Chapter 4: Drowning

"Alright, what's your 'master plan'?" asked Alice rolling her eyes.

"Alright, I want Patrick to ask me out, and since Dom seemed to like Britney, Britney will warm up to him, to find out more about Patrick," Tess said happily.

"NO! I don't want to warm up to anyone! I mean he's like thirteen and I'm still eleven incase you haven't noticed!" Britney exclaimed.

"Love doesn't show age," said Tess smiling at Britney. Britney let out a shout of frustration.

"In this case, it does," muttered Britney.

Lily was smiling. "Just do it," Lily said trying not to laugh.

"Oh thank you! I'm so glad my best friend is supporting me!" Britney said sarcastically.

"Oh come on, she's going to keep bothering you anyway! Just lie about your age!" Lily said grinning.

Britney pouted. "Fine!" she got up and walked down to the common room. She found Dom sitting on the couch reading. She went and sat next to him.

"Hi," he said smiling putting him book to the side.

"Hi," Britney put on a forced smile; she looked at the book, Quidditch Through the Ages. She tried not to roll her eyes. "You like quidditch?" she asked sweetly.

"I love it, I'm on the team," he moved closer to Britney.

"Oh yeah, I remember," she moved away slightly, Dom didn't notice. "So what's your favorite subject? . . . In school?" 'Oh that's great,' thought Britney bitterly.

Dom just laughed. "Transfiguration," he said smiling. Britney frowned. She wasn't very good at this. "Your sister is Haylie, right?" asked Dom, again moving closer to Britney. It was no use.

"Er, yeah," Britney said quietly. Was he into her sister? She longed to just go to sleep, or anything to get out of this.

"Beauty runs in the family then," he said flirting. Britney's eyes widened, and she stood up quickly.

"I, uh, I just remembered I have to, uh, go to the bathroom," she quickly ran to the girls dormitory. That didn't go to good. She opened the door, and was immediately bombarded with questions from Tess.

"So did he tell you anything about Patrick?" she asked hopefully.

"Not really," Britney said shaking her head, as she went to her bed, and closed the hangings.

Tess opened the hangings. "Anything at all?" she asked.

"No, I sort of chickened out," Britney said quietly. Lily and Alice soon came into the room laughing.

"Nice job, Brit! Did you get to the bathroom alright?" Lily asked laughing.

"Shut it," Britney muttered in her pillow.

Saturday Morning

James and Sirius came down the boy's dormitory stairs. They passed the notice board, when something caught his eye.

"Hey – wait!" Sirius stopped and stood beside James facing the notice board. "Quidditch try outs, for Beater and two chasers." James said excitedly.

"When?" asked Sirius, interested.

James looked. "Right now!" Sirius and he raced out to the Quidditch pitch, where Michael was explaining everything to the students that were hopeful enough to get a position.

"Ah, well it seems to slowpokes have finally arrived," said Michael bitterly. Sirius just smiled, while James scowled. "Well as I was saying, I'd like the ones who want to be chasers, over there," he pointed to where the last remaining chaser stood waving to indicate that's where they should go. "And the beaters over there," Michael pointed to where the one beater was also waving. "Now disperse!"

James went to the chaser, Sarah Bell, while Sirius went to the beater, Andrew Daniel.

James' Quidditch Try-outs

"Ok can I have you all pair up!" called out Sarah. Everyone soon got into pairs. "Now get on your brooms, and I want you all to pass the quaffle back and forth, and then try to throw it into the hoops. At first the keeper won't be there to guard the hoops. Go!"

For about half hour, James kept passing the quaffle to his partner in fifth year. 'This is too easy,' thought James. Every time he had the chance to shoot it into the hoop, he got it in.

"Very good, Potter! I see the talent runs in the family!" shouted Sarah. James just nodded. "Let's try with the keeper in goal now! Dom!" Sarah looked around the faces. "Let's have Potter and Tompkins!"

James mounted his broom and shot through the air. James loved this feeling, the quaffle was passed to him, and he caught it and passed it to Tompkins. They continued passing it until they got to the hoops, when James had the quaffle. He threw it in the air and turned his broom, and the quaffle hit the back of his broom, and it went right into the hoop. James punched his fist in the air.

"Good one Potter!" shouted Sarah. Michael just rolled his eyes, at how his brother was showing off.

This went on for another half hour, when Michael finally blew his whistle. "Ok, Let's try a mini game! Sarah and Andrew, choose four beaters and six chasers! Each game will be fifteen minutes! I just want the chasers to try and get the ball in the hoop! The beaters will try and stop the opposing team from scoring, like in a real game! Both teams will try to shoot on Hayden!"

