Disclaimer: Yup. Definitely not owning Harry Potter. Sadface.

Scorpius was bored. Normally, he quite liked Transfiguration. He found it interesting. But today he was just bored. So he was playing with the few scraps of paper on his desk, levitating them and spinning them in the air with his wand. And suddenly he wasn't so comfortable anymore. He felt someone staring at him, the hairs on his neck stood on end. Scorpius glanced around the room until he met the intense looking stare of Leah Thomas, Jayden Thomas' twin sister. Scorpius was a bit apprehensive. He had no idea why Leah was staring at him. The girl saw that she had Scorpius' attention and smiled widely, puffing the side of her short brown hair up and lowering her eyelids lazily. Scorpius gave an awkward smile and turned back to face the front, thoroughly confused. Why was Leah looking at him weirdly? Why was she smiling at him like a mad woman and why was she squinting? He was pulled out of his thoughts by a soft nudge from beside him. Al was looking at him questioningly, wondering why Scorpius looked so confused. Scorpius leaned closer and said quietly, 'Does Leah Thomas need glasses?' Al looked completely thrown now, turning to face Leah so he could see what his mate was on about. He noticed the puffing of the hair, the over exaggerated smile and the drooping eyelids.

'Why do you ask?' Al replied, turning back to Scorpius.

'Well, look at the way she's looking at me!' Scorpius huffed. 'She looks like she can't see anything.'

Al looked once more at Leah and sniggered.

'You are completely oblivious, aren't you?' he said, smirking. This made Scorpius frown.

'What are you on about?' the blond asked. Al just continued to smirk at his friend.

'She's not having trouble seeing, you dolt. She's trying to look seductive. She wants you, man.' Al explained, laughing quietly. Scorpius paled, how he could pale anymore than he already was, Al didn't know. His eyes flashed towards Leah once more in surprise and turned away to find a sudden fascination with the desk in front of him. Al rolled his eyes.

'Oh come on, don't tell me you didn't notice the gaggles of fan girls following you about the castle?' he said sarcastically. Scorpius was smart, really smart, almost up there with Rose, but sometimes he could be so stupid, thought Al. Scorpius shook his head disbelievingly at the laughing Potter next to him.

'Just watch when we walk out of here.' Al said dismissively, leaving Scorpius shocked and confused. The end of the lesson came around far too quickly for Scorpius's liking, and he and Al made their way out if the class with their books tumbling around in their bags. Scorpius was on full alert now, looking for anything unusual, or rather hoping that there was nothing unusual just to prove Al wrong. But of course, Al was right, and Scorpius saw a giggling group of girls trailing behind him, Leah Thomas being one of them. When Scorpius looked at them, they all froze then fell about in fits of giggles and blushes. He turned scowling, and walked briskly off next to Al, resisting the strong urge to smack Al around the back of the head after seeing him sniggering under his breath.

Over the next month, Scorpius couldn't help but see the girls following him, now that Al had pointed it out. They followed him all over the place. It was extremely frustrating. What bugged him the most was that they didn't even bother trying to hide the fact that they were basically stalking him. Normally, he would have been flattered that they liked him, but the girls were just downright annoying and Scorpius had had enough of it. Al had yet to stop seeing the funny side of his predicament, much to Scorpius' dismay, and Rose seemed to just be ignoring it, rolling her eyes in disgust at their desperation.

Rose seemed to be his only saviour at that point, because whenever Scorpius was walking with Rose, the girls seemed to back off a bit, and Scorpius wasn't as aware of them. It was a great relief from when he was with Al, whose teasing on the subject only made it worse. Scorpius decided to try to ignore it some more, hoping to great Godric that the 'fangirls' would get bored with the lack of attention they were getting from him and find someone else to stalk. This, unfortunately, did not go as planned. Al, Rose and Scorpius were walking to the library to finally get their charms assignation finished (Rose and Scorpius had already completed theirs, so the journey was more for Al's sake), when Scorpius heard the giggling once more and saw something fly at him. Next thing he knew, he was bracing himself against the wall from having Leah Thomas crash into him, presumably pushed his way by one of the giggling idiots. Leah clung to his robes, feigning damsel in distress and it was all Scorpius could do not to throw her off. With Al currently laughing his arse of in the corner somewhere, and Scorpius too stunned to do anything, Rose took matters into her own hands. The red-head grabbed a fistful of Leah's robes and pulled her off Scorpius in one swift movement. She then proceeded to glare at her.

