"Wake up!" Skye sang in Rose's ear. Rose slowly opened her eyes to see Skye's bright blue orbs.

"Good morning." Rose mumbled.

"Ass out of your bed, prefect girl. Go hop in the shower!" Skye said. She was already fully dressed in her Slytherin uniform. The ends of her hair were lightly curled, and make up was expertly applied. Skye's signature color was gold, and there it was, a gold shadow on her eyes. Skye would manage to look good on a bloody Monday morning. Rose looked down at her own pajamas and sighed. Skye was right. Time to clean up for the first actual day of the term.

Rose hastily grabbed a towel, wordlessly levitated her shower products ( a nifty skill taught by her mother) and walked down the halls to the seventh year girls' showers, only to see Scorpius walking down from the boys' showers.

'Oh great. Perfect timing, Scorp.' Rose thought. Her hair wasn't brushed, there was no make up on her face (even though she only wore a simple eyeliner and mascara) and she probably had bags under her eyes from tryouts the night before. There was no way she would let Scorpius see her like this. She slunk off to a wall and flatly lined herself, hoping Scorpius would just walk on without noticing her.

'Please, please..'

"Morning Rose. What are you doing here?"

'Damn. Of course he noticed.'

"Just, erm, morning meditating." She said. Merlin! She probably had morning breath too along with all of her unattractive features!

"Against a wall?" Scorpius said, chuckling lightly.

"Yeah. Well I better go shower!" Rose giggled nervously, wanting to get away from Scorpius in her current state. However, she had completely forgotten about her levitation of shower products, and the second she had stopped thinking about the wordless levitation, they dropped. Her shampoo hit his toes directly and her conditioner bonked him on the head.

"ARGHGHGH!"

He grabbed his foot and jumped on his other, cursing.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry!"

She really had to stop getting nervous around him. They were best mates, not to mention this was the second time she had done something utterly clumsy and stupid, the first time being hot split tea all over his shirt.

Scorpius quickly cast a healing spell over himself, stood upright and smiled.

"No biggy. You know, if you're so flabbergasted by me, just tell me so. I'm still free for next Hogsmeade."

"Gag, you're so full of yourself." Rose said. But inside, she was jumping with joy. It would be so great if they went to Hogsmeade together. They always went with Albus or Skye or both, so Scorpius and Rose rarely got time alone. But this year would be different with all of their schedules.

"But, really. Choose fast, there's a fan club waiting for me to take any one of them." He said once more, but this time his eyes were looking right into hers seriously.

"Sure, I'd love to!" Rose replied sarcastically. She wasn't even sure if they were even joking. She was being sarcastic, but she was being sincere at the same time.

"Good. Hogsmeade it is." Scorpius proclaimed. They just smiled at each other. Rose had completely forgotten about how she looked and melted into his eyes. They were a light blue with almost silver sparkles, his hair lightly sweeping above his brows...Scorpius leaned in slowly and Rose fluttered her eyes close.

"ROSE! What are you doing? I thought you'd be out by now. In. The. Shower!" Skye said, running down from the dormitories, cleared appalled. Once she saw Scorpius, a look of understanding flashed her face, and she mouthed sorry to Rose. Rose jokingly glared at Skye and continued her merry little way to the showers.

Skye had definitely done well. Rose's lashes were long, and her green eyes were brightened by the hazel eyeliner and a light sweep of soft pink eye shadow. It was simple and pretty. A strand of her hair was clipped back with a sparkling clip and her uniform was impeccably ironed. Rose had already studied the first chapter of all her textbooks over the weekend, so she was excited for classes. She proudly adjusted the prefect badge and waited for Scorpius in the common room. Professor McGonnagall had ever kindly requested that they spend the first week or two together to really get used to their schedules. Rose was perfectly fine with it. In fact, she thought it was a great idea.

Scorpius finally trotted down from the stairs, looking dapper as always. His tie was loosely done and a few buttons were undone, exposing his muscular, toned skin. He looked like a total douche bag. A hot, sexy, gorgeous, Quidditch-playing douche bag.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." He said.

"That's quite alright." Rose said.

So together, they walked up to the Great Hall. (Slytherins are in the dungeons :) So they ate together, side by side. Skye was winking at Rose from across the table, and Albus was fake coughing so much to a point where Rose kicked his shin under the table. Al knew, of course, but she didn't need for everyone else in the Great Hall to know. To their knowledge, Scorpius and Rose were just best mates. Scorpius kept on flicking hash browns to Rose's plate, and Rose responded by making the pumpkin juice pitcher pour itself into his cup. Scorpius looked scathingly at Rose, and she was scared momentarily, until she caught his crooked grin. He simply cast a cleaning spell and all was good.

"Rose, can you come to the bathroom with me?" Skye asked. She was obviously trying to talk to Rose privately, not to mention girls always went to the bathroom together. It was a girl thing.

