A.N: Hey guys! I am so so sorry for updating so late but I've had a lot of things I needed to do as well as a very bad case of writers block - it's still not completely gone so sorry if this chapter isn't up to my normal standards - which, I admit aren't very high. Anyway, in exchange for the long wait, I've got an extra-long chapter – the longest I've ever written with a total of exactly 5,789 words. So, enjoy. Ps. my friend Leopardlover005 gave me a few ideas for this chapter.

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Chapter 9

The next morning, Alex awoke to the sound of a cats yawn. She opened her eyes warily and absentmindedly lifted up a hand to run through her untidy hair. There was no need to say that she was surprised when her fingers met the soft and warm body of Moon, who must have been sharing her pillow. 'Morning Alex.' the black cat yawned sleepily and Alex replied with a yawn whilst pulling herself up into a sitting position as she looked round the airy room whilst rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "Hey Alex." A soft voice greeted her from the bed beside her. She looked across to see Rose, already dressed in her uniform, pouring over an old, thick and dusty book she had checked out of the library a few days before.

Alex wasn't sure what it was about but Rose seemed to be enjoying it because as soon as Alex had answered with a reply of "Morning." Rose's nose was buried back in the book.
'Oh so you greet her and not me.'Moon grumbled. Alex, knowing that she wasn't serious didn't reply, instead settling for petting the soft fur on her head as she turned to look across at Roxanne's bed. As expected, Roxanne was still deeply asleep, cuddled up snugly in her duvet and snoring lightly.

Alex smirked before sighing and slipping her legs out of the warm duvet and onto the cool floor. She sat for only moment before hoisting herself up and plodding sleepily to her bathroom to get ready for the day ahead, leaving Moon curled up on her pillow. She was still half asleep so she decided to have a quick, cold shower before going on to brushing and styling her hair. She didn't do anything to complex with it, just a simple, loose side plate which hung over her left shoulder. Satisfied, she made her way back into the room to get dressed.
Once she was ready, she packed her books for the day before making her bed. She quickly checked her watch and read the time 6:30 am. There was still around an hour before they would be going down to breakfast. She decided to use the time wisely and got out her Charms homework that was due in this afternoon. She then turned to Rose.
"Hey, I'm going down to the common room to my homework, you coming?" She asked and Rose pulled her nose out of her book.
"Sure." she said before getting up and joining Alex as she walked down the staircase that led down to the Ravenclaw common room.

Settling herself in an armchair, Alex started her homework leisurely while Rose went back to her book. The homework was quite easy and Alex found herself done sooner than she had realised. She checked her watch again. 7:00 am. There was still around half an hour left so, Alex, feeling generous, decided to make a quick copy of the homework for Roxanne who, Alex knew, had not started the homework and would not wake with enough time to do it. Rose was still engrossed in her book.

It was around 7:20 by the time Roxanne came down from the dorms and the three friends headed to the great hall for breakfast. Alex was topping a pancake with lemon and sugar when Roxanne turned to her, a look of panic in her eyes. "Oh no! We haven't done that Charms homework!" her expression was so funny that Alex decided to toy with her for a bit.
"Oh, the charms homework? I did that this morning." Alex answered calmly.
"When!" Roxanne exclaimed a look of worry and betrayal in her eyes - Roxanne and Alex usually did their together.
"While 'you' were sleeping." Alex said stressing the 'you'.
"Oh no!" Roxanne said worried and Alex, who couldn't help but laugh, decided to let her friend out of her misery.
"Don't worry Roxy, I did you a copy." She said, chuckling whilst handing Roxanne a sheet of parchment. Roxanne's eyes scanned the paper before she breathed a deep sigh of relief.
"Thanks Al." Roxanne said, enfolding Alex into a hug which she quickly returned before turning back to her pancake, rolling it up and taking a bite out of the end, smiling as the tangy sweetness filled her taste buds.

