Hey guys, I am back with an update..i am sorry this chapter took so long…I was kinda busy…so anyways here it is…

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'This blows!' muttered Albus furiously stirring his potion as Scorpius added lacewings to it.

'This stinks,' corrected Scorpius scrunching up his nose at the nasty odor coming from their potion, 'did you read the instructions?'

'Did you?' snapped Albus annoyed at the outcome of his work for the past half hour.

Scorpius rolled his eyes at the table beside him where Rose and Melissa were working on their potion. Of course their potion was perfect with the perfect shade of blue steam given of while Scorpius and Albus's potion gave off a greyish brown steam.

Shaking his head and feeling more annoyed at his own potion, Scorpius glanced around the classroom. Roxy was hissing at her partner for stirring the potion in the wrong direction, Professor Dinglejammer was reading Witch Weekly, Nate Krum was stirring his potion and staring at someone.

Scorpius's eyes narrowed as he followed Nate's line of vision which was directed at the table beside Scorpius where Rose and Melissa were seated.

Scorpius glanced at the girls both of whom were oblivious to the attention and did not notice what was going on.

'Oh well,' thought Scorpius uninterested once more, 'Mel is hot. If Krum helps her get over me, then good.'

'OH COME ON!' cried Albus as the potion started hissing.

'Silence Mr. Potter.' Muttered Professor Dinglejammer, not looking up from the magazine.

Scorpius exchanged a look with Albus who sighed and leaned towards Rose, and called her.

'Hey Rosie,' he whispered, 'A little help?'

Rose and Melissa both glanced at them, the later of whom threw Scorpius a dirty look.

Rose, after glancing at the Professor walked over beside Scorpius and raised an eyebrow as she looked at the potion.

'Oh my god.' moaned Rose covering her nose, 'What did you do?'

'We were hoping you could tell us,' muttered Scorpius.

Rose reached for the stirrer, accidentally and very slightly brushing with Scorpius. Rose's hair so close, relieved Scorpius's nose of the pungent smell of the potion as he breathed in the scent of her shampoo.

Scorpius cleared his throat as he took a step away from Rose who was reading the instructions carefully.

'Is it me or is something different about your cousin?' asked Scorpius in a low voice to Albus who hung behind watching Rose fix the mess.

Albus raised an eyebrow and turned to look at Roxy who was glaring at her partner, the poor boy nervously fixed his glasses.

Scorpius rolled his eyes and gave Albus a pointed look.

'Oh you mean Rose,' whispered back Albus, 'Nah I don't see anything different. After six years she's still helping me clear up my mess.'

'Hello!' hissed Rose suddenly turning around sharply, 'A little help?'

Albus raised both hands.

'I'm good.' He said grinning.

'Here.' Said Scorpius taking over stirring the potion as Rose chopped up bezoars.

'Thank you.' Said Rose curtly, 'seven times clockwise.'

Scorpius did as he was told.

'Only three more days to go,' He reminded Rose in an undertone.

Rose looked up to meet his eyes, confused.

'What?' she asked frowning, distracted.

'The match.' Clarified Scorpius raising an eyebrow, 'I hope Roxy is training her arse off.'

Rose rolled her eyes and remained quiet, trying very hard to not look at Nate. She had never been a good actress and Scorpius was a pro at reading her.

'There you go,' said Rose adding six lacewings and dusting her hands off, 'you are welcome.'

With that she walked back over to her able where Melissa was waiting and the duo resumed working.

'Nate Krum's got his eyes on the prize,' observed Albus glancing at Nate then back at Scorpius.

'Whatever,' muttered Scorpius collecting the potion in a flask, 'I heard he refused to join the Gryffindor team.'

'Yeah Roxy's been whining too much about that lately,' said Albus rolling his eyes, 'I mean is the dude really a player or is it just a rumor because of his father?'

'Maybe I'll challenge him to one game after the Gryffindor match is over,' said Scorpius shrugging, 'the whole school can watch me beat him.'

'Let's not get too confident shall we mate?' grinned Albus.

Next to them Rose was trying very hard to ignore the conversation between her cousin and Scorpius. Even harder was trying to keep a straight face.

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'Hey!' came Nate's voice as he slid next to Rose at lunch.

Lily, who was on Rose's other side, immediately get out a giggle which resulted in her getting a well-aimed kick from Rose, under the table.

'Oh hey!' replied Rose scooting closer to Lily to make space for Nate.

'I hear that there is this place,' said Nate grinning, 'called Hogsmeade, where we are allowed to visit on weekends.'

Rose nodded.

'Yeah it's a wizarding village close to Hogwarts.' Replied Rose.

'Although we sneak out on days other than weekends.' Piped up Lily with a dazzling smile.

'You 're Albus's little sister right?' asked Nate smiling at Lily.

The smile died on Lily's face to be replaced by a scowl.

'Little?' she muttered, 'I am-'

'Yes she is.' Replied Rose quickly, 'so what's up with you and Hogsmeade?'

'Oh nah nothing,' replied Nate, 'Just that I have never been there and I should very much like to visit the place.'

Rose took a sip of her pumpkin juice.

'Hey if you like,' she said finally, 'I can show you around the place after the match ends.'

'You would do that?' asked Nate pleased.

'Why not?' smiled Rose, then added in an undertone, 'it's the least I can do to help a fellow Gryffindor.'

'All right then,' said Nate, 'It's a date.'

Rose's smile froze at the word "date". Automatically her eyes were drawn over to Scorpius who was poking his apple pie with a bored expression on his face.

'I have got to move on,' thought Rose forcing her eyes away from him, 'I cant flinch every time someone mentions a date.'

She realized that Nate was waiting for her to reply

'It's a date.' Said Rose firmly.

Nate nodded then turned to talk to Louise. Lily nudged Rose and winked.

'Oh shut up,' Rose whispered back, 'I hardly know the guy. But he's nice enough to not be creepy.'

'Yeah yeah.' Teased Lily, 'You always get the good ones don't you?'

Rose rolled her eyes and glanced at Scorpius once more. To her surprise Scorpius was looking right at her. The coincidence made Rose's stomach feel strange and for that Rose mentally kicked herself.

But Scorpius's lips curved into a smirk and he raised three fingers and mouthed "three days".

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So that was it for this chapter. I hope you guys liked it. Please leave a review to tell me how it was..

Coming up next chapter is the match (finally)..i am so excited to write that chapter :D Who do you think will win? Gryffindor or Slytherin? And more importantly, how do you think Scorpius will react to Nate playing as a favor to Rose?

Thanks for reading.