Chapter 1: A Complicated Train Ride

"No Way! Ali, your dad is going to be the futbol coach?" Albus said, staring in disbelief at my best friend Alice Longbottom.

"Al, is it really that hard to believe? The man's a soccer fanatic!" , my other best friend , Mazie Miiller, said. Seriously, I need to tell my mates how to calm their voices because I could hear them from the other end of the platform. Thinking this, I laughed to myself as Al flung his arms in the air like a mad man.

"Bye Mum! Bye Dad" I said, giving my Mum a huge hug and my Dad a kiss on the cheek. I quickly turned to see James, my idiot cousin, walking past. "Where do you think your going? We had a deal!" I said, handing him my cart. "Now be a dear and put that on the train for me" I added, bolting away before he could hand it back. Whipping my crazy red hair around, I saw my mum laughing behind her hand as my dad attempted to help James load on all the carts that had been dumped into his arms. Serves him right.

"Rosie-Posie how are you my dear!" Ali said, wrapping an arm around my neck. She smiled flipping her gorgeous black hair out of her face and giving me a cheeky smile. Man I love my friends.

"Just smashing my dah-ling" I pronounced. Mazie laughed, hugging me tight. It is amazing how much people can change in two months. Alice was looking more gorgeous than ever, and Mazie had managed to some how get even more tan than she already was. Even I had learned how to sort-of manage my hair over the summer and THANK MERLIN I inherited my father's traits of being long and skinny because I swear sometimes the amount that I eat, I should be as fat as a pig. Grandma Weasley doesn't help.

Then, I swear it felt as if the platform started to glow. My stomach lurched when I saw him. Scorpius Malfoy changed. Damn, was he hot! Hold on Rose, get it together. This is bloody Malfoy. He is your best mate/sworn enemy! What the HELL are you thinking! "Right Rose?" I heard Scorpius say all of a sudden. He was wearing that trademark half-smirk he always uses to get a row out of me.

" Yes, I mean, no, I mean… Oh sod off Scorpius!" I barked, pursing my lips and swinging my hands onto my hips. For a split second I swear his ears turned red. I would have pointed it out if it weren't for Alice quickly sweeping me away. She looked at me is if I was mental.

" Rose! Were you even listening! Sometimes I swear you Weasleys can be a bit spacey" she said exasperated. Oh god, what did Malfoy say!? Damn you Malfoy for being so hot.

The little Scorpius incident was quickly over-looked as we noticed the train gave it's final warning before departure. All of us scrambled to find an empty compartment. We ended up finding one towards the back, but at least we weren't split up like last year. Al and Scorpius began talking Quidditch the moment they sat down leaving me, Alice, and Mazie to talk.

"So... ", I began before the could ask me anything, "I can't wait for this year's futbol season! It's going to be great." Right before we all came to school in our first year, Headmaster allowed us to add a theatre arts program and many supports like volleyball, futbol, and basketball.

Alice gave me a concerned look before saying "Yeah, those Slytherins are going down!" (Might I add, we all happened to end up in Gryffindor. How? No bloody clue.) I glanced over at Scorpius to see him smirking at me. What a git… what a git….well a cute git. Yeah, his soft blonde hair and stunning…. get it together Rosie!

I back at Mazie to see her looking at me in a weird way. "Uhh Rose. You kinda just zoned out again. " she whispered, her southern American accent strong. Alice was smiling to herself in a weird 'something's up' sort of way. I need to stop doing that!

"Oh shit" I muttered. "For how long"

"Only about a minute. Is something up?"

"No, no everything's fine."

Silence, except for her raised eyebrow that screamed "TELL ME!"

"Oh will you two just stop! Later ok! Not now!" I practically screamed. Then I realized that it wasn't just us sitting in this dead silent compartment.

"Weasley, is this about how you can't take your eyes off of me because, I am totally ok with you telling them about your little crush!" he said, smoothly. Almost too smoothly, kinda sexy, STOP!

"Oh get over yourself mate" I said, turning to stare into his beautiful green eyes. No Rose, not beautiful. Nothing about him is beautiful. Except for maybe his smile, but everyone knows that. There was an awkward silence as the dumb idiot tried to come up with something witty before I added "Insulted are you? Looks like it's taken you a while to process, but I guess you can't have everything." As soon as I said that Ali raised an eyebrow, but I responded by swatting her on the head.

Before he could add anything else, I pulled out my phone and began to listen to music silently. One point for me, not that I am keeping score secretly in the back of my journal or anything. I looked to see Malfoy had turned back to Al (yes!) and that Ali and Mazie had finally lowered their eyebrows. I thought they would've gotten stuck like that if the kept it up for much longer.

I began to fall asleep to the music and the low rumble of the train. If only it had stayed that way, then maybe things wouldn't have had to get so complicated.

I woke up to the sound of laughing. A laugh I knew too well. One that belonged to idiot cousin, James Potter. "Oh what now?" I heard my cousin Al say. Suddenly a scream sounded from a few compartments over. I rolled my eyes and tried to fall back asleep when someone yelled "What is that!" I quickly opened my eyes and stood up.

Mazie was in the hallway, apparently yelling at Fred, my other dumb cousin. "Al what happened!? What did your brother do!" I screamed. Well, it can't be Hogwarts without dumb pranks from James and Fred.

"Apparently they let off a stink bomb in the hallway or something" he said. I just rolled my eyes. Suddenly the train jolted sending me flying backwards. Fortunately/unfortunately into Scorpius' arms. The lights flickered off in the process (THANK MERLIN) so no one saw my neck turn a million shades of red.

Then, the weirdest thing of all happened. Malfoy didn't force me out of his arms, he just held me there for a second. My insides melted as I looked up into his eyes. "Oh for FUCK'S SAKE!" I heard Alice say. We all laughed at Alice as she tripped over something whilst trying to reach the door.

" JAMES! FRED! YOU ARE SO DEAD!" someone screamed. Realizing where I was, I jumped up from where I was. The lights began to flicker on just in the nick of time. When it was all bright again I saw Scorpius smirking at me, but it was a different smirk. I kind of enjoyed it. Man, this year is going to be interesting.

A/N :

This is my first ever fanfic on this website so bare with me as I figure it out. Sorry this first chapter is kinda rough. Please leave reviews so I know if anyone actually enjoys this. Lovs ya, -Yours Truely