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Chapter Twenty-two; Shadows and Regrets
And the days of January continued without so many events, practically none at all. As well did February, the days had passed on very quickly. The hours that Alicia sat on were mostly nights, it was quite at night and nothing happened, she preferred nights over days.
On this particular day something happened, nothing bad though. The date was March tenth, Alicia sat by the table in the kitchen stirring her coffee while reading a book, she had read that book about a thousand times before.
"Alicia?" She heard Katie say in front of her. "Can I talk to you?"
"Sure." Alicia answered, barely looking up from the book.
"I was wondering." Katie said and sat down on the chair in front of Alicia. "Tell me if I'm wrong, but... do you have anything against me, because I have been feeling this hostility from you."
"I have nothing against you." Alicia lied.
"Yes you do." Katie pushed.
Alicia closed her book and put it on the table, after that she leaned forward and looked Katie straight in the eye. "So you can't think of anything you might have done, or said about six months ago that would upset me?" she might as well tell Katie the truth.
"No..." She said but got silent after a while. "I don't think so." She added.
"Well, you have." Alicia said to her.
"Alicia, if this is about what I told Fred, how did you find out? He promised not to tell anyone." Katie said.
"Fred?" Alicia was confused. "What did you tell Fred?"
"I... that's not what you meant?" Katie was just as confused now.
"No, I meant that you told George about Davies."
"I never told George about Davies. I told Fred."
"But why did you tell Fred, I told you that in confidence." Alicia asked thinking that it was just as bad that she had told Fred about it all.
"Alicia, Fred and I..." Katie interrupted herself. "Oh... now I know how he found out."
Alicia stared at her,
"The day before you and George... Well, broke up. Fred and I were talking about the two of you. How... lucky you were to have each other." Katie explained, thinking back about the day. "George must have heard in, eavesdropped. But how that is possibly connected to the two of you breaking up, I don't know."
"But why did you tell Fred in the first place? You still broke my confidence" Alicia said hurtfully.
"I'm sorry, I didn't think that..." Katie started.
"What? I would find out?" Alicia finished.
"No, I'm sorry." Katie said, really feeling sorry. "Fred and I were just talking and it came up... I never meant to hurt you."
"Fine." Alicia muttered and returned to her book, not really able to feel so much better and nicer toward Katie.
"Just... Just tell me what I have to do to make it all better?" Katie asked.
"I..." Alicia started. "How did you know about Oliver, that he kissed me?" She needed to find out.
"Oh that... Um, you know how Angelina liked Oliver when we were in school right?" Katie started. "She saw the two of you, and she got pretty mad at you and started muttering under her breath that the only reason that Oliver even let you on the team was because he liked you, not because you were any good."
"Not comparing with the two of you." Alicia answered. She knew that it was true, she wasn't the best one on the team, she was good, but not the best.
"You know that's not true, Chasers work as a team, and sure Angelina have a more special speciality, she does still needs you and me to win the game." Katie said.
Alicia didn't say anything to argue, she knew that she impossibly could win this argument. "So that's how she knew." She muttered instead.
"Can you forgive me?" Katie asked.
Alicia looked up at her, she could say that she forgave Katie, but would she? Would she really accept and forgive Katie in her heart? She knew Katie and by that she knew that Katie would give Alicia the time she needed. So she answered Katie with the truth.
"I don't know..." She answered softly, or as softly as she managed to get her voice. "You really hurt me."
Katie nodded, she, just like Alicia had foreseen, understood that she needed more time.
Katie stood up to leave the table, it was just a couple minutes left until she was going to take over after Dedalus on watching the monitors. But Alicia stopped her.
"Wait." She said. "What were you and Fred talking about?"
"You know, George isn't the only one who has it easy to get jealous." Katie answered, still standing up, but now were half smiling. "Fred and I were talking about the kind of love you and George have."
"What kind is that?" Alicia asked with a frown.
"The kind that doesn't have a title."
"So it's untitled?" Alicia continued disbelieving. This sounded like that kind of talk you only read about in the romance novels.
"Maybe, it's the kind of love that will always hold. You and George are meant for each other, like soul mates, let some time pass and you'll understand that as well. And find your way back to each other, with no regrets." She smiled and then walked away.
Alicia frowned once again, what did she mean, no regrets? But soon she forgot what Katie meant and continued with her book.
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The night were as silent as it was dark, Alicia sat in the chair in front of the monitors, she tried not to think about what Katie had said earlier, she had never heard Katie say something like that earlier. During her sixth year had Alicia developed a taste for Romance novels, but she had eventually stopped reading them, because of this kind of crap.
Love.
She didn't even know if she believed in that now, how can you love one human above another? Love was only body chemicals, that the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure centre and leading to side-effects such as an increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement. This lasted about one and a half to three years.
And what was one supposed to do after this? Rely on the things that they had in common? She and George don't have anything in common, not enough to make their relationship last.
Her train of thought got suddenly interrupted by one of the monitors which weren't working properly; the picture became blurry and then became all shaky.
She sighed and stood up and banged the monitor on the side, hoping that would fix it. It only worked a little, so she hit it again. And it worked, the monitor became clear, but showed something which made her heart beat faster.
It showed someone standing out there, in the darkness. She couldn't see clear who it was, but she could well see that the person were looking at the house. She took a step away from the monitor, He had found out where they were, he'd come to kill them all.
She looked at the list of where the cameras were placed, and saw that just this one where showing right in front of the smaller house, the front of the whole place. She felt herself shake as she turned around and look out the window. There the person stood, looking directly at the house, observing it.
The person couldn't be a muggle, because a muggle wouldn't be able to see the house from outside the grounds. Alicia stood still for several seconds, she didn't dare to move, she wasn't even sure if she were breathing.
But suddenly the person moved. Not toward the house, but walking away from it, down the road and away from them.
As the person was walking away Alicia relied on her instincts to make her do what's right. She turned away from her window and picked up her wand, then she quickly moved over to Katie's room and woke up the sleeping little woman by dragging her out to the big room and sat her down in front of the monitors.
"Alicia." Katie moaned. "What are you doing?"
"Wake up!" Alicia answered. "I'm going out, but I'll be right back."
Katie just moaned and nodded. "Do tha´." She managed to say.
Alicia walked out of the house, gripping her wand tightly, she half ran down to the road. Far away in the darkness could she see the back of the person who had stood and looked at the house, the person didn't seem to have realized that Alicia had ran out after him.
She didn't stop when she came down to the road; she figured that it couldn't be anyone who's fairly dangerous, probably someone who had been sent out to check the place out.
She had come a bit far down the road when she stopped. She took a few steps forward and it was then that she was hit. She couldn't see what hit her on the back. But felt as though it was on fire, it hurt, it hurt quite much.
Alicia felt herself lose control of her legs and she dropped down to her knees. The pain in her back was unbearable, she couldn't stand it, and she dropped her wand to the ground and had lost consciousness before her head even hit the ground.
A/N; I know that I haven't updated in a while and this chapter is pretty cheesy, but I just want this story over with... So I'm going to just write, not really caring how cheesy and sappy it is... But Please review and tell me what you think, we can have a competition about which part is the most cheesiest.
