Chapter 20:
Cedric, apparently, decided to come in fashionably late.
"Where were you, Cedric Diggory?" he heard a stern voice behind.
Cedric stopped in his tracks. "I was… erm… having quidditch practice!" he replied without turning back. Besides, he expected to see Christine there.
"Nice try, jerk."
He spun around and saw the three sisters glaring at him.
"Your quidditch practice is on Wednesday. Today, however, is Friday." Lynette said.
"Oh. Erm. I missed the last session. So I had to make up."
"Nice try, moron." Jermaine said, once again.
"Give the boy a break, Jer," Kimberly said. "He deserves one after all that tongue action."
"Tongue action? But – but - but –" he quickly recovered. "I have no idea what you're talking about." He said, somewhat loftily.
"I'm sure you do."
"No I don't."
"Yes you do."
"NO I DON'T."
"YES YOU DO."
"Okay fine! I do. All right?"
"HA! We knew it."
"Just… keep it from Christine, okay?"
"Nice try, honey." An angry voice sounded behind.
Cedric jumped. He expected to see Christine but all he saw no one. He turned back to see Jermaine pointing her wand discreetly at her throat, making herself sound like Christine.
"Thickhead. Christine left already. We'll do you this very one favour, don't expect any more. You hurt Christie and you will get it from us,"
BORDER. BORDER.
The three sisters and Christine lounged on the grass by the lake, doing their homework and chatting leisurely. Cedric came along after his quidditch practice and lay down beside Christine.
"I'm hungry," he complained, "Got any fruits?"
"Nah," came Jermaine.
"Nope," came Kimberly.
"I don't eat fruits," Lynette said distractedly.
Just then, Christine's special apple stumbled out of her bag…
"Cool, an apple!" Cedric said, taking it, "Can I have it?" he asked Christine.
"Mmph!" Christine said, trying to focus on her work.
"Thanks," he said appreciatively, sinking his pearly whites into the squealing apple.
"OH MY GAWWWWWDDDD CEDRIC WHAT ARRE YOU DOOOINGG?" Christine shouted, grabbing the half-bitten apple from Cedric.
"Oh! Oh my gosh I didn't know!" Cedric said, pulling out his wand to repair what he did.
The poor, injured apple squeaked at the sight of the wand and ran for its life. It ran straight and into the lake, plopping in.
Christine scrambled to the edge of the lake and looked down, watching it sink into the black, murky below of the lake.
She stuck her hands into her hair and cried, "My apple! My poor, poor apple!"
"Christine I'm really sorry, I-"
"My apple…. My apple… My apple… My apple…" she whined.
"Let us all pay tribute to the apple," started Lynette.
"The apple that once lived," Jermaine said with a fake sob.
"It's all your fault Cedric, as usual," Kimberly said, pretending to cry into an invisible hanky.
Just then, Raymond approached them, looking extremely red in the face.
"Uhh… Hii….." he started, anxiously fingering his robes.
"Hello, you are-?" Lynette started.
"Hi Raymond!" Cedric said brightly. Everyone stared at him.
Raymond was looking at Jermaine who was shocked, in a sense.
"Lovely day, isn't it?" he said, "Jer," he added, hastily.
"Erm, yes, it is," she said, trying to sound casual.
"Well uh, see you around," he said, turning around and walking away.
After he walked a considerable distance, Kimberly blurted out, "He likes you!"
"No he doesn't!"
Leaving them to bicker (as usual), Cedric turned to Christine who was looking extremely grumpy, and said, "Why is that so important to you anyway? The apple,"
Oh shit. Should I tell him who gave it to me?
"It… It can walk! AND, it's cute,"
He raised his eyebrows.
"You never liked cute stuff!"
"Yeah, well- I, well, never mind," she muttered, turning away.
Cedric then decided that it was best to settle with that answer, knowing that if he got the truth, they would get into another large quarrel…
BORDER. Haha. Jermaine! You and your Border's obsession x) (its an inside joke people, no need to worry, you aren't missing out on anything)
As Cedric prepared stood next in line by the other three champions by the lake, anxiously waiting for the task, he caught sight of four heads of black fur – oops, I mean hair – bobbing up and down, making their way through his Fan Club. He smiled.
