Nika walked out of the school with her classmates, determined to win the match and get back at her sister. But, her sister was good, and no one in Gryffindor house was sure they could make shots past her. When they got to the dressing room, Nika noticed Harry sitting alone on the bench, looking very bewildered.

'I wonder what's wrong.' Nika thought to herself, then walked over to where Harry was standing.

"What's wrong Harry?" Nika asked, sympathetically. "Huh? Oh! Nothing, nothing's wrong, I was just.thinking." Harry told her, smiling. "Oh, okay. You looked pretty confused there for a while. Well, we're getting ready to go out on the field now.Are you coming?" Nika said with a slight laugh.

"Well Duh!" Harry said, then chased her to where everyone was waiting.

'WOW! I think he is starting to like me!' Nika thought to herself. She went from being in withdraw, to sheer bliss. She didn't know what made Harry so appealing to her, but she really liked him.

When they kicked off the ground, Nika felt like flying around all day, just for the fun of it. She enjoyed the wind whipping at her hair, and loved the way it felt to soar through the skies.

Something caught her attention. Ryo flew out to the stadium along with the rest of the Slytherin players.

'I don't need her anyways. I have plenty of friends. Why should I need my own sister? None of our other sisters get along.why should we.' Nika thought to herself, glaring in the direction of Ryo.

She saw Ryo look over towards Harry, and Harry was looking at her too. They locked eyes, and Nika felt a wave of jealousy rush over every inch of her body.

'No, this is not going to happen.' Nika thought to herself. 'Ryo has that evil boy Draco.she can leave Harry alone.' Nika continued these thoughts. She was still thinking when Madam Hooch's whistle sounded. The high pitched, shrill sound struck her back into the game.

Nika soared off after the quaffle in mad fury. She slammed up against a Slytherin Chaser and stole the quaffle. She leaned forward on her broom, causing it to speed up. She went faster.and faster.and faster. to the Slytherin goal posts.

"Gryffindor chaser Nika Desdemona flies at amazing speed towards the Slytherin goal posts!" The commentator, Lee Jordan, said into the microphone.

It was true. Nika was flying at the highest speed her new and improved moon-blaster 6600 would carry her.

"And a great save by Slytherin Keeper, Ryo Desdemona!" Even Lee sounded amazed by this.

It was true. Ryo had come up and flew through the middle goal post, grabbing the quaffle before it had a chance to go through the post. She then smiled snobbishly to Nika and threw the ball to one of the chasers. Nika glared at Ryo, shooting her sharpest daggers at her.

Draco cheered for the save, and even though Harry didn't show it, he was silently cheering for Ryo.

Nika had to admit.that was a good save. She couldn't believe how good Ryo was.

At the end of the game, Draco had caught the snitch, which was a first. When Harry played, he always caught the snitch. Not this time apparently. And, as a product of that, Slytherin won, 200 to 0.

"Harry, it's okay. You can't always get what you want. I know, I learned." Nika said to Harry while sitting in the dressing room. Everyone else had long since left.

"What do you mean, you learned?" Harry asked, curiosity getting the best of him. "Well, I live with five other girls, and my whole life I've wanted to have all of their looks, Ryo's popularity, Adri's guy magnet, Kaeria's happiness, Nika's smartness. But I learned that I need to be happy as I am, and accomplish whatever I can. It's not how many quidditch games I win, or how many friends I make, or how many guys I go out with. It's not how I look or how I act. I figured out that I need to accomplish everything I can, but on my terms, while being me. We don't need to want to be part of Slytherin, and we don't need to want what Slytherin has. Yeah, they may have won, and they'll probably win again! But all that matters is that we tried." Nika explained to Harry, who swallowed it all.

'Oh my god.I just spilled everything to the guy I like.NOT GOOD!' Nika's thoughts screamed to her.

"Nika." Harry began, looking up. "Huh?" Nika said, through her thoughts.

"Thank you for making me feel better." Harry said. He walked up to Nika and gave her a hug, then he walked out of the room.

"Wow.he hugged me." Nika said to herself, happily, almost giddy.

Then Nika walked out of the dressing rooms and began to head up to the Gryffindor common room for bed.

Yeah, this has been a good day for her.