All About Loving You

Chapter 9: Teambuilding – day 2, night 2

I was walking with Alicia and Angelina to the showers in the locker room. This was the end of our first teambuilding day and we were all filthy. Oliver had planned another Quidditch practice after our break. And everybody could tell he wasn't pleased about something. He had given us all a hard time.

"So you said to him that you had already made up your mind?" Alicia said, for the sixth time. "And he just left the tent?"

"Yes," I said also for the sixth time. "He wouldn't let me finish my sentence!"

"So you've actually made up your mind?" Angelina asked (for the seventh time now), looking at me. "You didn't say it just to get rid of him?"

I rolled my eyes. "Yes, I have. I've been thinking my situation through. I've spend a lot of time with Cedric these past few months. And… well…" I said, looking for the right words to say. "He just…"

"Isn't Oliver," Alicia ended my sentence.

"Yes!" I said, stopping and turning towards Alicia. "He just isn't Oliver. All the time we were together he never ever tried to get closer to me, do you understand? He doesn't know me."

Alicia and Angelina nodded.

"Katie!"

I turned around and saw Cedric walking towards the three of us. I looked in panic at Angelina and Alicia.

"I guess it's time to tell him the truth." Angelina said, smiling at me. She and Alicia walked further towards the locker room, leaving me behind with Cedric, the boy I was about to tell I was in love with another man.

Cedric looked at me, with tears in his eyes. "You're dumping me?"

"Actually, not dumping. We weren't really together." I pointed him out. "I'm just saying I don't want to be involved with you in a romantic way." He was now crying. I rolled my eyes and patted him on his arm. "We can still be friends."

He pushed my hand from his arm. "No, I don't think I want that, Katie." He turned around and walked back to the castle.
I was quite shocked. But it was his loss.

I turned around and saw Oliver, a few feet away from me, making a fire with his wand. I took a deep breath. It was time now to talk to him.

He was staring in the flames when I reached him. He looked up and saw me standing next to him.

"Can we talk, Oliver?"

"No." he said brusquely. He got up and walked away from me. I ran after him and turned him around.

"You're a stubborn asshole, Oliver." I said, poking my finger in his chest. "Why won't you hear me out?"

"Because I know what you're about to say," he yelled back at me. "Why don't you go to Diggory and snog the life out of him."

I was shocked. "Merlin's beard, Oliver! I don't want to snog Cedric!"

He snorted. "Yeah, right. Just leave me alone, Bell. I can't stand your presence right now."

"Too bad, you've put us in the same tent."

"And I'm regretting that." He said very angry.

I realised that every word I said, wouldn't sink in. So I decided it was time for some action. I pulled him closer and kissed him. I let go of him and eyed him.

"When I said that I had made up my mind, I was about to say that I chose you, Oliver Wood. You wouldn't let me finish."

He stared at me for a moment. "You want to be with me?" He asked me, perplexed.

"Yes, Oliver. I want to be with you." I said, looking him straight in the eye. I hugged him and he hugged me back. He stroked and kissed my hair. "I'm so sorry, Katie." He whispered. He cupped my face and kissed me deeply.

We walked back hand in hand to the fire, where everybody else was eating. Fred and George celebrated us being together. They had gone to the Hogwarts kitchen to get some butterbeers and were giving everybody one. Oliver didn't even object.

Alicia and Angelina were winking at me the whole time. I couldn't help but smile. Oliver and I kept looking at each other and had to give each other a kiss after threatening from the twin.

"Ok, that's it!" Oliver said after George tried to give him a demonstration how to kiss me. "I want you all in your tents. I'll still be waking you at six, tomorrow morning!"

They all got to their feet, mumbling. Oliver smiled and sat back next to me.

"Are you really going to wake us at six tomorrow morning?" I asked, innocently after everybody was in their tents.

"Yes, of cou-" He couldn't get much further then that. I kissed him deeply.

"Okay, maybe an hour later." He said after five minutes of kissing. I went with my finger up and down his chest, looking innocently at him. He looked down on me with screwed eyes.

"Eight o'clock, but that's my last offer."

I laughed. "That's enough for me."

Oliver got up and pulled me on my feet. We got in our tent and changed into our pyjamas. I rolled over to him and slept in his arms that night.