This chapter is for all my reviewers most especially Liz Wyatt who sent me a review when I almost forgot that this story existed. This chapter has been waiting to be uploaded for a while. But most of all, I thank all of you who reviewed before. :D

The Game

Oliver's POV

Why am I so nervous? How come I feel like something's wrong? How come--

"…Wood!" the Lee Jordan announced, he's now the commentator of the game. I bet that's what he has been doing since he was in diapers! He told us he would assign his stuffed toys and started commentating… Okay, I have every right to remain silent.

I kicked the ground and pushed myself up with my broom. I saw the cheering crowds, mostly teenage girls. But once I arrived with my team mates, following after, above the field, I was looking for the opposing team.

"Davis, Truman…" Lee announced, "…Flint…"

I glared at Flint as he entered the field. But for someone reason, he had a malicious grin, like Snape's. It made me feel uneasy, but I still glared at him more.

"…Bell…" Lee announced again.

Bell! As in Katie! I was shocked. It can't be. But it can't be her; anyway it could be another Bell. The last name Bell is quite common. I saw "Bell" fly up the field. It made my heart sank. She wasn't any other Bell, she was Katie. I was shocked.

"Wood," Jordan whispered to him, "Get into position! Why are you spacing out?"

Oliver just shook his head, "It's nothing." Then he flew to the goal posts. The Quaffle was released and the game begins! Everyone flew everywhere. I stayed in position. Then, unexpectedly, I saw Katie, holding the Quaffle. Then she lifted her arm to throw, then I tried to block it, but she threw it the other way. I realized what she had done and tried to turn the other way but I missed.

I missed for the first time.

"Wood…" she muttered nervously.

"Bell…" I replied. I could hear the cheers of the crowd fading away and remained dead quiet. Katie flew off, and then the Quaffle was being passed around. Their Keeper was getting better too, actually, everyone was. We shouldn't have underestimated them.

Then I saw a Quaffle coming at me, I blocked.

"Shocked eh, Wood?" Flint asked. He was the one that threw it. I knew that he threw it lamely because he just wanted to get my attention. I just glared at him.

"Well, Bell isn't very pleased too, she's in our side, Wood," Flint continued on with his evil grin.

"Shut up, Flint," Katie muttered and I saw her glance at me. After that, she went back to get the Quaffle. I just remembered what happened yesterday. She wanted to tell me something, but I had to go.

After the Game

We didn't do too well. And shockingly, they won, by just 10 points. I could see they were getting better. But I could also see something was up.

"I can't believe it, they have beaten us," Brian muttered. I shook my head.

"It is okay, Brian. We'll do better," I said to him. He nodded. I soon left and apparated to the Joke Shop. It looked a lot better now, the last time I came here, there were so many boxes. Now, it just looked like a normal shop. Amazingly, it was clean. Maybe Alicia's work obviously.

"Hey Ol," Alicia greeted. Alicia, such a neat-freak, was organizing a stack of papers by color.

"Hey Alicia, where are the others?" I asked.

"George is here setting up the room we're staying, Fred's buying butter beer," she replied, "Come, just don't touch the items, but I bet you knew that."

I laughed then followed Alicia to the back room. It looked like a small hang-out room.

"Hey Ol!" George greeted.

"Hey George, how's business?" I asked.

"Fine, busy mostly," he replied. Alicia went out of the room to check if anyone else is there.

"Have you heard?"

"Heard…?" I asked.

"Fred is getting married." George coughed. My eyes bulged out of my face; it looked like two huge saucers! Well, at least that's what I saw in a nearby mirror, oh wait, that's just a Weasley product. It makes you think your eyes got bigger and you have a huge beard. That explains the hairy stuff under my chin.

But this is out of the topic.

"With who?" I asked.

"Who else!" George laughed, "Angelina of course!"

"Well, yeah I knew that," I muttered.

"Ha-ha, yeah right," George said. I ignored him.

"So why did you have to cough when you said they were getting married?" I asked. George shrugged, "I don't know, to make it sound confidential?"

"Harhar." I said sarcastically. "So when are you and Alicia planning to date?"

George gave me a confused look. Make that a confused and shocked look.

"Excuse me, Wood? Spinnet and I? Sorry, we just don't mix," George said, "And even though we hang out here everyday of our freaking lives, we're just acting like everyday is just a bloody boring day."

"Oh, really? And by that matter, you still don't have any feelings for any girl yet?" I grinned with my smug face. George glared at me. I smiled innocently.

"OH COME ON, AS IF ANYTHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN!" George exclaimed loudly, "…But yeah I do have a crush on Alicia…"

I grinned widely, "HA! I told you."

"Shh! She's here you know," George said.

"Yeah, I'm here," said a female voice. I shuddered when I heard that girl's voice. She wasn't Alicia, someone else. I looked at the doorway, it was Katie.

Dun, dun, duunnn…

"How long were you there!" George exclaimed. Katie rolled her eyes and lightly smacked George's head with her hand.

"Long enough," Katie smiled, "Don't worry, Lische told me to go in. She's still busy stacking those papers by colors, such a neat freak."

See, I told you.

"Why don't you help her, George? Isn't she your-." I started but George covered my mouth before I said anything else.

"Continue on or I'll tell your innermost-."

"FINE, FINE!" I mumbled while George's hand was on my mouth.

"I'll go anyway," George said and stood up. Damn him. He knew that Katie and I will have a very awkward conversation. George then walked off and closed the door. I was left inside a room, with Katie, right after a game, where we both played against each other.

"Hey," Katie started, awkwardly.

"Hey," I replied. Silence.

"So what's up?" Katie asked.

"Nothing much, you?"

