As promised, her visit this year was even better than last year. Unfortunately for me, that just made it so much harder to let her do. I don't know if I would have been able to, except for the fact that I knew it'd only be one year until Katie was here with me. Then I take as long as I needed to confessing my feelings, and keep an eye on her at the same time.

Unfortunately, things don't usually go as planned, now do they?

It was about halfway through the year. I had received a few letters from Katie, of course, who was a little lonely without Angelina, Alicia, Fred, and George, because now she had only Leanne.

Then, suddenly, the letters stopped. Completely. I wrote her, but she didn't reply.

Dear Leanne,

Katy won't reply to my letters. Is she angry with me? Did I do something wrong? Please tell me, because it's killing me.

Sincerely,

Oliver

I waited three days before I got a reply. But the reply itself was a thousand times worse than the wait.

Dear Oliver,

I really I wish I wasn't the one to have to tell you this. I wish this wasn't even true. But Katie's in St. Mungo's. She was under the Imperius Curse, forced to deliver a cursed necklace to Dumbledore, but she touched the necklace and it almost killed her. She's still unconscious. Please go visit her.

Regretfully yours,

Leanne.

I couldn't breathe. Time stopped, and I was slowly suffocating. I think I honestly collapsed on my kitchen floor reading the message.

As soon as I got up, however, I apparated to St. Mungo's. the lady at the front desk told me where her room was. When I got there, however, I couldn't bring myself to open the door. I paced slowly in front of it, until an elderly healer came and politely asked me to go in or stop blocking the door.

I opened it slowly. She looked so peaceful there, but she was all bandaged up. I wanted to throw my arms around her and comfort her, but she looked so frail sitting there that I was afraid to touch her. So instead, I settled for gently holding her hand.

"Katie?" I said softly. "Katie, you have to be okay, alright? You have to be okay so you can movie in with me. You know why I asked you Katie? You'll never guess. It's because I love you. I love you, and I've loved you ever since the day I kissed you. Ironic, isn't it, that that's the day you stopped liking me? I know. I hate irony, myself. Katie, that's why you need to be okay, alright?"

I sat there in silence a few more moment, holding her hand. Suddenly, without warning, her eyes fluttered open.

"Noodles," she said loudly, upon opening her eyes. "Oliver?" she queried, seeing me. (AN: you see, I wanted to stop using the words, asked and said so often, so I made a list of synonyms for them, and queried was on there.)

"I'm here, Katie," I said.

"What happened?" she demanded, sitting up.

"You shouldn't move so much," I told her. "You got cursed, and you-"

"I'll move as much as I want!" she insisted.

"Why did you say noodles when you woke up?" I asked. She looked confused.

"What?"

"When you woke up, you said, 'Noodles.' Then you saw me and said my name."

She looked at me as if I were crazy, and I just shook my head.

*****

A couple days later, she was released to her parents house, but not allowed to go back to school yet. I came over every day.

That was when I realized I couldn't wait even a half a year longer. I had to tell her. Because in half a year she could fall in love with someone else.

But how to do it?

How to tell Katie, my best friend, my more or less little sister, my Star Chaser-

My Star Chaser.

That was it!

*****

A couple days later, after some serious spell practicing (I had to get it perfect after all), I was ready. I asked her if she wanted to go for a walk. Her mother looked skeptical about walking outside at night, but Katie begged and pleaded, and Mrs. Bell gave in.

I held her hand as we walked. To her it wasn't anything special, but I was on top of the world. Finally, I decided it was time to make my move.

We sat down in the grass, and I managed to sit just so that if she turned her head, she wouldn't see me pull my wand out. A moment later, a shooting star shot across the sky, and Katie and I shared a knowing grin before she took off after it.

She followed it, realizing it was coming closer to the ground. She watched in amazement as it flew straight towards her and landed right at her feet.

After a moment it stopped glowing, and she picked up the small, star-shaped locket with the words I Love You on it.

"Like it?" I asked nonchalantly as she stared at it in awe. She looked at me in pure and utter shock. Then, before I knew what was happening, she threw herself at me, her arms around my neck, and her lips on mine.

And if I do say so myself, I think I changed her mind about kissing me.

"So you love me back?" I asked cautiously.

"I've always loved you Oliver!" she cried.

"B-but, that time you-and you said-What!?"

She looked at me, her expression clearly saying 'are you freaking insane!?'

"Oliver, you idiot!" she yelled. "I only said that because I didn't want things to be weird. I could tell you never fully believed I'd gotten over you. Then when I kissed you, I knew that'd make things weird, so I said the first thing I thought of!"

"You mean I could have been snogging you this entire time!?" I shouted, annoyed. She just laughed.

"You can now," she said suggestively.

And so I did.

*****

Yayzies! They're all happy and stuff! Anyway, one more chapter, probably fluffy. And thanks muchly to Pepper Lane and Gurugirl for their AMAZING and faithful reviews (HINT, HINT!)