Disclaimer: I own nothing you recognise and I do not own any of the songs used during the rehearsals and the performances unless I say I do.

A/N: I'm gonna have some old and new music in here and please don't yell at me about musical taste, I like almost everything personally so there's gonna be a bit of most stuff in here. Anyway on with the story,

Chapter 25- The First Rehearsal, First Game, and First Performance

'So what are we gonna try and play first?' Diana asked. The five girls were in the Room of Requirement on Wednesday evening and they were looking over the instruments that they had been supplied with by the Room.

'Anyone know any songs they like that we could start off with?' Emma asked; Lily looked at Kas.

'What's that one you sometimes sing to us when we're half asleep after having a nightmare or something?' she asked; Kas looked at her surprised.

'You know about that? I didn't think any of you know I did that' Kas said; judging by the shocked expressions on Emma, Diana and Rose's faces they didn't either.

'Well, okay I was awake a few times. But what's it called anyway?' Lily asked. Kas sighed.

'I think it's called "Like the Rose" but don't quote me on it' she said, a stack of music appeared and Kas looked through one of them.

'Yeah, this is the right stuff. Anything else we like. Maybe we should each choose a song' Kas suggested.

'That's a great idea' Rose said, 'Does anyone like "Too Much Love Will Kill You"?'

A stack appeared and Rose looked through it, reading the different parts and humming bits of the tune to herself.

'Di, Em, Lils. Any songs you guys like?' Kas asked them. Soon they had another three songs and the rehearsal began. Rose went to the keyboard and started to play her own part while Emma and Diana practised theirs, meanwhile Kas and Lily set about trying to learn the words; Kas had already asked McGonagall if she could write to her guardian and ask for the holiday she spent at Hogwarts to be changed and Harstone had agreed. Kas wasn't sure how much persuading he had needed. After half an hour they decided to try and run through one of their songs.

Two hours later the Marauders were sitting by the fire plotting their next prank when the portrait opened and the Florettes came in.

'Hey!' Diana said when she saw them; the girls made their way over. Sirius tucked the plans out of sight.

'Where've you lot been?' he asked as Kas sat next to him; James sniggered which caused him to have a few odd looks sent his way.

'What?'

Remus shook his head; sometimes he just didn't want to know what went through his friend's heads.

'Out' Kas replied in answer to Sirius' question. The boys raised their eyebrows.

'Where's out?' Remus asked.

'Nowhere' Diana answered, sounding innocent.

'Now I'm worried' Remus said.

'When's the first match?' Emma asked.

'Saturday; we got plenty of time don't worry' Lily answered taking out her Charm's essay.

'Ok what the hell is going on?' James asked. Lily looked at him with raised eyebrows.

'James, my friend, what you don't know can't hurt you' Rose answered for Lily.

'Come on girls lets get upstairs. We're gonna have a late night tomorrow' Emma said, the other girls murmured agreement and they followed their friend upstairs.

Saturday dawned bright and cheerful; the Marauders were anticipating the match and their latest prank, the Florettes were awake with nerves of the match and their first performance. The Florettes dressed in silence and then walked down the stairs to the Great Hall for breakfast.

Lily sat down between Diana and Rose and poured herself some orange juice. She reached for some toast but a lump had formed in her throat and she just left it on her plate.

'Come on, Lils, eat something' Rose coaxed putting some scrambled eggs and bacon onto Lily's plate. Lily looked at it and felt sick.

'I don't think I can' she said. Kas looked over at her friend.

'Lily, if you don't eat there is no way you're gonna get through that game' she said sternly. Lily swallowed some more juice. The other girls looked at each other.

'Please, Lils' Emma said. Lily shook her head.

'What if I mess up?' she asked weakly, staring at her plate.

'If anyone on that pitch will mess up it'll be the Slytherins' a voice said behind Diana. The girls looked up into the handsome, smiling face of James Potter. The Marauders sat down with the girls and started to help themselves to some food. Lily looked at the Marauders' full plates and pushed hers away.

'Why do I suddenly feel ill?' she asked no one in particular.

'Nerves' Kas answered, 'don't worry about it Lils. Look on the bright side: they can only aim Bludgers at you if the Quaffle's in the scoring area.'

If it was possible Lily paled even more. Kas rolled her eyes.

'Lily we've got two of the best beaters in the school on our team, don't worry. Just make sure the Quaffle stays away from the hoops and you'll be fine' Kas said. Lily smiled a bit and nodded, she picked up a slice of toast and proceeded to take small bites out of it every so often. After about ten minutes James finally stood up.

