Chapter Seven: Tire swing to a Tree
I woke up in my dorm's bed with my new found friends huddled around me, as soon as I opened my eyes they all hurried to hug me and see if I was ok.
"OhMiGosh! Are you alright?" Sequin gasped her ocean eyes going big with worry.
"Yeah I'm fine I just fainted." I replied sweetly to her, I hadn't gone all crazy like I had with my previous vision so I'm guessing that I didn't do anything in that vision.
"McGonagall wants you have the day off tomorrow. Do you think that if I pretended to faint that I would get the day off too?" Electra asked, everyone laughed at the hopeful smile she had.
"You can try. But I guess that means I have to get all my homework done." I laughed.
"Screw homework, PARTY!" Maladie retorted.
"Party with who?" I asked sarcastically.
"With Peeves, I reckon he would love you for having a party during school hours." We all laughed at that, Peeves the trouble-maker disliked everyone, except the Weasley twins since they practically helped Peeves with their helper Li. We continued talking and laughing deep into the night until we all started falling asleep in the one bed, which happened to be mine.
Friday went by slowly with all my friends in class while I was confined to my dormitory to 'recover'. I lounged around the common room trying to get the time to go faster so I could see all my friends. Then soon enough it was Saturday.
We were lounging in the courtyard when Li Lovegood came up to us in our boredom state.
"Hey whatcha all doin'?" she asked in her giddy voice.
"We are going to tie and tire swing to the Womping Willow." Maladie replied sarcastically, she didn't really like many people and one of those people included the apparently crazy Li Lovegood the daughter of the crazy Lovegood himself.
"Cool can I join too?" she exclaimed excitedly.
"Sure!" Sequin replied just as excitedly, Sequin was the complete opposite, she loved everybody that she meant excepts for the 'meanies' as she liked to put.
Looked like we were roped in now, I gave a mischievous grin to Li as she headed off to get the rope and tire with her new bestie Sequin.
"It's your fault, so you're gonna be the one to tie it up and try it out." I told Maladie as we marched ever so bravely towards the crazy tree.
That was the story of my life in one word.
Crazy.
I galloped up to the Womping Willow patiently waiting for our first victim to come towards the tree. I gleamed evilly, hey this wasn't my fault she's the one who suggested it even if it was sarcastically.
"Stupify!" I stunned the tree so that Maladie could climb up and tie the tire swing to one of the branches. She made the sign of a cross on her chest before venturing up the still tree. She had successfully tied the tire to the tree and was gathering up the bravery to have a go on the swing.
"You're sure it's stunned 'cause I do what to be fly like a crazy bat in the air." There she goes with her metaphors.
"I'm sure!" I grinned up at her worried face. She sat down on the tire and began to swing, but against what I just said the tree immediately woke up from its brief slumber. The result of a crazy tree waking up to find a student in a tire swing hanging from one of its branches was a very side-splitting funny show. Maladie was holding on for dear life as the branches swang crazily trying to get the invader off its branches. Maladie didn't seem to take a breath when she screamed; it was like a continuous siren.
"Guys I think we should… RUN! SNAPE ALERT!" Li screamed we sprinted towards the tree and slid down the hole that led to an underground room.
"DON'T LEAVE ME HERE TO DIE!" we heard Maladie scream as we cowered near the hole. She was gonna get payback I was sure of it.
"Stupify!" we heard Snape's droning teacher voice.
"Miss Cain would you care to delight me with the story of why you are hanging on for dear life on tire swing in the Wompy Willow tree?" He asked she was so getting a detention.
"It was stupefied but then it came awake and went all crazy." Man did she sound shaken.
"Detention Miss Cain, my room. NOW! And get that ridiculous thing out of that tree before it wakes up and kills you." we heard the soft thud of her feet as she jumped down. Once we heard their feet get further and further away from us we finally allowed ourselves to fall on the ground with laughter. Man, were we in for hell once she got out of that detention.
"Did you see her face when the tree suddenly woke up?" Li laughed sending us all on another round of laughter that led to streams of tears running down our faces. Once we could contain ourselves for longer than five seconds we scrambled out of the hiding place and maybe our way back up to the school to get food! Gee our stomachs were practically talking to us as we entered the Great Hall. Aahh the sweet smell of food. We plopped down at a vacant table and filled our plates with heavenly food; we shortly joined with the Weasley twins.
"Hey Weasley's," I greeted them as I stuffed chicken into my waiting mouth.
"Hey Newbie. Hey Li…" Fred greeted.
"Hey Electra, hey Maxi." George greeted.
"Hey Cain." They greeted together.
"Cain, where's your other half." Fred asked always wearing a mischievous grin.
"She got a detention with Snapey." Quinnie replied innocently.
"Oo what for?"
"For swinging on a tire swing on the Womping Willow, mind you the Womping Willow had woken up from the Stupify jinx I threw it so she was swinging that thing cowboy style." I grinned up at the two red-headed trouble-makers.
"Very rebel like." Fred grinned.
"I must say good job Hart creating some rebels here." George grinned, the identical grin.
"Want to join us." The twins say together addressing the group and not me.
"I'm converting these guys to trouble so find your own helpless bunch that don't have any awesomeness." I added.
"You can snort some of my awesomeness if you want some." Sequin held out her hand towards the twins. I hit my head on the table laughing so hard the innocent look Sequin gave as she held her hand at the Weasley twins.
"Looks like our work here is done George." Then the crazy pair got up and left me still laughing into my food.
Man I loved that girl, she was my idol.
My laughter didn't last long after that because we were joined by the angry bull.
"What's so funny?" Maladie asked her arms crossed and an angry growl on her face.
"She told Fred…. She just held out her hand and was like… Here snort some of my awesomeness!" I burst out in laughter all over again and almost falling off the bench.
"Oh so you weren't just laughing at how YOU ALL ABANDONED ME TO GET A DETENTION BY SNAPE WHEN I WAS BEING FLUNG TO DEATH, BY THE BLOODY WOMPING WILLOW!" that only made me laugh harder.
"Sorry Mal, she's got the laughing fit." Sequin giggled.
"Oh shut up you crazy nutcase!" she growled at her sister.
"Gee someone's grumpy, did the Womping Willow shack out all your cockiness?" Electra retorted.
This time I actually fell off the bench the whole school watching me as I laughed my head off while lying on the ground.
"Someone get her a doctor!" I heard Dean shout out as he walked past.
After about a century I finally stopped rolling on the ground with laughter and got up finished my lunch as if nothing had ever happened.
"Are you ok?" Maxi asked concern for my mental health written on her face.
"Yeah why wouldn't I be?" I replied munching down on my chicken schnitzel. Ha schnitzel what a funny word to say.
"You just spent ten minutes on the ground laughing, then you get up the continue eating like nothing ever happened." she burst out.
"You're bloody mental." Harry's red-haired friend that I had come to know as Ron Weasley said to me.
"We're all mental my dear." I replied sweetly.
"OFF WITH HIS HEAD!" Sequin shouted in the Red Queen's voice just to prove my point. We all laughed at Sequin's outburst as Ron looked away concerned about our mental little group.
"So what are we doing tomorrow?" Li piped up looking at us hopefully. I gave everyone a thoughtful look for a moment before replying.
"Let's show the Weasley twins how much awesomer we are than they are. PRANK WAR!" I exclaimed to the others, a round of cheers erupted from our group as we got up and left the hall with everyone staring and knowing just how awesome we were.