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Chapter 1

He smiled, waved. Rose rolled her eyes but was unable to stop the quirk in her lips. He noticed and his grin widened. She felt her ears turning red and cursing her unbearable hereditary trait, she turned her head. Idiot. Of course he would notice. She walked to her compartment and sat, waiting for Lily and Hugo. And of course Scorpius. He'd pop in. He always did. Tagging behind Albus, who would be looking irritated and grumpy and saying hello only for the sake of formality/ Scorpius say something stupid, she would glare and he'd leave and that would be the end of that.

He grew a bit she noticed. She didn't like noticing. But he had. And he'd started playing Quidditch. Which meant he had filled out slightly. Gotten a little taller. Cuter. She shuddered. But he had. And other girls were starting to notice as well. Rose had always assumed she would have been massively relieved at this fact. Elated. Excited. Exalted. Exuberant. Instead she found herself irritated. "IT'S SCORPIUS," she wanted to shout at the lingering looks of these girls. "You know, gangly awkward, Scorpius, the one that never quite manages to leave me be. THAT ONE. Not this weird, slightly handsome, awkward one who plays quidditch."

She was startled from her thoughts with the door sliding open. Lily and Hugo entered laughing, arms packed with sweets. They dumped them on the table and began to rummage through. She grabbed a chocolate frog when the door opened again. It was Albus and Scorpius. Albus stood awkwardly, though slightly more at ease than normal. With Lily around, he always relaxed a little.

"Well grab one," Lily said to him. Albus moved to pick up a handful of Bertie Bott's beans. "You too, Scorpius." He looked to Lily, having only realized she was also in the compartment. Rose, her eyes perpetually rolling in Scorpius's presence, rolled them again. He flashed Lily a smile and to Rose's utter and complete horror, Lily's cheeks flushed pink and she lowered her eyes. Rose glanced over to Albus who looked appropriately horrified, glancing between his best friend and his sister, and there was Scorpius, unwrapping a chocolate frog oblivious to it all. Git.

"Do you want to sit?" Lily asked, shyly.

"NO!" shouted both Rose and Albus, while in unison was a "Sure!" came from Scorpius who slid down to sit next to Lily. Albus and Rose looked at each other, and for the first time in a very long time, they bonded over the atrocity of it all. Lily, if possible, had turned even redder and became very quiet. Hugo, busy munching on his cauldron cakes, clearly his father's son, had not noticed a thing. Albus, Rose and Scorpius were left - the observant ones, Scorpius with his daft smile pointed at Rose, Albus with a pinched grimace staring at his sister, and Rose, her ears red and eyes trying to meet anything other than Scorpius.

"So, Rose," Scorpius began, "How was your summer?"

"Fine." she responded, coldly.

"And Lily, how about you?" he asked, turning to her. Her face had just returned to the normal color, but Rose saw the red tipped ears - a Weasley curse if ever there was one.

"You were around for most of it." responded Lily with a smile. Lily was dazzling when she smiled. Scorpius smiled back and for a second Rose was furious.

"Yeah Scorpius, do you not have a life outside the Potter's", Rose snapped at him. "I would think your dad would be lonely what with your mother not around." Her eyes widened when she realized what she had said, and a dreadful feeling of shame and embarrassment overtook her. Albus and Lily looked at her with a mixture of shock and disgust, but it was Scorpius's look that gave her an unbearable pang. He looked disappointed, hurt and yet he smiled at her.

"Very true." he replied, forcing a jovial one. "I've been a dreadful son. The Potter's are irresistible," he continued with a wink at Lily.

"Scorpius," she started, beginning an apology, but he stood up interrupting. "Oh, the trolley lady, excuse me" and walked out of the compartment. Albus stood to leave, gave Rose a thoroughly deserved glare and walked behind his friend.

"That was entirely unnecessary, Rose" said Lily, as she stood to trail after her brother.

Only Hugo, still munching on his cauldron cakes was left. "You probably shouldn't have said that." he said with his mouth full of cake.

"Shut up, Hugo" she snapped. He shrugged and continued eating.

This was a bad start to the new year.