A/N: I'm sorry this part is rather boring, but I promise it'll get a lot better.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, if I did, Sirius, Remus, and James would all be alive and all married to me!

Chapter 5: Quidditch and Kyle

I need to go to practice, I thought, walking down towards the pitch. I owe it to the team, I owe it to Slughorn, and I owe it to myself. So, no matter what happens, I must just try to deal with the blunder of a team a cooked up.

I didn't want to go to practice at all. I strolled down the steps and onto the pitch, feeling horrible. I was so tried, and needed sleep. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to play, which would jut take away from my sleeping time. I we probably wouldn't even play today, since Malfoy, Lestrange, Crabb, and Goyle probably won't even show up.

I sat down on a bench in the changing room. It was still another half-hour 'til I scheduled practice. I hoped that if I showed up early everyone else might show up on time. I took in a couple of deep breaths and got in the shower. I hadn't planned on showering before practice, but I needed to kill time.

Once I got out of the shower there was still ten minutes before they need to be here. I went outside and sat in the middle of the pitch. The cold breeze ruffled my hair, causing it to go every which-way. The grass was soft, and just a little wet.

Around 5:03 Kyle showed up. He smiled at me and sat down.

"Hey," I said, briefly looking up from the ground.

"Hi, having fun?" he said, laughing at me as I picked at the grass.

"As a matter of a fact, I am. Does that surprise you?"

"Yeah, that never could entertain me." We both laughed. Then Kyle said, "I'm gonna go change, just in case we ever get around to having practice today."

I nodded and went right back to picking at the grass. I would unconsciously look at my watch almost every five minutes, hoping that I was just imagining that it was almost five-thirty. I would also unconsciously look towards the changing rooms, hoping that Kyle would be out soon, he did look good in those Quidditch robes!

"Here," Kyle said, handing me a chocolate frog, and sitting down. "I thought you might be hungry."

I mumbled thanks and opened it up. I had never collected the cards, though I knew many people did. I had gotten Dumbledore, who smiled up at me, then disappeared.

"Do you collect them?" I asked, offering the card. "I've was never really interest in collecting them."

"Yeah, thanks."

I glanced back down at my watch to find that it was six. I was mad. I was going to have to kick everyone off the team. I would have to have try-outs again, then re-do all my Quidditch plays, and start training all over again.

"Kyle, you can go back inside. We're not gonna practice today. I have to kick everyone off the team. When will you be available, so I can hold tryouts?"

"Sunday sounds good. Theirs a Hogsmeade trip on Saturday, so, yeah, I think Sunday would be best."

"Mkay."

"And speaking of Hogsmeade…" Kyle said, trailing off a little. "Would you like to go with me? That is, if your not already going with anyone."

I was stunned that he asked. I had never been asked to go to Hogsmeade with anyone before, especially a guy. I had to resist the urge to squeal. Right as I was about to say yes my thoughts jumped to James, for some reason.

'What about James?' A voice in my head asked.

'What about him?' I asked right back. 'I finally get asked by a guy to Hogsmeade and all I have to think about is James! He didn't ask me, so why should I say no to Kyle?

"Yeah, I would love to go with you Kyle! I have some things I need to do first, so how 'bout we meet at The Three Broomsticks around noon?" I said, trying to hide my excitement.

"Yeah, that'll work!" I watched Kyle as he went back into the changing room. I lay down on the grass, putting my black hair in front of my eyes. I was feel asleep instantly, although I probably should have gone inside and did the mountain of homework I had. I was asleep when someone shook me, causing me wake up and subsequently jump up automatically.

I looked up to see Remus looking down on me, his wand shining. It was dark out; I couldn't see anything beyond the light of Remus' wand. He was smiling, and looking amused.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, lying back down.

"I was out walking and I saw you lying here." He offered me a hand. I took it and he pulled me up off the ground.

"Shall we go inside?" I asked, linking arms with him.

"We shall."

We walking inside; the halls were deserted. It must have been extremely late. I let Remus guide me to the Slytherin common room. I felt like falling asleep again, but knew better than that. Remus would have to wake me up, again, and that might not be the best thing ever.

"What time is it?" I mumbled, resting my head on his shoulder.

"Past midnight," he said, resting his arm around me. "Good thing it was me that found you, if someone else did, another prefect or a teacher, you would have been given a weeks worth of detention."

"Well, thank you then. I'm very happy that you were willing to rescue me, not many people would be willing to do that. I don't have too many friends around here."

Remus smiled. I looked around and we were standing in front of the portrait hole. I removed my head from his shoulder and climbed inside. I waved as the portrait closed after me. No one was in the common room, too bad; I wanted to kick everyone off the team, right now, right this very second.