After breakfast, the three girls decided to start heading to their first class which was divination. Divination took place in a small, stuffy classroom up in one of the towers. Alex did not particularly like divination but her dislike of it was not as strong as Rose's. Rose hated the subject for no other reason other than that she thought everyone in the category were fakes and could not really see the future or tell fortunes. "I don't see the point." Rose grumbled as they walked down a corridor on the way to class.

"Stop grumbling, it's not that bad." Alex said, tiring of Rose's complaints.

"But it is! And it's not just me, my mum doesn't like it either, in fact, in her third year, she stormed out of the classroom and just dropped out of the class. My dad didn't like it either; he said it was just a load of rubbish." Rose said and Roxanne smirked.

"It must run in the family." She whispered to Alex and Rose glared.

"Oh shut it." Rose hissed as they climbed the long, winding staircase and reached the class room and entered. The room was dimly lit, as usual, the dusty curtains drawn and only candles lighting up the room. The classroom was decorated with many mystical objects – most of them where shiny and sparkly – the types that make you really want to touch them. However, they specifically told not to touch them. So the students had to settle with eyeing them wearily as they walked to their seats.

The class sat in small groups of four and under at small round tables which were scattered round the room and draped with float cloths and fabrics reminded Alex of her aunt and her distaste of such things. 'They just harboured dust.' Is what she told Alex when she suggested getting a table cloth for the bare kitchen table. She had just seen a lovely bright one in a shop window on the way home from school and had decided to bring the topic up with her aunt, attempting to liven up the ever plain and pristine house.

Half the class was already inside and the three girls joined a petit girl with pale blonde hair and washed out blue eyes named Gianna Lockberry at one of the circular tables. Gianna was a Hufflepuff from a wizarding family who took a great interest in Divination, which was kind of ironic seeing as she sat with three girls who did not like the subject. She didn't mind though and greeted them cheerfully as they sat down.

Although the classroom was very strange, the teacher was the weirdest of all the things in the room. She went by the name of Professor Lovegood although most of the pupils called her Loony Lovegood behind her back. Alex thought it was a fitting nick name as Professor Lovegood was definitely quite odd.

Professor Lovegood had waist-length dirty blond hair which was kind of scraggly. She had big blue eyes and a permanently surprised look on her face. One of the oddest things about her though was that she wore radish earrings and her tendency to hold books upside down whilst reading.

The class seemed to drag on for hours before Loony Lovegood dismissed the class and the three girls left the classroom. They were walking down the stairs in silence when they heard quite footsteps pattering against the stairs behind them. They turned to see Gianna, hurrying down the stairs trying to catch up with them. "Hey Gianna." Alex greeted as the three slowed their pace to let the small girl catch up.

"Hi." Was all she said when she reached them.

"Umm, so are you all right?" Rose asked trying to make small talk but her attempt was in vain when Gianna only nodded.

"Is there anything you need?" Roxanne asked cutting to the chase.

"Oh, u... umm, n… not really." She stuttered nervously as they stepped off the last step of the stair case.

"Okay, well, we'll see you later." Roxanne said as the three girls turned, heading for the door that lead to the grounds.

"A… actually, I was wondering if I could b… be friends with you three?" She stuttered looking embarrassed.

"You don't really ask if you can be someone's friend." Roxanne pointed out and Gianna blushed.

"I… I know b… but…" She trailed off, not knowing what to say. Alex laughed and put an arm round the small girl's shoulders.

"Hey, don't worry about it. Sure you can be our friend."

The four girls made their way through the castle laughing and teasing Gianna who would blush red with embarrassment. Gianna would stutter out a comeback which only made the three girls laugh more. Gianna didn't mind though, she had done what she had to. The rest would be easy now.

After break ended, the girls parted ways and Rose, Roxanne and Alex headed to their next class which was History of Magic. History of magic was easily the most boring class. It was taught by a ghost named Professor Binns. When he was alive, he taught until a very old age, when he fell asleep in the staff room and died. He had woken up as a ghost and continued teaching as usual, although most of the pupils wished he had not. "My subject is History of Magic. I deal with facts, not myths and legends." Seemed to be his favorite thing to say and would say it every time someone interrupted him with a question that he deemed irrelevant to his subject. Alex entered the classroom with her friends and took her seat, dreading the time when the professor would enter the room and would start his long hour lecture. Sure enough, he floated in and the class groaned internally as he started talking. Although Alex was not in the least tiered, she started to feel her eyes droop as the ghost started his lecture. The next thing she was aware of was Rose elbowing her awake.

