Merely the Brutal Truth

Chapter Seven


Disclaimer: All JKR. I just want to kidnap it.

this chapter is should be rated a little higher because it has a little more sexual reference than the others. If that stuff unnerves you PM me and i'll get a low key one to you I guess. On with the story:


Brutal Truth XXXVIII: they still haven't told me the second task...

Sodding Weasleys.

Enough said.

Brutal truth XXXIX: stupid bloody coloured dots...

They were play in that coloured human chess game in the common room again this evening. "They" being "The Sodding Weasleys", Alicia, Ange and Katie. But they had three mats this time, Ange and Fred were tangled over the top of one, Alicia and George on the other. Poor Little Katie was sitting cross legged on the third boredly calling out "Right foot red... Left hand blue...Left foot yellow." and so on. As I watched, Fred tumbled to the floor, knocking out Angelina's legs and making the two of them roll dangerously close to the fireplace.

Katie yawned. "Can't you charm something to call instead of me? I want to play"

"Fred's out now anyway... he fell." George commented.

"I still wanna play... HEY OLIVER!"

And so I wandered over. "What"

"Play with Kates"

"I'd really rather not."

Merlin knew getting tangled up with Katie was the last thing I needed. I'm head over heel in love with the girl and trying not to be. Making my hormones demand her, was a BAD idea.

"Please Oliver." Ange pleaded.

"I don't know how to play" I argued. Its true I didn't

"oh its easy... the caller calls out stuff like "Right foot blue" and you follow their instructions... Put your right foot on a blue dot. Don't let your knees, backside or head touch the ground, and don't fall over." Alicia explained. I could have thrown something at her, She really wasn't helping my case.

I grimaced, "I really should go work on my new plays..." It didn't work, sodding weasleys.

George sighed histrionically, "It pains us to do it Oliver"

"Really it does" Fred added. They were doing the 'one-sentence-coming-from-two-of-them' thing again.

"But"

"We're ordering you to play"

"You still owe us two tasks after all Wood"

Behind them the girls snickered. They knew about the tasks, after the Katie had explained the first one, thankfully thought they didn't know the 'UN-truth" I had told to get in this predicament.

"Therefore"

Fred pulled out a parchment and quill.

"TASK TWO:" George dictated, "Play Twister with Katie... and don't whinge about it"

At this stage I would like to point out that I don't sodding

whinge. I just don't do it.

So I was stuck following the instructions that Fred's charmed shoe gave me. "Right foot green, Left hand yellow. Left foot blue".

The game is not fun. I was bent over Kates, with her leg wrapped around mine so she could reach the other side of the mat and I was wobbling. It wasn't helping that I could smell her perfume, and it was making me slightly dizzy and more than a little ... well... turned on.

I almost kissed her.

But I fell.

On TOP of her. If I thought I had a problem with lying underneath her... Well, this was worse. Much worse

So there I am, lying on Katie... and she's smiling at me. "You lose Obila" she says softly.

I nod slowly... I was in a very different plane to her though... the rest of the world was spinning. there was just me and her, lying on a mat with coloured dots. And I had lost... I was a goner. She was just too beautiful, I had tried but it was no use.

Resistance is Futile.

"Katie..." the words got stuck in my throat. she moved a little and I inhaled sharply. Fred and George's laughs brought me abruptly back to planet earth and the Gryffindor common room. I moved back reluctantly and turned to face the twins.

"Oliver that is the quickest--" George sniggered

"that anyone has ever got out in Twister!" Fred laughed.

Feeeling disgruntled, I scowled at them. "Well its a stupid game anyway... I have plays to work on. We have practise at five thirty tomorrow. Don't be late"

I'm sitting in the library now, with two quidditch books open in front of me, explaining 1920's Puddlemere chaser Jack Harrington's "Left Wings Dare" play and the right wings version of it that the Appleby arrows right fielder Bella Toron adapted in 1966. Katie and Alicia had pulled both off simultaneously in the last practise, but it still needed a little more kick. problem is I can't focus.

all that I can think of is Katie, and that sodding game of Twister.

Brutal Truth XXXX: oh my giddy aunt...

Do you know what they gave me for task three?! Do you know what The Sodding Twins gave me for task three?!

I can't do it. I can't do it.

I just can't there is no bloody way. My hands are shaking. I think I'm going to be sick... Its like how I felt when I was being sorted. (I've never told anyone but I almost ended up in Slytherin... So much ambition it told me)

except this is so much worse. I'm going to be sick I just know it. Or I'm going to cry. I really don't want to cry.

How can they make me do this. Have I been that bad of a captain? I didn't make them work that hard this morning and I only ever thumped Fred the once.

and Merlin knows he needs more than that.

I'm going to jump out this window I think... better dead than this. What on earth is Katie's MOTHER going to think.

I'm not kissing her. I just can't do it.

I really really want to, so bad that I'm shaking. But I'm so scared.

She'll never talk to me again. Thomas will come looking for me and he'll rip me limb from limb. They'll put me in Azkaban break my wand and take my broom.

Katie will hate me.

That's why I can't do it.

Task Three: Snog Katie... properly; with tongue. How you DREAM about kissing her Wood.

Its got to be illegal or something. I mean she's only fourteen. No one should be kissing her like that. My mother would have a heart attack if she knew, its so low. I'd be the biggest cad on the planet.

