Looks like there might be trouble on the way… I hope those Oliver and Alex stay together (gulps). Anyways, yeah! Remember the ballots for try-outs and captain this year? Well, the results are comin' in this chapter! Enjoy!

Captain of the Team

        As they all went back to the common room, Alex and Winnie met Eyaudra and Zyan.

        "Oh hi Alex!" she greeted. "You know my brother Zyan right?"

        "Yeah. He's my sister's partner in Dueling Club!" Alex said as Winnie tried to leave.

        "Oh yeah that's right! Winnie isn't it?" Eyaudra asked. Winnie nodded. "Don't worry, I'll make sure Zyan doesn't give you a hard time." Zyan shook his head.

        "Who said I was going to make trouble?" Zyan asked.

        "You usually do." Eyaudra said.

        "It's alright Eyaudra, he's not doing anything wrong…yet." Winnie told her.

        "You don't trust me? Just wait! I can prove to you I'm not always a bad boy!" Zyan walked away with the other Slytherins.

        "He doesn't like being misunderstood, but he's not much of a troublemaker." Eyaudra shook her head. "Anyways, see you later! Bye!"

        "Bye!" Alex waved.

        When they arrived at the common room, Harry and Kris were talking in the corner.

        "Hey Alex!" Kris called her over.

        "Yeah?" she asked.

        "A lot of students said that they voted Harry for captain of the Quidditch team!" said Kris.

        "Is that bad?" Alex asked.

        "No way!" Kris said.

        "Yes it is!" Harry butted in. "I've got too many problems as it is. Being the captain of the Quidditch team, students will depend on me even more! It's not like I'm Cedric!" Harry was frustrated.

        "Sorry Harry." Kris apologized.

        "It's okay. It's just, I don't want to be captain, maybe next year or something, just not this year. I'm already seeking help from Professor Lupin so I won't be too frustrated." Said Harry as he hugged her.

        The next day, Alex woke up on her four-poster and saw something at the edge of the mattress. It was a white rose. There was a card on it and it read.

        Hey Alex. Oh yeah, um, good morning! Anyways, can you meet me in the library after breakfast so we can reserve some books? Oh yeah, just because I got you this white rose, doesn't mean anything personal alright? It was the only thing my friends could lend me to grab your attention. And, you should be wondering how I got it there. I just asked Angelina to put it there. So see you later!

                                                                Vince

        Alex let out a little smile as she smelled the white rose. Suddenly Kris woke up and saw Alex.

        "Whoa! Did Oliver give you that?" Kris got up and rushed to Alex's four-poster.

        "No…it was…Vince." Alex put the rose on top of her side table.

        "Are you serious?!" Kris yelled. Hermione woke up.

        "Kris you're a good friend but please keep it down." Hermione yawned and rubbed her eyes. She then saw what was all the commotion about.

        "Is that…a rose?" Hermione asked as she walked towards Alex's four-poster.

        "Yeah. Guess who's it from." Said Kris.

        "Oliver?" Hermione asked.

        "Knew you would say that. It's not Oliver, it's Vince." Kris corrected her.

        "Vince?" Hermione asked.

        "Yeah." Alex replied.

        "Does…does he like you?" Hermione asked.

        "He says he doesn't. And for some reason, I believe him." Said Alex.

        "Well, as long as nothing else happens, everything's okay." Said Hermione.

        "Yeah. Anyways, we better get to breakfast." Alex got off her four-poster.

        "Hey I'll be at the library before classes." Alex said.

        "For Dueling Club right?" Fred asked.

        "Yeah." Alex said as she continued eating.

        "Hey Alex, how's Oliver?" Melanie asked.

        "Oh he's doing fine." Alex said.

        "Oh yeah, Alex did you get the flower?" Angelina asked.

        "Um, yeah." She replied.

        "Flower? From Oliver?" Cristen asked.

        "No, Vince." Alex replied. Melanie gasped.

