Chapter One: The Letter
He was watching her from across the Great Hall again. She was talking animatedly with her friends and her curly, bright red hair was glinting in the light. She laughed her light, tinkling laugh (he couldn't hear it of course since he was acroos the Hall but he knew that's what it was.) She looked up suddenly and her hazel eyes caught his blue-gray ones. She winked, gave a large, toothy smile and turned back to her friends. He chanced one more glance at her and noticed her blushing. He quickly looked back down at his breakfast, his face becoming redder every second.
A sudden rustling overhead alerted Scorpius that the mail had arrived. He scanned the hundreds of owls for his Hawk Owl hoping to receive a package of sweets from home, but instead a Twany Owl was flying towards him, a small bit of parchment attached to its leg. He quickly pulled the letter off. Written on the front, in small print was his name. He opened it and written in the same small print the words:
Scorpius-- meet me at the clock tower tonight at 10:30.
He didn't recognize the handwriting so he glanced around the Hall to see if anyone was watching him. To his dismay no one was and he had no way of knowing who'd written the letter unless he went to the clock tower tonight.
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Rose glanced across the Hall as soon as the mail arrived. She watched Scorpius read the letter and his face turn red. She then turned back to her breakfast smiling to herself. She'd done all she could about her feelings; she just hoped that he would do his part and show up tonight.