Hey! I'm sorry it took me two days to update while I already finished this chapter, I've got some problems with my own computer,… a vase fell and the water reached my computer and most of all my keyboard…it doesn't really work anymore…
A well, I'm just glad the water didn't reach my new laptop for it was only centimetres away.
I hope you like this chapter and I hope to get more reviews than 2 or 3 a chapter, the more I get, the sooner the next chapter is finished, I will also try to get my chapters a bit longer.
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9. Quidditch
It was the day after the first task and my family wouldn't leave me alone. Mom and dad were happy that I finally found someone, but my brothers couldn't stop bothering me about our hug yesterday. It still surprised me that she didn't mind. While she hugged me back it seemed my family had left us to give us some privacy. She took my hand afterwards and smiled at me before taking me with her back to the dragons. She showed them to me and explained a lot about all four of them, their species, their abilities, their ages and so fort.
She never stopped holding my hand and I loved the feeling. Sometimes I would catch myself at looking at her lips instead of her eyes but she didn't seem to mind or notice.
While walking back to the castle we played 20-questions to get to know each other better.
"What's your favourite colour?"
"Blue." I answered without a thought, she looked so beautiful in blue…
"Yours?"
"Hmm… it changes with the day." She looked so cute when she thought.
"And today?"
"Brown."
"Brown?"
"Yes, I like brown, it's warm and everything that is supposed to be brown is green up here."
I smiled at that, she was right, the forest was greener than green up here.
She smiled back up to me before continuing.
"Where were you born?"
"Chicago." She looked a bit sadly at that.
"Where have you been living outside of France?"
"Europe mostly, I have been in Africa twice and to China once… The closest I've come to America is Texas."
"Those are a lot of sunny places…"
"Yeah, I know. You just have to know how to handle the sun." She said while smiling.
"Have you ever been not in America? Except for now that is."
"Yes, I have been to Europe a couple of times, we went to Paris once and to Italy. We went to Africa once, about ten years ago, but I have never lived outside of America. An other continent usually means vacation."
"How old are you Edward?"
"I was changed at 17 in 1918."
"So young…" she murmured.
By now we had reached the hall in which I was staying.
She looked up at me when we stopped at my door and she looked thoughtful.
"You wanna hang out tomorrow?"
"I would love to."
"Great!" She smiled and gave me a kiss on the cheek again before walking away.
I felt my smile getting bigger and bigger so it wasn't a surprise when i heard the thoughts of my brothers when I walked into the room.
'Dude! You have a goofy smile!' Emmett thought shocked.
I wonder what it could be what we could do up here. We aren't supposed to get of the territory of the school, and we can not go into the woods, so what is there left to do?
I never got to know the answer that night for Alice revealed nothing about the subject of tomorrow.
The next morning at sunrise we heard a knock at the door and I went to answer it before anyone else could.
When I opened the door Isabella stood there smiling at me, before I could say anything she opened her mouth. "You ready?"
I simple nodded while gaping at her, she was dressed in simple jeans and a tight dark blue blouse, it looked breathtaking upon her. She grasped my hand and started walking away.
"Where ya going dude?" I heard Emmett yell behind me.
"Sush, let them be!" Alice said before slapping him on the head.
"It's a good thing vampires can't get a headache, or Emm would constantly have one I believe." I looked down towards Bella and saw her smiling.
She looked up then.
"He get's hit a lot, doesn't he?"
"Yes, he does." I smiled my crooked smile at her and her look seemed to linger a bit longer upon my face as before, but she soon turned to look down. It was then that I noticed that she was still holding my hand in hers.
We were quiet for a while but when we reached the ground floor she asked me something i had never heard of before.
"Do you know what Quidditch is?"
"Quidditch? Never heard of before."
"It's our game sport you could say, you guys have football in America while us witches and wizards have Quidditch. The two games look like each other actually. They are both extremely rough and dangerous. Only there isn't really that much contact between the players, you normally don't bump into each other." She laughed a bit at that and I had to smile.
"So you basically have to score with the ball while trying not to get caught by the other players?"
