Chapter 18
Jackie and Nehal were getting ready for the Quidditch match against Hufflepuff in the girls' change room.
Nehal said, "Jaxs don't tell me you're putting on glitter again?"
"Actually I am Nehal." replied Jackie
"But you don't need make-up to impress guys. I mean come on you got a date with Colt. That's got to mean something."
Jackie froze, "How did you know that I had a date with Colt?"
"Rocky told me."
"Figures." muttered Jackie. "But it's a double date right?"
"Yeah it is…how come you didn't ask Malfoy to go to Hogsmede with you?"
Jackie froze again.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock." said Nehal
"Shh!" hissed Jackie. "Do you hear something?"
"Yeah! I hear the sound of victory!"
"No it's not that…I think we can hear the boys talking in the change room."
Nehal and Jackie stopped talking and could hear the Gryffindor boys talking about which girls were hot.
"It's coming out of the stalls."
"Oh yeah sure we can their voices in the toilet." said Nehal sarcastically
The girls leaned against the door of the stall.
"I think your right Nehal!"
"That's impossible, I was being sarcastic."
One of the boys said, "What do you guys think of that cheerleader Danielle Mcleod?"
"I give her 10/10." said another boy. They all cheered in response.
"That's it." said Nehal.
Jackie knew what was coming so she moved away from the door.
Nehal kicked the stall door open. "Jackie I don't think the voices are coming from the toilet!"
The girls looked up and saw that there was a vent. They both looked at each other and went to stand on either side of the toilet to hear what the boys were saying.
"What do you think of Hermione Granger?"
"Slut!"
"Whore!"
Ron said, "Hey I dated her!"
Nehal and Jackie sniggered.
"Hey guys look what someone wrote on one of the stalls."
The boys read it out loud "That stupid monkey stole my balls!"
Jackie looked up at Nehal. "That was an inside joke!"
Nehal smiled. "Sorry I couldn't help myself!" Just then, Nehal accidentally dropped the keys in the toilet.
"You wanna get that?" asked Jackie
"No! You get it!"
"No way gurlio! They your keys!"
"Please! Ron is talking about me. I want to hear what he says."
Jackie sighed, "Fine I'll get it." Jackie slowly put her hand in the toilet water. "Eww this is so gross!" Jackie handed the keys to Nehal.
"Thanks…there wet?"
"Well what did you expect, for them to be dry?"
Nehal got off the toilet. "Omg we have ten minutes till the match!" Nehal opened the door.
Jackie tired to get off but she couldn't because she noticed that her foot was caught in the toilet and she couldn't get it out.
"Come on Jaxs we gotta go!"
"I can't!"
"Why not?"
"I can't move."
Nehal looked at Jackie. Her eyes widened. "Oh no this cannot happen to my seeker!"
"Well then help me!"
Nehal grabbed Jackie's leg. "Okay on the count of three pull your foot out. 1,2,3…"
"It's not working Nehal!"
The boys could hear Nehal and Jackie through the vent and wondered if they were in trouble or needed help.
"Try flushing!" suggested Nehal getting out of the stall. She heard Jackie scream behind her. "What?" Nehal asked not really eager to know the answer/
"I'm all wet! Thanks Nehal!" cried Jackie
"Hang on Jackie the boys are coming!"
"No way!"
"Yes way!"
"Nehal you have to keep them away from here."
"I'll try."
"Nehal please, if they see me like this it will be so embarrassing!"
Knock, knock!
"Whose there?" responded Nehal. (tee hee hee it's like the joke)
"Us." The boys said. "Is something wrong?"
Nehal answered, "No everything is fine."
"Ahh!" screamed Jackie
"Was that Jackie screaming?" asked Will
"Er…that was…Jackie singing a song. You know she was singing one of those really high notes." said Nehal. She then opened the stall door and looked at Jackie, "What are you doing? The rest of the ream is right outside you know?"
