A/N: Hey guys here's the next chapter. I don't have any other reviews so there shall be no more chapters unless you give me information! And I made a mistake! In chapter six I told you the person wanted a k-ish rating but I mixed her up with this person (Knittingpanda a.k.a. Amber Kershiznik) who is the leading lady in this story, wanted a k-ish story but all the other info is the same, so sorry about that. This story is a k-ish rating. Enjoy!
Laura took her seat and started to stare rather dreamily at Draco Malfoy before someone shouted out, "Will you just ask somebody already?" Laura snapped out of it and apologized profusely before picking Amber Kershiznik, a fifth year Ravenclaw and also one of her friends. Amber turned a deep red color and hissed, "Laura, why'd you call on me for?" Laura just smiled smugly and asked, "Truth, or Dare?" Amber glowered at her and muttered, "I don't want to do either, if you must know."
Seamus shouted from the other end of the circle, "Oy, I'll do a joint dare with her, if you'll let me." Now joint dares are tricky little things, the rules of a joint dare are, one person must be touching the other at all times to complete the task, and it must be done as quickly as humanly possible, without magic.
Amber glanced up and turned beet red again. It was just her luck that one of her crushes had to volunteer to do a joint dare. Why not just shoot her and end the agony? OH well, at least she hadn't had to pick. Amber relaxed a bit and glanced over at Laura to see what she was devising. The look on Laura's face, however, made Amber shoot right back up in her chair. It was that look she got when she got a wonderfully awful idea. Amber was screwed and worst; Amber was screwed will being stuck to Seamus. NOOOO. What was this world coming to?
Laura looked up as though coming out of a trance and said, you and Seamus are going to have to climb to the top of that sturdy looking tree over there (she pointed to the one Draco had sat against.) and ring the bell I'm going to put at the top. Amber thought back to that scarf she was knitting Laura for her birthday. She was so unraveling that he next chance she got. (She would have flushed it down the toilet but that would have been a waste of yarn.)
Seamus walked over to her and reached for her hand. "The dare begins when you touch," shouted Laura as she transfigured the top branch into a shiny golden bell. Amber suddenly had a look of determination cross her face. She wondered if she was still feeling the after effects of that cheering charm that Laura had insisted on practicing on her on the train.
Amber grabbed Seamus' hand and they sprinted for the tallest tree and began to climb, only using there two feet and one free hand. At first it was very easy. There were branches galore and they were thick and sturdy. Very dependable branches if you asked Amber. But the higher they rose, the smaller the branches got, and the more she leaned into Seamus for support.
They were inches from the top now and Amber started to smile. They were going to make it! When suddenly, her branch snapped. Have you ever had that free falling sensation, right before you know you're going to die? That's the one Amber was getting, when suddenly, YANK. Her arm was nearly pulled out of her socket as she looked up and saw Seamus holding on to her for dear life. She let out a scream and Seamus shushed her as he tried to pull her up. Amber quickly looked around for a foot hold or an arm hold or any hold, but the branch she had been on had wiped them out on its way down.
She heard gasps and shouts from the crowds below, and she saw someone attempt to shoot a spell their way to help her down, but it missed all together and almost hit Seamus instead. That of course would have meant instant death for the both of them. Someone must have realized this and told the others because shortly after the spells stopped being shot off.
Amber didn't think she could ever have been so scared as she was that minute. Seamus suddenly had a look of determination cross his face. He repositioned himself and began to slowly stand on the branch. "Are you CRAZY?" shouted Amber, "MY BRANCH couldn't even support me and you expect yours to hold both of us? I don't even know how you've been holding on to me for so long? Look, just let go of my and I'll fall and hit a branch and then I won't die."
Seamus grunted and then said, "If you don't mind, kindly SHUT UP! I'm trying to save you from unneeded pain and it's hard enough as is. Seamus was almost fully upright and he began to pull her up onto his branch. Amber saw the branch strain under both of their weight as he slowly but surely pulled her up.
When she was finally standing on his branch, she almost flung herself on him in a hug, but he said, "Wait." She saw him reach his arm up, and she wondered what he was doing, then she saw the tiny golden bell inches above there heads.
Seamus rang it and the climbed back down together. The second they hit the ground Amber tackled him in a huge hug, and thanked him profusely for saving her life. She kissed him on the nose and then, dragging him along by the hand, told everyone to hurry up so they could reform the circle and start playing again. 'Alright,' thought Amber, 'who's the next victim?'
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