I really hope y' all like my story. I don't know when some chapters should end, but I have the same problem finding a place to start. So I started here.

Chapter Ten

Flashback: "Beater! Yes! I can't wait!" She jumped up and down and hugged and kissed the two boys with excitement. "I have to go tell everyone!" She ran off and flew up the stairs, slammed the door, and a few seconds later the two boys heard screaming.

Meanwhile, Candie ran to tell her friends the great news. She sat them all down on a bed. They had no idea what was going on.

"I have great news!" Candie exclaimed.

"I can go out with Draco?" Lindsay cried.

"No! If anyone where to go out with him, it would be me." Heather half teased.

"I am the new Beater, for the quidditch team!" Candie shouted." They all went silent and then Heather started screaming. They all started screaming and hugging each other.

"Clearly you are all happy for me." Candie joked.

"Happy for you? Of course we are happy for you. You made the team." Heather cried loudly.

"Yes! We are all so happy for Candie Melt." said a bitter voice in the corner. It was Pansy, and she looked horrible. "Oh Yes! Let's all be happy for Candie! Let's throw a party for her. Drinks on me!"

"Why, that's a great idea! We will throw a party." Heather laughed. "Thank you for your generosity Pansy. I wonder how many drinks we will need."

"I was joking!" Pansy raged. "I'm not paying for anything!"

"Apparently you are buying the drinks." Heather laughed again. "Let's have butter-beer. That will be 1, 2, 3…7 butter-beers including yourself. No, I changed my mind. That will be 11 butter-beers, one glass for each member on the quidditch team." Pansy stomped away grabbing her pocket money on the way out.

"Pansy wait!" Candie shouted. Pansy turned around and gave Candie an evil stare. Candie reached for her own bag and said, "I am coming with you. Girls, have Draco and Gus help you decorate the common room. We will be back with the butter-beers."

"I don't want you to come with me!" Pansy said.

"No? I am going to come with you though." Candie demanded. "Why do you hate me so much?"

"I don't hate you."

"Okay then. Why are you always so cruel to my friends and me?"

"I am jealous of you. I am jealous because you have a perfect life. You have two guys who love you, great friends who are throwing a party to congratulate you. I don't have any of that."

"One, my life is no where near to perfect. Two, I have great friends because I am a friend back. Last, you don't have any of that because you are too proud of yourself, you think highly of yourself, but of no one else."

"How do I change that?" Pansy asked softly. "How do I become friendlier, like you?"

"Well, you can never be just like me, but start off small. For example, if someone is being mean to you, don't be mean back. Invite someone you want to be friends with to Hogsmeade with you. Just think of other people."

"Okay, I can try."

"Trying is the only way you will find out if my advice works. Trying is the best you can do."

"So, shall we get those butter-beers? I will pay for half of them."

"Thanks Candie." They headed up the hill to the "Three broomsticks," they got the butter-beers and walked back to the Slytherin common room.

"Candie, a boy named Neville Longbottom, said he ran into you in the owlery."

"Oh yes! Neville! I talked to him when I was there. He's a good guy really."

"He is? Draco despises him."

"I know. He just needs some caring."

"Who? Draco or Neville?"

"Neville." Buy the time they ended their conversation they had made it to the common room. They went in, and saw that the whole place had decorations all over it. Caitlyn came running over to Candie and Pansy and took the Butter-beers away from them. She passed them out to all of the people from the quidditch team. She passed them out to friends, and then she gave the last two to Candie and Pansy. Caitlyn stood up on her chair.

"Cheers to Candie!" Caitlyn shouted loudly.

"Cheers to Candie!" everyone shouted back. Candie stood on her chair too.

"Thank you! I think there are a few more thanks to give out though. First, to Heather, Lindsay, Caitlyn, Gus and Draco for the beautiful decorations. Second, to the quidditch team, I hope I won't let you down. Third, I want to thank my newest friend for buying the drinks. Thank you Pansy!" Pansy turned five shades of red and started laughing. She looked and Candie with thankful, tearing eyes. They all had fun at the party. Everyone danced and laughed. When it was almost midnight, people started to head off to bed. The next morning would be Christmas. Everyone had been crazy that day, buying and wrapping gifts. Making sure they would get to their rightful owners. The very next morning…

"Wake up! Wake up!" Heather jumped out of bed shouting, "Wake up! It's Christmas! Candie! Lindsay! Caitlyn! Wake up!" she went over to Candie's bedside and yelled "Happy Christmas Candie!" Candie practically flew off her bed. The next thing she knew she was on the floor besides Heather's feet. Heather looked down at Candie and said, "You've got presents! We all have!" She skipped over to the little decorated tree next to the window. She started looking at all the gifts. She found her presents and put them on her bed. Then she did the same for Candie, Lindsay, and Caitlyn. "Candie, there's a gift here for you, but it doesn't say who it is from."

"That's odd." Candie said as she took the package from Heather's grasp. She examined it. It was beautifully wrapped. But there wasn't a sign of who it was from. Candie set the package aside, and told everyone to open there gifts. Heather got a stationary set with moving characters on it.

"You might want to use that for your magical friends, instead of muggle friends." Candie suggested, "It might get me in trouble." Lindsay got a big bag of sweets from Honeyduke's. "You might not want to offer those to your muggle friends either." Candie warned her. Caitlyn got a gadget that let her talk to Candie when she was in California. "That way we can talk to each other without having to write anything. It only works if I am in the Wizarding World. I doesn't work if I am in California." Candie informed. Heather, Lindsay, and Caitlyn all opened a gift together. They were three galleons (Wizard's money). They all had numbers on them, like any other galleon. "They tell you when things are happening here. The numbers will change if I am calling you. They will also vibrate. Keep these with you where ever you go. They will tell you if something bad has happened or if I am in California, or if I need help. It will tell you through the numbers. I have one too." Candie spoke seriously.

"Candie open your gifts from me. You guys too." Heather said excitedly. Lindsay got a little horse stuffed animal. It was a muggle artifact, but Lindsay loved it. Caitlyn got a new CD. She loves her music. Candie got a small chain. It had nothing on it. "Gus will give you the rest of that gift to you."

"Okay."

Lindsay's gifts went next. Everyone got bags of Honeyduke's Candy and Zonko's Joke Shop gadgets. Everyone was excited with what they had gotten. Caitlyn's gifts where next. Lindsay and Heather had gotten ten dollars to Starbucks coffee shop. That's a muggle place to buy gourmet coffee drinks. Candie got a brand new pair of quidditch gloves. They were all finished when Heather noticed Candie's mysterious gift.

"Candie, you have not yet opened the gift from the mysterious person." Heather played. Candie took the package in her hands and tore the paper off of it. It was a brand new beaters bat. It had her name engraved on it, a nice hand grip, the Slytherin Serpent on the bottom of the handle, and it came with a card. The card said:

To a friend who helped me through a hard time in my life. Thank you for caring, and thank you for being sensitive about my problems.

"Does it say who it's from?"

"No, it just says this." Candie said as she handed Heather the card.

"It's beautiful!"

"It really is isn't it?" Candie said in awe.