Chapter Eight

Pansy woke her up again that morning.

"Clearly you need a louder alarm." She joked.

"That might be of some help." Candie joked back.

"What time do you need to be at the tryout?"

"Oh! Um… 8:30 in the morning." She said this when she just noticed the clock. "Holy crap! Why did you wake me up so early?"

"I wanted you to have time to hang out with your friends."

"While they are sleeping? Oh! That will be loads of fun. I thank you so much," she said sarcastically.

"Your welcome!" Pansy said happily.

She got ready and went to wake up her muggle friends. She knocked on the dorm door that had the girls in it. No one answered.

"Horrible morning!" Candie tried to sound happy.

"What's so horrible about it?"

"Have you looked at the clock? We've got the whole lot to spend with each other."

"What are you still doing outside the door? Heather opened the door, her bright blue eyes glistening tiredly.

"Thanks." she said as she came through the door. "Did I wake you up? I'm sorry if I did.

"Oh no, it's okay."

"I have a tryout this morning."

"Really? What kind of tryout?"

"Quidditch."

"How fun!"

"Yeah I guess it will be."

Heather got dressed and ready to go by 6:30. The two of them walked around the school and talked about everything. They talked about school, boys, hobbies, boys, church, boys, sports, boys, hard times in their life, and more boys. (I hope you know where I am going with this). They got past peeves the poltergeist with out a problem, (except that he floated above them while they walked and butted in to their conversation saying random things).

"It's almost 8:15. Would you like to watch my tryout?"

"Sure!"

"Okay, well let's get to field now so we can get a good spot in line." They headed their way down to the field when they ran into Draco.

"Hey Candie, Heather." He said smoothly.

"I thought you would try out for the team. Do you have a broom?"

"No, I was going to use the ones they had in the broom closet."

"Really. Well we can't have our next member trying out for the team on a slow pathetic broom now can we?"

"Well what else would I use?"

"My broom."

"Your broom! I have never ridden a broom like yours before though."

"No complaints now okay. Go on now, get to the field. You're up first."

"What! It's not even 8:30 yet."

"I know. I convinced the team to let you go up first."

"Thank you Draco."

"Come on now lets go."

"Heather you can come with me and watch." Draco suggested.

"Thank you Draco." Heather said sweetly.

"Candie, you go down to the field and we will tell you when to start, and what to do. Do you understand?"

"Yes."

"Are you nervous?" asked Draco as he handed her his broom.

"A bit." she choked.

"Good luck! I love you." he whispered into her ear. "You'll be the best one out there."

Candie was silent. "What did he say?" she thought. "Did he say he loved me? What if Gus finds out? What am I going to do?" Heather patted her on the back, gave her a hug, and went to take her seat next to Draco. Candie snapped out of her daze and concentrated on what she was going to do.

"Are you Candace Melt?" the Captain of the team asked.

"Yes."

"Okay, we want you to do the obstacle as fast as you can. Is that clear. Collect all of the levitating objects and ring the bell when you finish."

"Okay. Tell me when to start."

"Hover." Candie kicked off from the ground and hovered. "Go!" the captain shouted. Candie zoomed between the checkpoints and caught the objects as she passed them. She went up to the top of a tall pole and reached out to touch the bell. When she was an inch away from it, it moved. She reached two more times and finally rang the bell.

"Congratulations Miss. Melt. Your time was 2 minutes exactly. That is a great time for your first ride. We haven't even started the real test yet. Now I want you to go around the field three times and I will time you. Ready? Go!" She sped off and went around the field the first time without a problem. Then the second time was just the same. She came to the third lap she could feel a pulling on the back end of the broom. She pushed harder and harder for the broom to get around to finishing point. She pushed as hard as she could and the broom was set free and she came flying across the finish line.

"That was amazing!" said the captain. "Your time was 1 minute and 45 seconds. You even got through the curse I put on your broom." he looked at Draco and said, "You've got a great girl here you now."

"Thank you!" said Heather.

"Thank you!" said Draco.

"I didn't mean you there!" he pointed to Heather. "I meant Draco's girlfriend out on the field."

"Oh! I knew that. I was just testing you." She added smartly.

"Am I finished captain?"

"Almost. You have one more test, and then you will be finished." he continued, "I want you to get a beaters bat and hover over there. When I let this bludger go, I want you to hit it as hard as you can. Got it?"

"Yes. Okay." She flew over to the equipment and got herself a bat. Then she flew to the middle of the field, held up her bat, and signalled the captain that she was ready. He let one of the bludgers go, and it flew off to her direction. Candie swung the bat with all her strength, and sent the bludger flying towards the captain. He put a stopping spell on it and caught it as it fell.

"That was a beautiful hit there Miss. Melt. I think we have found our new team member. Well of course we have to have the others tryout, but I think you will be the new member."

"Captain? What exactly was I trying out for?"

"Well you could be our new seeker, chaser, or beater. We are not quiet sure yet. If we decide you are going to be the new seeker, Draco will move up to the beater, the former beater will move up to be the chaser, and so on. We aren't sure what we are going to do yet."

"Thank you for letting me tryout."

"Any time!"

"See you later Draco." Candie said as she handed him back his broom. "Heather, let's go wake the others."

"Okay! Bye Draco!"

"Candie, here." Draco said handing her a very big package. "This is your congratulations gift."

"Draco, I don't know if I have gotten the place on the team."

"I know, but even if you aren't on the team, one of these always comes in handy. Open it. What are you going to do, stare at it?"

"Don't give me a hard time. I was going to open It." as she said those words, she ripped the brown paper off the package. "It's a Firebolt! Draco you got me a Firebolt! I love it! Thank you so much."

"Do you love me?" Draco sweetly urged.

"Yes! Of course."

"Did you love me before I gave you the broom?"

"You don't have to ask that question. You know I loved you before this."

"Yeah, but I was just making sure." The two girls left and returned to their dorms.

"I thought Gus loved you?"

"I guess I have to guys that love me at once."

"I thought you were Gus's girlfriend, but Draco was telling me how you have been his girlfriend for a month?"

"I don't know what is going on."

"You should do something about it."

"I have the perfect idea too!" Candie cried. "I will send Gus and Draco invitations to a get-together. They will both think that it will just be him and me. They won't know that the other is coming too."

"That's a great idea. Let's get started on the invitations."

"Okay! This is going to be hilarious."