'Alright team, head to the changing room!' he called down the Gryffindor table; the rest of the team grabbed their brooms and started to follow him to the changing rooms. Kas walked beside Lily all the way down to the pitch and tried to engage her friend in a conversation that didn't include Quidditch. The two girls changed into their Quidditch robes and then walked into the prep room to hear James' first pre match talk. Soon the whole team was assembled and James cleared his throat, looking more nervous at that moment than he ever had done before a Quidditch match.

'I'm not going to bore you with tactics right now. We don't need them at this moment, you know why? 'Cos this is the best bloody team I've seen in my time at Hogwarts! We've got two unbeatable Beaters' he said looking at Mike and Matt, 'two superb Chasers-'

'Three, mate' Remus said, grinning.

'Three superb Chasers' Lily finished for Remus; Kas stuffed her hand in her mouth to stop herself from laughing; Lily nudged her discreetly in the ribs and Kas managed to keep a straight face for her friend's sake.

'Anyway as I was saying… we have a brilliant Keeper' James continued, Lily turned almost as red as her hair.

'And an outstanding Seeker,' Kas smiled at James as he continued his speech.

'The point is if those Slytherins think that we're gonna be a pushover and they've got a nice easy game ahead of them they've got another thing coming. I'm not saying it's going to be an easy game for us. The Slytherin crowd knows how to distract players. WE've just got to keep our attention on the game and not let the taunts and jibes distract us,' James looked at his team and then grinned, 'If we screw up badly I'll let you all blame me; but you're not going to have to do that because I know you're not going to screw up. Now let's go out there and kick some Slytherin butt!'

The team cheered and followed James out onto the pitch. Whatever Lily had been expecting it wasn't the flow of adrenaline she felt then; her nerves vanished and she held her head up as she walked out into the bright sunlight next to Kas. The crowds cheered as the Gryffindor team walked out into the centre of the pitch, the Slytherin team was already there. Lily heard Diana call out the team's names.

'Here's the Gryffindor team! New Captain: Potter, followed by Black, Lupin, Peterson, Kison, Evans, and Starsword. A bit of shuffling of positions and new blood in this year's team' Diana said from the commentator's box. Lily looked into the stands and saw Emma and Rose leaning over the edge of one of the stands and waving at her and Kas; she grinned and looked back to Mrs Filler who had just walked out onto the pitch with the Quaffle under her arm.

'Captains shake hands' Mrs Filler said, Lily watched James walk forwards and shake hands with a sixth year Slytherin she thought was called Nott. It looked as if both of them were trying to break each other's fingers. They pulled their hands away and walked back to their teams; James face was set as he mounted his broom and faced the Slytherins again; his team followed his example. Mrs Filler threw the Quaffle into the air and blew her whistle.

'And they're off!' Diana said as Lily flew over to the goal hoops and held her broom steady.

'And it's Narcissa Black for Slytherin who takes the Quaffle; passed to Malfoy, back to Black; good interception by Black of Gryffindor there! Passes to Lupin, Potter who shoots… Intercepted by Keeper Regulus Black, passed to Nott-'

And so it continued. The Quaffle was continuously passed between the Chasers but neither team could get close enough to try and score since James' first attempt. Lily kept a keen eye on the Quaffle and tried not to listen to the taunts from the Slytherin crowd behind her.

'Why'd they use Evans as the keeper?'

'She can't save anything to save her life!'

She saw Malfoy flying towards her with the Quaffle under his arm; Lily took a deep breath and kept her eyes on Malfoy. The taunts seemed to increase in volume from the Slytherin crowd behind her; Malfoy threw the Quaffle and it went sailing towards the left hoop. Lily flew towards it and caught it easily; the boos from the Slytherin crowd almost drowned out the cheers from the Gryffindor crowd. She smiled slightly and threw the Quaffle to James.

'Easy save there from Keeper Evans-' there was a lot of booing from the Slytherin crowd 'It's the truth!' Diana said indignantly. The Gryffindor crowd laughed.

'Passed to Potter, Lupin, Potter, Black, Lupin, Potter, Lupin. Black, Potter, Black again. He shoots… HE SCORES! 10-0 to Gryffindor!'

James and Sirius high-fived as Regulus Black took the Quaffle and threw it to Malfoy. James stole a quick glance at Kas and saw her hovering around the pitch trying to catch sight of the Snitch, and then he turned back to the game and snatched the Quaffle out of the air as Malfoy passed to Narcissa.

Kas was flying slowly around the pitch trying to catch sight of the Snitch; Bellatrix was tagging her and looking for the Snitch herself. Kas tried to keep her mind on the Snitch and off the rest of the game.

