Shooting some Hoops

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Victor Crimson

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Brightstone week again came by the last Friday of the week. The weather was getting better over here, but in California the temperature never drop, only at night time it did, which you never really catch him wondering unless he wanted to get scowled by his parents. Victor was in the mood to shoot a little hoop, but the school didn't actually had any court around. So he scouted Brightstone village looking far and wide, to his amazement he found a muggel playground just outside the village. It must have been his lucky day, to find a basketball court out of all places. Victor jog towards the court and already aim to hit the ball inside the hoop. He manage to score the ball from inside the muggel sports club, he was just content enough that he could actually play for a while, and not have to spend another day being stuck in castles.
 
Jessame Rose had just experienced her first kiss, and she was head over heels in love with a boy she'd met less than an hour ago. When he'd told her he had to leave to meet some other friends, she'd bidden him farewell and walked off, re-living the wonderful moment - the most wonderful of her life - in her head over and over again. She couldn't have been happier.

As she was wandering, she heard a familiar sound. At first, she didn't understand what it was - it took a moment for her muggle memories to reach through her sudden happiness from the kiss. Then, a huge smile spread across her face - this must be her lucky day! She quickly broke into a run towards the echoing sound of a basketball bouncing on asphalt. When she arrived at the court, she caught the rebound from the backboard, bounced it twice and ran in for a perfect lay up. The ball dropped cleanly through the net and JR beamed. She was short, but she was fast and an accurate shooter. She turned to watch the ball bounce away and saw a guy she didn't recognise. "Hi," she smiled. She wouldn't normally be so... well, normal, but she was in a good mood.
 
Victor stood spellbound from what he just witness. "Did you just do a lay up?" he felt his jaw drop, a shortie like herself coming out of nowhere. He was ultra struck by her skills and became an instant fan of hers, its not like everyday someone just come out of nowhere to do that. He was uber impressed. "Hey" he ultimately said, still couldn't believe his dark brown eyes had just seen. "What's your name? It has to be something like Mike cause you have skills just like him!" he nearly expessed with so much enthusiasm. "Let's see you do that again?" he grin bouncing the ball to her, edging towards the left side of the court to watch her impress him again.
 
JR smiled as the boy praised her skills. What was it with today? She actually looked down at herself to see if anything had changed. She looked the same in her own eyes, but this was the second time today an older guy had made her feel amazing. Maybe she was changing. She laughed. "Haha! I'm JR. It's nothing special, see?" she explained as she caught the ball and did another lay up, this time from the other side of the hoop, letting the ball roll off the tips of the fingers on her left hand before flying up, hitting the backboard and sliding cleanly through the net.

Catching the ball, she stood still and observed the guy with curly hair and chocolatey skin. She was pleased to see someone who looked a little more like herself here in Brightstone. "What about you? I didn't know wizards knew how to play basketball?"
 
"Jr? As in Junior" but before he could ask her anything, she imitated the trick again. Except this time she hit the ball on the other side of the back board. "Nice!" he caught hold of the ball, and dribble it in between his caramel complexion legs. Victor wasn't as highly skilled at basketball, but he did have a few tricks on his own. He dribble the ball quickly, as it roll to the side and jump for a slam dunk. Catching his fingers around the rim of the hoop, he hang for a few seconds before jumping down. The ball had enter, a swoof sound declare the fact that he made in, "Clean net" he boosted with a laugh, while standing up now to answer her question. "My names Victor or Vic, I'm actually muggelborn so I'm new to magic, what about you?"
 
With the boy's question JR remembered why she never usually introduced herself by her nickname. "No, JR as in Jessame Rose. But whatever you want to call me is fine," she was feeling generous anyway. "As long as it's not Jessiose," she thought. She watched in admiration as the guy dribbled the ball close to the ground and suddenly sprung up to slam dunk the hoop. "Nice!" she cried. That was something she herself could never do. She tried not to let her height dictate what she could or couldn't do, but some things were just beyond her reach.

She was pleased to hear he was muggle-born. She was honestly quite sick of magic and wizards... well, apart from the wonderful guy she'd just met. With a wide smile she exclaimed, "Me too! It's so great to see someone who actually knows what this is for!" as she indicated the basketball hoop. "So do you go to Hogwarts?"
 
