A thirteen year old boy's brain is really an amazing thing. Scorpius had been living a peaceful life for almost two weeks. He had simply decided to deal with the events during the detention with ignoring and forgetting. He didn't know if it was healthy, but he was then again only thirteen and didn't care. For him everything was back to normal and that was all that mattered to him.

Yes, two weeks and everything was fine. During a lesson of potions Scorpius even got to sit beside Rose! Even though he would never admit it to his father he did have a crush on the girl, like most other boys. She was such a beautiful girl and was probably best in class so many of the boys tried to get the spot beside here.

"Albus asked about you," she said without a care in the world.

Scorpius reacted a little bit too much to the words and started choking on nothing. Rose patted his back a little as she giggled and Scorpius tried to laugh it off. Luckily enough the teacher didn't really notice the little attack as he was being occupied with explaining why you couldn't mix two liquids without it ending with an explosion, as it had the lesson before.

"Why are the two of you talking about me?" he tried to ask casually but failed remarkably.

"Because Albus told me that you didn't seem to hate him as much anymore. He also said that he wondered why he never sees you around."

It wasn't easy for Scorpius to come up with a good reply. He didn't really know what to say as he had actually never liked Albus and couldn't understand why the boy would suddenly care about him. He had never thought that actually talking to the boy that night would make him think they were friends or something like that! Then he would never have done it. He hated the Potters. All of them. Especially Albus Potter.

"You can tell him I don't have time to bother with him," he did rephrase the sentence a few times in his head so that he wouldn't sound like too much of a douche in front of Rose.

"Tell him yourself. I'm not going to be your middleman!" Rose sounded irritated, something she rarely did.

"But..." Scorpius said as he tried to come up with an excuse.

"Listen, Scorpius, I know the boy can be veryoblivious at times and I really don't know why Albus, of all people, suddenly think you are nice after all the things you've said and done to him. I won't even try to figure it out as I guess it's none of my business, but I think he deserves to hear it from your mouth if you never want to see his face again."

Scorpius never knew that Rose had realised how he had treated Albus. It was probably obvious that he wasn't very fond of the boy and Scorpius didn't keep his voice down when he spoke badly of any of the Potters but he still did his best to act nice sometimes just so that Rose wouldn't think he was a total douche.

At this time Scorpius couldn't come up with a single thing to say. As he remained silent for a while Rose began smiling and put a hand upon his. Scorpius flinched and stared at her, feeling butterflies in his stomach.

"If you do it I'll be very proud of you," was all she said. She knew she could manipulate Scorpius and she felt that her cousin deserved it. Soon she turned away and faced the kettle again and told Scorpius to put the frog brain in it.

Scorpius was a little bit flustered after having the girl's hand upon his and almost knocked the kettle over when he tried to do as she said. Suddenly he forgot about Albus and had to concentrate on the lesson instead.

When class was over Scorpius slightly remembered the 'kind of a promise' he had made but didn't care about it at all. Not until he was in the library and he accidentally saw Albus talking with his older brother a few shelves down he remembered. If it weren't for Rose talking about Albus earlier Scorpius wouldn't even have noticed the boy and if he would he would certainly do an excellent job at pretending he didn't notice. This time he couldn't avert his eyes and kept staring at the boy who were smiling and laughing at the same time as he was hitting his brother's arm in a playful way.

Luckily or unluckily, however anyone would want to consider the situation, Albus noticed Scorpius staring. The same moment Scorpius realised this he decided to face his attention at something else. Albus had already excused himself from his brother and began walking towards Scorpius. As he could see the boy walk towards him in the corner of his eye he suddenly panicked. Quickly he walked in between two shelves and tried his best to look natural. He let his hand slide along one of the lines of books, pretending he was searching for something.

"Scorpius!" he heard Albus' voice from behind.

In panic he grabbed a book at random as if he had found what he was looking for. '101thingsyoudidn'tknowaboutmuggles'. Well that was just the perfect book to look casual, he thought sarcastically to himself.

"Have you been alright?" Albus said as he caught up to Scorpius and stood next to him. They boy seemed a bit too calm with the situation and Scorpius felt even more at loss as to how he should act. Scorpius tried to look natural but with the awkward book in his hand and mister Oblivious Potter in front of him he had a hard time doing so. He didn't know if he should smile or look natural, but whatever he did it seemed to be working as Albus didn't react at all.

"Of course," he answered with a voice that came out a bit smugger than he had expected. "Hey, Potter, there's something-" he was cut off.

"I just wanted to tell you I'm really glad you were the bigger man!" Scorpius was lost. How in the world could this boy think he was 'the bigger man'? He couldn't even remember a situation when he could even have seemed to be such. "I was really nervous because I can't handle darkness too well so I'm glad you kept cool. If you wouldn't have spoken to me I would have died out there!"

Scorpius was even more awkward now. He didn't really know what had happened during the detention in the mind of Albus Potter but it was certainly not the same scenario as to Scorpius. With a forced smile Scorpius tried to casually put the book back in its place on the shelf without letting Albus know what book it was. It probably didn't matter as Albus seemed to be even more oblivious than Scorpius had ever imagined.

"You are reading about muggles?"

Apparently Scorpius was wrong.

The boy giggled a little as Scorpius just ignored him and began walking away. Albus followed him and walked up beside him, still smiling with his whole face.

"There's something you should know, Potter."

"And what is that?"

"I find you annoying."

Albus suddenly stopped. Scorpius could only ignore it for a couple of seconds before he stopped. In that very instant, between the moment when Scorpius had decided to stop and the moment he had turned his head, he seemed to decide on something. He told himself it was simply because he wanted to have a bigger shot with Rose, but that wasn't the whole truth. Scorpius smirked and looked at the boy behind him. He looked as if he had just been told that his dog was dead. It made it even easier for Scorpius to smile naturally.

"I'll find you even more annoying if you suddenly stop like that when I allow you to walk with me."

The Potter boy gave him a hesitant smile as if he was asking if he was kidding or not. When Scorpius just kept staring at him without any insulting words the boy seemed to turn back into that smiling idiot.

They walked out of the library, side by side, and Scorpius had even forgotten why he had entered it in the first place. He had a feeling he had a homework that would never get done.


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