"You fancy him, don't you?" Alice accused, catching Rose staring towards the Slytherin table yet again.
"No," Rose lied hurriedly, her cheeks turning red; rumours about her and Scorpius circulating the school would cause questions from her cousins. "We're just best friends, that's all."
How she wished it wasn't. But it was just too impossible – she didn't even want to imagine her family's reaction if she started dating Draco Malfoy's son. And she didn't want to lose him as a friend.
Alice's unconvinced smirk was comforting, though. It gave her hope that maybe it wasn't so impossible after all.
A/N: This is for the 100 stories under 100 words challenge on HPFC. It will not be in chronological order, because that would be way too much for my brain to handle :P Thanks to Vicky [blurs of red and blonde] for the title suggestion!
I'm not JKR.