Set Me Free

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"Set me free from my jealousy."

"Dramatic much?" asked Albus, raising a mocking eyebrow as his best friend watched with disgust as Leonard Peanut draped an arm around Rose's shoulders.

"Yes," Scorpius Malfoy drawled. "It helps, believe me."

His best friend chuckled but Scorpius ignored him. "I thought she didn't even like him…"

"She doesn't," Albus said. When Scorpius suddenly looked his way, he explained, "She thinks she does, but I know she doesn't."

"Then why don't you do anything?" the young Ravenclaw prefect told his best friend, sighing with frustration. "As her cousin, it's your job to knock some sense into her."

Once again, Albus couldn't help but chuckle at his best friend's dramatic ways. "Right. I'll tell her to stop seeing that pathetic excuse for a Gryffyndor and I'll tell her that you're her soul mate and she should start loving you back right away. Right," he repeated. "This conversation will go oh so smoothly, I can see it from here."

Scorpius sighed again and tangled a hand in his hair. "I just wish she would see what's right in front of her," he growled, never looking away from her.

"And what is that?" Albus asked, raising a very ironic eyebrow. "A huge fool who's so in love with her that it's almost getting ridiculous?"

Scorpius sent a murderous look his way. "Not helping."

"Not supposed to."

Scorpius watched as Rose politely removed Leonard's arm from her shoulders, frowning at him, and wished he could have listened to their conversation, but next to him, Albus chuckled. "Here's your chance," he said before shaking his head, obviously amused by the whole situation. "Looks like there's trouble in paradise."

"I'll show you paradise," Scorpius replied, never leaving Rose's beautiful face with his eyes.

Albus just rolled his eyes at his best friend while Scorpius watched with a pleased smile as Rose raised her voice against Leonard, a deep blush deliciously colouring her cheeks with embarrassment. Of course she would feel awful about bringing the attention of the surrounding students to her personal life.

When Leonard finally stomped away, Scrpius couldn't help but run to her, Albus following closely with a smile on his face. "This is going to be fun," he whispered to himself, letting a small chuckled escape his throat.

"Shut up," his best friend replied, his shining grey eyes never leaving Rose as his right elbow met Albus' ribs.

However, as soon as they reached the damsel in distress, the confident way in which Scorpius marched was replaced by an awkward hesitation. The young Ravenclaw prefect tangled a nervous hand in his blond hair, trying to look nonchalant. "Hi, Rose."

Behind him, Albus brought his head to the side of Scorpius and said in a chirp-like echo: "Hi, Rose."

The redhead arched a suspicious brow towards her cousin before turning back to Scorpius, who started to blush uncharacteristically. He tried to smile, but failed, and she could see him wringing his hands. "Erm," he started very awkwardly, "have you seen a red jumper?"

Albus burst out laughing and Rose sent her cousin a warning glare before looking back at Scorpius who focused on the freckles on Rose's face to refrain from murdering his best friend.

"A red jumper?" she asked with surprise. "I didn't know you even owned one," she added curiously.

"Nevermind, Albus' cat probably ate it." His face as he responded went from being red to a very dark shade of purple, and he began to move backwards, dearly hoping that his so-called friend would leave him this possible back-down.

"Very smooth," Albus said following him. "You definitely master the whole "make a girl swoon" thing. Those Malefoy genes never fail to amaze me… I thought you Purebloods were charming… I mean, in a psychopath kind of way, but you know… Charming nevertheless."

"In a psychopath kind of way. Bloody you, Potter, and bloody Weasleys, for making my life a misery. A colony of horrible little bugs, that's what you are!"

"Maybe," Albus pondered, smiling, "but bugs you seem rather fond of, right ?"

"Right," he muttered. "Right. So… What now? Fancy a nice snow fight, bug?"

Albus' smile grew even larger. "Shall I invite my dear cousin? You know, the one you are madly in love with ? I feel like playing Cupid. You seem like you need my help…"

"I don't need your help, thank you very much," he replied stubbornly, before smiling slightly and muttering, "But yes, that is a good idea indeed."

"Brilliant. We need Lily. And Roxanne. And Fred! Maybe I should send an owl to Victoire…"

"Albus! Stop it!" Scorpius cried in a hushed tone. "I was just talking about inviting her to have a snow fight with us! Not about you playing Cupid with your entire family!"

Albus frowned. "But… Where's the fun in that ?" he asked, confused.

"It's not fun at all," his friend retorted. "It will be hell for me, you know?"

"That's precisely the fun I was talking about! Come on, let's go!"

Albus stood up from the chair he had let himself fall in seconds before, and shouted, "Fred! Roxanne! Lily!"

Scorpius groaned, covering his face with his hands. "I'm doomed."

But that didn't stop Albus from continuing his scheme. "Rose! Snow fight in five minutes, you in?"

She seemed hesitant but Scorpius smiled awkwardly. "Please?" And that seemed to do it, because she rolled her eyes and said "Let me get my gloves."

She stood and Albus watched her leave, his amusement slowly turning into a grimace. "Thanks Scorpius, you just ruined a perfect day of fun".

Note: Guess who just came back from America? Delfine is baaaaack and that's really all we needed to start writing again.
We hope you enjoyed this one because we sure enjoyed tormenting Scorpius a little bit.

Hope you're all well x

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