"Yes and no, Quidditch is played while flying broomsticks. You do not stay on the ground. It's a sport played by witches and wizards all around the world. The matches are played between two teams of which each contains of seven players. There are four balls used instead of one and there are six elevated ring-shaped goals in the field, three goals for each team."
She paused for a bit when we walked out of the castle.
"The four balls in this game are each used separately. The Quaffle is bright red and approximately 12 inches in diameter. This ball is to be touched by the players, because this is the ball that you have to use to throw through the goals. The ball is enchanted so it won't drop to the ground that fast and to let it be easily gripped with only one hand.
The next two balls are the Bludgers. These are approximately ten inches in diameter and made of iron. They are bewitched to fly without any visible means of propulsion, but they are still unable to change direction swiftly. Their purpose is to fly around attempting to hit players. You understand that that hurts a lot to normal witches and wizards. It's not difficult to land into the hospital wing when being hit by a Bludger. If you have bad luck you can even get a concussion.
The last ball is the Golden Snitch, the Snitch is a small golden ball with the size of a walnut. The Snitch has wings and is enchanted to hover and dart around the pitch, avoiding capture while remaining within the boundaries of the playing area. Each team has a Seeker, whose only task is to capture the Snitch. The team who catches the Snitch wins 150 points, and only the capture of the Snitch will bring the game to an end. As a Seeker you have to catch the Snitch as fast as possible, because if you don't a game can easily last several months."
"Months?!"
"Yes."
"Wow…" Never have I heard of a game that takes that long.
"Strange isn't it?"
"Yeah."
"I've only named one of the players right now, but the team consists of seven players. You have a total of three Chasers, two Beaters and one Keeper and one Seeker. The Chasers progress up and down the pitch passing the Quaffle by hand amongst themselves, in an attempt to score goals by throwing it through one of their opponent's three goal hoops. The Keeper is charged with protecting the three goal hoops. The Beaters have a funny job in this game, you see, they have to protect their teammates from the Bludgers by knocking these balls off course or towards opponents. They are armed with wooden clubs that are similar, but shorter than baseball bats.
Each team includes a captain, who may play any of the four positions. The captain helps the team practice and chooses the team players after the tryouts."
She paused a bit before seeming to remember something.
"O! I almost forgot! Each goal scored is worth ten points, the Snitch is worth 150 points."
"It sounds like an intense game."
"It is." She said while smiling up at me.
We had arrived at the Quidditch field of Hogwarts it appeared, since everything looked like she described it. Those goals were really up high, I really had to crane my neck to see them.
"I will lend you a book about this, it's called Quidditch Through the Ages. It might come in handy and you can learn a lot about this game with that book. When you know about the world of magic, but you do not know about Quidditch, it's quite scandalous." She laughed a bit at that. And I couldn't stop looking at her. She seemed to like this sport a lot and I found it quite entertaining to watch her talk about it. She took me to a seat and together we sat down.
"I want to show you something." She said while getting out her wand and moving it several ways in front of us while murmuring something I didn't catch. While I looked at what she was doing, a miniature arena appeared in front of us with six goals high above the ground, three on each side of the field. I looked at her with questioning eyes.
"I want to show you the last Quidditch World Cup, it was held before the beginning of this school year, but it was fun to watch as always. I stored it in my memory, what you will see next is my memory played out in front of us, it's an illusion."
I nodded at her and soon we saw the players starting the game.
The Irish entered the playfield first but were soon followed by the Bulgarians.
After a long, but still not to long game, the Bulgarians won. It was interesting to watch.
The seeker of Bulgaria looked familiar, as if I've seen hem before, just recently… he looks like that boy from the First Task…
"Isn't that the same guy from that other school, that school from the north?"
"Yes, Viktor Krum is the Bulgarian seeker and also still a young boy in his last year of school. He was the youngest to participate in the World Cup. He has been a seeker for a long time now, I think about 6 years, maybe seven, he started somewhere in the beginning of his magic school life at Durmstrang."
"Six years is long?"
"It is, Quidditch is a dangerous sport and mostly done by young people. I think I'm the only exception." She smiled at that.
"You play Quidditch too?"
