The Dare Game

Chapter eight

I didn’t know how much more of this I could take. Scorpius had had me waiting on his every need all morning and I was tired out. I slumped down on the sofa next to Scorpius,

“Can I have a break?” I asked,

“Ok,” Scorpius said to my surprise, “I’m out of ideas of what to make you do anyway. Chocolate?” I took a chocolate from the box that Scorpius offered me, “What would you make me do if I’d lost the dare game?” I shrugged,

“I don’t know, something fun,” I said thoughtfully, Scorpius nodded,

“I’ll bare that in mind. Now, come on, lets go to lunch.”

To my surprise Scorpius didn’t make me sit next to him at the Slytherin table at lunch so I sat with Ingrid and Daisy. I didn’t really listen to their endless chat about the exploding snap championship they were planning; instead I gazed over at Scorpius, trying to work out what he had planned for me. When Lunch was over Scorpius walked over to me and whispered,

“Meet me by the big tree near Hagrid’s hut in fifteen minutes.”

“Why?” I began but Scorpius had already disappeared. I sighed and ran after Daisy and Ingrid,

“Here,” Daisy said when I caught up with them. She trust a pile of leaflets into my hands,

“You take the great hall Rose, Daisy you take common room and I’ll do the other houses,” Ingrid said. I frowned, “Distributing the leaflets about the exploding snap tournament!” I nodded and head back towards the hall. There wasn’t many people in the hall, there never was unless it was meal times. I decided that the best thing to do was to just spread the leaflets out across the four tables then when people came in they would see the leaflets and hopefully read them. Also doing that meant that I would be done soon and I could go and meet Scorpius. I laid the leaflets out and headed out of the hall.

It didn’t take me long to walk to the tree and when I arrived Scorpius was nowhere in sight. I leant against the tree to wait when,

“Pssstt,” I spun around but nobody there! Then something cold hit the side of my head. I carefully touched it. There were crumbs of pastry and a soft yellow, creamy mixture on my cheek. A custard pie! I heard laughing coming for a nearby bush. I turned to look and saw Scorpius’s head poking out from behind it and in his hand there was another pie. There was an evil look in Scorpius’s eye! He drew his arm back and flung the pie at me, I ducked just in time and the pie hit the tree behind me,

“That’s not fair,” Scorpius cried, he climbed out from behind the bush and started to run towards me, I squealed and started to run away. Then it suddenly accrued to me that Scorpius was getting his pies from somewhere behind the bush… I started to run towards it. I dived into the leaves and landed next to a pie of pies. I snatched up a pie and jumped out from behind the bush. As soon as my head popped up Scorpius threw the pie he was holding at me. It hit me straight in the face. I began to pick the pastry off my face while listening to the sound of Scorpius laughing. I wiped the mixture for around my eyes and set off towards Scorpius who turned on his heels and started to run away from me. He ran towards the tree and started to climb it,

“You don’t get away that easily,” I shouted as I started up the tree too. Scorpius pulled himself up onto one of the branches and sat down. A moment later I hauled myself on the same branch,

“Ok, Rose,” he sighed, “You win, fire away!” I grinned and pelted the pie in my hand at him. It hit Scorpius just to the right of his forehead.

“That felt good,” I said as I sat down next to him,

“Yeah, throwing pies at you felt good too.”

“You know you could have just told me not to throw the pie at you,” I said after a while. Scorpius nodded,

“But what’s the fun in that? Come one lets get down,” We stood up and started to climb down. I stood on a small branch while I waited for Scorpius to get off the branch we had been sitting on,

“Rose, I don’t think that branch is very strong,” Scorpius said nervously,

“It’s fine-“ suddenly we heard a cracking sound and we both froze,

“Rose…” the branch beneath me snapped and I plummeted to the ground.