A/N Well I started a story like this a while ago but I decided to give it another shot. The other one wasn't as good and it really wasn't how I wanted it done at all. I have decided to try again and hopefully it will get better with time. I just need to get the right setting and then all the good stuff can start! Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and review if you have time! Thanks ..x..

Chapter One

Let's Just Say, I Loathe It All!

Rose hated Scorpius. She loathed him. The very thought of him made her blood boil. She was top in her house and joint top in her year, with a Slytherin no less. Him. That bloody Scorpius Malfoy. If she topped a test in one class he would top the next test that came up. It seemed to be the way fate wanted to work. She couldn't get away from him either.

He was put next to her in every class, they were paired for every duel and every potion.

I suppose it was inevitable, Head Boy and Head Girl.

He was always there and was even best friends with her Slytherin cousin Albus Potter. Had had dated her little cousin Lily for a while, though Rose had later found out that it was a dare, which made her even angrier with him and annoyed at Lily.

He stayed over at the Burrow during the holidays and was at all the family gatherings which really pissed her off, so she always tried to stay as far away as possible from him.

He always fell asleep in class, yet managed to get nearly perfect grades. The rest of his time was spent with Albus, causing trouble in the halls of Hogwarts, and playing Quidditch till their balls were numb.

She believed that Scorpius and herself had nothing in common what so ever. He was, after all, laid back, down to earth and didn't care about his studies. She did care and had started off her schooling extremely uptight and studious. She had let that side of herself go a bit though, no longer feeling obliged to do well just to appease her father. She wanted to enjoy her last year at Hogwarts and she was going to make damn sure that Scorpius Malfoy wouldn't get in her way.

Unbeknownst to everyone else, this year, Scorpius was changing. Yes, he was still arrogant, but Albus had noticed some things while Scorpius had been staying at his house in the last two weeks of the summer. He wasn't being as big a prick as usual for a start. Yes, he was still a perverted arse hole, but he was also laughing in a less malicious way, he smiled rather than smirked, and was just all round more playful a person.

Albus believed he had changed for the better, he himself had decided that he was going to change this year. It may or may not involve a fellow 7th Year Slytherin by the name of Jenna Abbot, guess you'll have to wait and find out huh?

Hopefully Rose would see the effort Scorpius had put in and maybe give him the time of day. Al knew that Scorpius had always been after Rose, but Al also knew that Rose loathed him with every ounce of her being. It was going to take a whole lot more than a soft smile and some soothing words from Scorpius to woo the red head he had always dreamed of.

Albus was looking forward to going back to school. This year was going to be good.

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