A/N: Hello again! I'm sorry I haven't wrote in a couple of days, but I was busy with stuff! Sorry. But do not fear! For I am here! Yay! I know I say this all the time, but thank you guys again for the wonderful reviews! I was actually quite down this week and today when I came home still in this weird funk and I saw your emails, they made me SO happy! I love you guys! But as for all you who don't review and are feeling jealous right now, I ask you this; how can I love you if you don't review? So please, I want to love you! Review! And all those who do actually review I will keep loving you. Just like you I hope you will keep loving my story! So without anymore talking, I give you, The Troubles of Being in Love with Sirius Black- Chapter 7- Quidditch Tryouts! Much Love padfootqueen!

Thunder roared. Lightening light up the sky for miles. The lake's waters were more ruff then anyone had ever seen before. Wind uprooted leaves from the ground and made mini tornados out of them. Rain cascaded down from the clouds and hit the ground with unbelievable force. And of course this was the Saturday of the Griffindor Quidditch team tryouts. Perfect. It was turning out to be one the worst possible days for Quidditch. On Saturday morning Cory lay in her bed sleeping when all of a sudden a loud crack of thunder made her spring up out of bed. She sat up on your bed and looked around trying to get your bearing and catch your breath. Panting, she collected her thoughts and knew this couldn't be from just a clap of thunder. It had to be something else. But what? Trying hard, Cory began to think about what she had just been dreaming about. It wasn't her normal dreams. He mother and father weren't in them. Neither were her abusive foster parents. What was she dreaming? She couldn't gather much of an idea of what she had been dreaming about, but one thing she did put together was this feeling she had. It wasn't a happy feeling nor was it a sad one. It was a painful one. A greater pain then she had ever felt. The feeling was almost like her insides were a bottomless hole and all the good things her life were in a blink of an sucked out. Why? She couldn't piece together though. Would this happen to her? Would all the things she loved be striped from her? Why? When? How? The very thought of having this feeling realized made her stomach churn and her head spin. But besides that feeling, that was all she had. No images. No voices. Nothing. Just pain. She concentrated and concentrated, but nothing was coming up in her head. It was useless. The feeling she had been dreaming about remained and she decided that she would try and forget about it. At that point Cory was wide-awake. She looked over at her clock on the nightstand, it read; 6:00. 6:00 in the morning. That was just plain wrong. Down her head went onto her pillow, attempting to salvage the rest off her sleep. She couldn't do it. Giving up, she made her way over to the showers. Then it hit her just as the hot water did; today was Quidditch. Quidditch tryouts were in three hours. At nine she would be flying around the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch trying to make it into the one open slot on the Griffindor Quidditch Team. For the first time she actually prayed to a force she didn't even believe in hopes of making the team. She wanted to make the team that badly. Which in a way, as Lily had told her multiple times, was quite sad. But that wasn't the only reason she wanted to make the team.

Reason number one was; Lily. Yes Lily. On the Wednesday following Sirius' and Cory's little fight, Lily and Sirius got into one too. They were all in the common room Wednesday night, them all meaning Cory, Lily, Bethany and Emma were sitting in the corner at one of the tables doing homework, when the Marauders came in. James and Flo were talking with a seven-year who was the captain of the Quidditch team while Sirius and Remus went and sat at a table right behind yours. Sirius began to glare at her over Remus' and Lily's shoulders. At this she looked up right at him. She wasn't going to back down. Since when did she ever do that? Never. She shook her head, she was so sick of him being so irritable and gave up on the starring him down and went back to her Potions essay and books. But naturally Sirius just kept on staring. Instead, Cory resisted going over there and hitting him or something of that nature, she looked up to see the Captain Alex Drummer placing another sign up sheet on the bulletin board for Quidditch tryouts. Flo and James had come back and Flo sat next to Remus and James next to Sirius. James half stood up and said over Emma and Lily's heads to Cory"Hey, if you're going to try out you better go sign up. We made a new sheet because one of our genius beaters lost it. Thanks by the way for that Siri. (Pronounced like sneer without the n sound, just explaining, my friend didn't get it)"

"It is not my fault James." Sirius replied through gritted teeth.

"Sure, thanks James." Cory got up and crossed the common room. Students were spread through out the common room in many places. Some were lying on the floor others were lying across chairs and then some were at the at the other tables like the one Cory and her friends occupied. She reached the list and noticed that on the list were a total of 8 people. Drawing in a deep breath, she wrote her name on the line then across from it the other column her year. While she was writing she could feel Sirius looking at her with anger and then slight happiness then back to anger when she turned around again to journey across the room.

Now there comes a point when there is only so much glaring and dirty looks a girl could take and Cory was at that limit. Anger fumed inside her and she stalked straight over to him. Once she was close she said to him while glaring down at him"WHAT! Do have something on my face? Do you not like the way I roll up uniform sleeves? What? What is it! Reall"

But she never finished because at that point Lily came over and dragged her back to her seat. Or at least she tried to. At that point Sirius stood up and said"Nothing! I wasn't looking at you! Don't be so conceded and don't flatter yourself."

