Chapter 2

Second Night

Scorpius Malfoy had always amazed Rose. Unfortunately she happened to (silently) agree with the entire female population of the school that he was undeniably hot. But there was always a friendly banter between them, which had surprised her. What surprised her even more was the friendship he had struck up with Albus. Her own cousin. Albus and Scorpius usually did the odd prank together; Scorpius and his 'gang' had even joined Rose, Prina and Albus to a Hogsmeade trip once or twice.

Although he was never mean to her, Scorpius did seem to purposefully go out of his way to rile her, but the most annoying problem Rose had with Malfoy, through the five and a half years she'd know him, she'd fancied the pants off him.

Fancying your cousin's friend is not the best idea.

So it came as no shock that Rose woke up on Thursday feeling like she'd dreamed she'd met Malfoy in the Library. Right, that was it, no more cheese before bed; it gave her the weirdest dreams.

She clambered out of bed, dressed and headed down to breakfast, acquiring a sleepy Albus on the way.

Rose sat down and was instantly bombarded by Prina, "that's the tenth time you've been out this month, where do you go, who are you with and why were you not back until at least eleven?"

Rose luckily kept her head, "Two things, one, I was actually back sometime after 12, two, how did you know I was not back at eleven, what were you doing up until that time?" Prina began to splutter, Rose grinned, "I won't ask if you don't ask."

Rose turned to a sleepy Albus, "what's up, why are you so tired?"

"Oh, nothing, I was um, doing a prank last night." He said quickly.

Rose gave him a sceptical look then found herself glancing at the Slytherin table, if there was going to be a prank of sorts Malfoy would be coming over about now. He was looking directly at her; he winked and stood, making his way toward the Gryffindor table.

i Hold on one cotton-picking second, did Malfoy just wink at me? /i Rose blinked rapidly and busied herself with her food.

She felt a warm body slide in between her and Albus, "Hey Al," It was Malfoy.

"What's up Scorpius?" Albus answered, Rose could feel the blush forming in her cheeks at the close proximity.

"Nott and Hamley have got a prank all set for tonight, I'm ibusy/i so I can't do it, I came to ask if you will?"

"Sure, what do I need to do?"
"Just meet them by the kitchens at nine," Malfoy whispered.

He turned to Rose, "Morning Weasley," he said in his sneering tone, nothing like the voice of her gentle Dream Scorpius. Then he winked again, mouthing the word, 'Rose', he stood and hurried back to Slytherin.

"You know, I wish you and Scorpius got on better." Albus said.

Rose jumped slightly; she'd been playing that wink back over in her head, "what do you mean?"

"Well, you are always at each other's throats, like competing."

Prina added, "Yeah, if you two would stop that you would be an ace couple."

"What!" Rose blushed crimson, "I don't know what gave you that idea but you certainly gave me a shock. Besides, can you seriously see Malfoy going out with a Weasley?"

"He's friends with a Potter." Albus stated.

Rose had heard enough, "I'm off to charms, I'll see you there."

Rose found she wasn't first there, she'd taken the long way to let herself calm down, only to find Malfoy, Nott and Hamley already there.

"Wow, Malfoy's early, gosh that's got to be a first," Rose joked.

Malfoy turned and sneered, his friends looking on expectantly, "Well I got to beat you somehow."

Rose slid down into her seat next to him. She often wondered how she ended up sat next to him in lessons, there were six of them in the 'friendship group', Hamley, Nott, Prina, Albus, Malfoy and her, so two from each group were going to be next to each other on the two-seater desks, but Rose was not sure who decided it would be her.

Albus and Prina were in next, sitting to Rose's left. The class started to fill up.

Flitwick popped up from behind his desk, startling them all. Rose stifled a giggle, but it deemed near impossible when Flitwick proceeded to fall back off the table again, she hid her face on Malfoy's shoulder as he tried his best not to laugh either.

Suddenly she became aware of whose shoulder she was leaning on and her head snapped back up, but there was no time for any embarrassment because Flitwick started the lesson.

"Ok, well done today, don't forget the incantation. Oh and I'm just pre-warning you, There may be a quiz next lesson." The class started to collect their things.

