Rose and Scorpius: Seventh Year
Scorpius Malfoy has made Rose Weasley's life difficult since they met in their first year. But a few days before the beginning of their final year, Rose is pushed too far and (assisted by her cousin Lily and best friend Bethany) decides to play back just as dirty, if not more, by making herself the kind of girl Scorpius Malfoy wants but can't have. And just to make things harder, Scorpius has been challenged by his best friend to seduce Rose 'Ice Queen' Weasley by the end of the year, without falling for her. Two challenges, but only one can succeed. But who will come out victorious is the question?
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with Harry Potter. NADA. Well, except for all the games and books! And a wand!
AN: I would love to reply to all the reviews I've received in the past 2/3 years since I've updated but I have a feeling it would be a chapter within itself! So firstly I'd like to start off by saying thank you to everyone who's taken the time to review anything I've ever written.
I'd like to apologise for not updated in so long, it's a bit ridiculous how long actually. It's easier to start at the beginning: 2/3 years ago I was diagnosed with something which changed my life, and I kept meaning to return, but with everything going on in my life it was really hard and I just wanted to focus on myself for a while. And even though my life will be very very busy over the next year (applying to universities is so hard!), I will gradually be starting to update all my fanfictions again because I do miss writing and I still have so many ideas and plots written out. This fanfiction happened to receive the most reviews since I last updated, so I've decided to start with this! Hopefully you can all support this decision and be patient with me!
This is a re-upload, because I found mistakes and things I didn't like in the original chapter posted, but I will be uploading another chapter with it. So, here we go!
Note – Italics later on are memories/flashbacks.
Chapter Two: Boys, Beauty and Bethany
(Rose POV)
"The key to flirting, Rose is confidence," Lily said boldly, looking through the clothes in my wardrobe. "Wear something that makes you feel flirty, keep a smile on your face and remember that if he doesn't like you – it's his loss!"
I hadn't had a boyfriend the whole seventeen years of my existence. If there had to be a love of my life had been my studies, my books, my dormitory. I hadn't been asked out on dates like all the other girls, and if I'm honest, it bothered me at times. But then again, I wasn't like all the other girls at Hogwarts, who wore their skirts too high and their blouses too tight. They giggled and flirted and that's why they got asked out to Hogsmeade by at least one boy a year. Scratch that, on average, four boys a year. But me? None. None at all.
So, of course, the lovely (but interfering) person that is Lily Luna Potter had been shocked at this fact, and had decided to take the matter in her own hands. I was beginning to regret agreeing with her…
"But Lily, you know I'm not confident when I'm around him!" I protested, scowling as she chucked some of my clothes on my made bed, scanning over them with her eyes and trying to find an outfit I could wear for the train journey back (I'm like Mum, I must have OCD). "He's just so… annoying! He's argumentative, loud, rude and –"
"And don't be so uptight, Rose," Lily continued, cutting me off. "Be a bit playful with him – relax and smile. Make jokes! You're a Weasley, you have to have some fun in you!" She smiled at me sheepishly as I glared at her and continued. "And when I say relax, I mean relax! Your mind and your body! Don't force conversation, just pretend you're talking to someone you find attractive; have a little fun with it. Don't cross your arms, and lean towards him, and if you're wearing a blouse, make sure to leave the top two buttons undone so he gets a look at your cleavage."
"Ew," I said, grimacing at the unlikely thought of Malfoy checking me out, it made me a bit ill to be honest. "I have to be nice to him?" Lily rolled her eyes and sighed heavily. "Yes, Rose," she said, tossing her ginger hair over her shoulder and running her fingers through it absent-mindedly. "You have to be nice to him, of course you do! How else are you gonna get him interested?"
"But as soon as he's interested, I can treat him like crap to get him begging for my attention?"
"I guess…"
"Yes! Thank goodness! I'll get him interested quick so I never have to touch him!"
"Well… a rule of flirting – break the touch barrier."
"What? Lily, ew! For Merlin's sake!"
"I'm sorry, Rose, but it is! Just a quick touch. But as you flirt more, you'll have to hold his hand, rest your head on his shoulder, 'pick things off his shirts and trousers' –"
"This is why I don't like flirting."
"Nah, you just haven't been taught right! Or at all, actually! No offence, Rosie! Just be sure to compliment him, no matter how hard you pretend to find it, Malfoy is not exactly hard to compliment. Guys love it when girls do that. It inflates their ego and makes them feel more confident."
"Yuck. Are we done with the lesson in flirting, Lily? I feel like I'm gonna be sick if I have hear anymore of this!"
"Fine."
"Fine? Great, so I can go –"
"Nope, time for lesson two –"
"Ugh."
"Beauty."
"I really don't like this, Lily."
"Oh, shut up, Rose. You look amazing."
I was sitting in front of my mirror. Well, a girl who was me but looked nothing like me was.
