"WHAT THE HELL MALFOY!" Rose screamed, sinking herself further into the water to make sure Scorpius saw none of her nakedness.
"No need to scream Red, I'm right here!" Scorpius replied.
"I know you're right here! Why in Merlin's name are you here?" she screamed again. "This is the Prefects' bathroom!"
"You say that like I'm not a Prefect too," Scorpius scoffed, as if he really didn't see what was wrong with the situation.
"This is the girls Prefect bathroom!" she yelled.
"Ah, minor details," he grinned at her and waved his hand.
"What do you want Malfoy, or are you just here to perv on girls taking a bath? I'm so gonna tell the Professors about this you know!" Rose said, glaring at him and trying to gain control of the situation, although she was painfully aware of the fact that she was trapped naked in the bath with no way out.
Scorpius on the other hand was perfectly happy because he knew he was making Rose squirm.
"I just remembered you didn't thank me for helping you get out of the Great Hall just now," he said, stretching his arms and placing his hands behind his head.
"And you barged in here so shamelessly just to get your thanks?" Rose yelled in disbelief.
"Again with the shouting Red. Seriously, I'm right here, no need for that," Scorpius grimaced, rubbing his ears in mock pain. "And besides, why am I the shameless one? You're the one who's naked."
He smirked at her and Rose felt her cheeks and neck heat up, not from embarrassment, but from pure anger at one very annoying Malfoy.
"How'd you even get in here?"
"Oh I got the password from Millie Smith last year. We had some things to take care of in here together," he winked at her. Rose wrinkled her nose in disgust.
"Your sexual exploits are of no interest to me Malfoy," she said.
"It's ok, even if I told them to you, you wouldn't get it," Scorpius said, propping his legs up on the next chair now.
"What's that supposed to mean," Rose narrowed her eyes at him.
"Sweet, young, virginal Rose," he smiled, shaking his head at her.
"You make it sound like it's a bad thing! Yeah well so what if I haven't had all the experiences you had? I bet you gave your virginity away to Natalie Cooper in fourth year didn't you! There was that rumour going on for ages!"
"Nah. Sure I went out a couple of times with Nat Cooper but we hardly went to second base," Scorpius replied.
"Then it's gotta be Erika Sawyer from Hufflepuff," Rose said.
"Nope, went out with her for a week and discovered she had horrible acne on her back," Scorpius grimaced at the memory.
Somehow Rose had forgotten she was naked in the bathroom with Scorpius and this had instead turned into a guessing game of his past sexual conquests.
"Cornelia Abrams?" Rose asked, thinking real hard about all the rumours she's ever heard of Scorpius's dating history.
"Uh uh," he chuckled. Rose squinted at him. She was sure she had named almost every girl in the school that could possibly have dated Scorpius. Unless…
"Wait, you're a virgin too, aren't you!" Rose said smugly as Scorpius turned a tad pink. But he recovered quickly.
"Yeah well, as surprising as this might be to you Red, I do think sex is important. Important enough to save for someone special," he replied. Rose admired how he said that with no shame. Most boys would probably have lied about their sexual history rather than admit they had never shagged a girl.
"Oh but don't worry, I've had my fair share of fun with the ladies, if you know what I mean," Scorpius winked at her. Rose glared back in return.
"So who's the unlucky lady you're having your 'fun' with now?" Rose asked.
"No one," Scorpius shrugged. "Got tired of getting through all the girls in Hogwarts. They bore me. Thought I'd go for a change this year."
"What? Date guys instead?" Rose said sarcastically.
"Of course not. Besides maybe without all the distractions of these girls I can finally put in that little bit of effort to beat you in all our subjects," he replied. Rose was about to retort when Scorpius spoke up again.
"By the way Red, the soap bubbles are starting to go away, maybe you should pour in more soap," Scorpius said as he stood up. Rose glanced in and noticed to her horror that he was right. Grabbing the soap bottle near her she hastily poured in a generous amount to get the bubbles going again.
"Don't worry, I didn't see anything," Scorpius grinned. "Well this was fun, I'll catch you some other time."
"No! Don't you ever walk in on me taking a bath again Malfoy or there will be hell to pay!"
