Moments.

Second year.

The birthday party.

Scorpius was waiting in his bed for Al to be ready, he knew they were already late. Al didn't seem to be worried about the time, but he had been raised to strictly adhered to rules and arrive to his commitments in time.

"Come on AL, the party started more than 10 minutes ago, and we have to go all the way down to the lake"

"Oh, shut up mate, for someone that said he didn't want to intrude in our family's celebration you sure are eager to get there now" Albus screamed from the bottom of his bed where he was still rummaging for some socks.

After quickly becoming friends with Al, during his first year at school he started hanging out with Rose as well, but he had never been as friendly with her as he was with him. It was true however that he had originally said no to Al when he asked him to join him and the rest of his family at Rose's birthday party.

It was not that she disliked Rose, or that his family has ever been impolite to him, but he had always been a little bit uncomfortable with the absolute acceptance, and friendship, he had been offered to him by her, and her whole family for that fact.

He had been raised to see the world a certain way, to think a certain way, and to act a certain way. His family loved him, of that much he was absolutely sure, he had never wanted for anything, and he had never been starved for affection either Albus had been his friend for the past two years. After the first awkward meeting, Al had never stopped talking to him, and their friendship had been solidified after he had been punched in the face by an angry Slytherin 5th year that had attacked Scorpius in a corridor, claiming his family were traitors. After Al's family had found about the encounter, they had "talked" to the 5th year and he had never given him any trouble.

He thought back about the moment that had him now pacing in his dorm room, waiting for his best mate to go to a party he didn't want to attend exactly. Rose had cornered him in the common room, and asked him to join her birthday party personally, Scorpius the ever-present gentleman had had to say yes.

He was working in the common room by himself, since his best mate could not be bothered with such petty matters like a transfiguration essay. That's when Rose had walked in.

"Working on McGonagall's essay? I need to finish mine as well" and that's when she had sat down without asking and started working next to him silently. After what seemed like a very long 30 minutes, Rose had looked up from her work, and caught him staring at her, although he considered himself a very good student, somehow having her next to him was distracting, it was possibly the fact that she was working so quickly and confidently, and that might've made him a little bit unhappy since he was having a hard time with his, or the fact that her happy hums whenever she found the right answer would make him tingly in a very uncomfortable sort of way, or it could be a myriad of things he didn't want to delve into "Something the matter Scorpius?"

"Hmm... No" he answered lamely.

"Ok... Al told me you were not coming on Saturday. Busy with schoolwork?" She asked

"Oh yeah, I still need to finish Bin's essay"

"Really? That essay is not due until next Thursday, can't you do it another day? Al begged me and I ended up fixing his yesterday, maybe you can use it to finish yours." She said smiling.

She was doing it again, sitting there smiling at him like he was the only person worth smiling at. His young brain couldn't cope with these emotions, or why they made him feel so uncomfortable, so he did the only thing he could do. He said yes, and even agreed that they will have fun sitting out in the sun near the lake with the massive amount of food her family always seemed to be able to get. They had spent the rest of the afternoon working together, until Al had walked in and hurried them toward the great hall, since he was sure he was about to faint out of hunger.

"Ok mate, ready." Said Al bringing him out of his recollections.

They walked hurriedly down the halls until they reached the sunny and sweet-smelling grounds. They spotted his family sitting close to a massive tree. As they walked closer, he spotted a banner that said: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSIE, QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE"

Rose walked towards them and scolded them for being late "I thought you guys were not coming" Al raced forward, carried her and screamed "Oooooh waby Wosie was missing his fabowite cousiiiiin" "Oh shut up Al, I see enough of you in all of my classes, get off me" she screamed good naturedly.

At this point Scorpius stepped forward and handed her his gift, a huge box of assorted Honeydukes' sweets. "Happy birthday your majesty" he said smiling toward the banner. "Subtle isn't it?"

"Oh yeah, very subtle" She offered him one of his smiles that made him uneasy, but she took it a step further and gave him a hug. "Thanks for coming Scor" but thankfully let him go quickly.

They had spent the rest of the day outside, celebrating, until it was time for supper.

As Scorpius sat in the massive Gryffindor table, he though he hadn't had quite such an enjoyable day in a long time.

Authors note:

Hello there!

Hopefully there's at least a person out there reading this. This is my first "long" story. All of my other stories have been very short, and this is my attempt at something a bit meatier.

I know there's very little to none romance so far, but hey, this kids are only 12~13 years old. Gotta take it slow.

I'm thinking proper romance will probably start in their 4th year, with some stronger clues towards that in the next chapter, which I will upload shortly.

Please let me know what you think and enjoy!