„I think I have to puke."
"Relax, Alicia, you're going to be just find."
"Shut up."
"No."
"You're bugging me, do you know that?"
"Of course I do, why else would I be doing it?"
"Sod off, George!"
"Never."
"Please!"
"Forget it."
Alicia sighed in exasperation and rolled her eyes at him, but George could see her lips curling slightly.
"You guys ready?" Fred asked, a nervous expression on his face.
"No." Alicia and Angelina said at the same time.
"Absolutely." George sighed, far more brightly, than he was feeling.
"How can you be in such a good mood?" Alicia asked.
"Hey, you should talk! What was all that earlier about kicking Slyhterin's ass?"
"Alright, alright!"
"Would you two just chill?" Angelina hissed.
"Relax, love, George is just playing. He's pissing his pants."
"No, I'm not!"
"Don't try to deny it."
"Fred, would you just shut-"
"Would both of you just shut up!" Alicia yelled, her cheeks flushed.
"Right." George mumbled, staring at Alicia, whose eyes were glittering.
"What?" she asked irritated.
"Nothing." George muttered, his eyes burning.
"George loves Alicia, George loves-" Fred began singing in a high voice.
"Fred. Shut up." Angelina said affectionately.
George glanced quickly at Alicia, whose whole face was now flushing to the roots.
She looked at him and smiled shyly.
Good Lord, she's gorgeous…
"Let's go." Angelina said, taking a deep breath."
"Alright." Alicia agreed.
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The crowd was roaring, when they stepped onto the pitch.
They went over to Oliver and their other team mates.
Oliver was looking distinctly green in the face and was mumbling to himself.
"That doesn't look good." George mumbled out of the corner of his mouth, watching Oliver with concern.
"Well, it's not very surprising either." Alicia whispered back.
"Ah, there you are folks." Oliver said, trying and failing miserably to sound cheerful, as he saw them.
"Well…all I can say is…" he broke off.
"All you can say is what?" Fred asked.
"I don't know." Oliver whined and shuddered.
"Would you relax, Oliver?" George said, trying hard not to laugh.
"It's going to be alright. Loose against Slytherin. I beg you. We're not going to sink that low." He added and they all nodded.
"George is right." Alicia said, and George's heart leapt.
"This is a piece of cake. It's going to be more than easy."
Alright…Yes, you're right. Of course it will." Oliver mumbled and nodded.
"Okay, let's go." He breathed, as Madame Hooch looked at them expectantly.
"Good luck, Ang!" Fred said and Angelina literally threw herself at him.
"Ugh!"
"Shut up, you two!"
"George was just mounting his broom, when he realized Alicia was still standing right beside him.
"What?" he asked, his heartbeat quickening.
Alicia looked at her feet and smiled.
"Just wanted to … wish you good luck." She said and came nearer….
And nearer…
"Up in the air you two!" Madame Hooch roared.
George actually growled with frustration this time.
Alicia giggled and kicked off the ground.
That's it. One more incident like this and I'm going to emigrate.
George, too, kicked off and halted beside his brother.
"We're so going to lose." Fred mumbled.
"Yeah, we are." George agreed.
"With Harry out of this game, there's not a chance in the world we can win this."
"I hear you, twin."
"Let's try and make the best of things." George said, feeling sick as Madame Hooch blew her whistle and the Quaffle soared into the air.
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The game was a disaster.
At first, Alicia and Angelina scored a couple of goals each.
But when Slytherin realized, that they were in potential danger, they attacked.
And Wood had been right.
Giving Marcus Flint a wooden bat, was a bad idea.
He hit everything and everyone he could reach with it, including his own players, if they didn't score.
Celeste Zabini was an elegant flyer, but so far had not tried to catch the snitch, even though George himself had spotted it several times.
He was getting the impression, that she was playing bad on purpose, so Gryffindor could at least lose by only a couple of points, and he was grateful for it.
Fred and he had been extremely busy during the game, seeing as the Slytheirns tried to foul their players almost every second.
George was keeping a very watchful eye over Alicia and had so far been able to save from every dangerous bat or human being that came flinging towards her.
He couldn't help drifting off to the night of the ball.
She had been so beautiful. She always was, but that night, she had had that sparkle in her eyes…
"George! What the hell are you doing?"
George snapped out of his trance and saw Fred glaring at him a few feet away and pointing at three ape-like Slytherins, who were all soaring towards Angelina.
"Coming!" George roared and sped towards them.
As soon as the Slytherin saw the two red figures speeding towards them, they changed their courses.
"That was close. What was up with you?" Fred asked, irritated.
But before George could answer, they heard a piercing scream behind them.
George whirled around to see Marcus Flint crashing into Alicia.
She seemed to take hours to let go off her broom, falling through the air, until she hit the ground with a sickening thud.
George found he couldn't think.
His mind was fogged.
He could just stare at Alicia, lying on the ground, not moving.
And then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Marcus Flint grinning.
That did it.
Without thinking, that this might be a bad idea, he soared towards the Slytherin Captain and knocked him off his broom with such a force, that all the air was gone from George's lungs.
Without even pausing to look, if he had succeeded to get Flint off his broom, he sped towards the ground, where Madame Hooch was already crouched beside Alicia.
He forgot to slow down as the ground came nearer and stumbled as he was forced into the ground.
He through his broom aside and ran towards them.
"Alicia!" he yelled and kneeled down beside her.
"Yeah." She grunted, her eyes still closed.
"Are you alright?" George asked, as sheer relief washed over him, that she was at least conscious.
"Of course not, you idiot." She mumbled, finally opening her eyes.
"At least you're being your usual self." George answered dryly.
Alicia smiled slightly.
At that moment, they heard Madame Hooch blow her whistle.
George's head shot up. It was as he had feared.
"Looks like Zabini caught the snitch." Groaned Alicia and sighed.
"Yeah. It was unavoidable, though." George said.
"I know. But still…"
"True." He mumbled.
"Help me get up, will you?" Alicia asked.
"Certainly not! We're going to wait for Madam Pomfrey!" George huffed.
"I'm okay, mum." She responded, rolling her eyes.
"Very funny, but you're still staying right where you-"
Before he had time to finish the sentence, Alicia had jumped to her feet.
"Are you ever going to listen to me?" he said angrily.
"Never." Alicia said and smiled at him.
George's irritation vanished at once and he couldn't help but grin.
Alicia's eyes didn't let go off his gaze and she took a step towards him.
FINALLY!!!!!!
She was only inches apart…
"We lost, can you believe it?"
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
George turned his head slightly to see Fred, Angelina, Katie, Lee, Oliver, hell, all the Gryffindors standing in front of them. Some sad, some simply livid.
Somehow, George didn't give a damn about the game. Or about the Slytherins looking smug, or Malfoy glancing in their direction, smiling at Alicia, or about all the people standing around them.
"Yes, I can." And before anyone could say anything else, he grabbed Alicia.
And kissed her.
And even though they had just lost the game to the most detestable house at school, the Gryffindors couldn't help, but cheer for Alicia and George.
After all, it had taken them long enough.
I'm done! Can you believe it? So sorry it took me so long, but school was killing me and now I have holidays, so I was able to finish it.
I'm kind of sad it's already over, but relieved at the same time, because now I won't have to leave huge gaps between chapters anymore.
I hope you liked this story.
I'm going to write other ones as well, mainly Harry Potter ones and mainly George/Alicia, because, as we all know, is there anything better?
Well, I hope you enjoyed my story and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE leave as many reviews as possible, it builds me up mentally… ;-)