"I know that, I just tried flushing again." Jackie was soaked from head to toe in toilet water
"Can we come in?" asked Ron
"No!" said Nehal running to the door and locking it "We're getting changed!"
"Ow!" The boys said.
Nehal rolled her eyes, "Amateurs."
"Eww this is so disgusting!" said Jackie
Nehal ran towards Jackie again. "What happened this time?"
"Nothing it's just…"
"Just what?"
"I'm covered in toilet water…you know the water that dogs drink out of the toilet!"
"Yes Jackie I know what toilet water is, but listen…maybe the team should come in…"
But Jackie didn't let Nehal finish her sentence. "No way Nehal, are you crazy?"
"Shh!" hissed Nehal. "Listen we only have five minutes until were supposed to be out there and I want you to play the game!"
Jackie looked at Nehal. She didn't know if this was a good idea or not. "Fine, but I'm only doing this because I want to play Quidditch!"
Nehal smiled and ran towards the door.
David said, "Okay on the count of three were going to break the door down. 1, 2…"
"3!" said Nehal and she unlocked the door, so the rest of the team came tumbling down.
"Ouch!" said Daryl
Ron said, "What was that for?"
Nehal replied, "It was for my own amusement."
"How come Jackie's standing on one foot?" asked Daryl
"Well…it's an optical illusion that she's standing on one foot but when she's actually standing with two feet."
The boys looked at Nehal as if she was psycho.
"Okay Jackie is standing one foot because…" Nehal couldn't bring herself to tell the team so she just made up another lie, "She is meditating."
"Meditating?" asked Jonathan as if he had never heard of that word before
"Yes she is. That's how she's always like before a match starts."
Jackie chanted, "Hum…hum…"
"Well it's sort of mediating except she's not floating in the air…it's more like yoga."
"Yoga?" asked David
"Yes yoga. She is doing what you call the…flamingo taking a dip…its supposed to make you feel relaxed and it makes you have better posture…you know we should do yoga for our Quidditch practices!"
"No!" The boys said in unison
"Or not." added Nehal
Will said, "But we heard screaming!"
"And the two of you guys saying 1, 2, 3 pull." added Daryl
Nehal answered, "Really did you hear that?"
Daryl nodded his head.
"Must be another one of your optical illusions."
The boys looked at Daryl and he just shrugged his shoulders.
"Nehal we have to go soon. The match is about to start." said Ron
"I know." sighed Nehal, "Guess we'll have to put in Harry as our seeker."
"Why?" exclaimed Jonathan. "Is something wrong with Jackie?"
"Yes, there is something wrong with Jackie. (LOL) Unfortunally, as she was doing her flamingo takes a dip pose she forgot to do this one step required right, and that kind of ruined the whole pose so she sprained her ankle."
"Oh no!" said Ron
"Yes I know…it's terrible. But we'll just have to go out there and do our best!"
"But we can't play our best without Jackie!" cried Daryl
Jackie thought, "Aww"
Will said, "Well then we should probably take her to Madame Pomfrey, so she'll be better for our next match."
"No!" yelled Jackie. "Please don't take me to her. She gives me the creeps…I'll be fine, if I just stay here."
Ron said, "No you won't, then how is your ankle going to get better?"
"Um…I can um…make it better."
"How?"
"By doing more yoga." answered Jackie. "All I need to do is that really tricky pose called the flamingo has returned from the dip."
"That's not going to solve anything!" said David
"Yes it will."
David looked at Nehal, "What do you think she should do?"
"I think that Jackie should do what she wants to do…because I am her friend and I trust her judgment."
"You do?"
"Yes Jackie I do."
"Well in that case I think you guys should start playing and I'll be out there in a short while."
"But…" said Daryl, "I thought you sprained your ankle?"
Nehal knew that they had blown their cover. "D'oh!" (Homer Simpson style) Nehal said and smacked her head with her hand.
"Alright what's really going on here?" asked Will
Jackie replied, "Nothing. Absolutely nothing at all."
