Ahh last day of school! Hopefully updates will stay consistent, but I might be very busy so I don't know!

Chapter 11: Quidditch Tryouts

The week came and went. Every night, the two girls went down to the field to practice and would do their homework the next day at breakfast and lunch. They would always be permitted to use the Quidditch equipment by Madam Hooch, who was growing increasingly popular between the two girls.

On one occasion, Kait had prompted Madam Hooch by saying, "Hey! Madam Hooch, have you ever been down to the kitchens!? You should come down with us some time. You look like a lady who can hold her booze!"

She was rather flattered, but kept her manner principled. Meanwhile, the two girls improved. They would release the snitch and the bludgers, and while Triana would go after the snitch, Kait would try to hit her with the bludgers. It was a good system, and they both improved immensely from when they first started. However, Kait was afraid she would not be as strong as the beaters from the year previous. She was doing pushups and chin-ups every night and lifting weights, but Crabbe and Goyle were like mountains of pure muscle. Or fat, but it still gave them good force. (Remember kids, force is mass multiplied by acceleration!) So, Triana could attach things to her arms to give it more mass, but it might give her less speed. She would have to stick to muscle building. She was also downing protein shakes, protein bars, and protein fruits everyday, at hourly intervals.

Also out every evening was Draco Malfoy. He would always come and watch the two girls practice, but mainly eye Kait. He was still clad in black, wielding his acoustic guitar and messenger bag. He would sometimes strum out songs that he was working on, and then would call out to Kait, asking if she liked them. She was always too busy concentrating on the sport to answer him, but it didn't discourage him (even though she wished it would).

The biting of Triana had not stopped either, but Madam Pomfrey gave her potions to keep her blood levels up, which was helping her immensely.

On Friday evening, Triana attended the Ravenclaw tryouts. Kait had come to cheer her on, and more importantly, to see how the beater tests were being conducted. Triana did not make this team, much to her disappointment, some ho did. The following morning, the Slytherin trials were being conducted. They both woke up with a sick stomach. It was a bright dewy morning, and they both made their way to the pitch after eating their breakfasts. Triana wanted to be on this team more than anything, for she would get to play with Kait if she made it, but she had doubts in herself. For Kait, this was the only team she had a possibility of playing for, so this test was pivotal.

First, the captain, Montague, had groups of 10 fly around the pitch to weed out who could actually handle themselves on a broom. This helped the girls' confidence, for a lot of the younger students did really crappily, and they were eliminated. First the chaser assessment was completed. Montague, Pucey, and Warrington were the ones accepted for that position. Next, there were the keeper auditions. After many complaints and a few hexes thrown, Bletchley took that responsibility. Finally it was the moment Kait had been waiting for. Montague asked the beaters trying out to form a line. Oh god, oh god, oh god, she thought to herself rapidly. She was the only girl in the line. Or maybe some of them were girls who just looked and sounded like guys. There were a lot of them on Slytherin.

The test included a person hitting bludgers toward a quaffle that had been enchanted to fly around at a high speed. This test was more difficult to judge than the others, because there was always a tie for who hit the most, and then they had to judge those people by how close the rest of the shots were to the targets. They went one by one, and some returned in pride while others returned in shame.

By the time Kait was up for her trial, the highest amount of times the quaffle had been hit was 3, and this was achieved by 2 people. She stepped up with her broom and bat in hand, shot a grimace to Triana who was looking at her nervously from the stands, and mounted.

"Name?" Montague asked without looking up.

"Kait," she said anxiously.

At the sound of a feminine voice and name, he looked up shocked to see her trying out. "Uh, Kait what?" he stuttered out.

"Kudryávtsev," she said. He looked up at her, bewildered. "Exactly," she replied to his stare, and took off.

Kait kicked off the ground. Immediately, the scary sensation of floating in the air caught up with her stomach. She gripped the handle tightly in her hand as she flew, and the other hand held the bat. Her heart was racing and she could hear it in her ears, and in fact it was the only sound she could hear. She blocked all the other noise out. She looked at the quaffle, whirring around the pitch doing mild dives and turns. She sought the bludger and found it. Flying up towards it, she took her hand off the handle to grip the bat with two hands. She followed the bludger until it hesitated at a slight pause.