"Haha, yeah" Victor laughed, his head shaking making his curly afro hair bounce whenever he moved. "I don't know why but I ask my friend if he wanted to play basketball.." Victor roll his bedroom eyes, making a hissing sound with his mouth. "For as I know he thinks basketball, is a basket made out of ball" he laugh again dribbling the ball against the pavement. He attempted a free throw and end up missing by an inch. Catching the ball in his hand as it bounce back, he tossed it over to Jr. "Yeah I go to Hogwarts, Gryffindor house" he said with a little confidence of himself. "You must to or something?" must wizard and witches were still heading up towards Brightstone weekend. He wonder if she had been one of them caught in the crowd while coming out of Brightstone or heading to the village. "Do you watch sport to? Ever heard legends like Kobe or Shaq? My all time favorite Allen Iverson?"
 
((Eep, sorry for delay - apparently I forgot to track this topic.))

JR laughed when Victor described his friend's thoughts on basketball. These magic freaks really were quite stupid! She watched as he took a shot but missed, and caught the ball cleanly when he threw it to her. Dribbling backwards, she stood on the three-point line and heaved the ball with all her might. It missed by a long way, but she was pleased anyway - she'd been practicing that over the winter, and was happy to see she hadn't lost any of her power. It would be a long time before she was strong enough to make a three pointer, but she was willing to work on it.

"Gryffindor - that's the red one, yeah? I'm in Hufflepuff," she rolled her eyes, the house names sounded so stupid to her. She was pleased when he switched the topic back to non-magical things. "I watch basketball and netball when I go to Christchurch with my dad, but I don't watch tv much." She thought about the names he'd reeled off, "Aren't they really old players? I've heard of some of them. I mainly just know the Canterbury team. And some of the New Zealand players. My Dad said he used to know Sparky ****s - he's the New Zealand coach." After running to get the ball that had gone astray after her three-point attempt, she passed it to Victor. "How old are you?"
 
(Will post tomorrow, I'm off to bed. Night)

"Yeah that's why I called them legend." Victor watched as Jr made in attempt to throw a three pointer inside the hoops. "The keys to three pointers its all about your legs, you know your going to have to bend your knees a little more than sort of jump up" Victor was showing her from the opposite side of her sort of displaying the move, without the ball but it didn't look complicated. He listen to what JR talk about a town in New Zealand, one that Victor never heard of, he scratched the back of his head than ruffle his afro, still watching the girl make more moves. "Well I don't think I heard of netball is that just another name for it or something? And the team? Never heard of it" Victor shrugged than open his hands to receive the ball back. "I usually go to the games live back home, I'm from California" he huffed proudly. Now it was his turn to do a three pointer, Victor did what he just showed her and ace the ball right into the net. "Its all about the knees" he laughed tossing the ball back to JR. "I'm fourteen" he bend down cuffing his hands over his knees. "What about you?" he asked her smiling. "You up for a quick game of 20? See who gets to twenty or something?"
 
JR watched and listened carefully as Victor gave her tips on her technique. It made sense, she nodded to show she understood. She laughed and explained when he said he didn't know netball. "Haha, I forget not everyone knows what netball is. It's mostly for girls but some boys play, I think. It's like basketball, but there's no backboard, and you can't dribble the ball. Oh and Canterbury is the province I live in. It's in the South Island. I think we're in Waikato or King Country now. That is if you can count magical places as actually being part of New Zealand." she rolled her eyes. She thought it was really strange that so many students from all over the world came all the way to New Zealand to go to school, but were never taught anything about the actual country. They might as well have never been here.

She was impressed when he said he was from California. "California? In America? Wow, it must be nice there. I've never been overseas." JR made a special note of watching Victor as he prepared for a three-pointer of his own. She saw the way he used his legs for the power and watched as the ball dropped through the net. She clapped, "Alright, I think I get it." She caught the ball and lined up for a three-pointer again. Bending her knees, she pictured a spring in her mind, tightly coiled with all its energy contained. Unleashing the strength in her legs, she sprung up and let go of the ball. It sailed through the air, but missed the backboard by about a metre - flying off to the side. "Wow! That was great!" she cried as she happily chased after the ball. Now she knew she had the power, she just had to combine it with her aim and she'd be shooting three-pointers in no time!

"I'm almost thirteen," she said, "My birthday's just after Christmas." She was almost sad to think she wouldn't be with her foster parents for it this year - but then she remembered Tohoru and couldn't help smiling. Having her birthday with him would be far better than with her parents.

