Scorpius lead Rose away, his hand closed firmly round hers. Rose examined his face carefully, there was no sign of emotion really.
Rose opened her mouth to speak but hesitated slightly.
"Sc-Scorpius?" She asked, her voice barely audible.
He turned to look her in the eye, raising one eyebrow and smirking. Again with the smirk. Rose frowned.
"Where should we look?"
Scorpius shrugged. He didn't seem to really care about finding anyone else. Which was true. He had found who he had wanted to find. And he had done what he wanted to do. And now he was left, confused and unsure of what to do next. He had screwed up, something he found himself doing regularly, and something he wasn't proud of deep down.
"Lily would be in the broom shed I bet," Rose said, trying to break the awkward silence.
Scorpius closed his eyes tight then opened them again.
"I don't care about finding Lily, if you want to go and find her, be my guest," he snarled, completely snapping under the anger he felt at himself and venting it at Rose.
Rose snatched her hand out of his.
"Why do you turn cold on me in a matter of seconds? What did I do wrong? Ever!" She cried, tears burning her eyes.
"Nothing. It's me. I'm just a total twat, right?" Scorpius replied calmly, not letting any emotion seep through in his tone of voice.
Rose take a shallow breath, trying to not sob.
"You act like it." She whispered.
Scorpius grimaced. It wasn't her insulting him. It wasn't the fact that Rose was crying, that didn't matter to him. It was the fact that he felt this weird twisting feeling in his stomach, a sort of resent. Guilt. Scorpius swore under his breath. What a stupid emotion.
"Nothing happened, okay?" he told her sternly, wiping a tear off Rose's cheek. "And I'm sorry, lets forget it." He continued, instantly feeling better as the guilt seemed to wash away with a simple apology.
Rose shrugged.
"I guess." Was all she said.
The walk back to the cottage was really awkward. Too awkward. Rose even half wished Scorpius would just insult her, just to break the silence. But he didn't. Maybe that was thing of the past, maybe he just wanted to hurt her now. Rose kicked a pebble hard and it hit against the back of Scorpius' leg, he swivelled round and made a strange pouting face.
"What was that for?" he asked blankly.
"Didn't mean to. Did it hurt?" Rose replied quietly.
Scorpius nodded slowly.
"Good." muttered Rose.
Scorpius turned around again, kicking the same pebble that had just pelted his leg across the field that separated the woods from the cottage.
"I really am sorry." He whispered.
Rose bit down hard on her lip to stop herself from saying anything. There was nothing to say anyway, then she wasn't sure what came over her, she grinned then jogged up next to Scorpius.
"Race you to the broom shed!" she yelled, running in the direction of the broom shed, hearing quick footsteps behind her.
Turning her head she saw Scorpius gaining on her, smiling. The awkward silence was gone at least. Finally Rose reached the broom shed, her chest rising and falling quickly, Scorpius was soon by her side, panting through laughter.
"I really am sorry for being such a shit person to you." He said in a very breathy voice, he wrapped one arm round Rose's shoulder.
"I've been no better. What comes around goes around, right?" Rose smiled. She still wasn't sure if she trusted the boy to her side. Can you trust a Malfoy?
Just then there was a noise from inside the broom shed, like somebody standing on a twig. Then someone cursed under their breath.
Rose crept round and saw Lily peeking out from behind a box where Harry's old broom from school sat propped against the wall. She grinned.
"Hey Rose." She laughed.
Scorpius came round behind Rose and waved at Lily a little.
"The others went back," Lily told them "They got fed up waiting, we were all going to give you a big fright, we're going to play dares after food anyway"
Rose laughed, the others would go back for food. Lily would sit and worry about if it would make her fat or not.
"Well, I'll race you back! I'm in a running mood - if that makes sense," Rose declared, not worrying about her skirt blowing in the wind.
Lily grabbed at her dress.
"Only if Scorpius doesn't look at my bum," she giggled, fixing her dress. Scorpius rolled his eyes behind her.
Rose giggled too, she doubted Scorpius would miss a chance to ogle Lily. She was ten times more pretty and skinny than herself. It's why boys always went for Lily, she was just like Rose but prettier, skinnier and easier.
Lily took off her high heels and pretended to growl, looking at Scorpius, then at Rose she gave the signal to run. Then the two girls were running back towards the cottage laughing their heads off as they stumbled stupidly into each other. In the end Lily grabbed Rose's hand and dragged her into the tent next to the cottage where food had been laid on a table near to the back and people were helping themselves.