"Alex." She hissed when she saw Alex was awake. "Come on. Class has ended. Let's go." Alex yawned and stood up, picking up her bag and making her way out of the classroom and to their next lesson, defence against the dark arts with the Gryffindors. Alex easily found defence against the Dark Arts one of her favourite subjects and the class passed quickly, her enjoyment in the subject making the time seem faster than it really was and before she knew it, it was lunch.

The girls decided to eat lunch outside although it was autumn and cold. They pulled their cloaks tighter round them and pushed their hair – which was being whipped about by the wind – out of their faces as they searched the grounds for a nice place to sit. They finally settled under a huge oak tree, their backs to the truck and their knees drawn up. They got out their lunch and started eating in silence. After about ten minutes Rose broke the silence. "So, what did Professor Wood want yesterday after lessons?" She asked.

"Oh yeah! We forgot to tell you!" Roxanne exclaimed.

"He took us to meet the Ravenclaw quidditch team captain, Aura-lee Chang. They want us to try out for the team 'cause their short on players." Alex explained. Rose's face was a mask of shock.

"Really!?" she asked.

"Hey! Don't sound so surprised, we were good." Roxanne pretended to be insulted and Rose blushed slightly.

"I didn't mean it like that! It's just that they don't let first years play for the teams." Rose explained.

"I know, I was surprised too." Alex said smiling. "But we didn't give them an answer."

"Yeah, we said that we'd come to practice tonight to try it out and see if we want to." Roxanne said.

"That should be cool, but remember, we have astronomy at 8:30, so you can't be late." Rose reminded them.

"Yeah, I guess." Alex said. "We'll be there."

Lunch passed fairly quickly after that and then it was time for the next class, Care of Magical creatures. Care of Magical Creatures was dull to the surprise of Alex who usually enjoyed this subject. Hagrid had the class start a new project. Flobberworms. Flobberworms were fairly boring creatures measuring up to a total of ten-inches and lacking teeth. All in all, they were toothless brown worms which ate lettuce and cabbage. Hagrid gave them the homework of finding out ten facts about them.

Class finished at around 2:30. They didn't have any more classes until 8:30 now because it had to be dark for Astronomy to take place. So the class had a free lesson. Alex, Rose and Roxanne where heading out when Roxanne came to a stop. "Umm, guys. I'm gonna stay behind for a little while."

"Okay." Alex said smiling. She had a hunch why Roxanne was staying behind but wasn't going to say anything because it could be wrong. For all she knew it could just be to ask Hagrid a question.

"I'll meet you at quidditch practice then?" she asked and Alex's suspicions were confirmed.

"Sure, see ya." Alex waved as she and rose left Roxanne who turned around and walked back the way they'd come.

"What do you think she's doing?" Rose asked curiously and Alex's smile widened.

"I think she's going to help Jaden out. He said he had a pile of work to do earlier."

"Are you sure, I thought she was just going to ask Hagrid a question or something." Rose said, unsure.

"From 2:30 to 7:00?" Alex asked doubtfully. Rose realized her mistake.

"Yeah, I guess. But why?"

"I think she likes him." Alex said, smiling.

"Jaden? Really?" Rose seemed shocked but then paused and re thought about it. "Well I guess I can kind of see them together." The two girls smiled as they walked back to the castle.

"So, what should we do?" Rose asked and Alex shrugged.

"Dunno, I probably should get all of my homework done, 'cause I have to go by 7:00."

"Okay. I'll do mine too then." Rose said. "Shall we go to the common room, or the library?"

"Library, we need to get some books on Flobberworms." Alex said the word with disgust and Rose laughed.

"Okay then, let's go."

