A Trial to See

Chapter Seven

Isabelle's Pov

I wake up in my four-poster bed that was clad in green fabrics and stretched. Bones popping into place as I looked to the outside world that was the bottom of the lake. Silver ripples danced across the sandy bottom along with the swishing grasses. I quickly put on a sports bra and changed into some leggings before I left my room to go up to the top of the lake.

The cool breeze traveled across my body as I got to the lake and my eyes landed onto a group of Durmstrang boys doing various exercises. I gave them all a bright smile as I sat down under a tree to stretch. The group of unknown students started to talk to each other in Russian looking back to me every once in a while as I spotted Viktor trotting over. 

"You do not seem phased at the fact that they're talking about you in a different language in front of your face Belle." he stated as he sat down next to me

"I got used to it during quidditch season this year." I responded as I quickly put my hair up into a ponytail and started to stretch After stretching I got up and started doing a lap around the lake as Viktor went back to the group of Drumstang boys. It looked like the group was just there to be around Vik than actually working out. After around three laps I decided to walk over to Viktor to talk about practicing quidditch during the week or on the weekend. "Hey, Viktor! I have a question for you." I said elongating his name a bit as I got up to him

"It's another crazy fan of his. Can't wait to see Viktor turn this one down." one of the guys near me whispered his snide comment to another His friend ended up letting out a chuckle as they looked at the girl

"Whatcha need Belle?" Viktor asked turning around to look at me "When do you want to go practice quidditch?" I ask sounding as fangirl as I could

Viktor saw the mischievous look in my eyes and the guys around the two were hiding their laughter. "How about we go practice right now? I'm sure some of my friends could help out with throwing the quaffle through the hoops for you." He said with a smirk like smile as he looked to the group of boys behind me

The three of them let out throaty laughter as they agreed to join in on our fun. We quickly jogged over to the quidditch field and borrowed the nimbus 2001 brooms from the broom closet. We got the quaffle and the practice golden snitch from the quidditch chest and set out for the air. As I got onto the borrowed broom I instantly felt like I was at home. Quickly zipping past everyone else who was up in the air I warmed up learning the new broom.

I soon got into position at the goalposts getting ready for whatever was thrown my way. "Any day now boys!" I yelled bobbing the broom slightly to the left and right

The boys were looking at me as if through a pair of rose-tinted glasses. They think I can't handle the keeper position, do they? Viktor whizzed past following the practice snitch "Don't go easy on her. She may look innocent but there's a dragon underneath her." He told the group

The guys just laughed it off obviously thinking it was just him playing her up to be something amazing. I got into position as the boy in the middle held into the quaffle and quickly cast to the highest hoop. I bolted straight up almost perpendicular to the ground and caught the ball. As I evened out I threw the ball back to him with just enough force that he was pushed back a couple of feet.

The boy who had the ball clearly cursed in Romanian as he got himself together. "Hi let me introduce myself. I'm Isabelle. The keeper for Ireland who won the recent Quidditch World Cup. Nice to meet y'all." I introduced myself sweetly and all of their jaws dropped

'They really must have been living under a rock.' I thought to myself as Viktor and the guy he was practicing with flew up to us "So you finally told them who you were Belle?" Viktor said while smiling as he looked to the three embarrassed guys flying in front of them "Yup! We all should start heading to the dining hall. We definitely don't want to miss breakfast after this morning." I said looking to all of them

The three in front of me quickly nodded and descended to the ground along with the guy working with Viktor. I turned to him and asked, "Hey Viktor do you want to see who could do the Wronski Feint the closest to the ground?" He looked at me for a few seconds and then nodded

We both got into position and counted down. I knew Viktor would win but I just really wanted to do the dangerous trick. We had positioned ourselves facing each other and as we descended to the ground as fast as we could the other guys watched with immense worry that one or both players would get hurt. About twenty feet before the ground I pulled up on my broomstick and flew to my left. That was my best one yet! Viktor waited to pull up for another five feet and then met me on the ground.

"That was fun Belle. We should do that more often." He said with a slight huff
I smiled and turn to everyone "We all should do this again! It's nice just playing for fun and we have the rest of the school year to improve!" I exclaimed with so much excitement that all of the guys around me laughed and said their own agreement to my statement

We put all of the equipment away and walked to the dorms to change. After we all did that we left to go get breakfast from the great hall. My silky blue uniform complimenting the red Durmstang red uniform the boys were wearing.

We walked into the hall and sat down at the Slytherin table quickly getting started with breakfast and I started to pay attention to the gossip going around the hall. "She must be a Veela to already have that many guys following her." "Damn one of them must have already asked her out." "Who does she think she is trying to keep Viktor to herself." The murmurings were interesting to listen to but the guys around me were having such a boisterous conversation I couldn't help but join in.

After ten minutes the food disappeared and we all went our separate ways to start our first day of classes.