Nana walked onto the Hogwarts grounds . The wind was not too bad for once but it stung her eyes. She walked across the grounds towards the lake but she saw that the squid was beig particularly active today and it would be a bad idea to get too close. She sat down near a big tree and pulled out her old sketchbook and began to try and draw the Hogwarts caslte.

Gen was done teaching for the day and decided to go get some fresh air. She had a bottle of water with her and a magazine. She sat by a tree a smoked a cigarette by herself reading th magazine.Her neck was hurting and she decided to stand up and walk around. She saw Nana sitting under a big tree and decided to join her.

"Hey Nana! Whatcha doin? Am I bothering you?" Gen said as she took a seat next to her looking at what she was doing.

April was jogging around on the grounds, back towards the school. She was in a set of quidditch robes from her house; she had spent the afternoon flying around. Her broom was over her shoulder.

As she was about to head up the path to the actualy castle doors, she spotted two figures near a tree, a little ways away from the lake. She noticed the short Hufflepuff right away; how could you not? And beside he was... yes! Gen.

April ran over. She adored the Potions Professor. They had become somewhat friends, if you were legally allowed to be friends with a 23 year old Professor.

"Gen! Nana! What's up you guys!" she plopped on the ground, exhasuted from flying. She looked between the two of them.

Gen saw April come over and greet them. "Hey April! Whats up?" Gen said. "So I came out here to enjoy the fresh air. What were you up to? Nana is up to something but I cant tell what." Gen peered down at Nanas paper once more to try to figure out what she was doing, but found nothing. "Im pretty bored today girls." gen said with a sigh. She sat back down wit ha plop and took a drink from her water bottle.

Nana squeeled as two people waled up to her. She managed to sit on her sketchbook before she hoped they saw her drawing. As soon as it was closed she smiled pleasantly. She noticed Gen smelled like smoke and that April had a broom. Nana loved flying but her broom had died, horribly and painfully. Poor, poor broom. She said,
"Hey guys, how have you been? And April, I didn't know you played Quidditch." She said it really quickly because she was still a little stirred up from the surprising enterances.

April was still sprawled on the floor, tired from running and flying. She nodded to both girls and took gulps of fresh air.

"Nice to see you guys, you know. Nice day out. I was flying, over there. Yeah, I play a bit of Chaser and Seeker. I like both. I'm thinking of trying out for the house team, but I'm not sure..."

She noticed that Nana was fidgety.

"What are you hiding?" She asked Nana.

Gen sat there staring off into the sky. It was a lovely day out today. Gen took anothre swig from her bottle. She turned around to find April laying flat on ehr back in the grass. "Tired?" Gen said with a smile. "I never played Quidditch when I was in school. It just wasn't my thing." Gen then heard April say something to Nana. "Yeah what do you have Nana?" Gen said questioningly.

Nana giggled nervously at all the questions about her sketchbook. She tried really hard to change the subject but she had a feeling it wouldn't work. Nana said,
"Ah-hah-ha. Yeah I love Quidditch. So weird that you didn't like it. I signed up for the chaser but I don't even like know if there is going to be a team. Weird huh?? We both like Quiditch!!"

April blinked a few times. Who didn't play quidditch? Gen was silly. At least Nana knew where it was at.

"Nana, you're being weird. Show us what you have. I don't care that we both like quidditch. You aren't hiding anything from us."

She made a dive at Nana.

Gan laughed at April for diving on Nana. Nana was not ver outgoing so Gen doubted that she thought it to be funny. As April was tacking her, Gen saw that Nana was sitting on what they were trying to look at. Gen sneakily pulle the paper out from beneath her and said, "April! I got it!"

Nana tried to protect her notebook but it was stolen from her. Two on one was not a fair fight.

"Hey! Two against one isn't fair!!' Darn it, she was going to loose her temper. One time a boy had taken her notebook and she had broken his leg and almost his arm. Nana tried to take her sketchbook back but she couldn't get it away from Gen. She tried to calm down before she said,

"Er, can I have that back? It's really bad, don't look at it!" She looked at the ground and blushed a bit.

April climbed off Nana, whom she had tackled, and brushed herself off quickly. She rolled off to the side.

"DON'T GIVE IT BACK! Toss it here Gen!" she shouted, getting a clear ways away from Nana. She couldn't believe a teacher was engaging in this.

