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CHAPTER 29

Late September, Gryffindor vs. Zoloto.

"Oh god, I'm so conflicted!" Audrey yelled, flopping on her bed. The eight girls (four Gryffindor, four Beauxbatons) had woken early that morning to get breakfast and get ready for the game.

"I'm not." Chantal grinned, she was rooting for Zoloto mainly because of Sven.

"We all know why." Marlene snorted, and they laughed.

"I can't help it, he's so sweet and charming." Chantal cooed, Audrey pretended to barf.

"It's so weird hearing that, he's like my brother." She laughed, and then sighed. "I really don't want to go…"

"It'll be fine!" Lily said. "I mean, one of them's got to lose, and then all this tension will be over."

"You really think it'll be over, Lils?" Alice, their fourth dorm mate, said. She raised an eyebrow.

"She's got a point, Lily." Audrey gave her a look as they descended the staircase and walked into the common room.

It was true, it was the first Quidditch match I didn't want to watch. There was too much conflict and working up towards the match, James, and especially Sirius, became very tense and rigid. They were on great terms with Sven, but whenever Karl was around they wouldn't speak. It bothered me greatly, especially seeing as I was still stuck being Sirius' partner in potions class.

"Morning, beautiful." said a voice Audrey loved to hear. She grinned, kissing Karl on the cheek. He was wearing his Quidditch robes, a gold and black combination. Different from the Hogwart's Hufflepuff house robes, it seemed more mature. On the back of their jerseys was their school crest and their last name.

The rest of Karl's team was also in the Gryffindor dormitories, and they were descending the stairs on the boys side.

"Morning, Audrey!" said Dmitri, one of the chasers.

"Good morning." She grinned.

"Audrey!" James scolded, joking around as he came down the stairs in his uniform after the Zoloto team. "No fraternizing with the enemy! You were sorted into Gryffindor, remember?"
"Okay, Dad." Audrey snorted.

"They're the star crossed lovers of the house." Marlene said, causing everyone to laugh, including Karl and Audrey. It was true.

"So who's Romeo, and who's Juliet?" asked Sirius, coming down the stairs next.

I had to admit to myself, Sirius cleaned up well in uniform.

"I'll be Romeo." Audrey joked, looking at Karl. "I'm stronger…" She whispered in his ear.

"Oh really?" Karl raised an eyebrow, smirking. In a flash, he picked up Audrey and threw her over his shoulder. She laughed.

"Can you put me down?"

"No, I don't feel like it. Let's go get breakfast."

Audrey giggled and spoke to him in Russian.

"Aww, they're cute." Chantal cooed, Marlene, Lily, and Alice nodded in agreement. They all began giggling and grinning.

Sirius rolled his eyes, shaking his head as the other girls left for breakfast.

"I was attempting to belittle him and of course they turn it into a joke." He said, collapsing onto the couch.

"I know, mate." James said, rubbing his friends back. "I thought it was brilliant."

"Thanks, James." Sirius said, giving him a small smile.

"Oh my god, you two are totally gay for each other." came Marlene's voice. Both of their heads snapped up.

"What're you doing back here?" James laughed.

"I forgot my sweater." She replied, about to run up the stairs. "Sorry I interrupted your couple moment."

"I'm proud of being gay for James!" Sirius said standing up triumphantly. "I don't know why you're so upset about it, Marly."

"I'm not, Sirius." Marlene replied. "I'm happy for you as long as your both happy…and if I can be the flower girl at the wedding."

With that, Sirius and James got up, chasing her up the stairs…of course, the stairs in the girls dormitory changed to a slide when a male would try to enter.

"Nice job." Marlene said sarcastically, sliding down with her sweater.

James and Sirius just grinned at each other.

I felt so odd at the match that I ended up sitting with Severus in the back of the Slytherin section, Lily accompanied me. She had apparently refused to cheer for James after something stupid he said at breakfast.

"Aren't you in the wrong section?" murmured a voice in Audrey's ear. She turned around to see a pair of familiar blue grey eyes, and black hair.

Regulus Black.

"I thought inter-house and inter-magical relations was this year's theme." Audrey replied slyly.

He gave a small laugh, his lips were close to her ear once more. "I suppose that's right, but I figured you'd be rooting my brother and his idiot friends on in the Gryffindor stands."

Audrey shook her head, keeping her eyes straight ahead, she only turned her head very slightly to speak. "I'm a little conflicted…"

"Right." He murmured. "I forgot your boyfriend is from Durmstrang. I'm sure Sirius isn't too pleased about that."

Audrey raised an eyebrow, turning around.

"Regulus!" Severus said, just noticing the boy was there.

"Severus." He replied, a signature Black smirk forming on his features.

"I didn't notice you were right behind us." Severus' eyes glinted.

Severus and Regulus had a strange relationship that I cannot really explain…not now at least.

"Gryffindor Chaser Sirius Black aims the Quaffle at Gregorovitch. OH, right to the head…oh, that's going to hurt. Not a very welcoming shot for our international guests."

Audrey slapped her palm to her forehead, letting out a frustrated sigh. She rested her head on Severus' shoulder and he patted her shoulder consolingly.

"Though I'm more biased towards Karl, they're both gits." Severus said, as Karl had retaliated when he blocked a shot with his broom and aimed directly for Sirius. It hit him in the shoulder.

"This is why I don't date." Lily said, shaking her head. Audrey laughed.

"Ah, I see the Russian is not as calm as he was thought to be." Regulus said out loud, more to Audrey than to Severus, but he made it seem as though he were speaking to Severus.

"I'm hoping he takes your brother out." Severus had a malicious glint in his eye as he spoke to his house-mate.

Severus, Karl, and Sven had taken an instant liking to each other…I was glad that at least most of my male friends had been getting along.