Nehal tip-toed behind the boys and tried to sneak off.
"Not so fast!" said David who caught her by the arm.
Nehal said, "Alright you can open the door and see for yourselves what's going on."
"No you cannot open the door!" yelled Jackie, "Don't listen to her she's psycho!"
"Everyone stand back!" said Jonathan who was about to kick the door open
Jackie thought, "This is going to be bad."
BAM! Jonathan kicked the door open. Jackie screamed and covered her eyes. Jonathan froze. He never thought that Jackie would get herself into this situation. She always seemed so together in his eyes. Boy was he wrong! The rest of the team came to check it out, including Nehal. Their jaws dropped. There was an awkward silence that filled the room. You could even hear water dripping from one of the sinks.
"How y'all doing." said Jackie, breaking the uneasy silence.
"See I told you she was doing the flamingo takes a dip!" said Nehal
Jackie said, "You know you should see the looks on your faces it's rather amusing I must say!"
Will said, "Ha ha, very funny. Is this your idea of a prank?"
"A prank?" Jackie and Nehal said at the same time.
Jackie replied, "Your idea of a prank is my foot getting stuck in a toilet!"
Nehal started laughing, "Omg we fooled you guys so good. This is a prank and it's probably been the best one I've done in years!"
"Nehal will you get a grip it's over now!"
"Uh no it's not."
"Uh yeah it is."
"It's not over till the fat lady sings!"
Just then Professor Sprout was walking down the hallway singing about how Hufflepuff was going to win against Gryffindor.
"Okay it's over now." said Nehal
Jonathan looked at Jackie, "There's got to be a way to get you out of here!"
"Well we've tried pulling and flushing!"
Will said, "Here let me try!" Will cracked his knuckles and bent down and tried to pull Jackie's foot out but it didn't work. Instead he ended up hurting Jackie's leg.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow…"
"Oh sorry. I just thought that I could really pull it out."
"Yeah and instead you dug your fingers into my leg!"
"Well at least I'm trying to help!"
Daryl said, "So what are we going to do?"
Everyone looked at Nehal for the answer since she was captain.
"Well we can't forfeit the match so I guess will have to play."
The team started to leave.
Ron said, "I'll go tell Harry to get ready!"
Nehal was about to leave when Jackie called out her name.
"Nehal you can not just leave me like this!"
"Sorry Jaxs, I'm only doing what's best for the team but don't worry I'll leave the door locked."
"Nehal!" yelled Jackie while struggling to get free.
Nehal closed the door and locked it. Nehal felt bad for Jackie but she really wanted to win the Quidditch cup this year so she could prove to her older sister that she could handle the responsibility and could prove to Hogwarts that a girl captain could lead their house to victory.
The match was about to begin.
First, the cheerleaders came out for both teams. They started waving their pom-poms in the air.
Danielle saw Ian in the stands and waved to him.
Ian waved back and winked at Danielle.
Danielle continued her cheerleading with a big grin on her face.
Ian and Draco were sitting in the front row of the stands behind the Gryffindor cheerleaders. (I bet you know why, Danielle and Ian love)
Ian said, "Can you believe it, in a couple of weeks it will mean that Danielle and I have been going out for a year."
Draco said, "I'm happy for you mate."
"She's a great girl you know. She's pretty, smart, funny, energetic, caring…"
"Yeah I get the point and the list could go on forever right?"
"Right." paused Ian. "How in the world would you know that?"
"Well I know I date and sleep with a lot of girls but when I was with Amanda, I was so happy to be with her. I bragged to everybody about us, but when we broke up it didn't really affect me that much but when I met Jackie, that's when things started to get confusing. I found myself constantly staring at her and I wanted to get to know her better. When I talked to her it was as if nothing else mattered except for her happiness. In addition to that, when I told my father about her things haven't been that good since…and yesterday I found her hugging one of the new exchange students, Slade."
"Really? Ouch, man that's tough."
