Note: In this chapter, Rose and Scorpius are both around ten years old. They will be at a different age in each chapter.

Rose Weasley sat atop a stool behind the counter of her uncle's joke shop. Her legs were high off the ground, swinging back and forth impatiently. She watched as her uncle rang up the customers' items. The line was long.

Rose huffed and shifted on the stool. She looked around, trying to find something interesting to occupy her thoughts. She had been to the shop more times than she could count. She had explored up and down each alley and knew where every item was by heart. So nothing in the store really interested her…however there was something outside the store that caught Rose Weasley's attention.

Scorpius Malfoy was currently standing outside Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, his nose pressed up against the window of the shop. The young boy could not tear his eyes away from the colorful items lining the aisles inside. Canary Cremes, Punching Telescopes, Trick Wands…he continued reading the names of the items closest to the window. More than anything, Scorpius wanted to go inside the bustling shop. The same one that his parents had passed by on several occasions, refusing to listen to Scorpius's protests of wanting to take a peek inside.

But as of right now, Scorpius was alone. He was here at Diagon Alley with his Aunt Daphne, who at the moment was preoccupied with buying a bouquet of flowers at a nearby stall. No one was here to drag him away from the shop. This was his one chance. In and out, as simple as that. He only wanted a look around, that's all.

Finally plucking up enough courage to enter the forbidden shop, Scorpius took a step towards the door. However, immediately a long snaky hand wrapped around his right shoulder, stopping him in his tracks. Scorpius looked up to see that his aunt was back.

"Hold these, will you Scorpius?"

His aunt pushed the freshly bought bouquet into his hands. She opened up her purse, rummaging inside for quite a while, before finally pulling out a small piece of paper.

"Right, Madam Malkin's then Gringotts," she mumbled, reading off of a list. She turned on her heel and began walking down the alley.

"Come on Scorpius, we haven't got all day!" the woman said, looking over her should at her nephew who was still standing in the same spot.

Just ask. Scorpius gulped, staring at his aunt's blank expression.

"C-can I just stay in this shop and wait for you?"

The words were out of his mouth before Scorpius really had time to think them over. He watched as his aunt's right eyebrow shot to the sky. She looked at the shop, really taking in the place for the first time. She gave him a quizzical look before shrugging her shoulders.

"Oh why not? I'll be back here in about an hour or so to pick you up. Don't leave the shop though. If something happens to you Scorpius, your parents will bury me alive."

And with that, his aunt flashed him an encouraging smile, turned back around, and disappeared into the alley.

Scorpius stood rooted to the spot, quite unable to believe his luck. An entire hour inside this joke shop. An entire hour to explore to his heart's content. Smiling wildly, Scorpius ran towards the door, pulled it open, and then stopped short as he caught sight of a headless body.

Rose Weasley had watched the entire exchange inquisitively, all the time remaining perched on top of her stool behind the counter. And now, she was staring at the boy halfway through the shop with an amused expression.

The pale boy had rushed to the door, swinging it open, and just as he had caught sight of her, his smile had vanished and his face had gotten even paler. Rose wondered why this was the case. She checked her clothes, turned to look behind her, and then checked directly to the right and left of her. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary. Then why was this boy looking at her like she was some sort of a headless ghost?

Oh, right.

Rose pulled off the hat that she had been wearing, letting her auburn curls fall down her shoulders. Immediately the boy regained some color, but still looked horribly confused. Rose bit her lip, realizing this was probably the first time this boy had stepped into her uncle's joke shop. Taking it upon herself to give the boy a tour, she hopped down from her stool and made her way towards him.

The girl was approaching him, her curls bouncing up and down with every step she took. Scorpius watched as she came closer and closer, finally able to make out her blue eyes and the light freckles scattered across her nose.

She stopped right in front of him and stuck out her hand.

"My name's Rose. Is this your first time here?"

Scorpius hesitated for a moment, before shaking her hand and nodding.

"Yeah, and my name's Scorpius."

"Nice to meet you Scorpius," Rose smiled.

"I think I just saw you…headless," Scorpius sputtered, still unable to shake the image out of his mind.

Rose nodded her head, and Scorpius watched her curls bounce up and down once again. She lifted the magical hat, "Headless Hat," Rose explained.

"It makes the wearer's head invisible. And as long as the hat is being worn by someone, the hat remains invisible too," after years of watching her uncle, Rose knew how to talk to potential customers. She smiled proudly as Scorpius looked at the hat in awe.

"May I?" asked Scorpius eagerly.

"Of course! But do you want me to hold onto those roses while you try it on?"

Scorpius looked down at his hand, realizing that he was still clutching onto his aunt's flowers. Turning slightly red at the thought of being a boy carrying flowers out in public, he nodded and hastily handed the bouquet to Rose.

They exchanged the items they were carrying, and as soon as Scorpius got ahold of the hat, he put it on, immediately becoming headless. Rose laughed, directing him towards a mirror. Upon seeing himself headless for the first time, Scorpius also burst out in laughter. The two stood there, laughing for a good amount of time, before Scorpius took the hat off and declared that he'd like to buy it.

"Oh" Rose's face fell for a moment, realizing her mistake too late. Weasley's Wizard Wheezes had stopped selling the Headless Hats last month due to low sales. There were now none in the shop except for the one Rose had bought for herself a while back.

"Um, it's not really for sale," Rose mumbled apologetically.

The words were barely out of her mouth before Scorpius's twinkling grey eyes lost their sparkle, and his entire body drooped.

"Oh"

The two stood there in silence, with Rose feeling horribly bad. She hung her head, staring down at the floor, noticing the bouquet she was holding. And suddenly her whole face lit up as she came across an idea.

"I have an idea," she proposed to Scorpius.

Scorpius looked at her questioningly, urging her to continue.

"If you give me one of the roses from your bouquet, I'll give you the hat."

Scorpius looked at her like she had grown a third eye.

"Why would you do that?" he asked incredulously. "A single plain flower, for an amazingly magical hat?"

Rose crossed her hands over her chest, staring pointedly at Scorpius.

"I happen to like roses," she said, as if threatening Scorpius to challenge her.

Scorpius continued to stand and stare, first at Rose, then at the hat, and finally back at the bouquet.

"You know, that bouquet isn't mine. It's my aunt's. I don't know if I can just give away her flowers like that."

"Just one."

She waved the hat in front of Scorpius's face, reminding him what he would be missing if he let this offer pass.

Scorpius sighed, "Alright, but just one. And don't take a white rose, take one of the purple ones!"

"Why?" Rose asked, already plucking out a small lavender rosebud from the bouquet.

Scorpius just shrugged his shoulders, without offering up an explanation. He then took the rest of the bouquet from Rose and tucked the Headless Hat securely under his arm.

"Come on, let me show you the rest of the store!" Rose grabbed Scorpius by the hand, pulling him to one of her favorite aisles.

"Extendable Ears," she whispered, exaggerating the use of the product. Scorpius's jaw nearly dropped to the floor.

"My dad uses those sometimes!" Scorpius exclaimed, "I didn't know he shopped here!"

Rose just stood there and laughed at the look of bafflement spreading across his face.

purple roses: love at first sight; enchantment

Well what did you guys think?

Just an idea that's been on my mind for a while now, and I'm finally publishing it! Each chapter will consist of Scorpius giving Rose a rose of a certain color, the color symbolizing his feelings for her / what happens in the story.

Obviously in this one, both Scorpius and Rose are too young to really be experiencing love at first sight and are unaware of the meaning behind the color, but gradually as the story progresses, they will begin to understand.

So let me know what you thought! And be expecting an update within the week as I already have the second chapter written out (: xx