'Have you no self-respect?' Rose asked, disgusted. The brown-haired Ravenclaw threw an annoyed look at Rose and smiled brightly at Scorpius, before picking up her books and running of with the rest of his stalkers, no doubt discussing how his muscles felt through his shirt, thought Rose.

Scorpius adjusted his robes and scowled at Al, who was still doubled over with laughter. This time, Scorpius didn't resist and slapped him round the back of the head, Al's unruly mop of black hair falling forward into his eyes. The middle Potter sobered at this and fell into step next to his two best friends, repressing the urge to laugh again.

'Thank you, Rose.' Scorpius said stiffly. Rose just rolled her eyes and shook out her bright red hair in boredom. The three found a secluded corner in the library to sit down and Al laid out all his books and papers over the table in front of them in one sweep. Rose perched herself on a bookshelf and Scorpius slumped into a chair next to her, still scowling.

'Lighten up, Scorp,' said Rose, noticing the look on his face. 'It's not the end of the world.' she tried, attempting to make him feel better. He wasn't having any of it.

'It's just so bloody annoying! Don't they have anything better to do?' Scorpius started, in full rant mode.

'Do they not see that I'm not interested?' he continued, not seeing Al roll his eyes.

'Mate, calm down, you're making it snow!' Al said, chuckling, gesturing to the flakes now appearing from above Scorpius' head. Rose rolled her eyes for the second time, and brushed the fallen snow off of Scorpius' shoulders and head, using her fingers to shake it out of his ice-blond hair. Scorpius just closed his eyes and held the bridge of his nose between his index finger and thumb, something he did when he was stressed.

'You need to get yourself a girlfriend, mate.' said Al, turning over the pages in the book he was holding.

'I'm sorry?' asked Scorpius.

'Think about it. When I'm around, your groupies are all over you. When Rose is around, they back off a bit.' explained Al, looking up from his book to meet the incredulous stares of Rose and Scorpius.

'I'm saying, they feel intimidated because Rosie here, is a girl.'

'Oh well spotted.' chimed Rose from her bookshelf. Scorpius laughed and smiled at her.

'Don't worry Rosie, I know you're a girl.' he said lightly, patting her knee. Rose scowled and shoved him in the side.

'Will you let me finish?' said Al, closing the book and throwing it back on the table. The blond and the redhead nodded in assent.

'If they think you are not available, they'll also think they have no chance. They'll get bored and back off.' Al finally finished with his explaining.

Scorpius sat back in his chair and mulled this over, chewing on the cuff of his right sleeve. Rose frowned and slapped his hand away. She hated when he did that.

Al huffed after a while and stood up.

'I'm not going to get anything more done tonight. See you in the common room.' he said, packing up his things and walking out of the library, leaving Rose and Scorpius alone. Rose had buried her nose in a book and Scorpius seemed to have slumped even further down his chair, groaning. Suddenly, he had an idea.

'Ro-sie?' said Scorpius sweetly, smiling up at her innocently with wide eyes. Rose couldn't fight the smile on her lips and shook her head.

'No, Scorpius. I'm not going to be your little girlfriend just so you can get rid of the desperate dimbos.' she laughed again, raising an eyebrow at his pouting face.

'Oh, I know. I just don't want to be a user and get a girlfriend for my own personal gain.' Scorpius explained, jumping up and seating himself next to Rose on her bookshelf.

'They already feel intimidated by you, can't you just, I don't know, play it up a bit?' Scorpius pleaded, resting his head on her shoulder and jutting out his bottom lip. Rose looked down at the blond boy on her shoulder and sighed.

'What's in it for me?' she said, putting her book down on her lap. Scorpius seemed to think this over for a moment before smiling again.

'Well, if memory serves me correctly, you pretty much have the same problem as me.' he said simply. Rose arched an eyebrow.

'How do you mean?' she inquired, humouring him just so she could she where this conversation was going. Scorpius smirked at her.

'Let's face it, Rosie. You're gorgeous.' Rose blushed slightly and rolled her eyes. 'It's true! You have your own little following. Granted the boys have been a bit more subtle about it, but that's only cause they're afraid they are going to get the crap kicked out of them by Al an I.' Scorpius explained, his fingers lightly tugging on one of Rose's sleeves in an attempt to persuade her. Rose eyed the boy with his head laid on her shoulder and sighed again.

'I'll think about it.' she announced, watching Scorpius' face as it light up and he threw a grin at her.

'Yes! Thank you Rosie!' he cheered, kissing her cheek and jumping down from the bookshelf, slinging his bag over his shoulder. Rose grinned at him.

