Chapter 5: Quidditch make outs and breakouts
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Teddy woke up to the sound of Lily trying to wake up Bee. It wasn't too hard today because Bee actually had to get up since today was Saturday; the first Quidditch match of the year against Slytherin. She stayed in bed for a while as she listened to Bee mumbling curse words under her breath as she went to use the bathroom.
"Teddy, are you up yet?" Lily's voice wafted into her bed as she pulled open the curtains.
"Yeah, I'm up," Teddy responded giving a sleepy smile at Lily. She was met by a gasp from her friend. "What? What's wrong, Lils?"
"Teddy, you have a huge pimple right between your eyes," Lily said cautiously as though she was afraid to disturb the colossal pimple.
Slowly, Teddy reached up her hand and felt the space between her eyes. Yesterday it had been smooth, but today, a gigantic pimple took up the space. "Ahhhhh!" Teddy let out a soft scream that turned into her whimpering as she went to look at herself in their full-length mirror. "I can't believe this happened to me," she moaned. "And it's only a few days before the Ball!"
"Teddy, don't worry," Lily said encouragingly. "I'm sure it'll be gone by then."
"What if it's not? What if it never goes away and I'm forced to live with this huge thing on my face? People will call me Pimple Girl, or Pimp Ted."
"Pimp Ted?" Lily asked skeptically.
"I don't know! All I know is this needs to get off of my face as soon as possible!"
Lily pulled out her wand and started racking her brain for the concealment charm. Once she remembered it she put her wand right on Teddy's pimple. Almost immediately, Teddy ducked down to avoid whatever Lily was doing.
"Teddy!" Lily said. "It's just a concealment charm so no one will see the pimple during the match today, ok?"
"Alright," Teddy mumbled quietly and let Lily perform the spell on her.
Bridget walked out of the bathroom with her hair in two braids and bangs off to the side of her face, dressed in her Quidditch uniform. She looked at Teddy's face very closely and then asked, "Did you put the concealment charm on your face or something?"
Teddy's lip wrinkled up as she moaned in frustration.
"Bee!" Lily hissed at her.
"What? I was just wondering. Besides Teddy, nobody can notice it. I only did because I see you more and was just staring at your face for a while," Bridget said trying to make Teddy feel better.
"What if Remus notices?" Teddy wailed.
"He wouldn't say anything because Remus is a gentleman, Teddy," Bridget said.
Lily decided it was time to change the subject because Teddy still looked on the verge of tears from her pimple. "So Bee, new hairdo?"
"It's my Quidditch hair," she said promptly.
XDown at breakfast, Bridget sat with James and the rest of the Gryffindor team. James was giving last minute tips and reminders to everyone. "All right, chasers," he began looking at Bridget, fifth year Bobby, and seventh year Jake. "I need you guys to fly like you did at our last two practices this week. You were so on and working like you could anticipate each other's moves; I need you to do that today. As for my two Beaters," he said looking at seventh year Tommy, and fifth year Mark. "Just whack anything that's green ok?" The team laughed and the two beaters nodded. "Good. And for you, Diane," he said looking at his fourth year keeper. "Remember to hover a little bit below the hoops and swoop up. Any tips for me you guys?" he asked.
"Don't let that ego of yours weigh you down," Bridget joked.
The rest of the team laughed, even James. "Ok team, it's time to go." He said at 9 o'clock. They stood up to leave and three tables cheered for them while one hissed and threw nasty remarks at them. James flicked the Slytherin table off and continued walking out of the castle. Once outside he had the team race down to the Quidditch field to get their heart rates going and their nerves out.
(In the team locker room)
"This is our year guys, I can feel it," James said giving his usual pep talk.
"Every year is our year, James," Jake said as the rest of the team laughed.
"That may be so, but we lost a player last year," he said referring to their old keeper, Alex. "But we got fortunate and were given another Quidditch prodigy! Miss Diane Carlson!" the team cheered loudly for her to help her feel better and shake out some more nerves. "Just remember all the stuff we talked about at breakfast and we'll win this thing in a heartbeat. Now on the count of three, we all scream our heads off alright?" he said this so that Diane knew what was going on because it was James's tradition though she, being the newest, didn't know yet. "One, two, THREE!" the locker room exploded with screams and cheers, so loud that the stands above heard them and looked down wondering where it was coming from.
XSirius sat in the teacher's booth since he had finally gotten the chance to be commenter after McGonagall had turned him down for the past five years. He flashed her a huge grin as she came up to the stands and she closed her eyes for a brief moment then went to sit down. Sirius laughed and flipped his microphone on as Madame Steinbach, the Quidditch instructor, walked out to the pitch. She looked up at him and signaled him to start.