She held her arms open, getting ready for Gen to frisbee over the notebook. Nana was attempting to get off the ground to stop her, mumbling for them not to look at it.

Gen looked at the notebook before tossing it. "Its actualyl really good Nana! Nothng to be ashamed of at all!" She then tossed to notebook to April. "Take a look April, Its good isnt it.?"

Nana made a noise that she couldn't describe. Nana didn't like people looking at her sketches before she had finished them. They had her whole source of really bad drawings. Well if she could act calm enough.. oh heck with it, Nana jumped on April and tried to take her notebook back. She said,

"Give ti back please!" Nana realized that she wasn't very threatening being only like half April's height.

Gen laughed but then seeing as she was the authority figure, she pulled teh notebook from Aprils hands and handed it back to Nana.

"You really shouldnt be embarassed about your drawings. I know that you dont think they look good but other people might...like me!" Gen said.

Nana turned pick as her notebook was returned to her. She hugged it and closed it back up. They were okay but they didn't look anything like Hogwarts castle. Nana remembered that she had been complimented and thank Gen. She said,

"Thank you. You need to see my good one's then you'll understand. But I don't have any finished one's of the Hogwarts castle yet! These are all practice for the big thing or things." Nana thought that she should probably show them the drawings sooner or later. She tried to remember where she had put them. As Nana thought her face finally was a lottle less pink but, it was still pretty red.

"Well Nana, I thought they were good," April said, matter-of-factly. "Really good. Then again, I'm a terrible artist. You see me try to draw. It's a bit pathetic, really."

April sprawled out under the tree again, fixing her quidditch robes. "You know, you should draw me playing quidditch." She struck a pose. "I'm like a model," she added, laughing. She mounted her broom to make it look like she was in action.

She actually kicked off and soared around the air for a few moments, letting her feet brush the edge of the leaves on the trees, and finally touching down by Gen's feet.

"Ahh, good old flying. Got to love it."

Gen jumped back a bit when April landed next to her. "Yeah Nana, you should draw April flying! Thatd be a cool picture!" Gen said. She then suggested. "Well girls, what do you wana do now." Gen put her hands in her pockets and walked around a bit.

"I think... we should push Professor Rasmuse into the LAKE!" April jumped up and started trying to push Gen closer to the lake, without any help. She was a bit too heavy for her, however, April being a bit weak for a 16 year old.

"Nana... help!" She was attempting to draw Gen closer to rhw water's edge by one arm. It didn't occur to her to use a magic spell to help her, however.

Gen screamed and fought April off until she rememebred she had her wand. "Expelliarmus!" Gen yelled. Then April went flying back. Gen coyly put her wand away in her robes and smirked. "What did ya think of that girly?" Gen said with a giggle.

Nana was going to help April, but first she had to write down the ides of drawing her flying. It would be so cool. She could draw a whole series of drawings because there are just so many poses in Quidditch. Once Nana had scrawled that on the corner of an empty page she put her notebook away and jumped up to help April. Nana couldn't do much to help being fun-sized so she tried to pick April up. Nana tugged and pulled to get April up, she tried but her muscles were aching by the time she stopped pulling. April was still on the ground.

April was sprawled on the ground, trying to clear her head. She had hit it on the damp earth .Ugh. It hurt. She lifted it up finally and felt alright, and stared around.

"Are you even allowed to do that?" she asked Gen, staring at her in bewilderment. "You can't use magic on a student!"

OOC- Nana, let Gen respond to this before we continue, or it'll get awkward. She'll be back tomorrow :)

OOC: Thanks April for waiting!

IC:

Gen stepped back and looked at April in amazement. Then realizing that she had used magic on a usdent, she rushed over to assist April.

"Oh my god Im so sorry! Are you ok?" Gen was bent over April staring her down. She had just gotten a teachign job here and she was going to screw it up! "I didnt realize that it was going to blow you back so hard! Im so sorry please forgive me!"

Gen stood up and covered her red face in embarassment.

"It wont happen again." Gen said shyly. She hoped that April would forgive her.

April shook off Gen violently.

"Stop being a Gryffindor. I'm fine!" she screamed, exspareated. "You need to learn to not be so.. motherly." April laughed. Gen was ridiculous sometimes.

