The summer continued secret plotting to set the best mate up. Dawn filled Jenna and Alanna in on the matchmaking. Kain had no idea of what was going to happen. Bill had sent the letter to Arrum about joining the Quidditch team. He told Arrum what dawn had told him. He'd go with it but he'd need help from his friends with practice. The moon was spent at the Lupin-Black home. When the letter Came for the books Kain would need for the sixth year she Went to Diagon Alley alone to purchase them. The last week of August Snape released her to go spent the last of summer with her family and friends.

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Arrum now on the train with his best friends feeling confident about what was about to happen. "This will work. We've worked all month to get you this far. You'll be fine. We'll stand by for support. Remember if you get hurt she'll come to see if your okay." Bill said. "Right. I have to try to not die on the broom. When are try out's again?" He asked. "Two weeks from today. You play Slytherin first game. Most likely you'll be a keeper." Raoul informed him.

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TWO WEEKS LATER

It was the day of tryouts. Both teens could see could see their friends in the stands watching. "Alright for those of you who signed to play at the end of last year, you know who you are, stand by me. For those of you just trying out for the first time stay where you are." The captain Micky Kendol a seventh year said. Kain was a beater armed with her bat. "Alright everyone up." They all got on their brooms and took to the air. Micky released the bludgers then threw up the quaffle before letting the snitch out.

The mock game quickly got started. Brooms whizzing pass. "Look out Arrum!" Someone had called a bludger was coming right for him. The other seasoned Beater got it away before it could do damage. Kain zipped pass. "Watch where you are now get out there." She had told him. He did catching the quaffle from the opposing team and flying about passing it to another chaser. they went about like this for three hours. In the three hours it took for Micky to pick who would be on the team with only three of the players from last year. Micky called them in. "Alright when I call your name join me over here with your fellow team mates." He called names and the positions they would fill. Arrum was a chaser.

As he stood near the dark haired girl he noticed that her broom wasn't like the others. The tail of it the broom looked like the practice brooms Madam Hooch used to teach the first years. "What are you starring at?" She asked. "Your broom it's not like everyone else's." Arrum said. "I made it myself. Took me three weeks. Fast just as any broom on the market if not faster." She said. "Wicked. Try to race you on it. Once round the Black lake. What do you say?" Arrum asked. Kain smirked. "How about playing a game before you try racing me. Alright if we win the first game you get a race." she offered. "Deal."

Kain was out of earshot when his friends came over. "Well?" Gareth looked at his beaming friend. "I asked her about her broom she said she made it herself and that it was just as fast as a bought broom. Then I said how about a race around Black lake she said if we win the first game I get you race her around Black lake." Arrum explained. "Good now you just have to wait till November. For now it's just practices." Bill told him.

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"I hope we lose the first game." Kain grumbled. "Why did you make the deal if you didn't want to race?" Jenna said. "I don't know. He asked about my broom and then he said race around the Black lake. But only if we won the game. Why was he even at the tryouts?" she questioned. "He lost a bet to Raoul over the summer. They didn't think he'd make the team but he did so he's going to stick with it." Dawn said. "You two going out yet?" Alanna asked.

"No. Besides we just got back to school and we've only chatted outside of school a few times. I'm not sure." Dawn said. "Well I hope it works out for you Bo Peep." Jenna said. "I think I'm going to tell Raoul how I feel about him. What do you think?" Alanna asked. She and Raoul were in love with each other but neither of them knew it. Stolen glances when the other wasn't looking. Bumping into each other in the library. "Well I wish you luck then." Kain said. "You however need to tell Gareth how you feel about him. I saw Emily from Hufflepuff chatting him up. He looked like he was giving in." Alanna said. "I'm going to tell him after Halloween." She said.

"Well good luck to all of you."

Everything was smooth for the next two weeks. The first game was coming up. Halloween was on the way. Bill Had asked Dawn to be his girlfriend and the two couldn't be happier. Dawn was happy always if it were ever a day that she felt bad about, which was very rare, Bill seemed to cheer her up right then and there. They were rather cute together. Kain hadn't really talked to Arrum much since the tryouts only once or twice both times about their history of magic homework. Arrum rarely saw Kain after eight. She was either working with Snape continuing her potions apprenticeship or she just wasn't around. Really when she was with Snape Arrum thought she was in her room.

