"You look like shit."

And he does. Look like shit, I mean; except Scorp is one of the few men in the world who can pull off the whole bloodshot eyes, pale skin, and I-will-totally-get-sick-all-over-you-if-you-don't-give-me-a-hangover-potion-right-now glare.

"Shut up."

"That's no way to talk to a best mate with a hangover potion!"

I sit down next to him at the Slytherin table. Al sits across form us looking just as bad as Scorp. I pull the hangover potion out of my bag.

"Take a sip and pass it around."

I receive two grunts as my thanks. Seriously! I give these two boys a hangover potion and they grunt at me! I roll my eyes at them but within moments they seem to be fully recovered.

"Cheers Rose, take a parfait." Albus says handing me one of my favorite breakfasts.

"Mmmm." Parfaits are so incredibly delicious. The combination of yogurt, granola and fruit…it's like Merlin high-fived me…in my mouth!

I then notice Scorp staring at me strangely. Why? He doesn't remember anything that happened last night right? Because it's going to be ridiculously difficult to pretend I never straddled him if he actually remembers!

Ok here's the plan if he does ask me: Claim drunk! People can get away with anything when they're drunk!

"What?"

He smirks at me, "There's yogurt on your chin."

I can feel my face flush; stupid genetics. I lift my hand up to my face and quickly swipe the yogurt away. You know I should have just let him rot in hangover pain.

"Did we do anything stupid last night Rose?" Al asks.

"I really wouldn't know. Apparently this one," I say hitting Scorp in the arm, "made me drink so the last thing I remember is talking to Hank Lutfy and then Scorp intervened and made me drink."

Al punches Scorp, "Why'd you make her drink?"

Scorp shrugs and smiles at me lightly, "She's fun when she's drunk."

I roll my eyes at him. "However, I do remember that Al and Layla were practically shagging on the dance floor."

A burst of laughter to my left interrupts my (admittedly very vague) recollections of last night.

"Nice one, Al!" Luca Zabini smacks him on the back.

Luca is one of Albus and Scorpius' Slytherin mates. They're usually on relatively good terms with each other. Ian Cooper was another good mate of theirs but he had yet to show up for breakfast.

"Morning Luca, where's Ian?" I ask.

"Still up in the dormitory, being hung-over." He laughs.

"So, Rose, did I do anything stupid last night?"

One of the downfalls of always being the sober one at the party: you have to remember all the stupid things your stupid mates did.

"Dunno Luca, Scorp made me drink last night."

"Niceee!" Luca says and high fives Scorp.

"It was not nice!" I counter, "The last thing I remember was talking to Hank Lutfy before Scorp intervened!"

All the boys make faces at the mention of Hank's name and seem to approve of the fact that Scorp stopped me from talking with him.

"What's wrong with Hank Lutfy?" I ask.

Now I have to admit that I'm curious. Hank's not exactly perfect (drunken debacles, dating mates' exes…you know the sort) but he's not vicious.

The boys all exchange a glance, and I'm sure I'm missing something.

"He's just a prick." Luca says. "Can you hand me the pumpkin juice?"

And then they all start talking about something or other having to do with the Slytherin Quidditch team (of which Al is the captain and Scorp is a beater). What on earth is going on? I remember that Scorp came up to me as soon as Hank was there…and I hadn't planned on seeing Scorp again for the rest of the night.

Scorp tended to…dance…at these parties. Unfortunately I have no coordination whatsoever so dancing is kind of out of the question. Anyways, Scorp is the dancing type and I'm the non-dancing type and it's weird that Scorp found me again after I figured he'd be dancing with one of The Slags.

"Scorp, how much do you remember from last night?" Al asks.

Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap. Please, please, please don't remember the straddle!

"After the third or fourth drink things get blurry…" Scorp says. LOOKING. STRAIGHT. AT. ME.

Fuck. Oh Fuck. Fuck. Fucking fuck. He remembers! He'd had what like two drinks before I straddled him? Keep calm, Rose. Keep Calm! Provide a distraction!

"Why is it that I have a harder time remembering what happened after one drink than you do?" I ask trying to go for the whole indignant angle.

"Coz the more you drink the more of a tolerance you get for the drink. You don't drink at all so you're more affected by the alcohol." Scorp answers.

HE'S STILL LOOKING AT ME. With those grey-blue eyes that most girls just swoon for.

"Huh, how strange." I say in a half disinterest half interested way. (At least, that's what I'm going for here.)

Maybe if I don't look at him he won't remember. Or maybe I should just leave the table.

Don't look at him. Don't look at him. Don't look at him.

"Oh! I have to go find Em! We're going to review for that Charms pop quiz that we're going to have today!" Good one.

"There's a Charms pop quiz today?" All the boys exclaim.

"Professor Harrison made it pretty clear yesterday when she said 'this is very important information to know for tomorrow' very slowly and looking straight at the class." I reply.

"Oh, I thought she just had momentary mental retardation." Luca pipes up.

I roll me eyes at him.

"Whatever; see you!"

I get up cautiously. I've found that standing up is one of the most dangerous things to do in a day. There's about a million ways one can fall (I'm pretty sure that I've accomplished all of them).

Of course, I fall. It's one of those falling in slow motion falls too when I know I'm going to hit the ground but I can't do anything to stop myself.

I brace myself for the fall but it never comes.

"Careful there, Rose" Scorp says to me.

He caught me. I guess he had turned around just in time to catch me. Or maybe he was watching the whole time.

"Merlin, Rose stop being so clumsy," Al says and rolls his eyes as I attempt to right myself.

Blushing stupidly I mumble, "Thanks, Scorp,"

"It's my fast reflexes from Quidditch,"

"Well whatever it was it stopped me from falling, so thanks."

I wave to the boys but Scorp yells something at me,

"Wait! Rose! I'm almost failing Charms; could I study with you and Em?"

No. Because I'm planning to ignore you for the rest of the decade in hopes that you forget the straddling incident.

"Sure," Well, I can't let him know anything actually happened.

I wait for Scorp to take his last bite of food and pick up his bag.

We begin walking in the direction of the Ravenclaw Tower (Em never comes down for breakfast. She's not much of a breakfast person).

"So the last thing you remember from last night is talking to Lutfy?" Scorp asks, side glancing at me.

Ok, there's no doubt in my mind. He has to remember. Play dumb!

"Yep."

He stares at me, his blue-grey eyes piercing me as if trying to figure out if I'm lying. However, despite the whole blushing/clumsiness thing I'm a particularly good liar.

"Why? Did I do something incredibly stupid that I should be forgetting right now?" I ask.

Good, that will keep him from suspecting me.

He hesitates. Please don't say anything please don't say anything please don't say anything.

"No."

Whew! Crisis adverted! Now we can go on being mates like normal with no silly straddling incident between us! He DOESN'T remember!

"Oh okay" I say smiling.

"Look, Rose I forgot my Charms book in my dormitory; how about I meet you in the classroom!"

I frown, "I thought you wanted to study!"

"We will, I'll just go get my book and meet you in there!" he says hurriedly.

"Well…alright then." I begin to say but he's already leaving.

I still can't help but watch his incredibly cute arse walk away from me. I did want to forget the whole straddling incident, right?


A/N: Wow! So many story alerts and reviews! I hope this chapter is as enjoyable as the first!

I've decided to do this story all in Rose's POV. I think it adds a mysterious what-is-Scorpius-thinking-now edge to the story. Also, both of my other multichap fics are alternating POVs so I decided to try something different!

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