Chapter 4
I didn't move as I thought about what had just happened. I had practically told Charlie about how I felt and he had brushed it off and walked away. I felt tears in my eyes and quickly wiped them away.
"What happened?" Katie asked, coming to stand beside me. "That didn't look too friendly."
"He said that he regretted taking me to Romania and that he could have got me killed and I said that he risks his life every day and he said it didn't matter because no one would miss him except his family, who wouldn't notice he was gone most of the time and then I told him that I would miss him everyday he said that I count as family and wouldn't notice he was dead most of the time and then left." I said in one breath as I fought the tears.
"You practically told him and he left!" Katie exclaimed. "That's so not right. You should just walk up and be like 'oi dickhead, I love you' maybe he'll understand that."
I laughed, "I can't do that, that's something Ang would do."
"I think she might of, look." She said pointing to the other end of the yard.
I looked over and saw Angelina with her lips locked to Fred's.
"Damn happy couples. " Katie spat, "Let us drown our sorrows with desserts and fire whiskey."
"That sounds brilliant."
Hours later all of the adults had either gone home or gone to bed and Katie and I were getting rather loud. We had drunk a bottle of fire whiskey between us and had decided that singing was a good idea. Half way through our first song Bill and Charlie came to investigate.
"BILL! CHARLIE!" I yelled.
"Are you gunna sing with us?" Katie asked.
"No, and you two aren't going to sing anymore either." Charlie said.
I looked at Katie and whispered loudly "Oi dickhead."
We both collapsed into a fit of giggles.
"I think you two should stop drinking and sober up a bit." Bill suggested.
Katie and I exchanged glances again, "How about… NO!" we declared in unison.
"How about yes." Charlie counted.
"You're silly. We said no." Katie told him.
"But I said yes."
"But we said no. We have not finished drowning our sorrows in desserts and fire whiskey yet. Therefore we cannot stop." I told him.
"Why are you drowning your sorrows?" Bill asked.
"Because boys are stupid." Katie replied simply.
"Oi dickhead." We said in unison and laughed again.
"Alright, you two are officially cut off." Charlie announced.
Katie and I both shrugged and took another swig out of the bottle.
Charlie rolled his eyes at Bill, "This is hopeless."
"Alright, you two can drink for another hour and then no more alright?"
"Yes Bill." We said sweetly.
Both the boys left and we knew they were plotting to make us stop drinking.
"I know what we can do! Let's fly. Flying is fun." Katie said excitedly.
We summoned our brooms and kicked off into the night.
Charlies POV
Bill and I had just left Alexis and Katie and were trying to devise a plan to stop them from drinking without upsetting them too much. I squeal from above let us know the girls had moved. We looked up and saw two very drunk teenage girls on brooms dodging and weaving between the trees and each other.
"This is going to get ugly." Bill predicted.
"Katie, come on you're going to hurt yourself." George called.
Both the girls stopped, looked at George and then at each other, "Oi dickhead!" They shouted before laughing hysterically.
"Katie, come down so I can talk to you please."
Katie laughed, "Why should I? You were horrible to me before and now all of a sudden you want to talk."
"Katie please. Just let me explain."
"There is absolutely nothing to explain. I get it you don't like me. Now go away."
"I do like you Katie, I like you a lot. Now come down so we can talk about this privately."
Katie's eyes grew wide as she turned to Alexis who was grinning. The girls hugged in mid-air before Katie landed less than gracefully beside George.
"Well at least one of them is down."
"But we've got the stubborn one still there." Bill replied.
"Your turn Lex." I called up to her.
"No. I like it up here."
"I'd like it better if you were down here."
"Oh that's right, you don't want me to do anything that I want to do." She replied sarcastically.
I sighed, "It's safer down here."
"I don't care."
I looked at Bill, "Your turn, she won't listen to me."
"Hey Lexy, why don't we go flying later on, in the day time when you're sober. How does that sound?" Bill asked her.
She cocked her head to one side, "I don't know about that. I'm really enjoying myself at the moment."
"Come on Alexis, almost everyone is gone to bed if we fly tomorrow maybe everyone will play Quidditch with us." Bill suggested.
"That's a good idea, because we need Hermione to keep score and Harry and Ron and Ginny need to play too. Let's wake them up!"
"We are not playing now and you are not waking them up." I told her.
"You're no fun. I want to fly so I'm flying."
"I just want you to be safe Lex."
"Why would you even care?" she asked as she sped around the yard again.
"Why is she so stubborn?" I asked Bill.
"I don't know mate but if you don't get her down soon its gunna get messy."
"Why me? She doesn't listen to me. How am I meant to get her down?"
"Think of her as a dragon and coax her down." He suggested.
"That's a great idea! I'll tell her I'll take her back to Romania tomorrow." I decided.
"Hey Lex!" I called.
She stopped suddenly, "What?"
"If you come down now I'll take you back to Romania tomorrow to see the dragons again."
She regarded me suspiciously, "Really?"
"Yes. Come on, flying time is finished now."
"You don't mean that. You won't take me back there. You said so yourself!"
"I will if you come down."
"Don't lie to me Charlie. I know you're lying. You said before that next time there is something I want you won't be giving it to me. You will never ever take me back there even if my life depended on it."
"Fine! Stay up there all night! See if I care!" I yelled, turning my back on her.
Bill put a hand on my shoulder, "You do care, Charlie. You care about her a lot; you just won't admit it to anyone, not even to yourself."
"She's the twin's best friend, of course I care about her."
"It's more than that. If she fell, you would be the first one at her side."
"Bill I don't like her like that." I said as I walked into the house.
I went up to my bedroom and pondered what Bill had just said, as I watched Alexis fly around the yard.