Chapter VII + Quidditch Practice



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"Sirius, have you seen Remus?" Alison asked. Sirius shook his head.

"No, But you better hurry Allie, we have practice in 15 minutes." Sirius said, shaking his broomstick, a comet 550. "We're picking team captain today."

"Okay2, you go on. I want to find Remus first. I'll be there, okay?" Alison assured him. Sirius just shrugged and left the common room.

After going up to her dorm to change into her Quidditch robes, Alison went down to the common room, where a bunch of youngsters were sitting down. In the crowd she found Aries Black, Sirius's younger brother. Aries looked exactly like a smaller version of Sirius, and acted exactly like him.

"Aries, do you know where Remus is?" Alison asked.

"Remus? Nnoooo….. sorry." Aries shrugged. "I saw him in the hallways earlier. I think he was walking to the Library."

"Oh. If you see him, tell him I was looking for him and I'm in the pitch having practice. Okay?" Alison said hurriedly. Aries nodded and waved to her. "Bye Allie."

Walking to the pitch, Alison was also looking out for Remus. But eventually as she got to the pitch, she hadn't seen him anywhere.

"Lily! What are you doing here?" Alison exclaimed. Lily wasn't on the team, as she hated flying, she never went to watch practices, but will always come to watch a game. Alison sat on her broomstick and flew to Lily's side. Then she got off her broom and sat next to her.

"Potter dragged me." Lily shrugged. "I had nothing to do anyway. So I decided to just come and watch Potter make a fool of himself on his broom."

"Right. Hey What do you think of Maria?" Alison asked. "I think she's a nice girl."

"Sirius asked me about her on my birthday. Yeah, she's a nice girl. A bit on the shy side, but I think she's fine."

"That's what I think so too. I hope we can be good friends." Alison said. "She definitely doesn't match with Elle and Christina, huh, those snobs." Alison wrinkled her nose. "Thinking about them makes me sick. I'm SO glad I have you Lils. And now we have Maria." Alison smiled.

"I can't believe they went out with Potter. I mean-"

"Do you judge a girl by their relationships with James, Lil?" Alison asked. "He IS my cousin, you know. He's not that bad, he's just-"

"Immature. Yeah. Just immature and annoying. Yeah, that's it. Alison, I know he's your dear cousin and all, but… REALLY. I can't stand him."

"Are you sure Tiger, you guys seemed pretty cozy on your birthday."

"God, Allie, you guys forced us to and he's not as bad as Peter-"

"Lily,' Alison interrupted again. "EVERYBODY'S not as bad as Peter in dancing. Come on. I saw your expression. I saw his. I definitely saw some sparks-"

"So, I wonder how PETUNIA'S doing." Lily said quickly, desperately trying to change the subject. When she starts to talk about her sister, Alison knew Lily really didn't want to talk about it.

"That's interesting Lils. Anyway, We're picking team captains today. Who do you think will get it?" Alison asked, wanting to laugh to see Lily's relaxed expression.

"You." Lily answered simply. "You're a great seeker, you're tough, smart-"

"Cut the crap Lils, I know you just don't want James to be captain."

"Well…. And that too." Lily grinned. Alison rolled her eyes.

"I am Maid of honor in your wedding right?" Alison grinned. Lily began to open her mouth in protest when James yelled.

"ALISON JOHNSON! GET YOUR BUTT HERE RIGHT NOW!"

"Ciao, Lady Lily!" Alison grinned, mounting on her broom. Alison gave Lily a last wave and flew to her teammates.

Lily watched as the team huddled up. From where she was sitting, she saw James talking comically to the other team members. The others seemed to find it funny, as they were laughing uncontrollably. Then as Sirius began to make silly motions with his hands, Lily looked over to James and saw him looking her way. He quickly turned back to Sirius and nodded, while laughing. Lily let out a sigh and rolled her eyes.

Suddenly Alison, James and Sirius flew towards her on their brooms.

"Picked yet?" Lily asked.

"Nope, we're going to practice first, then pick." Sirius explained. "Now it's narrowed down to 2, James and Alan McBride."

"Well, I hope Alan McBride becomes captain." Lily said pleasantly, satisfied with the look of horror James was giving her.

"I do too." Alison said. "At least he's more organized than Mr. Potter."

"Yeah, but he's no fun!" James protested. "He's practically obsessed with Quidditch! I think he even kisses his broom goodnight!"

"Well, isn't that cute." Lily said dryly. "You three better get up there."

"What if we don't want to?" James asked smugly.

"Correction, me and Alison will go, but we know James doesn't want to leave his Lady love…" Sirius said.

"Shut up Padfoot!" Both James and Lily screamed.

"Potter! Black! Johnson! Come here right now!" McBride's screams could be heard from all Great Britain.

Muttering under their breaths, Sirius and Alison waved to Lily while James stuck his tongue out at her.

Lily sat down as she watched Alison, James and Sirius fly on their brooms. Alison and Sirius were decent flyers, but Lily secretly thought James was such a natural. As he rode on his broom, Lily could sense the life in him… he was a good chaser too… he almost always gets those quaffles in… overall, Lily thought he WOULD be a great captain. But she would never say it to his face.

Lily didn't realize it had been 2 hours already, and she was still content with watching James riding on a broom, throwing quaffles into the hoops! She felt like she wanted to hit herself for actually watching him for the last 2 HOURS!

"Hey Tiger." Alison said, flying back to her side. She was all sweaty and muddy, her hair was flying all over the place. "Practice is over."

"Really?" Lily asked unbelievably. "So who's cap-"

"Li-lee!" Sirius screamed, flying to her with James tagging behind him. James and Sirius were both wearing goofy grins. "Guess who's captain?"

"Gee, is it Peter?" Lily said sarcastically. She knew it was Potter. I mean, who else would it be?

"No, it's Jamie!" Sirius yelled gleefully. "Now, give him a little congratulation kiss!" Sirius said, practically shoving James to Lily. Lily pushed back and James went flying to the other side.

"Sirius, stop it!" Lily said, eyes flashing with anger. "It's not FUNNY!" Lily continued, watching Alison and Sirius crack up in laughter as James came flying back.

"Yo, POTTER!" The remaining of the team yelled. They motioned James to come over to their side of the pitch and James flew to them. Sirius and Alison shrugged and waited with Lily, talking about nothing in particular until James came back. James's glasses were crooked, his already very messy hair was MORE tousled than usual, he had a few lipstick stains on his face and his Quidditch robes were incredibly wrinkled.

"What did they do to you?" Alison asked, here eyes widening.

"Well, the rest of the team were congratulating me, then suddenly these group of girls appeared and they… attacked me." James said in horror. Sirius began to laugh.

"Fan-club." Sirius said, grinning. "And Lily's the president of TOJPFC right?"

"Pardon?" Lily said, not really getting the joke.

"TOJPFC stands for," Alison hesitated. "The Official James Potter Fan Club."

"SIRIUS ORION BLAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKK!"

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A/N: Um, yeah. Well, kinda short huh… I intend to write stories a bit short. Anyway… James is Gryffindor Captain, hehe. And Sirius wont give up pairing James and Lily. Awe… hehe. Gee, obviously the dance made some sparks fly, doncha think?

~~Thanks for tha reviewers. I love y'all.