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Jai was rocked back and forth as his broom shot up. he clenched the broom tighter as he rose to join Leoben in the air. Whew, three feet high was pretty high. He thought as he looked around.
Finally once he was able to stabilize himself he couldn't help but grin. It was pretty awesome to be on a broom and he could hardly wait to try and fly around on it!

"It's soo awesome up here! I want to fly everyday!"

Aglaia squeaked as the broom shot up into the air, her skirt flying up around her waist. Thank goodness she had those shorts on! Though she imagined a few of the guys had probably laughed to see that they were a bright pink and had green polka dots on them.

"Whoa!" She exclaimed, clutching the broom for dear life. "Settle down!" She told the broom as it rocked her side to side for a few moments. She was relieved when it settled down. That had been a bit odd. Did brooms have a mind of their own or something? that was definitely something she'd have to find out later on.

Jai was grinning like a fool, his bright teeth flashing in his darkly tanned face. He could hardly wait to fly! He waited eagerly, kicking one foot back and forth under the broom. He stopped and looked around, hearing someone say his name from below. he glanced down and saw a girl waving at him. he shot a smile back at her and waved back.
"Thanks Aglaia!" He called back jubilantly.

He watched as she shot up into the air on her own broom. That had been rather close! It had looked as though the broom was going to rock her off. He wiped his forehead in relief.

When she came to a stop a few feet away he waved at her again. "Hey Aglaia! Nice job!"

His attention was taken back to the Professor when she began to speak once more. He held back a laugh when he heard the teacher berating the Slytherin Girl that had been arguing about getting on her broom the way everyone else had. That was probably going to get her House mates mad at her. He shook his head and frowned slightly.
"That's a bad blow. I imagine her friends aren't going to be too thrilled with her for losing them points." He commented.

Jai was surprised to hear that to make the broom move one just had to will it to move. He had thought it would have been harder than that. He was definitely going to go higher, but he wasn't so sure about going ten feet high. That seemed a bit too far for him. He hoped that Professor Drake wouldn't be mad if people didn't want to go that high.

Leoben just rose his eyebrow at the Slytherin, watching in disbelief as she managed to lose ten points from her house. Bummer, he thought--though it wasn't quite heartfelt. Gryffindors and Slytherins never got along very well and as many of his upper classmates might say, let Slytherins lose all the points they have. He did feel bad for the girl--he knew how competitive his own house was and Slytherin matched that spirit... it was unlikely that she wouldn't be the brunt of nasty comments.

After that was done, though, Professor Drake instructed them on the third stage of instructions. Will it around? Sounds easy enough, Leoben thought to himself, leaning back on his broom and... willing?

Aglaia blushed when she realized Jai had seen her talking to her broom. She hadn't spoken that loud, how come he had heard her? This kid must really have sharp ears.

"Yes I heard that," She replied a bit sharply at his question. She wasn't completely deaf. Then she sighed, he had only mentioned it to help her, he hadn't meant to hurt her feelings. Despite Jai's odd hobbies, he was a rather nice kid.
"Sorry, I didn't mean tot snap." She added and took several deep breathes to calm herself. Letting her irish temper rise tended to make her hot headed and a pretty bad risk taker. She was not going to take any chances nor was she going to try and show off.

"Oh well that's good." She replied trying to steady her nerves. She took several more deep breathes, and tried to still herself.

She flashed a grateful smile at Jai. He really was a sweet heart. "Thanks I appreciate it."

She watched as his broom moved forward, only to jerk to a sudden stop. Her heart fluttered in her chest in alarm. Oh no! She thought in alarm. It would be horrible if Jai were to have a bad experience on the broom. She breathed in relief when he finally managed to get his broom under control.

She shot a smile at Jai and then with a deep breath and a sudden calm coming over her, she willed her broom to move over to where he was. The broom sailed smoothly over to where Jai was without any sort of jerky movements, much to her relief. She probably would have thrown up if that had happened to her.

"It Is rather fun." She replied now sitting about a foot away from him. "I think I could get used to this. But only at short levels. Going high..that probably won't happen any time soon." She admitted tossing her loose pony tail over her shoulder.

"Now," She began with gritted teeth. "Time to try that swerving thing."

The broom moved forward again at a more moderate pace and she slowly leaned to the right, making a gradual curve and then leaned to the left and maneuvered her broom back towards Jai. She relaxed slightly when she came to a stop and grinned over at him. "This seems to be getting a little easier every time I try."

Playing with a strand of hair that fell in front of her face, Marcelyn waited for the next set of instructions. Getting the broom to rise and then hover seemed easy enough so actually flying around the broom should be good as well. Hearing what Professor Drake had to say, the young Slytherin took a deep breath before leaning forward on the broom.

Trying to keep her balance was going to be the hard part. She supposed that being athletic could be a key part to broom flying and that was Marcelyn's problem. She had never been good with her balance which resulted in some people calling her clumsy and them getting the cold shoulder or a punch to the face. She frowned and hoped that none of her fellow Slytherins or the Gryffindors made fun of her. She was not past casting hexes on people even if it resulted in her getting in trouble.

She frowned and struggled to keep her weight shifted in the right way to balance herself. Leaning forward she began willing the broom to move.

Brian let go another holler as the broom moved exactly as he wanted. Smiling he turned around and flew over some of the other students' heads. "This is so cool!!" Thinking he was being smart he did a loop. The feeling was intense and he loved the sensation. He suddenly knew how a bird felt and it was glorious.