Chapter 6

Later that night me and the girls were getting ready for bed when they sprung Olivers question on me again.

"SO Jess, do you have a crush on someone?" Alicia asked as she lay across my bed, soon followed by Ange.

"I dunno, I'm confused."

"Well if it helps, I like Fred and Alicia likes George." Ange offered.

"I knew it, I think they like you too." I smiled when they beamed at the thought and joined them on my bed.

"Well I think I like Oliver." I said frowning.

"Why the confusion then?" Alicia asked.

"Well I think he's only nice to me cos I'm a "professional", I mean he's really sweet sometimes but he always turns things back into quidditch or my game. I mean he can never just not mention quidditch to me. I think he only likes me because of that and I don't think he thinks of me as anything more, and if he did it would be just because I was a quidditch player." Alicia and Angelina both gaped at each other then at me.

"Jess, you idiot, he likes you and not just cos you're a quidditch player, although I do think he'd have a problem dating anyone who wasn't one." Ange said as I raised a disbelieving eyebrow at her.

"She's right he's always looking at you for one, and I've never seen Oliver flirt with anyone in my life, then suddenly you come along and he's suddenly trying to tickle you or tease you and puts his arm around you at any given opportunity etc etc."

"Plus he liked you before he knew you were a quidditch player." At this I did the ultimate confused frown.

"Right you remember your first night here, well at dinner he was gaping at you, practically drooling, so we thought he knew who you were, and was just being a starstruck idiot, and he was also gaping at you in the common room but then when we started telling him about you taking a place on the team, and we discovered he had no idea who you were before that." Ange finished proudly.

"Thus, he liked you before he knew you were a quidditch player."

"Maybe I had something stuck in my teeth. Oh god, did I have something stuck in my teeth??" I asked suddenly mortified.

"Jessica Moran, where is your self esteem girl, why wouldn't Oliver Wood like you, you're pretty, you have a great body, you're nice and you're funny, you're the perfect catch!" Alicia said

"Hell no I'm none of those things." I said embarrssed and blushing. I mean I'm not am I?

"Seriously, how could you not know?"

"I just don't think I am, I mean I've never had many friends and I rarely get any interest from guys." I shrugged.

"Well I think it's good that you don't think those things are true, cos then you'd get a huge head and not want to be our friends." Ange said while reaching over to hug me.

"I'd never not want to be your friends guys, you're the best friends I've ever had! Oh group hug!"I smiled, finally feeling like I finally belonged somewhere.

"You guys are beautiful too, I hope you know that, and Fred and George are gonna be lucky to have ye, and they are going to have ye!"

"Oh merlin, how soppy are we being!" Alicia said

"I know, that was mega girly!" I laughed at her.

"I have an idea girls, how about we dont go to bed just yet, the guys are still up and were all in quite skimpy pyjamas, why don't we go down and monitor their reactions!?" Ange asked.

"I actually think that could be quite funny!" I agreed and after some persuasion Alicia followed us down to the common room.

"Hey guys, we decided were not tired yet, anything fun happen since we left?" Ange asked the boys. I had to stifle a laugh, Fred was checking her out so bad and I think we just rendered the twins speechless, something Id never seen before!! George was also gaping at Alicia and moved straight away to sit beside her on the sofa she had just occupied. I giggled and retook my seat beside Oliver, I was too scared to look and see if Oliver was checking me out. I caught Alicia's eye however and she nodded to him so I turned to look at him and saw that he was staring at my body. I waved my hand infront of his face, he looked up suddenly and blushed. I laughed at him and ruffled his hair, smiling to myself. Us three girls were all suddenly talking to each other through our eyes, confirming that maybe we all had been right about the boys crushed, this made the guys quite confused.

"What are you guys doing, why are you laughing? Fred asked and we laughed more.

"Have you made up some sort of secret eye movement language?" George asked.

"Nope, we just know what each other is thinking at the moment, you know, great minds think alike!" I replied as I tried to stop laughing! It was still only ten o'clock so all started chatting again as we had been earlier.

"Lets play a game, you have to pick up this box with just your mouth withought letting anything but the soles of your feet touch the ground" Fred said holding a cardboard box about the size of a cereal box.

"Ok, sounds fun!" I said as I got up and got straight into the game, picking up the box in my mouth without a problem. After everyone did that Fred tore off a bit from the top and we tried again. This time Angelina stumbled, lost her balance and fell on her butt laughing!

"You're out!!" We all said laughing at her clumsiness. More was torn off the box and this time as I was about to grab the box with my teeth, when a spell knocked me backwards on top of guess who, Oliver of course. I rolled off him and turned my head towards him.

