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Alicia bounded across the corridor and after giving the Fat Lady the password climbed in through the portrait hole. She walked over to table she had put her chart on last but she couldn't find it.
"Looking for this?"
Alicia didn't have to turn around to figure out who it was. He was just about the last person she wanted to see then. Right next to You-Know-Who.
She groaned inwardly and walked straight up to George who was holding her Divination chart in his hand. He pulled it just out of her reach.
"Give it to me," Alicia said firmly not looking at him.
"Why should I?" George replied, an evil gleam in his eye.
Alicia groaned and glared at him. "Just give it to me or I'm going to be late!"
A smirk formed on George's face. Alicia looked to the ground again feeling annoyed with herself for the effect George's smile still had on her. "And why on Earth would I possibly want you of all people to be late?" George asked sweetly.
Alicia grabbed the arm which held her homework and tried to take it from him. George switched it to his other hand.
"What do you want!"
Instead of answering, George simply folded the paper up and walked away towards the portrait hole.
Alicia was right on his heels, attempting to pull him back. "Where the hell are you going?"
"Would you shut up?" George replied rudely.
Alicia scoffed in protest. "You have my homework you bloody git! And you're heading in the exact opposite direction I have to go!"
"SO? So what? Do you think I really care about you and where you have to go?"
Alicia tried to not let her hurt show. "I have to go to class."
"No one is stopping you," George replied turning down a corridor she had never seen before.
"Will you just give it to me?"
"No."
"Why the bloody hell not!" Alicia exclaimed, getting really frustrated.
George gave her a look. "Aw, are you going to cry?"
"Why are you being like this!" Alicia pleaded as he turned around a corner leading to stone steps going upwards. "Where are we going?"
"'We' are not going anywhere. Stop following me."
"I would if you would just give me my homework and let me go."
"Well that sucks for you." George began climbing the dark stairway that spiraled upward.
"You're not seriously going up there are you?" George went out of sight. "It's pitch black in there!" George didn't respond and no way was she going to follow him. She turned around and tried to go back the way they had come but she only got so far before she got lost.
"Damn it," she mumbled under her breath knowing she was going to have to go back to the stairway. "This is quite possibly the worst day of my life."
Meanwhile, George was still climbing the stairs. He was glad Alicia had finally left because he wasn't sure what he was going to find at the top of these stairs and it was something cool he definitely didn't want Alicia to know about it. Not to mention the fact that he hated her.
Fred and him had tried to climb those stairs numerous of times but they would always get bored and go back down. Since he only had History of Magic and then Herbology, he decided that today would be the day he climbed to the top. Also, he had Herbology with Alicia and he did not feel like having to work with her today.
Down at the bottom of the stairwell, Alicia was contemplating what she should do. Should she wait until he came down again or should she go up and get him? What if he never comes down? Alicia decided she would go and get him. Tentatively, she began climbing the stairs.
The higher she went the darker it got, and soon she found herself in complete darkness. The walls were wet and slimy and it smelled musky and dank. She kept feeling like someone or something was going to reach out and grab her.
Five minutes later Alicia had scared herself out of her mind. She kept thinking about Sirius Black and scary muggle movies she had seen. Slightly hysterical, Alicia began racing up the steps as fast as she could until—
"AHHHH!"
"AHHHH!"
"Alicia! What the fuck are you doing? Why would you do that! Why!" George yelped. He had begun getting a little scared himself.
Alicia groaned from where she was on the ground.
"What are you doing down there?" George asked, puzzled.
"Having a bloody tea party, George."
"I thought you left! Just my luck."
"I did, but I can't find my way back so I followed your stupid arse up here so you could take me back."
"UGH, YOU ARE SO DAMN ANNOYING! WHEN WILL YOU LEAVE ME ALONE?"
Alicia shoved him into the wall. "I am really not in the mood for arguing so take me back right now or I'll punch you in your other eye."
George rubbed his cheek and resisted the urge to shove her down the stairs. "Fine, come on!" He grabbed her hand and began dragging her down the stairs behind him. "I was doing something really important you know."
"You're going to fast! I'm going to fall again," Alicia complained.
