Well, here it is, finally, the tenth chapter of Addison. I don't know why, but this one took me longer than usual, and by the end I was like, "phew!" It isn't my favorite chapter, neither my longest, but I hope you all like it nevertheless. Cheers!

"I don't get why you're still ignoring him," Roxanne griped.

We were in the dormitory, where I was flatly refusing to go down and eat breakfast, because it would mean seeing him. And I did not want to do that, no matter how much my stomach growled.

"Please?" I begged. "You're one of my best friends, Roxanne..." I clasped my hands together and looked up at her beseechingly.

Roxanne, with much swearing and cursing at me, finally got up and stormed off into the common room where I heard a very familiar voice.

"Hey Roxanne, do you know where Addie is?"

Crap. Crap, crap, crap. Double crap, triple crap.

"She's not up there in the dormitory, that's for sure."

There was heavy sarcasm put in Roxanne's voice.

James gave a low laugh. "Exactly why are you down here?"

"She wants me to get food for her."

James' laugh grew louder.

"OH SHUT UP JAMES!" I yelled and then covered my mouth.

He and Roxanne were openly laughing now.

I changed out of my pyjamas and stalked downstairs, where James and Roxanne were waiting. Both of them had matching looks of unbearable smugness and humor, which I found completely maddening, so the first thing I did was step on James' foot.

"OUCH!" he yelled.

"THAT'S FOR GETTING MAD AT ME!" I shrieked. Then I hit him with a textbook that I snatched from some unsuspecting second year. "THAT'S FOR SENDING FINNUS TO SPY ON ME! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, YOU COMPLETE, IDIOTIC BASTARD?"

James only managed a shocked look. "But you are coming to the Quidditch game, are you?" he asked pitifully.

I sent him a look of deepest loathing. "Only if it's to boo you when you fall off your broomstick."

That was fairly mean, but he deserved it.

Breakfast was full of glares as James and I held at each other. My Gryffindor scarf was around my neck, but I was pulling it between my fingers; stretching it and downright near ripping it.

"You look like you want to eat someone," Lexi remarked as the Gryffindor team came down the walkway, with their bloody captain strutting at the center. Everyone at the Gryffindor table was clapping—except for me. "I can guess who."

I successfully managed in ripping my scarf.

"Oh, crap," I muttered. "Reparo."

"You know that you'll forgive him in a day or two..." Lexi hinted. Her eyes smiled at me as well as her mouth.

"You know that I won't..." I hmmmed at her.

"Oh, come off of it, Addison."

"LEXI! He sent a spy! On my date!" I crossed my arms and glared at the said-suspect, who was sauntering casually out the hall, flocked by his little gold-and-red bedecked Quidditch players. "What kind of a mate does that?"

Lexi rolled her eyes. "Everyone knows that Toby has a fetish for letting everyone know what he does with his girlfriends."

"I'm more respectable than that," I said with dignity. "That's just perverted, Lex."

"Ah, shut up, Addie."

We finished up our breakfast laughing and insulting each other, as well as attracting a lot of attention from the people around us. With various ways, they all said, "SHUT UP!"

We didn't take the hint.

"You're quite funny when you laugh, did you know that?" Lexi asked. "You start taking these little gasping breaths, as if there isn't enough oxygen in the air."

"Psh. No I don't!"

"Yes, you do."

"No, I don't."

"No, you do."

"Yes, I don't."

"What the hell?"

I gave her a superior smile and stood up. "Lets go grab seats so we can get a good look at James falling out there."

"He's a natural at a broom," Lexi said. "I don't think that he'll fall off."

"Then I guess that I'll have to hex him off, won't I?" I gave her a bleary smile and we grabbed seats.

"Is that one for me?" Toby asked with his dazzling smile, pointing at the one next to me that we reserved for Terri, a nice, though quiet, seventh year who we usually sat with during these Gryffindor Quidditch matches. She's very wicked at yelling at people and give me and Lexi a good laugh..

Any other day, I would be gasping out, "Of course it is, you must sit there." But it was the day after Hogsmeade, and, as a result, I wasn't feeling very charitable towards him. "Sorry," I said instead. "Terri's sitting there. Perhaps some other time, alright?"

"Yeah, sure," he said, looking a bit shocked, but climbed down the steps to his friends.

Lexi looked like she was about to laugh. "Wow, Addie. Wow. You really got him hanging on by a thread."

"Hmph."

