FIREWORKS
"Ahem! A great person once said…"
"Shut up, now is not the time"
"When is it ever?"
"If you continue, we'll be caught"
"Right because we aren't in trouble already"
"Will you stop being a prick!?"
"Why should I….?"
"Your Mum's coming, shit!"
"She looks murderous"
"Come on you idiot!"
"Ow, Scorp that's my toe!"
"She'll break more than your toe if she finds us, now move or I'm leaving you here"
Albus Potter and his best friend and partner in crime Scorpius Malfoy had been smart enough….or dumb enough depending on the way you look at it to light fireworks in Albus's bedroom.
Well, what could one expect from two sixteen year old boys spending their summer with nothing to entertain them?
But, that didn't mean Ginny Potter would allow her house to burn down because of them and thank heavens it was still standing.
What they hadn't anticipated was the fireworks afterwards, which would prove more dangerous than the ones they'd found so amusing to explode.
Once they scrambled to the back door and in to the back yard, they sprinted for the street.
They ran not looking to see if anyone was following in broad daylight.
It was an empty street inhabited by muggles who seemed to love to keep to themselves.
While running Albus saw the girl on the cycle coming at him ringing her bell.
His green eyes widened while her golden brown eyes showed fear.
She tried to veer the bicycle to the side but it collided with him and she propelled forward tumbling onto him with a strangled scream.
The bicycle frame clanged on contact with the ground and Albus felt all his bones aching as well as his mouth filled with the jet black hair belonging to the girl in question.
He spat it out while she scrambled up, in the process elbowing him in the gut.
Scorpius peered over them "Um …are you both alright?"
She stood up sporting a scrape across her elbow and a bruised knee.
She glared "I'm fine"
She picked up her bike as Albus stood up wincing as he stretched his leg.
He surveyed the girl; she was wearing knee-length khaki shorts and a blue t-shirt.
She glared at him and surveyed him in turn.
Her face turned red on properly seeing him, like she was embarrassed.
Albus resisted the urge to smirk; he always had that sort of effect on girls. Why shouldn't he? He had been blessed with a tall and a well-built frame along with facial features fit to be on the cover of a magazine and god knows he knew he had it all.
She turned to go, but he said "Wait, aren't you going to apologize?"
She looked at him not embarrassed anymore "Oh please, you're the one who was running in the middle of the road, I even rang the bell"
Scorpius watched the exchange slightly nervous.
Albus decided that this girl was annoying "Yeah but you could have veered off to avoid collision"
She said raising her voice "I tried"
He said back "You didn't try hard enough"
She began walking off "I'm going"
He glared at her retreating figure "Who are you?"
She said "Pay a little more attention to your surroundings, maybe you'll find out who I am"
He stood there feeling scandalized, no girl had ever talked to him like that or walked away from him as if they couldn't care less about him. His ego was bruised. She didn't turn back once which irked him even more.
He looked at Scorpius "Can you believe her?"
Scorpius shrugged "She seems to have spirit"
Albus said sulkily "I don't like it"
Sorpius rolled his eyes as they walked down the street "A great man once said, ego is the fire that can only be put out by the flame of spirit"
Albus turned to look at his best friend "Who said that?"
Scorpius grinned proudly "Me"
Albus shook his head and said "If you're so great why don't you tell Rose about your little crush on her?"
Scorpius blushed and muttered "I will…eventually"
Albus said "Let's forget about that girl, she's just some muggle with a daring tongue"
Scorp put his hand on Albus's shoulder "Sure, but I think you've finally met your match"
Albus looked straight ahead, his jaw set "We'll see"
His emerald eyes shined with determination. Scorpius wondered, would this summer change his Poster boy best friend and his rakish ways?
Maybe he'd finally come back to earth, something that had been long overdue.
AN:
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