George snickered. "Oh and wouldn't that be a shame."
"I really hate you."
"Right back at you baby."
Alicia smiled. George has the hottest voice. Wait a minute! I must have hit my head REALLY hard when I fell. I'm going to pretend I never thought that.
Finally, they reached the end of the stairwell and into the light. After squinting around while their eyes adjusted, George looked to Alicia and burst out laughing.
"What?" Alicia snapped.
George stifled his laughter but couldn't wipe the smug look off his face. "Nothing…nothing at all."
"Ugh whatever, I don't have time for your nonsense. Hurry up and take me back, I probably missed my entire class by now!"
George heading back towards where they had originally left from. "Yeah, because you like Divination a whole lot," he said sarcastically.
"How would you know?"
George sighed. "Maybe you've had the pleasure of forgetting, but unfortunately we used to be best friends."
Alicia was silent.
When they had finally reached a point where Alicia new where she was she sped up and headed to Herbology, her next class. George, not wanting to spend any more quality time with Alicia, decided to take a different route.
A little while later Alicia sat down at her usual seat next to Katie. At the beginning of the year Professor Sprout always let her students chose where they sat…
George entered the room.
…and of course that meant George was going to be sitting right next to her.
This day cannot get any worse, Alicia thought to herself.
Professor Sprout came to the front of the greenhouse. "Alright students, pair up with the people at you table. Today we are going to be working with Carnivore Lily Flowers…"
"Ali, what happened to your face?" Katie asked looking concerned.
Alicia brought her hand up to her cheek. "What? What are you talking about?"
"…gloves on. When it bites you, simply have one of your partners pull one of it's leaves and it will release…"
"You have a big cut across your face."
Alicia felt the spot on her face that she hit when she slipped. When she pulled back her hand it was splotched with blood. Her expression darkened. "Ask him," she growled.
Katie looked at George who was snickering. "George you didn't!"
"You're right, I didn't."
"What did you do to her?" Katie demanded.
"Me! I didn't do anything. She's clumsy."
Alicia slapped the table. "No I'm not!"
"Are to!"
"Am not!"
"Hi, my name is Alicia. I like to fall down and make large gashes on my face in my spare time!" George said, mimicking Alicia.
Alicia groaned out in frustration. "Hi, my name is George. I think I'm really hot but in reality, I have a RIDICULOUSLY small pe—"
"Alicia!" Katie yelped.
"—that is barely the size of my pinky finger!"
George huffed in outrage. "How would you know? You've never seen it!"
"You're right, I would need a magnifying glass."
George stood up. "Do you wanna bet? You couldn't be more wrong."
Katie reached over and pulled George back down. "Come on you two, we have to start the—"
"What are you going to do, show it to me?" Alicia interrupted.
"No…I was going to have you ask…Elliana."
"WHAT!" Alicia cried out, getting strange looks from people nearby.
Katie let her head fall into her hands. Boy was this going to be a fun class.
By dinner time, everyone had gotten there fair share of George and Alicia.
"Why can't they just be normal and give each other the silent treatment or something!" Lee sighed from where he was perched at a table in the kitchens. Fred and Lee were fed up with Alicia and George so they decided to take refuge in the kitchens and left the girls to deal with them.
"Seriously, how can they keep thinking of more insults? You would think that after fighting so much they would run out of things to say!"
Fred laughed. "Did you see Alicia's face when he brought up the time she came into our room topless! I thought she was going to explode. But I'm sure she's gained a whole lot of brownie points with every guy here."
"She had plenty of fans to begin with…now she'll practically be in the ranks of Harry Potter."
"Well those Slytherins had better stay away from her."
Lee's brows furrowed in confusion. "But what was Alicia talking about seeing George naked? Has he said anything to you?"
Fred shook his head. "I don't even want to know was that was about. By that point, I wasn't even listening to them anymore."
Lee grinned. "Maybe we should have let Angelina and Katie come with us. I kind of feel bad about leaving them alone with those two."
Fred shrugged. "Well I'm still pissed and Ange and Katie for telling Alicia who's pissed at me because of them so there's no point in bringing them in here. I'm sure they're handling things all right."