Chapter 2: Back Into The Swing Of Things

The first week back at school is always fun. That is until you realize how much homework the professors have already assigned and you have about 14 people asking you for help. Every year I always say I am not going to help anyone but end up tutoring like 10 people by day one. It's not that I'm really nice because if you know me you would know I am far from nice.

Honestly, I have no clue why I give in. Ask Al, I am as stubborn as a mule. I give credits to my Mum for that one. One time to prove a point to Al, I didn't talk to anyone for a whole entire week. Trust me, that isn't easy when you have Scorpius harping on you and trying to make you crack every second of your life. At one point I swear I thought I was going to kill that little git.

Anyways, as soon as we walked into our first class of the year, which just so happened to be Transfiguration (My Fave), McGonagall was already up our arse about O.W.L.S . I love Professor McGonagall though, she is an absolute legend. My father swears she would have been the death of him, following his old potions teacher, but Mum agrees with me. We call her McBadass because of how old she is and still manages to look fabulous every single day. I also particularly like her because she hates Scorpius and it is hilarious to see him get into trouble with her.

At the end of the day however, we already had to read one chapter in our textbooks for Transfiguration, a summer holiday summary for Charms (don't ask me why), and thanks to Scorpius, an essay in Potions. I was just minding my own business when he started annoying me. He started dropping extra things into my cauldron when he thought I wasn't looking and would purposely ask me dumb questions to make me cross with him.

Finally, I cracked. "Oh will you just fuck off mate!" I growled. He just smirked at me as I tried to fish out all the things he had just dropped in my pot. I could hear Alice laughing with Al behind me. Flipping my head around, I screamed "Could you not!?" Then Alice did the unthinkable. She pointed at Scorpius and made kissy faces. Ooooh was I going to sock her for that one. And I did.

"Oww, what the fuck Rose!" she yelped, clutching her arm. Al gave me a look that read "that-time-of-the-month!?". I just gave an exasperated grunt and turned around, only to find Scorpius dropping an extra unicorn hair into my pot. I was livid. He had just ruined my potion for me.

"DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU JUST DID YOU PRICK! YOU JUST RUINED MY POTION YOU ARSE!" I screamed, shoving him away from my pot. It was no use. The liquid inside my cauldron was turning from a lovely shade of purple to a muddy brown mess. Just then Professor Timmons looked over, deducted 10 points from Gryffindor for "unnecessary behavior" (unnecessary my arse), and assigned me an essay on the origin of unicorns and their importance. "Jokes on you Scorpius, you're in Gryffindor too," I muttered.

"Ahh, that I am! But I don't have to write an essay on unicorns" he said confidently. I would have kicked him if it weren't for Professor Timmons giving me a look that said "try-me." I just growled and turned back to my mess of a cauldron and began to clean it out.

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At dinner when I got to the Great Hall, Al and Scorpius were already there stuffing themselves with food. I just rolled my eyes and sat down, serving myself before all the food was gone. "How's that essay coming?" Scorpius asked with a smirk

Trying to be as casual as possible I said "Already done. James lent me his old essay that Lucy wrote for him so I got it done in like 5 minutes." Thank Merlin for cousins. Don't know what I'd do without them. Flashing back a smirk, I turned to Mazie.

"Any chance James has an essay on Blast Ended-Skrewts because I forgot to do the summer essay." Mazie huffed, ruffling through pages of notes. It was unbelieveable how much work they had already shoved on us. I guess they were just trying to get us back into the swing of things.

"You can just copy mine" I said kindly. Mazie gave me a grateful look as she slapped her binder shut.

"Oi! What about me Weasel?" Scorpius asked.

"Nah, I only let my friends copy my homework." I said, not looking at him.

"Rose if I remember right I think you called Scorpius one of your best mates only just a few days ago" Al said, shoving a spoonful of pudding in his mouth. I just ignored Al but Scorpius knew he had won that fight. There was no argument against the fact that Scorpius just so happened to be one of my best friends. He also happened to be the person I hated the most. I know it's confusing.

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The next day early in the morning was a new addition to Hogwarts education. Electives. The year before, in fourth year many of the students in all sorts of clubs suggested we have electives where students choose what classes they want. Of course McGonagall being the true legend she is, agreed. It was the morning every student had been waiting for. To find out what elective the would have for the semester.

Of course, Ali being the Longbottom she is, was full of excitement the moment she woke up. And like perusal, she woke up at 6 in the morning. Me being the Weasley that I am the very thought of having to get up before 10 makes me shudder. Which is why when Ali woke me up, or tried to, I ended up smacking her and rolling back over.

"Ali stop! It's way too early" I moaned, trying to shove her off my back. Even Mazie was looking a bit sleepy and she grew up waking to rooster calls on her farm at 4. IN THE MORNING! I will vouch now NEVER to live on a farm.

"Come on Rosie! It's Electives day! You have to come and see what Electives we got!" she said, bouncing on my bed. Literally. Ali maybe 15, but she is still a 4 year old at heart.

"No" I grumbled, pulling the covers over my head.

"Ahh come on Rose! Lighten up. Ali here is about to pee her pants with excitement. Plus tomorrow is Saturday so you can sleep in as long as you want." Mazie said groggily as she sat on my bed. Damn you Mazie and your convincing ways. I crawled out from under my shelter of blankets and yawned.