He just chuckled and left.
Somehow, Terra and Albus ended up getting detention together for starting the food fight, of course, along with Fred and James.
Rose was brushing her hair, preparing for bed, when Terra walked into the sixth year girls' dormitory, a huge dreamy smile plastered on her face.
"How was detention?" Rose asked.
"Divine," she replied, flopping down on her bed. "Albus and I spent two hours cleaning the trophy cabinets together. It was so romantic!"
Sandra scowled at her from her bed.
"And I have you to thank Sandra," Terra said, lifting her head to wink at her arch rival. Sandra gave a 'hmph' and turned off her night lamp, shoving herself under her covers and pulling them up to her chin, determined to ignore Terra as her latest plan backfires on her.
Terra spent the next fifteen minutes describing to Rose how much fun she had with Albus, though Rose was sure she had exaggerated certain parts just cause she knew Sandra was listening intently to every word.
Scorpius sat by the lake, supposedly doing his Potions essay, but he had stopped after writing two sentences and was now staring out at the lake. There was a light breeze that blew his light blonde hair into a mess. He ran a hand through it to straighten it out.
He was extremely bored, it being a Saturday morning. Albus had gone off for Quidditch training. He felt a bit of regret for not scheduling Quidditch practice himself this morning, even though the next Slytherin match was ages away. The Slytherin sixth years have proven to be lousy entertainment, thus his current predicament of sitting by the lake himself instead. Plus he needed to escape Inez's incessant chatting that bored and annoyed him.
It was still early, and the only people outside now were a couple of second years talking by the huge oak tree. Then out of the corner of his eye, Scorpius spotted entertainment in the form of one redhead Gryffindor. Well it was better than nothing, and bickering with her was always an amusement to him.
"Oi! Red!" he shouted. Rose turned and saw him. She hesitated for a while before coming over, a look of annoyance on her face as she approached him.
"What is it Malfoy?" she said.
Scorpius merely shrugged and said, "I was bored. Needed someone to talk to."
"What makes you think I'd want to talk to you?" she asked, a hand on her hip. He sighed and turned to face her properly, such that his back was to the lake.
"Because we're probably the only two people crazy enough to wake up this early on a Saturday, with the exception of your cousin and his Quidditch team, and I'm guessing you don't have anyone to hang around with either. Well having some company would be good, even if company has to be you," he grinned.
"Drop dead Malfoy," she replied, a scowl on her face.
"I'd rather not," he said, smirking at her.
"Don't you have anything better to do? Perhaps spy on another girl taking her bath in the Prefects' bathroom?" Rose said.
Scorpius laughed, "Still on that eh Red? Anyway, did you hear? The Head Boy and Head Girl are planning to decorate the entire Hogwarts in the House colours. And there was something about putting up lights in the garden and stuff too."
"Really?" said Rose, her eyes shining, forgetting momentarily that it was the arrogant Scorpius Malfoy she was speaking with. "Oh that's wonderful! Hogwarts would look so beautiful."
"Well it just sounds like more work for us prefects. We're the ones who're gonna carry out all their grand plans remember? Why couldn't they just do with decorating the bloody Great Hall? That's where the main event is held anyway."
"You are without doubt the dullest person I've ever had the misfortune to meet," she said, shaking her head at him.
"Me? Dull? You've got to be kidding. I'm a sixth year from Hogwarts who's the bloody Quidditch Captain of the Slytherin team, I'm a prefect, my family has a whopper amount of money, and I can pretty much score any girl I want, and you think my life is dull?" Scorpius said, scoffing at her.
"I didn't mean it like that you moron. Sure you've got all those, but what I meant was you. You've never so much as bothered to stop to appreciate anything in life have you?" she said.
"Well excuse me for not stopping to sniff every bloody flower in my way," Scorpius said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"There, you've admitted it. You're dull."
"Am not. I do appreciate the things I have," he retorted.
"Really? Without looking back, tell me the colour of the flowers by the lake," Rose challenged.
"Yellow," Scorpius replied without hesitation.
"It's blue," she rolled her eyes, and then lifted her chin in an 'I told you so' manner.