"Same."

"Cool."

"Grand."

"Perfect."

"Great."

"Fantastic."

Then Katie laughed. I raised my eyebrow.

"Sorry, I've never heard your Scottish accent in a while," Katie laughed.

"But you heard it a while ago during the game!"

Then silence fell on us again.

"Not clearly…" Katie muttered in reply. I nodded. I then started to look around the room. It was clean, obviously Alicia's work. The room was painted white, and a huge red couch, which I'm sitting on, a small muggle fridge nearby, piano and a muggle television. On the newly waxed wooden floor had a huge white rug and on the walls were two windows with curtains and photos on top of the piano.

I recognized most of the photos. One was the game when we finally won the House Cup. One was a family picture of the Weasleys, and another, and another. Some were pictures of events from Hogwarts. There was one with the Weasleys brothers, another with the Weasley brothers AND sister. There was another one where Harry and Ron were, also with the Weasley brothers. There was another, it only had the Weasley brothers in it.

"Look, pictures of us!" Katie exclaimed pointing at a wall. There, it hanged seven photos. Those were the pictures of the whole gang. I laughed as I recalled each memory.

First year of our friendship, that was when Katie would put her hair down with clips, and Alicia would be very fond with braids. Angelina would wear pigtails and had braces then too. The Weasley Twins' teeth weren't exactly perfect then, you would see some going out of the line. You could tell who was who then since George lost a tooth a summer before that. I looked at my own self, just years younger, so young and so different on how I looked like now.

Second year of our friendship, we still looked the same except that Angelina had her muggle braces off; Lee had a crush on her then. Fred and George's teeth were finally fixed then, and it was hard to tell who was who now. That was they year when they all tried out for the Team. Except Alicia, she thought Quidditch wasn't her thing.

Oh, that was also when Katie and I became best of friends.

Third year of our friendship was next. That was when Katie's hair was long and tied it up as a half ponytail. Fred's and George's teeth were perfect then. That was when they started to have their own mischievous grins. Angelina decided to put her hair up in a pony tail everyday, and Alicia did the same too. That was when Alicia finally tried out and made it to the team.

Fourth year of our friendship, I was in fifth year then. That when I started crushing on Katie. She had an increase of height too, and grew prettier too. I'm not saying she wasn't at all, I'm just saying it looked more… different. This was the year when Fred started crushing on Angelina. Alicia and George that year were practically mortal enemies! You should've seen the quarrels they had. That was when they in deniably had a crush on each other.

Fifth year of our friendship, Angelina and Fred finally got together. Alicia and George stopped fighting and tolerated with each other. Katie was still the same, but her radiant beauty grew more… radiant? Well, let's say my feelings for her were stronger then.

The sixth year of our friendship, this was my last year. It was taken inside this hidden room discovered by Fred and George, of course. It was taken there because that was when they had a party for me, just for my last day in Hogwarts. It all started with laughter and ended up in tears. I still kept the letters they gave me before I left, especially Katie's. Hers was the longest. That was also the year when Katie got cursed by that magical necklace. Fortunately, she lived. She was a bit shook up after that, I too. I promised then that I would always protect her.

The seventh year of our friendship, it was empty. No photo yet. I wondered why.

"It's not there because we were waiting until we graduated so that we can meet you up and have the picture taken," Katie explained, as if reading my mind.

"Oh," I answered in reply.

"Look…" Katie began and turned to look at me, "…I'm sorry that I wasn't able to tell you why I ended up in Damien Sloth…"

"It's okay," I responded, "No need to worry about saying sorry. It's my fault for not being able to see you guys so you could tell me any updates."

"I forgive you," Katie smiled, "At least you came now. I've never seen you in ages. Letters weren't enough, though."

"I understand," I grinned.

"So how's Puddlemere?" Katie asked. The conversation grew from then. I guess the awkwardness between us got off. We started talking about work, how was she, how was I and etc. I missed her so much. It may have been a year with a lot of letters from her, but it's still different. Seeing her is so much different.

"Hey, don't start the fun without us!" said a familiar voice behind them. It was Fred. Angelina was standing behind him.

"Hello lovely couple!" Katie greeted cheerfully and hugged her friends. I joined in after. Fred and Angelina hugged back. Finally, George and Alicia entered the room.

"Where have you guys been? We've been looking for you!" Alicia exclaimed while giving Angelina a hug.

"Sorry, hun," Angelina said, "Went to a bit of shopping."

"A bit?" Fred complained. Angelina rolled her eyes.

"For a girl, it is," Angelina explained. I laughed. Then we all started to eat and drink. It was fun, just like the old times. Fred and George were gorging in their food; Angelina, Alicia and Katie were trying to bear with them. I just laughed at the sight.

"Why are you laughing?" Angelina complained. I just grinned.

"Don't worry, Angelina, he's just a maniac," Katie explained sarcastically.

Soon enough, we started to talk about some stuff. Some old, some new, just like the past. We would talk endlessly; connecting topics even though they're most unlikely to be related.

Finally, it was time to go. Actually, it was time for me to go.

"Sorry all, I need to go," I began and stood up, "I have training in the morning."

"Aww, okay," Everyone replied back. I received hugs and some waves of goodbye. I sighed; I wished I could turn back the clock to be with my friends again. And more importantly, I want to be with Katie again.

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I promise, the next chapter, they'll be both together. : P

And, I know it seemed a bit mixed up but I'm trying to remember my plot here XD. I do, I'm trying to make sure I'm not going too far. I hope that also made sense. Thanks for tolerating with me XD. Shucks, its 2am. I have to sleep then I'll update "Unlike Any Other". Wow, multi-tasking is hard.