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It was during Divination class that it finally happened.

I was proud to announce, that I, Rainbow Evans had made my very first reading as a Seer.

The tarot had been by far the branch of Divination that interested me the most.

The way Muggles and wizards used tarot cards was different, since (most) Muggles couldn't actually predict anything using the cards.

I think it wasn't until I truly let myself be open to the Sight that it came naturally to me.

Nat and I had stayed late in class just talking as Nat lazily shuffled the deck of cards in her hands.

I was very aware of Professor Vablatsky's gaze on us when I said to Nat, "Let me read your cards."

Nat raised an eyebrow. "Uh okay."

She spread out the cards in an arrangement I was yet to learn and looked at me expectantly.

I took a deep breath and for once, I let my instincts guide me as I turned the first card.

"The Chariot." I exhaled. "You have some hard work ahead of you. The tasks your future holds will be incredibly tough and will test you in every way possible, but your sheer determination and confidence is going to keep you on track. After all your struggles you will achieve what you set out to do."

Where was I getting this from again?

"Actually that does make sense, I'm set out to be an Auror, which is one of the toughest professions out there." Nat reflected.

Oh my god it's happening, it's happening. Everybody stay calm. I was actually, real life reading someone's tarot cards.

I withdrew from the spread again. "Temperance."

I stared at the hand painted angel pouring water from one cup into another. "You're going to take control of your life by practicing moderation and balance. The conflict you've been having with your mother will be resolved, and you will begin a new chapter of your life."

Motherfucker, I was on fire.

"The Queen of Wands. The advice of a close female friend is going to help you achieve your success. You must listen."

"Shit, Rainbow, that was really good." Nat sounded genuinely impressed.

I blushed. Even I was impressed with myself. "Thanks, I can hardly believe I did that."

"How did you know about my mother though?" Nat asked curiously.

"Don't we all have mother problems?" I tried to bluff.

Nat didn't seem satisfied with my answer but let the subject alone.

Professor Vablatsky approached us. I'd been painfully aware of her watching us carefully the whole time. "Natalliya, do you mind if I speak privately with Rainbow?"

The look on Nat's face told me that she definitely thought there was something fishy going on here, but she left without a word.

The professor took the seat in front of me. "That was impressive, Rainbow."

"I tried to let my instincts guide me, like you said, I'm sorry if I wasn't supposed to do it on another student."

"Oh no, it's fine. I'm glad you did it when you felt it. How do you feel?"

I smiled. "Like I can conquer the world."

The Quidditch pitch was a surprisingly soothing place for me. I'd found myself sitting in the stands doing homework more than a few times a week here. Most of the teams didn't mind me, except the Gryffindor team, who always forced me to leave.

The Quidditch scene at Hogwarts was surprisingly dramatic. After last week's game of Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff I'd received some backlash from my own House for supporting the Gryffindor team (which was way better than Hufflepuff). You'd think the Gryffindor team was happy a Slytherin was so supportive of them but I'd been told to "back off" and that they "didn't need a Slytherin's praises".

The one thing that everyone could agree on was that they didn't mind me as a commentator, which was literally the only thing I needed. And the person keeping track of all of this, the editor in chief of the Hogwarts Gazette, Haley Virtue, a lively Ravenclaw in my year with journalism aspirations, she was also the only person who really cared about the gazette.

Don't get me wrong, people did read the gazette, just not all of it. The only sections worth reading for most people were the sports section and the menu for the week.

I'd been slightly surprised when Haley had asked to interview me for the gazette, I knew she usually interviewed the players but she claimed people actually cared about my opinion on the Quidditch Cup. I'd mostly agreed because I liked Haley, and I knew she really cared about the gazette, whether people cared about my opinion or not was all the same to me.

We'd see what happened when the interview was published anyway.

"What are you doing here, Edwards?"

I looked up startled. It was eleven in the morning, which meant most people were in class and the pitch was empty except for me, and well, now Regulus Black.