'I haven't said yes yet.' she informed him teasingly, the mischievous shine working it's way back into her eyes. Scorpius laughed.

'No, but you will.' he replied in a sing-song voice, and with that, he waltzed out of the library after Al, a massive grin on his face.

Rose walked through the portrait of the Fat Lady and into the Gryffindor common room. She was contemplating whether to do her Ancient Runes assignment or History of Magic first that evening. She didn't particularly want to do the History of Magic paper, needless to say it bored the magic out of her. So she decided to do it first, get it out of the way and never look at it again. All her planning went straight off the Astronomy Tower after a distraction in the form of a very jumpy Lily Potter. The smallest redhead crashed into her taller (not by much) cousin in a frenzy, attracting weird stares from the other Gryffindors in the common room.

'Rose!' Lily exclaimed, her hand across her heart as she tried to get her breath back. 'I'm so sorry. I didn't see you.' she explained. Rose laughed quietly.

'It's okay, Lils. What's got you all a-fluster?' Rose inquired, smoothing down her cousins pin-straight red hair. Rose and Lily had almost the exact same shade of red, where the rest of the family seemed to have many different shades of it. The only difference was where Lily had inherited her mother's hair colour and the dead straight nature of Ginny Potter's fiery style, Rose had inherited the famous Weasley red, but also the abundance of curls from her own mother. Rose thanked the high heavens that she had enough Weasley in her to allow her hair to be curly and wavy instead of downright bushy, like her mother's once was.

Lily glanced up at her cousin with wide eyes and dragged her into a corner of the the room. Rose trailed behind in confusion.

'Al is going to kill me!' Lily burst out in a frightened whisper. Rose frowned and leaned closer to the frantic girl in front of her.

'Why would he do that?' Rose asked. Lily bit her lip and shifted her eyes around the room, suddenly not able to look her cousin in the eye. Rose persisted.

'Lily, what did you do?' she asked in a firmer voice, making Lily look up at her and stare her in the eye.

'I kind of... misplaced... Al's invisibility cloak?' she admitted, although her uncertainty made her confession sound like more of a question. Rose's lips fell open and made a silent, shocked 'O' at this statement.

'You're right. Al is going to murder you.' She dead panned, not quite believing what she just heard. 'How did you get Al to let you use it, anyway?' Rose asked, Al had always been very protective of that cloak, from the moment it left her Uncle Harry's hands as he passed it to Albus. James got the Marauder's Map. Lily suddenly looked very guilty again.

'You stole it? Out of his trunk? How did you even get up to the boys dorms?' Rose squeaked, physically not comprehending how her tiny cousin had been so devious.

'It doesn't matter! What matters is that Al is going to Avada me on the spot if he finds out!' Lily cried, her hands flying to her temples in distress. Rose took a deep breath and placed a comforting hand on Lily's shoulder.

'Okay, here is what you do. I will cover for you as much as possible, and you grab Hugo and search for the cloak. Hugo won't like having to put effort into something but if he gives you any grief just tell him I know where his stash of sweets is and I will tell mum.' Rose threatened darkly. Lily nodded vigorously and hugged her cousin tightly before running out of the common room, her long red hair whipping behind her. Rose was left staring at the dust where Lily had been standing when she looked up to find Lorcan Scamander smiling suggestively at her. Number one, ew. Number two, how was Lorcan even in the common room? He was a Ravenclaw. And number three, EW. Rose smiled sheepishly at the boy, not wanting to be rude and looked away. But she could feel his stare on her and she hid behind the veil of her red hair. Rose saw that Lorcan was sitting next to Al, so that must have been how he managed to get into the Gryffindor common room. He probably offered to help Al with his Charms essay. Rose began to consider Scorpius' proposition. Now that she thought of it, Lorcan was grating increasingly on her nerves with his winks and smiles and vain attempts to catch her 'accidentally' and start a conversation. And he wasn't the only one. When she heard the wolf-whistle from across the common room, she'd had enough and she flew out of the portrait and crashed straight into none other than Scorpius Malfoy. What is it with everyone crashing into each other today? Thought Rose as she straightened herself. Scorpius had an amused smirk on his face as he helped Rose up.

'Not running from anyone, are we Rosie?' Scorpius said teasingly. Rose scowled at how accurate Scorpius actually was but stopped abruptly when she heard the familiar voices of her cousin and the dreaded Ravenclaw growing increasingly louder behind her. Her eyes widened as she realised they were headed in her direction, and Scorpius looked confused. In one irrational moment, she grabbed hold of Scorpius' hand and ran around the corner, hoping that the two boys she was evading would turn the other way. But of course, the universe was cruel to Rose Weasley, and the boys would be turning towards them any second now. Scorpius was still thoroughly confused.

