, we have to leave for the train in 4 hours." I lay back and try to sleep, but the truth is that it had been my idea. Ryan had come to me because I know her better then anyone. He'd asked if I knew any place special he could take her, or something he could do that she would really like. If the guy had half a brain he would have figured it out on his own, but hey, I did the right thing and gave him the hint about the stars. As if he'd never been in her room.
I must have drifted off. Movement from the other side of the bed woke me up. Once I became aware of my surroundings, the sun became very obnoxious. Damn why hadn't I pulled the curtain before I went to sleep.
More movement.
'Now I know why I never spend the night with my lady friends' I thought to myself, 'they move to much'
"Stop it" I groaned
Giggling was the response.
My eyes shot open 'oh god' I didn't want to move. I don't want to know who ended up in bed with me. I thought back to last night's events. Did I meet someone?
No I'm in Amy's room she wouldn't have allowed that.
"Out" I heard Amy yell from the doorway. "You heard me. Out" She walked to the end of the bed. "Now!" she grabbed the girl, whom I didn't recognize by the arm and dragged her out of the room, slamming the door behind the girl
I sat up "I swear I didn't touch her"
"I know you were drooling when I left you 20 minutes ago."
"Who the hell was that?" I asked rubbing the sleep out of my eyes
"Her name is Catherine, I think she's in Hufflepuff, not sure about that though, 3rd year I know that for sure, she's actually better then most of Emily's friends."
She was standing soaking wet at the end of the bed. Running a brush through her hair.
"I feel like I've been violated." I said throwing the covers off of me. And standing up to get ready. I glanced at the clock 9:30, ok I have a half an hour till we have to leave for the train. I am so tired; I guess I'll have to catch some sleep on the train.
"You should feel violated, they must have been waiting at the door for me to leave." She threw my jeans at me, "Get dressed and we can get some breakfast."
I did as I was told; I pulled on some clean clothes and ran my fingers through my hair. I was too lazy to search for brush, I ran down to the kitchen. And stopped dead in my tracks 'oh god they were multiplying' there had to be at least 8 of Emily's friends in the kitchen, Scanning the room, I noticed that Potter and Weasley were also there, I looked through the kitchen into the back yard, all of the Weasley's were there, with a whole bunch of other parents that I didn't know.
I could see Amy sitting on the hammock all by herself way in the back of the garden. So I grabbed some stuff off the table and made my way outside, through the flock of people who had 'magically' appeared here. When I brushed past Percy he decided to accompany me to visit Amy. Deep down, actually not so deep, I think that Percy had a slight crush on our dear Miss Snow, but he would never admit it to anyone, especially since he already had a girlfriend, who conveniently was also here.
"Aren't all these people going to make it difficult to get to the train on time?" I asked as I sat down next to her
"Don't know, woke up and they were all already here." she said through a bite of something
Percy and Penny sat down on the bench to the left of us "Dad was loaned some cars from the ministry for us to use today, so we decided to stop by to see if you all needed help getting there."
Yah I'm sure that why you're here Percy. I heard a squeal from next to me, and Amy was up "Charlie?" he grabbed her and lifted her a good two feet off the ground into a huge hug. I wasn't sure where they knew each other from; except that this happened every time they saw each other, except normally he spotted her first which meant she was attacked from behind into a fit of laughter.
"What are you doing here?" she asked as he put her back on the ground, Percy glared. The nerve of him right in front of his girlfriend, made me laugh though
I didn't hear his answer I just know that she sat down next to him at the picnic table across from his parents, and next to I'm guessing one of Emily's friends parents.
"So I hear you had a visitor in bed this morning?" Penny asked
"The weird little creep crawled right into bed with a complete stranger." I said taking a drink of my juice "I didn't even recognize her, Amy swears she's a fellow student though."
"Which one was she?" Percy asked arching his neck to see the group that had gathered not to far away.
"uhhhh," I say while scanning the crowd. "Blonde one farthest to the back"
Penny turned to look "She's kind of cute maybe you should go for it." was this chick serious, I have enough issues without throwing a third year into the mix.
"We are leaving in 10 minutes, everyone going to school had better be down here and ready to go in 10 minutes." I barely heard him; I was engrossed in my conversation with Percy
"Oliver that means you, get up and get ready." My dad called from across the yard.
"See you on the train." I said before getting up and moving into the house.
