Guess who's back and better then ever! That's right...ME! haha jk, jk but anyway I would love to thanks my wonderous friend, kaitlyn (kaitlynb900-go spam her NOW), for editing this:) And also for just being so damn awesome;) haha but anyway I'm back and guess what?! As soon as I find my old notebook I'm planning on writing somemore of Never Been Innocent!

So this is a new story. It's also the longest chapter I've ever written if you can believe it-3,045 words:O

I DO NOT OWN JK ROWLING WONDEROUS WORLD! OR ANY OF HER CHARACTERS!

haha for a word I didn't know how to spell five minutes ago I've sure used it a lot. Wait, what are you doing...? GO READ!

Poisonous Rose

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like. What it would be like to have never known him, never felt his lips against mine, how soft his hair can be, and his gentle touch. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I had never known his love, but I did and now he's gone, gone forever.

I still remember the first day we met, if not by accident then surely by something greater, as clear as yesterday.

It was a Tuesday and a perfect day to be sent off to Hogwarts. I was really nervous that I wouldn't fit in or do well, but I knew I shared those nerves with my cousin Albus which made me feel slightly better.

"Hi," said Albus, sounding immensely relieved when we found him and his family. I was so excited that I had already changed into my brand-new Hogwarts robes. I beamed at him. We listened in on our parents talking until we heard Hugo and Lily, our younger siblings, talking about which house they wanted to be sorted into. They were a little ahead of us on the platform and, as we stopped next to them we added our input.

"I think you'll most definitely be a Gryffindor, Lily," I said and Albus nodded thoughtfully.

"If you're not in Gryffindor, we'll disinherit you," said my dad said, "but no pressure."

"Ron!"

Lily and Hugo laughed, but Albus and I looked at each other with solemn, scared faces.

"He doesn't mean it," said Mum and Aunt Ginny quickly said, but still we were scared. What if we didn't get into Gryffindor? We both had always dreamed of sleeping in those scarlet and gold rooms and wearing those wonderfully colored ties and scarves.

"Look who it is." Dad said, a little bitterness evident in his voice. We all looked over to see a tall, pale man with snow-white hair. He was wearing a dark coat that was buttoned all the way up to his throat. Standing beside him were two people I could only evidently guess were his wife and son. The man must have caught sight of us staring for he nodded curtly before turning away again.

"So that's little Scorpius," said my dad under his breath and I looked up at him. "Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank God you inherited your mother's brains."

"Ron, for heaven's sake," said Mum, half stern, half amused. "Don't try to turn them against each other before they've even started school!"

"You're right, sorry," Dad said then when she had turned to tell Aunt Ginny something, he added so only I could hear, "Don't get too friendly with him, though, Rosie. Granddad Weasley would never forgive you if you married a pureblood."

I nodded to myself. I was already planning on beating everybody out on every test so it didn't matter what my dad said and I was also too young to even start thinking about who I wanted to marry.

Suddenly James, Albus's older brother and a third year at Hogwarts, appeared. He no longer had his trunk and things and was obviously out of breath, but he looked excited to tell us something.

"Teddy's back there," he said, pointing back over his shoulder into the billowing clouds of steam. "Just seen him! And guess what he's doing? Snogging Victoire!"

He gazed up at the adults, evidently disappointed by the lack of reaction.

"Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked Teddy what he was doing—" James continued on in some hopes of getting a reaction.

"You interrupted them?" Aunt Ginny interrupted him. "You are so like Ron—"

"—and he said he'd come to see her off! And then he told me to go away! He's snogging her!" James added as though worried he had not made himself clear, which he had.

"Oh, it would be lovely if they got married," whispered Lily sarcastically.

"Teddy would really be part of the family then!"

"He already comes round for dinner about four times a week," said Uncle Harry. "Why don't we just invite him to live with us and have done with it?"

"Yeah!" said James enthusiastically. "I don't mind sharing a room with Al—Teddy could have my room!"

"No," said Uncle Harry firmly, "you and Al will share a room only when I want the house demolished."

He checked the battered old watch that he always wore.

"It's nearly eleven, you'd better get on board."

"Don't forget to give Neville our love!" Aunt Ginny told James as she hugged him. I hugged my parents and then tried to hug Hugo, but even still I could hear James's response.

"Mum! I can't give a professor love!"

"But you know Neville!—" Aunt Ginny exclaimed and I looked over just in time to see James rolled his eyes.

"Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love. . . . "

Shaking his head at his mother's foolishness, he vented his feelings by aiming a kick at Albus. I scowled as he said something to Albus.

"Bye sweetie," My mum said pulling my attention away from my crazy cousins. I looked up to see her smiling down at me. "I know you'll be good, but just in case you've developed our knack for getting in trouble, be good, okay?"

"Okay mum," I answered grinning, "I'll be good…most of the time."

"Rose."

"I'm just kidding mum!"

"You better be!"

