A/N: AARGH I'm so sorry I haven't updated! My ideas wouldn't go on paper, and when they did, someone else had the computer! xD

Quaffle

It was the first Gryffindor/Slytherin match when I was a taken girl.

It was rough.

Maybe that was the first time I realized I did not want Lucius.

But it was too late to change my mind about anything, really.

I couldn't flirt.

No one sent me stares of longing. Lucius was too powerful for that.

The stares of envy multiplied.

I couldn't flirt.

When second year James Potter, notorious for flirting with everyone but Slytherins, passed me, he didn't even glare.

But most important, I couldn't flirt.

I couldn't flirt.

Narcissa Black, flirter of the century, couldn't flirt.

I sighed gustily.

"Something wrong, Narcissa?"

"Bella!"

"No."

"Ah-Bellatrix."

"Yes."

She was sitting above me, her dark hair done up in a braid.

"Aren't you supposed to be at Voldemort's side or something?" I asked darkly. She had, after all, graduated.

"The Dark Lord would rather I was here."

"Why? Never mind; I don't care," I said, flipping my hair and turning again.

"So cheeky. I'll deal with that after the game. How's Lucius?"

"Get out of here, Bella."

"Hey, don't order her around!"

"Rodolphus Lestrange?"

"Yes, that'd be me. Get off my fiancé's back, little girl."

"What?" then, again, "I don't even care. Both of you get out of here."

Lucius was doing well, I noticed. I smiled as he somehow dove under a Bludger. I gasped with everyone when the Keeper saved the Quaffle from going in.

I then, for some reason beyond me, looked closely at the item in the Keeper's hand. A Quaffle.

It was red and round. I hated the shape of it, suddenly.

I hated the look of red as it glinted in the light.

I hated the look the Keeper had, of maliciousness, as he smiled.

I hated how Lucius sat back and raised his arms in the air in victory.

I hated Quidditch.

I hated Quaffles.

I even, dare I say it, hated Lucius.

A/N: Sorry about the shortness and the random appearance of Bellatrix. I wanted Narcissa to have a reason to really pay attention to the game.

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