"And man oh man, do you have mood swings. One second, you're trying to blast me off of you, violently I may add, and the next, you're begging me to forgive you!"

April laid back down o nthe ground, smirking at Gen. Calling her a Gryffindor wouldn't be an isnult to Gen, but to her... it all made sense. Soemtimes, people shouldn't be so nice. April knew she had deserved the spell, anyways.

Gen was so irritated at the way April talked to her. She did say sorry and she is a teacher. She had every right to make sre she was ok. Gen stood up from where April was laying, turned to them all, and said, "Well Im gonna go now." Gen said sternly. She felt her face getting red from anger as she walked away in silence.

OOC: Oops, I made you mad :(

IC:

April watched Gen storm away. She blinked hard. She didn't mean to sond mean. She had just been playing. She turned to Nana.

"Was it something I said, ya think? I am in Slytherin, after all."

Gen heard April talking to Nana as she was storimg away. She decided to go back and talk to April since she was the adult and all.

"Sorry April. I really thought you were mad at me! I really didnt mean to. Want to just forget it all? I promise I wont use magic on you again!" She turned and looked at Nana. "Or you either." Gen said with a giggle.

"Now, if you accept my apology, what should we do next?"

April laughed.

"you're forgiven. I think we should watch you attempt to ride this broom, and laugh at you."

She handed the broom to Gen. "It's very easy. Now try."

Gen took the broom hesitantly. She looked at April and she was serious. "Alright. But you better not laugh too much if I fall!" Gen said with a smile. She was prettymuch up for anything, but what if she fell and got hurt?

Gen mounted the broom and counted to three 1...2...3! She kicked her feet agains the ground and the broom went soaring upwards. Gens legs and feet were dangling, she didnt know where to place them. She knew she looked like a fool but she had to admit, it was fun!

Gen was hovering in the air for a minute when she decided to try to move around a bit. She lunged forward but about fell off the broom. "Bad Idea" Gen said to herself. She then decided to lunge a bit slower. She did so and she started heading towards the ground. Gen got a bit scared and pulled up really fast and came to a screeching halt in mid air. This was such a weird sensation for her. She was fairly close to the ground when she deicded to lean forawrd again.

This was a mistake. Gen slid right off of the brook and landed face first on the ground below her. She got up and wiped herself off. She was laughing histerically. She had never flown that high before.

"Did you see I kciked off to hard and did everything wrong! Ha! Told you girls I didnt know how to fly. Did you get a good kick out of that?" Gen said still laughing and out of breath.

April watched as Gen fell on her face into the mud and dirt. She was on the ground, banging her fist on the ground, not able to breath.

"You...fell...bad!" she managed to choke out, tyring to catch her breathe between hard fits of laughter.

"Don't lean up or down too fast... it freaks the broom out. It's more in your grip... My broom is top of the line, it can tell what to do by the way you grip your hands!"

Nonetheless, she helped Gen off the ground, so as not t oanger her again.

Nana laughed a bit at Gen's vast attempt to fly her broom. She walked over to help her up before she laughed ay more. Then Nana walked away to get the broom, it was the best broom she had ever seen. It had a dark mahogany handle and the end was still smoothed and perfect. Nana picked up the broom and it took off as she grabbed it. She screamed at the top of her lugs as it took off. Before it went too far Nana stradled it and tried to gain control of the rough broom. It bucked like a horse and tried to throw her off. The broom flew higher and faster taking Nana with it. She screamed some more.

Gen was thankful that April helped her up and no sooner than Gen stood up, Nana was screaming at the top of her lungs. Gen whilred around to see what was going on and to her surpirse, she saw Nana flying around! Gen was awestruck. She turned to April and said, "I didnt think Nana had it in her! Shes so shy I wouldnt have expected her to try that." Gen glanced back up at Nana excitedly, "Go Nana GO!" Gen yelled with her arms in the air.

April pushed Gen a little, nudging.

"Look! She's not having fun... she's being THROWN OFF! Get down Nana, get down! Leave forward slightly!" She yelled, trying to circle underneath her to catch her and the broom. She didn't want the broom to get smashed!

"And be careful of wrecking that broom, it cost my dad a fortune!"