"Hermione, if she's anything like you, the only reason she'll get into trouble is because of her friends," my dad said grinning, "Now you should probably get on the train kiddo, but first come here!" I grinned as my dad enveloped me into a grand hug and kissed the top of my head. I had heard a lot about my parents Hogwarts lives as bedtime stories and always begged for more.

"Remember what I said," Dad murmured to me when he was sure my mother wasn't listening, "and you'll be fine, okay? And don't forget to write. Just because you're all high and mighty at Hogwarts now doesn't mean you can't write."

I nodded and he let me go. Giving Hugo a hug a grabbed my things and began to board the gleaming red train. I poked my head out a window and blew my family one last kiss.

"Where's Al?" I asked when I realized he had not followed me onto the train.

"He'll be on in a minute, don't you worry. He's just talking to his dad." I nodded my head. From the look on Al's face when I finally found him, I knew exactly what they were talking about. It was a fear he had expressed often and one which James teased him about just as often.

Finally, Albus jumped into the compartment and Aunt Ginny closed the door behind him. Students were hanging from the windows nearest them including me. Albus soon joined me and we both smiled.

"Why are they staring?" demanded Albus and I looked around to see that indeed a great number of people, on and off the train, were staring down at the adults and us.

"Don't let it worry you," said Dad, "It's me. I'm extremely famous."

We laughed along with Lily and Hugo. The train began to move, and Uncle Harry walked alongside it as we waved. We all continued to wave until the train rounded a corner and we could no longer see them.

I sighed and sidled my way into the train taking a seat next to the window. Albus did the same, closing the window and sitting down across from me.

For a few minutes we sat in silence and then a loud grumble echoed in our cabin.

"Was that your stomach, Rose?" Albus asked giving me a look and I blushed.

"I'm hungry," I muttered sheepishly, "I was too nervous to eat much breakfast."

He just rolled his eyes. "Didn't your mum give you food?"

"Mum can't cook anything and yeah, but they're roast beef," I wrinkled my nose in disgust as did he.

"Fine, I'll go find the trolley. Be right back, kay?"

Trolley? I thought confused as Albus got up and left. I just hope this isn't one of James tricks.

I debated whether I should go out and tell him, but decided against it and pulled out my book instead. It was an old and tattered copy of The Great Gatsby that I had stolen from my mother's muggle bookshelf. I had packed several other muggle books in with my school stuff so I would never be bored. Although from my family's stories it didn't sound like I would be.

I was so engrossed in my book, that I didn't realize that Albus hadn't returned until I had finished two chapters. Sighing I placed my book away and, stretching the kinks out of my back, made my way towards the door. Opening it I looked left, no Albus, and then right, still no Albus. I contemplated on whether I should go find him; for all I knew his brother could be, and probably was, torturing him. But then again with no one else I could read in peace and silence. But I was also lonely, so with a sigh I headed towards the left, peering in compartments as I made my way. Everybody was sitting with a group and laughing together, which only helped make me lonelier without Al.

I was about halfway down the train, not paying any attention to where I was going, when I collided with someone. I flew backwards, thanks to my lack of balance, while the other person managed to stay upright and just wobbled a bit.

"Sorry about that," a voice said as the owner offered me a hand. I accepted it and was pulled up to see two people; a blonde haired boy and a dark brown haired boy.

"It's fine," I said waving it off, "really it's all my fault, I wasn't paying attention. I was looking for my cousin."

"Well still, sorry." they stood there awkwardly for a few seconds before I decided now would probably be a good time to start introducing myself to students, so I wasn't alone like at the muggle school I used to attend.

"I'm Rose. I'll be a first year this year."

"Same here!" the blonde haired boy exclaimed, "well not the Rose part, um because that's not my name, it's um, Scorpius and he's Elliot, but we'll both be first years too…" he sort of trailed off as he blushed madly.

"Hey, you're the boy that my dad told me to beat on every test," I said before realizing what I had said, "er, sorry? But it's nice to meet you both. Would you two like to sit with me, and maybe my cousin, in the compartment we're in?"

"Sure."

They followed me back to my compartment and, to my disappointment and worry, found Albus was not back yet. He did appear nearly fifteen minutes later stocked with different goodies that I can only assume came from the trolley. In that time though, I learned a lot about Elliot and Scorpius. Scorpius was an only child whereas Elliot had two older siblings and his mum was pregnant again. Elliot had attended a small muggle school for a few years and Scorpius had wanted to, but his parents said they saw no need for him to. They both also had small fears about Hogwarts and parents who wanted them to get into a certain house.

"So what houses do you want to get into?" I asked as I opened up a chocolate frog, that I had stolen from the treats Albus had set down. I opened it up and only glancing at the card, it was my Uncle Harry, bite into the frog.

Scorpius shrugged. "I guess it doesn't matter, although I would rather get into Slytherin."

"Anything, but Hufflepuff," Elliot said making a face, "if I get Hufflepuff the teasing will never end from my family!"

