Elsi: Welcome, one and all, to my latest story: Lessons and Lies. These will all be one-shots that are all in different 'worlds' (unless I say otherwise).

Trek: Here's the first one. It's Rose/Scorpius, but really more Family or Friendship than Romance.

Elsi: Enjoy!

Acorns

"Coming, Scor?" Scorpius Malfoy looked up, surprised, to see Albus pulling on his gloves.

"Coming where?" replied Scorpius, sitting up. Albus grinned.

"The annual Potter-Weasley snowball fight, of course!" replied Albus cheerfully. "Guys against girls. It's a family tradition."

"Alright," agreed Scorpius. What could it hurt? He quickly pulled on the gloves that he had in his jacket and followed his best friend outside. Who knew spending Christmas with Albus would be so surprising?

"Al, there you are." Harry beckoned Albus and Scorpius closer with a wave of his hand. A bit awkwardly, Scorpius joined the circle of Potters and Weasleys. He could feel the skeptical gazes of James and Louis on him, but he did his best to ignore them. The adults began to discuss strategies that blurred in Scorpius' mind. As he tried to imagine them as Quidditch plays, Albus tapped him lightly.

"Look," he whispered. Scorpius followed his friend's gaze to where the Weasley-Potter girls were hunched together in a circle like the boys were around an oak tree. Little Lucy Weasley and Lily were up in the tree, but for what Scorpius couldn't guess. Rose, Roxanne, and Molly were on the edge of the crowd of adults, laughing over something Rose had said.

As if she sensed that Scorpius was staring, Rose turned around and met his eyes. Immediately, Scorpius' heart began to flutter. After five and a half years of wanting to meet her huge family, here he was. Albus had been kind enough to agree to take him, but the real reason for Scorpius coming wasn't him. It was Rose.

With a roll of her eyes, Rose turned back to her friends, making Scorpius sigh. Albus patted his back supportively, making Scorpius quite grateful.

"Are you two going to stand there all day?" In unison, Scorpius and Albus turned around to see Ron beckoning them to the line that their side was beginning to form. Scorpius' stomach twisted. If he ever did get Rose to go out with him (which after two years of failed attempts, was becoming hopeless), Ron Weasley would be the biggest problem he would face. At first, anyways.

Bill, Charlie, Percy, George, Ron, and Harry had crossed to the middle of the backyard, pausing to wait for the women. Scorpius glanced at Albus.

"Your family takes Christmas fun very seriously," he observed. Albus let a smirk form on his face.

"You haven't even seen half of it," he promised. It was this and this alone that made Scorpius shiver.

A moment later, Fleur, Audrey, Angelina, Hermione, and Ginny were now standing across from their husbands (plus Charlie) aggressively. The younger girls had taken their places at the edge of the backyard, as had Scorpius and the other boys. Quickly, Scorpius took a head count. Victoire, Dominique, Molly, Lucy, Roxanne, Lily, Rose…Rose…anyways, it was seven. Looking around, he only counted James, Albus, Louis, Fred, Hugo, and Teddy. And him. Perfect, when they added him in it was all even.

Now the adults were crossing back to their respective sides.

"Ready!" called Ginny from her side. At once, everyone began to scrape at the snow eagerly.

"That means you can make your first ball," Albus muttered out of the corner of his mouth. Nodding, Scorpius bent down to mash together his snowball.

"Set!" In one fluent movement, each of them popped up into a position to throw. Scorpius followed their lead after a moment – James snorted from a few spots down.

"GO!" All at once, snow was flying everywhere. Scorpius launched his snowball as hard as he could towards Roxanne and ducked down to make another. As yells of fury filled the air, Scorpius could feel the blood in his veins pick up. This was just how he felt during a Quidditch game!

As he fired another snowball at Molly with all that he had in him, he felt something hard connect with his side. Gasping in sudden pain, Scorpius looked around to see that Dominique had hit him hard. From the fresh snow fell three little acorns.

"They're throwing acorns!" he called out, scooping them up and dodging Lily's snowball.