Nana tried to listen but the broom bucked under her. She screamed again before it cut her off by doing a barrel roll of his own free will. Nana stopped listen to the lean forward idea and did the only thing that came to her mind. She yelled at the brom. She screamed,
"STOP!!!! NOW TAKE ME OWN TO THE GROUND AND BE GOOD ABOUT IT!!!! APRIL WILL RIDE YOU CUZ I'M NOT GONNA!!!!!!" The broom listened to her screams. The broom began it's slow decent to the ground. Nana smiled a bit as it kept its decent. She waved her hands at Gen and April as the broom obeyed her. Nana said,
"April, I think your broom will live. And I don't think it has good respect for anyone! Does it do that to you?'

April was rolling on the ground laughing at /Nana's shouts. She was screaming at the broom, tyring to get it to listen to her. Surprisingly, it did listen. It let her back to the ground. She watched Nana shakily dismount. She grabbed her broom back, checking it for scratches.

"April, I think your broom will live. And I don't think it has good respect for anyone! Does it do that to you?' Nana asked.

"No, of course not! It didn't do that to Gen. You must have panicked, which isn't a good idea on a broom. It slike a horse... it knows when you're spooked. Nonetheless, no more broom rides for you, I don't think..."

She was still out of breath from laughing. She hopped on her broom and did a few loop the loops to make sure it was still in proper working order. It listened to her grip; her thoughts; her simple touch. She adored that feeling./ She hit the ground smiling, and brushed her robes off.

Nana said,
"Maybe if it didn't take off when I touched it I wouldn't have flipped. Oh, and I can fly just fine on a broom!!" She was a bit insulted at being told she coudn't ride a broom. Nana pulled out her wand and said,
"Accio my broom." She heard the air whoosh as her broom came flying towards her. Nana smiled as it came towards her, she caught it and mounted it. The broom went into the air without her even kicking off. She was extremely happy to be on her own broom it was much better behaved. It flew at her slightest thought and they were one in the metaphorical way. She did several barrel rolls and a loop-de-loop. Then Nana flew her broom to the ground and smiled a bit evily at April. She said,
"Now that is how you fly a broom. I told you I could do it. There."

"Way to step it up there, Huffie. In for a challenge? I'll race you, if you'd like."

April had no doubt she would win, and that was unfair. Maybe, down to pure skill, it'd be a good match, but April's broom was quite top of the line.

"Let's race ,and put a bet on it, shouldn't we?" April was smirking evilly. She was determined to win, maybe for the solepurpose of showing off her quick speed and fast broom.

Haha, if any person challanged her to Quidditch she would take it without much thought, Nana said,
"Haha!! I'll win fair'n'square!!! We'll bet, er" She reached into her pockets to check how much change she had on her. Nana unearthed 10 galleons, she had a pretty good supply of money. She finished with,
"OK!!! I've got 10 galleons on me!! How's that??" She was probably a little overconfidet but she enjoyed flying. Nana was itching to fly so she hoped that 10 galleons was a high enough for little miss April.

April scoffed. Ten galleons; pocket money, even if she lost. She grinned confidently. She would take this easily. She wondered if Nana knew her broom was a far more superior model. the speed upgrade alone would give her a huge advantage. She almost felt bad for taking the poor 3rd years' money.

"Let's do it then. From here, to the pitch." The quidditch pitch was a few hundred yards' off in the distance. Less than 30 seconds away. 25, if April could push it. She'd keep low... Go speedy. Wind reistance, down.

She shed off top of the robe to keep down wind resistance. She was in just a t-shirt now; a Muggle band plastered across the black fabric in white letters. She smiled but shivered; the wind blew. Damn wind.

"Ready, then?"

Nana grinned as April took the bet. She had taken it without registration so Nana got the impression that April was rather rich. Nana straddled her own broom as she saw April do the same. April took off her robes and revealed a shirt with a familiar band logo on it . Nana recognized it, once she had seen someone wearing it as they were headed to one of the band's concerts. She took the idea and took off her own robes. She was wearing jeans and a shirl that read, This is my RANDOM tee-shirt!! Then Nana looked over at April's broom, it was a better model than her own but if she puched it she could at least tie in the race. It would take her less than a minute to get to the Quidditch Pitch. She told Apri,
"I am sooo ready for this race!!"