"You and I both." Regulus smirked. "They say that the Zoloto house is the calmest house in Durmstrang, but they're playing pretty viciously."

"And fairly." Audrey added, it was true though. Gryffindor was playing fairly, with the exception of Sirius, James and the other Chaser who seemed to have an out for Karl. James was the calmer of the three.

It was a very stiff match, Zoloto had only scored ten points and with Karl as Keeper Gryffindor hadn't scored at all. However the defense was stepped up and two hours into the match they were still at ten - nil. The match was ended when David Jarrett, Gryffindor's Seeker, managed to catch the snitch and end the game.

"Merlin's pants that was a long game." Audrey groaned, as she made her way down from the stands with Severus and Lily. The three of them decided to go see Zoloto's team, Lily had decided after watching James and Sirius play earlier that she didn't want to speak to them at all.

They entered the locker rooms to find all of them sitting around on a bench, their captain, Dmitri, giving them a speech.

"Looks like we have company." said Sven, pointing to the doorway. The three grinned.

"Excellent offense." Severus smirked.
"And defense." Audrey added, giving Karl a peck on the cheek. He grinned.

"I know, that's what I said!" shouted Artemi, one of the beaters. Everyone laughed.

"Sorry they're gits." Lily said, motioning to the direction of the Gryffindor locker room, which could just barely be seen out the window.

"It's alright. They played admirably." Sven said, but then added. "…sort of." He shot Karl a look.

"It would help if that chaser wasn't in love with your girlfriend." Dmitri muttered, shooting Karl a look.
"He is not." Audrey replied, shooting Dmitri a look.

"Oh really? It doesn't appear that way." He replied sarcastically. "He looks pretty jealous to me. Right boys?"
A few Da's were heard throughout the locker room.

Lily and Severus shot Sven a confused look, looking for a translation. Sven just whispered. "Sirius…"

"Oooh." Lily said. "Well, Dmitri, Sirius has always been that way. Audrey's managed to shut him out pretty well for the last three years."

Severus snorted. "More like Black just drools at sight of any member of the opposite sex."
"That too." Lily added.

"We'll just have to play harder next time." Dmitri said. "Training on Sunday evening, before dinner. Don't be late."

With that, he dismissed them.

Three weeks later.

"Lilllyyyyyyy." James and Sirius whined together. They had been following her around all day, and every day that week, whining.

"Lilllyyyyyyy!"

"WHAT?" The redhead snapped, finally annoyed. She had successfully ignored the two for nearly a month.

"YAY!" The two said together.

Lily, still angry, raised an eyebrow.

"You finally spoke to us." James said.

"Yeah." Sirius chimed in. "It's been nearly a month."

"Don't you know why I've been ignoring you?" Lily seethed, not sure why she was still bothering with the two. She could have been at the library right now.

"No." They said together, acting innocent.

"Oh come off of it." Lily hissed, calling their bluff.

"We've been behaving, Lils." Sirius said.

"Yeah, we've made loads of friends from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons." said James, and they began to list.

"Chantal, Hans, Petro…"
"Sven, Olaf, Igor…"
"Kurt, Erik, Aimee…"
"Marie, Veronique…"

Lily groaned in frustration and sped up, she didn't feel like dealing with those two and their shenanigans. They sped up with her, Sirius on her left, James on her right.

"Lilllyyyyy. Where are you going?" Sirius asked, poking her.

"To the library." She replied haughtily.

"But why are you mad at us?" James asked. "We've told you all of our friends."

"BECAUSE…" Lily hissed, stopping short and glaring at them both. "You both have purposely been treating Karl like he's the most awful person in the world and his entire team for backing him up."

James and Sirius wore identical mocking expressions of shock and hurt. Lily still glared. Before either of the boys could say anything, Lily came dangerously close to them and said in a low voice.

"Just because Audrey has a boyfriend, Sirius. Doesn't mean you can treat him like that. He's a nice guy, and you'd both realize that if you actually made an effort to get to know him."

With that, she stormed off.

"What's her problem?" James grinned at his cohort.
"No idea." Sirius shrugged, grinning.

Lily made her way into the library, red faced and sat down at her usual table with Severus and Audrey, Karl, Sven, and Chantal were additions this year. Despite all of them working hard on homework, they had been kicked out a few times for their laughter or chatting.

"What's wrong?" Audrey asked, noticing how red Lily was.

"Ran into the two gits again." Lily mumbled.

"They're still houding you?" Severus asked. Lily nodded.

"What happened?" Sven asked, curious.

"I just told them off, that's all…" Lily mumbled, still angry.

"Thank you, Lily." Karl said, giving her a smile. "You didn't have to do that."

Audrey nodded, agreeing. "Yeah, I was planning on scaring them out of their wits on Halloween anyway…nothing like a good scare for revenge."

"A good scare won't do anything for those two." said Marlene, who had come out from behind a bookshelf carrying three large books. She plopped down in the empty chair across from Audrey.

"Good point." Lily said.

"But again, Lily, thank you." Karl said, genuinely serious.

"It was nothing…those two are just…ugh…" Lily shook her head, opening her charms text book.

"What time is class tonight?" Chantal asked.

"Five thirty." replied Audrey, not looking up from her essay. She was nearly finished.

"It's ten after…" Marlene said.

"We should go then." Audrey said, quickly shutting her open text books. "I'll go get Sarah."

The last time the girls had class they had been late and ended up having to stay in the studio for an additional two hours. Audrey was about to rush over to the other side of the room where Sarah sat with Henri, her 'friend' from Beauxbatons, when someone had grabbed her arm.

She jolted back and felt Karl's lips crash onto hers.

"What?" She asked, looking up at him after they broke apart.

"Nothing." Karl whispered, smiling. "I just felt like it."

"I'll see you later." She breathed, he nodded.