"So ready for the game tomorrow?" Raoul asked. "More or less." Arrum was pretty nervous to talked to the keeper of his team who told him about how the Slytherin players were all boys and they were Sixth and seventh years. "Just think you win and you get to race with Kain." Gareth said to get the boys hopes up. "Your right. I have something to look forward to." I'm gonna die, He thought.

The next day everyone was ready for the game. The teams were out on the field waiting for the go. He had to remind himself to stay away from the snakes. He was passed the quaffle and was determined to get it pass their keeper. He was almost knocking from his broom and lost the quaffle, which was quickly recovered. Everything was going fine. Gryffindor was in the lead this time. Brooms were zipping here and there. Why did they always have to go against Slytherin? It was no fair they were brutal and cheats.

In the stands Raoul, Alanna, Bill, Gareth Dawn and Jenna watched. Arrum was holding his but they didn't think he would last for much longer. You could see the seekers chasing the snitch around the field weaving around towers turning this way and that. Kain could be seen teaming up with their teams other beater to get the chasers away from their players. "No Arrum in trouble he's got two Chasers one on each side of him trying to get him of the bloom." Jenna pointed with her finger and everyone followed it.

"Over here!" Mark the other beater had seen what was happening. As the bludger was hit to him he hit it down hoping to relive the new chaser of one of his chasers. It threw all three off into a frenzied pattern separating. Arrum would have to thank the boy later for most likely saving his life.

The game was lost that day. Arrum and Kain talked about Quidditch, till Madam Pomphrey shooed her away. Raoul, Gareth and Bill all came in to check on the player. "So?" They all stood looking at him. "She didn't try to kill me. We managed to talk just a little bit about Quidditch. Says I did pretty good for my first real game." he said. Things were looking up. Dumbledore decided that the school could use a little fun. So there would be a dance for the winter solstice. It would take place three days before the day of the solstice seeing that everyone would be home for the holidays.

"Well Mr. Wynterwood your free to go. Nothing to prolong your stay but should your head start to hurt more where you hit it come to me right away." Poppy said. "Yes Ma'am." Arrum left.

When the next game came about Gryffindor won it. They were on the ground again still in the field. "You still owe me a race." Arrum said. "No I don't that was only for the last game. IT didn't apply to this one too." She said. "Oh come on. Once around the Black lake." Arrum pressed. The others started chatting. "Race. Race. Race. Race."

"Alright! You got your race but I'll still beat you." Kain told him with confidence. They got on their brooms. "First one through that ring wins. Ready? Go!" They took off full speed. Kain hadn't been lying when she said the broom was fast. She should make brooms for a living. They went under and over each other Kain showed off what she could do on a broom. Standing up and surfing on it or hanging from it. When Arrum tried to do the same things he hurt himself where it really hurt and slowed a bit. They were coming back around Kain was seated on her broom making herself smaller to go faster. There was no way she would let the rookie beat her. But she had yet to unleash the full power of the bloom.

They had reached the final stretch. The two were neck and neck. "Hey Wynterwood two words. You lose." She zipped past him faster then he could catch up weaving through two towers and through the ring. On the ground Arrum looked beaten but impressed. "You were right the broom is indeed wicked fast." He said. "Maybe I'll teach you how to do the broom tricks that I do." he nodded.

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That night it was only Jenna, Alanna, and Dawn for a few hours. Kain was helping Snape with potions he needed for his classes tomorrow. "Well that went well. Bill said Arrum was going to ask her to the winter solstice dance." Dawn said. "Fat chance that will happen she hates dresses. Kain said the last time she wore a dress she was seven. Mr. Sirius and Mr. Remus confirmed it." Alanna said. She'd never put on a dress. She'd do what she could to get out of going. They only had two and a half months before the dance. This was hard work trying to set up your best mate the werewolf.

"This will never work."