My hair was currently straightened and it fell down my shoulders, long and silky. Because it was straight, it looked less auburn, more red. My eyes were outlined in black, and they stared back at me, blue and bold. Lily had dusted a bit of bronzer on my cheeks so my cheekbones looked sharp and more defined. My lips were painted a rosy pink and were currently curved in a frown.
But Lily said I looked amazing. Lily. My cousin Lily who is just about the most gorgeous person ever. Said I, little Rose Weasley, looked amazing. I must look rather amazing then, but I didn't think so. I thought I looked like every average girl in school, with make up piled on my face.
"Guys dig this sort of stuff, Rosie!"
"But I look fake! And plastic!"
"No you don't! You look amazing! I wish I had your cheekbones!"
"Have you seen yours, Lil?"
"Yeah, I have. They're nothing like yours!
"Are you trying to be funny, Lily?"
"No, I'm serious!"
I spun around on my chair to face her. "Sooo… what's the next lesson?"
"For that, I'm going to need a bit of help…"
"ROSE!"
"BETHANY!"
I wrapped my arms around my best friend's neck, practically leaping out of the fireplace and hugging her close. "What are you doing here?" she squealed. "I thought you were busy with Lily for the rest of the holidays!" "I thought I was!" I replied. The two of us shrugged at each other, before turning to Lily simultaneously.
To our surprise, Lily had ignored what we were squealing about and was instead laughing. "Sorry, I know it's been seven years, but I can't get over how you practically look like twins! Bethany, are you sure you aren't related to us? You look more of a Weasley than I do!"
She was absolutely right. Whenever Bethany and I went out together, people would always ask us if we were sisters. Always. We've both got red curly hair (though mine's a bit darker, more auburn, and more unmanageable), blue eyes (though hers have a green flecks in them, but you can only see them up close) and we're even the same height (a short-ish 5"3 – not that short, but shorter than most girls in our year)!
Bethany became my best friend the very first day of Hogwarts. As there'd been no space left for me in the Weasley compartment, I'd gone and found my own compartment further down the quieter part of the train. Bethany had come in and quietly asked if she could sit next to me, one of my favourite books tucked under her arm.
"Um… hi. Can I sit here? It's just… there's no compartments left."
I looked up and saw a girl, who looked like she was a first year too. Actually, she reminded me of myself in more ways than that. Her hair was just as red and curly as mine was, and her eyes were blue too. She was a bit shorter than me, had more freckles than I did (not hard, I've got a none compared to my cousins) and she was dressed a little more casually than I was (I was already in my Hogwarts uniform while she was wearing a t-shirt, jeans and trainers), but other than that – we could've been identical. I had that same book, The Fault In Our Stars, in my bag.
"Hi!" I said, smiling brightly at her. "Of course you can. I'm Rose Weasley, what's your name?"
I watched as her blue eyes widened in shock and she beamed at me. "Bethany Williams. You're a Weasley? Wow, you must be so proud of your family and Uncle!" I smiled and nodded. I was very proud of what my family had achieved and done in the Second Wizarding War.
I noticed she had an American accent, and immediately asked her where she was from in America. "I'm from Pennsylvania, I was brought up there and have lived there my whole life!" she'd replied, sitting down next to me and smiling proudly.
"Ahh, cool," I replied. I'd always wanted to go to the States. Mum and Dad had been for one of their anniversaries and the pictures they'd brought back were amazing. Sure, they'd been to New York, but I knew by my atlas (which Mum and Dad had bought me because I'd been bored one summer) that the states were near. "Mum and Dad went to New York a couple of years ago and it looked amazing. What's Pennsylvania like?"
"It's full of small towns."
"Oh wow! Small towns are cool! Do you have a lot of pets?"
"Yep, I've got four horses and a pet snake."
"Wow!"
"Yep!"
"Do you have any pets?"
"Well, not anything like that. I've got a couple of owls, but they belong to me and my brother."
"Oh, cool! I bought an owl from Diagon Alley recently, so I could keep in contact with my family."
"You'll always love your first owl!"
"Where do you live, Rose?"
"I live in London, in Kensington."
"Kensington? You live in a really posh area!"
"How do you know about Kensington if you live in the States?"
"My grandparents live here. They take me sightseeing whenever I come visit and we always go through Kensington. The houses there are amazing!"
"I still can't get used to how beautiful they are, and I've lived there my whole life."
"Isn't it funny?"
"What?"
"We look so alike, but lead completely different lives!"
"I was thinking the exact same thing!"
"I'm a small town girl…"
"... and I'm a city girl."
"I live in the States…"
"…I live in England!"
"I dress casual…"
"… I always dress like I'm going to meet someone important!"
"I love country music…"
"… I love pop!"
"I think we're going to be great friends, Rose."
"That may be the one thing we have in common."
