Oliver and Kat sat in the courtyard talking about whatever topic came up as they watched the rest of the student body make their way to the arena for the First task. Kat still had refused to talk to Cedric and spent most of her time by the sides of her favorite twins or Oliver.
"Kat?" Oliver asked taking a bite out of an apple. Kat gave a slight grunt in response, "Are we going to go get our seats anytime soon?" He was slowly becoming restless as the crowd of people thinned out. Kat gave no reply. Oliver rolled his eyes, threw his apple away, and picked Kat up.
"Oliver," Kat said calmly as they approached the mob of students, "Where do you think you're taking me?" Oliver gave a slight chuckle.
"Just because you and Diggory are having marital issues, doesn't mean that you are going to make me miss the most exciting thing that has happened to Hogwarts." He replied.
"The most exciting thing at Hogwarts?" Kat laughed, "What about the past couple years, Wood? I mean that thing that happen to Ginny was pretty scary or what about the whole Sirius Black thing?" She had to yell over all the cheers as they entered the arena.
"I meant for this year!" he yelled back as he plopped her down onto one of the bleachers. Fred and George stood to Olivers right laughing at the scene before them.
"How'd you get her to come?" Fred smiled, "I've been trying to convince her for weeks." Kat stuck out her tongue.
"He brought me here against my will," she replied, "and I'm not planning on staying," Right when she said that the cannon sounded and the cheers grew. Kat looked over the edge to see who was going first. The only thing she saw at first was the dragon sitting on a boulder waiting for its victim, but then she saw a spec of yellow come into sight, "Oh God," she said, looking over at Fred who gave her a concerned look. She quickly turned her attention back to the scene before her. To anyone else Cedric probably looked brave and fearless, but to Kat-even at the distance- could tell that he was absolutely scared senseless. Cedric looked up into the crowd, immediately finding Kat. He nodded at her and then focused on the egg that sat in the middle of all the rocks and boulders. The Dragon let out a loud growl before sending fire straight for Cedric. He quickly jumped behind a rock.
Kat grabbed onto Olivers sleeve as her heartbeat sped up ten fold. Oliver wrapped an arm around her shoulder. Kat watched intently as Cedric maneuvered his way around the rocks. The dragon began to hit boulders with it's tail sending broken rocks in Kat's direction. The whole group of people in her section ducked. Kat kept her eyes on Cedric. For a split second they made eye contact again - she assumed he did this to make sure she was okay- but in her peripheral vision she saw the dragon getting ready for another rampage.
"If he doesn't move he's dead meat," she heard Oliver tell George.
"Cedric!" she screamed. Cedric snapped his head back into the direction of the dragon. A rock went flying towards him, hitting him in the stomach. Kat dug her face into Olivers shoulder. Kat tried to drown out the sounds of breaking rocks and the stomping of the dragon. Her head was spinning, she began to feel lightheaded.All of a sudden it went quiet. Oliver shook her, signaling for her to look up. She did so and saw that the arena was clear of Cedric and the dragon was on the ground, not moving. Kat looked around for any sign of Cedric, she almost gave up until she saw a familiar spec of brown hair rise from behind a huge boulder. Cedric grabbed the egg and held it up for everyone to see. The arena erupted in cheers, while Kat let out a sigh of relief. She quickly left Olivers side and sprinted to the tent where the champions were located. She put her ear to the cloth to see if she could here him.
"Cedric?" she whispered, praying that it was him and not Krum or Fleur.
"Kitty?" a voice replied. Kat smiled and slowly entered the tent through the small slit.
"Ced!" she attacked him with a hug, "Don't you ever scare me like that again or I swear I will beat you with a stick." Cedric cringed slightly.
"Ow. Ow. Ow. Kat careful." He instructed, She quickly let go and apologized, which made him chuckle, "What happened to 'you're on your own'?"
"I sort of threw that out the window when I saw you enter the arena." Kat smiled, "Are you okay?" she asked sitting him down.
"Yeah I'm fine," he replied, "That stupid rock just took me by surprise." Kat cocked an eyebrow.
"Yeah, I saw that," she said, "It's not like you to lose focus like that."
"I know," he said, "But I got the egg now." He smiled, changing the subject, "Are you actually going to help me all the way through this time? Cause if you are you're going to have to get used to Cho."
"I'm going to help you no matter what," Kat replied, "But I'm not promising anything about your girlfriend. Merlin, can you imagine what Liam would be saying right now?" Both gave a small laugh.
"Something along the lines of," Cedric puffed out his chest, but spoke in a fan girly type voice, "Cedric that was bloody brilliant. You are my hero!"
"You little liar," Kat laughed, shoving Cedric lightly. Cedric laughed.
"Yeah, I know," His laughing faded, "This is all for him, you know," he continued, " He always was up for crazy stuff like this," he looked down at the golden egg in his hands, as the cannon sounded again, "I could've sworn I saw him next to you in the stands." Kat gave him an odd look.
"Really?" she asked, "Is that why you looked over?" Cedric nodded.
"And right as the rock hit me, I realized that it was Wood, not Liam." Cedric emphasized Olivers name and this didn't go unnoticed.
"If I have to tolerate Cho than you have to deal with Oliver and the twins." She said in a businesslike tone. Cedric slowly looked up at her.
"Why?" he asked, slightly irritated, "Are you dating any of them?"
"Well no, but they are my friends and-" he cut her off.
"And your practically dating Oliver," Cedric finished for her. She was about to protest but he stuck a hand up to stop her, "I'm joking," he smiled. He got up and led her out of the tent, "Come on. Let's go to-"
"CEDRIC!" A voice squealed. Kat groaned. She turned in time to get out of the way of a running Cho as she practically tackled Cedric, "Oh, I was so worried. That dragon was so big!"
"What did you expect? A bloody cream puff?" Kat scoffed quietly. Cho let go of Cedric and turned to face Kat.
"What was that?" she asked. Kat shrugged.
"Oh, nothing," Kat smiled.
"Kat!" someone called from behind. Kat watched as Cedric's expression turned cold at the sight of whoever was approaching and turned around immediately.
"Hey," she smiled as she saw Oliver running over.
"Come on, you're missing amazing stuff," Oliver smiled. Kat hooked arms with him and nodded.
"Alright," she smiled. The pair turned back to Cedric and Cho who were watching them intently, "I'll talk to you later, Ced," Kat smiled. Kat had to break up the small glaring competition that Cedric and Oliver were having. Oliver and Kat slowly turned and Kat smiled as she heard Cho talk.
"I didn't know she was dating Wood," she said.
"Their not," Cedric growled. Kat practically skipped back to her seat.
"Why are you so happy?" Oliver asked, smiling.
"I had a very productive day," she smiled resting her head on his shoulder as they watched the rest of the First task.
So Im sorry that its been taking me so long guys.
Im having some school and home issues( and some MAJOR writers block)
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