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By the time Scorpius and Rose completed the prefect's schedule they were thoroughly exhausted and spent the rest of Saturday lounging on the couch and chatting, only leaving for lunch and dinner. Saturday soon melted into Sunday which Rose spent tutoring a Slytherin in her year. He had kissed her cheek afterwards, making her turn bright red. Monday and double History of Magic quickly crept up on her.
After a quick breakfast of toast and marmalade, Rose hurried off to meet Scorpius at Professor Binns's classroom.
"Jodie, you'll never believe what Mara told me! She heard that Scorpius Malfoy liked Amy Tyler!"
This sentence, followed very high pitched giggling, stopped Rose in her tracks. Something about that particular sentence bothered her a great deal. After a moment of contemplation, Rose decided that she was disgusted by these giggly 5th years gossiping about her best friend. With a shake of her red locks Rose expelled the pesky thought from her mind and continued on her way to class.
When she finally reached her destination Rose strode into the classroom and towards her usual seat next to Scorpius, but, once again, stopped dead in her tracks. There, in the seat that she had occupied since her 5th year, was Amy Tyler, giggling and tossing her brown hair. Rose tried to catch Scorpius's eye for an explanation, but he was much too busy staring at Amy and hanging on her every word. With an angry huff Rose turned away and tried to find a seat next to someone acceptable, only to realize that she had taken so long staring at Scorpius and Amy that the one seat left was Amy's old one. Tossing her hair over her shoulder, Rose sent Scorpius another evil glare, which he, once again, didn't notice, and took her seat next Caroline Saunders. For the rest of the period Rose alternated between trying and failing to catch Scorpius's eye, and nodding politely at Caroline while she rambled on and on about the newest dress robes she'd seen in Witch Weekly and how she was learning beauty spells to reduce the size of her nose, which was actually unusually large.
After what seemed like an eternity, Professor Binns dismissed them and Rose shot out of the classroom and went straight to the Heads' common room for her free period. Rose immediately collapsed on the couch when she arrived. A few minutes later she heard footsteps walking into the room.
"Rosie! Rosie, where are you? You'll never guess what happened tod-" Scorpius stopped in front of the couch. "What happened to you?"
"Oh, I don't know, Scorpius! My best friend may have ditched me for an entire class period and left me to sit with Caroline Saunders. Have you ever talked to that girl? Yeah, well I'm pretty sure that the giant squid would provide more stimulating conversation!"
"Well excuse me for wanting to sit with someone else! Besides, you were almost late!"
"I'm always almost late, Scorpius! Me and mornings don't mix well!" Rose angrily retorted.
"I thought that you would be happy for me, Rose. I got to sit with Amy! She even agreed to go to Hogsmeade with me."
Suddenly, Rose was ten times more angry.
"What are you doing with her anyway, Scorpius? You can do better than that slag! I mean, you ditched me for her! We always sit together! Always! Ever since third year I cannot remember a single time that we haven't sat together when we were in the same class." Rose had risen from the couch. She was practically yelling in his face now and even though she knew it was completely irrational, she just couldn't bring herself to stop. With every word she said, Scorpius got angrier and angrier.
"What? Are you jealous, Rosie," Scorpius sneered. His angry words cut through Rose like a knife and his expression was foreign to her.
"No, I'm angry!"
After exchanging a few more angry words that they were sure to regret later, they both stormed off to go to their classes and didn't sit by each other for the rest of the day. Rose was so irate that she didn't answer questions like she usually did and, instead, fumed silently in her seat, which made most of her teachers suspicious. Scorpius seemed perfectly fine and made a point to be near Amy whenever he could.
Thankfully there were a few bearable girls in her year that she sat with at dinner, but, and she hated herself for admitting it, they weren't Scorpius. Normally, Rose would have sat by Al, but it seemed that Scorpius had already explained the situation to him in his own words and he wanted nothing to do with her. She glanced over to where Al and Scorpius were sitting and saw him winking at the Hufflepuff table. Sure enough, when Rose turned her head, there was Amy giggling and waving at him. Suddenly, Rose felt utterly sick and pushed her food away.
Tori, a nice but shy girl she was sitting next to turned towards her.
"Is something wrong with your food, Rose?"
Rose gave her a forced smile through a wave of nausea, "No, I'm just not very hungry anymore."
Tori studied her for a moment then returned her smile, turning back to her conversation with her friends.
After a few more minutes of torture, Rose stood up and walked back to the Heads' common room. If she had looked back she would have seen Scorpius staring after her with an agonized expression and a sudden loss of appetite, but she had made a point not to.
The walk to the common room took forever, and when she finally arrived Rose went straight to her room. After quickly brushing her teeth and changing her clothes, she collapsed into bed and welcomed the thoughtlessness of sleep.
Rose opened her eyes to complete darkness, and a quick glance at her watch told her that it was 2:41 AM. The details of her fight with Scorpius flooded back to her and she suddenly felt like an awful person. She fought back the tears that sprang to her eyes at the though of him not forgiving her and rose from her bed. When she stepped into the common room, dim light assaulted her eyes and a quick glance down told her that her shorts and tank top weren't too revealing. Tiptoeing over to Scorpius's room she slowly opened the door and went to his bed. She knew that he was a light sleeper so she gently poked his arm and was immediately greeted by the sight of his penetrating gray eyes staring at her, slightly startled.
She took a deep breath and began to speak, "Scorp, I messed up. It was all my fault . I was jealous and I was being stupid. Please say you'll forgive me."
He softened at her use of his nickname. "Of course I forgive you, Rosie. It was my fault. I don't know what I was thinking ditching you for some girl." He sat up pulling her into a hug. She shivered at his bare skin and noticed he was only wearing sweatpants. He must have mistaken her shivering for being cold. Scorpius easily pulled her small frame into his bed and pulled the covers up around her.
"Come on, you'll freeze," He glanced at her attire and his eyes widened. "Merlin, Rose you should wear more clothing! Are you trying to catch a cold?" She rolled her eyes. Sometimes, his overprotectiveness reminded her of her father.
"Look who's talking, Scorp," She said, pointedly staring at his bare chest. She stared a little longer than she should have, taken aback by his toned muscles and prominent abs.
Unfortunately, he noticed, which probably inflated his already over inflated ego more. "Like what you see, huh?" He said, smirking.
Rose scowled at him and whacked his arm while fighting a yawn.
"Come on, let's sleep. You have enough trouble waking up in the morning as it is," Scorpius said as he wrapped his arm around her. Rose snuggled into his warm skin and he tucked his chin over her head. It only occurred to her just how intimate this position was right before she fell asleep.
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