Lily and Rose collapsed in fits of laughter as they made their way to the table Hermione was sitting at in a very inelegant manner. Hermione raised an eyebrow at her daughter and niece as they flopped into seats at the table, gaining a few weird looks from the French people Hermione had been talking to.
"Hi, Aunt Hermione," hiccoughed Lily. Rose giggled.
"What are you like?" Hermione sighed, laughing slightly. "It's as if your drunk. Which you better not be, by the way , Rosie."
Rose snorted.
"Me? Drunk? Mum, that's like if Hugo passes his O.. It's hardly likely to happen, is it?"
Hermione shook her head and grinned.
"Go get some food then get out of here before you make me go insane," Hermione said, smiling as she sipped a glass of wine.
Rose eyed the glass.
"Hypocrite!" she snorted as her and Lily wandered over to the table that was stacked with food, still giggling.
When they got to the table Lily pulled Rose aside. She pointed at several bottles of what appeared to be fire whisky.
"For later," she mouthed. Rose nodded, unsure whether or not to be glad there was drink for them. Then Lily spotted her boyfriend, sitting by Hugo and the Zeller boy. She squealed his name and trotted over to him like a little puppy dog to it's master.
Rose rolled her eyes then turned back to the food, which Lily did not actually seem very interested in. Unlike Lily Rose liked to eat, she wasn't bothered about having the perfect body. Just perfect grades.
She helped herself to a ham sandwich and nibbled on the edges, feeling a little bit awkward standing on her own, she wasn't sure where Scorpius had went and she wasn't to ke-
"SHIT SCORPIUS!" Rose half screamed, Scorpius having just literally popped up by her side. He put his hand over his mouth and lead her away behind the tent.
"Didn't Lily tell you to meet us out here?" he hissed, it was getting quite dark outside, the sun setting behind the woods turning the sky a pleasant red.
"But Lily is in there?" Rose pointed at the tent, swallowing a last mouthful of sandwich.
Scorpius raised an eyebrow and pointed at Lily who had somehow made it out of the tent and was passing the bottles of fire whisky out under a gap near where she had just exited the tent.
"We're playing dares. Over there-" he points to a group of people sitting in the shade of a tree not too far from the tent itself.
Rose examines the circle of people then shrugs, making her way towards them. She doesn't recognise a lot of them at first, in the glowing orange evening sun everyone looks the same except the gorgeous part-veela cousins that were sitting, babbling obnoxiously in French.
Then she spots Louis and sighs a sigh of relief, he gives Rose a sweet little wave then continues to talk to brunette girl sitting next to him. Rose had to admit, Louis was one of her favourite people. He was a very intelligent boy who had got straight Os on his O. and he was downright crazy when he wanted to be.
The girl sitting next to Louis looks confused, though. And not wanting to be there. Rose made her way towards the pair and said hi to them both. The girl gave her a funny look then replied hastily.
"Hi. Rose?" She says, her voice carrying a strong English accent.
Rose nods.
"Megan. My dad works with your uncle." She says quietly, she doesn't seem very sociable and she turns away.
Soon more people gather in the circle and it seems like everyone is ready. Drink is being passed round and Rose loses track of everything. Her head spins after bottle after bottle is passed round and people take long swigs, bottle after bottle being thrust as her as she took sips so as not to look stupid. Eventually Lily staggered forward and took control as normal. She didn't seem fully drunk. Just a little bit tipsy.
"Okay, so you know what to do. The bottle spins and then whoever it lands on spins it again and you have to do a dare together." she giggles, placing the bottle in the middle of the circle and spinning it hard. She squeals like a piggy as she runs back to her space; not wanting to miss her chance of getting a dare.
The bottle spins round the circle several times, Rose watches as pale lights reflect of the shiny fire whiskey bottle then eventually it begins to slow round the circle. Rose watches as the bottle slowly stops at Scorpius, who must of slipped in when the drink was being passed. He was sat at the opposite side of the circle.
"Sweet!" he slurs, he kicks the bottle a little and then spins it. It doesn't go far, he just stands there and watches as the bottle spins, then it stops at a pretty blonde French girl. She stands up and smiles.
"So I 'av to do a dare with thees boy?" she asks, flicking her hair back. "Vat kind of dare?"
Somebody then proceeds to yell kiss. Rose swallows hard as she watches Scorpius move closer to the girl and put his arm round her.
"Zat isn't a dare." the girl giggles.
"You bet it ain't." Scorpius mumbles.
Rose feels like something had just torn right through her as she watches on silently.
Hey everyone n_n
I know! It's been AGES since I last updated. I'm really sorry, I've not even been busy. I'm just really lazy… *falls asleep on keyboard* I've been working on this for a very long time now, like a sentence at a time…
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