As always, thak you for the support and sorry for the grammar mistakes, I'ld work on that. R & R & enjoy!
Emily
Two brothers. That's my answer when somebody asks my why am I so competitive.
Which by the way I am not.
"WEASLEY. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"
Dominique and Rose look at me from their safe distance with big innocent eyes.
"IT WAS A CLEAR SHOT!" I yell at them both "I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO STOP THE QUAFFLE! NOT IF OUR GAME IS IN TWO WEEKS"
"Sorry" mumbles Dominique, who was the one who actually tried to score.
"Are you ok, Emily?" adds Rose looking at me with a concerned expression. "I know you want to win but we still have..."
"But nothing" I snap back "We are gonna win. Just like that. Got it?"
"Aye, Capitan" Dominique says pretending to do a military salute.
I throw the Quaffle back at her.
"Just keep practicing the plays"
We really need to win this. If we loose our first game nobody will take us seriously. I'm afraid McGonagall is gonna think again and ban our team if she sees we can't do it.
The autumn has finally come with the end of October, and while the castle is getting ready for Halloween (just a week left) we have been freezing more and more every evening while flying around the pitch. The tank tops and shorts are not longer at sight, and today Abby is wearing the first hoodie (a blue one from Puddlemere United, bet dad will love her). Cassie and her both are doing a great job hitting with the budglerssome muggle football balls we've charmed to fly around and act as objectives. Poppy's caught the snitch two times in an hour.
So maybe I am being a little over competitive.
I do a some of laps around the pitch, pretending to slow down to look at my team, but as usually after the second turn my head is too focused on the green grass below me, and the fact that my feet are not touching it, and how beautiful the sky is over my head.
I was born from two Quidditch-obsessed parents, how was I supposed to not have the air in my veins?
"OK" I yell when the three chasers do the play I wanted them to perfectly "THAT'S ENOUGH FOR TODAY"
As per usual, they land so fast I can barely perceive them and I'm left alone to keep the balls in their box, mumbling under my breath. I levitate the trunk, too tired to move it along and too short to place it on it's shelve in the Capitan's office.
We are all half dressed after showering when the door suddenly bursts open. I scream and try to put on my clean t-shirt to cover my black bra. Dominique is not that nice and points with her wand to whoever is coming in. There's a blue flash and a crash sound and when my t-shirt is finally where it's supposed to be I see Lucy Weasley paralyzed in front of us.
"Oh Merlin" Rose shouts not bothering to put her skirt on as she walks towards her orange-haired cousin "Dom, take the spell back"
"Geez Lu, don't do that" complains Dominique, but she lets Lucy go anyway "So, where's the fire?"
"Lily told me to come and get you" Lucy says, gesturing in the exact same way Rose does "She said it was important and you all should see it"
"See what?" Rose says going back to dress herself with calm.
"I'm not sure" Lucy admits "But it seemed important"
"You do know that Lily has a tendency to overreact, right Lu?" Dominique as calm as Rose is.
Lucy shrugs easily and smiles brightly.
"She did seem worried though, like crazy worried" she insists waving her arms, I notice she has a amazing dragon drawn with what seems to be simple ink all over her right wrist, the Weasley-Potter clan says in a lot of interviews that Lucy is the artist of the family, if she's drawn that Hungarian horntail they were not exaggerating.
"Maybe we should hurry" I say looking away from the dragon "I mean why would you cousin call the whole team?"
Rose frowns a bit and exchanges a look with Dominique over Poppy's blonde head.
"You might be right" She admits lacing her shoes faster "Let's go, just in case"
"Where do we have to go?" Cassie asks frowning.
"To the boathouse"
"The boathouse?" Poppy asks "Is that even open?"
"A lot of people use it" Anna says "Nobody checks it during the whole year, the boats are just used September first so a lot of sixth and seventh years use it to hung around when they're not meeting for an official club reunion or something. They tend to get lost and ask a hufflepuff on their way down there"
"What kind of non-official clubs Reunion?" Rose ask a bit pale.