"WELCOME!" his voice boomed over the entire pitch. "This is Sirius Black, your sexy and best commenter you lot will ever have! Now, let's meet the BEST TEAM EVER TO BE KNOWN IN HOGWART'S HISTORY…GRYFFINDOR!" the team began to zoom out and Sirius announced their names, sometimes with a little blurb about them. "Potter, the captain and my partner in crime. Carlson, the newest addition to the team and might I say, a cutie at that," he smirked as she blushed scarlet. "Bobby Golden, Jake Pearl, and Bridget Wilson, chasers and all awesome partiers too! And last, Tommy Gray and Mark Zepka, brutal beaters, but very poor poker players I'm afraid. You still owe me 10 galleons Zepka!" Sirius shouted shaking his fist at Mark. Mark looked up and laughed deciding he better not flick Sirius off in front of all the teachers. The Slytherin team came flying out after Sirius had finished announcing everything about the Gryffindor team. Sirius saw them but didn't feel like mentioning them so he kept quiet.
"Black," McGonagall said sternly walking over to him. "Didn't you forget a team?"
"Yes, but nobody likes them so I don't think I should mention any of them," he said in an obvious voice.
"Say it or I'm taking you out of that chair and throwing you back in the stands to watch," she threatened.
Sirius huffed and mumbled something under his breath. "Avery, Smith, Black, Morton, Clay, Rockport, and Foreman."
Madame Steinbach gathered the two teams in a circle and made James and Avery shake hands. "I want a clean game from both teams, otherwise there will be consequences," she warned.
James let go of Avery's hand quickly and got back onto his broom. He watched as Steinbach released the golden snitch and the beaters. He could distantly hear Sirius explaining the rules to the new first years. He saw Madame Steinbach throw the quaffle up as he rose up high into the air. He closed his eyes for a moment as he felt the air rush over him sending him back to where he loved. He could hear Sirius's energetic voice shouting things to the Gryffindor team and laughed realizing just how much Sirius loved talking. He opened his eyes and tuned into the commenting while searching for the snitch.
"Pearl passes to Wilson and whoa, did anyone see that handoff to Golden? Not I, that's for sure. Potter must have been working his team senseless this season, though it's certainly paid off. Back to Wilson as she flies towards the Slytherin goal and – WATCH OUT Bee there's a bludger headed your way!"
Bridget quickly dropped 10 feet in the air and when she rose she didn't have the quaffle anymore, but Jake had scored a goal in Slytherin. The game continued like this for another hour with the Slytherins getting meaner and meaner as the game wore on. By the time the score was 120-260 with Gryffindor in the lead, things were getting very nasty and the snitch was nowhere in sight. Even Sirius seemed to be loosing both his patience and his voice.
"Man, Potter, your team is amazing but you seem to not be practicing as much as your team mates," Sirius said roughly.
"Fuck off, Black! I don't see you trying!" James shouted in an extremely annoyed voice.
Sirius laughed as McGonagall yelled at James for swearing and then went back to commenting. Just five minutes later he saw something happen that made him want to strangle every member on the Slytherin team. Bridget had just scored a goal bringing Gryffindor farther into the lead when Regulus Black grabbed Clay's bludger bat and swung a bludger at her at top speed. Nobody had been watching him and the ball hit her right in the stomach making her flip over on her broom so she was dangling by one arm. The entire audience gasped and Madame Steinbach got so furious she threatened to disqualify the Slytherin team.
"Never in all my years," she ranted, "have I seen such foul behavior! TWO penalty shots to Gryffindor because of idiocy and low sportsmanship from Slytherin!"
Sirius was swearing his head off over the speaker but surprisingly; no one stopped him. Even McGonagall was shouting so fiercely that her hair began to come out of her tight bun. Bridget had her eyes scrunched close and both arms wrapped around her stomach once she had found her way back on her broom. Steinbach ordered a 10-minute break to both teams and they flew back down to opposite ends of the pitch. Immediately, the entire Gryffindor team rushed over to Bee to see if she was all right.
"I'm ok guys, really," she said though her voice was quiet and she seemed to be flinching. "I can still play and everything, I just have a stomach ache now," she tried to smile it off but no one was fooled, especially James.
"Are you sure?" he asked. "You can sit out if you want."
"No. I can do it; I'm fine. Just trust me on this," she looked up at James and had never seen such kindness and worry in his eyes. She smiled and repeated what she had previously said.
Madame Steinbach blew her whistle signaling that the break was over. She had been over near the Slytherin team screaming her head off at them while Sirius had been up in the stands saying how all Slytherins were scum and should jump off a cliff to air out their disgusting odor.
The two teams rose into the air and began playing again. The three chasers on Gryffindor were still flawless except for the fact that Bee only passed and caught, she didn't score for the rest of the game.
James was up in the sky observing the game and how Bridget was holding up when he realized something odd about her hair; it seemed to glitter in an odd way that it normally never did. He began to fly down to get a closer look and saw the Slytherin seeker, Rockport, across the field giving him a funny look. James smirked as he realized why Bridget's hair was glittering. Earlier on in the game Bridget's hair had fallen out of her braids and instead of redoing them she just tied her hair in a messy bun. Somehow, the golden snitch had gotten caught in her hair and was flapping around hopelessly trying to get out of the nest of blond hair. He looked back up at Rockport and gave him a wave and then began flying straight at Bridget. Rockport saw what he was doing and thought he was crazy for going after a person, and apparently, so did Sirius.