I was filled with fury as I stormed up to the dorms. I lay down in my bed, but couldn't fall asleep; too much was passing through my mind. First I was thinking about Quidditch and how mad I was at the team, and that I had to kick them off, hopefully tomorrow. Then that caused me to think of Kyle. He was so nice and what not, but he wasn't James, and well, I have liked James since forever! Currently my mind was stuck on James, mostly on how stupid he was, and how much I loved him.

I was able to fall asleep for about an hour. I woke up around seven o'clock, and had to rush just be able to get to class on time. I didn't have time to eat more than a piece of toast before I rushed to my double Transfiguration. I entered, the classroom, right on time, and went and sat in my usual seat, alone the back. I looked down at my paper and started to doodle.

I felt someone tap me on the shoulder and I looked up. Kyle was standing in front of me, smiling.

"Hey, would you like to join me? Actually, you don't have a choice; you're coming to sit by me!" Kyle said, pulling me out of my chair. I smiled, grabbed my scarce belongings and walked over towards the empty seat next to him.

The whole class period Kyle and I were passing notes and talking. For a Slytherin, he was rather nice; then again, Slytherins are often nice to their fellow Slytherins. Sure, this might be my first experience having a Slytherin be nice to me, but for other people the rule applies.

I was almost shouting for joy that class was over. I don't think I could have handled another moment with McGonagall yelling at me because I was the only person who couldn't vanish my cat. I ran out of class, never looking back. I had History of Magic next, then lunch, then Potions!

History of Magic was just as boring as ever. I never bothered to pay attention; instead I would doodle and (starting today) write notes to Kyle, who, again, I was sitting next to. Professor Binns was talking about, what I think was, giant wars, although I wasn't 100 sure, seeing as I didn't pay attention to a word he said.

Once class was over I walked hand in hand with Kyle down the hall. We headed to lunch, when something finally occurred to me. James hadn't asked out Lily since the first Saturday after we got here! It was a very happy occasion that needed to be celebrated; I'm sure how exactly I can celebrate it without anyone knowing, but I'll find a way.

I sat down across from Sev, and Kyle sat next to me. Sev didn't seem to take any notice that anyone was around him, he was writing in his potion's book, again. It had been our mothers, and Sev has had it ever since his first year here. He would write side notes for each potion and write the spells that he had invented in the corners.

"Sev, do ever do anything other than write in that book?" I asked. Sev looked up at me, and smiled.

"Sometimes, it's a very rare thing, though," Sev said, going back to writing in the book.

"Hey, I don't know if you noticed, but this is Kyle," I said, pointing at Kyle, "he's the seeker on the team. He is also taking me to Hogsmeade this weekend; well, technically I'm meeting him there, but same diff!"

This caused Sev to look straight up. I almost burst out laughing, his face was that hilarious. It was a mixture of overprotection-ness and pure joy.

"That sounds pretty exciting," Snape said in a monotone voice. "Does that mean you're finally over—?"

"My cold? Yes, I do believe I am," I said, kicking Sev from under the table. I smiled, looking over at Kyle, who was looking at Sev with curiosity.

"So Kyle, Sev how has your guys' day been…" I asked, continuing to eat.

"Fine," Sev and Kyle said at the same time, causing me to laugh.

"Fine, really? And why might that be?" I said, raising an eyebrow.

"Actually, my day was great. Want to know why?" Kyle said, and I nodded. "It was because I got to spend time with you."

I smiled, as my heart went to mush. I looked over at Sev, who was on the verge of cracking up. I kicked him from under the table, again.

"That's so sweet!" I told Kyle. Then I turned to Sev and said, "What about you?"

"Truthfully, it was dreadful; I have another detention tonight because of the git James Potter!" Sev said, stabbing his food.

"What he do this time?" I asked, in a worn out voice.

"Well, it was in Charms, and he was being is high and mighty self and he decided to start being stupid. He started talking about you. I only heard the just of it, but I was mad enough. I stood up and cursed him, causing his ear-lobs to droop all the way down to the ground. It was rather hilarious, but I don't think Filtwick was too happy about it."

"What was he saying?" Surprisingly, it wasn't me who said it, but Kyle, whose fists were clenched.

"Well, like I said, I just got the just of it. He was saying something about Andy and then everyone started laughing, except Remus. I didn't care what they were saying; I just got up and shot the first spell I thought of at him," Sev said, in a low, bitter voice.

"Thank you, Sev, but you know, you don't have to defend me," I said, feeling a ping of guilt. It wasn't James' fault Sev got in trouble, it was mine, and I knew it.

"Oh, on the contrary, I think I need to defend you. I mean, you are my sister, why else am I supposed to do?" Sev asked, raising his eyebrows at me.

"I don't know; it's just that I don't want to feel defenseless, I want to be the one who can call the shots…" I whispered, laying my head on Kyle, who stopped eating and started to comfort me, by wrapping his arm around me.

I removed Kyle's arm, and rushed out of the Great Hall. I heard someone come after me, but didn't bother to look behind and see who it was. I felt someone grab my arm. I turned and looked and saw…