"We have to try. He's going to ask her in November. Two weeks from now. Even if it was just us she wouldn't go." Jenna said. They all knew their stubborn friend well. "Why are werewolves so stubborn?" groaned Alanna falling back on her bed. "Hey don't bad mouth me because I'm stubborn. It's more fun that way anyhow." She walked into the room. "Now If you'll excuse me It is late and I get to sleep in tomorrow."

The full moon was up the night before the Quidditch game. Kain slept in that day claiming that she was sick. Jenna, Dawn and Alanna went to the game to tell her if they won or lose. They won and Arrum hadn't gotten knocked off his broom. Being that she had stayed in her dorm she was glad Arrum couldn't come see her. She felt he was okay. Guessing he could be a friend rather then just a team mate.

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Kain was walking down the hall when she heard Laughter. She put herself in a dark shadowed spot. When they passed it was Arrum and his friends not Slytherin like she thought she was looking to prank a few. "I'm going to ask Kain to the Winter Solstice." was all she heard fading. "I didn't know you lurked around in corners." Dumbledore came out of nowhere. "Um...I. I'm going to lunch bye." She took off down the hall. She raced into the great hall to find her friends. "He wants to ask me to the dance." She said almost tripping at her stop.

"That's a good thing." Jenna said. "No, no, no, no, no. That's a very bad thing." she panted. "How do you know he wants to ask you?" dawn played innocent. "I was walking over here while looking to prank some Slytherins I heard laughing and hid to the side it was him. I heard him say 'I'm going to ask Kain to the Winter Solstice.'" she poured herself a drink and drank it down.

"Why don't you just go? Have fun once in a while. Next year we have to be serious because of N.E. just go to the thing." Dawn said. "Did you forget I don't wear dresses?" Kain said. "You hate him that much?" Alanna asked her friend. "It's not that I hate him I don't. I don't hate him I just think It's better saving myself from the feeling what it's like to have a broken heart." Kain explained. They heard some first years complaining about professor Snape and his detentions. How hw always took points away for nothing. "That's it. I need to get detention. But that means I have to really do something bad."

"You can't be serious." Jenna said. They listened to the first years. "I dare you to tell him that his robes make him look like a bat and that he has a hooked nose." One said. "No. I value my life thank you." The other said. "You are such a scaredy cat."

Kain got that smile on her face. The smile that said I'm-up-to-something-not-good-but-not-entirely-bad. She got up and went to them. "You first years have no guts what so ever. Wow a little detention. That's nothing." She provoked them. "Well if your so brave you tell him." The boy said. "I will. And you'll see how a real marauder does it. But after Lunch and be quick about following me alright." She said. They nodded.

"Professor name is going to kill you." Alanna put her face in her hands." when lunch was over the few first years a second year or two and her friend followed her to watch what would happen. They walked till they saw professor Snape. "Professor might I have a word with you?"

"What is it Ms. Lupin?"

"You sir with all your black clothing and flowing outer robe look like a giant bat with a very large hooked nose." All the students who stood there did so with open mouths.

"Detention two months. You will report to me every night at eight least I say otherwise is that clear?" HE asked. "Kain smiled. "Perfectly clear sir. Thank you. Have a nice day." She skipped off away from him. Snape watched her go like the insane child she was. The younger students ran off when he set his sights on them.

"You three in my office now." He glared.

They stalked off to his office. One behind the other. "Now who will explain to me what that was?"

"Arrum Wynterwood wants to take Kain to the winter solstice dance. She over heard him and his friends hear him say that he was going to take her." dawn started. "She doesn't want to go. Kain doesn't wear dresses or dance. So when she heard some first years complaining that you give to many detentions she said that was the plan." Alanna had picked up.

"They dared her to say that stuff to you sir. She wants detention. She knew that if she insulted you, you would give her detention. Which you did. Now being that she has it when Arrum asks her she will tell him that she has detention." Jenna finished. "Oh she thought she was being clever with the boy. Very well I will handle it. You may go." He said. They left leaving the man to his thoughts. She's going I'll make sure of it, He thought.