Mini Game

James was getting ready to play. He was waiting for his brother to release the quaffle. James looked to his right, to see Sirius smiling at him. James smirked. Soon the quaffle was thrown in the air. James made a move to grab it, he had it in his hand, and he passed it to a girl on his team. James ducked from a bludger. The quaffle was thrown back to James. He threw it into the hoop, but Dom blocked it.

It was falling, and James was going to grab it when a boy from the opposing team grabbed it, and tried to score, when James pushed him and the quaffle dropped. James grabbed it, and shot it past Dom. Dom went and got it. He threw it out when the other team caught it, and they were passing it to each other when one of them dropped it and James made a grab for it.

He passed it to Tompkins who caught it, and he raced pass everyone when a bludger went right past his left ear, and he quickly passed the ball to the girl out of shock. She soon passed it to James. James made a far throw to the hoop, but Dom caught it. James frowned. Dom threw the ball out again. But this time the girl on James' team caught it. She raced pass, then she passed it to Tompkins. Tompkins shot for the hoop, and he got it in. James smiled. The other team made a snatch for the ball, when Sirius hit the bludger and it scared the girl on the other team and she dropped it, James caught it, and raced to the hoops. He threw it and he scored.

Then the whistle blew. James watched two other mini Quidditch games. The other chasers and beaters were good, but James felt he and Sirius would get the positions. Once the two other games were done, Michael signaled for the player-wanna-be's to come to where he stood with the rest of the team.

"All of you were very good! And you'll know who the two chasers and the beater positions will be filled by tonight at 8:00! Good Luck!" James and Sirius smiled, and they went up to the castle for lunch.

"How was it?" asked Peter, he was very anxious.

"We did great of course!" Sirius exclaimed. "We'll get the positions for sure! Right Jamesie?" Sirius put his arm around James' neck and he put it in a head lock.

"We will if you don't kill me!" James pulled his head out of Sirius' lock. Sirius was just smiling.

"Anyone you thinkg could beat you?" asked Remus.

"Nope, no one, though Tompkins was really good," said James thoughtfully.

"Yeah he was good, but not is good as our Jamesie!" Sirius ruffled up James' hair, making it even more messier than possible.

"Thanks Sirius," said James trying to make it neat with his hand but gave up.

That Night

"Ok, Britney, you'll try it again, DON'T say I want to know, ok?" Tess was forcing Britney into 'warming' up to Dom again.

"Fine," Britney said coolly.

She walked down the girl's dormitory where he saw Dom sitting on the sofa again. She walked over and sat next to him. She smiled. Dom laughed when he saw her.

"You never came back from the bathroom, last night," he said laughing. Britney scowled, but soon smiled.

"Daisy wanted me to help her with her homework," Britney said quietly. Dom nodded his head like he didn't believe her.

"So, do you like hanging out with your friends?" Britney asked. Dom didn't seem to be listening, he was looking behind Britney at the notice board, where students were gathered looking.

"WE DID IT!" shouted James and Sirius at the same time. Britney looked over at them. Dom was laughing. There was suddenly a lot of noise happening in the common room.

"So," Britney tried over the noise. "Do you like to hang with your -," Dom wasn't paying attention. Britney was getting very frustrated, so she cupped Dom's face in her hands and she kissed him. Dom suddenly had his eyes on Britney. She smiled. "Ok do I have your attention now?" Britney asked slowly.

Dom just nodded his head. Britney removed her hands from his face.

"I'm just going to cut to the chase. My friend is obsessed with Patrick, she wanted me to warm up to you, so she could find out more about him. Please just tell me about this guy," Britney said all of this in one breath. Dom smiled.

"That makes sense," Dom said still smiling. "Patrick actually said you were cute, and I agree with him." Britney rose her eyebrows, and sighed. "But I'll tell you about him anyway . . ." He talked to Britney for another fifteen minutes.

"That's it?" Britney asked cautiously.

He nodded.

"Thank God, well I'll see you later," Britney smiled and got up to leave.

"Oh and Britney, thanks for the kiss," Dom said, then he winked. Britney smiled and rolled her eyes. Then she went upstairs, to tell Tess about what she knew.

A/N: What do you think of Dom? That is my question. Hehe. Sorry it took a while to update, this chapter was driving me crazy, i finally finished it with James and Sirius very happy, especially Sirius. I'm going to do the next chapter today hopefully. Then I'll update again. It's not for sure though. I have school on tuesday, so it may be a little slow with the updates! I hope you enjoyed the chappie. It gets more enjoyable.

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