A/N: Hahaha I just changed my name! I shall now be known as... SensitveFish! hahahahahaha I hate fish!
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Beep-beep, beep-beep. I opened my eyes wearily. Beep-beep, beep-beep. I reach over and hit the 'Off' button on my alarm. Slowly, I manage to make myself get up. Wow it's freezing without my duvet covering me. I let a big yawn out, I just want to go back to sleep, but then I remember my meeting. The nerves come rushing back, and hit me with such force that I stumble backwards, or maybe I just lost my balance 'cause I'm not fully awake yet. I try to force my nerves back by concentrating on getting dressing. I put on a pair of trackpants, a random t-shirt and a warm jumper over top. Where are my socks? Damn it Ginny! Why do you always lose your socks? I get down on my hands and knees and look under my four-poster. Found them! I put them on, put my shoes on, then run a brush through my hair and tie it up. Putting my watch on, I notice it's only 6.10, it usually takes me half an hour to get dressed and ready, that's weird. Oh well, I head off down the stairs to the common room. There's no point in eating now, the meetings only meant to go for five minutes. I decide to sit in front of the fireplace; I didn't bring my wand down so I can't conjure up a fire.
Madam Hooch has been telling the whole Gryffindor team that she wants to take us. I don't know if she's been saying that to everyone just to make them happy, she probably has. I've improved heaps this season, and she knows it. She told me herself. I'm trying to convince myself that I must have been chosen to go. McGonagall told me three weeks ago that as long as we all keep working our asses off then we'll be chosen for the team (she didn't use those exact words, that's just what I gathered from what she said). Suddenly, flames leap out at me from the fireplace. It startled me, I have to admit I was almost falling asleep. Now, someone's putting their arms around my waist and sitting their chin on my right shoulder. I turn to look at whoever it was. It's Hermione. What the hell is she doing up at this time! I lean back into her and try to relax. But when nerves claim me, I can't relax until they leave. She leans her head into me.
"Hey" she whispers in my ear.
"Hey" I whisper back.
"I thought I might find you down here" she says.
"Why were you looking for me? And what the hell are you doing up at this time?" I asked.
"I wanted to wish you luck. I know how hard you've been working since camp finished, and I think you deserve to go. And… I wanted to make sure… you didn't sleep through your alarm." She says kind of shying away as she says the last thing. "You almost did it last year, I didn't want it to happen again." I can only smile at her.
"Well thank you Hermione. But as you can see, I didn't sleep in this time. I'm better disciplined this year" I say with a bit of a laugh. She smiles.
"Why didn't you conjure up a fire? It's freezing down here" she asks tightening her grip.
"I didn't bring my wand down" I say, staring back at the newly made fire.
"Why didn't you go get it?" she asks. I ponder this question for about a minute.
"I didn't think to do that" I say looking back at her. She gives me a questioning look. "I woke up twenty minutes ago Hermione. I'm still tired ok, I haven't woken up yet." She chuckles. I smile at her and look at my watch.
"It's twenty past, I should get going" I say as I get up. Hermione gets up too and gives me huge hug and kisses my cheek.
"Good luck Gin" she whispers.
"Cheers" I say hugging her back. I pull out of the hug, give Hermione a small smile and set off towards McGonagall's office. Along the way I try to convince myself that I have to be chosen to go. The only thing that they might hold against me was when my performance dropped after camp, but I brought it back up to speed, which should count for something… shouldn't it?
When I finally get there, I notice my nerves have subsided. I'm not nervous anymore. Even though, in just a matter of minutes I'm going to be either really happy or really pissed off. I wait outside the door for a second with my hand sitting on the handle. I breathe in deep, and let it out in a slow sigh and open the door.
"Ginerva Weasley!" Madam Hooch says, the second I step into the office.
"Madam Hooch!" I reply. "How are ya?"
"Ha! Tired" she says with a laugh. "Professor McGonagall isn't here yet"
"How long have you been here?" I ask.
"Oh, about ten minutes maybe. I've just been looking over the grounds, it's a beautiful morning isn't it? Foggy mornings are the best in my opinion" she replies looking out the window.
"Yeah, it is. I love the fog" I say, looking out the window too. Madam Hooch looks over at the door.
"I think we should just start without her. What do you think?" she asks.
"Yeah, just get it over and done with. Then I can give her a hard time about it later" I say in reply, sitting down on a chair in front of her.
"Ok, well first off, you are going to the BMSQC" she pauses to see my reaction. I close my eyes and let out the breath I didn't know I had been holding. "I take it that's quite a relief?" she asks.
"Yeah, just a bit" I can feel my heart hammering out of excitement for when the competition starts. She smiles at me.
"Well, you know the drill from last year. It'll be mostly the same except this time, you'll be training with the team. So, up until the school final you'll be training in your house team. However, after the final is when we start the real training. We train all through the summer, have a training camp near the end, come back to school and at the end of October we jump on the Knight Bus and head off to the BMSQC." Madame Hooch says. As if I would forget what happens.
"Ok, is there anything else I need to know?" I ask, wanting to get away as soon as possible. For some reason, there was still a lot of tension in the air.
"Do you have any questions?" Madame Hooch replied.
"Umm… How am I doing? Am I meeting the right standard? Am I in front of it, behind it? Or just…. Am I where I should be?... Physically?" I ask. I've been wondering about that for a while now.
"Well, I would expect you to be doing better, since your team is training so much. But I've only seen you in games, not in training, I just hope that during the next game in a few weeks you'll be playing to your full ability and that nothing will go wrong to mess up your moves. As far as I can see, you are up to scratch" she says happily.
"Alright, sweet" I say with a smile. "I think that's my only question. If not, then I'll come find you."
"Sounds like a plan!" she says, laughing. "See you later, train hard!"
"Will do! Bye" I call over my shoulder as I leave the office. I close the door behind, Ron's not here yet. He probably slept in. I lean my back against the door and sigh a sigh of relief. A smile creeps onto my face as I decide to head back to the Gryffindor Tower. Hermione might still be up. She'll be the first to know! She deserves to be anyway, as she was the one who supported me the most. I don't come across anyone on my way to the common room. Ron must've taken a short cut, he better not be sleeping. I give the password to the Fat Lady and walk in.
Hermione looks over to me. I take a deep breath and with it, my smile gets bigger. I run to her as she stands up, and jump on her wrapping my arms around her neck.
"I made it! I made it, I got in!" I almost squeal into her ear.
"Ahh, that's great Ginny!" She laughs and spins around with me still holding onto her. She stops and lets me get down. We're both grinning.
"I owe it all to you Hermione" I say on a bit of a serious note, though still smiling uncontrollably. "You encouraged me the whole time, you supported me and… you made me go to trainings when I really didn't want to." We both laughed at the last point.
A/N: Hey guys! I'm SOOOOOOO sorry it's taken me so long to get this chapter finished. I didn't have anytime anymore to do anything for me, including homework (but I don't care about homework). The competition was actually at the end of March but I've been busy after that too, mainly with socializing. But like I said, I'm really sorry about the delay, and I'm gonna get another chapter of Ginny's Bad Night up soon too (once I've written it). Cya later! Review Review Review! xoxo