"So I don't know the colour of the flowers. Big deal," he said. "I'm a guy, and guys don't notice these kinds of things."
"Excuses Malfoy, excuses," Rose said, sitting herself down on the grass and opening the book she had brought her with. Scorpius sat down too, but not beside her. He didn't think she would like that very much.
"What's that?" he asked, nodding towards the book.
"A novel. By a Muggle author," she said, not lifting her head from the book.
"Trust you to like reading," he muttered, rolling his eyes. She gave him a look.
"When your mother has a love for books and reads novels like Pride and Prejudice to you for your bedtime story when you're five, you tend to grow up liking books."
"What's that?"
"It's a Muggle book. Honestly, don't you read Malfoy? Oh right, I forgot, you're too dim-witted to understand anything," said Rose.
"For someone who beat you in last week's Potions test, I doubt I'm dim-witted at all," Scorpius smirked. He knew he had touched a nerve. Rose hated it every time he beat her in something.
"So you got an Outstanding and I got an Exceeding Expectations. Big deal Malfoy," she muttered darkly, turning the page of her book rather aggressively.
"You just have to be better than me in everything don't you?" he laughed.
"I don't have to, but I am," she replied.
"Sure you are Red," he said. He was momentarily distracted by a blonde Hufflepuff fifth year nearby who was smiling flirtatiously at him. He grinned back. This exchange didn't seem to escape Rose as she looked at him in disgust.
"You're an ass Malfoy," she announced, shutting her book and standing up.
"Not jealous are we?" said Scorpius.
"Hardly," she snorted, "I just don't want to sit here and watch you eye snog with that girl."
"Eye snog?" Scorpius raised his eyebrows, obviously amused.
"Yes Malfoy, eye snog. Now excuse me, I'll be heading back to the castle. I expect Albus's Quidditch practice should be over soon. Could you tell my cousin to come look for me when you see him? I have a bit of telling off to do regarding a letter he wrote to his parents," said Rose, before turning and stalking back to the castle. Scorpius watched her leave, a hint of a smile upon his lips, and then he turned back to the Hufflepuff, who was making her way over to him now, probably to ask him out to Hogsmeade.
"Merlin, practice was bloody tiring," Albus said, as he and Scorpius made their way to the kitchens together, seeing as to how James had made the team train past breakfast time.
"What'd you expect? Your match is in two weeks," said Scorpius. "By the way your cousin is looking for you."
"Which one?" asked Albus. "In case you haven't noticed, I've got about a dozen of them."
Scorpius chuckled. "Rose," he informed him.
"Rose? You were talking to her?" he asked.
"Yeah, this morning, down by the lake," said Scorpius.
"And, you managed to have a proper conversation with her?" Albus asked in disbelief.
"Not really, it was like the usual," said Scorpius, ignoring a group of fourth year girls who had giggled as they walked by.
"Oh..." Albus said, albeit a little disappointedly. He had always wanted his favourite cousin and his best friend to get along. "So did she say what she wanted me for?"
"Uh yeah, something about a letter you wrote to your parents I think," said Scorpius, recalling what Rose had said that morning. Albus paled when he heard it.
"Oh no..." he groaned.
"What?"
"I told my parents that –"
"ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER!"
A few first years in the corridor had scampered at the arrival of one Rose Weasley, Terra trailing behind her. Rose had a temper to match her Nana Molly's, and this was proof of it. Her eyes flashed dangerously as she approached the boys. Albus, much to the amusement of Scorpius, had taken to hiding behind him.
"What did you tell your parents?" Rose demanded, trying to make a grab at Albus, who only shrunk further behind Scorpius.
"Really Rosie, it's no big deal," he said, peeping at her from over Scorpius's shoulder.
"No big deal? Well how about I write to my parents that you're snogging with Loretta Flint huh? Since it's no big deal," Rose hissed menacingly. Loretta Flint was a seventh year from Slytherin and known for her huge size and acne. Guys were literally terrified of her.
"Like I would have such bad taste," Albus said indignantly, straightening up from behind Scorpius, momentarily forgetting that he was being scolded by Rose. She took the opportunity to grab him from behind Scorpius, grasping the front of his robes.
