Moments

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Chapter 10:

"What was that?" I asked as a quaffle flew right through the loop with a strange sort of twist.

"If you hold the ball like this, before you shoot, it puts a sort of spin on it…" Colin trailed off.

"Why'd you stop?" Sansa asked.

"You really want me to explain?"

"Yes!"

"Okay, so it's like this."

For a first year Colin was extremely smart. He asked me to have private flying lessons with me all week but he never showed me this move before.

I blew my whistle and everyone gathered. "That was an excellent practice. Good job everyone. Slytherin won't know what hit them. Everyone hit the showers and enjoy your day of rest tomorrow. The game is in two days so make sure you get enough rest. Don't over exert yourselves doing extracurricular activities."

"Hey," I said to Rose, "is Ali up in her dorms?"

"No."

"What the hell is your problem with me?"

"Excuse me?" Rose had this look on her face like she was disgusted to even be in my presence.

I hated it when Rose acted like this, all snobby-like and sneering.

"I said what the hell is your bloody problem with me? If you don't like me, I don't give a shit. I'm not your biggest fan either. You walk around like you got a firebolt up your ass. Just stay the fuck out of my relationships. You had no right to try and warn Ali away from me"

"She's my best friend"

"She could be your sister for all I give a fuck. Stay the hell out of my relationships. It's none of your fucking business. When you stop being such a know-it-all prune then maybe you'll get a boyfriend of your own. If you see Ali tell her I'm looking for her."

"What the hell did you say to Rose?"

I looked up to see a very angry Ali standing over me. Her hands were on her hips and her eyes were narrowed.

"I told her to mind her own business and stay out of our relationship" I replied.

"We don't have a relationship/"

"I don't remember us breaking up." I set aside the essay I was working on so I could look her in the eye.

"I…You still want to be with me?" Her arm fell from her hips as she began to lose some of her anger.

"You're the one who has been avoiding me" I pointed out.

"I needed time to think" she said quietly.

"And have you thought it all out?"

She shook her head.

I pulled her into my chair with me. "You don't have to do everything alone."

Ali sighed. "I was going to head down to Madam Patil and have her look me over before I ran into Rose. Come with me, I'll go do it right now."

"Alright" I banished my homework upstairs to my room.

We walked down to the nurses' office. We still had a lot of things to discuss but I was hoping we'd have time to discuss them after we saw the school's nurse.

"Just so there's no confusion. I'm your boyfriend, you're my girlfriend. So no more avoiding me"

"Okay"

"Fred is right, I do sound like a girl" I muttered.

Ali laughed.

"Sounding like a girl is a bad thing?" she asked.

"It is if you're a manly man like me." This caused her to laugh harder.

"You're always laughing at me" I fake pouted.

"You're so easy to laugh at" she replied.

"You know you love me."

We entered the infirmary. Luckily there was no one occupying any of the beds.

"Hello, how may I help you" Madam Patil asked when she saw us.

I did a double check to make sure no one else was around.

"I'm pregnant" Ali blurted. "We took a test we got from the apothecary and it was positive. So now we're here for a check-up or whatever it is that pregnant people do next."

Madam Patil looked shocked for all of five seconds. "Please lay down on a cot."

Ali laid down. I sat in the chair right next to her. I held her hand. Madam Patil began touching Ali's stomach. I have no idea what she was doing. Trying to feel the baby? I shrugged my shoulder not wanting to ask questions yet. Then she pulled out her wand and muttered a spell. I don't know what she did but suddenly Madam Patil said "Yes you're pregnant. I'd say about five or six weeks."

Five to six weeks. School started barely eight weeks ago. I think this means I got her pregnant that first time. I wasn't sure if that's a good thing or not. I mean, most guys would brag about getting a girl pregnant on their first try. Only I wasn't exactly trying to get her pregnant.

"Everything seems good, but it's too soon to tell. You are going to need regular check-ups, at least once a month. We'll write a schedule."

Fifteen minutes later Ali and I headed to our private room.

"I'm really pregnant" Ali muttered.

"Yeah, we're having a baby."

"Merlin's pants."

We laid down on our blankets. I had her in my arms.

"My parents are going to kill me" she finally said.

"No, they aren't. I won't let them"

"You don't know my parents"

"I'll meet them"

"I don't want you to."

"You don't want me to meet your parents? Don't you think they'll want to meet the guy who knocked up their only child?"

"No" Ali shook her head. "My dad will kill you. I'm serious."

I sighed. "We'll my family will love you. My god brother Teddy married my cousin Victorie some years back and my grandmum Molly has been pressuring them to have babies. Nan is going to go ballistic. She loves babies. Probably why she had seven kids."

"Seven is a lot. I can't imagine giving birth just the one time."

"Well we got, what nine months to prepare" I said.

"Seven and a half. Remember before we left Madam Patil said the due date would be around the end of June."

"Oh, yeah. You can have the baby right after we get out of the school."

"You think I'll still be here then?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I don't know the rules are here but there are some muggle schools that won't accept pregnant girls. They kick them out and send them to a school for pregnant teens."

"They have schools like that?" I never heard of such thing. Then again I never heard of anyone being pregnant at Hogwarts either. "We'll they're not going to kick you out here."

"How do you know?"

"It's the only wizarding school in Britain. They can't kick you out. Where else will you go to learn? Besides Professor McGonagall seems all strict and bad-ass like but she's a big softy on the inside. Don't tell anyone I told you that though, she'd deny it."

"You seem happy. Did you make up with your girl?" Fred asked as we played a match of wizard's chest.

"Yea, is it that obvious? Bishop to F4"

"You've had that huge grin on your face all afternoon. Knight to F2. Checkmate."

I looked down at the board. I suck at this game.

"You suck at this game" Fred pointed out.

"I know" I pulled out a stack of cards from my pocket. "Exploding snap?"

"You suck at this too" Fred said.

"Bring it on."