Rose settled into the compartment with Albus and James. She looked out the window, watching the English countryside go by. Her dirty, blonde hair, in her face, hid her scared features. James talked in the background, she guessed it was about Hogwarts, it was all he and Albus ever talked about. She thought back to her Mum and Dad. She missed them already; she had so much to live up to, Head Girl, perfect grades, saving the world. She felt the pressure building up. She breathed slowly for a few moments. I can do this. I can do this. Oh Merlin.

Knocking her head against the window, she straightened her skirt out and tried to busy herself with ignoring her cousins. She thought of being away from home for so long, it scared her so much that she began to become pale in the face, her stomach rolling.

"Anything from the trolley, dears?" The elderly woman stared into their compartment with a happy face. Rose looked at the trolley, full of delicious sweets, and shook her head. Simultaneously, her cousins nodded their heads enthusiastically. She excused herself and went to find a bathroom. She walked quickly, almost at a run, searching for the loo. She wasn't any sort of an athlete, unlike Hugo who excelled at every sport. So she easily ran out of breath. Rose sat down, against the wall, catching her breath.

"Do you need help up?" Rose looked up into the eyes of a blonde- haired boy. "Excuse me, are you there?"

"Oh, sorry." She took his extended hand and got up off the floor.

"I'm Scorpius."

"Malfoy?"

"Yeah, but-"

"I shouldn't be talking to you."

"Why not?"

"You're a Malfoy."

"Oh, okay. I don't care if you don't."

"I don't care.. I'm Rose."

"Rose. So Rose, why were you running?"

"Um, I was looking for something."

"Well, where's your compartment? I'll walk you back."

She started walking, Scorpius didn't seem so threatening. At least not as bad as her family had made him sound. They didn't say much more until they had reached the compartment.

"So I'll see you around."

"Yeah."

"ROSE!" She turned around to see James behind her.

"James, hi. This is my new friend, we met just now."

"Look Malfoy, don't bother her again. You hear?"

"James! Stop. Please?"

"Bye, Rose." Scorpius smiled at her and walked back to his separate compartment. Humiliated, Rose stuck her head out of the compartment to say bye to him but he was already gone. Rose sulked inside the doors, pulling out a muggle Magazine, blocking out James.

"What do you think you're doing Rose?" asked James impatiently.

"Reading up on Rupert Grint. He's dreamy, don't you think?"

"Rose, you can't just befriend a family enemy."

"He's not my enemy. So why should I just ignore him? Because you told me to?"

"Yeah." James looked at her furiously.

"ALBUS! Will you at least be on my side? Say something!"

"Don't talk to him again."

"Shut up, James. Besides, I won't talk to him anyways; He's not even that cute." Ha. Whatever. He was so cute.

"Good. Next time he bothers you then, I'll let my friends know."

"Get over yourself, who'd be friends with you."

The rest of the ride she couldn't escape the pair of grey eyes stuck in her head. She tried to put him to the back of her mind but she wasn't having such luck. The next day, she woke up in a lush, pentagonal room. She rubbed her eyes and saw some other girl up and getting ready. She sat up and saw a familiar face. Their families had known each other for a long time. She walked over to the brunette who was brushing her hair.

"Leila?" She turned around and screamed when she saw Rose.

"Rose! Oh my Merlin! We have the same room! This is so cool. I never see you! Did you bring any muggle magazines?"

"I got my mom to send me them every week. I missed you so much Leila. I didn't know you had this room."

"Well, it was a last minute change in the night. Some girl wanted to share with her twin so I got bumped out- into this room. But it's alright, I don't mind at all."

"I have to tell you something that happened on the train. Oh! breakfast is in five minutes so we'd better hurry- I'll tell you on the way."

Rose hurriedly got into her robes and got her books, she grabbed some of her magazines to take with her and ran off with Leila. They met up with Al and James and walked towards the Great Hall. Even though she was there the previous night, it felt like a completely different place. She took her seat with her friends at Gryffindor Table and dug into the food. She and Leila were looking at one of Rose's magazines.

"That's Daniel Radcliffe. Yea, I don't think he's that cute, but some of my friends think so. And this is Evana Lynch. She's a singer."

"Who's this?"

"Bonnie Wright? She was a singer but she kind of has a bad reputation," Rose giggled, "My dad hates me reading this stuff."

"My dad too!" They read and ate, while Albus looked on with a look of disgust. He wasn't into the whole magazine thing. Apparently neither was James; He disliked the squealing of the two girls. "Will you just put that away?"

"James, stop bossing me around. You're always doing that."

"Rose, put it away, people will think stuff."

"I don't care." She looked at to say something else but another face caught her attention. She found herself staring at this face that seemed to be staring back at her. His eyes bored into hers sending her shivers. Rose finally broke contact and ate her food quickly. Her eggs and sausage were gone in mere moments. James looked at her eat, and then turned to his friends again. Leila followed her gaze and leaning over, whispered in her ear. "Is that the boy you told me about?" Rose nodded, much to Leila's disbelief.

After breakfast, Rose started walking towards her first class. Leia and Albus were behind her talking about the professors. She thought it would be better to leave them alone, they seemed to have a lot in common and she personally didn't want to hear about the professors. That's when she saw him again.

He didn't see her though; he was sitting on a bench reading a letter. He didn't appear to be in the happiest mood. Rose walked over to take a seat next to him only to hear her name being called. It was Victoire. Rose groaned and hurried over to her older cousin.

"Hey Victoire. How are you today?"

"James told me about your friend over there."

"He's not exactly my friend."

"Rosie, be careful okay. He's a Malfoy."

"What's so bad about being a Malfoy?"

"It's a long story."

"You want me to not be friends with someone but you won't give me any reason."

"Rose, I'm just looking out for you."

"You don't even know him!" Rose pushed past her and walked hastily towards Transfiguration. She felt so angry with Victoire and James, bossing her around like a child. She had only wanted to say hi to him. She was so lost in her thoughts she didn't realize she was walking into another student, until she had hit the floor. She got up and immediately starting picking up her books. The student she ran into was helping her also. She looked up at him, noticing his very cute face.

"Erm, thank you."

"Herbology?"

"It's my first class."

"Isn't Professor Longbottom teaching that this year?"

"Yes, that's why I'm taking it. He's friends with my parents."

"What's your name? I'm Patrick McGowan"

"Rose Weasley."

"No relation to the Weasley family?"

"What's so special about my family?"

"You don't know?"

"No?"