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Valentine's Day Blues

Chapter 4 – Hint, Hint

Rose groaned as her wand alarm went off, so early, why so early? She thought to herself, one arm leaving the warm cocoon of blankets and groping around on her bedside table until she had turned that infernal racket off. Then after lying for one more blissful moment in a half dose she threw the covers off allowing the cold sting of the air to wake her up.

She rolled sleepily still out of bed and began getting ready for the morning, pulling on her uniform and washing her face, brushing her teeth in their joint bathroom and putting on some makeup. She finally pulled her unruly curls back into some semblance of a hairstyle and smiled at the mirror trying to convince herself that she looked good, not tired and sad at all. Luckily her reflection won out and Rose left her room feeling slightly more buoyant than she would have previously.

Mondays were, as a rule, the worst day of the week. An early morning after two lie-ins and you're always just so tired after finding it impossible to sleep on Sunday night. It was a vicious cycle and Rose certainly wasn't the only sufferer. At half eight she walked into the hall allowing half an hour before classes started and already she could see at least five asleep in their breakfast.

She smiled and joined her family again, poking Hugo in the back of the head causing him to jerk sleepily and bat at her. Luckily this morning there were no unwelcome guests at the table. Albus came over to pay the customary morning visit before going over to sit next to his Slytherin friends. Rose frowned when she saw that Scorpius was missing from his spot next to her cousin.

~VDB~

Scorpius woke that morning with a lazy smile on his face, he'd just had a wonderful dream about him and Rose and a life that they might have together, all romance and happiness. Merlin he was turning into a sop but he just couldn't break the good mood his dream had put him in enough to care.

He slowly blinked open his eyes, still in his happy mood and looked for the clock; he must have woken up early because his wand alarm hadn't gone off yet. He scanned across the wall and froze in horror as he looked at the time. 8:55am. He was late!

Scorpius leapt out of bed and scrambled to get ready, there was only 5 minutes before herbology and Professor Longbottom would kill him if he was late. In record time Scorpius was dressed, he wasn't dressed well, his tie was wonky and his shirt wasn't tucked in, but he was dressed and flying down the stairs past students heading to their own classes. Bursting out of the big oak doors and tearing through the courtyard doing his best not to slip on the last January frost. He managed to just make it in with the last person filing into the classroom which happened to be Liam.

There was a moment as the two last boys looked around for a seat, there was one empty one next to Rose and the other next to Poppy Parkinson and no one wanted that seat. Without waiting Scorpius, thanking his Quidditch nimble skills managed to just beat Liam to the seat next to Rose and he couldn't help but notice the look of relief on her face that she was sat next to him. He smiled and settled down for a good lesson.

~VDB~

Rose had never been so relieved to see Malfoy in her life, Liam had been second last in the door and he had looked at her wanting the seat next to her and she had almost died. It was an odd partnership this one, the last time she had worked with Malfoy they had almost killed each other but for some reason she felt that this would go much, much better than that time had.

Uncle Neville was going on about something, for the first time ever she wasn't paying attention in class, her mind wandered to her life now and how it was so different to what she had imagined at the beginning of the year. She'd had Liam, been in love, top of her class, head girl; life had looked like it was going to be amazing. And it just, wasn't.

Suddenly she was aware that Malfoy had turned to look at her and she looked up meeting the light grey of his eyes. She'd never noticed the little green flecks in amongst the grey.

"Yes?" she asked, hoping that he hadn't noticed that she was staring.

"We have to cut the leaves off the hoinkupink there" he nodded to the rows of potted hoinkupink's at the front of the class.

"Oh!" she noticed the other pairs going to work "Right, right. You get the plant I'll get the shears" she said, flushing in embarrassment from not paying attention to the lesson and from staring dreamily into his eyes.

She didn't notice him watch her as she walked away, or feel the concerned gaze of her cousin Albus resting on her back.

~VDB~

By the time they got back to the common room later that evening Rose and Scorpius' relationship had come on leaps and bounds. Amazingly they were able to forget all the horrors of the past and just become friends. After the disaster that had been herbology this morning and wrestling with that annoying plant they had laughed and laughed.

The whole school was in an uproar with rumours flying left right and centre about this new friendship between a Weasley and a Malfoy and wondering to what extent they were 'friends' but the two didn't seem to notice this, wrapped in their own little world.

Before long Rose got tired and decided that it was time for bed, but she was so reluctant to leave the warm happy bubble she had made herself by the fire with this boy. Then she remembered the rose and the carving. What was she doing? There was this wonderful boy who was giving her these wonderful gifts and she was fraternizing with the enemy!

She stood up suddenly and Scorpius stopped talking, frowning slightly. "Are you alright?" he asked

"Yes, yes" she answered distractedly, walking to the stairs. "Night Malfoy"

And she left, leaving Scorpius feeling they had taken one step forward and two steps back.

~VDB~

Rose got upstairs and her head was swimming, part of her was accusing and judgemental for having so much fun with her enemy who had made her life miserable for years. Then she noticed an array of stuffed toys on her bed and she did a double take.

An eagle, a snake and a lion? What on earth? She walked over and picked up the envelope that rested against the lions back.

Loveliest Rose,
This is a personalised gift and a little bit of a clue as to my identity I wonder if you'll figure it out, no doubt you're so clever.
One for your brains.
One for your cunning.
One for your courage.
Sweet dreams my dear.
Love,
Your Secret Admirer. Xxx

Rose smiled at the three teddies on her bed immediately getting the clue that her secret admirer had left for her. He wasn't a Hufflepuff, there was no badger toy.

SO? What did you think :D Please read and review and I'm looking for gift ideas if you have any that would be great, I have a few going but I'm still open to anything that you can give me.

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Maryandmerlin xx