The Wizarding World || SGE fanfic

Chapter 17 - More Quidditch

Kiko could still hear Rita Nettle's voice booming in the background. She was loud for such a small girl. Hort was munching on Bertie Botts beside her, with his mouth wide open, but she was far too polite to ask him to close his mouth to chew.

Kiko turned around and scanned the crowd of Hufflepuffs for Tristan. He wasn't there.

Kiko huffed and looked ahead.

"Slytherin in possession - Topaz with the Quaffle - passes to Pan - Pan hit hard in the face with a Bludger, hope it broke his nose - just joking, professors - Slytherin scores- damn! Slytherin scored!" Rita banged her hand on the bench in disappointment.

"Do you think Red knows she's supposed to be unbiased?" said a chubby German boy behind Kiko.

"I don't know," said the brunette girl beside him, "but Jack is looking hot-"

"Ew, Briar, no!" said the boy.

"Oh, grow up, Hansel." Briar spat back. Kiko tuned out of their conversation and stood up.

"Where are you going?" Dot asked.

"Away," Kiko replied, walking down the rows of seats, trying not to step on peoples toes.

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Under all of the seats there was a lot of wooden planks holding it all up - it was a lot more complicated than it looked from the out side. Kiko blocked out the cheering of the crowd from the stands.

She leaned on one of the wooden beams and pulled a chocolate frog from her pocket-

She heard the sound of someone sobbing and looked up. It was coming from around the bend. Kiko stood up. "Hello?"

She poked her head around the bend and saw a flash of red hair. "Tristan?" Tristan's head shot up like a deer. Kiko swallowed. "Are you alright."

Tristan looked at her for a moment, then burst into tears. Kiko rushed to his side and put an arm around him. Tristan put his head on her shoulder and sobbed. Kiko didn't dare move or ask what happened.

"Why is everything so hard," Tristan sniffled.

Kiko rubbed his back, unsure of how to respond. "Sometimes things are hard, and that's just the way it has to be." Nice one, Kiko really comforting, she mentally scolded herself.

"But, um... it gets better."

"Yeah?" Tristan sniffled.

"Yeah. It helps if you have friends to talk to as well," Kiko said.

Tristan nodded. "But alone time is good too."

Kiko shifted, feeling the hint. "Tristan... what happened?" Kiko asked.

Tristan jolted away from her. "Nothing."

Kiko stood up. "But-" he was already leaving the way she had came. Kiko sighed and hugged her legs to her chest. Why did this have to be so hard.

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"BOO!!!" Ella yelled at Jack from Ravenclaw. Jack winked at her and she grumbled. Gretel frowned at her.

"What?" Ella snapped back.

Gretel rolled her eyes, "Oh nothing."

"Slytherin better get their act together and win," Ella glared at the score board, the Slytherins were down 4 goals.

Gretel shrugged. "I think that Gryffindor should win." Ella glared at her. Gretel smirked at Ella. "Oh, come on, Cinders, it's not my fault you made a bad bet!"

"You have cinders on your uniform one time and suddenly it's your name," Ella mumbled. A few weeks ago, Ella bet Jack that Slytherin would beat them in the next Quidditch match. The bet was, if Slytherin won, Jack would give her the magic beans that he'd stollen from Hugo, and if Gryffindor won, Ella would go on a date with Henry - one of Jack's friends on the team.

"I don't even like Henry! He's the type of guy my sisters would date." Ella's older step sisters hadn't been excepted to Hogwarts, which made her stepmother very angry - she had hidden Ella's letters to school from her until she ran out of hiding places. Her step mother was a cruel woman that didn't care about her, and for most of Ella's childhood she had lived in a cupboard under the stair. But this was Ella's last year of school, and soon she would move far away. New York, maybe?

Ella heard a flirtatious giggle from under the stands. Ella looked down and squinted to see through a crack. There was a boy and a girl sitting under the stands, laughing. One was a Ravenclaw and the other was a Gryffindor. "She could do better," Ella grumbled.

"What?" Gretel asked.

"Nothing."

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Tedros's jokes weren't that funny. But, Agatha was new to this relationship and didn't want to mess it up by telling him so. Tedros was the kind of guy that laughed at his own jokes, and Agatha thought it was cute. He's such a dork, she thought, laughing at his Merlin impression.

Agatha rubbed her arms to make friction and keep warm-

"You're cold?" Tedros cut in.

Agatha looked up. "Yeah, a little bit."

Tedros didn't hesitate to take off his own coat and wrap it tightly around her. He slipped an arm around her waist, and Agatha eyed it, suspicious. "I'm keeping you warm!" Tedros said, noticing where she was looking.

Agatha laughed. She looked up and their eyes met. She slipped an arm out from under the think coat and rested a hand on his cheek. He leaned down and kissed her gently.

"Oh. My. Goddess."

The two pulled away and looked up at the girl in two clean pigtails and a Hufflepuff uniform gawping at them.

"Kiko," they breathed.

Kiko stared in shock, until her expression melted into an excited one. Kiko squealed and pulled Agatha off the beam and hugged her. "Aggie has a boyfriend! And you look so cute! I told everyone that you guys are totally the cutest! This is what the tea was telling you-!"

"What tea?" Tedros frowned.

"-Dot said you two would never go out, but you are! Ahhh, OTP! And now I am going to be the priest at your wedding! And the aunt to your kids-!"

"What wedding!" Agatha frowned.

"And what kids!" Tedros added.

Kiko pressed her lips together. "Don't worry, it's all planned."

A cheer rang out through the stadium above. "Jack Stalk has caught the Snitch!"