A/N: I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a while. I know how annoying that is. I've been really busy lately and I couldn't figure out how to end this chapter but here it is! Oh, and italics are Rose's thoughts and underlined are Scorpius's. Like I've said before, I really don't have a concrete plan for this story so suggestions are appreciated. Please review! Oh and Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans, even though it's a day late!

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Way too early for his taste, Scorpius was woken up by the shrieking of a very pissed off redhead. This was a noise he'd heard many times, but not recently since the source of the noise was his ex-girlfriend whom he was still very much in love with.

After he'd gotten to Albus's house last night, he'd tried to talk to Al about his Rose problems, which, to his credit, Al actually tried to listen to and offer advice to his friend but it had been a long day for him so he quickly fell asleep. Scorpius hadn't entered the land of sleep quite as quickly as his best friend but it didn't take him very long. Before he fell asleep he swore that he would talk to Al the next morning about the Rose stuff. The next morning, Scorpius felt terrible, even after all of the sleep he'd gotten. Maybe it was a good thing that Al had fallen asleep before they could talk the night before. Scorpius couldn't have been very coherent anymore and they probably wouldn't have had the best talk. Oh great, she was here. Either she didn't know he was here (probably the most likely) or she came to see him. Which could be both good and bad. Oh God, it was too early in the morning and he had a massive headache to be trying to reason out why exactly it was that she was here. Muggle alcohol was surprisingly strong and he hadn't taken anything to prevent a hangover the night before.

Scorpius groaned. He really wanted to talk to her but he didn't want her to see him like this. He was trying to make a good impression; he really was. He hoisted himself off of Al's bed (Al had fallen asleep on the floor—couldn't have been very comfortable) and stumbled out into the bathroom to get a potion for his headache/hangover. He heard shouts coming from the front room near the door. "Why the hell is he here?"

"Rosie, you can't ask me to choose between you guys! You're both my best friends! This isn't fair!"

"You know what, Al? I'm your cousin, I thought that you were my best friend and you pick him over me! That's bullshit!"

"No! What you're saying is bullshit! I'm trying to be an impartial party here and provide support to both of my greatest friends until they either: a) kill each other, b) actually resolve their differences, or c) get back together! And until one of those happens, I know I'm going to be torn into two, trying to remain neutral here but it really sucks! Use your logic Rose. What would you do if you were me?"

Rose looked taken aback. "I'm sorry Albus. I truly am. I didn't realize we were forcing you to choose. I'll leave now. Go deal with Scorpius. He probably has a colossal hangover judging by the way he was talking to me last night."

"Rose, I want to help you out too. Can we go out for lunch later? I'll take you out wherever you want."

Rose smiled a bit. "Sure. Thanks Al. I'll see you later then."

Scorpius hustled up in the bathroom, shoved his hair into a semi-respectable position instead of going for the bedhead look, and ran out into the hallway to catch Rose before she left. "Rose!" he yelled.

Albus immediately swiveled his head to see how Rose would take this and even James and Freddie looked up from their seemingly meaningless discussion about something that Al couldn't even follow, to see the same thing. Rose was frozen once more as Scorpius came running into the room with his blond hair all tousled and disheveled (the shoving down of his hair before had done nothing whatsoever) and pulling on a bright green shirt. He looked exactly the same. Well, it had only been three months. Rose felt her heart leap as she stared at him. It just reminded her of what she could have had if they were still together and he looked amazing even when he just rolled out of bed. Not fair.

"Rose."

"Scorpius," she said as her speech capabilities returned. "So sorry to bother you this early in the morning. I'll just be going now." Rose spoke these words with venom. Whoa, where did that come from? I did not think I was that bitter. Maybe I was. I need to get the hell out of here before I do or say anything I'll regret.

Whoa. Now I feel like a complete arsehole. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to talk to her. No, Scorpius, it was. You have to talk to her. Go. Now.

"Rose? Please can you listen to me for a minute?"

"No, I have to go. See you later Al. Bye Freddie. Thanks so much James." Rose spoke sarcastically to the last one.

"Hey! I tried. You wouldn't listen."

"I know, it's my own fault. I should always listen to my older cousin, right?" Rose said with a small smile as she Disapparated.

"Damn it! I realize that she doesn't want to talk to me, but I just want to tell her so she knows."

"Uhh, Scorp. I kinda understand what you're going through, but you have to realize what she is going through. How would you feel if you went to your cousin/best friend's house to get out your problems, only to find the problem being there?"

"Okay first of all, the only cousins I have live in America and I'm not real close with them anyway—" Scorpius was cut off by Albus.

"Okay, I said imagine!" Albus, in turn was cut off by Scorpius.

"And second, I get it! I just don't understand why we broke up in the first place." Scorpius looked dejected.

Albus took pity on his male best friend. "Okay, I'm going to tell you what she told me. But if you tell anybody I told you, I will have to kill you. I'm not kidding. Mum taught Tori, Dom, Molls, Luce, Rox, Lils, and Rose how to do a very good Bat-Bogey Hex and Rose will not hesitate to use it on me."

"Yeah, Lily used it on me. It really sucks man." James chimed in.

"Why would you give her a reason to?" Fred asked him.

"It's not like I knew she was going to do that!"

"What did you do to piss her off that much?"

"I teased her about liking the Scamander kid."

"Wow, you're an idiot." Fred shook his head at the stupidity of his cousin.

"Thanks mate!"

During that conversation, Albus and Scorpius got up and went into Al's room so that James and Fred wouldn't overhear and so they didn't have to listen to the older boys talk anymore.

"I swear I won't tell anyone." Scorpius told his friend.

"Solemnly?"

"Yes! I solemnly swear I will not tell anyone what you about to tell me and if I do, you have the right to attack me."

"Okay. Well, she said that you were becoming more and more distant and she felt that you guys had grown too apart."

Scorpius was shocked. He went limp and fell back onto Al's bed from his seat on the footboard.

"What?"

"I…I just can't believe this."

"What, that she broke up with you because you were becoming more distant?"

"No that…I know why I was getting detached and it wasn't because we were growing apart."

"Then what was it?"

Scorpius was about to tell him when they were interrupted by a knocking on the front door and James running to get it.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" James asked.

"I need to talk to Albus."

"Godric, who doesn't? Just once, I'd like someone to show up at our door looking for me!"

"Never gonna happen Jamesie," Fred told his cousin with a smirk on his face.

"He's actually busy right now." James told the person at the door, ignoring the redhead.

"It's kind of important."

"It always is!"

Albus and Scorpius looked at each other and suddenly Albus jumped up and ran toward the door. Scorpius knew that he knew the voice but he couldn't place it.

"Hey Carrie." Albus said quietly.

Oh no. Poor Al.

Then he spoke again, "Hey Beth."

Oh shit. They were gonna murder him.