The Playing Field
 

Carter continued to run the ball down the field when someone asked him how the grass was.

Who would care how the grass was?

He turned to see who was addressing him. Ah yes. The new groundskeeper. Just the person to care about the grass.

Was that a chuckle? It couldn't have been. Carter knew he was nowhere near his former level of playing, but he certainly wasn't humorous to watch. Was he?

"It's brilliant." he said with a small smile. Then he picked up the ball and began bouncing it on his knees.

Looks like he wasn't the only one that had morning football plans. "Seems like I'm not the only one that's a football fan." he said looking at the girl. "I have mine right here." he said. "If you wanted to play together. Of course, I bet there are other balls if you'd rather do your own thing." he said.

He allowed the ball to fall to the ground. Then he kicked it over.

"I'm Carter by the way."

Isobel was wandering around outside when she saw a soccer field! Or, football, as these people called it. She thought it was weird, football was with a...football, and field goals and stuff like that. ANYWHO...Isobel saw two people playing, and one person standing by. She had seen him at the feast and recognized him as the groundskeeper, she didn't know his name. But at least she knew who she was, that was a start.

"Hello," she said brightly to him with a smile. "My name is Isobel Vanhue." Pronounced Eye-so-bell. Yeah. Isobel turned to the two people who were playing. "Mind if I join in?" she asked.

Nai stopped the ball with her instep and smiled at him "Hello Carter by the way." She bent kicked the ball lightly over to her other foot stopping it with that one too "I'm Nai." She kicked the ball back to him with a smile. Ah the greatest sport.. ever. "I'd love to have a game, best played with others right."

Cora walked onto the feild and saw everyone, "c-ca-can i p-p-play please?" she asked shyly, she loved muggle sports but she hardly got to play them as she was pureblood and this was a good chance to finally play again.

Carter
 

Marie had decided to take a walk of the grounds to see if there was anything new and exciting this year. She still had time to explore before she went to meet her friends... and hopefully Jimmy too for lunch.

She had heard there was a football type field so she thought she would go check that out. Maybe if she was lucky she would find Evan and finally be able to let him know what a jerk he was being for the way he ignored her at the feast. Seriously, being prefect was really going to his head. Sitting right across from her talking to Sierra acting like he didn't even see her or hear her... even after she spoke directly to him. Yeah he was so getting a thump on the head for this one. Prefect or not.

Finally reaching the field she seen a blonde with a football. A blonde who wasn't Evan though. No, this one was Carter... and he wasn't alone.

Well now, this was awkward.

She wanted to hang around a bit to see if Evan would show up, yet at the same time she wanted to leave. Sure Carter had tried to talk to her over the summer in Diagon Alley but she had a feeling that was only because Mina was sitting there with her. If she would have been alone or with any of her other friends he would have totally ignored her, just like he did last term.

Oh well, it's not like she was here to see him anyway so who cared if he ignored her now. Finding a comfy looking area off to the side of the field she sat down on the grass.

Yes, Marie was going to wait a bit to see if Evan would show up and maybe watch Carter play football.

Isobel heard another voice and turned around; her eyes immediately lit up. It was Cora! The only girl she knew who she didn't hate. Well, Maybelle was kind of growing on her. Anywho, Isobel waved at her. "Hey Cora," she said with a grin. "You like soccer?" She did too, it was her favorite.

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Carter shrugged. "It's fine with me. Maybe enough people will be out here we can play a little game." he said happily. That would be fun. His first day back and he'd already have a match. Sure, it wasn't a quidditch match, but it would do.

Carter chuckled. "Oh course." he said. He then kicked the ball up to Isobel. He was glad a lot of people went wandering this morning.

And as if on cue, another player came to join them. "Sounds good to me." he said. He then looked at the two girls. Would they want to play a full game.

"What's your name?" he asked.

Carter chuckled. "Thanks." he said. He then ran a hand through his hair. "I would hope so. I have been playing since about the time I could walk." Yup, his parents had started to enroll him in leagues after the first time they saw him kick a ball.

Carter however had a sneaking suspicion he hadn't kicked the ball but accidentally walked into it.

Carter looked around wondering if there were any more people showing up. As he looked around he spotted Marie. He quickly turned his head and looked back at his fellow players.