Once we'd gotten to Hogwarts, Bethany had been sorted in Ravenclaw and I'd been sorted in Gryffindor. This still didn't manage to tear us apart. She was my best friend since we'd sat together in that compartment. Her, Al and I would always sit together in the classes that were Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. Once we got to third year, things got easier – I'd done every elective, so we were put in the same classes for some subjects. And since then, we'd managed to get even closer.
"What are we doing here, Lily?" I asked my cousin, a beam on my face. I turned to Bethany who had a faux-insulted look on her face and laughed. "Not that I mind seeing my best friend for the first time in three weeks!" Bethany laughed and swung an arm around my shoulder, leading Lily and I outside, through the glass doors and into her garden, where I was hit with the hot Philadelphian air.
"Well, the third way to impress a guy is by knowing your Quidditch," Lily said, her lips curling into a smile. "I know for a fact that you're a good enough Seeker and Keeper – you've played the positions in our family matches and won enough times! And seeing as Bethany here has a position on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, I thought she could help us quite a bit!" I love my cousin, Lily. She's always thinking of what I want. She Floo'd me all the way to Bethany's when we could have easily gone to the Burrow to see one of our cousins.
"Lily! I know enough about Quidditch, seriously!"
"Not enough for you to try out for the Quidditch team next year."
"You're trying out for the Quidditch team? Why didn't you tell me, Rose?"
"I… I… I didn't know! Lily what are you thinking? I'm not good enough to try out for the Quidditch team!"
"Sure you are, Rose."
All three of us turned to face the owner of the deep, sexy (it was!) voice that we'd just heard. As usual, the three of us, reacted in different ways.
"Hey, bro."
"Hello, hot stuff!"
"H-H-H-Hi… Luke!"
Luke Williams, Bethany's older brother, who unlike her has no magical abilities whatsoever (she's Muggleborn). He's one of those guys that every girl has to admit is drop-dead gorgeous. He looks nothing like her, you couldn't even tell they were related, with dark blonde hair and tan skin from all the time he spends out, riding horses and looking after their pets (they've got three dogs and two more horses now). His blue-green eyes are a bit darker than hers, but still work as well on him as they do on her.
He's got strong muscular arms… his whole body is muscular, actually. He's got dimples too, so when he smiles, my knees quiver and my stomach does butterflies. His eyes light up when he smiles too, which only adds to his amazingly good looks. And if you can't already tell, I fell for him the very first time I saw him waiting on the platform at the end of our first year.
And apparently Lily had liked the sight of him too, judging by the smile she was currently giving him.
"Luke, go away and stop scaring my friends with your ugly face, 'kay?" Bethany teased, sticking her hands in the pockets of her shorts and sticking her tongue out at him. She was only kidding of course. Despite the fact he was her brother, Bethany knows as well as Lily and I do that Luke is one of the most gorgeous guys on Earth. Possibly the most gorgeous.
"Calm down, little sis," Luke chuckled, swatting her with the cloth he was holding. "I'm just saying Rosiepie here is good enough for a Quidditch team, especially if you are!" He winked as he said the last part, showing he was only joking. He was so sweet, always trying to make me feel better about myself and boosting my confidence. I wish Luke was a wizard. He's two years older than us, so he'd have been in my cousin Louis' year, but that still would have meant five years of going to school together!
"T-T-Thanks, Luke…"
Luke smiled at me, his eyes twinkling gorgeously, making my cheeks flush and Bethany giggle. "Go away, Luke," she said, rolling her eyes and hitting her brother square in the chest. "Rose is here so I can improve her skills in Quidditch and seeing as you have no idea about Quidditch, except that it's on brooms, I think you should leave."
"I don't know much about Quidditch either, Beth," Lily said, matter-of-factly. "I'm off to go learn about Muggle stuff with Luke." She turned to him, hand on her hip as she batted her eyelashes flirtatiously at him, as if she was showing me how it was done. "I mean, if that's okay with you. I wouldn't like to cause a problem or be an inconvenience to you or anything…"
"Oh, it'd be no problem," Luke said huskily, his eyes fixed on hers. He briefly turned to Bethany and raised an eyebrow. "If it's okay with you and Rose, baby sis. I know how you love my amazing company and all –"
"Just go, Luke," Bethany sighed irritably, rolling her eyes at the way her brother and Lily were staring at each other. That was nothing compared to how I was feeling. Lily was my favourite cousin and I suddenly wanted to rip her hair out from the roots. "Rose and I definitely don't want to see you and Lily making out."
"Cool, we'll just take it inside," Lily snickered, grabbing Luke by the collar of his shirt and steering him away.
"Thank goodness," Bethany said, as the pair headed into the house. "Aren't you happy they're gone? Now we can practice!"
As I mounted my broom, I felt a lurching in my stomach, and I was pretty sure it wasn't due to fear of heights. In fact, I was sure it was because of the blonde and redhead that I'd seen snogging in one of the rooms upstairs.
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