"Scorp!" A thirteen-year old Lily Potter's voice called across the courtyard. The blonde in question looked up from the book she'd been reading and smiled at the girl who was practically skipping over.
"Hey Lily, what's up?" The dark-haired Slytherin bounced up, still quite small for her age, and waved a piece of parchment in her friend's face. "I got a letter in this morning's post!" Scorpius cocked an eyebrow elegantly, "Oh? From who?"
"It's a secret, see?" She handed the fourth year the letter, allowing the want-to-be-boy to read it:
My dearest,
I can no longer contain all I feel for you. Please, meet me at the lake today while everyone else is at lunch. See you then my love.
Your Secret Admirer
Scorpius looked up at her friend with a serious expression. "Lils, you aren't seriously going to go are you?" Lily looked a little hurt by the blonde's words so her expression softened.
She sighed, looking around as other students started heading towards the Great Hall for lunch. Grey eyes turned back to the other Slytherin, "Be careful. I'll be waiting for you in the entrance hall, okay?" Lily's eyes lit back up and she nodded, snatching the letter back and clutching it to her chest.
The blonde transgender Slytherin paced nervously in the entrance hall. She kept pushing the door open to peek out across the grounds to squint at the figure of Lily until another figure joined her.
Lily turned to see a tall brunette boy smirking as he walked towards her. "Well, well, well… You actually came. Who woulda thought?" The Slytherin looked up at the boy, an older Gryffindor, unsure now.
"You wrote this letter?"
"Actually my mate wrote it and dared me to come and see if your ugly mug would really show up." Lily stared at the boy, her eyes beginning to sting as he continued to sneer and sling insults. "Oh, looks like the little dwarf is going to cry." And suddenly, she was running.
Scorpius saw her and knew something was wrong. Her stomach wrenched and she threw the door wide open, but Lily ran straight past with tears streaming down her face. "Lily!" The blonde yelled, her robes flaring out as she spun and began chasing her down to the common room.
It wasn't until they reached the portrait entrance that Scorpius caught up with Lily. "Lils, what… what happened?" The be-speckled teen turned to her friend and shook her head, spitting the password at the portrait as the tears still poured down her face.
The blonde followed her friend into the empty common room, feeling kind of useless as Lily tore up the letter she'd gotten that morning and threw the pieces in the fire. Once the broken-hearted teen fell into a chair, Scorpius rubbed her neck and softly began to sing:
"It's not you, she says
It's just that life's so hard
We all get blue, I say
Hang on tight
I'll be your bodyguard…"
Lily looked up and over at her. The light of the fire she sat in front of gleamed off her glasses and wet face. Scorpius's voice got a little stronger as she moved closer, kneeling next to the weeping girl.
"Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Oh, oh, I just wanna see her smile
It's such a drag, she says
When the world's so mean
It's just a red flag, I say
Gotta look for the green
Oh, oh, oh
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Oh, oh, I just wanna see her smile"
At this point, Lily bit her lower lip and stared hard at her best friend. A light smirk grew on the blonde's face, for she knew this was Lily's way of trying not to smile. She stood up, sliding back and held her hand out towards the seated Slytherin, continuing her song:
"Cynical town can be tough on an angel
Clip her wings baby, one, two, three
I'm her clown cause a
Laughin' angels richer than kings
Oh, baby, don't you see?
Baby, don't you agree?"
Scorpius grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her out of her seat, spinning her around.
"Wish I knew why, she says
But on a sunny day, I find the rain
Let's give it a try, I say
We can dance all through the pain
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Something's breakin' my baby's heart
Oh, oh
Oh,oh
Oh,oh
Ooooh, oh, oh
I just wanna see her smile
I just wanna see her smile
I just wanna see her smile
I just wanna see her
Just wanna see her... smile"
As the last word lingered on the blonde's lips, Lily finally cracked a smile and started to giggle. Scorpius smiled back, opening her arms and hugging her friend, knowing an 'I told you so' would need to come later but wasn't important right now.
"Oh Scorp... You are, without a doubt, the sweetest guy I know." Lily said softly into the taller Slytherin's chest. The blonde said nothing, only squeezing her a little tighter, but found herself wishing that that statement were true.
Sniffing, the brunette pulled away and half-laughed, picking at a non-existent loose trend on Scorpius's robe. "Ya know, if anyone were to ask me out, properly, they'd have to sing to me in front of a sizable crowd to make up for this stupid blunder." Both of them laughed half-heartedly and went back to hugging as Lily once more dissolved into tears and Scorpius wished even harder that she was a boy.
