DISCLAIMER-I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER!
Do you believe in love at first sight?
Max & Lisa's Kitchen
20th March 2041, 22.00 pm
Scorpius glanced around the dining table it was full of thirty-something friends, eating, drinking wine and having a conversation that was probably being repeated around a thousand other tables that evening. This was the first time he had met up with them since his Marriage had ended and here they were, exactly the same and ready to support and console him when he was ready to talk about it. What they were really doing was reassuring him, reminding him that he had still had amazing friends and life was going to fine.
The conversation turned back to old times. Remember Laurence's wedding, the countless trips to St Mungo's, or when they met those muggles on a beach in Greece and experimented with something they'd called 'Magic 'Shrooms'. Remember that?
Then the conversation shifted, to a time when Scorpius didn't know a lot of these people, the state of their dormitories at Hogwarts, when Mark projectile vomited over Professor Longbottom after someone snuck a puking pastille into his lunch, sneaking out at night, watching girls by the lake in the summer, of sleepwalking and drunken incontinence.
Scorpius listened, taking in the sounds of their voices, the smell of dinner, mingled with cigarette smoke. He thought back to where he would have been at the time just a few weeks ago. He would probably be at home, sorting through his paper work for Monday morning, and looking in on Lucy before turning into bed. Instead he had none of these things to do. No home to be in, No job to get ready for, No daughter to check up on. He felt very out of place indeed.
They were still talking about school days, secret crushes, first kisses, then Marks' girlfriend asked the question.
"When did everyone lose their virginity? And who to?" Nina looked at Mark to go first.
"Ahh Nina," Groaned Mark, "I was sixteen, her name was Kate her parents were visiting mine, we did it in my bed as our parents got trashed down stairs. She cried after." He looked to the girl on his left, "Maisy?"
"Michael Carter," Maisy received a collective snigger from the group, "Oh shut up, we were fifteen and 'in love'. We did it in the bushes by the lake, then he fell in love with someone else. I think he's gay now." She added as an after thought.
They went round in a circle each giving their story, then it was Scorpius' turn,
"Come on Malfoy, give us all the gory details."
Scorpius could lie, conform to regularity, but he looked around the room at their expectant faces, glowing in the candlelight.
"When I lost my virginity," He started slowly, "It was the most perfect night of my life."
"Whatever, Malfoy, nobody actually enjoys the first time," Snorted Jake putting his arm around his wife, and smiling drunkenly.
"I honestly did, it was the year England hosted the Quidditch world cup, I had just turned nineteen. Her name was Roseā¦"
