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Scorpius sat alone at the Slytherin table, pushing the bacon and eggs around his plate with his fork. He hadn't been very hungry recently, he had just been feeling really weird about things. He had been banned from playing on the Qudditch team after attacking the Hufflepuff team during their practise with a few bludgers and a beater's bat, he had been failing lots of his subjects – even though he was smart – and he had been feeling some very weird feelings that he had never felt before, about a certain red-headed Gryffindor.

Rose had always been lonely. She had no friends, never spoke to her cousins, brother or parents unless it was absolutely necessary. She would often stay in the library, her dorm or her bedroom and sit in silence and either read or day dream. No one understood why, she didn't even really understand why. She knew why, but didn't understand it. She had one friend, one friend that she could talk to about anything – but she didn't – and that was her very own cousin, Albus. She didn't really talk to him much, but he was there if she really needed to talk, and it just so happened that that same Potter boy was the best friend of Scorpius Malfoy.

Albus came striding into the Great Hall and sunk down on the bench next to Scorpius, whilst pathetically trying to tie his green and silver tie in his current tired state. He groaned and picked up 5 bits of toast before covering them in slabs of butter. "Hungry?" Scorpius asked, raising an eyebrow. Although, the only reply he received was a quick groan before having to listen to Albus chewing on his toast with his mouth wide open. "Look, I love you and everything, Al' but I'd really prefer not to have bits of chewed up toast being sprayed all over the table out of your mouth." He said, nudging Albus in the arm.

"You don't love me, you love Rose." Albus said bluntly, earning a very hard punch in the arm and kick under the table from Scorpius. "OW!" He cried out, causing quite a few students on all the tables to turn and stare at them, and making Albus' cheeks turn bright red.

"Well, that woke you up." Scorpius said with a shrug, before carrying on pushing his food around his plate. "And I don't love her, okay?" He said, scowling at Albus. "I just have a slight thing for her, although I don't see why." He explained. "She's a freak." He said bluntly.

"Look, that may be true but she's still my cousin." Albus said before engulfing another two pieces of toast. "So what if she's different?" He asked. "She doesn't get along with people, it doesn't mean she's a freak." He stated.

"Albus, she spends all her time alone. She doesn't even come to class, she gets all the work given to her separately so she doesn't have to be there!" Scorpius said, rolling his eyes. He wasn't sure why he liked her – maybe it was those red locks that fell in front of her face, maybe it was her shining brown eyes, maybe it was the freckles that covered her nose and cheeks, maybe it was how mysterious she was all the time... or maybe it was all of the above. "In the six years we've been at Hogwarts she hasn't attended one class and she still gets better fucking grades than I do!" Scorpius groaned, dropping his fork onto his plate of untouched food.

"She's an intelligent freak, Scorpius." Albus said with a smirk and slight laugh, biting down on another piece of toast. "So if you think she's so freaky why do you like her?" Albus asked.

"I don't know!" Scorpius said, burying his face in his hands and resting his elbows on the table. "She avoids all forms of communication with me-" Scorpius began.

"No, she avoids all form of communication with anyone." Albus corrected him.

"Whatever. And when she does actually talk to me she can't wait to leave and get away from anyone and everything!" Scorpius said, with slight aggravation in his voice. "Think she'd hate me if I tried talking to her?" He asked.

"Probably... but you can try." Albus said, stabbing Scorpius' pieces of bacon from his plate with his fork and eating them.

"I think I might." Scorpius said, grabbing his bag and swinging it over his shoulder before standing up and smacking Albus playfully around the head before walking away.

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