"Twenty? We call it 21 at my school. Well, my old school." she smiled, dribbled the ball back onto the court, around Victor and did a quick lay up off her left foot. "That's one to me." She grinned. Today was a great day.
 
(Sorry about the lame and late post)


"Well the thing is I have a aunt who lives here in church-something I don't know what's it called-" Victor shrugged and watched JR make her first point already. "My aunt a muggel born as well as my little brother Vincent" only Vincent not allowed to come to this school. He was diagnose with AdHD and some form of childhood development delay. He already had his magic powers but a highly skill instructor had to be with him twenty four seven. "My brother being home school but I was sent her since my aunt lives here" this information being the first news he ever told somebody besides his girlfriend Arisa. She didn't know, no one did actually. Victor aunt was actually a on looker to both worlds. Her jobs require to scout this entire planet and make sure the wizaring world wasn't found out in the muggel world. He question his dad about it and about them being related. Till this day, he hadn't got a straight forward answer. "Wow your like getting good at it" Victor tease swiping the ball from her space as she dribble in front of him. He did a layup, and it went right into the basket. He look over at JR and smirk. "One to one, let's go shorty" he tease again. He was trying to make fun of her height but in a big brother joking way. "Let's see who gets to 21"
 
((No prob ^_^ all is good.))

JR smiled as she listened to Victor talk. She liked his accent and he was an easy chatter - she felt strangely comfortable with him - probably, she thought, because he was doing something normal instead of freaky magic stuff. "You mean Christchurch?" she asked, "That's really close to where I live."

The information he told her about his family was intriguing to her. When she'd first discovered she was magic, she'd assumed it was because her parents were, too. She'd been apprehensive but curious at the possibility of meeting her biological parents once she'd entered the wizarding world, but upon discovering that it was possible for people to be 'muggle-born' witches and wizards, became immediately disillusioned with the whole thing. Of course, she still had no idea if she was a muggleborn or a pureblood, or anything in between, but it was nice to hear someone talk about it all so openly. "Victor and Vincent? That's cute. I always wanted a brother." She paused a moment dribbling the ball before adding, "So you're aunt's a muggle-born witch, but your parents are muggles, and you and your brother are wizards?" She wanted to be sure she understood correctly. "How come your brother is home-schooled?"

Suddenly the ball disappeared out from under her hands and the next thing JR knew, Victor was in the air and the ball was slipping through the net. She smiled when he called her shorty. "It's on," and she narrowed her eyes at him in mock anger. Before he could react, she had the ball out of his hands and dribbled towards the hoop.
 
Victor was stunned when she snatch it away from his grip but it didn't stop him from hovering over her. He tap the ball away from her hand, instead of going inside the net it went elsewhere. Victor laughed, as he attempt to retrieve the ball. It wasn't going to be easy, JR was very competitive it seem. For a girl. "Well my brother a little off" he said making a face. He squinted his eyes a little when he tag the ball back into the court and started to dribble in between his smooth fit legs. "He just need a little adjusting to both worlds" he said while his hair bounce and sway with every movement of his feet. "Yeah my parents are muggels, sort of well known muggel" Victor shrugged while holding the ball up in midair. "Its not that bad you know being two kids with powers, after my schooling here I won't be doing anything magical" he shrugged his shoulder rising than falling afterwards. "I'm more into surfing...so yeah" he caught his breath on time. Today he knew he will be sweating most likely because of JR. "What about you? What about your parents?" he asked her, interested in knowing her perspective in life.
 
JR laughed good-naturedly when Victor tried to steal the ball from her but instead sent it out of the court. She nodded thoughtfully when he explained about his brother. She wasn't sure exactly what he meant, but the evasiveness of his answer told her not to dig deeper. When he mentioned his parents were 'sort of well-known muggles,' she looked at him to see if he looked similar to anyone famous she knew. She couldn't think of anyone, so ventured the queries, "Would I know who they are? What do they do? What's your last name again?" She knew full well he hadn't yet told her his surname, but didn't want to seem to be prying too much. She shook her head when he said it wasn't so bad having powers. "Another one lost to their propaganda,"she thought. She didn't want to say anything though, firstly because she was in a good mood, and she didn't want to so anything to ruin this wonderful day, and secondly because she didn't want to ruin her chances of becoming friends with this boy who played basketball and knew what it was to live a muggle life.

