Seeker or not here I come

I woke up panting. I tried to push the nightmare out but the memory just came flooding back.

"QUIDDITCH!" I nearly scream in anticipation for the tryouts that are being held right before lunch. I scrambled up to the great hall before realizing that I was A. still in my pjs, B. my hair was sticking up everywhere and C. I woke up late so everyone was sitting in the great hall. Sadly I still decided to go in.

My stupid sleep deprived mind doesn't signal me about all the whispers that were going around about how there was a little kid who walked into the great hall with hair that looks like they got attacked in the forbidden forest, died and came back, was wearing a pair of short shorts with a unicorn on them and a t-shirt that was too short and too wide. Halfway through breakfast I realized that I looked like a mess and the most of my stomach was showing because my shirt flipped up.

God!

I.

Am.

STUPID!

I stopped chastising myself when I stood up and someone wolf whistled at me. I tried to hide behind my hair and walk out semi-calmly but neither of those ideas worked.

First I got hair stuck in my eyes, then I, being the idiot that I am, bumped into the table five times until someone had the decency to trip me, which caused everyone to laugh at me!

I scrambled up onto my feet and held my head as high as I could, while limping because I fell on my injured leg, and stalked out of the great hall.

I found a corner that was slightly shaded and sunk to the floor. What is wrong with me? I'm not clumsy!

"Are you alright?" I looked up to see who had said it. My eyes landed on Albus Potter looking slightly awkward. Scorpius was standing behind him looking sorry for me.

"Y-Yeah. I-I'm fine…" I said wiping the pain out of my head. "Do you know who tripped me?"

"No, sorry." Scorpius spoke this time.

"Hey, sorry about all the stuff in the beginning of the year. I let my families prejudice get in the way." Albus said sheepishly. He looked like he was really upset. I knew of course that it was a lie but who ever said that you can't have fun?

"You're forgiven for that but I still want to hear a full out apology." This was just too easy. They must really want me to forgive them so that they can do whatever they want.

"Fine!" Albus whined. "I'm very sorry for ditching you before you even got sorted and then being the rudest person on earth for the last two days." Well he almost got it right.

"All is now forgiven! Do you guys think I should try out for Quitchid or whatever it's called today?" After I asked they just looked between each other and nodded. This was too easy!

"We think you should. Try out for Seeker though. It's the easiest position." No it's not Albus, well it is for me because I can't catch, throw, hit, or aim, Chasers have it the easiest.

"I think I will." I actually smiled, genuinely. "Do you guys think you could help me with something?"

"What is it?" Albus looked scared for a second.

"Could you get it so that the other houses talk to me? Even the Hufflepuff kid I talked to wouldn't never mind my own house!" Scorpius was looking at me sadly.

"Of course we will. We didn't know how bad it was for you." Scorpius said. Albus sent a glare his way, which he dutifully ignored. "I thought that it was only Gryffindor." he added under his breath.

"Well I better get ready and change out of my pjs and brush my hair. BYE!" I yelled the last part turning around. I laughed like a maniac all the way to my room.

I quickly brushed my teeth and put on a t-shirt and skinny jeans. I grabbed a sweater just in case then sat down to try and brush my hair.

Five minutes of brushing my hair later and it still looked almost the exact same. I gave up and left.

Walking back up to the great hall I noticed how quiet it was. Eh who cares? I'm starving.

I walked into the great hall and could feel every set of eyes boring holes into my back. I just ignored them and sat down at the end of the Slytherin table and grabbed some more food. I remotely noticed a few people give me odd looks at the size of the breakfast I was eating but I shrugged them off.

I finished quicker than I expected so I set off to find the boys who were trying to pull a wall over my eyes.

"Jess!" Someone called after me as soon as I was out the door. I looked around and spotted Scorpius waving me over.

"Hey Scorp!" I said in a fake cheery manner. I rolled my eyes when he winced at the name.

"Don't call me that! Please!" He rushed the words out.

"I'll call you that if you call me Jess." I stated matter-of-factly.

"But Jessica is sooo looong." He whined.

"Sooo is Scorpius." I said imitating his whining. We both burst into laughter at the same time. He wasn't actually that bad, it was definitely Albus that I was going to have to keep an eye on.

"Umm… Guys? What are you doing?" Albus must have snuck up while we were laughing.