I nodded in agreement. "Hufflepuff is the one house none of my family has ever wanted to be in. Well actually that and Slytherin, although I wouldn't really mind Slytherin as much, but I still hope I get into Gryffindor."

"I'm with Rose," Al muttered through his food, "GRYFFINDOR!"

We continued to laugh and talk until it was dark outside. That's when my older cousin, Molly, stuck her head in. I could see she was already in her robes, with the shiny prefect badge on it. I had always hoped that someday I could wear that same badge.

"Oi, you lot! You need to get changed, we're almost there," she said and hesitated before sighing, "have any of you seen Lucy? Last year she got in a bit of mischief and nearly ruined the sorting!"

"Lucy? Our Lucy?" Albus asked shocked as both our eyes bugged out. The Lucy we knew was always quiet, well behaved, and polite. She even scolded us once!

"Yes, our Lucy. Who else?" Molly said obviously irritated, "she didn't get caught, thank God, can you just imagine how hard it would be to explain this to mum and dad? But Fred and James did and Louis almost did. Anyway hurry up and get changed and if you see Lucy please tell me."

She closed our compartment door and hurried off.

"Lucy get in trouble?" I asked shocked.

"I do remember mum and dad getting a letter shortly after school had started last year," Albus said deep in thought, "mum was super mad."

"Yeah, but Lucy?" I asked shaking my head in disbelief. I could imagine James and Fred, also a third year this year, getting into deep trouble for mischief, after all Fred's dad and namesake had started the wondrous joke shop and James was his best friend. I could even see Louis, a fourth year like Lucy, getting into trouble, but never Lucy herself. The girl was nearly an angel.

Albus shrugged. "I guess those three are a bad influence on her."

I nodded. "Yeah," I said as I stood and stretched, "well I'll leave you three to get changed." I quickly left and began wandering down the train. Every so often I would nonchalantly peer into a compartment. Most of them had the blinds down though, so I soon bored of this and began heading back to my own compartment. As soon as the boys were done they opened the door for me and I hurried back in and took my seat.

Not long after we arrived at the station.

"Come on!" Al said as he tugged at my sleeve in an attempt to hurry me up, but it was hard. I didn't want to lose him, but the hall was jam packed with students of all years chattering happily with their friends. I was also trying not to lose Elliot and Scorpius, who, despite their efforts, were still a ways behind us. Finally, we stepped off the train. Albus tried to tug me in the direction the older years were going, but I stopped him.

"We need to wait for Scorpius and Elliot," I half-scolded.

"We don't need to wait for them," he muttered in his obvious excitement to get to Hogwarts. I just rolled my eyes at him. After a few minutes I saw the two boys exit the train.

"You guys ready?"

"Yep. Hey where's Albus going? Don't we take the boats?" Scorpius asked as he nodded over to a giant looking man with a lot of hair who was shouting, "Firs' years follow me! Firs' years this way!"

Sighing I quickly grabbed the back of Albus's robes before he could get much further. He let out a loud "Hey!" causing some people to look in confusion as I dragged him towards the man.

"Hullo Hagrid," I greeted him when we finally reached him. Albus was muttering unhappily to himself as he dusted invisible dirt off his robes.

"Rose! Albus!" Hagrid exclaimed slightly surprised, "I forgot fer a second that you two would be comin' up this year! Just thinkin' how I wished you were comin' up and here ya are! No longer tykes are ya?"

"Yep Hagrid, were here this year," I said smiling politely, "do you mind if we bring some friends to tea next Friday?"

"Course not!" Hagrid said grinning, "the more the merrier, but for now you'd best be gettin onto the boats! Only four per a boat!"

We nodded and headed to where the boats were, along with the rest of the first years and found an empty boat, carefully helping each other in.

"Albus, are you coming?" I asked when I noticed he had not gotten in. He was staring out at the vast lake with a frighten expression.

"Um-um," he gulped in a breath and shook his head slowly, "ye-yeah. I'm coming."

Slowly he climbed in and I looked at him curiously.

"What did James tell you?" I finally asked as the boats began to row themselves and Albus clutched the side.

"Why do you assume James told me something?" he asked.

"Because everything that scares you is usually because of something that James said."

"I'm not scared!" I gave him a look and he sighed. "Fine. James told me about the lake and how there's a giant squid living in it that likes to eat children. He also told me that if you're really bad, as a punishment they throw you into the lake and you have to fight the squid."

I raised an eyebrow.

"I didn't believe that last part of course, Professor McGonagall would never allow that, but the giant squid part? Yeah, I believed that."

"Al, I don't think anyone would be happy if there was a giant squid on Hogwarts property." Just as the words were out of my mouth something splashed the surface right next to our boat. It scared me and I grabbed Elliot's arm in fright. "What was that?"

"The giant squid," Scorpius said shrugging.

"Yeah right," I snorted as I unhooked myself from Elliot, "there is no giant squid in the Hogwarts Lake."

R&R