"I may have broken my arm but it's not my fault I fell!"
This type of phrase wasn't uncommon for one fiery Rose Weasley to utter, and neither was the guttural groan she got given in reply.
Rose in all her redheaded glory was the epitome of never thinking before acting. She liked to think it was one of her most admirable features, though many would tend to disagree with that statement.
Her cousin Al would tend to shake his head knowing there was never any point in reprimanding her. It was just Rose being Rose.
"Rose, you could have killed yourself falling from that height!" Al scolded transforming into his Aunt Hermione for a few fleeting moments
Rose just laughed, jolly and sweet. A customary mischievous glint shimmered in Rose's hyacinth-blue eyes. Only a seconds, or maybe a couple minutes, before, Rose wasn't sure the pain in her wrist was starting to multiply, the crazy auburn haired girl stood proudly on her balcony railing staring into the eyes of the moon. Next she was on the black carpeted, but remarkably soft, grass outside her countryside home.
In only a short number of vastly depleting days she would be on the Hogwarts Express again for one of the last times in her life. The thought was scary to Rose, though she'd never admit it. She still felt like the excited eleven-year-old shrieking with excitement due to the arrival of her first Hogwarts letter. There was another fit of shrieking when she was awarded a spot on the Gryffindor prefect team in her fifth year. None occurred for her letter this year only a flit of disappointment in her parents eyes when there was no mention of Head Girl. She later found out she had been beaten by Ravenclaw girl, Hannah Fink. Rose surprisingly, to even herself, didn't mind one bit.
Al silently offered his hand in support to pull Rose from the ground and onto her stable feet. Standing next to each other Rose's small stature was obvious as she was shadowed by her six foot tall cousin. She sadly did not inherit her father's height unlike her brother Hugo who also towered over her like most of the males in the Weasley-Potter clan.
The pair of troublemakers trudge inside both grinning from ear to ear at the clumsiness of the shorter troublemaker. Her mother uttered no words except a healing spell before the two joined the rest of the clan in the den.
Over the next few days many foul-free games of quidditch were badly executed especially one in which Ginny managed to bang right into Uncle George knocking him to the ground in hilarious fashion.
It wasn't until three days until the school year began that the holidays began to rapidly worsen for Rose.
It was a cloudy morning almost midday when Rose awoke to the worst thing that could've possibly happened.
Scorpius Malfoy arrived.
The two clans had been staying at the Burrow for the last week before term, squeezing into any space they could. Rose came stumbling down the stairs all the way from the attic and right into the worst person alive, at least in her eyes.
"Weasley." His smirk was apparent as he huskily whispered her name.
"Jackass." she spat back angrily shouldering past him towards the kitchen. She could hear his chuckle behind her as he began ascending the stairs.
Rose hadn't always hated Scorpius. She truly had tried at first, smiling and acting friendly whenever he was around. It wasn't till year three when he had publicly embarrassed her in front of her date, a fourth year by the name of Sam Duggin. Her cheeks still reddened deeply when she thought of that moment. Rose swore that she was scrubbing the smell of butterbeer off of herself for days afterwards.
In conclusion, Rose despised Scorpius ever since and vice versa. Though ,up until that nights dinner, she never thought he could get any worse but that was before she saw him flashing his headboy badge around the table.
From the moment she laid eyes on that badge she knew her year was going to be living hell. Her body stiffened when he 'causally' bought it up in conversation with everyone. It very quickly got on her nerves. Though to be fair that wasn't very hard if your name happened to be Scorpius Malfoy.
At that very dinner while she ate her pizza with everyone else she knew the best course of action would be to try and avoid Malfoy as much as she could. Her first course of action in this plan was to block him out.
For the next two days Rose kept her ears plugged up with her earphones blasting her music from her phone. Those were two of her favourite muggle devices.
It was always hard for Rose when Scorpius was around because it meant that wherever Al was Scorpius was like a pair of combined twins. It was bad enough that they were barley together at school now the parasite was invading her holidays. They were a strictly Malfoy free zone.
With one day until she was back at Hogwarts Rose had expertly dodged both her frantic mum and equally as frantic Aunt. She wedged herself between a grove of trees out the back with a new book along for the ride.
Rose had always tried to distance herself from being compared to her parents. It was her biggest pet peeve. She always tried so desperately for people to see her as Rose Weasley and not one of her parents but it tended to be a hopeless effort. As soon as she was seen with a book, in the library, or even answered a question correctly in class, she was labeled as a mini Hermione. The same when she was caught sneaking around the castle, pulling a prank, or looking dirty after quidditch practice, she was suddenly a mini Ron. It tended to get extremely exhausted.
In some ways, Rose was truly dreading heading back to school. The homework that would quickly pile up and the strange looks when she isn't introduced as headgirl at the feast. At times the girl with the bright unmissable red locks wished she was anything but unmissable. Like she was permanently wearing her uncle's invisibility cloak.
Disappearing, going off the grid, always appealed more and more as Rose grew up. With one final year at Hogwarts the idea stuck in her brain more often than she would care to admit. But it was her secret.
OOF. Chapter 1 done. Next chapter they'll be at Hogwarts!
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