It was around four by the time they had finished the weeks' worth of homework they had been putting off. There was still three hours to go before quidditch practice so the girls decided to grab a bite to eat before heading down to the pitch. Rose decided to accompany Alex out of lack of other things to do.

They ate quickly before heading down to the pitch. However, it was only 5:30 and no one was there yet. "What should we do?" Rose asked looking around the empty pitch.

"I dunno, there's no one here." Alex stated the obvious. The girls entered the pitch and looked around.

"Should we go?" Rose asked.

"No wait! There're some brooms over there." Rose turned round and, true to her word, she spotted a box of brooms in the corner of the quidditch pitch.

"Yeah, there are." Rose said.

"Do you think they would mind if we had a go?" Alex asked.

"Doubt it, you are trying out for quidditch anyway. You can just say you were practicing." Rose said smiling.

"Yeah. I guess it wouldn't hurt. Come on." Alex laughed and pulled Rose towards the box of brooms. They grabbed one each and mounted. Alex lifted off into the air immediately and Rose followed soon after, slightly more hesitantly.

Alex let out a laugh of pure glee as the cold wind blew her tresses out behind her. She soared higher into the air, only stopping as she came level with one of the towers. She looked down to find Rose waiting underneath her. Alex zoomed back down, remembering that her friend was not really into flying. The two girls hovered in the air for a few minutes before Rose spoke.

"I have an idea. My brother and I used to play a game on broomsticks all the time. We could play if you like." Rose suggested.

"Okay, what is it." Alex asked curious.

"Okay, well can you see any balls anywhere?" She asked and Alex looked around. She didn't find any but then remembered something. She put her hand in the pocket of her robe and pulled out a small rubber bouncy ball.

"Will this do?" She asked and Rose nodded. She pulled out her wand and continued to talk.

"I'll enchant it to make it go where I tell it to and then you have to try and catch it while I control it from the ground." Rose explained.

"Well, okay then. We can give it a go." Alex agreed.

"Okay, wait for the signal before starting." Rose said then flew down to the ground before enchanting the ball and sending it up to Alex who was hovering in the air waiting. The ball rested in the air in front of Alex. Alex's had itched to reach out and grab it but she held still for Roses command.

"Okay, start!" Rose's voice came from the ground and Alex's arm flew out instinctively. However, the ball zoomed off, out of reach. Without thinking about it, Alex raced after it and continued to try and capture it, but, every time it avoided her just at the last minute. She continued to chase it, not letting her eyes leave the ball. However, once or twice the ball would go so fast that it flew out of her vision and she lost it. She would then spend a few minutes searching for it before she found it again then the cycle would continue. Rose sure wasn't going easy on her.

After around half an hour, Alex finally caught the ball and whooped with delight and pride of her achievement. She threw the ball back to Rose and the game went on. By the time it was 7:00pm, Alex had caught the ball a total of six times as she was improving greatly.

"Hey! Alex, it's seven. You should come down now!" Rose called from the ground as Alex zoomed around in the air.

"Okay!" Alex called down then she angled the broom down and landed neatly on the floor.

"Alright, so is everyone here?" Aura-lee asked her eyes scanning over her team, counting mentally the number of players. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… Her eyes finally rested on Roxanne and Alex who were standing in the corner of the group, slightly out of the way. 6, 7… 'Full house.' she thought smugly. "Okay team, today's going to be slightly different. I want you to go up and practice together while I stay down here and talk to the two first years." She instructed. "But before that, let's all introduce ourselves. Okay, I'm Aura-lee Chang, fifth year, team captain and the keeper – but you've already met me… next up is…" Before she could finish and before Alex had time to wonder what a keeper was, a boy with fiery ginger hair and freckles splaying across his nose cut in.

"Jordan Parker, and…" He paused for a second and the boy beside him cut in.

"Sam Townson. The beaters, second years." This boy had an untidy mop of coppery auburn hair. He looked quite like the boy next to him… Jordan but in an odd way since their hair was different and Sam's face was free of freckles – although they both had brown eyes.

