A/N: A new chapter! Yayy! And you probably feel like me at the moment: 'Rose what the hell are you doing!' Yep, that's how I feel to! Sometimes she really can be stupid can't she!

A groan escaped Rose's lips as the sun filtered into her room and light suddenly appeared around her. She groaned again, throwing her pillow over her head letting the darkness creep back in. She remembered writing to Michael last night and how many times she had had to write that stupid letter before it was right, and she still wasn't sure about the one she wrote. Should she say those things about Scorpius to him, she hadn't even talked to Scorpius yet. Her stomach turned, she hadn't even spoken to him yet. She groaned again, she wanted to talk to him, she really did. It was just the way he was so relaxed about being worried and telling her Dad, she had tried to ask him what he actually thought they should about it yesterday and his responses were: 'We will tell him' Obviously, they had to, and 'We'll know when'. It kind of annoyed her, she just wanted some kind of solid reassurance and at the moment she wasn't getting that. That was kind of selfish though, sometimes she just forgot that he must be as nervous as she was. And one of those times was last night, when on a whim she wrote to Michael. Actually, she didn't remember finishing writing to Michael. She didn't remember falling asleep on her bed either. She removed the pillow from her head and carefully sat up, covering her eyes. She rubbed them gently and looked around her room. Yep, she definitely didn't remember being in her bed. She looked to her window seat, screwed up papers all around it and the window wide open. And her letter to Michael was gone. Well, that was just confusing.

"Oh, you decided to wake up did you?" Rose heard a voice at her door.

"Oh, leave me alone Lily" she said, playfully. "I got hardly any good sleep"

"Well, you missed breakfast" Rose groaned again, her stomach growling.

"Is there any left?"

"Yeah, loads" Rose sighed in relief and Lily came into her room and perched on the end of her bed. "Dress shopping today, for the party tomorrow!"Lily squealed, rocking the bed in a way that Rose really didn't appreciate but the prospect of dress shopping with Lily distracted her. She loved dress shopping with Lily, every year they did it and every year the dresses got better.

"I can't wait!"

"Well, get yourself out of bed then!" Lily said, grabbing Rose's arm and yanking her out of bed.

"Alright, I'm getting up! Please stop trying to dislocated my limbs!" Rose screeched, Lily didn't cease her yanking so Rose grabbed a pillow with her free hand and hit her around the head. Lily squealed and jumped back letting go of Rose's arm and grabbing a pillow herself. Well at that point it was over. A pillow war ensued. Both flailed around, chucking pillows, feathers flying everywhere. It was mayhem.

"Oi!" Both Rose and Lily froze. Rose slowly looked round to see her dad standing there still in his pyjamas, half of his beard cleanly shaven other half covered in shaving foam. Rose had to desperately try to hold in her giggles. "What do you think you're doing? I'm trying to shave!" with that he stomped off down the landing. Rose glanced at Lily, the silence in the room lingering. Within seconds, both of them were laughing hysterically. Rose rolled around on her bed clutching her stomach, tears forming in her eyes. She was just able to sit up and grab Lily for support who was in the same hysteric state.

"Di-id y-y-you see- aaaaahhhhhahahahahahahaaa" Rose tried to say but her words mixed with laughs as she gestured to one half of her face.

"THE SHAVING FOAM!" Lily roared in laughter, before collapsing onto Rose. It was only after a couple of minutes that they were both able to breath without laughing, and even then they were both giggling.

"We should get breakfast" Rose said, pulling Lily up. They both stumbled onto the landing and just about got down the stairs without toppling over. Rose smelt the smell of fresh bacon and toast, and her stomach grumbled loudly. She rushed to the kitchen and grabbed a plate filling it with all her favourites, bacon, fried egg, buttered toast, baked beans, everything. She sat down at the kitchen table watching the steam rising and thinking about what it would taste like, how great it would be to gobble it all down.

"Well, don't just look at it!" she glanced up to see Lily sitting opposite her. "It won't just hop into your mouth!" she giggled. Rose took a bite of bacon, which melted in her mouth and she loved the smoky taste it left in her mouth.

"Oh so you finally decided to get up, hey Rose?" Rose heard Albus say as he slid in beside her and ruffled her hair in a brotherly manner. Rose swiped him away with a playful frown, still chewing her bacon.

"Shut up!"

"Rose"

"Yes" Rose said, turning to face Albus curiously.

"Has something happened with Scorpius?" Rose genuinely frowned and she felt her stomach beginning to stir.

"No, at least I don't think so." She couldn't recall doing anything to upset him, she hoped she hadn't. Her nerves started to take over and she dropped her fork and picked at her pyjama top.

"Well, he's been acting strange all day. He isn't really talking and he just doesn't seem... Scorpius, you know?" No, she didn't. She had no idea what he was going on about. Nothing had happened between them, argument wise anyway. She was sure she had done nothing to upset him. She had to speak to him.

"Where is he?"

"Well, I think-"

"Rose! Rose dear!" Her Grandma's voice rung through the house and Rose looked around trying to find the woman herself. "Over here dear!" Rose turned to the Kitchen window and saw her Grandma leaning through with a garden spade hanging from her hand and dirt on her face. She waved her hand and beaconed Rose over. Rose got up a skipped over to the window.