"Oh conceded huh? Well"Cory started but Lily then broke in.

"STOP! He is not worth it! Alright"

"There go and hide behind your friend" Sirius said fiercely to Cory.

"Oh why" but Lily then took the reins again.

"Now listen, Sirius, you may not like how she might ruin your little dating game or tarnish your reputation, but you will not insult her personality. She can do fine without me, but I am doing you a favor and keeping her from kicking your ass"

At that she grabbed Cory's books and hers (because Cory was in such a state of shock to grab her own) while the other girls followed her suit and grabbed theirs too. The four of them went off with Lily leading the way and her face red in a perfect display of anger towards the girls dormitory.

"You know, I don't know why you even are bothering to try out. It's not like your going to make it. Just cause you were a Quidditch captain back at your old school doesn't mean you'll make it here." Sirius called after Cory with James by his side holding him back slightly. She turned on him but Lily got there first.

"Alright Black, I'll make a bet with you." Lily said walking up to him.

"Holy shit, you're betting, Evans? A perfect betting? What have you done to her Sirius" Flo asked in a mock-tragedy sort of way from her seat where her and Remus were watching this scene take place. Needless to say by this time the whole common room was also listening in too.

"Not now Quinn." Lily said in a raged voice, but continued"I'll bet you right now, five gaellons that she'll make it. What do you say"

A hush had fallen at that point over the common room and all that could be heard was the cracking of the fire. Sirius seemed to be thinking the bet over in his head. But then he finally made a conclusion"Alright Evans, I'll do it. But how am I going to know that you'll keep your word on this. I mean"

Cory cut him off getting mad that her best friend's honor was being put down"Lily never lies about anything, you asshole" she shouted.

"I swear on her life", Lily said pointing at Cory, "that I will if I lose, which I won't, pay you five gaellons. Now you bet on James' life."

"Fine. I swear on my best friend James Potter's life that I will pay Lily Evans 5 gaellons if I was to lose this idiot bet."

"Fine."

"Good."

"We're agreed"

"Yes."

Then with that Lily turned on her heel grabbed Cory who grabbed Emma who grabbed Bethany and the chain of them were pulled up to the girls dormitory by a very mad Lily Evans. Up in the dormitory Lily said that Cory had to make the team! She had to have the upper hand on Black. But as she said, she had no doubt in the fact that Cory would surly make the team. But, still even with Lily's reassurance and her own great Quidditch skills, Cory still had some doubts. From what everyone had said the Griffindor Team had a reputation of being amazing and to be on the team naturally you had to be amazing. So that stuck in her mind. Was she good enough? She didn't know.

She still wasn't sure even as she reached for her shampoo bottle in the showers that morning. Also the other reason she wanted to make it was, even though he made Cory awfully mad, she still wanted to spend time with Sirius. Underneath it all she still liked him. It was absolutely crazy. But it was true. He had a great enough temper as she did, which was hard to come by. Also all through during the argument Cory felt like she could have ripped his head off, but still would have loved to start making out with him on the spot. Except when he started insulting Lily. Then she wouldn't of. Sirius was on the Quidditch Team and player as a beater. From what Bethany had said, he was good. Really good. But still, he confused Cory beyond belief. He could be glaring at her in Potions then she could feel his gaze turn from anger to passion and happiness in a matter of milli-seconds. What was with that? Cory often found herself thinking. But she didn't know.

Her shower ended and she went back to the sleeping area to get dressed. She glanced at her clock when back in the dormitory and it said 6:35. She had time before heading down to breakfast so she grabbed a book on Auror training she had taken out of the library for reading and went down to the common room. She sat in one of the best chairs right next to the fireplace and began reading. Cory had read maybe three pages when she heard someone coming down the stairs from the boy's dormitory. Looked up and saw a very shocked James Potter on the second o last step of the stairs. For a little bit the two just starred at each other.

"Ahhh..." James began but stopped as he and Cory heard another set of footsteps coming down the stairs.

"For the love of everything Prongs, you could have at least waited till 7:30. It's bloody seven o'clock in the morning, you moron." Came a very annoyed voice down the stairs and then a grayish-blue sweatshirt came falling down the stairs and hit then hung on James' neck and face. "Do you have any idea how tired I am? I mean"

But the voice of Sirius Black stopped his ranting at the third step from the main floor when he saw Cory. And she saw him but not just his face. He wore only a pair of jeans that hung low enough so Cory could see the rim of his read and blue boxer shorts. He was carrying a red tee shirt he was in middle of putting it on but not all the way, making his amazing chest and abdomen was very visible. His eyes bulged out his sockets.

"What are you doing here" he said shocked. "James what is she doing here"

"I don't know it's not like I asked her to"

"Then how she here" they began to fight when Cory finally broke in.

"Guys, GUYS! Hello over here." Cory said gesturing to herself"I just woke up because of the weather and couldn't get back to sleep. So I came down to the common room to read for a while. Okay? It's not like I planned this. My god, now relax. We're in the same house we're allowed to be in the common room at the same time."

