Chapter 2

I woke up at the crack of dawn by my overly bubbly morning person of a friend Aimee. Well maybe not the crack of dawn, but earlier than I wanted to be up on a Saturday. I met Aimee on my first day of second year when I literally bumped in her in the Library as I was being dragged by a very anxious Hermione who was muttering about not having enough time to study for everything. Aimee took pity on me and rescued me from Hermione's clutches. She was in the year above me, but we became really close, with the exception of game days since she was a chaser for Huffelpuff. Oliver was very strict about not 'fraternizing' with the enemy on the day of a game. She had been playing for the siren's for three years now and about died when I told her I was joining the team.

"get up, get up, get up! We have houses to shop for, furniture to buy, practices to go to. No time for beauty sleep!"

"The houses aren't going anywhere..."

"And neither is your bed" she interrupted.

"Alright, Alright. I'm up. Will you pick out something for me to wear while I jump in the shower? You're the bestest!" I said while walking to my bathroom not even bothering to wait for an answer. Aimee had an eye for clothes that I just couldn't match and I always let her dress me when we went out.

An hour later we were standing outside of a sketchy apartment building waiting for Ed Myers to show up. I eyed the building and wondered what Ed was thinking when he suggested this place.

"Are we seriously going to go into that place? It doesn't even look habitable."

Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought so. Just then Ed came up in a rather electric blue tweed suit with a bright purple ducky tie. He could really use Aimee's expertise.

"So, whatdaya think? Great isn't it?"

"I thought we were going to be looking at houses, not apartments?" I said trying to be nice.

"yeah, ones that actually have a whole roof and working electricity!" Aimee added. Well there goes the diplomatic approach.

"Huh. Are you sure? You seem a little young to want a house... I think I have a few listings you might like... let me just look... I have that address somewhere in this briefcase..."

"We just want to look at the biggest house you have. She's going to need the room. She's a part of the local shifter pack."

"Oh, if that's what you are looking for than I have the perfect place. Follow me!"

We apparated to the outskirts of town in front of a beautiful old victorian style house. It was huge! We walked around the house and as soon as I saw the kitchen I fell in love. While the outside of the house looked old, the inside was completely updated and the kitchen was absolutely beautiful! There were granite counter tops, an island, a huge industrial sized stove and refrigerator.

"I'll take it!"

"But we've only toured the first floor. You haven't even seen the master... Are you sure."

"Oh I'm sure. I have to have this kitchen. I don't even care how much it costs... Where do I sign?"

We did end up looking at the rest of the house, which was just as awesome as the kitchen, and I walked away a happy first time homeowner. I more than had the down from my inheritance, not to mention the sweet signing bonus I got from the Sirens.

Speaking of the Sirens, here I was walking onto the pitch for my first ever practice. I am so nervous! I walked out of the locker room with Aimee and my new team captain Alex who was a beautiful red head with steel grey eyes. Like I didn't already have enough gorgeous red heads in my life. I still kinda had a major crush on Ginny and Ron's brother Charlie, and they would never let it go. As I walked onto the center of the pitch I was suddenly tackled to the ground by two rather large guys. One was tall with a meticulously crafted faux hawk, while the other was just as tall with more muscle and warm brown skin.

"New girl!" faux hawk boy yelled.

"we've been waiting to meet you FOREVER! We thought you chickened out on us and we would have to play a chaser short. I'm Ryan by the way, I'm a keeper"" he said waggling his eyebrows suggestively " and this punk is Zack."

"Hey! I'm a chaser so we will be getting close... real close." chimed in Zack.

"Oh leave the poor girl alone! Just ignore those two. It's what I do." Thank you Alex. And to think I thought I had enough gingers, not so! I totally had room for this one.

"you wound me el capitain. I thought we got past the animosity when I caught you when you got hit by that bludger last season."

" I didn't fall, I merely lost my balance. I still had a hold on my broom. And if you remember you left your goal posts and let those falcons score twice!"

"But we still won!"

"yeah because I'm an awesome seeker!" replied a shorter asian guy with short spiky hair. He was followed by a tall burly guy who could only be the other beater. So I guess that was the rest of the team then.

Alex introduced them as Koen (the seeker) and Jeremy (her fellow beater) and had us start with some warm up laps. Literally laps. Like the running kind. Everyone started groaning and I just smiled. I could run for hours, even with the spell place on the necklace I wore that was mandated by the International Quiddich League to lessen my 'abilities' and keep my team from having the unfair advantage of having a shifter on the team. I easily out-distanced the rest of the team and finished quickly so I started stretching.

"How are you that fast?!" exclaimed Ryan, who had finished about half a lap behind me. He was breathing hard and I guessed he was doing everything he could to try to keep up with me.

"I'm just awesome. Get used to it" I winked.

The rest of practice went smoothly, with me only surprising my team a few more times with my extra speed, strength and accuracy. Koen was the first to figure it out and then the guys spent the rest of practice trying to test my limits. I finally took my necklace off and tackled Jeremy, who was by far the biggest, and pinned him. I didn't have any trouble after that. Funny. Hmm.

After practice I headed home to grab a quick shower before pouring over for my new house. But apparently my brother had other plans. He stomped into my room as I was brading my long hair, I still needed to get it cut, and threw a sweater at me saying there was bonfire at the beach I was going to .

"I guess I don't have a choice then? Who is going to be there?"

"Nope. I'll drag you there if I have to. And just the pack and imprints. No big deal."

"Will there be food? I'm starving!"

"Of course there will be. I think the girls have been cooking for the past four hours."

"I'm in! Just let me grab my uggs and I'll be ready to go."

And so we left the house to go face the people I hadn't seen in years. This should be good, right?

Sorry this took SSSOOO long to update! I just had too many ideas and couldn't narrow it down and I was really unsure how to start this chapter. Thank you to those of you who have read/reviewed. I was blown away by how many there were!