"James!" Sirius shouted to his friend. "What are you doing? I think he's mistaken Bridget's head for the snitch! I know we're all a bit delirious from this long game but that's a person, James! A person, not the snitch!"
James ignored him and called Bridget to stop moving. "James, are you all right? You look a little funny," Bridget said cautiously.
"I'm just happy that's all," he said and reached his arm around and into her hair. Many people began to laugh and whisper about James being crazy. The Slytherins even began shouting 'Potty the pothead' at him. James felt his hand grab hold of the snitch and he pulled it out of her hair slowly as to not hurt Bee any more. He grinned as he showed her the snitch then raised it above his head and started laughing uncontrollably. Bridget cried out in glee and hugged James as the rest of the team came flying at the two of them.
"GRYFFINDOR WINS!" Sirius screamed into the microphone. "This is amazing, who would have thought of the snitch hiding there? Well, I'll tell you who, the Gryffindor team that's who! This has been one hell of a game and I'm proud to say that I helped preserve the memory for all. Now, it's time for me to go because there is a PARTY in the Gryffindor common room!" Sirius threw down the microphone and ran out of the teacher's booth down to the field to cheer with the rest of his house.
XButterbeer and Firewhisky were being generously passed around as the entire Gryffindor house celebrated their win. Everyone wanted to hear how James had found the snitch in Bridget's hair and also about Bridget getting nailed in the stomach by the bludger. At midnight, Remus sent all the students from first through third year to go to bed.
"Come on tell the story again," one of Diane's friends, said with a wild grin on her face and Firewhisky in hand. Sirius laughed and looked over at James and Bee who had been partying the hardest all night.
"Ok," James said as he took a large gulp of Firewhisky and began relaying the story with abundant details.
Lily, who had stayed down in the common room only because of Bee, was getting sick of James telling the story and told Bee she was going to bed and angrily stormed off. Normally, Bridget would have followed her, but she was just about as drunk as James so she stayed put and laughed with the others, never realizing that both Remus and Teddy were missing and Sirius's arm was around her shoulders.
XSleeping bodies and empty bottles laid haphazardly in the common room as the morning sun shined brightly in. Slowly, Bridget opened her eyes and moved her head to the right to see where she was sleeping. Her face turned from sleepy to wide-awake as she saw she had stayed in the common room all night with Sirius right next to her. She tried to sit up but his arm was around her waist and he just wrapped his arm more securely around her and drifted back off to sleep. She quickly glanced down and breathed a sigh of relief as she saw that they both had stayed fully clothed.
Just then a couple of first years came running down the stairs talking and laughing. They stopped when they saw what had happened when they went off to bed.
"The common room is completely trashed," a boy said.
"The common room's not the only thing that got trashed," another said. "There's still a ton of people in here who I bet are all drunk to no end."
The two boys walked around the room observing everything. A couple people were waking up, though not many. Bridget shut her eyes and pretended to be asleep by intertwining her arms with Sirius's. The boys walked in front of the couch and looked down at Bee and Sirius.
"Hey, that's Bridget," one said. "The girl who got rammed with a bludger yesterday."
The other laughed at this. "I saw her making out with some guy a couple days ago in broad daylight practically," he put in.
"Well she looks pretty cozy with Black right now."
Just then, Sirius began to wake up. The boys noticed this and quickly ran down to breakfast; Bridget had accidentally fallen back asleep. Sirius tried to sit up but saw that his arms were tangled up with Bridget's. He looked at her small sleeping form and smiled softly. Then he quickly looked down to make sure all his clothes were in the right places and that nothing had happened. He sighed loudly, which caused Bridget to stir and open her right eye. The sun caught it, and the color of her eye turned to an intense and sparkly blue. She rolled over and bumped into Sirius's body.
"Morning, Sunshine," Sirius said smiling at her.
Bridget already knew nothing happened but wanted to make him think she'd just awoken so she sat up rather quickly with a startled face on. This proved to be bad because her stomach clenched up and she winced noticeably.
Sirius gently jumped off of the couch and landed silently like a cat on the ground. He took her shoulders and laid her back down onto the couch. "Are you sure you're all right?" he asked with care in his eyes.
"I think so," Bridget answered. "It just hurts my ribs sometimes." She brought her hands up to her head to try and massage her terrible hangover away.
"Got a hangover?" Sirius asked with a smile on.
She nodded and covered her eyes with her cool hands. She heard him say something but wasn't sure what it was. But by the time she opened her eyes he was back from where he'd gone and grinning.
"A little while ago I learned the anti-hangover spell," he said. "And I have to admit, it comes in handy quite a lot these days."
"Well, teach me because I have I feeling I'll need to know this spell again for future uses," Bridget said through closed eyes.
Sirius taught her the spell and told her that it would take five minutes to work. In five minutes time Bridget sat up and smiled at him.
"Thanks," was all she said and all that was needed.
Do I feel some sexual tension…? Anyway, I would like to dedicate this chapter to my first reviewer MissEdith. I'm writing this for her right now because no one else has reviewed. Also, there will be more about the morning after the party, I'm just sleepy and want to go to bed.