"Jacob Daniels." A boy with spiky blond hair and blue eyes said. "Chaser and fourth year."

"Jean Ashton, also a Chaser and a second year." A girl with ebony skin and dark hair that fell gracefully down her back in natural tight curls.

"And you two?" Aura-lee asked expectantly – even though she already knew them – after a short moment of silence.

"I'm Alex Adams, first year." She said looking at team members curiously. They had all said something after – Keeper, beater or chaser. And yesterday Aura-lee had mentioned a seeker. Alex wondered what they meant. They were probably team positions. She tried to guess what each position might do. Chasers probably had to chase something around the pitch. Beaters could… beat something. Alex thought uncertainly. Maybe with a bat or a racket. Keepers could be the same as goal keepers and seekers could… look for something? It didn't sound like much of a game, just a mix up of different activities and Alex could picture it in her head – Chasers chasing balls around the quidditch pitch while two beaters played a mini game of tennis or baseball as the Seeker whizzed around with a magnifying glass, looking in bushes and trees while the keeper floated by a goal watching with a slightly amused expression – it looked ridiculous.

"I'm Roxanne Aaron, also a first year." Roxanne's voice cut through Alex's mental image, bringing her back to the quidditch practice. The rest of the team exchanged friendly greetings and words of encouragement with the two first years before leaving for their brooms to go and practice. Roxanne and Alex turned to Aura-lee.

"Well then, I'll quickly go over the rules and then we'll start. Well firstly, I'm sure you know that quidditch is played in the air on brooms. There are seven players per team and each house has a team, so four teams. In one team, there are 3 chasers, 2 beaters, 1 keeper and 1 seeker." She stopped as she bent down to crouch next to a strong metal box that was on the ground. She unlatched it and flipped the lid open but she was in the way so the two girls couldn't make out the box's contents. "Quidditch has three balls. The ball that scores the points is the Quaffle." She reached into the box and after a few seconds, she lifted up a ball. It was around 12 inches in diameter and was made of leather bindings. "The chasers throw the Quaffle to each other and try to get it through the three hoops on their side of the pitch. The keeper on the opposing team will try and stop the balls from going through and scoring. On the other side the keeper – that's me – guards the three hoops for our team and tries to stop the other team scoring." She showed the ball to them for the length of her small speech before putting it back.

"The next ball is the Bludger." This time she moved the box for the girls to see. The box was made of three compartments. There was only one open. In that one, chained to the box was a large, solid looking ball which was wriggling and straining against the chains. "The Bludger is probably the most dangerous ball of all of them. It flies through the air being hit by players called beaters – that's what Sam and Jordan are. They stop the Bludger from hitting their team and try to bat it off to the other team. Serious injuries have been caused by Bludgers hitting people and causing them to fall off their brooms, but don't worry, we have Jordan and Sam on our team; you'll be fine" she quickly added after seeing Alex and Roxanne's horrified faces. She closed the compartment and opened another.

"The third and most important ball is the Golden Snitch." The Golden Snitch was a tiny golden ball, about the size of the bouncy ball Alex and Rose were playing with earlier. "It has wings that come out when you let it out and it's enchanted. Actually, the first Snitch was a tiny bird that was very small and very tiny, but changes to the rules made it illegal to use the actual bird, so we upgraded to this. Okay, so the seekers job is to find and catch the Golden Snitch before the other teams Seeker does. If the Seeker catches the Golden Snitch, their team earns 150 points and usually wins the match. The match only ends when the seekers caught the ball. Well that's about it. We have two spaces, as I said yesterday – a Chaser and the seeker. So we'll just see which you're better at." The two girls nodded and followed Aura-lee into the pitch after Aura-lee bent down and took out the Quaffle and Snitch. They each grabbed a broom and the three of them mounted and flew up into the air.

When they were in the air they stopped. "Hey! Ashton! Come here!" Aura-lee yelled. The ebony skinned Chaser flew over to them. "Ashton, you take Alex, and try her out for chaser. I'll try Roxanne out for Seeker then we'll swop over." Jean nodded and Aura-lee threw her the ball. Jean caught it expertly.