        "Oh yeah, he was asking some of us for some stuff last night. Then Lee gave him a white rose he found in his trunk." George said. "Nothing special he said."

        "Well as long as Oliver won't get all pissed at him. Or at least Vince won't do anything else." Said Fred.

        After Alex finished eating, she walked down to the library. She looked around and found Vince sitting reading a book with other books stacked up beside him.

        "I see you've started." Alex said as Vince looked up.

        "Oh, yeah. I just looked for some useful books we can check for Dueling spells." He said.

        "Did you find anything for history of Dueling?" Alex asked.

        "Um not yet." Vince said.

        "Okay, I'll go look." Alex said.

        "No wait! You stay here. I'll go check." Vince stood up.

        "Hey! You can't get all the credit. Now you better sit back down or I'll blast you." Alex threatened. Vince sat back down.

        "Fine, whatever." Vince started looking at other books.

        Alex started looking on the History section. She looked under D and found a book called, Dueling: History of the Duel of Magic. It was an old book and was very heavy.

        "Do books like these always have to be heavy?" Alex dropped the book and took out her wand. "Wingardium Leviosa!" She levitated the book towards the table. After she past by a few shelves, the book hit Vince's head.

        "Hey!" Alex yelled.

        "Shhhh!!!" A Ravenclaw student said.

        "Shut up." Alex told him. "Vince?" Vince was unconscious. It must've been the weight of the book that knocked him out. "I am going to blast you later once you get up. Enervate!"

        Vince woke up. He stood up rubbing his head. "What was that?" He suddenly saw Alex standing in front of him. She was shaking her head and her wand was in front of his face. "Shit…"

        "You got that right. Idicio!" Alex said. Vince soon was scratching himself.

        "Hey! Come on Alex!" Vince complained.

        Alex smiled and threw a punch at him.

        "Oww!!!!!" Vince rubbed his cheek. Alex then sat down on the table and started to read the book she got. Vince tried to sit on his chair. "Come on Alex!" Alex ignored him. Vince just kept scratching over and over. "Fuck!! Damn Alex can you stop this! I'll listen next time!!! Promise!!!"

        Alex looked at him and she let out a big laugh.

        "What's so funny dammit?!" Vince asked still scratching.

        "Awww shit…you look fucked up you know that?" Alex kept laughing.

        "Okay, so I do look fucked up aight?! So can you stop this already?!" Vince asked yelling at her.

        "HEY!!! I'M TRYING TO STUDY!!!" The Ravenclaw student yelled.

        "Invericio!" Alex said and Vince stopped scratching.

        "Finally, silence…" the student sighed.

        "HEY!! RAVENCLAW!!" Vince yelled.

        "SHUT UP!!!!" he yelled at Vince. Vince threw a book at his face and his nose had a big bruise. Alex's jaw dropped.

        "What is the meaning of this?!" Professor McGonagall came rushing in. She gasped. "Oh dear! What happened to you?!"

        The student pointed at Vince. "He did it!! He threw a book at me!!"

        "Go to Madam Pomfrey." She rushed him off. The student showed Vince his tongue but Vince tripped him. The student then ran off.

        "Mr. Esteva!" Professor McGonagall yelled out. "That was extremely idiotic and not to mention very violent." She saw Alex reading the book. Alex was hoping she wouldn't talk to her. "Miss Levons?"

        "Yes Professor?" she stood.

        "Why didn't you stop him? I'm sure you saw him." Professor McGonagall asked.

        "Well, he just suddenly threw it while I was reading and then you came." She replied.

        "10 points from Gryffindor Esteva, for assault on another student, from another house. And Miss Levons, do make sure you keep an eye on him. Now you two better get to class." Professor McGonagall said.

        "I'll go reserve these books. You get to class." Vince said.

        "You sure?" Alex asked.

        "Yeah." Said Vince.

        "Okay then, later." Alex walked out of the library.

