So, I decided to write another story. Please tell me what you think...by reviewing, obviously. :)
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'Well, well, well,' he said, smirking. 'I finally meet the littlest Potter.'
'Oh yay,' Lily replied, dully. 'What're you doing in my room, Malfoy?'
'Al told me to wait here. Plus, I had to meet you, after having heard so much. Funny how we didn't ever talk at Hogwarts,' Scorpius mused.
'I never liked you much and we were in different houses, so it's not that funny, really,' she said, irritably. She was extremely nervous. She had just applied to start Auror training. The Auror Department's response was due that day, and Scorpius was just annoying her with his presence.
Scorpius simply smiled at her reply. 'You never exactly knew me.'
'Merlin,' she muttered. 'You're not going to leave my room, are you?'
'Nope,' he said, smirking again.
Lily sighed. 'Fine. If you must know, I'd heard quite a lot about you from Al, James and a few of my friends.'
'And what had they said about me?'
'They said you were charming,' she said, rolling her eyes. 'It was always "Scorpius this, Scorpius that," and well, that just made me think you were…boring.'
He gaped at her. 'Boring?'
Lily shrugged in response.
'I am not boring!' he said, indignantly. 'In fact, I'm a very interesting person. If you-'
'Yeah, yeah, yeah,' she said, waving it off with her hand. 'If I bothered to get to know you, I'd say differently. Whatever. I honestly don't care right now. It's been wonderful talking to you. Now, please get out.' She gripped his hand and led him out. He opened his mouth to say something, but she slammed the door in his face. That pissed him off.
Al came bounding up the stairs and saw Scorpius outside Lily's bedroom. 'What're you doing?'
'Just had a conversation with your charming sister,' he said, annoyed.
Al laughed. 'She called you boring, didn't she?' Scorpius' dark look was qualified as a 'yes'. Still laughing, Al said, 'Don't take it personally, Scor. Lily's a really straightforward person. Besides, she likes people who are dicks…Take her taste in boyfriends, for example, Marcus Walters…you remember him?'
Scorpius wrinkled his nose. 'That git from Ravenclaw…the Beater?'
'Yeah. You know what an asshole he was right?'
'Yeah…'
'That's my point. But Merlin knows when she'll realize that the normal kind are the best for her,' Al said, shaking his head. 'Anyway, how come she chucked you out of her room? Usually, she'd spend her time making fun of you.'
'Dunno,' Scorpius said. 'She seemed fidgety.'
'Huh,' Al said. 'The last time Lily was fidgety was when she was expecting her Hogwarts letter. Eh, it doesn't matter anyway. Let's go down for lunch.' Al and Scorpius made their way to the kitchen to find Ginny laying the table, helped by Teddy. James was sitting on the counter and reading the paper.
'Hello, Scorpius,' Ginny greeted, warmly. She hugged him. Teddy smiled and just clapped him on the back as a greeting. James grunted. 'Where's Lily?' he asked.
'In her room,' Al replied.
'Still hasn't gotten out, huh?' Teddy sighed.
'No, why?'
'Her letter from the Auror Department, idiot,' James said. 'She applied last week. Today's when she's supposed to be getting her response.' Ginny left the kitchen to go check on her daughter.
'So that's why she was nervous,' Scorpius said.
'You met her?' James asked, sharply.
'Yeah. Why?'
'Nothing, nothing,' he muttered. James had never wanted Lily and Scorpius to meet. He knew how little thought Lily put in while choosing a boyfriend and Scorpius was known to be a pretty loose character. Their union, in his mind, would be most unholy.
Teddy, aware of James' fear, merely laughed. Al, unaware of anything, said, 'Can we eat?'
'Yes, you can,' came Ginny's voice from the door. Lily entered the kitchen about a minute later, looking pale. Her fingers were digging into her palms so hard, that they could bleed at any moment.
'Lil, relax,' Al said, through a mouthful of pork chops. She didn't even look at him. Quietly, she took her seat in between Teddy and James, both of whom were watching her amusedly. 'Well, you don't always get to experience a quiet Lily, right, Ted?' James asked, grinning. Lily glared at him, but did no more.
'Right you are, James. Let's cherish this moment,' Teddy said, also grinning. They were pulling Lily's leg in the hope that she would come up with some witty retort, as she always does. However, all she did was stare at her food, looking queasy. Teddy and James, visibly irritated that their plan didn't work, began eating furiously. Al was piling more food onto his plate. Ginny was eating while watching her daughter with amusement and concern. Scorpius, too, was enjoying his meal. At the same time, he watched Lily.
She was pretty. Not conventionally pretty, but pretty all the same. Her dark blue eyes were staring hard at her food, as though hoping she could become one with her pork chops. Her long, straight, brownish-red hair was left loose, with a fringe on one side of her face. She had a tiny, pointed nose that was very slightly upturned. All in all, Scorpius thought she looked great. She was, in his opinion, effortlessly pretty. No wonder she was the talk of the school, he thought.
He wondered why he had never come across her at Hogwarts much. True, he and Al were Slytherins and she was a Gryffindor, but the enmity existed only on the Quidditch field. He had seen her during Quidditch, though. But then, she was only a reddish blur. Why had he never bothered to get to know her? She probably wouldn't have thought he was boring if he had done so. It's no matter, he comforted himself, there's time now. Lots of it, in fact.
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