"Aye aye captain, c'mon Alex, let's go." Alex steered her broom to follow Jean into the middle of the pitch. "Okay, let's start of easy, we'll play catch. I'll throw it to you, you throw it back. Okay? Go!" Jean threw the ball gently to Alex. Alex caught it and threw it back to Jean who caught it too. "Good. Now let's move out a bit." They both moved back a few feet then tried again. Jean threw the ball over to Alex who caught it again. Alex threw it back to Jean but Jean had to move forward a bit to catch it whereas Alex had not had to reach out to catch Jeans throw. "Try throwing it a bit harder next time." Jean told Alex,

"Okay, let's try again." she replied. Jean threw her the ball and she threw it back harder. Jean caught it easily.

"Good. Now the next stage. I'll show you first. I want you to throw it as hard as you can – not at me though, just to the side me. I'll chase after it and catch it then throw it back to you." Jean tossed Alex the ball once she was sure she understood. Alex took a deep breath before throwing the ball as hard as she could. Jean paused to smile at Alex before chasing after the ball at blinding speed and catching the ball easily and throwing it back to Alex. Alex was sure she only caught it because of Jeans good throw. Jean raced back to Alex and took the ball from her. "Now it's your turn." Jean threw the Quaffle and it soared passed Alex. Alex instantly turned her broom around and zoomed after the ball and caught it. She then threw it back and watched, smiling, as the ball flew through the air. Her smile faded though as the ball never reached Jean and started to fall down to the pitch floor. Jean took a dive but wasn't fast enough to catch up with the ball. It landed on the floor with a thud and Jean landed and retrieved the ball then flew back up to meet Alex. Before she could speak, Aura-lee flew up to them, closely followed by Roxanne whose face of disappointed matched Alex's.

"Are you ready to switch Ashton?" She asked and Jean nodded. They switched and Alex followed Aura-lee while Roxanne stayed with Jean. Alex followed Aura-lee to the corner of the pitch before they both stopped. "Okay, we're going to see if you're any good as a seeker. We'll get straight to the chase 'cause we're a bit short on time. I'll set the Snitch off and you have to find it and catch it. Okay?" Alex nodded, hoping she would be better at this than Chaser try outs although she knew she was at no obligation to join the team and it had been them that had asked her to join and not the other way round but she felt the strong need to prove herself.

Aura-lee smiled before taking the tiny Golden Snitch out of her pocket. "Three… two… one… GO." she released the Snitch on the word go and, although she had already told Alex about them, Alex was surprised when a pair of tiny white wings shot out of either side of the snitch. It hovered in the air for a few seconds before it zoomed in a speed so fast that Alex instantly lost sight of it. "Okay, go find it." Aura-lee said and, not needing to be told twice, she zoomed after where she thought the Snitch had gone. She searched the area having a sudden sense of déjà vu. Hadn't she been doing just this before quidditch practice with Rose and the bouncy ball? Her eyes widened slightly as she realised that, yes, she was right. It was just the same as that game.

Her eyes scanned the area with a new hope and soon she spotted a blur of gold whizzing past her. She immediately chased it, tailing it. It was, admittedly harder than the game with Rose and the Snitch seemed to have a mind of its own. She followed it for a while, losing sight of it now and again but always finding it fairly quickly.

Around fifteen minutes passed as she tried to catch the snitch. She was losing hope as she found that it was next to impossible to catch as its surface was a shiny and smooth metal that slipped through your fingers and struggled to get away when caught, unlike the bouncy ball. She was hovering high in the air, looking for it again when she then saw her chance. It was a few feet below her still in the air. She knew it wouldn't last for long and she had to act immediately, so she dived suddenly down to the oblivious snitch. As she swooped down, she held one hand out and, as she passed the snitch, she was delighted to feel her fingers wrap round the cool metal. It fluttered about in her hand, trying to escape, but she held it firmly as she pulled out of the dive and returned to Aura-lee, her face triumphant. She held out the Snitch and Aura-lee took it, grinning. She seemed to press something and the wings folded back into the golden sides of the snitch.

