Heather twirled the message around her fingers for several minutes.
The broom stood hovering in front of her never really budging.
"I know I'll have to cover for her. It is the right thing to do, I think," Heather muttered to herself.
She rummaged through her book bag and pulled out a spare quill. Taking off some parchment from a long roll she started to formulate a quick note.
Lynn,
I'll cover for you but you owe me big time! 🙂
Heather
The broom flew back, and Lynn hesitated before reading the note. Inside she smiled, but her face showed no emotion except fear as she entered the forest.
The trees seemed to block out sound and light, so the least Lynn knew she could do was light her wand. "Lumos" she muttered...more like whispered actually. She had never been in here and somehow she knew where she was going.
"McGonagall, Lynn Wood's feeling a little under the weather so she told me that she couldn't go to practice tonight. Is that alright with you?" asked Heather as a breeze played through her hair.
Her heart kept beating as McGonagall seemed to accept her answer. Heather never realized that it took her transfiguration proffesor a long while to make any sort of decision. That was except when she was picking out what to eat at dinner time.
(Do you wanna play McGonagall?)
(Sureness ^^)
Still only a bit doubtful, she nodded. Then the Professor looked around thinking. "You may as well tell the other Quidditch players that practice is canceled tonight...with...3 members temporarily gone..."
Meanwhile, Lynn had started at a quick pace, heart thumping wildly in her shest. A drop of swaet fell from her face, but she only went along fasted, her footsteps muffled by fallen tree leaves.
"I'll tell them now, proffesor," said Heather before she departed from the room. She sought out the other two remaining members, beside herself, and explained about the cancellation of practice.
"You see, guys, that is why we can't have practice," finished Heather.
"That's a really lame excuse, you know," muttered Sherry, the co-captian.
"I'm sorry." Heather bowed her head in shame.
Lyyn soon reached where she thought she was running to. She thought she might be in the heart of the forest, because it was pitch black....but when she walked a bit further, she could sense a light...dim at first, but as she continued running, it grew bright, almost blinding. And she know saw what it was. It wasn't exactly a light. It was a bunch of lights. Maby thousands, flying around in a large curcle...
"Fairies...?" She uttered, falling to her knees. They however took no notice until she spoke louder, after thinking about something her mother told her whenshe was a child.
"Fairies...they are believed, Lynn, to grant a wish! Isn't that wonderful? But dont get your hopes TOO high, dear, they are almost as rare as a day you were sad and unactive..." Her mother laughed.
But today she was sad...and here they were....If what she heard about fairies was true, then...
"What really happened to Lynn? You know, don't you?" asked Sherry as she put her face very close to Heather's very own. "You know, where she is don't you, newbie?" Tears started to streak down Heather's face, that she pushed herself away from Sherry. "Where is our captian? Tell us. We have a right to know." Heather ducked away from her and pelted up the stairs to her dormitory.
"What was her porblem, Sherry?" asked Kathy. Heather and Lynn labeled her as Sherry's drooling monkey. That put it lightly for she followed Sherry almost everywhere.
"She was being a big meanie," said Sherry as she stuck her tongue out at Heather's retreating back up the stairs. "That girl thinks she is better than me, you know."
"Right on!" Kathy slapped Sherry's hand and sat down near the crackling fire.
Lynn stepped closer, concentrating hard. Could it be an illusion that might lead to her very own demise? She heard in class about such things in this forest...but it was well worth it. She gulped, pushing herself on. As soon as she was just about two yards from the glowing creatures, she spoke.
"Fairies!" The creatures all stop floating around to stare at her, starlted. "Please....can you grant me a wish?" The fairies remained still. Lynn wadn't sure if that was a yes or no or neither. "Alright....please! Bring Josh, Zach, and Evan back!" She said confidently. Then she stood there, only watching, only waiting, as the fairies growed brighter. She had to sheild her eyes. Then...
Lynn sat for a moment, thinking hard. That was when she notice a ball of light. A fairie. She looked at it, confused. "Yes?" She asked, standing. It began to float slowing away. Lynn shrugged and followed it, it was her last hope.
Lynn thought they might be getting closer. Soon, she broke through the trees, landing on her knees just outside the forest. The fairie, however, didnt go through. Lynn grinned. "Thanks, for everything." With that, Lynn staggered up to the castle, exhausted.
Lynn just had to- had to- laugh loudly at Josh's question, a laugh unlike her own. It sounded cruel, evil even. "I'm fine, Josh, wondeful!" She replied, sitting up suddenly, only to topple onto the ground. Zach helped her up, concerned. "Lynn, you aren't ok, you need rest....then we can share what happened maybe...?" he asked hopefully, but didn't recieve an answer. Lynn was out cold in his arms.