(A/N: I admit that I haven't written in a long while. I had things to do.)
After dinner the four Marauders headed out for the Quidditch field there were already students gathering around including the young Miss Lilly Evans.
"What are you doing here?" demanded Sirius in disgust.
"I could ask you the same," snapped back Lilly.
"We're trying out for Quidditch. I assume you're here to watch."
"Very funny," answered Lilly as she turned to go.
James stared at Lilly with glazed eyes dreaming about here red hair and green eyes. When he realized that she was about to walk away he couldn't stand it. He had to keep her near just for a little longer. So he found his voice, which he lost every time he saw Lilly and asked, "What position are you going for?"
Lilly took James' question as another insult and replied, "For your information, I'm trying out for Chaser."
"Good luck," half laughed Sirius, "Nobody here is going to beat my buddy James. Right James?"
"Huh," replied James having been lost yet again in his thoughts of Lilly.
"Guy's," breathed Lilly under her breath as she walked away.
"James, where were you?" asked Sirius.
"Sorry lost my train of thought," he replied.
Just as Sirius was going to argue James on that topic Chris Wood the 6th year and captain of the Quidditch team got up to announce how the tryouts would run.
"There are four positions on the team open." When this announcement was made there was a rumble of confused words shared as to why there were now four positions instead of just three. Chris spoke louder, "I know everyone was under the impression that there were only three positions open but Celesta Johnson our previous Seeker whishes to try out for Keeper this year. So, in order to make this tryout as fair as possible each person will try out for each position. We'll run the tryouts with four people at a time starting with the oldest four. Derek McMillan will call the names of those who'll try out. Everyone else needs to wait in the stands."
"Wonder who you'll try out with," remarked Remus as the four took a seat with everyone else.
"Who knows, just as long as we don't have to tryout with that Evans girl, right James?" asked Sirius.
"Yeah, right," weakly answered James.
The four Marauders waited patiently and impatiently for the older students to get through the tryouts. In all honesty there had not been a decent player trying out aside from Celesta Johnson as Keeper.
"Evans, Lilly; Potter, James; Black, Sirius and Glassmire, Thomas your up next," announced Derek.
"One did hope," smirked Sirius referring to his wish of not trying out with Lilly.
The four called to tryout mounted their brooms and joined the already existing team in air.
"All right," sighed Chris Wood in fatigue it was obvious that the poor outcome of tryouts were getting to him.
"Thomas since you're trying out for Keeper, I'll start you there, Black take the position of Beater now, Potter you and Evans are both going for Chaser so I'll start you out as Seeker and Evans you take Chaser. We'll do a run through and then rotate. Which will be Evans: Beater, Black: Keeper, Thomas: Seeker, and Potter: Chaser. We'll rotate in this order until everyone has played each position and then take it from there," explained Chris.
In this run through James did fairly well his eyes were quite attuned to the Snitch but it wasn't his primo position. While at the same time vivacious Lilly excelled at the position of Chaser, James had some serious competition if he wanted the position. Then Sirius was perfectly matched to his position he kept knocking the Bludger out of sites, while Thomas was completely lost which was the way he was in each rotation. When the next rotation came James truly showed his talents and almost showed up Lilly but not quite. The following two rounds it was obvious that each player was in absolutely in the wrong positions. It was not until the fourth and final rotation that anyone showed any more promise and it was Lilly in the position of Seeker. She was better than anything the Gryffindor team had seen in a decade.
"All right" called Chris as he beamed from ear to ear, "I want one more run through. Evans remain in the Seeker position, Potter you take Chaser, Black Beater, and Glassmire Keeper."
The four took their spots and, and the team truly shined despite the fact that Thomas was still clueless in his position. After this run-through was complete, all the players who were in the air came down to the ground. Chris Wood then announced, "Thanks to all who tried out this evening, the new team roster will be posted at the end of the week."
"You were brilliant!" squeaked Peter, "I've never seen better playing!"
"We weren't bad," admitted James.
"You two were great," reassured Remus.
"Not as good as Evans though," grumped Sirius.
"Forget about it," answered Remus, "you two are a shoe-in for the team."