"You ok dude? Sorry about that, somebody appears to be cheating!" I said as I turned and glared at Fred and George.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He said helping me to my feet. "You ok?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, landed on a comfy surface!" I laughed as I plonked myself on the couch, watching everyone who was still in the game and plotting my revenge. Oliver was up next but he somehow managed to put his hand on the floor, so he took a place next to me. Think jelly legs should do it, I thought as Fred was about to take his turn. Just as he was about to grab the box I performed the jinx and Fred fell flat on his face, his legs still wobbling around the ground. After I regained composure from my laughing fit, I reversed the spell.

"Control your woman Wood!" Fred mumbled at him.

"Hey, you started it Frederick Weasley, and I don't need controlling thank you very much!" I said still smiling at him, trying not to blush. Soon the two girls went up to bed and I followed them a few minutes later. When I got to the dorm I found them already in bed almost asleep. I climbed straight into bed but I couldn't sleep cos I felt I'd forgotten something. Then it hit me, I had a game tomorrow, I can't go to bed! So I jumped out of bed, shook my head and went back downstairs. I was surprised to see Oliver still sitting by the fire.

"Hey dude, what are you still doing up?" I said taking up my seat next to him.

"Just thinking, about erm... the game. What are you doing up again?"

"Well, I dont think I can say, cos it's, well it's really silly!"

"Tell me, promise I won't laugh, well if I can help it anyway." He put an arm around me to encourage me to tell him.

"Ok, well, I have kind of a superstition thing about quidditch games, but it's dumb. But I cant do it tonight, so I'll have to not sleep instead, or else we'll loose"

"Ok that doesn't make sense, what's the thing you do?" I blushed.

"I sleep with a guy." His eyes opened wide and I realised he misunderstood me. "No, I dont mean that, I mean... well it started when I was a bit younger, my neighbour used to sleepover before games so only one of our parents had to drive us to games, then whenever he didn't, we'd loose. Then in Luxembourg I used to room with Seb anyway before games, so we slept in the same bed. Just slept, that's all." I added when I noticed the look on his face. "But the point is whenever I dont sleep in the same bed as a guy before a game we loose, so I was going to go ask the twins if I could sleep in their bed, but then I thought, that's inappropriate cos they soo like Ange and Alicia, so that would be weird. So I decided if I didn't sleep, then it wouldn't affect the game."

"Well, come on then." He said offering me his hand.

"Eh?"

"As your captain, I cant let you get no sleep, therefore you have to sleep with me, and I'm insulted that you thought of the twins before me." He said with that tradmark smirk of his. I shrugged and followed him to his dorm. I'll admit, I was smiling inside!

"I didn't think of the twins before you, I just thought it wouldn't be as weird with them cos their very brother like!"

"So I'm not brother like?" He said with a smirk on his face, still holding my hand.

"Nope, you're a boy!" I said in a childlike way.

"Ah, so I'm not trustworthy in the sack?" I laughed at him.

"Nope you'll probably grope me in my sleep!" I said sticking my tongue out at him.

"Would that be so bad?" he said cheekily.

"Well if it means we win tomorrow, I might need to make the sacrifice!" We laughed as we entered his dorm.

"Hey, don't you have a roommate?"

"Nope, captains privileges!" He smirked. I wrinkled my nose at him and jumped into his bed, then turned to face him, eeek! He's changing infront of me!

"I'll just erm, turn around shall I." I said reluctantly rolling over in the bed , still thinking of the image of his abs in my mind, mmmmm yummy! I felt the other side of the bed sink under his weight and started to feel quite awkward.

"Hey Jess." I turned around and saw the outline of his face in the moonlight. "So we're definitely going to win tomorrow?"

"Yeah dude! Put up with me for the night and we'll win. I move a lot in my sleep though!" I warned

"Small price to pay!" he whispered and I smirked at him.

"Hey, you know the way you call me dude?"

"Yeah?"

"Well I lke it." I smiled at him

"Good, cos you're stuck with it dude!" I laughed, sticking my tongue out at him again.

"I'm glad you're here this year. It's nice having someone besides Percy in classes, and having someone to talk to and to erm...look at." My eyes opened wide when he said the last bit, I couldn't help but smile. I moved over towards him and pecked him on the cheek.

"Thanks Oliver, that was sweet. Good night dude!" I said as I ruffled his hair, still quite close to him.

"Night squirt!" He retorted I giggled and snuggled into his pillow. I was so comfortable, his whole bed smelled of Oliverness, and it helped that the one and only was beside me. After about a minute, I changed position as is customary, hey I told you I moved around a lot! After a couple of minutes of my moving about I felt a strong arm around me.

"Jess, come here." I didn't argue with him as he pulled me close to him so my head was resting on his chest.

"Comfy now?"

"Yes captain." Soon I felt myself drifting off to sleep, smiling inside. A while later Oliver stirred and I woke up, but kept my eyes closed, well, I couldn't really open them, they were glued together. I felt his other arm wrap around me and I cheekily moved my leg on top of his. I was about to go back to sleep when I felt Oliver kiss me on the forehead. I swear, my entire body was occupied by butterflies as I drifted back into a pleasant dreamworld.