Alice Weasley (Discontinued)

Chapter 10

Alice

"Aauugh!!" I shrieked as my bone popped back into place. "There, there," Madam Pomfrey cooed, trying to calm me down.

"Thanks Poppy," I say. She makes tutting, disapproving noise. "That really hurt." I continue, ignoring her noise.

"You should be fine in a couple of hours bu..." I cut her off. "No. I am not missing my first day of school." She looks stern but finally give in. "Fine, but you'll have to wear a cast and use some crutches." I sigh. "Uggh."

    Soon enough I'm fitted with a cast and shown how to use crutches. It's a very unpleasant experience for me. I look up at the clock. It reads: 1:46.

   That gives me just enough time to hobble over to charms class. I'm about halfway there when someone steps out backwards from behind a wall a I crash right into them. I fall over and my books spew everywhere. "Oh, look what we have here," the boy says kind of creepily. Three more people step out from behind the wall. A girl and two other boys.

   I look up at them. They are all wearing green ties. Slytherins, I think bitterly. The kids look older than me. They look older than Percy but not as old as Charlie. Maybe in there 5th year. When I fell, I landed sideways on my leg. Disputes the cast, I felt my bone pop out again and my crutches fly in two different directions.

    The girl gives out a high pitched laugh. She sounds like one of the cartoon evil people just a lot louder and her voice a lot squeakier. The boys just chuckle. I wouldn't think that they would tell me there names so I tried to think of a group name that would suit them. The first thing that pops into my head is Malum. It's the Latin word for evil. That's what I decide to call them. The Malum.

    I try to push myself off the ground but my foot shoots pain throughout my whole body and I clumsily fall back down. They approach me as I lay on the ground with tears brimming at the side of my eyes from the pain. "It's an itty-bitty Gryffindor." The girl mocks and they start laughing again. I know I'm not going to be able to get anywhere without my crutches so I start to scooch
over to them since I can't walk but one of the boys beat me there.

   He picks up one of my crutches and then the other and walks over to the window and looks out of it. Then he drops them out. I gulp. I'm not going to be able to move.

   The guy walks back over to the girl. He has dark brown hair and blue eyes. The girl stands up on her tiptoes and kisses him. Eww gross.

   The girl has long flowing red hair with brown eyes. Then she walks over to my books, being careful to tread on my once again broken foot while she walks. I pull my leg back into my chest. She stops at my DADA book. She leans down and mutters a few words. Dancing flames shoot out of her wand and hit the book setting it on fire.

   "I NEED HELP!!" I yell at the top of my lungs. "SOMEONE GIVE ME SOME HELP!" Footsteps start somewhere along the corridor behind them but they sound kinda far off. But as they get closer the brown haired boy yells," Oh crap." And they all start running. I bright red haired boy round the corner just as they turn the next corner.

   I look back at the boy and sigh with relief. It's my older brother Charlie. "Charlie, I need some help," I state flatly.

   "No joke," he replies looking around at my broken leg, my scattered books and the one on fire, and the open window that cracked just a little from where they threw it out. "What happened."

  So I begin to tell him of my first day. How I broke my leg at the lake, went to the hospital, and then the Malum attacked me. His face go from emotion to emotion. Confusion, angry, sympathetic, and disapproving. Then he puts out the fire on my book with water, cleans up the rest of my books, and helps me walk back the hospital wing.

   When we get there he explains what's happened and offers to go get my crutches. "Thanks Charlie," I say when he gets back. "No problem. Just taking care of my little sis." He thanks Poppy and runs back off to his classes. I have to go through the painful process again as my bone pops back into place but this time I don't object when she tells me to stay here.

    I lay my head down on my soft fluffy pillow. I gaze up at the ceiling and start making patterns out of the white tiles. I don't know how long I stayed in there. Probably a couple hours, but then Fred, George, Lee, Percy, and Charlie all come visit me. "Hey guys," I say while smiling weakly as they all come in. They all look concerned, even Percy who brought a book with him.

    "How you feeling?" Lee asks genuinely. I give him a raised eyebrow. I've known him for one day, but he's not really ever that concerned. He's exactly like my brothers and me. "I just kinda feel like it's my fault." He continues. "You know, since I'm the reason you fell and hit your head which led to a chain of other disasters and..." I cut him off by shushing him.

    "You talk to much," I complain and he smiles. "Gotta go. A lot of work to do. Hope you feel better Alice." Percy says before walking out of the room, his nose in his book. "Can't even stay 20 minutes..." Charlie mumbles while shaking his head and sitting down. I laugh, genuinely.

   I sit and talk with my family for a while... and Lee. They only left when Poppy shoed them out. By then it was dark. I was required to stay overnight. "By Alice," Charlie calls while holding open the door. "Ya, by Al," Fred calls. "See ya, Al," says George. "Bye," Lee says. "Al" has been Fred and George's nickname for me since I was a kid.

   Well technically since we were all kids. I smile as the door shuts and close my eyes letting sleepiness overcome me.

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