        The next day after classes, Alex and Kris saw Fred next to the ballot box.

        "Hey, what's going on?" Alex asked.

        "Don't tell me you forgot. We're going to count the votes!" said Fred.

        "Ohhh!!!" Kris said.

        "Come on, we're going to count it in Professor McGonagall's office." Fred said as Angelina, Harry, and George was to follow.

        They all went to Professor McGonagall's office. They brought the box to her table.

        "Um Professor, could you please sort these out?" Angelina asked.

        "This is for Quidditch Captain and try-outs for Keeper?" she asked. Everyone nodded. "Okay, what categories?"

        "Um, those who want to try out, Angelina, Fred, George, and Alex." Kris said.

        Professor McGonagall opened the box and clapped her hands. The papers were going into 6 different stacks until they were all organized. Some papers disappeared.

        "Why did some disappear Professor?" Alex asked.

        "Well, some voted more than once. And, there's some for Mr. Potter." Professor McGonagall pointed at the 6th stack.

        "Can you tell us who has the most?" George asked. Professor McGonagall was looking at all of the stacks.

        "Ah, I see." She said.

        "Who is it?" Harry asked.

        "Miss Johnson and Miss Levons have the same statistics. You two Weasleys just needed about 5 more while Mr. Potter, you need maybe 3." Professor McGonagall said.

        "Whoa. So, how are we supposed to determine the captain?" Harry asked.

        "What do you think Professor?" George asked. Everyone waited for her answer.

        After 2 minutes, she said something. "The team…will have to captains this year."

        "Wow!" Kris yelled.

        "Seriously?!" Alex asked.

        "Yes. Two captains, but I don't want any quarreling. Now all of you get back to the common room." She said.

        "Okay, that's settled. Okay, we'll just take these." Alex took the papers for the try-outs. Professor McGonagall snapped her fingers and the rest of the papers disappeared.

        "Thanks Professor!" Fred yelled.

        "Damn…the votes were so close!" George said.

        "Yeah! It was like really close! One digit numbers!" Angelina agreed.

        "Well, it's a good thing I'm not captain." Harry said.

        "But for sure next year you will be." Kris said.

        "Hey, doesn't really matter. I don't like pressure anyway." Said George.

        "Yeah…I'm not that dependable." Fred agreed.

        "But hey…let's check out who's trying out." Kris said.

        Once they got to the common room, everyone was staring at them like they wanted something.

        "Hey! So who's our captain?!" Winnie asked.

        "Well…um…" Alex tried to say it.

        "We have to captains! Alex and Angelina!" Harry said as everyone started to clap.

        "Okay…okay. We'll announce when the try-outs will be held before dinner." Alex said as they all headed for Kris' and Alex's dormitory.

        "Are you sure no one's there?" Fred asked.

        "Yeah, Hermione's at the library, Parvati and Lavender are out there in the common room." Kris replied.

        Once they got in, they all rushed to Kris' four-poster. "So who's trying out?!" Angelina asked eagerly.

        Alex read out the papers. "Okay, somebody take these name's down." George got a notepad and a quill and listened intently. "Okay, Wallace Andrews, 4th year…Sedrina Pulshevik, 6th year…Zachary James, 3rd year…Gina Streeves, 4th year…Kenny Arshford, 7th year…Ethan Polvids, 5th year…Reenavuer Travingston, 6th year…Evin Ford, 3rd year…and uh, Vincent Esteva, 6th year."

        "Um, okay, got it." Said George.

        "That's about…9 people trying out. Looks like Vince is going to try out too." Said Fred.

        "I'm going to call Oliver tonight. You know, tell him the news." Alex said.

        "Hey when's the try-outs though?" Angelina asked.

        "Um, tomorrow morning." Said Alex.

        "Isn't that a little fast?" Harry asked.

        "Well, if it was their choice to try-out, shouldn't they be ready in the first place?" Alex asked.

        "Oh yeah, that's right." Harry said.