"Ew." Scorpius and Al said simultaneously. However, other girls on the table had understanding looks. Every girl needed a gossip partner anyway.

"Not like that." Skye added, rolling her eyes.

The moment they were out of sight, Skye squealed.

"You guys will be a couple by the Yule ball! I promise. It's so there. I can see it."

"You sound like Professor Trawlawney...speaking of which, who I have next." Rose groaned. As interesting and amazing Divination was, she simply did not like Professor Trawlawney. Her mom had expressed a mutual feeling.

"Doesn't Scorpius have class with you?" Skye asked, jumping up and down. She had always felt so guilty when her own boyfriend and her took off, leaving Rose alone with her cousin and Scorpius. Skye knew that Rose was dying for her first kiss. Hopefully, she would get it soon.

"Yeah." Rose smiled. Today would be a good day.

Scratch that. Today was a bad day. Rose Weasley sat by herself on a single-person tea table, brewing tea while Scorpius was wedged into a corner with Fate next to him, giggling in high pitch.

"Don't be so rough on the tea leaves dear." Professor Trawlawney said over Rose's shoulder. Rose fumed and stopped grinding her tea leaves. Her and Scorpius had walked together, making great plans for the Hogsmeade trip ("We should definitely make sure that students submit their forms at the entrance, one by one. And make sure that no one goes out side Hogsmeade." "Honeydukes is near the boundaries, could we stop for chocolate?") just for him to be snatched up by Fate. Rose hastily forced the hot liquid down her throat, spluttered at her burnt tongue and looked down at the tea leaves.

"Arrow, onion...and an eye?" She muttered to herself. Rose quickly flipped through the symbol interpretation book.

Arrow: Unpleasant news is on its way, or has arrived already.

Eye: Solving of difficulties and character of love.

Onion: something you supposed as a secret may become discovered by treacherous friends.

Rose got a chill down her back. Oddly enough, the predictions seemed correct. But she didn't have any treacherous friends. Skye or Lily were the ones who knew of her situation, but neither would tell. Professor Trawlawney sent a concerned look into her eyes after a stare-down at the tea leaves, then slowly walked away.

"Welcome to Defense Against the Dark arts! In this course..."

Rose's thoughts drifted away. The predictions from Divination had struck her so much, and she just wanted to figure them out. Her ears perked up when she heard the word patronus.

"Indeed, considering events from the past and the high level of this course, we will be learning patronuses. Remember to focus. It's okay if you don't get it in the first few tries, but we will all get it soon!" The young professor continued. His name was Professor Bernstein, and girls were poring over him. To Rose, Scorpius was her only attractive man.

"Expecto Patronum!" Al yelled right away. A strong, roaring lion emerged from the tip of his wand, racing around the room.

"Expecto Patronum!" Rose followed, concentrating on her inner thoughts. She had never tried the spell and wondered how it would be. A beautiful fox appeared. It was graceful yet the sharp eyes were a bit threatening. Rose was impressed by her own patronus. It was clear, strong and long lasting on the first try. Not bad. Not bad at all.

Other kids now followed. Some kids could cast easily, while some had just a white foggy blur. To her surprise, Scorpius couldn't cast a patronus. Her fox daintily pranced over the Rose and took a look at Scorpius and lovingly skipped around him. Scorpius blushed from embarrassment of not being able to cast a patronus.

"Why can't I do it?" Is this your first time doing it?" Scorpius asked, clearly frustrated.

"Er..no. I've been practicing over the summer. It took me a while." She lied, not wanting to hurt Scorpius's feelings.

"Oh good. I felt really stupid for a second." He said with a relieved sigh. "Help me?" He added, lightly touching her hand. Electricity shot through her body and she nodded her head quickly.

"You need to focus on you. Think of your inner desires and characteristics." Rose said. She actually had no idea how she cast hers, but the answer seemed logical. Scorpius tried again, but failed. There was only a white blur that cut through her fox. Her heart dropped for some reason, was this a sign?

Potions was a bit better. She had a lot of respect for Professor Snape and he liked her as a student, graciously awarding her points for every correct answer. To her unawareness, Jake was ogling at her from across the room, and Scorpius had shot him a tickling hex, making him laugh uncontrollably and sending him out to the corridor. Professor Snape talked to Jake, came back to the class room, gave Scorpius a suspicious look but Scorpius didn't miss the sparkling mischievous glint in Professor's eye.

In Transfiguration, they practiced changing each other's physical appearances. Professor McGonagall put Scorpius and Rose as an example, and they each changed eye color, hair color and skin color, giggling madly. Rose managed to turn his hair to a bright pink tuft which earned a chortle of laugh from the class. She almost didn't want to change his eye color, but she did anyway to a hazel shade and was stricken by the change of his appearance. Scorpius alike changed her hair to a bleach blonde, and her skin to a forest green. Professor McGonagall gave them 10 points each and the class resumed.

