A/N:  This is the chapter where I start to incorporate a little bit from the hp universe.  You will figure it out when you get to it.

Chapter 4               

I can't believe that we are finally free of that school!" Sam shouted after graduation, at their party.


"I know," Kayla agreed. "But it is kinda depressing. I am going to miss seeing you guys everyday."


"Say," Jason began, "what d'you guys think of doing something together this summer before we go back to school. After all, it might be hard to get together during the year. A chorus of "yeah," "sure," and "whatever" greeted this suggestion.


"Sam is already staying with me for a month while her parents are on vacation, but you guys can come, too. My parents won't have a problem with it since we have a guest bedroom the guys can sleep in. But, to be on the safe side, I'll ask when they pick me up tonight," Kayla said.


"How about you call us to finalize plans?" Jason reasoned. Sam and Kyle shared a glance, both knowing that the other was trying to hook up Kayla and Jason before they began high school.

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"Sam! Your parents are here!" shouted Kayla's mom as she opened the door.
"OMG!" Kayla cried. "I can't believe it has already been a month!"


"I know!" Sam responded. "You have to promise to call me once school starts. I want to hear all about Bridgeton."


"I promise!" Kayla cried tearfully. She and Sam hugged each other, crying the whole time, while Jason and Kyle exchanged glances that only too clearly said: 'Girls! So weird!' Luckily, both Kayla and Sam were too busy saying goodbye to notice, or the guys would have been in danger of life and limb.


Soon, Kyle's parents came to pick him up, too. "Seeya, man," he said to Jason. "Call me. We need to talk." Jason, knowing full well that it was going to be about him and Kayla, blushed and nodded.


Jason was just planning on walking home. So, as soon as the others left, he got his stuff and then turned around to talk to Kayla. "Remember, be at my house at 6:30 on August 26 to catch the bus to Bridgeton." Then, greatly daring, he leaned down and kissed Kayla lightly on the cheek. "Bye," he said before turning on his heel and walking out the door, leaving a flabbergasted Kayla to stare after him, smiling slightly.

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Early on the morning of August 26, Kayla and Jason were waiting outside Jason's house for their bus.  While they were waiting, they compared schedules and it turned out that they had every class together.

"Well, it isn't that uncommon," Jason explained, "there are so many required coursed we have to take freshman year, but only a limited number of sections of each class.  As we get older, we will begin to have fewer and fewer classes together."

"Jason, are we the only people on our bus?"

"Didn't I already tell you?"  Jason asked rhetorically.  "The bus can do this thing like teleportation so the entire country is divided into regions.  The school isn't anywhere near here, actually.  I just let Kyle believe that so he wouldn't get suspicious.  Our bus actually has people on it from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky."

"Remember when you said you didn't know anyone going to Bridgeton?  Was it true?"

"Well…not really.  There are a couple of people who I have known since I was born, but I haven't seen them in a while.  There's Tori and Keri Rose, they're twins; James Curtis, we call him Aries; and Jacob Rogers, please, call him Jake.  He hates Jacob.  They're all on our bus, too.  I'll introduce you to them all.  I think you will like them."

"What kind of sports does our school participate in?"

"Well, in order to keep our cover of being a normal high school, we have normal sports like football, soccer, and lacrosse.  But, when we compete with other schools, we normally do pretty awful.  Other schools assume that it is because we concentrate more on scholastics that on athletics.  We let them think that.  The real reason is that we participate in another sport in a worldwide competition with other schools like ours.  The only country that doesn't participate is Great Britain.  But, then, their school curriculum is structured different than ours.  They play the sport; too, just they have an inter-house championship.  The sport is called Quidditch…"  *He then proceeded to tell her the rules to Kayla, I am just too lazy to type them out since you already know the rules*  "…I think you would make a really good seeker; you have the right build for it.  Or even a keeper, you might be fast enough.  I know for a fact though, that tryouts are general:  you try out for the team, and the coach decides what position you play.  Maybe I can show you how to play.  That way we can both tryout together. Oh, look there is the bus."

Kayla turned around, and sure enough, a large yellow bus was approaching them.  As it pulled up next to them, Kayla could just make out the words 'Bridgeton School for the Gifted and Talented' painted in black letters on the side.  "Jason," she whispered, "I am really nervous.  What if no one likes me?"

"Kayla, you worry too much," Jason laughed.  "They'll love you.  Besides you always have yours truly to fall back upon."  He made an over-dramatic bow to her.  "Your humble servant at your command."

Kayla laughed, her tension released, just as Jason had hoped.  She leaned down to help him up, just as the bus pulled up.  The two friends climbed on the bus and made their way to the back where four kids were waving and motioning to the empty seat behind the two boys and in front of the two girls.

"We saved it for you, Jase," said one of the girls who were identical except for their clothes.

"Thanks, Tor.  Guys, this is Kayla.  Kayla, this is Tori, Keri, Jake, and James."  Kayla made sure to place each name and face together in her mind so she wouldn't mix them up later.  As she sat down next to Jason, she smiled shyly at his friends.

Jason notices James (or Aries) looking at Kayla and glared at him.  Aries noticed the dagger eyes and smiled slyly at Jason.  And, in that mysterious language of men, stated that he understood that Kayla was off limits to him.  But, he didn't think that it would be a problem, as he could tell that Kayla returned Jason's feelings.  Just, neither of them knew how the other felt.  Well, then, it would be his job to make sure that the two saw what was so obvious to the rest of the world.

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By lunch, they had already had English, art, history, and Spanish.  After lunch, they only had biology and geometry.  In all of them except history they were learning something to do with their powers.  In history, they were really learning history.

By lunch, Kayla had become fast friends with Tori and Keri who began to call her their "long-lost triplet."  She had even become good friends with Jake and James.  In fact, by lunch, a lot of the other students, both upper- and lower-classmen had started to call the six, "the 6 musketeers."

As they ate lunch, they talked about their teachers and their classes.  It turned out that they all had every single class together.  The only thing they did in classes today was talk about what they were going to learn and get lists of supplies they would need.  They wouldn't actually begin to learn anything until the next day.