Rose was feeling slightly put out by what Flitwick had said, something was bothering her, but it was not until she was just leaving the room when Malfoy whispered in her ear, "I told you there'd be a quiz. See you tonight." That she got it.

Rose gaped at his retreating back, before hurrying after him and Albus toward Potions.

Rose couldn't concentrate for the rest of the day, she nearly messed up her dye-potion had it not been for Malfoy saying, "Weasley, if you're not going to add the lacewings, you might find blue is the better colour for you."

"I thought I'd try another colour actually," Rose sneered back. But upon impulse she mouthed, 'thank you' back at him, before quickly adding the lacewings. He nodded in response.

Had it really not been a dream, seriously, but Malfoy in the Library was enough to handle, without even considering how nice he'd been to her that evening.

At eight Rose left the library, fully intending to come back later after Madam Pince left.

Rose decided to have a shower while she waited, there was never much time to wash her hair in the morning and it had all the time to dry this evening. As nine drew closer, Rose gathered her back from the end of her bed, pulling her half dry hair into her red hair bobble.

Whether or not Malfoy would be there, Rose still wanted to study.

Casting a silencing charm on the hinges Rose pushed the door open, sneaking to the back table to collect her hidden books.

She'd been reading for what must have been an hour when she drifted off.

uScorpius' POV/u

He didn't even have to lie when he'd told the boys he'd be spending the night with a girl, Rose counted right? Even if they were studying?

Scorpius found someone had cast a silencing charm on the door hinges, idarn, that girl is so clever. /i

He found her in the back of the library, her head resting on a large open Charms book, fast asleep. He slid down next to her, bracing himself he placed a hand on her shoulder. She jumped up mumbling, "Albus I did not want to see that." She paused, looking blearily at him, she blushed, "sorry Malfoy, I didn't see you there."

"I said, call me Scorpius. It's ok, what was that about Albus?"
"Um," Rose blushed, "Last Christmas I walked in on Albus in the bathroom and he had pink knickers on, it's scarred me for life . . ."

Scorpius chuckled, "I wonder if he still has them,"

"Please don't, I really don't want to think of it again," she moaned, "Anyway, thanks for waking me up,"

"My pleasure, you are surprisingly easy to wake up, unlike Albus."

"When have you had to wake Albus up?"

"Last summer, remember I stayed over your house." Scorpius wondered how she'd forgotten it; he most certainly had not, he blushed thinking about it.

"Oh yes," She blushed. Yep she remembered.

"Look, do you even need to revise for this quiz, 'cos even I don't?"

"Um, no probably not, I just panic a bit when someone mentions the word quiz." Rose admitted, looking down.

Scorpius chuckled, "I know you do, I was kind of hoping you'd still come down to revise this evening."

Rose looked up, "and why was that then?"

uRose's POV/u

Rose felt his hand brush her thigh before resting on her knee, "When else would I get a chance to talk to you without your cousin?

Rose was looking at his hand in surprise, she stuttered something incomprehensible.

"He's a great mate and all but I'm not sure he'd be too happy with me doing this," Suddenly his lips where on hers. Gently pressing his mouth against her.

After a few seconds Rose started to gain brain functions and found her arms wrapping around his neck, her fingers lacing into his gorgeous blonde hair.

Rose could feel his soft lips moving in rhythm with hers as a steady hand pulled at the bobble in her hair. She vaguely felt it come loose but was overrun with new emotions when she found his hand on her waist and another running through her hair, pulling her closer to him.

Soon she was in his lap, the kiss deepening with every minute.

Rose could feel her mind screaming from lack of oxygen, she pulled back gasping, only to have him catch her lips with his after a few seconds.

"Rose," he gasped, "I hate to ruin this, but we've got to head back."

He kissed her slowly, savouring the moment Rose answered, "mm, ok."

Twenty minutes later they finally left the library, following the same trek as last night.

Scorpius leaned Rose up against the same wall, kissing her tenderly and hungrily, "Goodnight Rose."

"Night, Scorpius. When can we meet up again?"

"I'll send you a note," and with one last lingering kiss he took off back to Slytherin.