This was her chance! Gripping the bat, she threw her hands backwards and then shot them forward powerfully with all her might into the direction of the quaffle. The bludger hurled violently but directly to the quaffle and hit it dead on. 'Yes!' she silently cheered inside of herself, and Triana stood up cheering and yelling. The quaffle was smacked away and the bludger went off on its own tangent. She waited for the quaffle to get back to its pattern before stalking the bludger once more. She repeated the same pattern she had done the previous times, knocking the quaffle off its course 2 more times, and narrowly missing the other 2 (they were allowed 5 shots in total).

She flew down onto the field, greeted by the same applause as everyone else had gotten except for Draco and Triana, who both gave her a standing ovation.

So, she had achieved the high score, now all she could hope for would be the captain to decide she had come closer in her missed shots than the other beaters had. The rest of the students auditioned, only 1 other person had made 3 shots.

So there were four people in the running. She, Crabbe, Goyle, and some 4th year. She looked at them in nervousness, but they stared back at her with cruel, evil glances.

Montague talked with some other older slyerthins for a great long time. After a while, they all nodded their heads in agreement and Montague stood up with a piece of paper that he had written on during the auditions. He looked down at the paper and cleared his throat before reading, "Thank you all for participating in the tryout. I'd take all of you if I could, but most of you sucked. Okay, the beaters for the team will be Crabbe and Kait."

Some slytherins snorted or snickered in some way but many remained quiet. However, Kait screamed and went over to Triana, who was also squealing. They danced around and whooped in the stands and the guys all stared at them.

"Okay, auditioning seekers please line up," Montague announced, and Triana left the stands to go to the pitch. These tests were determined by who could get the snitch in the shortest amount of time. Each time, the next auditioner would turn their back to the pitch to allow the snitch to be relocated after the previous person caught it. Then they would turn, fly up on their broom sticks, and have to catch the snitch. No one was told their times, but those who had a very short time were also close together. It was hard to determine who was going to get the position if one were a spectator, but the captain had a timer going for them.

When it was Draco's turn, he blew a kiss to Kait before taking off. She could tell he was good at seeking. He almost immediately spotted the snitch and went after it; however, it was hard for him to actually catch it. Kait couldn't take the suspense. She knew if he caught it soon he would definitely get the position. Some other Slytherins were cheering him on, so why couldn't she? She stood up in the stands and called out, "Draco, I love you!"

His gaze immediately snapped from the snitch to the stands, and he saw her waving to him. He flew straight over to her, ignoring the snitch. He actually went into the stands to right where she was sitting and grabbed her hand. Everyone stared. "Really!? Oh Kait, do you really mean it? I've pined for you for so long! Just say it once more!" He stared up at her with blue, expectant eyes that were so hopeful it hurt her.

"I… love you…?" she muttered, and Draco immediately hurtled his lips into hers for a kiss. Kait wanted to hurl during it, but she dealt with it so it would be over. He flew off and caught the snitch a little bit after. It was a great time, but she didn't know how it compared to everyone else's because she was too sick to judge it.

Triana was next though, and Kait perked up. She announced her name to Montague who was, again, shocked. She turned her back as everyone else did, and closed her eyes as she waited for his voice to cue her. On the signal, she darted her broomstick in the air before turning around. 'I can turn faster up here than down there,' she thought, and started scanning the pitch for the tiny golden ball. She stayed low to the ground hoping to catch a glint off of it from the sun, and she soon did. She used mental calculus (if there is such a feat) and flew to the area the snitch was going towards, to shorten her chasing time. She grasped the ball in her hand in an astounding time, but no one was yet sure if it compared to the other times of players yet.

After the rest of the tryouts, Montague stood up as he had done the past 3 times, with his paper in hand and head staring downward. "It came down to milliseconds, here, so I feel slightly bad about having to announce the position. But I have no soul, so I don't actually feel sorry. The new seeker is Lirded."

Silence. "OH!" Triana shouted. "That's me!"

The two girls shouted in glee, and the auditions ended. The entire team decided to celebrate, so Kait and Triana took them down to the kitchens before going back to the common room

This chapter was giving me SO much trouble at first but after a little bit it picked up and before I knew it I was over 1,000 words! And with this, we mark our 15,000 WORD MILESTONE!! KEGG PARRTTYY!!!