Chapter 6

Two weeks had passed since Eden and Thorn had been sorted into Gryffindor. Since they were seventh years, both had access to the other's dormitories. Many other students had already taken advantage of this. Rumors had gone around that Gretchen, the year's slut had already shagged Jack, a fellow seventh year, and Sirius. Eden had discovered that Sirius was quite a wanted guy. It was every female seventh year's dream (except for Lily's and Eden's) to just kiss him. He was the ideal, but he hardly fancied any of them. Little did Eden know that she was his female counterpart.

Sirius was walking down the long corridor to Charms. He hated that class because he always found it too easy. He wished that this school would offer a challenge once in a while.

"Time to sleep," he muttered to James as he entered professor Flitwick's classroom.

"I think I'm going to become nocturnal with the amount of sleep that I get in class. I don't think I'll ever need to sleep at night again," James replied, purely bored. Just then, Lily and Eden walked in, talking softly.

James had noticed a change in Lily with the arrival of Eden. Lily had become a much darker person, much deeper. She wore darker jewelry, her eyes were much more heavily lined, and she had become much less studious and much more evil. He found this even more attractive, and it only increased his desire to date her.

Eden and Lily found their seats and leaned back, their mere looks daring the professor to tell them to sit up straight. Eden flicked her long black hair over the back of the chair. This caught Sirius's eye as the class started. He found himself staring at her long dark, shiny hair, how it swished gracefully as she slightly moved her head. How it looked so soft and silky....

"Mr. Black!" said professor Flitwick, angrily. "Please pay attention! Now, I will split you up into groups to begin a project on a charm of choice. You will study the charm and write an essay on it and give a demonstration to the class. I shall be splitting you up into groups of two."

The desks were moved so that parteners could sit together and a shuffling of papers as people tried to meet their partener. Professor Flitwick read off the names and Sirius, by some stroke of luck, ended up with Eden. His palms began sweating. He ran a hand through his hair, thinking of how flat it looked. He didn't know how someone could make him feel this self-conscience without even trying to. He'd never felt this way about any girl before, even the really hot 4th years he had dated in his 1rst year.

Eden walked up to Sirius. She had already decided that she despised him. Him and his cocky, self-centered attitude. He strutted around the school as if he owned the place. She knew that the only reason he could get away with that was that his family was rich and all the girls practically fell head over heels to date him. She didn't like him at all.

The project was realtivly easy, but for some stupid reason, Sirius decided that he would act purposefully incompetent. Or at least, Eden hoped he was acting.

"So, how's your day been, Eden?" Sirius asked, trying to retain his cool demeanor.

"It was going great until I got stuck with the Minister of incompetence himself," she replied icily.

"That's me!" he said grinning.

"Can we please get to deciding which charm we are going to do?" she asked, annoyed at being stuck with such an evil person.

"Why don't we do a growth spell, you could use that you know," Sirius said smirking wickedly at her. Eden knew perfectly well that she was defiantly under average in the height department. Her 5 ft. 4 in. height looked like a joke when compared to his 6ft. 1 in.

"Well, I think we should do a shrinking one so that we can shrink that particularly large ego of yours," she said, giving him an equally evil grin.

"Are you mocking me, McFarley?"

"Of course not, all mighty big head of the universe."

"Hey, that title is reserved for James. I'm the all powerful man's gift to woman."

"Oh yea, that really turns me on."

"Seriously?"

"No you numbskull! Like I would ever be infatuated with a guy whose ego is larger than the number of girls he's dated."

"So are you saying you want to be added to the list?"

"Sirius, get a life. I'm not interested," she said just as the bell rang.

"Eden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Shudup," said Eden as she tried to roll over and go back to sleep.

"Get your fat ass out of bed and down to the common room!" yelled Lily in an attempt to wake her best friend up.

"God! It's the weekend! Why do I need to get up now?" Eden asked annoyed as she sat up in bed.

"Because your sexy beast brother, Thorn is waiting for you downstairs," said Riley as she entered the common room.

"God, does every girl in this school hit on my brother?"

"No, I think it's a war between him, Sirius, and James," she answered

"Why do I need to face that incompetent nitwit at this time of the morning?"

"Because this incompetent nitwit wants you to come and try out for the Qudditch team along with him," said Thorn as he entered the dormitory.

"Aren't you not allowed in here?"

"Well, not any more."

Eden threw the covers back over her head and burrowed deep into the bed. "No, I don't want to go."

"Come on, PLEASE!!!!" begged Thorn.

"I hate Qudditch," she responded.

"No you don't," he said.

"Sirius will be there," Riley said slyly.

"What?" said Eden as she jumped out of the bed.

"Knew it would get you up," she said smiling.

"Evil spawn of the devil," Eden said contemptuously.

"Good little minion."

"Get out of my way!"

Eden and Thorn walked on to the Qudditch pitch carrying their new brooms that had been a present from dad and LizBETH. Eden became nervous as she neared the Gryffindor team. She saw James and Sirius talking, but they broke off as they saw her nearing the line of experienced players.

"So Padfoot, do you think she's any good," James asked his best friend.

"Possibly," he answered.

"You know you'll just be staring at her the whole time. I don't even know why you bothered to come." He told Sirius, an evil smirk running across his face.

"I would say just the same if it was Evans," he responded, pleased with himself. "you know that she's in the stands over there."

James looked up and stared at her, her beautiful red hair being blown about through the wind. He thought that he could almost see her bright green eyes, but he knew they weren't directed at him.

"Okay everyone," James called out. "Get into the experienced players line if you've played before. If not, then get in the inexperienced line. We'll start with the inexperienced."

As the day progressed, James and Sirius grew rather bored, seeing as how all the players they had seen before 4 pm were all rubbish. Even may of the experienced players couldn't even catch the quaffle. They were almost asleep as Thorn got on his broom and kicked off.

Thorn loved to fly. He loved the feel of the wind rushing through his short, spiky hair as he rose from the earth. He loved the feeling of gravity releasing his hold on him, even for just a moment. He also knew that he looked really hot when he was flying.

James and Sirius flew up to meet Thorn. The tryout started by them throwing a couple of passes to Thorn. The passes gradually became more difficult. James and Sirius were defiantly impressed by Thorn's definite skill with the quaffle. He was almost guaranteed a spot.

"All right," James said. "Now let's see how good his sister is. McFarley, Eden!"

Eden walked to the center of the pitch. Here it goes, she thought. She kicked off and soared into the air, the wind whipping through her face and long black hair. There's no turning back now.

"Shit she's good," commented Sirius to James as they zoomed towards the earth.

"She's defiantly guaranteed a spot on the team," said Sirius.

"Okay everyone, we don't need any more tryouts, the spots are filled!" James shouted as he ruffled his hair.

"Nice job Eden!" said Lily as she ran down the stairs to meet her best friend. "That save was awesome. And did you see the look on James's face when you caught it? It was like he had never seen a girl catch the quaffle quite like that and throw it so quickly," she said breathless. Lily had been watching from the stairs of the stadium.

"Thanks Lily, but I really need to go to the library," Eden said

Lily's face brightened and she said, "Then I'll go with you."

The pair headed down towards the library to finish some homework before the weekend was over.