"Am I not allowed to sit here, Black?"

Regulus rolled his eyes. "At this hour."

"I had a free period. Why are you out here? I thought Mr Smartest Wizard had his schedule full." I said.

It was easy to figure out why he was here though, he had his training robes on and a broom in his hands.

"Herbology got cancelled." Regulus explained.

Saf and Bella were both in that class, I should probably go find them. "You're doing a solo training session, then?"

Regulus nodded. "Do you play?" He blurted out, as if he'd been debating whether to ask me or not. He cleared his throat. "I mean, you said you worked out before and you seem to know a lot about Quidditch when you comment."

I could feel the corners of my mouth rising. "I've actually never played Quidditch. I grew up mostly around Muggles, so I never had the chance."

"But surely you've flown before, right?"

I shook my head. "Nope."

Regulus seemed shocked, which I think is the most emotion I've ever seen him show. "Merlin's beard, aren't you friends with Chopra? Why doesn't she teach you?"

I shrugged. "I don't know, it's never come up."

Regulus paused, then sighed and shook his head as if he were debating something. He then muttered something along the lines of "can't believe" and "doing this". He turned to me, "alright then."

He turned on his heel and started walking away from me. What the fuck was he on? He stopped and looked back at me. "Aren't you coming, then?"

"What?"

"I'm teaching you how to fly." He said with a little huff, as if I should've known.

"What, like right now?"

Regulus nodded once and I picked up my stuff and followed him.

We got to the locker rooms and Regulus opened the broom shed.

He grabbed a broom and turned to me. "This is Chopra's broom, I assume she won't mind if you borrow it."

"So do I." I took the broom from him. I always thought wizard brooms were kind of special, but this felt like nothing more than a really fancy broomstick.

Before we went out of the locker rooms again I stopped and turned to slip off my robes.

"What are you doing?" Regulus asked.

"Well I don't have Quidditch robes and I happen to be wearing my work out clothes so."

Regulus stayed silent, and waited for me to be done before we walked back out onto the empty pitch.

"Alright, set the broom on the ground." Regulus instructed.

I did as he said. Where the hell was this going?

"Now put your hand out like this, and say 'up'." He said.

Wait, what? That sounded like it required some magic to work, and in case anyone forgot, I didn't have magic. Oh god, this was not going to go down well. Fuck, who knew if Muggles could even fly brooms? As far as I knew, we might not be able to. I really should have thought this through.

"But if I already had it in my hand, why do I have to go through all that hassle?" I tried to argue.

Regulus exhaled sharply but he explained. "Because the broom needs to trust you first, and there's no way to tell better than if it comes when you call."

I put my hand out over the broom. Here goes nothing. "Up."

The broom didn't move an inch, as expected. My heart started going.

"Try it again, it doesn't always happen the first time." Regulus said.

Oh okay, thank god. I've no idea what I was so relieved about though, no matter how many times I tried, it wasn't going to happen because I was a freaking Muggle.

Okay maybe if I tried really hard, the broom would sense my desperation and take pity on me.

After the fifth try, the broom fucking got up on its own, and flew right into my open palm. What the fuck? I scanned our surroundings quickly, trying to find an outer source for this feat but came up empty. How did that just happen?

"I don't know why you look so surprised, you did it faster than most people." Regulus said.

What the fuuuuck?

"Alright, now mount the broom like this." Regulus demonstrated and I did as he said. "Now give a light kick off the ground. Light."

My stomach churned. This was nerve-wracking. I was afraid I would go flying off, but I took a deep breath and kicked.

As soon as my feet lifted an inch off the ground, I freaked. "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. I'm going to die."

"Calm down. You'll be fine." Regulus's tone wasn't the most comforting thing ever.

I held onto the broom for dear life, my legs wrapped close. "I can't do this."

"Okay, get down."

