The Ginger I fell in Love with

Chapter 13: The second task

Rose prov

I slowly opened my eyes and saw I was in my dorm room. I sat up and looked around. How did I get here the last thing I remember I was with the twins and Lee at the library door. I quietly got up and then headed into the bathroom to get showered and changed into my spirt uniform. I used red to write "Potter" on my right cheek and used yellow to write "Diggory" on my left cheek. I plaited my fair into pigtails. I placed my beanie on my head and put on my jacket. I then headed out to the common room. As I was coming down the stairs, so were the twins and Lee. "Good morning Boys." I smiled. "Hey sleeping beauty." Fred said as he kissed my cheek. "I am guessing you took me to my dorm last night." I said as I hugged him. "I did indeed." He said with a small smile. "Well we better go down and get breakfast before we have to head out to watch the second task." I said as I dragged the boys down to the great hall. We all sat around the table and started eating. I grabbed some pancakes and started to eat them. I looked over at the doors of the great hall and saw Ced walk in with a couple of other Hufflepuffs. I put my knife and fork down and headed over to Ced. "Hey Ced." He turned around and I watched a smile come across his face. "Rose, I have missed you. I haven't seen you in a while." He said as he got up to hug me. "Yeah, sorry I have been busy with homework and keeping certain boys out of trouble." I laughed as we both looked over at the twins and Lee who seemed to be drowning each other in orange juice. "I get it and I have been busy with tournament." "Are you ready for today?" I watched as he looked into my eyes and I am sure he could see the worry. "I am definitely ready for today, don't you worry." He said as he hugged me. I held him tight until we said goodbye to each other, and I headed back to the twins and Lee. We all finished breakfast and headed down to the edge of the black lake that had stands aligned for students to sit and watch the task. We choose the seats up at the top and sat down to wait for the task to begin. We watched as the champions except for Harry who seemed to be missing in action line up and wait for further instructions. "I wonder where Harry is?" Lee said as he stood up and looked around. "There he is!" I shouted as Harry ran down towards the other champions. Dumbledore begun to speak. "Now that we finally have all our champions, we can begin this task. Our champions will have one hour to find and collect what was stolen from them last night. On the sound of the cannon the task shall begin." The cannon went off and I jumped again. I should really get used to that sound. I watched as all the champions jumped into the water. We all watched as they disappeared into the black lake. We all sat talking about who we thought would come up first. About halfway in we saw Fleur resurface. She seemed to be spooked and hadn't brought her treasure to the surface, so it was still down to the three boys. After about ten minutes Ced resurfaced with Cho right beside him. I quickly got up and cheered with the school. I headed down to where Ced was standing. "Well done Ced you came in first!" "Thank you." He said as he hugged me. "But Harry should have been first he was too busy trying to help the others." "Where is he then?" I asked worriedly and looked out at the lake. Suddenly Krum resurfaced with Hermione and people helped them out of the water. Everyone held their breath waiting for the others to resurface. "Look over there!" Someone shouted and there n the distance was two figures. "But that's only Ron and Fleur's sister!" I shouted over the noise. I watched as Dean and Seamus helped them out of the water. "Where is Harry?" Fred asked as he had come up behind me. "I don't know?" I answered. Suddenly Harry shot out of the water and fell into all of us. I fell back onto Fred and we all tumbled to the ground. "I think we found him." Fred said with a laugh. We all burst into laughter. We all got up. Fred put his hand down to me and as I lifted my arm, I felt shooting pain go through it. "Rose are you okay?" "Yeah, my arm is just sore. I think I landed on it a bit harder then I thought." "Well do you want to go to Madam Pomfrey and get it checked." "Yeah we can do but first lets see if the move Harry Up a place." "Well what a brilliant effort from all you champions and congratulations to Mr Diggory in first!" we all shouted in glee. "Now seeing as Mr Potter would have been first for not his sense to rescue everyone, we award him second." Everyone cheered once more. "Now we have a mere few weeks to the last task. Champions prepare yourself and we will all be back in a few weeks to compete the finale task." Everyone started to head back to the castle and Fred took me to Madam Pomfrey for the third time that year.