"Rose Weasly!" My mum yelled behind me,
"Take off that makeup now!" I quickened my pace, me mum didn't approve of my black lipstick, nail polish, and eye shadow look that I adopted at the young age of seven. She left me along until the day I turned twelve and I got my letter from Hogwarts. I stomped up the stairs,
"No!" slamming my bedroom door shut before flopping down on my small twin sized bed. Mum muttered some very rude words before stomping down the hall towards her room.
The next day at platform 9 3/4 I pushed my trunk cart balancing my trunk, train bag, and cat's cage on it as Hugo bumped into me every ten seconds.
"Hugo do you wanna ride?" I ask my little brother whose eyes light up.
"Yes!" he jumps onto the front almost knocking Candy's cage off the cart. Which mum swiftly stops using her wand, levitating it back onto the cart.
After saying my goodbyes to me mum and Hugo I boarded the train finding an empty compartment. I take out my wand, a seven inch ivy wand with dragon heartstring inners, and say pointing it at the door,
"Colloportus" locking it making it impossible to open by muggle ways. Plopping down on the red velvet seat with my back against the cool window I let out a sigh, I really don't like acting this way but it kept everyone away. Me dad died when I was seven of blunt force trauma when he fell off his broom stick during a quitich game. I relax my eyelids getting heavy as I drift off to sleep. The sound of the door unlocking wakes me and I jump to my feet pointing my wand at the boy who just walked in. Realizing who it is I drop back onto the seat, its Scorpious Malfoy my best friend since before I can remember.
"Hey Scorp" I say as he plops down next to me and I rest my head in his lap. Using his sleeve he rubs away my black lipstick,
"My flower, you look better without the makeup" he says pulling out his wand muttering a charm before hovering it over my face. He's removing my makeup and I let him, once he finishes he starts to play with my hair and I fall asleep with my head in his lap.
"Rosie Posy, its time to wake up." Scorp's voice sounds in my ear. I sit up rubbing my eyes opening them just in time to see him throw my robes at me. I catch them and stand to put them on after I cast a spell making a curtain between us, he chuckles at this because I've changed in front of him before and vice versa. Slipping of my muggle clothes my milky white skin covered in goose bumps as the cold air hit it, pulling on the robes I tried to zip up the back but I couldn't reach the zipper. So I opened the curtain to see a fully dressed Scorpious, his mouth dropped when I turned my back to him holding my hair out of the way,
"Scorpious can you zip me up?" I ask
"Sure" his warm fingers trace my spin running over my bra clasp before zipping me up. His lips go to my throat,
"You're cold my little flower, how about I warm you up?" I smile and he pulls me into a hug. He sits still hugging me pulling me into his lap,
"How was your summer?" he asks me as I curl up into his chest.
"Mum got on me about my makeup, Hugo had an asthma attack and almost died, Grandpa Arthur slipped and broke his hip, and mum got mad when I tried to celebrate Dad's birthday."
Tears spill out of my eyes as I reach the end, he just brings me tighter smoothing my fiery red curls down letting me cry till I run out of tears.
Once my sniffles turned into hiccups I slid out of his lap next to him,
"Scorp?"
"Yeah?"
"You know that you're my only friend right? The only one who bothered to break down my walls?"
He frowns," I know, I remember when you tried to keep me out."
Flash back
A seven year old Rose runs from her best friend yelling at him to leave her alone. She had just returned from her dad's funeral where she had reveled her new self. Her lips midnight black, eyes lined the same, here fiery red hair straightened back. Scorpious followed her despite her wishes to the woods behind her house, where he found her bundled up crying against the trunk of a tree. He reached out to touch her but she shrank away from his touch,
"Go away." she hissed words filled with venom
"No" the boy said being just as stubborn, her blues eyes cut to him narrowing
"Why?"
"You're my best friend. I am not letting you go"
"Why in the bloody hell not" she yelled throwing her hands up into the air mascara bleeding down her cheeks, "Nobody else gives a damn!"
"Well I do!" He yelled getting angry himself.
"Y-you do?" she asked her anger slipping away into curiosity, his eyes softened as he sat next to her taking her small body into his lap wrapping her in a hug,
"I do" he whispered as she cried into his chest until the next morning's sun brimmed the horizon.
End of flash back
We spend the rest of the ride like that, after disembarking we follow Haggrid to the boats chatting nervously about sorting and what houses we'll be put into,
"Scorp, Weasly's have always been in Gryffindor and Malfoy's have always been in Slytherin! What am I gonna do without you!" I cry distraught
"It's fine Rose, we'll still see each other. Plus we're not exactly like our families. We'll be fine." he says and I calm down slightly, until we reach the grand hall door and Mongonagall has us line up. I start bobbing up and down until Scorp puts his hands on my shoulder holding me still.
The doors fly open as we march into the hall and Mongonagall starts to call out names
"Peter Albertson!
"Hufflepuff!"
"Cheyanne Barker!"
"Gryffindor!"
She keeps calling then it's Scorp's turn, the hats sets on his blond hair mumbling to itself, "you are cunning like your father, witty and loyal like your mother, and have enough courage to go around. Hmmm… this is a hard one. Gryffindor!" The hat proclaims and I jump up
Soon it's my turn and I sit on the rough wooden stool,
"Ah, another Weasly. You're brave, courageous, have nerve to put everyone in their proper place, and are extremely loyal." He says this and I know for sure I'm going to be a Gryffindor but then he continues,
"But you are also cunning, ambitious, a born leader like your mother, I see you have inherited her smarts. Slytherin!" the hat yells and my heart stops. All of my family at the Gryffindor table smiles fades and Scorpious looks confused as I make my way to the cheering green and silver clad table. Dinner goes through in a blur as I am still in shock. Walking back to the commons room I de-shockify myself as a girl named Clair introduces herself to me,
"Hiya, I'm Clair! You wanna be friends?" she asks
"Sure" I say and she starts to ramble on about herself playing with the ends of her black hair every so often,
"I'm an Aries, I love reading, my parents are both muggles, my favorite color's blue, I cannot stand the color pink, I'm from Alabama if you're wonderin' bout' my accent…" she goes on and on till we are told to go to bed. Everyone's asleep by midnight so I slip on my slippers and tip toe to the library where me and Scorpious had agreed to meet on the train. I find him sitting on a little couch just big enough for two and I sit next to him. We stare into each others eyes for awhile till I look away resting my head on his shoulder and he says,
"This is backwards."