"Rose Weasley! What in the obviously-messed-up-world was that?" Rose flinched as she heard her best friend's voice behind her. She played dumb.
"What was what, Hadley?" she questioned, raising her eyebrows. Hadley glared.
"You and Scorpius were flirting! I saw it with my own eyes! And don't you dare try to deny it Rosie!" she growled, cutting of Rose's complaints. "You and him were all over each other!"
"I was not! We were talking, he was being a tosser and I was playing along," Rose contradicted forcefully. There was no way in hell that she was going to be told that she was flirting with Scorpius Malfoy! Even if it's true, she thought, before squashing the thought with a six-inch heel, kicking it into a pile of mud and then laughing at it hysterically.
"Rose. Rose! ROSE! SERIOUSLY, ANSWER ME WOMAN!" Rose stumbled to the side as Hadley forcefully pushed her into someone who was passing by.
"What the hell was that for you stupid cow?" Rose yelled at her best friend, completely unaware that she was currently sitting in someone's lap.
"I'm not the cow! You are! You were ignoring me, again might I add, and now you're sitting there . . . on . . ." Hadley's eyes got really wide as the person leaned down to Rose's ear and whispered, "Rosie, babe, I know how much you love me but can you please get off of my lap."
Rose shot to her feet and glared at Scorpius, who was smirking at her from the floor.
"Scorpius Malfoy, wipe that sickening smirk off your face before I do it for you," she advised before storming off, Hadley just behind it, stifling laughter.
"Hadley, shut up before I curse you into a toad!" she half yelled at her as she walked into the Great Hall for lunch. Some people looked up from the food to find out what was happening between the two friends, but most just shook their heads and continued eating.
It wasn't uncommon to find Rose and Hadley bickering or shouting at each other, and most students just watched in amusement, instead of breaking them apart.
Sitting down at the Gryffindor table, with a huff, Rose sat in between her cousin Dominique and her friend Lorcan. Lorcan took one glance as Rose's annoyed face before chuckling and putting his arm around her.
""What's wrong, Lovely?" he asked sweetly. Rose pouted and was about to answer, but was interrupted by Hadley, who shouted, "She was flirting with Malfoy!" Rose glared at her.
"I was not!" she fired back. Lorcan laughed.
"Settle down guys. I'm sure Rose was just caught up in Scorp's . . . err . . . beauty." The Gryffindor table erupted in laughter, and even Rose smiled through her annoyance.
"Funny guys. Really Funny," Scorpius's voice cut through the tables amusement, though several people snickered, Rose included.
Sighing, Scorp sat down next to Rose and beside Dominique while Albus sat next to Hadley and a second year named Layla McLaggen, who immediately started a conversation about Quidditch with him.
"When do you plan on doing the Quidditch trials? I know I'm only second year, but I'm fairly good. My father has been teaching me some moves over the summer and I have a feeling I'll easily beat everyone else at the chaser position-"
Rose stopped listening to Layla with a sigh. That girl was a pain and everyone knew it. But Albus was too much of a Quidditch fanatic to ignore her.
Scorpius rolled his eyes at his best friend as he chatted intensely with Layla. But a certain excitement flooded him and he found himself leaning over to Rose.
"Are you trying out for Quidditch this year?" Scorpius was expecting the usual "not a chance" that he got from Rose whenever he asked that question, but instead got the opposite.
"Yeah, I think I will this year," Rose replied, surprising even her. She laughed at Scorpius's expression. The she smiled. It was a mutual agreement between the two enemies that they were allowed to be civil with each other when their convocation was Quidditch related. Both Gryffindor's loved Quidditch with all their hearts, but Rose had never tried out for the house team before. Scorpius had always been the team's seeker, while Rose preferred being keeper.
"Huh. Well, good luck," Scorpius said indifferently, but Rose's stomach flipped. Good luck? Since when has Scorpius Malfoy, the Scorpius Malfoy, ever offered Rose Weasley luck?
"Yeah, you too," she replied, then, under her breath, she added "Not that you need it."
Scorpius smiled at her then stood and left the Great hall. Albus leant over to Rose. "Were my eyes deceiving me, or did Scorpius just smile at you?" he asked with wide eyes.
Rose rolled her eyes at her over dramatic cousin and also took her leaving.
Albus and Hadley stared at each other in shock.
"You don't think their together behind our backs, do you?" Al asked Hadley in a hurry. Harley's eyes widened. She hadn't thought or that.
"We have to find out. We need to make a plan," Hadley launched herself from the table and sprinted off with Al to find an empty classroom in which they could spend their free period devising a plan.
Dominique looked up as the two rushed out of the hall.
"Why is our family so weird?" she asked a quiet Lily in an aspirated tone.
Lily just grinned. She loved her family's abnormality.