Chapter four

Welcome to my fifth year at Hogwarts

Laurens PoV

It looked like Oliver was going to slap me.

Well, maybe not me. Maybe he'd slap Fred. But, with his luck at telling them apart, he might think it's George.

I wish he had just walked into the common room a few seconds later. Then it would have been all right.

He wouldn't have seen me and Fred kissing on a dare (thanks a lot Katie Bell). He wouldn't have got jealous. But if things always went the way I wished then plenty of things would be messed up in life.

"Oliver...?" I stood up and reached out toward him. He flinched away.

"Just don't tell Eric" he whispered quietly.

"Like you won't tell him. Like Percy won't be giving me a lecture tomorrow morning about his brothers."

"Okay fine," he said louder, "Just don't hang around Fred and George and I won't tell him!"

"That's ridiculous! Why would I do that?"

"Because Harry's hanging out with their younger brother" he said this so only I could hear, "and you don't want to run into Harry, you told me that last year."

Now I felt like slapping him.

"Why would it be a bad thing if I told Eric?" I asked, suddenly curious.

Oliver just smirked and walked away.

Katie stood up and patted me on the back.

"Sorry. I didn't think that dare would get you in so much trouble with Oliver"

"It doesn't matter," I went to sit next to George, "Oliver's not my quidditch captain"

"He's going to kill me, isn't he?" Fred laughed.

"Yep"

"Ha, I'd like to see him try"

I glared at him.

It's not like I didn't enjoy our kiss. It just lasted about 8 seconds longer then I meant it to. I'm pretty sure Oliver saw about 4 seconds of it.

"Hey guys," I'd said, "Let's play truth or dare" mistake number one.

"Should we wait for Oliver to get back from the library?" Angelina had asked.

"Nah," mistake number two.

"Can I go first?" Katie asked.

"Sure," I said.

"Um...Lauren, truth or dare?"

"Dare," mistake number three.

She had looked around the common room, for inspiration, then settled her eyes back on me, smiling.

"I dare you to kiss Fred...on the lips" she quickly clarified. Everyone laughed. Fred put his head on my shoulder.

"It is a dare" he said. I could tell from his tone and everyones expression that they didn't think I would do it.

Well, I'll show them, mistake number four.

I lifted Fred's chin and kissed him. I saw his face right before and I could tell he was shocked I was actually going to kiss him. He stayed in that state for the first second and half, then he had wrapped his arms around my waist and kissed me back. I think that's when Oliver walked in.

When I pulled away Fred was smiling.

"Ooooooooo!" Alicia and Katie were saying.

Then I saw Oliver.

"Uh-oh" that was an understatement.

When I saw Eric next he didn't even look at me. He acted like I didn't exist.

Perfect.

Percy did give me a lecture. Unfortunately, he was the one who kept talking to me. Even George was avoiding me. And if George is avoiding you, then Fred is avoiding you, too. I was stuck with Percy.

"Stupid boys," I muttered at lunch a few days later, "Stupid Oliver and stupid Eric and stupid Katie Bell"

"Katie's not a boy," Percy pointed out.

I growled at him.

Yay, for my fifth year!