"Yes, always have. I just can't participate in famous games for they would recognize me."
"That's too bad."
"Ah.. well, I have other things to do too."
"Like what?"
"Music."
"You sing, don't you?"
"I do, but I also play the piano and the guitar."
"Me too!" Finally someone that also likes the music coming from the piano.
"Do you like Debussy?" I hesitantly asked her.
"Sometimes..." she paused, didn't she like Debussy?
"Sometimes I find their music comforting, relaxing... but I'm not an all classic person. I like the human music of nowadays too, not everybody, but quite a few."
"You like French music?"
She looked confused.
"I heard you sing."
"Oh! Yeah, sorry. I like some French songs, but I also like Japanese songs outside of the normal English ones." Wait, didn't she just say human music?
"Why do you call it human music?"
"Oh! This is gonna sound stupid,... with human music I mean the music that humans etc make, I don't put wizards and witches into that category. Us witches have our own kind of music, but it's strange music, the songs are about magical animals and things like that."
"Never heard of before."
"I know, but you will soon." She said confidently.
"How so?"
She stood and took my hand in hers before walking towards the castle again.
"You will notice in a few days."
We walked in silence after that. But it wasn't an uncomfortable silence, she seemed to think about something and perhaps didn't notice that we were still holding hands. I liked it.
Soon we were standing in front of my door, while still holding hands.
"We might not have done that much, but I had fun." She said softly. I looked down at her and saw her looking down at our hands. She was unconsciously playing with my fingers and I liked the feeling.
"Me too…" I answered softly while waiting for her too look up at me. I had this strange need inside of me, I wanted to hold her close, I wanted more than holding hands. As she finally looked up my eyes sought up her lips on their own accord. I didn't notice me leaning down till my lips touched hers. And God they were heavenly.
She opened up to me and I deepened the kiss.
Her hands landed in my hair while I pushed her closer by her waist.
All I could feel and hear were her soft sounds and the feel of her warmth on my skin.
I truly was in heaven until my family had to interfere once again.
We both heard Emmett yelling inside followed by a hard smack. I backed up but bend down again for three little kisses on her mouth. She smiled up at me and gave me a soft peck before opening the door.
She led me in by the hand and ignored Emmetts calls.
She sat down at the piano bench in the room and looked up at my brothers.
"It's not my fault he's a better kisser than you are, Emm."
"What!?!" Rosalie yelled and Emmett looked God smacked.
Alice and Jasper started laughing then, soon followed by the others.
We had a lot of fun that night and I had the chance to play the piano with Isabella. I found out that she was even better than me, but she proffered to sing above playing an instrument.
My family were happily talking while Bella played a piece of her own next to me. I had no interest in what was said so I had no idea about what they were talking when I suddenly heard Bella speak. Apparently Alice was talking about something she heard and Bella figured out what it was she heard.
"Oh! I know! You're talking about the Yule Ball!" Bella said finally while trying to figure out about what my sister was talking.
"What's that?"
"The Yule Ball has been a tradition of the Triwizard Tournament since its inception. On Christmas Eve night the host, in this case Hogwarts, gather together with their guests in the Great Hall for a night of well- mannered frivolity."
"A what?"
She laughed at that.
"Sorry, all the teachers call it that way. It's simply a Ball, a Christmas Ball, only celebrated during the Triwizard Tournament." She paused.
"Normally there isn't a ball at Christmas Eve, you simply get your holiday or spend time with your friends, the only thing the school does is decorating the place."
"Yeah!" Alice suddenly yelled.
"What is it Alice?" Mom said in her worried voice.
"We get to choose dresses!" Bella grimaced at that but soon looked thoughtful.
Alice and Rosalie soon began rapidly talking and Bella became quiet.
I was just going to ask her something when she spoke first.
"Esme, Alice, Rose…are you girls free tomorrow?"
"Yes, why?"
"Yes!!!" Alice yelled while Rosalie was just completely silent for once.
"Just something,… I will pick you up at twelve." She said while standing up.
"I have to go now, but I will see you guys tomorrow." She smiled and looked down at me.
"Au revoir mon chéri!" She said while skipping out of the room.
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