At the end of her little speech she rolled her eyes and continued to read but really she really couldn't read one word because they still stood there. She looked up at them as they were talking in 'hushed voices'. Their conversation went like this;

James- Did you do this?

Sirius- No! Why would I do that?

James- Oh I don't know. Maybe because you love her?

Sirius- Look, lets decide what we're going to do. All right. We have to go meet Moony and Flo(A/N; You know how the three guys have nicknames? Well, Flo is Quinn's! Okay? Great! On with the story).

James- We're going to be late because of your love for sleep. Honestly the way you are talking, your sounding it almost like your suggesting this whole thing is my fault. Hon-"

"Ah guys? I can kind-of hear you."(Cory didn't hear James say that Sirius liked her though) They both looked over at her so quickly you could have thought she said something like 'Lily grew another head and I think McGonagual isn't going to give homework for a month'.

"Ah, right well we have to go." James said.

"Yeah…" Sirius said following his best friend's lead.

"We have to"

"Right, go"

"Somewhere"

"Yea, so we'll see you later."

"At Quidditch." They said together finishing each other's sentences and continuing them as well.

"Guys" Cory said. James and Sirius still hadn't moved and they looked like two kids who were trying to get out of a punishment.

"Ah yea" they said in unison still on the steps.

"Just go." Cory said and with that they left.

The rain had lightened up, but not a lot. At least there was no more lightening or thunder, but it still rained. It was also a bit foggy, but Cory could deal with that. Cory and the eight other people stood in the tunnel of the Quidditch pitch waiting for the tryouts to begin. She had her broom over her shoulder and was excited to start flying. Alex Drummer the captain started to do roll call. But as he was doing so Cory noticed that Sirius wasn't looking menacingly at you. He was just standing there and looking at her and then occasionally saying things to Quinn or James.

"...And Cordelia Ash"

"Yea that's me." Cory said and Sirius, James and Flo all looked intently at her. Sirius put on a triumphant smile. He now knew her name. Lily had only called her Cor or Cory, but now he knew the full thing. She ignored him made her way down the tunnel with everyone else.

"Cordelia, huh" a voice said in Cory's ear. She turned and there was Sirius.

"Now everyone if you could just stretch and fly around a bit, that would be great. Okay" Alex said.

"Yea, Cordelia." Cory said and bent down to stretch her claves and back.

"I like that." he said and she mounted her broom and before he could say anything else she was up. She did it so quickly his eyes nearly bulged out of his head, for the second time that day.

"I really don't care if you like it or not, Sirius." and with that she flew off.

She, despite the bad weather, was flying perfectly. Alex had each one of them fly with him and James. Cory would be last, Thank Merlin she thought. As they flew they would have the other members of the team grade them. This scared Cory greatly. She had been flying great and now she was absolutely terrified to mess up. Three or four people dropped the quaffle once or twice and Cory prayed she wouldn't be one those people. As the person before Cory landed she stepped forward. Then from the stands she heard this yelling. She looked up and there was Emma, Bethany and Lily holding signs and yelling for her. That gave Cory the confidence she needed and walked straight up to Alex and James, who were still looking in the stands with amused and surprised faces on. Alex then said"Ok, let's fly"

And with that Cory and them took off. They did a lot of difficult moves and some how, she flew perfectly. Cory couldn't have been happier with her tryout. She landed with a loud cheering song the girls made up and a smile on her face. Cory and the others were all asked to get dressed in the locker rooms then come back and get the decision. Cory changed quickly and was so nervous even though she thought she did well. The rain had stopped now and it had gotten much colder when she went back outside to the pitch. It was still very cloudy though so Cory wrapped her arms around herself in her sweatshirt. They were giving out little slips of paper saying if you made it or not and Cory was last. The guy in front of her turned and left and there left Cory looking at Sirius. He gave a little piece of parchment to her and she turned away.

The girls stood ten feet from Cory and were looking very hopeful at her. Cory slowly turned back the folded piece of paper and looked at it. She looked up at her friends not showing any of the emotions she was feeling. They came running over. They stood in front of Cory not looking at the paper. "Did you make it, Cor" Bethany asked.

"How'd you do" Emma questioned.

"Shit do I owe Black money" Lily asked annoyed. Cory slid her broom in-between her legs and shot up into the air, screaming all the way up.

"YESSSSSSSSSS" she yelled and landed. "I MADE IT" she screamed with joy.

Lily shot her fists up into the air and hugged Cory tightly. Then the other girls joined in on the hugging too. While doing this they started swaying. Soon they started chanting"We are the champions" by Queen since they all knew the lyrics well because of Lily and Cory's obsession with the band. But that was a little too much and way too embarrassing. Cory flew up again into the air a good ten feet.

"Stop." She said looking down at them and noticing that Quinn, Remus, James and Sirius were looking on with amusement. "Guys, stop. I love Queen but really."

They kept chanting but then stopped. So Cory landed and the girls hooked arms and started to make their way out. When Lily stopped. She turned and she turned the chain of them around so they all followed her over to Marauders. She stopped the chain directly in front of Sirius and said with a lot of pride"I believe you own me some money, Mr. Black? I'll take that now"