Her father would never trust me again, and he'd never talk to dad. Dad's already lost Mum, I don't know what she'd do if he lost his best mate too. He'd probably kill me too.

so Katie would hate me, her mother would despise me, My Father , Tristan Bell and Thomas Bell would all rip me apart. Then I'd be sent to Azkaban. where'd I be miserable and not allowed to play quidditch.

But I really really want to not care. I just want to do it. I can't do it to her though.

I love her more than I have ever loved anything in my life.

Brutal Truth XXXXI: I'm gonna do it...

I'm gonna tell Katie how I feel. then I'm going to run out the nearest window when she tells me the "Oliver... you're my friend" line.

"Kates? can we talk?" I ask sitting down next to her on the window sill. (this is handy... sixth floor window sill. i don't even have to move far. just lea right and smack instant dead-ness)

"Talk away Obila..." She doesn't have a clue what i'm about to tell her or she wouldn't look so calm, she'd be shaking like me, and swaying a little and about to be sick... like me.

"We've been friends since you were born. and I have loved every minute of it... I don't want anything to change..." i begin.

"Oh" Katie looks down at the ground outside. she seems a little upset but I can't figure why.

I go on " But lately Kates... I've been thinking strange strange things... I was jealous of roger..."

Katie looks up at me wide eyed. I'm shaking and my stomach is churning and the window is looking like heaven.

" But that's not all... I keep dreaming about you Katie. and its not all innocent."

She's crying. I made her cry. I stand up awkwardly, afraid to touch her.

"Katie, please don't cry... please, I hate seeing you upset. I know you don't want to hear this. but I have to tell you. I... I'm falling in love with you... and I think I need to kiss you"

I stand up, and run for the door. I can't take the rejection.

Brutal truth XXXXII: I'm just going to die.

Just lie here and die. I should've just kept quiet. Why did I have to tell her. For Merlins sake, I'm bigger than both the twins, and older. What could they possibly have done to me.

Merlin, I'm an idiot. The King of the Idiots. And now she hates me.

Some one has come in. Probably Percy to tell me that I have classes, that lunch is over, that jelly beans are detrimental to my health, that quidditch is silly...

Quidditch is all I have left. By now Katie will have blackmailed her father in hating my dad and as such my dad will have disowned me.

Its not Percy. Its her.

She looks happy. why on earth is she happy?

"Why did you run away?" she asks as she moves next to me on my bed.

I'm going to die. My poor heart can't take this, its just going to stop.

"Tell me the truth please Obila" she's still calling me that. that has to be a good sign.

"I was scared."' I say in a tiny voice. "scared you were going to hate me. I didn't want to see it."

" Oliver I couldn't hate you if I tried you great twit" she flicks me in the forehead lightly the leans down and... merlin.

She is kissing me.

Oh my goodness; the girl is kissing me.

With tongue. I'm going to faint.

Without even thinking I roll over on top of her and kiss her harder. Katie breaks off for air, I'm sweating, and panting and things are happening in the nether reasons that probably shouldn't be.

"I love you Obila, and if you ever get the feeling that you need to just kiss me again. would you please just tell me. I was in agony these past few weeks. I had no idea what I was going to do because I was falling in love with you to. and sodding Davies was no bloody distraction"

He was only a distraction.

I have died and gone to heaven.

A very very very intoxicating heaven.

'Just tell me' she said.

"Kates... I think I need to kiss you again." I growl and push my mouth on her so very sweet lips. I scoop her up in my arms, and wonder that she can actually bear my weight leaning on her little body. Courteously I move a little more of the weight onto my elbows before I can think of nothing else but kissing her.

Because that is exactly what I need, more and more Katie.

The Twins have come in, interrupting what is the greatest kiss I have had to date.

"Good for you Oliver.--"

"Katie--"

"We would like to--"

"Inform you however--"

"That any public displays of affection--"

"Will sicken us--"

"And in retaliation--"

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Katie jumped to her feet. "You're lecturing me on public displays of affection after you burst in here and watch us!"

Fred and George look at each other guiltily.

" He dreamed about you naked" Fred said quickly, pointing at me in an attempt to switch the blame.

Katie turned her head back and grinned at me.

George continued... "That's not very gentlemanly of him, if i were you... i'd..."

"Telling me about it is worse George Edward Weasley, especially since you aren't even involved."

I bit back a snigger... his initials spell Gew. hah.

"Get your rear ends out of here before I rips your legs off and hit you with them." Katie orders, her tone scaring even me. The Twins splutter and make for the door. Katie turned back to me and smiles i watch her for moment as she walks toward me. before i smile back and take her tiny hands in mine.Then it hits me.

Shes my soulmate.

thats the most brutal truth of all.


Authors note... well that was rather fun. Oliver got his girl, Katie got Oliver (i'm rather envious!) You got the end of the story, I got my second chaptered story finished. Maybe theres hope for me yet. Ooh if anyone noticed, and/or isn't too lazy to be bothered reading roman numerals we finished on 42. the meaning of life the universe and everything. I thought it was cute, just like olivers little break down. can't help but make that boy slightly deranged with admiration for Katie Bell. its just so fun.

Thanks everybody for sticking with me through this, and for reviewing, this chapter is dedicated to YOU.

And one more thing before i disappear: are there any boys reading this? if there is could you please tell me in you review, (which ofcourse you are going to leave since its my last chapter and you are all so very nice) how you think i di with the "trying to write from the male perspective". i keep thinking there a moments in this where oliver is very feminine... or that you lads aren't so very different from us girls after all.

so yes. any comment on that aspect would be much appreciated.

thanks everyone!