"Do you know that I got a six page letter from Dad on the importance of purity and innocence because Uncle Harry let slip that I was snogging Randy Daniels? Now how do you think Uncle Harry got that piece of information?" said Rose.
"She gets fiercer every year," Scorpius muttered to Terra by the side.
She nodded and replied, "At least she's not shoving him down the toilet in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. That's what she was threatening to do when we were on our way up here."
"Couldn't you do something before she kills him?" asked Scorpius, gesturing towards the scene before them.
"No way am I getting involved in that. Don't worry, she won't really kill him, maybe just a few bruises here and there...you know, the usual," Terra grinned.
"Look Rosie, I didn't mean to! It was just a passing comment and –" Albus said nervously.
"Oh look Fred! Family feud! How come we weren't invited?" said James, who had just arrived at the scene with Fred. He didn't seem particularly affected by the fact that his brother was almost being strangled by his cousin.
"So what's the story?" Fred asked, grinning as they approached the pair.
"Al here thought it'd be nice to tell Uncle Harry and Aunt Ginny that he thought me and Randy Daniels snog when we do our prefect duties," Rose informed them, still not loosening her grip on Albus's robes.
"Ah, let me guess. Uncle Ron found out and decided to give you a lecture on how you should remain virgin till the day you die?" asked James.
"Pretty much," Rose replied, casting a dirty look at Albus. He mouthed 'help me' to James and Fred, but they only grinned at him.
"Tsk, tsk, such a bad boy Albus," said James, shaking a finger at him.
"Yes, we have half the mind to let Rosie throttle you to death here," said Fred. Albus's eyes widened.
"But we can't let you do that Rosie, we need him for the match against Ravenclaw in two weeks. We can't play without our Seeker," said James. "So as Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, I ask that you release my Seeker for the good of Gryffindor."
Rose raised her eyebrows at him in amusement.
"But we give you permission to murder him after he helps us win the match," said Fred.
"Fine," she muttered, letting go of him. Albus quickly straightened out his robes and ran to where Scorpius was standing several feet away from her.
"Now run along Albus dear, we have business to discuss with Rosie," said James. Albus gladly complied and hurried away with Scorpius, thankful to have escaped.
"If this is about the charm –"
"Now, now Rosie, we've moved on, got the spell ourselves, the plan is all ready for action! But that's not what we want to speak with you about," said James. He cast a look at Terra.
"Sorry Terra, this is top secret family business," Fred gave her an apologetic smile.
"So hurry on now," James waved her away. Terra scowled at him.
"I'll catch up with Albus and Scorpius. Could use a snack myself..." she said, going off in the direction of the kitchens.
"What is it?" Rose asked after Terra had gone.
"You know Jake Patterson from Slytherin?" said Fred.
"The guy who plays Chaser?" Rose asked.
"Yeah that's the one," James nodded.
"What about him?"
"He's interested in Roxanne," Fred grinned.
"Ok...but I don't think Roxy even knows –"
"They have Potions and Charms together, but you know Roxy, always hanging around Lily the loud, and the both of them basking in the attention of the boys," James said, wrinkling his nose.
"Thing is, this Patterson dude is gonna help us get this product from America, fresh off the shelves, but not imported to England yet and he wants a date with Rox."
"Wait, you're using your little sister in exchange for a product to prank people with?" Rose asked.
"Well, if you say it that way it sounds kinda bad, but he's a nice guy really. And you know Roxy and the girls look up to you. She'll listen if you tell her to go out with this guy!" James pleaded. Rose gave them a sceptical look.
"I swear I wouldn't set my sister up with a guy I don't think is good enough for her. You know me Rosie..." said Fred.
Rose hesitated and said, "Not until I meet this boy..."
"Great! We'll see what we can arrange. See you around kid!" James said, ruffling her hair.
"Don't call me kid!" Rose yelled after the boys as they walked away.
A/N: There you go, third chapter! Hope you all enjoyed this one! And thanks so much to those who reviewed the last chapter! Super encouraged by your reviews! As usual, leave one for this chapter, hope to hear from you guys!