'Oi Starsword heard you're getting married. Congratulations! I hear it's my fourth cousin isn't it?' Bellatrix jeered. Kas felt her blood boil and it took all her self control not to turn around and hit Bellatrix. There was a roar from the Slytherin crowd as Malfoy scored a goal against Gryffindor. Lily threw the Quaffle to Remus who passed it to James; Goyle sent a Bludger towards him and it almost unseated him as it flew into his stomach. He dropped the Quaffle, but luckily Sirius caught it and managed to score another goal for Gryffindor. The game seemed to get progressively dirtier as the minutes went by. A few Bludgers were sent at Kas and Bellatrix even though neither of them had seen the Snitch yet.

An hour into the game and the score was 90-80 to Slytherin; at least all of the players had been hit with the Bludgers at least twice. At one point after Remus had scored a goal, Goyle hit a Bludger at Lily as Regulus passed the Quaffle to Malfoy. This caused an uproar from the Gryffindor supporters as Lily clutched her arm where the Bludger had hit it; Kas was about to fly over when a glint of gold caught her eye. Kas stole a quick look at Bellatrix and saw she was applauding Goyle for the attack on Lily; Kas smiled to herself as she dived towards the tiny golden ball. As she dove towards it on her broom it seemed as if the rest of the world melted away and it was only the tiny ball hovering about 2 feet off the ground was the only thing that mattered. She heard Bellatrix diving after her and she heard the crowds go quiet as the two Seekers sped after the tiny golden ball. Kas extended her arm as Bellatrix did the same a second after her and the two seekers came neck and neck. To the right Kas heard a Bludger speeding towards her and she sped up; she couldn't go off course now and let Bellatrix get the Snitch. She pushed Bellatrix's arm out of the way before closing her fingers around the tiny golden ball; Kas didn't have time to pull out of the dive and she had to leap off her broom to stop from crashing face first into the ground. The Bludger made contact with the ground inches from her face just seconds after she had landed. Screams erupted from the Gryffindor supporters as she held the tiny ball up in the air.

James and Remus landed next to her a minute after she had caught it and she turned, grinning to a beaming James.

'Good enough first game, Captain?' she asked with a grin. James laughed.

'It'll do' he said. The team laughed and Kas gave James a hug before turning to Remus. She saw Lily arrive a minute or so after James and Remus. She ran to her friend.

'You ok Tiger?' she asked, Lily nodded.

'I'll be ok. Just a small whack' she said, Kas noticed she had a green tinge to her face. She took out her wand, that she always had in her Quidditch robes now, and performed a quick healing charm. Lily smiled her thanks before Sirius came and wrapped Kas in a bone crushing hug.

'Hi Sirius' Kas said laughing.

'You were amazing, babe' he said quietly and Kas laughed. The rest of the team joined them. James turned to Lily after congratulating Matt on his game.

'You ok?' he asked her looking at her arm worriedly. Lily smiled and nodded.

'Kas fixed me up. What about you, you took some nasty hits in that game?' Lily asked, James laughed and shook his head.

'I'm used to it now. Just a few more bruises to add to the collection' he laughed. Lily laughed with him before the Gryffindor supporters flooded onto the pitch.

An hour or so later and everyone was seated in the Great Hall for lunch; as people started to get ready to leave the Slytherin team suddenly stood up and climbed onto their table; they proceeded to start performing the kan-kan and, when they'd finished, they took a bow and then their robes turned scarlet and they held up their hands where a large banner appeared above them with the slogan 'Gryffindor rules! Slytherin sucks!' written across it. The entire hall burst into laughter, except the Slytherins, and started to applaud. A group of Gryffindors left with the Marauders so that it would be harder for the teachers to get to them and punish them for the prank.

'Gryffindor party in the common room!' Sirius bellowed over the crowd; Gryffindor cheered and soon most of the house was in the common room. The Florettes were in their dorm room, almost all of them shaking with nerves. Rose looked at her four best friends.

'Well let's get the party started' she said with a grin. Diana looked a little sick.

'It already is… how about we forget this whole thing?' she suggested.

'No way! We've worked too hard to quit at the first hurdle' Rose said. She looked over at Kas and Lily.

'Come on you two you've just played an excellent Quidditch match in front of the whole school and now you're worried about singing in front of the house?' she demanded; Lily and Kas looked at each other and Kas smiled slightly.

'I never said I wanted to quit, I'm just not sure we're going to be able to get down the stairs to perform it' Kas said. Lily took a deep breath and stood up.

'Come on guys, we can do it. Whose with me for going down and doing it now?' she asked; Rose smiled at her friend and stood up, Kas stood up behind Lily. The three girls looked at the twins.

'Come on guys, we can't do it without you' Rose said; Diana and Emma looked at each other and nodded.

'OK, let's go give them a show to remember' Emma said, she smiled and stood up followed closely by her twin and the five girls walked down the stairs together. When they reached the bottom Kas went over to Remus and dragged him over to them; he grinned slightly, they'd agreed to let one other person know about their band and to help announce them, and who better to do it than one of the Marauders?