I ran up the stairs to Amy's room. Placing a packing spell on my things, summoning them all into place. It was great to be able to do magic outside of school. Nobody could tell me that I would get in trouble for using a simple summoning charm. Before I was allowed to do these, my father used to place things on the other side of the room, so that I would have to get up and get them. Really quite mean if you ask me.
"Just me or is Percy kind of creepy today." she said putting the rest of her stuff in her trunk, and placing her owls cage on top of it. She had let Took go this morning, so he would meet us at Hogwarts. Beautiful great horned owl.
She stopped pacing and looked straight at me
"What?" I asked
"Are you ready?"
"Didn't anyone tell you not to answer a question with a question?"
"I could ask you the same thing."
"Percy has definatly shown his true colors today, I'm positive now that he's in love with you Am."
"No he doesn't, you shut up, that's just wrong." she said rolling her eyes at me
"Alright I'm just saying."
"Well don't." she said walking out in front of me
We made our way to the station without and problems. Everyone made it in one piece. 10 minutes before the train was to leave we filed on and found an empty compartment. I had originally taken, the seat next to the window, but Amy had other plans. She came in and forced her way between the window and me.
"Don't mind me." I said moving over
"Don't' worry I won't." she said searching through her bag.
As we sat there the rest of my team began to join us. First the twins, then Lee, then the girls, minus Katie, probably off with the boyfriend, we'll have to tone that down when our season starts.
Then my favorite Ravenclaw girl joined the car. Sitting directly across from Amy, Teri now there's a real beauty, to bad she had a boyfriend for at least the last 4 years. Hugh Randall graduated last year. Every guy in the school loved Teri; she was beautiful, sweet, smart, and athletic, just about everything you wanted in a girlfriend. Hugh was one lucky son of a bitch. Teri was a prefect as well; She and Amy had known each other since they were children. They went to the same muggle school neither one knowing that the other one was whom they are.
I turned away from the two of them, because they were deeply engrossed in conversation, about the prefect meeting they had just had. I was just turning around to join the twins conversation, when Fred through something across the car at me. Completely missing hitting the window, and splattering the whole car with one of there new concoctions. Shrieking filled the cabin. And then wrestling, Between Fred and Amy, with a little Teri thrown in, whenever it looked like Fred was close to winning the match, Teri would reach down and tickle him until he was gasping for air and then Amy would pin him. This continued for about 2 hours.
The train suddenly began to slow down. The lights began to flicker
"What's going on, why we stopping?" Angelina asked
"Must have broken down, we can't be there yet." Teri said
The compartment began to grow very cold, and I felt Amy press into the side of me, and I pulled her in to protect her. I like the older brother role it was fun. We stayed like that none of us daring to move for the next 15 minutes before the train began to move and the lights came back on.
"We'll be right back." Amy said grabbing Teri's arm and moving quickly out of the compartment. "We'll find out what happened."
Just as they opened the door, they ran into someone that I can only imagine is the new Defense against the Dark Arts professor; we do seem to go through them pretty quickly. As they left the compartment, I turned to talk to my teammates.
"Anyway, I've spent the whole summer, working with Kevin, Amy's dad ya know. He's come up with a whole new program for us guaranteed to get us that cup; we have to win this year. Fellow team mates."
"Wood, do we have to start this on the train, Quidditch doesn't even start for another 4 weeks." George wined
"Well if you guys don't want to win, you can be replaced. I bet I could easily find a few people dying to get on the best team in the school." I said
"We all want to win Oliver, you know that." Alicia stated, "We just aren't even within the Hogwarts walls yet." They all looked at me hoping she had gotten through
Sighing, I registered my defeat.
Amy and Teri appeared in the doorway "Well?" Fred asked
"Dementors."
"What about them?" George asked.
"That's what stopped the train. They were searching the train for Sirius Black."
"Are you sure? They are letting Dementors n a school train?" I ask
"I doubt they know whether it's a school train or not. Better that they are searching for him, then just letting it go unnoticed." Amy said forcing herself back in between me and the window.
"But they didn't find him, all they've done is scare the hell out of people, even made poor Harry pass out." Teri said
"Is he alright?"
"Yes Oliver your star seeker is just fine, don't worry your cup is still safe." Amy said staring out the window
"Can't I genuinely be worried about him?"
"You could but your not, you're just afraid he will hurt himself and ruin your chances."