"I don't know, to snog sometimes, to do Quidditch bets, or small parties, there used to be a group of swimmers that went there to practice because the lake was frozen during winter, I wonder if they still do that"
"Lets's just go" I say getting my backpack "I don't think Lily Potter wants to show us all a swimming team"
Poppy
The boathouse is so full of people by the time we get there that the crowd goes out the door. However, people let Rose and Dominique enter when they see them, advantages of being a Weasley I guess.
Emily grabs me roughly and pushes me right behind Dominique, but we loose Cassie, Anna and Abby on our way. The cave's been decorated to have the color of the three houses and apart from the piece of lake with the boats and some sand it has a stone zone with some panels and tables with muggle games.
I would like to play a normal chess game once in a while.
As we get to the center of the room, I see Lily Potter making faces with her expressive eyes and placing herself firmly between a group of three or four boys and her curly-haired cousin Roxanne, who is gesturing furiously.
Maybe letting Rose and Dominique pass had nothing to do with Weasley advantages.
"What's going on?" Dominique asks, being the warned one.
"Rosie!" Lily exclaims, though "Thank Merlin"
"What's wrong?"
"Your cousin is crazy. That's what's wrong" One of the boys answers before Lily can.
Roxanne says some words I'm not really comfortable repeating and Rose's eyebrows shot up in a displeasure gesture.
"Roxy" Dominique says firmly "Did you hit him?"
I realize the boy's left cheek is actually pretty red. Emily pushes me away softly. Rose's eyebrows reach her hairline.
"It was in self defense!"
"It was not!" the boys shots back quickly.
"You insulted them!" Roxanne snaps pointing at us wildly.
"I just bet against them!"
"Bet?" Emily interrupts while Dominique and Lily hold back Roxanne.
"Welcome to the official office of Hogwarts Quidditch bets" Another boy of the group against Roxanne, a seventh yearSlytherin big as a closet, says with and advertising voice. "Would any of you ladies want to bet?"
"No they won't" Rose says firmly stepping in front of me with both hands on her hips "You're compromising to a lot if you do this" she says turning a bit towards me and Emily "Teachers don't approve this, you'll end up owing to half of the school and you pact to bet in every single game or you have to pay double. I had to stop Hugo for getting himself here last year"
Slytherin advertising boy doesn't look happy at all.
"Then you should control your cousin" he hisses "We don't ban people to express how big of assholes you are trying to play Quidditch down here"
"Take that back!" Lily shouts angrily, and a lot of girls around cheer her.
Lily Potter just has that effect on people, she's the girls every other girl wants to be and every boy wants to date- And you really, really, really should hate her, but she's so nice, and sweet and genuine that you'd never be able to do so.
"Let's just go" Dominique says grabbing Lily's arm and eyeing the advertising boy cautiously "You shouldn't be her in the first place"
"No! That's the thing!" both Roxanne and Lily exclaim at the same time "Girls are betting crazily for you guys, you should see the panels. Boys don't seem to agree though, and I swear Minnie Samuels and Greg Reinolds had a huge fight on the common room over this, and Frida Kent and Samuel Hughne broke up, and they've been together for a year now."
"It's true" Roxanne insists when she sees our disbelief faces "We came her to check if it was true. And the school seems to be part in a half. Not only on the bets, people are getting furious with the opposite sex for every single stupid thing, usually starting the argument with the girls can/can't play issue"
"That has nothing to do with us" Emily says "We just want to play Quidditch. Let's get out of here"
We start following her on our way out, pushing the crowd and ignoring the voices that call us back angrily. Once we are out, though, Emily calm expression fades and she looks worried and pale to the Weasley girls.
"It's really that bad?" she asks "I mean, the relationships fight and everything"
"Yeah" Lily answers honestly "It started like a month ago, but it's getting worse. I swear people are not talking because of fights having to do with get on your side or on the boys'"
"Crap" Emily mutters "You should tell Potter about this. Actually I should tell the other captains about this and find a way to stop it. Taking sides... this is not a war"
"Well, apparently it is" Roxanne says, grimacing when Dominique's hold on her shoulder grows stronger "You have started a sexes-war".