Terri plopped down into the seat next to me. She had dishwater yellow hair and steel gray eyes that sparkled silver when the sun shone right into them. Of course, she didn't like it when the sun shone into them, but when the sun shone on her, suddenly, she would look very pretty. Her hair would get lighter, her complexion...well..yeah. "Busy morning, isn't it? The Slytherins are out for blood."

Lexi laughed. "What tipped you off?"

"I could hear Joey boasting that they would win the cup this year. Then some Gryffindor punched him in the face, so we didn't hear that much afterward."

Suddenly, the Gryffindors and the Slytherins hurtled out of the places where I guess they were before and formed a formation. James and the seeker from Slytherin were higher above the other teammates. Madam Hooch came out and mounted her broom. She threw the Quaffle in the air.

"AND THE GAME BEGINS!"

The commentator, who was named Elias Fagen, had a nice, strong, deep voice. "AND ROXANNE GETS THE QUAFFLE, SHE HURTLES UP AND DIVES DOWN! OOH, THAT WAS NICE! AND SHE TOSSES IT TO ALBUS, WHO CATCHES IT AND OH! TEN POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR!"

I clapped along with everyone else. Albus was a favorite of mine.

"ELLA HITS THE BEATER AT 'KINLEY! SHE HITS HIM AND HE DROPS THE QUAFFLE. HUGO GETS THE QUAFFLE! OH NO! DARIUS HAS JUST RAMMED INTO HIM! PENALTY FOR GRYFFINDOR! AND ROXANNE MAKES IT! TEN POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR!"

"They're doing fairly well—but where's the snitch?" I asked.

"James' looking for it," Lexi pointed out. "Do you think that he's going to find it?"

"I hope so," I said. "If I don't hex him off."

"James will," Terri said with certainty. "He'd better."

"JAMES HAS SEEN THE SNITCH! HE'S DIVING, AND LOOK AT THAT FACE HE'S PULLING...HA HA HA...ANYWAY, QUINTUS HAS JUST SHOT A BLUDGER AT JAMES! OOH! THAT'S GOING TO HURT!"

James recoiled. The Bludger had hit his nose, and it was bleeding copiously. He didn't seem to care and was off in a shot, trailing little blood specks in the air.

"Is he alright?" I asked, forgetting that I despised James Sirius Potter for the moment.

"He only has a bloody, possibly broken nose," Lexi said. "Madam Pomfrey will fix it in an instant."

"AND ROXANNE HAS THE QUAFFLE AGAIN! SHE SCORES! TEN POINTS FOR GRYFFINDOR! KINLEY HAS THE QUAFFLE. HE DUCKS UNDER GRYFFINDOR'S DEFENSE AND SCORES! TEN POINTS FOR SLYTHERIN!"

James was making a face at Elias and was yelling something that made everyone laugh.

"VERY NICE OF YOU, JAMES, BUT BACK TO THE GAME, SHALL WE? KINLEY'S SUCCESS SEEMS TO HAVE RUBBED OFF ONTO THE TEAM. DARIUS HAS THE QUAFFLE! ELLA AIMS A BLUDGER AT HIM, BUT IT MISSES, TOO BAD ELLA. BUT SHE HAS THE GOOD LOOKS OF HER MOTHER..."

"BACK TO THE GAME, ELIAS!" Professor McGonagall yelled into the microphone.

"RIGHT, SORRY PROFESSOR. JAMES SEES THE SNITCH! HE GOES DOWN!"

James dove at a breathtaking speed. All of us jumped out of our seats and watched. He nearly had the snitch-

when a big bludger hit him on the back of his head. He jerked forward and was still.

I think I may have catapulted over a few people and was one of the first to get to James. "James!" I yelled. "Are you okay?"

Blearily his eyes opened.

"Oh god, you're not dead," I said. "Good."

"I don't die easily," he said and a half-grin flickered on his face.

"Madam Pomfrey is coming and—what's that in your hand?"

James looked at his hand and a grin etched onto his face under all that blood. There was a golden glimmer in it-

The snitch.

"AND HE HAS THE SNITCH! GRYFFINDOR WINS!"

The Gryffindors started to cheer.

"Friends?" James asked.

"Mates," I said, and helped him up.

Madam Pomfrey told me to go away while she operated on him, but I was still smiling. We were friends again.

But I was still going to chew him out for sending a spy to me.

Uh, the ending was sort of bad...but anywho...

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