"That's a filthy trick!" hissed Hugo suddenly, appearing with two snowballs in his hands. He tossed one to Scorpius. "Let's send them back at them." Scorpius blinked a few times, fumbling to catch the snowball. Were they actually beginning to accept him being there?

A hard snowball from Roxanne brought Scorpius back to life, and he piled the acorns from the two balls into the snowball that Hugo had just handed him, firing it back at the redhead with everything he had. Her squeal of surprise told him that he had hit his target.

As the day became warmer, the battle raged on. Acorns and snow flew around him, and Scorpius did his best to dodge. He only saw Albus a few times, but everyone else seemed to respect and look to him as a normal member of this fight. Even James resisted the urge to send him sprawling into the snow.

He was battling alongside Fred and his father, George, when suddenly, he caught sight of Rose. She was perched on the lowest branches of the tree with Hermione, holding a bucket of acorns.

"Look!" cried Scorpius. Fred's head swiveled around.

"Go for it, Scorpius!" he called, throwing a snowball at Lily. As Scorpius bent down to prepare a huge snowball to take out the bucket of acorns, he realized with a pang of happiness that they hadn't called him Malfoy. They were actually starting to accept him!

He snuck away from the two Weasleys and towards the back of the tree, hoping not to be seen by Rose or her mother. As soon as he got in sight of the branch and took aim, he realized something: Rose was missing.

"Thought you could fool us, huh, Malfoy?" Scorpius spun around to see Rose, and his breath caught in his throat. With bushy red hair flowing out behind her, she shone in the white-and-brown snow. She tossed a snowball in her hand with a crunch. Showing her that he also had a snowball, Scorpius took a step back. Smirking, Rose approached him.

Throw it at her! he screamed silently. But how could he possibly throw this snowball at the girl he had loved since Albus introduced him to her in first year? The Gryffindor could sense his weakness, and she continued to chase him backwards. At last, Scorpius felt the wood of the oak tree behind him, but Rose still came closer.

"If I get out of this alive, will you go out with me?" he asked weakly, hoping that she would pity his helplessness and not peg him into oblivion.

"Depends," Rose replied, taking a few more paces forward. Scorpius could now see her breath in the air in front of him. His heart fluttered: he could reach out and touch her now if he wanted to. Rose still bounced the snowball lightly in her hand.

At this reminder, Scorpius curled around the tree, hoping to escape her. And suddenly, Rose pounced, pushing him to the ground.

"What the-?" Before he could finish his sentence, Rose was kissing him fiercely. Scorpius' shock nearly stopped him from responding, but he could just barely kiss her in return. She pushed herself up, winked, and then bounded swiftly away.

Scorpius just lay there with his eyes closed for a moment, amazed at what had just happened. How he had dreamed of this moment every time he saw her in the hallways with her cousins. Maybe all it took was having him as a house-mate for a few weeks.

This happy thought in his mind, Scorpius opened his eyes to see that he was right under the branch Hermione was sitting on. She was staring down at him, and his stomach tensed. Not because he feared that she was about to hex him for kissing her daughter, but because she was now tipping the bucket of acorns right above him.

He barely had time to yell before a fierce downpour of acorns knocked the little breath he had left out of his body. When he emerged from the shock (and slight pain), he noticed that the entire Potter-Weasley clan was gathered around him, laughing their heads up. Albus crossed over to him and pulled him up.

"What the bloody hell was that?" shouted Scorpius, glaring around at them.

"That," laughed Albus, "was the ritual we all went through on our first family snowball fight. In a way, you are officially part of the family." A warm feeling spread through Scorpius as he looked at them all. Even James and Louis, who had been absolutely nasty to him at school, were beaming. Struck with sudden courage, Scorpius stalked up to Rose.

"I take that as a yes?" he questioned her. The redhead chuckled.

"No way, Scorpius Malfoy. You're part of the family now, and I don't date my family."

Elsi: Well? Did you like it? I wasn't completely fond of it. But what did YOU think?

Trek: The next one will be Lily/Lysander, sub-category being...

Elsi: Friendship? I don't really know. ANYWAYS! Please please pretty please review. I want to know if this is ridiculous or not.

Trek: Yeah, what she said.