Oh shit, had he gotten exasperated with me? Was he not going to teach me anymore?

I got off the broom.

"You need to lose your fear of flying first." Regulus said. He then mounted his own broom, turned to me and said, "Get on."

Wait, what? He wanted me to what?

"You want me to do what?"

Regulus looked like he was seriously considering taking back what he'd said. "Just get on, if you fly properly a little, it'll help you lose your fear of flying on a broom."

I walked towards him hesitantly. Surely he wasn't going to drop me or anything.

"I'm not going not drop you."

I guess you would call that an encouragement from him.

I gingerly put my hands on Regulus's surprisingly broad shoulders and positioned myself behind him.

Regulus didn't waste a second after saying "hold on" before taking off.

My stomach lurched as we went higher and higher off the ground. I held on tight to Regulus.

"See? It's not that scary up here." Regulus said.

He was right. It was actually pretty cool being up there, there was a certain power it held, though I couldn't help being aware of just how dangerous this sport was, flying so far off the ground on a tiny piece of wood and barely any protective gear. Well, says the girl whose sport involves having knives tied to your feet.

"This is actually pretty nice." I admitted.

"So, ready for some speed now?"

I couldn't see his face, but I could tell he was smirking.

"What — ?"

Before I could get another word out, Regulus had taken off. I immediately switched from his shoulders to his middle for a more secure grip.

The wind whipped past my face and I couldn't help but be aware of how close our bodies were and how oddly personal this felt. Was I really on a broom with Regulus Black? Pressed up against his back, with my arms around his torso? I was glad he couldn't see my face because I could feel a blush spreading on my cheeks.

Regulus slowed down. "Not too bad, is it?"

My heart hammered against my chest, I hoped he couldn't feel it. "No, not bad at all."

It was Nat's birthday. I'd only found out a few days ago, when I'd walked into the Great Hall for lunch and found it was one of the very rare times when Nat was sat at the Slytherin table.

The girls had been discussing what to do for Nat's birthday on Saturday, they wanted to have a sleepover, but since Nat was a Gryffindor and Saf, Bella and I were Slytherins, they couldn't agree on a place to have it where it wouldn't be problematic. They were trying to come up with places other than the dorms to have a sleepover, and after some thought I'd come up with something.

So we were currently sitting in my training room. We had moved some of the work out equipment aside and we'd brought in an exorbitant amount of blankets and pillows. And just like that, our sleepover was set.

"We'll always be together

We'll always be together

We'll always be together."

Nat and I sang as she put her arm around me and pretended to drive an invisible flying car. She had been over the moon when she found out I knew what Grease was. Because apparently, the rest of our friends had never seen it, and since we couldn't watch it at the castle, the most logical course of action was for Nat and I to recreate the whole movie by ourselves.

"And finally Danny and Sandy fly off into the sunset in Danny's car as their friends wave them off." Nat concluded, a little out of breath. She crashed down on top of the blankets.

Our friends clapped at our performance.

"Wait, Muggles have flying cars?" Saf asked.

"No, they don't. It was just a thing they put in the movie, it's weird, no one knows why." Nat explained.

I took a breath. "Okay, let's do something calmer now, that was way intense."

Nat perked up. "Oh, let's play truth or dare."

"What is that?" Tessa asked.

Dear god, was she for real?

Nat explained the game quickly. "Alright, I'll go first. Bella, truth or dare?"

"Merlin, you scare the shit out of me, Nat, but truth, I guess." Bella said.

Nat smirked. "When you dated Avery – "

"Merlin's fucking beard, when will you get over that?" Bella groaned.

Wait, what? "You dated Avery?!"

Nat gasped. "That's right, Bow doesn't know."

"Oh god." Bella sank into her blanket.

Nat was happy to explain. "You see, Bow, once upon a time, when we were in Fourth Year, our dearest Belladonna here somehow thought dating Avery was a good idea, they went out for five months before Bella came to her senses, which brings us to my question." She turned to Bella, "what about Avery was genuinely attractive to you?"