"Ladies first," Scorpius said, undoing all the transformations on Rose. Rose grinned and turned his hair to a shade much like hers along with his eyes. She made his skin a bit tanner as well.

"Bloody Hell, I look like a Weasley! No, worse. I look like you!" Scorpius joked. Rose huffed, added freckles to his face and made his hair orange. If he was going to complain about looking like a Weasley, better make sure he looked a lot like a Weasley. During changing Scorpius's appearance, she secretly thanked her parents for her auburn hair compaired to Lily's red fiery hair. Auburn was much more calm.

"Okay, McGonagall definitely did not teach us freckles yet. No fair." Scorpius said, acessing his new appearance in a mirror.

"It's in the 1st chapter of our Transfigurations book, page 32. It's a really simple spell actually." Rose said. Suddenly, she felt a whoosh of air around her head. She momentarily panicked and looked around to see if anyone had hexed her. But everyone was concentrated on transforming each other from purple eyes to tatooed skin. Relieved, Rose ran her hands through her hair. But her hair was short.

"No. You didn't." Rose said tersely, her mouth open aghast. Scorpius had caught her off guard! Hair length transfigurations were on page 36, so he must've read the book as well!

"Yes, I did." Scorpius boasted. He pushed a mirror in her hands and she slowly looked in it, and gave a short scream. Her hair was a small bob of little auburn waves. She looked like Shirley Temple with red hair.

"Do you know how long it takes for the spell to wear off? Bloody hours!" Rose said, angrily pointing to her short bob.

"Bollocks, I'm sorry. Here." Scorpius said, charming a quill to a brush to magically brush through her hair in attempt to make it longer. She turned his hair into a bright blue afro, and burst in laughter.

"Oh, so now I look funny." He grunted and pouted his lips. Rose cracked up at his puppy face and almost fell off her chair. Scorpius rapidly shot her an eye changing spell, while he was laughing. Rose felt her eyes being changed, but something didn't quite feel right.

"What color are my eyes, Scorp?" She asked. Her vision was blurry. 'Probably from tears of laughing,' she thought.

"I'm so sorry, Rose. They're blue, but I think my lack of concentration turned your vision blurry for a temporary time.." Scorpius said nervously. He inched his face closer to hers for a better examination of her eyes, and admist her anger for Scorpius, Rose melted.

"Just take class notes for me." Rose sighed. She could still see, but somethings were rather unclear. On the bright side, Scorpius was still visible and gorgeous in her vision.

"Of course." He said. He pushed a short strand of curl behind her ear, took another concerned look much similar to Professor Trawlawney's, and resumed through the rest of their clases.

At the end of the day, Rose thanked Scorpius for making her vision blurry. He had taken notes with his elegant hand writing and had whispered lectures in her ear for she couldn't see the board. He had gently guided her in the corridors, and even in her bad vision, she could clearly see the jealous faces of the female population including Fate.

It was too bad that she couldn't personally take notes ( she liked writing down everything the professors said) but Scorpius had taken good ones, so she wasn't worried. It was a bit troublesome eating dinner, but her vision was getting better by the hour, so it wasn't a terrible problem. She had finished all her homework silently after dinner with Scorpius in the library using a magic quill, reviewed and previewed all her textbooks ( Scorpius read them out loud at her request ). At last, it was time for their corridor patrol. Scorpius had offered to take their stuff down to the dungeons so she was waiting infront of the library.

Today was a really good day after all. Her worries about tea predictions in divination were long gone. Her hair was also almost past her shoulders, returning to its normal length.

"Boo!" Scorpius said, lightly squeezing her shoulders. She jumped in surprise at first, then smiled at him.

"Better start our prefect duties." She said. It was about 11:00, so they had a good hour and a half of midnight corridor shift. Lights in the halls were darkened, so it was hard for Rose to see. She didn't want Scorpius thinking that she was weak, so she tried to walk independently but ended up tripping over a set of moving stairs. When she finally managed to stand on stable ground, she had to admit that she could not see very well. At all.

"You're a clumsy dork," Scorpius mumbled. He laced his fingers with hers and pulled her close to him. Rose's heart began to beat significantly faster. She wondered if he could hear the loud beats, or see the blush upon her cheeks.

"Don't want any pathetic deaths tonight. 'Prefect killed by tripping on flat ground in dark'. We're supposed to be the top two students in our years anyway." He said, looking away from her. Rose simply smiled for the hundreth time that day. There was a moment of silence before she saw something moving up ahead.

"Someone's out after curfew! Look Scorp!" Rose said. They ran together, holding hands to the movement, and was blinded by bright light.

This is quite longer than usual. I didn't get any reviews last chapter, so it wasn't motivating to write at all :(

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