"I know, now I have to compete with a stupid American to win her affection. Sacre bleu. Where is the world coming too?"
Fiona started to announce the Gryffindor team. "Pradhan, Weasley, Potter…Potter what happened to Jackie? Where is she? What the hell is going on here?"
Professor McGonagall leaned in and whispered to Fiona.
Fiona nodded her head in return and cleared her throat. "I have just been informed that Jackie or Miss Allan is not going to play this match because she has sprained her ankle. Now on with the rest of the team, Rest, Strawberry, Jefferson and Carter."
"Bullshit. Fucking bullshit." muttered Draco
"What?" asked Ian
"She seemed fine yesterday."
"But maybe something happened to her this morning. Maybe she tripped over something and…"
"No Smith I don't think that's it. It's something else."
Nehal shook hands with the Hufflepuff captain George McFordge."
Madame Hooch blew the whistle and threw the quaffle in the air.
"And there off…" commented Fiona
Meanwhile all this time Jackie's foot was still stuck in the toilet. "Hello?" she shouted. "Can anyone hear me? Hello?" Jackie then muttered, "I want my mommy."
So back to the Quidditch match. The score was 70-10 in favor of Hufflepuff. The Gryffindors weren't playing their best because they knew that Jackie wasn't with them.
Fiona said, "Come on Gryffindor get in the game! What is wrong with you guys? Just get your heads out of your asses!"
Professor McGonagall said, "Watch the language Miss Robinson."
"She's right you know." whispered Draco to Ian.
"Yeah." added Ian, "Their heads are out of their asses."
"No you moron! There not doing that good, because something is wrong."
Nehal knew that her team was losing and she knew that she couldn't lose to her future boyfriend so she called a time-out.
Madame Hooch blew the whistle and the Gryffindors flew to the ground.
Fiona said, "Looks like the Gryffindors called a time-out to form some strategy. Let's hope it's good though."
The Gryffindors gathered around in a team huddle.
Nehal said, "Alright team, we're not doing that good."
Daryl interrupted her, "We need Jackie!"
"You have read my mind! Those were exactly my thoughts. How did you do that?"
"Nehal!" exclaimed Ron
"Right okay sorry, listen I have an idea." Nehal whispered to them about her brilliant plan. Nehal then ran towards Danielle and Heather who were cheerleading. "Guys I need your help!"
"Okay!" said Heather
Danielle said, "Nehal we don't have time for talking, you're in the middle of a Quidditch match and Heather and I are cheerleading!"
"Please Danie you have to listen to me. This is really important."
"I'm listening!" said Heather
Nehal said, "Good. Okay guys er…I don't really know how to explain this so instead I'm going to make this long story short." Nehal took a quick breath. "Jackie got her foot stuck in a toilet and you guys have to get her out. Please you have to do this. Not just for me but for the team as well"
"Hold up!" said Heather. "Jackie got her foot stuck in a toilet?"
"Yeppers."
"Wow! That's just really…strange."
"I know so will you help me out?"
Madame Hooch came over to them. "You have 1 minute left."
"Please." Nehal said giving Danielle and Heather a sad puppy dog face look.
"Okay well help." answered Heather
Danielle said, "I guess we have no choice."
Nehal smiled and gave them the keys. "Here are the keys. Get her out of there no matter how bad she looks. Good luck guys."
Heather turned to Danielle and said, "Let's roll."
Ian looked at the pitch and noticed that Danielle and Heather were running across the pitch. "Danielle." He yelled. "Danie where are you going?"
Danielle heard someone call her name but she couldn't see who it was so she kept on running.
Ian called down to the cheerleaders. "Patil, Brown!"
Parvarti and Lavender turned around.
"Do you know where Danielle and Heather are going?"
"Oh there gone?" said Lavender. "I didn't even notice."
Parvarti laughed.
"Come on Malfoy, something's wrong."
"No but we can't leave yet. Snape and Mr. K are over there."