Then, realizing how silly it would be to ignore her he decided to wave. He lifted up a hand timidly and waved it a little. "Hey. You wanna play too?" he asked.

She decided to sit for reason... maybe she was checking to see if it was alright before joining in...

Katie smiled as she walked on to the field, SHINEY! :x3:

Kati could see something shiney and when she sees something shiney she must have a closer look at it, she looked at the ground to see a, a, A SHINEY piece of.. plastic :mellow: She eyed it and then looked up, maybe she could play, "Hulloooo, Can I play? Katelyn Star's the name, call me Katie"

Hearing Carter ask someone if they wanted to play too Marie looked around to see who he was talking to. Not seeing anyone around her she looked back at him. Was he talking to her?

Had the boy gone mad?

Surely he remembered that she had no clue how to play that game. Okay well maybe she knew a little. After all Evan did try teaching her and they did learn about it in Muggle Studies. Still, she wasn't no where near good enough to even try to play a real game or whatever it is they were gonna do. "Uh, no, I think I'll just stay over here." She called back as she lent back on her hands and watched what was going on.

Hmm, maybe this year would be different. Maybe Carter really was done ignoring her. And if not, well she wasn't going to stress over it anymore. She had moved on in her life and wasn't going to let anything bring her down this year.

Brittany wandered out onto the grounds. She came looking for her favorite spot from last year but apparently in the wizarding worldyou can backup outdoor things and take them with you. Who Knew?? :xd:. She ended up at a an odd looking place... well odd to be in the wizarding world. It resemble an exact replica of a football field that muggles used to play the sport of football. She would know because she grew up there. And now she was really curious as to why it was there. And lucky for her the New Groundskeeper was there at that exact moment. How convinent.

She walked over to him hoping she was right about assuming he was the groundskeeper. "Um excuse me sir. May I ask what are we suppose to do on this field?" she said looking curious.

"My name is Isobel," Isobel told Naiomi...and whoever else wanted to know. Pronounced Eye-so-bell. "Nice to meet you Naiomi and..." she realized that she didn't know the boys name. "What i your name?" He kicked the ball to her and she dribbled it a little. She even bounced it off her feet and bounced it up and down on her knees. Yeah, she was a show-off, so what? Isobel kicked it over to Naiomi when she heard a familiar voice. It was epic cupcake girl Katie!

"Hi Katie," Isobel greeted. Now that she saw Katie for the second time, she realized that she looked a lot like Isobel herself. (We have the same model :lol:) But Isobel's hair was slightly longer. She adressed her next question to the group as a whole. "Are you all very familiar with soccer...er, football?" They called it football here right?

Caroline had noticed this big playing field this morning when she looked out a window passing the halls on the to breakfast. by the time she finished, and headed down that way there were other kids who had found the new hangout place as well. She watched as they were talking about starting a match.

Chloe had noticed a new flat feature on the Hogwarts grounds from Gryffindor tower it looked huge and magnificent. She felt like she simply had to check it out after breakfast. She headed down and ate quickly and then headed out toward the grounds. It was not long before she found here to the new field. She saw some kids playing but their was also a familiar face from the feast there. Chloe walked up to her and said, "Hey Cari. Wanna play some futbol.".

Caroline turned and saw the gryffindor that she had met at the feast last night. She smiled and nodded happyily. That sounds fun, I love to play football. There seems to be enough people to play a game by now. It was a perfect day to be outside, the sun was warm.

"Great!", Chloe said excitedly and then spotted a futbol and began to kick it between her legs and then broke into a sprint kicking the ball toward the goal and called out playfully, "Catch me if you can.".

Marie had been watching what was going on out on the field when someone went zooming past her. "Hey, watch where you're going." She shouted before she realised who it was that almost ran her over.

Evan... just the person she had been hoping to see. The very person who once again didn't see her, or if he did he did a good job of ignoring her... again.

She knew that the boy loved football but geez, even Carter, the very person who avoided her for a whole term acknowledged that she was there.

She should have stuck out her foot and tripped him when he was running past her. Maybe then he would have seen her. For now though she would let him play but once he was done she WOULD be talking to him. Even if she had to incarcerous him to make him stop and listen to her.

One way or another that boy was going to talk to her.