Chapter 7

Eden was in a good mood as she walked into potions with Lily and Riley three days before the first Hogsmead weekend of the year. The full moon would be there in three days. She loved becoming a fairy and dancing the night away with some of her kind. It relieved her mind of the stress of school, guys, and other things if only for an evening.

"What are you so happy about, McFarley?" asked a slightly sneering voice from the row in front of her.

"Well, may be I'd tell you if you hadn't just spoiled my day," she said curtly.

"Now, that isn't any way to act towards a fellow student?" Lucius Malfoy asked sneering at the pale girl behind him. He waggled his short index finger and shook his blond head.

"Do you wish to go up in flames in a minute, or do you think it would be better for me to simply knock you unconscious with my cauldron?"

"You wouldn't do it."

"Really, watch me," she said and picked up her wand. Malfoy turned around fast at that motion. Eden smiled to Lily and Riley.

"Good one, Eden," her brother said from behind her.

"Thank you dear all annoying one," she said, smiling evilly at him.

"Fine then, don't talk to me," he said and went back to talking to Amos Diggory, the tall boy sitting beside him.

"Don't be mean to your sexy beast of a brother," said Riley, slightly offended.

"You do know that he's currently dating Sirius's cousin," Eden said smiling.

"That doesn't mean anything," Riley responded. "He doesn't have to be completely faithful to that bitch."

"Why don't you set your sights a little lower," Lily said.

"Yea, someone like... Remus. He's very intelligent and really nice. And he's been looking at you a lot recently." Eden said slyly.

"He has, really?" Riley asked excitedly.

"Is someone interested?" teased Lily.

"Shut up," Riley said angrily as the class began.

Eden and Thorn walked down to the Qudditch pitch on the chilly October morning. It was two days before the first Hogsmead weekend of the year, and Eden was excited. It was also her first Qudditch practice and she was nervous. She wasn't trying to impress James or Sirius, but she still had no desire to make a fool of herself. She was having trouble thinking clearly and random thoughts kept intruding on her mind.

"It's too early," she complained as she entered the locker rooms with her brother.

"You'll have to get used to it McFarley, cause you're going to be doing it for the rest of the year," Sirius said matter-of-factly. "Come here so we can fit you."

Eden walked over to him. She put on the robes he had given her and stepped up on the stool. Sirius began to shrink the robes and correct the monogram on them. James did her brother.

"All right," James called. Every one sat down on the benches in front of James as he began his boring pep-talk. "Now, this year is going to be great. We've got an awesome team."

"Wow, I never knew James could be so inspiring," Sirius muttered to Eden.

"I know. He's actually understandable today and not uttering incoherencies," she said smiling. That smile lit his world up. Sirius was zoned out for the rest of the talk; he was in his own little world full of dreams and visions of his Eden.

"Uh... Sirius?" Eden asked as she waved her hand in front of his face.

This shook Sirius from his day dreams. "Huh? Oh sorry, shall we go?" he said offering her his arm.

"Sirius, don't push your luck," she said skeptically.

Eden walked out the locker rooms with her broom, a shooting star, to the qudditch pitch, and saw the dark blue sky above. "It is defiantly too early," she said tiredly.

She mounted her broom and kicked off. The wind whipped through her hair, making it fly about herself in a dark cloud. She didn't notice Sirius's longing stare in her direction.

"Bloody hell," she cursed. "One moment," she called to the other players as she landed and ran into the locker room. She had forgotten to put her hair up. She grabbed the hair tie off her brush and quickly brushed her hair into a ponytail. Then she ran outside to the pitch and remounted her broom. That's better, she thought as she zoomed into the air and came to a stop right beside her brother and Sirius. "Now what?" she asked as if nothing had occurred.

"Now that we're all here, I'd like to begin practice if that's okay with everyone," he said, doing his best to do a mock bow in her direction on without falling off his broom. Hestia Jones laughed as she turned her broom to the left and flew towards the goals. Eden knew that she was the keeper and thought that she was a fifth year, but wasn't exactly sure. Sirius and Sturgis Podmore, the other beater, flew down to release the bludgers and the snitch, while she, her brother, and Monica Lancaster went to fetch the quaffle. Soon, the long practice began and Eden found herself wishing that it was tomorrow evening.

"Morning," Lily called as Eden walked into the great hall for breakfast after qudditch practice.

Eden grumbled an almost intelligible hello as she sat down in between Lily and Riley, and pulled a plate with eggs on it towards her.

"How was practice?" asked Riley.

"It's too early, my brain hasn't started functioning correctly yet," Eden whined at her friends. She stared down at her food and suddenly found that she was not that hungry any more. She was too tired to do anything productive. Just then, there was a flurry of wings as her large black screech owl, Morgana, landed in front of her plate of eggs with a small parcel from her uncle.

"Yea," Eden yelled happily. She grabbed the parcel and ripped the paper off of it. Her uncle always sent her the coolest stuff. It was because of her mortal uncle that she had her guitar, half her music, and many of her favorite band shirts because of him. She wondered excitedly what he had gotten her now.

"What did he get you?" asked Thorn as he walked over too her and looked over her shoulder. Eden stared into the box open mouthed.