Ian sat back down in defeat.
Draco patted his shoulder, "Don't worry about it. I'm sure their running because maybe they have girl stuff to do."
Ian smiled, "Yeah probably. It's just ever since Cory came I'm worried that something is going to happen to her or that something is going on between them."
Draco replied, "Both Rich and Applebalm are fucking assholes."
"Couldn't argue with that." answered Ian
Madame Hooch blew her whistle and the game started back up again.
Fiona said, "And we're back. Hopefully the Gryffindors thought of a plan because there not doing that good."
The Gryffindors glared at Fiona.
"No offense."
Meanwhile, Danielle and Heather ran towards the girls' change room. Heather opened the door with the keys and they went in.
Jackie kept quiet. She thought that it might be Flich or a teacher and they would wonder why she was not at the match or hospital wing.
Danielle and Heather walked in and noticed that they were standing in a change room full with water all over the floor.
"Looks like Moaning Myrtle's been here." reported Heather
"Jackie!" called out Danielle
"Danie! Hey-Hey!" Jackie was so happy that they had come. "I'm in here…and please don't kick the door open."
Heather looked at Danielle and she just shrugged her shoulders.
"Can we come in?" asked Danielle feeling awkward that she would be seeing her friend's foot stuck in a toilet.
"Yes of course you can."
Danielle slowly opened the door. Heather started laughing hysterically when she saw her friend like this. "How long have you been like this?"
"I'm guessing around 20 minutes."
Heather whistled.
Danielle looked at the water on the floor. "Why is it so wet?"
Jackie replied, "Well…it is wet because I thought of a scientific theory."
"Uh huh." Danielle said thinking that Jackie's so called scientific theory was a complete disaster.
"Well when I flush the toilet water comes out so I thought that the more I flush the more water will come out and then my foot will come out after."
"It's not going to work."
"Yes it is."
"I have a better idea." Danielle got some soap and she and Heather wiped the soap all around Jackie's foot.
"Eww this is really gross." commented Heather
Danielle, ignoring Heather's comment said, "We should leave this on for 3 minutes and then your foot will just slip out."
"Are you sure about this?" asked Jackie. "I think I liked my old idea better."
"I'm positive that this solution will work."
"Okey dokey."
3 minutes passed by.
"Time's up!" said Heather who was looking at her watch.
Yet again Danielle and Heather reached their hands in and grabbed Jackie's foot. Luckily, it came out.
Jackie said, "Omg I'm free!" Jackie started dancing around but then she realized that she was only wearing one sock.
Heather said, "Come on Jackie we have to go to the match."
"The match? I can't play!"
"Why not?"
"Hello! Look at me! I look like Rob Zombie!" Jackie's ponytail was all poofed out and she had mascara running down her face, her glitter wall all smudged in different areas, her robes were soaked and she had one shoe on one foot and on the other foot a wet sock.
Danielle said, "Jackie it doesn't matter what you look like. Besides the Rob Zombie look is totally in this year!"
Heather interrupted her, "Actually it does matter what you look like."
Danielle looked at Heather, "The point is that you have to go out there and win if for Gryffindor. Did you know that were losing to Hufflepuff?"
Heather said, "Yes I did know that Danielle. We were just out there!"
Danielle looked at Heather again. "Stop interrupting me!" Danielle looked back at Jackie. "Anyway…the score is 70 to 10."
"Are you serious? Holy!"
Danielle and Heather both looked at Jackie.
"Omg my shoe!" Jackie tried pulling her shoe on but it wouldn't budge from the toilet.
Heather grabbed Jackie's broom and Danielle tried to grab hold of Jackie but she was desperate to get her shoe back.
Jackie said, "Do you know how much these shoes cost? Their Nike's! I can't not just let a Nike sit in the toilet."
Danielle replied, "Well come back for it later Jaxs!"
"Noooooooooooooo!" said Jackie while Danielle was pulling her away. "Must get shoe…parents will kill me."
