This is not my best piece, but please bear with me as I've just finished it after a long time and just want to get it out there.

Rose Weasley never exactly had a real boyfriend before. She'd had plenty of boyfriends, but she never really let down her guard with them. Mostly, she blamed it on her Mum. When Rose was young, her Mum had told her fairy-tale stories about princesses, damsels in distress, and how their Price Charming would always come and rescue them. But then her Dad told her his favorite wizarding fairy tale (her Mum only ever told her Muggle stories.) Rose's Dad, Ron Weasley, told her The Tale Of Three Brothers when she was three years old. From then on, she was hooked on wizarding tales.

"Tell me about the Hallows, Daddy!" She'd exclaim, while bouncing up and down on the couch in the living room. Her Mum would usually be rocking her baby brother, Hugo, and both her parents would burst out laughing, with a confused Rose sitting between them, her eyes filling with tears until her Dad started to tell the story. Her Uncle Harry also found it amusing that she liked this story the best above all the others.

And even if Rose was not excited about it, her Mum had repeated the Muggle fairy tales throughout her childhood. And this, Rose decided, was the reason that she never had a real boyfriend, because she was always waiting for her Prince Charming. And then, just as she was beginning to think that she wouldn't find a perfect boy a Hogwarts, she started dating him, in the end of her fifth year (her cousin, Lily, had encouraged her that she wasn't looking hard enough and that she shouldn't give up when she still had two years left of school, but Rose had ignored her.)

Lysander Schmander. Her was absolutely perfect, and even though at first Rose's best friend and closest cousin, Albus, had made fun of him for having a name that rhymes, the two boys had become close friends over the summer when Lysander visited Rose.

Lysander was everything Rose could imagine, he was kind, handsome (the main reason Lily liked him and Rose together) smart, and a great Quidditch player. He was a Ravenclaw Beater, but to this day had never hit a bludger towards Rose, who was a Chaser for Gryffindor. Rose's cousin James, approved of Lysander just because he was good at Quidditch (James being the seeker and captain of the Gryffindor team.)

But their real story starts on October 12th, 2022, the day of Rose and Lysander's four month anivesary. It wasn't a particularly special day, just the day that they were planning on spending a nice romantic evening on the grounds and such. And she was thinking about that all morning, at least until double potions with the Slytherins.

The only thing that Rose liked about having double potions with the Slytherins was that beforehand she could talk to Albus. But today when she descended the stairs towards the dungeons, Albus had his wand out and it was facing his roommate, Scorpius Malfoy (who's wand was also drawn). "Al!" Rose exclaimed, hurrying towards him and dragging him away to another corner.

"Weasley!" Scorpius called towards her.

"Leave us alone, Malfoy!" Rose said over her shoulder before turning back to Albus. "What were you thinking? You could've gotten detention!" She exclaimed.

"Rose, he said-"

"I don't care what he said!"

"Rose he was talking about you! He said-" But before Albus could finish the dungeon door burst open and Professor Wilkins, the Potions Master, hurried them inside. Rose reluctantly left Albus and went to sit next to her assigned partner. Partners were determinded by skill level, which Rose resented fully because she'd much rather be partnered with Albus than the person that she'd ended up working with for the past six years.

"Weasley, you look flushed," he said.

"Shut it, Malfoy. And leave my cousins and I alone."

Scorpius faked shock and hurt. "It was him that approached me, Weasel."

"Regardless, leave him alone, or you'll have to answer to me."

"Ooh Weasel-bee, I'm scared."

"Malfoy! Weasley! Pay attention!" Professor Wilkins snapped and pointed to the board where their instructions were written. Each partnership was to take a vial of potion, identify it, and brew an antidote.

Scorpius set down the vial he'd retrieved and Rose emptied it into her cauldron. She was able to identify it immediately. "Ammortania," she whispered, shocked.

"Excuse me?"

"The most powerful love potion in the world," she explained. And Scorpius rolled his eyes while telling her that he knew what it was. "So umm…it's ahh…the antidote…." She stuttered, while Scorpius pulled out his Advanced Potion Making book and pointed to the page on Ammortania. "Yeah, right," Rose said, and got to work.

"You're not doing that right," Scorpius stated, twenty minutes later when Rose reached for the toad's foot.

"Excuse me?"

"You haven't stirred it enough. Two more times clockwise should do the trick."

"Oh," Rose said and obeyed these instructions. But when she reached for the toad's foot again, he'd already grabbed it, and their fingers brushed against each other. Rose turned away and buried her head in the antidote, her face flushing to a bright red. And she didn't understand why, because she had just touched him, and she had a boyfriend, today was their anniversary. Not to mention, this was Malfoy, she hated him.

"Oi! Weasley, you're doing it wrong again!"

"Well then pleaseee Malfoy, show me the right way to do it? Because you're sooo knowledgable!"

"Well I'm a hell of a lot better at this than you!"

"Yeah, right! That's why I've beaten you in every test since-"

"Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Weasley, care to explain why you're disrupting my class?" Professor Wilkins sneered at them, awaiting an answer. Rose opened her mouth but no words came out, and Scorpius didn't even make an effort, just acted like he didn't care, like always. "Detention tonight, 8 o'clock."

"But Professor, today's-" Rose stopped talking when she saw the look Professor Wilkins was giving her and sat down, now in a bad mood.