The Bet
Chapter One: Mother Knows Best

"Mum, could I talk to you for a sec?" I spoke softly at the doorway to her office. She looked rather busy, but I had to talk to her before I lost my nerve…again. Hermione Weasley was the perfect person to go to when I needed a new book or if I needed to discuss anything academic, I was a little fearful of this new topic that I was about to discuss with her.

"Of course, dear, what is it?" Mum asked as a look of curiosity came to her face as I closed and locked the door.

"Well, you see I might have done something really stupid at the end of last year," I said nervously. She looked rather alarmed then, "No I'm not pregnant Mum!" Mum sighed then and I rolled my eyes at her, she really could jump to the worst conclusions sometimes!

"Then what is it Rosie?" she questioned tentively, obviously sensing my apprehension.

"I made a bit of a bet, a rather…unusual bet, that I fully intend to win, but I'm not entirely sure how," I explained, sort of. She motioned for me to sit down in the comfy chair across the desk from her, and then I continued, "Basically Scorpius Malfoy and I made a bet to see who could seduce who first before the end of the next school year. At the time I was sure I could win, but now I'm utterly unsure of how to even try!"

"Firstly, I don't like the idea of this bet, but if you promise you won't do anything that makes you uncomfortable or that you're not ready for then I'll help you as best I can I guess. Secondly, what are the details in this bet?" I smiled as she spoke, she answered exact as I hoped she would. Mum never tried to tell me what to do…to a point at least.

"Well basically we're suppose to try and seduce each other, the person that gives first loses. And by 'gives' I mean they either have to beg or back out. Which ever one of us wins gets…to put it simply we get oral sex from the loser," I blushed as I finished my explanation, Mum's jaw dropped open slightly before she shook her head with a heavy sigh.

"I'm guessing you'll be doing far worse trying to seduce him, but really that's a rather intense bet for two people who do nothing but fight with each other," Mum said lightly, a smirk playing at her lips, "Unless there's something else going on…"

"No! We may occasionally end up in a broom closet now and then, but it's simply sexual frustration brought on by our duels," I informed her, trying very hard not to think of his gorgeous blue eyes sweeping over my body during our duels, a cloudy mist of lust darkening his usual light blue orbs to nearly black. It was a huge turn-on that I had a very hard time ignoring.

"Can't blame me for asking, you are seventeen, and going into your final year of Hogwarts. Not to mention you were both Ravenclaw prefects and will probably be made Heads. Not to mention that Lily told me that the two of you can never take your eyes off one another at school," Mum teased me, using logic against me, as per usual.

"Could you please just help with the whole 'seducing him' thing?" I begged slightly, not wanting to continue this line of conversation. Scorpius and I had no interest in each outside of physical attraction.

"An important thing to know first is what draws his eye the most. The buttocks? Legs? Breasts?" she asked, a thoughtful look on her face as she went towards her bookcase. I tried thinking about what always seem to draw his attention to me, and then the fact that he always seems to spend a while staring at my legs came to my mind. I blushed then as I remembered the time he'd pressed me against the broom closet wall to wrap my legs around him, his hands never left them after that.

"Legs," I told her simply, shaking the thoughts of him out of my head.

"Alright then, you could wear shorter skirts and pants, add some high heels or strappy shoes and you'll have him drooling. Just remember you need to tease him, which means he can look but not touch. When seducing, the seducer is the only one who can touch, he should be helpless to do anything," my jaw dropped at the sheer knowledge that my mother actually KNEW how to seduce someone. "This should help, and we can go shopping together, pick you out some clothes that will drive him nuts. Not sluty clothes of course, your father would kill me," she continued, handing me a book titled, 'Seducing the Oblivious.' I looked at her in a questioning manner and she blushed lightly, "Your father was oblivious, he needed prompting to make his move."

"Firstly, EW…Secondly, thanks!" I replied, giving her a quick hug before letting her get back to her work. I was going to win that bet, hopefully before Christmas so I can taunt him evilly for the second semester. Scorpius Malfoy wouldn't know what hit him when school started in three weeks.

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