She was impressed when he said he was into surfing, and didn't want a magical job. She'd always wanted to try surfing, but the water near where she lived was cold and wild, and it was a half hour drive to the nearest beach, even though the cliffs just a few minutes' walk from her house looked out on the mighty Pacific Ocean. "Oh, you're on the Pacific too!" she realised out loud, then explained her thought process: "I mean, my house is on the Pacific, and so's yours. Your town I mean, if you're from California. We're on different sides of the same Ocean." While trying to make sense of that, she stole the ball back out from under Victor's feet as he puffed a bit, and tried a shot from where she was standing.

"My dad's a farm hand and my mum's a nurse... well, they're my foster parents anyway. I don't know who my biological parents are. Maybe they're magical." The last bit was said with distaste.

((You choose if I got the basket or not :p ))
 
Victor bend down again, another shot for JR. He couldn't believe this girl, she had distracted him far enough to steal the ball and now she was ahead one point. This went on for more than half an hour. Victor told JR a little about his parents, that they were into politics, but he was discreet about the details back home. It was new of him not to say much. Maybe he just didn't want to seem like he was bragging, the girl was more interesting than him any day. Well to his point of view she did, than it was twisted around when she kept asking him typical but curious questions. "My last names Crimson" he reply simply, anyone who knew that his last name was Crimson and knew that he was a Gryffindor would react the same way. Whelp sorting gay choose you right didn't it? What Victor didn't know was that his last name was changes years before he was born, dating probably two centuries back. By the time they got around 15, Victor was covered in sweats, but it felt refreshing going down his arms. It had a lot to do with the summer air, but it felt cool when he kept running after the ball. "That's cool...I mean being adopted and all..." he wonder if JR and Arisa met each other yet. Maybe they would have a lot in common. "Sometimes I don't get it though parents letting their kids be adopted" its not normal he thought to himself. "But surfing easy you just can't steal my board away" he laugh teasing JR again.
 
JR found it refreshing chatting with Victor. He was friendly and relaxed, like Georgie's brothers and sisters, and he joked the way they did, too. She barely noticed time going by as they competed hard. The were both sweating and a little roughed up from some of the spills they'd taken. JR couldn't remember having so much fun in such a long time. She was breathless, not just from running so hard, but also from laughing.

JR was proud of herself, too, for holding her own against the older boy, but she hadn't run or played any sports in a long time and she was fading fast. Victor somehow got away from her a couple of times and now he was up 19 to 16. "Oh, I'm not actually adopted," she explained, "you can't be in New Zealand unless your birth parents agree, and no-one knows who my parents are." Sometimes that got her down: that some stranger might someday show up and claim her as their own. Sure, it was unlikely they'd ever get guardianship over her after Tim and Sarah had looked after her for over a decade, but it could be upsetting to think that Tim and Sarah were technically only her temporary guardians. Victor mentioned he didn't understand how parents could give away their kids."Me neither," she agreed. "If I ever have kids I'll keep them no matter what!" She said it with vehemence, and the thought gave her the strength to take another long shot at the hoop. She laughed out loud at Victor saying she couldn't steal his board off him. "That sounds like a challenge to me!"
 
"So your parents just left you somewhere?" Victor stop and called a time out. He was leading against JR, she very enthusiastic about playing. Close to wiping Victor out but he was still winning. "I don't get it, sorry just use to the American way, and even that I don't understand myself" Victor laugh, shaking his head a little. He sat down on a bench now, reaching for his bag. He had a couple water bottles stored inside his bag and a few snacks for later. "Hey JR you thirsty? Want some water? I have plenty." He already had taken one out, it was ice cold just like Victor preferred it to be. Especially in this conditions, the sun was blazing hot today. In a couple hours it would retrieve back to cool, that's when Victor may decid to head back to the castle. He may even walk JR home.
 
"Yeah, I guess. I don't understand why. I probably never will. Oh and don't worry about it, I can't expect everyone to just know. I guess we do things differently in this part of the world." She was panting hard and tuckered out from all the running, so it was with great relief that she noticed Victor go to sit down and bring out some water. "Thanks! That's exactly what I want! Oh and it's cold, too! Perfect." She drank hungrily from the bottle Victor passed her, the icy water dribbling down her chin and mixing with her sweat, cooling her down.

She smiled. "Vincent's lucky to have a brother like you. Do you play basketball together?" she asked. It must be nice, she imagined, to have someone you could count on to always be there when you were bored or lonely.
 
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