Qudditch Tryouts

James stood in front of the vast number of people, who were supposedly trying out for the team. Sirius was standing beside him.

"Hello everyone, my name is James Potter and I am the captain of the Gryffindor Qudditch team. To my right is Sirius Black, he plays beater on the team and will also be helping us with today's tryouts."

James paused and looked around. "Okay, before we get started let's get a few things straight. If you are not in Gryffindor, please leave." More than half the people (mostly girls) slowly began to leave the field. James shook his head.

"Also, if you know you can't play, but think this might be your lucky day, please leave."Sirius added. More people left.

"If you are not 2nd year and above, please leave." James said. More people began to leave until there were only ten people left.

"The rest of you, thank you for coming." James said. "Okay, so all of you who are trying out for the beater position, go over to where Sirius is." Four people including Crystal moved to where Sirius was. "Those who are trying out for the Chaser position stay with me." James took a pause while the other six people made their way to James. "Sirius and I are going to run through the basics with you and tomorrow we will post the list of people for call backs." James got a stern look on his face. "Therefore, do not come to me some random time in the day and ask if you made the team, understood?" Everyone nodded. "Well in that case, let's get started."

Lily's POV

Qudditch really isn't my thing, but I was here to support Crystal. But as I sat in the stands with Leah and Marie, I realized my eyes kept averting from where Crystal was to the other side of the field. You can guess who I was watching. Yep, I was watching James Potter. He looked so amazing out there, and he had a way of taking command up in the air. James turned around and waved. Was he waving at me? Even though I was unsure, I waved back. Then I heard the most annoying voice.

"Yeah baby, I'm here for you." I turned around and saw Rowena waving frantically at James. Was James waving at her? I hope not. I sat the rest of the tryouts trying to concentrate on Crystal, but my eyes kept drifting back to James. Soon tryouts ended and everyone began to leave. I wanted to talk to James before he left the field. What about? I don't know, I just wanted to talk to him. But when I looked down to where he was I saw Rowena running up to him. She gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. James looked truly annoyed. I really didn't want to go to him while Rowena was around, but I really did want to talk to him. Maybe I could figure out what he thought about last night.

I turned to Leah and Marie, who were standing next to me. "Hey, I'll meet up with you guys and Crystal later." They both nodded and I could see Marie smirking as though she knew a secret.

I made my over to where James was walking, and Rowena was holding on tight to him. She was whispering something in his ear, and when she saw me approaching, she quickly pulled James down for a kiss. Ugh, I hate her. She was practically sucking his face off. I could see James trying to pull her off gently. She finally let go of him and turned to me.

"Oh Lily" she said "I didn't see you there". How fake is she?

"Look James, I was wondering if I could talk to you for a moment." I asked.

James opened his mouth to speak, but before he could say anything Rowena butted in. "He's busy at the moment, sorry. Maybe you'll catch him later."

"I wasn't asking you, I was asking James." I said with annoyance.

Rowena started again "Well James doesn't—"

"ROWENA" James said. He looked really mad. "I don't need you to answer for me." James turned to me. "And I am not busy at the moment, so I would love to speak with you." He then shook Rowena off his arm, and started to walk back to the castle with me. When I looked back I saw Rowena standing there shocked and angry. It was so funny I almost laughed.

"So what is it you wanted to talk to me about?" James asked. Hmm how do I say this without sounding lame?

"Do you want to talk about last night?" Wow, how lame was that?

"Oh yeah…..umm" he seemed at loss of words.

"James I'm sorry if I did anything that makes you feel as though I violated your privacy. I just don't know what came over me."

"Oh no don't worry about it, I actually enjoyed you kissing my neck." I could feel myself blushing. "And trust me you're not the one violating my privacy." He said while nodding to where Rowena was standing.

"She's been giving you a lot of trouble huh?" I said knowing it was all too true.

"Trouble?" He shook his head. "It's more like hell. I mean, she's always around. I can hardly find time to myself. She's always crowding me, I feel like I'm suffocating"

"Have you told her to leave alone?"

"More than enough times, but she just doesn't get it." James sighed "I don't know if I can stay nice about it anymore."

"James, just do what you feel is right."

"I don't know what is right." James said sadly.