Jackie bit Danielle's arm and crawled back to the stall.
"Ow!" said Danielle
Heather started laughing, "She got you really good."
Danielle glared at Heather, "Oh you're gonna get it now bitch!"
"But…I didn't do anything."
Danielle slapped Heather. Heather was shocked so she pushed Danielle to the ground. The fight between them was like in Christina Aguilera's dirty video where they were dancing in the showers except it was fighting instead of dancing.
Jackie went to get more soap but she slipped on the water and fell to the ground, however she ended up getting caught in the fight.
The fight had now turned into a cartoon fight. (You know where there in a circle fighting and this like dust cloud forms over them and you see words like bam, wham, smack etc.)
During the match:
"Where are they?" Nehal muttered to herself. She then turned to the side and saw Rocky staring at her. Rocky quickly turned away and avoided Nehal's gaze.
"Nehal!" Daryl called out. Daryl was zooming towards her and was going to pass the quaffle to her.
"Right here!" Nehal called out.
Daryl threw the quaffle to Nehal and she caught it. Nehal zoomed by the other players and was heading towards the goal post. Nehal smiled. She knew that the keeper thought that she was going to score in the right hoop. Nehal shot it in the left hoop and scored.
"Gryffindor scores!" said Fiona
The crowd cheered except for the Hufflepuffs.
Back in the washroom, the fight was still going on between the three girls.
Danielle said, "You wanna go I'll take you there!"
Heather said, "Yeah let's take this outside foo!"
Heather hit Danielle with Jackie's broom. Danielle's nose started to bleed.
"Bitch." said Danielle. "No one makes me bleed my own blood." (Dodgeball movie!)
"You want action, you got it!"
Danielle got some perfume and sprayed it in Heather's eyes.
"Ow it burns! I tell you it burns!"
Jackie turned around, "This fight is getting way out of control!" She saw Danielle's wand on the floor. Jackie crawled to get it. She pointed the wand at Danielle and Heather and said, "Mak Mak!"
Danielle and Heather stopped fighting and looked at each other.
"Did it work?" thought Jackie
"Why are we fighting?" asked Heather
"Fighting is wrong." said Danielle
"Let's stop this fighting right now!"
"Yes let's stop it. Friends don't fight each other."
Danielle and Heather gave each other hugs.
Jackie breathed a sigh of relief.
Heather said, "Why are we here again?"
Danielle answered in a slow voice, "To get Jackie to play in the Quidditch match."
The two of them looked at Jackie.
"You know I think I liked you better when you were fighting." said Jackie
Danielle and Heather both pulled Jackie up onto her feet and Jackie put her arms around their shoulders.
Danielle said, "Pretend to have a sprained ankle."
"But…what about my shore?" whined Jackie
"Well get it later." said Heather
"Noooooooo"
Nehal kept looking back but she didn't see them coming.
The score was now 80-40, still in favor of Hufflepuff.
Nehal looked at Harry. He wasn't even searching for the snitch, he was hitting on Daryl.
"Its hopeless." thought Nehal. She then yelled, "Focus Harry focus."
Harry looked at Nehal. "Right…focus."
Meanwhile, the girls were struggling to walk because of Jackie's weight on their shoulders and Heather kept bumping into things. She was squinting her eyes, so the perfume wouldn't sting that much. If anybody saw them they would think that they were drunk or high on drugs.
"It's this way." said Danielle pointing her finger in the direction of the corridor. "Left, left, left." Danielle was calling out to Heather but by accident Heather hit a wall.
"Ouchies."
Jackie said, "Okay on the count of three we'll start with our right foot."
The girls chanted, "Right, right, left, right, left." They didn't even realize that they stepped onto the pitch.
Everyone who was watching the match now watched them. Ian stood up to get a better view. All of the Quidditch players stopped playing.
Nehal smiled, "They came!"
A/N: Ooo kind of left you off on a cliffhanger there. Please review, thanks.