'Rose, what's go-' he started, but Rose cut him off.

'If I accept your deal, does it work both ways?' she questioned hastily. Scorpius smiled.

'Are you accepting?' he said. Rose grew flustered again.

'Does it work both ways?' she insisted, grabbing hold of Scorpius' collar with both hands and shaking him.

'Yes!' he cried, startled at her sudden roughness.

'Good.' Rose said. 'Now play along.'

Before Scorpius could question what she meant, she pushed him against the wall and brought her lips to his. Scorpius was stunned. Rose Weasley, one of his two best friends, was kissing him. Rose tried to get him to respond but he was paralysed. She broke off only to whisper is his ear.

'Please, just go with it.' Her pleading voice must have snapped Scorpius out of it, because he took one look into her wide brown eyes before snaking a hand around her waist and pulling her closer, kissing her back passionately as she made a noise of surprise. She hadn't expected such an... enthusiastic reaction. For a moment, or several moments, she forgot about Al and Lorcan, she forgot about the two boys headed towards her. All she could focus on was the way Scorpius' lips felt against hers, the gentleness of his kiss contradicting the intense pull of his arms as he tried to bring her closer, so she was perfectly flush with his body. Rose brought her hands up and knotted them in his blond hair, her whole body heating up as he laid a hand on her neck and kissed her again and again, running his tongue across her bottom lip. She was just about to grant him access when-

'What fresh HELL is this?' Al cried, and Scorpius and Rose flew apart, panting and very red as they looked at their best friend guiltily. Al's eyes were as wide as saucers as he struggled to formulate anymore words. The 'O' of his mouth hanging open in surprise probably would've been hilarious to Scorpius had he not just been caught snogging the living daylights out of his best friend's cousin (who also happens to be his other best friend) and loving every second of it. Rose bit her lip, still tingling from the feel of Scorpius' mouth on hers and looked towards Lorcan. She hoped upon hope that he would get the message and back the hell off of her. But Lorcan wasn't even looking at Rose anymore. He was looking straight at Scorpius and if looks could kill, Scorpius would be six feet under. Lorcan looked like he was about to explode with jealousy and Scorpius could do nothing but stare at Al, hoping he wouldn't hex him for molesting his cousin or something. Rose suddenly found her voice.

'Problem, Albus?' she inquired, struggling to keep her voice steady, and nonchalant. Her cousin just stared at her like she was a mad woman, apparently still not able to string together a coherent sentence as he spluttered at her. At this point, Lorcan interceded.

'What were you doing with him, Rose?' he questioned forcefully. The harshness of his tone ruffled Rose up a bit and she grew a lot more confident.

'Well, Lorcan, I was snogging the magic out of Scorpius here, but if you don't understand the concept then maybe I should let your parents break it to you gently.' she said, condescendingly. Now everyone was looking at her like she'd turned into that three-headed dog Fluffy that Hagrid was always going on about. Even Scorpius was looking at her in shock. Probably because he feared for his life at that present time, but still. Lorcan's face was practically glowing red.

'Why him?' he said viciously, jabbing a finger accusingly at Scorpius.

'Why not him?' was Rose's casual retort. Lorcan huffed and stormed off in the opposite direction and out of sight. Rose let out a breath she'd been holding and laughed in relief. Al was still standing in front of them, his mouth agape and his expression demanding answers. Scorpius looked to Rose, who had just realised her cousin was still standing there, and it was clear from her fearful expression that she wouldn't be explaining anymore. Scorpius mustered up all the Gryffindor courage he supposedly had within him and tried to speak.

'Al,' he started calmly, as if treading on eggshells, 'we can expla-'

'I don't want to hear it.' Al dead panned, his expression blank. 'I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to think about it.' he said, and Scorpius and Rose were trying to figure out if he was angry or not. Rose thought he was until a sly grin appeared on his face. 'Just let me be there when you tell Uncle Ron.' Al smirked and turned around to walk away. Rose and Scorpius were stunned. They shared a look for a second before running after Al, filling the air with explanations and 'It's not what you think!' ... 'Don't tell dad!' ...

'She started it!' ...

'I'll finish it in a minute!' ...

A/N: Hey guys, I hope you like this little one-shot here. I was going to try to write a full multichaptered story, but I am so bad at updating. However, if you lovely readers would like more, please leave a comment and let me know what you thought and whether or not you think I should carry on. Thanks for reading guys :)