"We were laughing as you can obviously see Albus. Now if you don't mind, I think I'm going to hang out with Jess a bit." Scorpius said winking at me. I flinched a bit when he said 'Jess' but other than that, I didn't let anything on.

"Yes Scorp," I drew out his name, "We are getting along a lot better than I thought we would to be honest."

Albus was rendered speechless. Ha point one Jessica!nHe was sending alternating glares between Scorpius and I. He looked alarmed when we both burst out laughing again.

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" Albus screamed at us. I just got up shaking my head and walked away.

I got to the Quidditch pitch just in time. They gave me a school broom and told me that Seekers were waiting in the middle of the pitch. I looked into the stands and saw Scorpius sitting there. He smiled and waved when he saw me looking. I gave him a small wave back.

"Ok people. Can I have your attention?" The Captain paused for a few seconds. "I am Greg Pussey and I am the Captain this year. All of you third year or younger or female, don't expect to make it through the first round. We will do seekers last because thats the only new spot we really need because he graduated last year. It will give all of those who tried out for other things go out for more than one. Got it?" He nodded and everyone but the group of five I was in went into the air.

I looked around the group of seekers. I was by far the youngest and I was the only girl. Every boy was at least fifth year. I was starting to cower back a little when the glared at me.

I switched my gaze up to the game they were having above my head. The chasers took turns scoring on different keepers while the beaters were all aiming at once. Pussey was making them do laps after eliminating the five girls and ten first, second and third years there. He picked his team, minus the seeker, fast but none of the rejected people came over to the seekers.

"Alright Seekers! Up in the air! Laps!" Pussey kept yelling at us. I was by far the fastest doing laps even though I was using a forty year old broom and the oldest broom anyone else was using was two years old. "Beaters try and hit them but not fatally! Seekers, still do laps and dodge the Bludgers!" The two beaters on the team came up and started hitting bludgers around at us. five minutes later we were told to stop. We came to the center and I realised that I was the only one without any injuries from the bludgers. WOW, dodgeball helped I guess. I can never throw the balls but I never get hit so it sucks when I'm the last one left because I know I can't hit anyone.

"The three of you left-" He got cut off when a sixth year interrupted.

"Why's she still here?" He said indicating to me with his head.

"She is still here Zabini, because if you haven't noticed she's faster than you and can dodge bludgers. I will now let the snitch out and the first to catch it gets the position. The beaters will still be aiming at you so… Have fun!" With that he released the snitch and had us wait five seconds before going to look for it. "GO" was all I heard as I shot up into the sky. I saw the snitch within seconds and leisurely made my way towards it, looking like I was searching. Five feet away from it, I shot forward as it dropped. I went after it, pulling into a nosedive.I was a foot off the ground when it pulled out flat again a few centimeters below me. I grabbed it with my hana and did a cartwheel onto my elbows and up to my feet that I had taught myself.

"Jessica is the new Seeker!" Pussey yelled out looking a bit put out. Well to be fair I do go against his only two rules on how to be a Quidditch player.

I almost fell over when I pretty much got attacked. It took me a few seconds to realise that it was Scorpius hugging me.

"C-Can't…" I pause trying to take a breath. "B-Bre-eath!" Scorpius finally loosened up so I smacked him upside the head.

"Hey what was that for?" He asked rubbing the back of his head.

"Have you thought about the fact that I need to breath?" I looked sheepish for half a second before smirking and poking my stomach.

"Wow! Your abs are actually hard!" I can believe that. I took dance lessons kinda until this year and the teacher made me do 75 sit-ups a day. You couldn't see them necessarily but they were extremely hard. No one seemed to think that I could have abs.

"Yeah, I took cheap dance lessons and I had to do sit-ups every day. They get pretty strong when you do that." I rolled my eyes at his shocked expression.

"Well, congrats on making the team! Slytherin has never had a girl or anyone younger than second year on the team, never mind them trying out on a school broom. That's just unheard of!" He was practically jumping up and down.

"Scorpius? Have you by any chance been fed a lot of sugar or some potion?" I asked while he just started to get even more excited.

"Nope! I just realised that you'll be more popular than Harry Potter was when he made the team because that was amazing! He didn't even have to try out, never mind go up against a bunch of fifth, sixth and seventh years!" Maybe we're not so different. He says he hasn't had anything and I may be crazy and get hyper off of my own energy a lot. For some reason I can't get hyper off of sugar.

With that he pulled me by my arm off to the castle. After that my day went by in a peaceful bliss.