"Yes Grandma"

"Would you please grab that box there" She pointed a box in the corner of the room. "And come out here to help Scorpius decorate the garden ready for the party, that's a dear." Before Rose had time to respond, she was gone. Rose sighed and turned to Albus, who shrugged.

"I'm not even dressed yet!"

"Oh, Oh, OH!" Albus squealed. Rose look confusedly at him and he grabbed his wand and came over to her. "I've been practising this spell-"

"Forget it"

"Aw, come one Rose. I'm actually quite good at it!" Rose sighed and nodded, and hoped she wasn't letting herself in for a painful, young death. "Clothicto!" Rose clenched her eyes shut, ready to embrace whatever dreadful thing Albus had done to her. She waited and slowly opened one eyes to see Albus looking her up and down and smirking. She looked down to see herself fully clothed, jeans, a T and her very own green hoody.

"Wow" she exclaimed, before unzipping the hoody, folding it and handing it to Albus.

"What? Why are you taking it off? I took me ages to master that spell!"

"Its hot"

"Oh Yeah" Albus said, taking the hoody. Rose grabbed the box and took a deep breath in. She turned to Albus who smiled.

"Just try to see what's up."

Rose turned to the back door and walked out into the blazing, morning sunlight. She spied Scorpius kneeling under the tree by a box, he seemed to be reading something on a small piece of parchment. Curious, Rose thought. She started over to him, hauling the box along as she went.

"Hey!" She called out to him. She saw his head snap up, eyes wide as he stuffed the piece of paper into his pocket. Once it was away, he smiled and waved but it wasn't a Scorpius smile or a Scorpius wave. It was half hearted, like he wasn't trying or sad. This made Rose frown and she picked up her pace and reached Scorpius in a matter of second. "You alright?" She asked, cheerily hoping he would perk up. He just shrugged and looked into his box of decorations. She looked at him and wondered. What could be wrong? She started to sort through her decorations, but couldn't shake of this awkward feeling between them. They had never be awkward before, I mean for Merlin's sake they were together, they weren't uncomfortable in each other's presence. So why was it awkward now? "What's wrong?" she piped up, Scorpius looked up.

"What do you mean?" She slid closer to him and leant on the tree next to him, he didn't move towards or away from her. This was not him. At all.

"You're not you"

"Huh?"

"You seem... sad" He blew out a breath, and looked into his lap averting eye contact. She felt nervousness wash over her again. "Please, tell me what's wrong." He shook his head and reached into his pocket. She saw it was the piece of parchment he was reading earlier, he chucked it to her and she picked it up. She tentatively unfolded it, once she read it she understood everything:

Michael,

How have your holidays been?

Mine have been... interesting. I haven't told my Dad about me and Scorpius yet, everyone says I should and I know I should as well. I don't know if Scorpius really understands what my Dad would do, sometimes I feel like he's a little too care free.

Can't wait to see you,

Rose

x

"I'm sorry" she blurted out, they were the only words she could find. She had been so stupid. It was just a stupid moment. Where she forgot she could talk to him, the was so overcome with nerves that she did a silly thing. Oh no. "It was stupid, I did it without thought, I'm sorry."

"Why didn't you just talk to me?" he said, turning to her. She could see the hurt flickering in his eyes. She felt so bad.

"I don't know. I just sometimes get these moments when I can't think. Like all these things going on just won't fit in my head and I have no idea what to do, so I do something so stupid which I know will upset people and-" She was stopped by his finger on her lips.

"Rose, you can't always talk to me. Just remember that OK. And on more thing, why him? Why tell him? After what he did" he could see some aggression coming through his voice suddenly and she was surprised at how quickly his mood could change.

"He is my best friend"

"Yes but he likes you in a different way"

"But I don't like him like that, look I thought we sorted all this out before!"

"So did I!" They both sat there frowning at each other, both just about to tip over the edge. Rose wasn't going to let this happen, she wasn't going to fight with him- over her stupid mistake.

"Look, this is all my fault. I really didn't want to upset you, it's just after that time by the pond and you just being so... easy with it all. Like you could just blow it off. I really want to be able to do that and it made to a stupid thing- which I guess subconsciously I knew you wouldn't like. I was dumb and I really regret it, please forgive me" I looked at him, anticipating his reply. His frowned slowly disappeared and turned into a small smile.

"It's OK" he said, grabbing her tightly. She sank into him, taking him all in. She hated fighting, with anybody but let alone him. She grabbed on tightly to him not wanted to let go as though he might just disappear and leave her. She felt him let out a deep, satisfied breath and whispered into her ear, "You can tell me anything, I'm always here." He kissed her just below her ear, making her cling onto him even tighter.

"I only want to be with you" she whispered back and now it was him that clung onto her. They sat there for what seemed like years, just holding each other. Why should we have to hold this back? What is so wrong with this?

"We are going to tell him" She announced, pulling back to look at his shocked expression,

"Are you sure?"

"Yes" it was a short, concise and determined 'yes'. She finally felt ready, none of this was worth it any more. "After the party, he'll be happy then and we'll break the news to him then."

"Sounds good to me" he said, lowering his lips to hers. This was the right thing to do and it had to be done.

A/N: I was meant to have another part to this chapter but it's long already, so the next chapter will also be in Rose's point of view.