"Hi Christine," he said, flashing a rather guilty grin at her. He nodded to the trio standing behind.
"Cedric, I just heard the parlous task you asked to perform, as usual," Christine added quickly, "You might want to use gillyweed," Harry turned around and looked at her in a shocked expression. Ignoring him, she carried on, "Or the bubble-head charm, it's the easiest and it provides lots and lots of oxygen. You won't be deformed in the process," she said scornfully, purposefully glaring back at Harry, knowing what would happen to him the minute he swallowed the wretched thing. Harry blushed and looked away.
At that precise moment, the canon blasted. Kissing Christine on her cheek, he muttered a spell and plunged into the icy cold water.
Christine clutched her scarf close to her face, saying, "Please Lord, let him be alright,"
While the triplets were quietly thinking, "Please Lord, let him not be alright,"
Dumbledore bewitched the surface of the lake so it was crystal clear for the audience to see what was going on underneath the surface. Apparently, Harry Potter showed off by doing a back flip in the air before diving down and getting serious.
"Show off," she heard a few people mutter behind.
Cedric encountered several Grindylows.
"RELEASHIO YOU ASS! USE THE RELEASHIO SPELL!" Jermaine cried out.
Well, he must have. After several minutes of unintended "squabbling" with the Grindylows, he managed to get free.
Christine spotted four people chained to the bottom of the lake.
"Cho Chang…" she muttered viciously.
There was an eerie song playing at the background.
"The one you sorely miss will be taken away from you!" she screeched. "Cho Chang, that bitch!!"
The triplets frowned and sensed trouble.
"I am so going to get her… I AM SO, GOING, TO, GET HER!" Christine screeched even louder.
"Hey! Chill dude," Jermaine said.
Just then, Roger appeared, chomping on an apple.
"Where's yours?" he asked, grinning at Christine.
"Someone ate it," she muttered.
"Ehh, I see them surfacing!" Kimberly said, pointing to Cedric who was moving up towards the surface with Cho Chang in his arms.
There was much cheering and Dumbledore was saying something in the background Christine couldn't be bothered to hear.
"Oh CEDDY! You saved my LIFE!" Cho Chang gasped, wringing her arms around his neck.
Christine pushed her off Cedric, causing her to fall back into the water, saying, "Oh my gosh, are you alright!"
"Fifteen points off Gryffindor Miss Lin!" Professor Mcgonagoll said screechily.
Ignoring her, Christine hugged Cedric, relieved to know that he was alright…
BORDER. OR IS IT BOARDER? NO NO. IT CANT BE RIGHT. BORDER.BORDER.BORDER.
It was a lovely day outside… Blahblahblah. Christine walked out with Jermaine into the lawn.
"Where are the other two?" she asked Jer.
"Well, apparently, Kimberly is in detention for scorching Cho Chang's hair, and Lynette is in for… Well, you know why Ann Hawkin's hair is electric blue?"
Christine nodded.
"Lets just say that Lynette did not have anything to do with it," Jermaine replied sarcastically.
They walked out into the lawn where they saw both of them doing their detention.
"Hey yo!" Kimberly shouted, waving at them.
"We need to prune these large, hedges or bushes, or whatever," Lynette said.
"Wow, the hedges, they are in, the shape of," Jermaine fingered a leaf, "Those muggle Disnay, Disney characters were saw in Paris! You actually took the time to cut the leaves into those kind of shapes?" she said sardonically, raising her eyebrows.
"Then why don't you just use-"
"Ah ah ah," Kimberly said.
"No magic," Lynette said.
"Besides, where's the fun if you don't get to do,"
"THIS!"
Both of them used their oversized pruning tools to slice off "Disnay Characters" heads.
SORRY FOR THE SHORT AND BORING CHAPTER YALL. I JUST NEEDED TO GET OVER WITH THIS SECOND TASK SO I COULD MOVE ONTO THE THRID. THAT'S WHAT I REALLY NEED TO BUILD UP TENSION.
Sorry to break it to you all, but the story is coming to an end (: after the third task, that is, after around 4 more chapters. But HEY! No worries. There will be a sequel. Im just using a sequel so that my chapters wont look so clumped up together.