'You guys ready, or are you gonna hide in your dorm for the rest of the night?' Remus asked with a grin; Rose nodded.

'We're ready' she told him; he nodded.

'Alright let me get James and Sirius to help with the quietening down of the room' Remus said and went off with a huge grin on his face. He whispered something into Sirius' ear and he nodded.

'ALRIGHT EVERYONE SHUT UP!' Sirius roared, as predicted the whole room fell silent. Remus cleared his throat and muttered a spell and his voice was magically magnified.

'For your entertainment I'm pleased to give you our very own Hogwarts band… The Florettes!' Remus said, people started to applaud and Remus flicked his wand so there was a spotlight on a clear space where a drum kit, keyboard and bass guitar with amplifier stood. Emma, Diana and Rose walked over to their instruments followed by Kas who gave Lily a small shove and the two girls arrived in front of the two microphones at the front of the area; turning around Lily mouthed something to the other three who nodded. Diana and Rose started to play the introduction and then the others came in.

(For who is singing I'll put K in front of it for Kas and L in front of it for Lily… you get the idea. Like the notes they pass during class and stuff… anyway… oh and O is for when Diana, Emma and Rose are singing, B is for both Lily and Kas, and A is for all)

K: It's a heartache, nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it's too late, hits you when you're down
It's a fools' game, nothing but a fool's game
Standing in the cold rain, feeling like a clown


Everyone had started to clap as the song began and soon people were dancing in front of the area that had now been raised slightly so it was a type of stage.
L: It's a heartache, nothing but a heartache
Love him 'till your arms break, then he'll let you down
It ain't right with love to share
When you find he doesn't care for you
It ain't wise to need someone as much as I depended on you

Kas looked at Lily and the two girls grinned at each other before starting on the chorus of the song:
B: Oh, it's heartache, nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it's too late, hits you when you're down
It's a fool's game, nothing but a fool's game
Standing in the cold rain, feeling like a clown

K: It ain't right with love to share
L: When you find he doesn't care for you
B: It ain't wise to need someone as much as I depended on you
Oh, it's a heartache, nothing but a heartache

You love him 'till your arms break, then he'll let you down

L: It's a fool's game

Standing in the cold rain, feeling like a clown

K: It's a heartache

Love him 'till your arms break

B: Then he'll let you down

The girls stopped playing and the room burst into applause; the girls couldn't wipe the grins off their faces as they heard a few voices at the back of the room (hmm… wonder who that could be…) calling for more. This time Diana came up and whispered something in Kas and Lily's ears, the two singers nodded and then grinned as Diana walked back to her place. The intro started up and everyone went back to dancing along to their music as Kas started to sing.

K: I've known a few guys who thought they were pretty smart
But you've got being right down to an art
You think you're a genius-you drive me up the wall
You're a regular original, a know-it-all
Oh-oo-oh, you think you're special
Oh-oo-oh, you think you're something else

Okay, so you're a rocket scientist
B: That don't impress me much
So you got the brain but have you got the touch
Don't get me wrong, yeah I think you're alright
But that won't keep me warm in the middle of the night
That don't impress me much

L:I never knew a guy who carried a mirror in his pocket
And a comb up his sleeve-just in case
And all that extra hold gel in your hair oughtta lock it
'Cause Heaven forbid it should fall outta place

Oh-oo-oh, you think you're special
Oh-oo-oh, you think you're something else

Okay, so you're Brad Pitt
B: That don't impress me much
So you got the looks but have you got the touch
Don't get me wrong, yeah I think you're alright
But that won't keep me warm in the middle of the night
That don't impress me much

K: You're one of those guys who likes to shine his machine
You make me take off my shoes before you let me get in
I can't believe you kiss your car good night
C'mon baby tell me-you must be jokin', right!

Oh-oo-oh, you think you're special
Oh-oo-oh, you think you're something else

Okay, so you've got a car
B: That don't impress me much
So you got the moves but have you got the touch
Don't get me wrong, yeah I think you're alright
But that won't keep me warm in the middle of the night

L: That don't impress me much
K: You think you're cool but have you got the touch
B: Don't get me wrong, yeah I think you're alright
But that won't keep me warm on the long, cold, lonely night
That don't impress me much

L: Okay, so what do you think you're Elvis or something...
Whatever
K: That don't impress me

Again the common room broke into applause as the song ended; Lily and Kas walked to the back of the stage where the girls started to have a quick talk about which songs to do and how many more to do for the remainder of the night.

A/N: Ok so I really can't be bothered to have all of the songs in this chapter so I'm spreading the rest of the party over the next one or possibly two chapter. Hope you enjoyed it! Thank you to my reviewers and thank you to my readers for being so patient with me, I love you all!

Ciao for now

xStarswordx