"Alright fine! But if ANYONE wakes me up before noon I will kill them." I grumbled, pulling my messy hair into a ponytail. After I got ready (which I made sure to do a tad bit slower just to annoy Ali) we all head down down to the Great Hall to eat before we went to see what Electives we were in.

I was halfway finished with eating some yogurt and fruit when Ali pulled it away from me. "HEY! I wasn't done yet!" I growled, struggling against her. She began dragging me out of the Great Hall by my wrist (which hurt like hell), when I said this.

"Well now you are! Let's GO!" she snapped, obviously annoyed.

"You can wake me up, rush me through getting ready, but you do NOT mess with my food. Especially breakfast." I barked, grabbing a granola bar from the table quickly just for emphasis. "Alice you know not to get in the way of an eating Weasley!" I barked again, waving my free hand in the air that was holding the granola bar. She just rolled her eyes and began pulling me harder. "Oi! I'm not a dog!" I yelled.

"Then hurry up!" she said. I have to admit I was kind of excited to find out which Elective I had. On the first day we had been assigned our extracurriculars like sports or the arts. I got Drama and Football. Electives were things we did as a class during school hours. When we finally arrived at the board, the search began.

I honestly wanted Photography or Architecture. As I searched for my name, I heard al sorts of squeals and grumbles all around me. "There you are Rose!" Alice shouted, pointing to the list of people under Cooking. "Lucky!" Alice growled. That was the one she wanted most. Serves her right for taking my yogurt.

"This won't be so bad." I said, skimming the list of people. I mean the Professor leading the class was one of my all time favorites, Professor Laughlin, the D.A.D.A teacher. He let me and my friends talk all the time. But then as I skimmed the list at the bottom I saw Scorpius Malfoy. The might as well printed one of his smirks on there because it would have saved him the trouble of hunting me down and smirking at me on purpose.

After we had gotten out of the chaotic mass of students crowded around the lists we all caught up with each other. Al had gotten Repair Shop, Alice had gotten Debate (haha!), and Mazie had gotten Photography. Then we all split up to head to our classes. I was almost happy until I realized Scorpius was walking beside me.

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Cooking actually turned out to be amazing. Scorpius for some reason wasn't a jerk to me. We laughed, actually talked without fighting, and for a second I think he flirted with me. Crazy, right! I was sitting on a stool in the kitchen mixing batter for cake when Scorpius sat down next to me and said "What's up Rose." What's up? ROSE?!

It took me a second to realize he was talking to me, but when he did I replied back "You know, making a cake, talking to you, the usual", sarcastically. As soon as I did I said "Sorry, it's habit. Being sarcastic just comes naturally to me." I said. Sometimes people confused me and my younger cousin Lily. They thought I was Auntie Ginny and Uncle Harry's daughter because I was sarcastic and looked almost exactly like my Aunt. Lily was very book-smart and and looked almost exactly like a girl version of my dad. Weird, huh?

Scorpius just laughed. "Rose you're lucky to have such an awesome family. My dad is such a git." He blushed at this, but I smiled back.

"Don't let your father hear about this! Or mine!" I joked. We both cracked up at how ridiculous our parents were, and still are. "Man our parents are such gits!"

"Aren't we all." Scorpius joked.

"True" I said sincerely, setting the bowl down. "When did you become so poetic and modest!?" I asked him, searching for the cake pans.

"Since when is calling someone a git poetic?" he asked. He had bent down to help me find a pan in the mess that was the Hogwarts kitchen. The house elves scurrying around weren't any help either. If Mum knew that Hogwarts still had a few unpaid house elves she would be livid. I made a mental note not to mention house elves in my letter about the Cooking Elective.

"Sarcasm Malfoy. Sarcasm. Oh for fuck's sake! Accio cake pan!" I said, waving my wand. Suddenly an army of metal pans came flying towards me and Scorpius, knocking us over in the process. "Owwww" I growled.

"Good job Weasel! Because when you scream Accio every pan in the whole bloody castle is supposed to come flying at you!" Malfoy barked from somewhere under the pile of pans we were covered in. When I gave him the middle finger he just said "What, I thought I give sarcasm try". I could hear his smirk.

"Well I have to say, your sarcasm is pretty good. A few flaws hear and there, but with a few lessons I think you could be great!" I said back, pushing about 20 pans off of me.

"Who do you think you are, Simon Cowell?" he laughed, crawling out from under the pans.

"Nah, I was going more for Alesha Dixon, but good guess." I said, pulling my hair into a high ponytail. "Are you going to help me or not?" I said as I was shoving pans back into empty cabinets. He bent down and began helping me. As we both reached for the same pan we hit heads. It was almost like a movie. Like a Nicholas Sparks movie. Oh GOD Rosie. No!

"You alright!?" he asked quickly. I stared at him. He cared. Malfoy cared. No not Malfoy, Scorpius cared. Don't even start Rose, I scolded myself.

"Uhh yeah fine." I blushed. We finished without another word, but I knew he had seen me blush.

Later on, during free period Mazie asked me "So how was Cooking?"

"Why! I mean, it was fine" I tried to say casualy, but Mazie knew something was up. And it is no walk in the park to keep Mazie-Makenna Missy Miller (yeah I know right! weird name) from knowing something that she wants to know.

A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed! I know i did ! Please leave reviews and expect chapter 3 soon! Lovs Ya, Yours Truley