Chapter One

With a loud whistle the Hogwarts Express was off. Students hung their heads out of the windows and waved goodbye to their families. Moms blew kisses while Fathers waved back. Young siblings cried into their palms. When was it their turn to attend Hogwarts?

"Merlin, Victoire's baby wouldn't stop screaming its head off." Albus Potter sighed rubbing his temple.

"That only because you took her pacifier!" His cousin, Rose Weasley argued.

"She got it back!"

"Only after she made it fly back to her!"

"Well, then I was making sure she isn't a squib!"

"Albus, her nose has been changing shapes since she was born!"

"You never know, maybe she was dropped in some radioactive waste and she became a mutant!"

Rose rolled her eyes, "Is it nice in your world?"

"Shut up, Rose." He scowled.

She smirked. Rose always knew how to bother Albus. You could thank the many summers at the Potter house for that.

As they argued on the compartment door slid open to reveal a tall, blonde boy pushing in a large suitcase. Albus turned his attention to him and grinned.

"You sure do pack lightly, don't you Scorp?" Albus chuckled.

"No, Al, I just pack enough clean clothes." Scorpius replied throwing his bag on the shelf.

Rose grinned. She already knew this train ride was going to be legendary.

"I pack clean clothes." Albus grumbled.

"Sure you do, mate." Scorpius chuckled.

He sat down next to Rose and casually threw his arm around her shoulder. Rose, like usual, cleared her throat and arched her brow at him. Scorpius shook his head at her, a playful grin on his face, and removed his arm.

"Rosie, why must you be so mean?" Scorpius sighed dramatically.

"Mean? Please, if I was being everybody would know." Rose rolled her eyes.

"Fine, fine." Scorpius replied.

Rose was used to Scorpius's behavior by now. It had started in their fourth year. Before then Scorpius acted more like a protective brother to her. Now Scorpius was much more different. During classes he would constantly be told by Professors to stop flirting with Rose and get his work done, sometimes the other students would tell him to stop too. At first Rose thought he was joking, now she just hopes he is.

"Have you heard who the Quidditch captain in Gryffindor is?" Albus asked them.

For some reason his question made Scorpius's grin widen. Rose's eyes narrowed.

"It's Scorp, obviously." She told Albus.

"How did you figure it out?" Scorpius asked, alarmed by her very good guess.

"You're not the greatest at keeping secrets." She smiled.

He crossed his arms, "I wanted it to be a surprise." He mumbled.

"As long as I'm not kicked off the team I'll pretend to be surprised."

"Aw, but Rosie I was hoping you would be my personal cheerleader."

She glared at him, "There is no way in hell I would do that."

Albus chuckled, "Tough luck."

"A guy can hope right?" Scorpius said to Albus.

Rose shook her head. How did she become best friends with this lot? As she watched them she realized her answer, they were the only ones who could be her best friends, whether she liked it or not.

XX

"Rosie!"

The voice startled Rose who had been taking a nap, "Who's there?" She asked sleepily.

"It's Scorp, duh." He said shaking Rose.

"Stop it, I want to sleep!" She hissed.

"As much as I like this position I think you want to change into your uniform.

Hearing what he said Rose's eyes shot open. When she saw Scorpius's head hanging above her she thought her eyes were still adjusting to the light, but more minutes passed and Scorpius's face was still there. Rose turned red, she had fallen asleep on his lap. Trying to get off she fell to the ground with a thud.

Scorpius chuckled and held out his hand to help her up, "You alright there?"

Rose took his hand and got to her feet, "Yeah, just fine."

"Well you better change." He told her, tapping on the watch around his wrist.

She nodded and reached up for her bag. Scorpius ended up getting it for her seeing how she couldn't reach.

"There you go, shorty." Scorpius grinned.

"Shut up, Scorp." Rose glared.

"Oh, you know I'm kidding." He replied, ruffling her hair.

"Do. Not. Touch. The. Hair." Rose warned and shoved his hand away.

She quickly made her way out of the compartment before Scorpius could reply. She headed towards the changing compartments, but paused. She had forgotten her tie. Sighing, Rose turned around and walked back into her compartment.

"Forgot my-" Rose began to say.

Wham!

She had run into Scorpius. Now that would've been fine, if she just ran into him, she had done it a dozen times before, but this time was different. Scorpius had been changing, too. So Rose had just walked into his chest…

"Oh Merlin." Her eyes widened, "Sorry, sorry!"

Scorpius's expression matched hers perfectly, but he tried to act cool. "Er, s'cool." He managed to say, "Here." He threw her a tie clumsily.

Rose was frozen for a moment. Finally she managed to back out of the compartment.

It took a while for everything to process for Rose. Even then all Rose could think about was her running into Scorpius's chest, his very… muscular chest she had to add.

Yeah, the train ride was legendary alright.