My Hogwarts DR

chapter 2: the game

(Wren's POV)

Once Tara unpacked her belongings, the twins thought it would be a wonderful idea to play "A Nice Friendly Game of Quidditch" in their words.

If anything this game was about to be the exact opposite, and everyone knew it. I turn to Tara, "Hey, I know you kinda just got here so we don't have to play if you don't wanna-" She buds in before I keep rambling, "It's okay, I promise!" Tara assures me as she runs off to grab a spare broom.

I roll my eyes. This was not going to end well and I wasn't too interested in playing anyway. I'd probably get knocked off a broom or something and it would be a whole event. But it's too late now, we needed even numbers for the teams and Fred somehow convinced me. As if it was really my choice anyway.

We begin to pick teams, the captains being Fred and Harry

"You pick first!" Fred tells Harry while grinning.

"Uhm Tara, wanna be on my team?" He stutters out

I almost burst out laughing at him. "Freddy said pick someone, not ask politely." I say jokingly and everyone starts chuckling as well. Harry just stood there while Tara walked over to him. They made eye contact with each other and then looked away quickly.

"Wren and George, you're on my team." Fred blurted out. I mean you're technically not supposed to choose two people at once but Fred could care less.

"Really?" I say to him sarcastically, referring to the fact he chose both of us.

"Couldn't leave you for Harry to pick." He replied while picking me up jokingly.

"Hey! Fred! Stop-" But before I could keep talking I was interrupted by my own laughter.

Finally I get placed onto the ground, almost losing my balance at the sudden change. Seems while all that was going on Harry went ahead and picked Ron for his team. And our team was left with Ginny. She's actually really good at Quidditch so that meant that I would be the worst one on the team. Surely I would fall off of my broom the second we start.

"Everyone ready?" Fred called out.

I just roll my eyes and prepare for what's about to happen. That's when I spot Tara and Harry talking. I smile to myself, 'It's really nice that they are finally having what seems to be an actual conversation.' My thoughts are interrupted when I see everyone lift off the ground.

I make an attempt to follow their lead, failing horribly.

"Wren! You do know we are playing Quidditch right?" Fred said in a mocking tone.

"Wow, who would have guessed?!" I yell back to him sarcastically. Finally I am able to get some height, still wobbling around though.

I look to see Tara not doing too much better. She looks up at me and we start laughing at each other, both of us looking absolutely ridiculous as we just float around. I make an attempt to fly closer to her so we can talk while everyone else is more involved in the game.

"Sooo, you and Harry?" I question her.

"Huh?" She replies sounding confused.

"C'mon, it's so obvious you guys fancy each other."

Her face turns bright red as a reaction to my comment. When suddenly her broom dips down. As it fell she gripped onto my broom as a reflex.

"Woah, hey, are you okay?" I say, sounding surprised. The brooms were kinda old, because of this they were harder to maneuver. But my broom soon gave out due to the amount of pressure that was added and we both went down with the broom.

The game came to a quick stop once everyone realized Tara and I had fallen to the ground.

Harry was the first to notice us laying there and proceeded to alert the others.

My eyes flicker open being somewhat blinded by the sun, I quickly realize that we just fell, but I don't remember anything leading up to this. "Why are we on the floor?" I ask everyone and look over to Tara.

She had both hands around the lower portion of her face, the more I looked I began to notice blood dripping from her hands and onto her shirt. "Tara, oh my gosh, are you okay?!"

She gave me a nod in return. I look back to everyone else, they seemed to be talking to me but everything was muffled.

(Fred's POV)

"Wren, can you hear me?" I yelled out. She just continued to stare at me blankly.

"Freddy, I don't think she can." Ginny whispered to me, not wanting to alarm the others.

I turn back to Wren. Tara is yelling a bit now, "Do you remember anything before this?!" We all look to Wren for a reply, only, we don't get one. Her eyes start closing but it looks like she's trying to force them open. Then, she fell back.

"Someone get Mom!" I yell, panicking now. Wren has fallen in quidditch before but I guess she hit her head pretty bad this time.

I look over to see Ron guiding Mom to Wren. "She fell off the broom with Tara and then-" Before I finish my explanation Wren already got scooped up by Mom and was being taken inside.

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