"Well done Alex! That was very good." Aura-lee said, trying to contain her excitement. "Let's go down and wait for Roxanne and Jean." They returned to the ground and Alex returned their brooms while Aura-lee put the Golden Snitch back in its box. Once the two of them had settled down, Alex suddenly felt the freezing winds of the weather and started shivering, drawing her cloak round her and wondering why she hadn't felt it before. She was probably preoccupied.

A few minutes later, Jean and Roxanne landed and, after packing away, headed over to them. Aura-lee stood up from her seat on sandy ground and Alex followed suit. "Are you done?" She asked and Jean nodded.

"Yup."

"Good, we need to decide on their positions if they want to join the team." Aura-lee stated. "So, Alex first, how did she do with Chasing?"

"She was… quite good." Jean said hesitantly.

"Any notes?" Aura-lee asked.

"Well, she's good at catching, really good. However, her throwing's a little off." Jean said shooting Alex an apologetic look. Alex smiled, showing her that it was okay, she knew she wasn't the best at throwing.

"Okay, and Roxanne?"

"She was… very good." Jean said smiling. "Perfect catching and throwing." Roxanne beamed and Alex felt a surge of pride for her best friend.

"Okay, now to me. I'll start with Roxanne." Aura-lee switched to the topic of seeker. "She was okay, but it took her a great length of time to find the snitch and then catching it was… well she didn't. To be honest, I can't either."

"It's bloody impossible." Roxanne whispered to Alex. "We lost the snitch." Alex bit her lip, fighting a smile picturing Roxanne and Aura-lee searching for the snitch.

"Alex, however, did manage to find and catch it in the space of around twenty-five minutes." She said and Alex let a smile escape at her achievement, she was very proud.

"Well I guess that figures out the positions." Jean said and Aura-lee nodded.

"You're right Ashton, there's no deciding. Alex, you'll be Seeker and Roxanne, you'll be A Chaser with Ashton and Daniels." She paused. "Well, that's if you want to join the team." She added quickly and hopefully. The two girls shared a look that said 'should we?' before they both smiled simultaneously and nodded.

"We'll do it." Alex spoke for the both of them and Aura-lee smiled widely.

"That's great!" She said enthusiastically. Roxanne looked at her watch which showed 8:25.

"Umm… we have Astronomy at 8:30, can we go?" Roxanne asked.

"What time is it now?" Aura-lee asked. Roxanne showed her the watch. "8:25, well, okay then. I'll inform the rest of the team that you'll be joining us. Practises are on Thursdays and Tuesdays. 7:00pm – 8:40pm. I guess I'll see you on Tuesday." She waved and the two girls left the pitch. Alex hadn't realised that almost an hour and a half had passed already; it had gone so quickly, it only felt like half an hour at most. The two girls hurried up to the castles, clutching their cloaks and shivering but grinning and laughing. They reached the castle and proceeded to make their way to the astronomy tower.

"So what were you doing with Jaden before?" Alex asked suddenly remembering.

"W… what? Who told you I was with Jaden?" She asked nervously.

"I guessed. Looks like I was right." Alex laughed.

"I was just helping out." Roxanne said.

"Really." It wasn't a question.

"Yes! Really!" Roxanne defended. "What else would I be doing?" Alex grinned; Roxanne had dug herself into that one.

"Oh I don't know." Alex said hinting otherwise and Roxanne blushed furiously as she gently batted Alex round the head with her hand. The two girls laughed for a while then fell silent; the only sound was their soft footsteps echoing in the silent corridors. And, feeling frozen to the bone but elated and victorious, the two girls headed up to the astronomy tower for their last class, smiles evident on their faces.

A.N: So how was it? Good? Bad? Review and tell me what you think. I love it when you review, it makes me smile... like this :). lol. Also, I've gone through the previouse chapters and edited them slightly to get rid of mistakes etc. Just thought I'd tell you. xxx So, review and I'll get another chapter up A.S.A.P. :) cya.

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