Bella sighed. "I have no idea, I literally don't remember. He was nice to me?"

"He was nice to you? That's your standard?"

Bella groaned. "Leave me alone." She shoved a giggling Nat. "Okay, shut up, it's my turn. Bow, truth or dare?"

I chose truth, as I felt like they should know at least some truth about me, since I was already lying to them in many aspects.

Bella gave me a serious look. "Do you and Regulus Black have a thing?"

My eyes widened in shock, and there were a couple of gasps.

"What?!" Nat's shocked voice questioned.

"Why would you think that?" I asked, not even knowing how to respond.

"Well, the other day when Herbology got cancelled, Saf and I went looking for you and someone told us they'd seen you in the Quidditch pitch. " Oh no. "So we went, but you seemed pretty cosy with Regulus so we left you to it."

Oh my god. I could feel the blush spreading up my neck. Nat was screaming.

"I – well, I had detention with him and we talked a little, and I ran into him at the pitch and I told him I'd never flown a broom before so he offered to teach me, but that was IT." I explained in one breath.

"Wait, you've never flown before?" Saf side tracked. I shook my head. "Well, then I kind of understand, but there was still something going on there."

"Teaching you how to fly? Is that what they're calling it these days?" Nat teased.

I tossed a pillow at her.

We went for a few other rounds before it was my turn again. Tessa had chosen truth. "Alright, Tessa, fuck marry kill, the Hufflepuff men – "

Tessa cut me off. "What did you say?"

"You know, out of Ravi, Frank and Brad, which one would you fuck, marry and kill?" I explained.

The rest of the girls laughed.

"None of them!" Tessa cried.

"That's the point of the game, making it hard to choose. Let's go babe."

Tessa huffed, and paused to think. "I don't want to kill Frank, I love him, but I also don't see him in that way."

"Oh come on, Tessa, everyone knows you like Frank." Bella teased.

"I really don't! Ugh. Okay, I really don't like Brad, so I guess I'd kill him. Fuck," Tessa swallowed as if it pained her to say, "Ravi."

"Oh my god, Tessa ew, that's my cousin." Saf squealed as she covered her head with a pillow.

I laughed. "So, marry Frank, huh?"

"Well, if I had to marry one of those three men, I guess he would be the most apt candidate." Tessa reasoned.

I smirked. "Yeah, sure, Tess."

Tessa shook her head and quickly changed the subject. "Saf! Truth or dare!"

Saf didn't even think about it. "Truth."

Natalliya huffed. "Y'all are boooring. Only I've done a dare, and it was also boring."

"Hey!" Bella exclaimed, offended.

"Fine, dare." Saf caved.

Nat smirked and leaned over to whisper on Tessa's ear. Tessa's mouth opened in shock and she said, "no! I'm not saying that, Natalliya."

"Yes, you are." Nat turned to Saf. "Saf, Tessa dares you to go skinny dipping in the black lake."

So that's how we ended up here.

The black lake had unfrozen a few weeks ago, but it was still pretty cold, especially in the middle of the night. The hardest part of this dare had actually been sneaking three tipsy girls out of the castle.

I sat by the lakeshore as Nat and Bella yelled at an underwear clad Saf (she'd refused to go full nude) to just do it.

Nat soon got tired of Saf standing on the edge of the lake and pushed her in. Saf's scream pierced through the night as she splashed into the lake. I couldn't help but laugh along with the rest of the girls.

Saf also had a little smile on her face as she swam back to shore. What I didn't expect was for Saf to hold onto my ankle and pull me into the cold waters of the lake along with her.

I splashed Saf as I resurfaced. Dang, it was really cold, but there was something exhilarating about being in here.

In that moment, I didn't even care if the whole castle could hear us as the rest of the girls went into the lake laughing and splashing around.