A/N: It has nothing to do with this story, but if you haven't watched the HBP trailer, what are you waiting for?! Go! Now! lol. Ok, so back to the story I think you guys might like this one, or maybe not, I dunno it depends on you! lol. I liked it, I enjoyed writing it. Amanda can't say the same because she barely wrote anything in this and the previous chapter, don't blame her, blame the HBP trailer. lol. Third person POV again. Enjoy! And as always don't forget to read and review!
P.S.- Poor Scorpius.
- Joely
Chapter 7- Rejection.
The next morning in the Gryffindor common room, Rose had a free period after breakfast, as did Peony.
"I thought I was your best friend!" Peony said with mock sadness, as they made their way down to the Great Hall.
"You are my best friend!" said Rose.
"But you haven't told me--" she lowered her voice to a whisper, "--about the you-know-what with you-know-who!"
"Oh that...I said I was going to tell you today, and today hasn't ended has it?"
"Just get on with it!" she said exasperated.
"Okay, okay, quiet down." Rose said.
"So?" she whispered so quietly only Rose could hear.
"Well, you-know-who got there fourteen minutes late, but he didn't get in trouble."
"Uh huh, where is the interesting part?"
"You're making a big deal out of this, we got lines," she flicked up one finger, "Professor Longbottom left the office for a while, Then he said I looked hot when I'm annoyed," Peony raised her eyebrows at that comment, "then he got hungry and we ditched detention and went down to the kitchens--"
"YOU DID WHAT?! And you waited this long to tell me?!" Peony said outraged.
"It wasn't that big of a deal! And will you stop screaming!" she whispered through clenched teeth.
"Okay, okay, but how could you keep that from me?"
"Easily. I just didn't tell you."
Peony looked down and said, "How can you call yourself my friend?"
"Wow, Peony... your making way too big of a deal out of this."
"Whatever, just keep going."
"When we were at the kitchen, he pigged out, then on the way back we ran into Professor Flitwick and Professor Longbottom, they were talking about some sort of escape from Azkaban." she finished.
"That escape from Azkaban isn't as interesting as your escape from detention!" Peony said, "How did you get back to Professor Longbottom's office?"
Rose shrugged, "Secret passageway. Oh did I mention he doesn't know the spell to unlock a door?'
"Pssh, neither do I."
"How do you not know that spell?" said Rose, Peony shrugged. When Rose finished her story they sat down at the Gryffindor table and began eating lunch, a while later she saw Scorpius walk in with his group of friends.
Scorpius woke up in a rather good mood today. He did the usual, brushed his teeth, took a bath and admired himself in the mirror for a while. How can Rose not like me, I'm so handsome... Hmm... maybe I am too full of myself.
He got dressed and went down to the common room where he was greeted with "How was your detention with the Weasel" from all angles.
He shrugged, "It was a detention, there's nothing more to say." Though there was something to say, the fact that he ditched detention with a Weasley and actually enjoyed himself.
"Aww man, I thought you were gonna say something interesting" Gabriel looked disappointed, "like-- well nevermind..." Gabriel winked at him.
"Well, I bet my life that there was nothing more awful than that detention, on top of it being a detention it was with a Weasel." said Hayden with a disgusted expression, "I've never felt worse for someone in my life..."
"I second that," added Baden.
"You only second that because you like Hayden, you have to admit that the Weasel is pretty hot." said Gabriel.
Scorpius just looked at Gabriel. How can he say she's hot? She's mine, only I can say that. Well, she's not mine yet, but she will be, soon... hopefully.
Baden looked at Gabriel as if he was going to jinx him. Gabriel, subconsciously, moved away from Baden.
"We have charms now, I think we should get going." said Scorpius, desperate to get off the topic of Rose Weasley.
"But we still have an hour! And besides, we haven't eaten breakfast, and I dunno about you guys, but I'm pretty hungry..." said Baden suddenly aware that he really was hungry.
"I think you're just trying to avoid the topic of the Weasley." whispered Gabriel to Scorpius, so that only he could hear him. Scorpius elbowed him and Gabriel screamed, "Ow, what was that for?" Scorpius acted like if Gabriel wasn't talking to him, and Hayden and Baden just looked at him like if he was crazy.
They went down to the Great Hall with Gabriel in the back talking, apparently to himself because no one was listening.
"Did a Weasel eat your tongue, Scorpius?" asked Gabriel, with a double meaning.
"For the last time, will you shut up!" said Scorpius, his mood changing.
"Scorpius, are you on your period? You've been having some serious mood swings..." asked Gabriel, a little worried.
"I'm just going to ignore you."
They sat down at their usual seats at the Slytherin table, Scorpius having a perfect view of Rose, his mood lightened up.
They all ate rather quickly. Scorpius stretched and rubbed his stomach, he smiled unconsciously as the memory of last night came to him. Gabriel noticed him smile.
"You see what I mean about the mood swings?" Gabriel muttered.
They went to charms and had to put up with Professor Flitwick trying to teach them a charm, with no luck. The only one that was able to do it was Scorpius and one other Ravenclaw.
After leaving Charms, they went down to the dungeons. "Potions with the Gryffindors," Hayden sighed, and Scorpius' butterflies began to flutter.
"Good afternoon class." came Professor Alasdair's booming voice from the door.
"Good afternoon Professor!" the class chanted.
"Today we will be making Sleeping Draughts, take out the materials that I have written on the board."
"They will come in handy in Professor Binns class." said Gabe and a chorus of laughter followed. "Settle down class" said the Professor, sternly.
The class passed by pretty quickly for both Scorpius and Rose. Scorpius spent the class thinking of Rose and her sarcasm. Rose couldn't help but think of the compliment that Scorpius gave her last night, it made her get distracted from her potion and for the first time Rose didn't get her usual perfect score.
Rose, disappointed of herself, had absolutely no urge of going to detention. Scorpius, on the other hand was thrilled to be able to spend another night with Rose, even though he didn't show it.
Their task in detention was to re-pot a plant neither knew the name of, and Professor Longbottom forgot to tell them.
Detention, to Rose's pleasure, passed by rapidly. They barely exchanged more than three words, To Scorpius' displeasure, Professor Longbottom never left the class and Rose was in a sour mood throughout the whole detention.
After detention Rose left the greenhouses without wishing Professor Longbottom a good night, something he found strange.
"Hey, Weasley what's eating you?" asked Scorpius, worried.
"Nothing that you would care about." she mumbled.
"You're probably right, but that doesn't mean I don't want to know." he said trying to lighten up her mood.
"Leave me alone." she growled at him.
"Ouch." he was taken aback by her rudeness, something he didn't know she was capable of.
"I'm sorry, it's just that I always receive a perfect score in Potions." she whined.
"You receive a perfect score in every class, not only Potions." he tried to cheer her up.
"No, I don't" she said, lightening up a little.
"Stop being modest, you're the best in our year. I heard your mother was the best in her year also."
"Yea, she was. Thanks for making me feel better, really."
"No problem, you should take advantage of it because it's not always that I try to make someone feel better."
"Oh shut your mouth." she said, rather amused.
"Why don't you shut it for me?" asked Scorpius as he stepped up to her and leaned in for the kiss.
What is he doing?! She thought. She backed up, stunned. "I have to go-- I'm tired-- ...sorry" she stuttered. She literally ran back to the Gryffindor Tower the whole way.
"Uh! What did I just do? I'm so stupid! And she denied, she didn't want to... maybe the rumors aren't true." It was Scorpius' turn to be in a sour mood. He made his way down to the dungeons looking down to the floor. Why did I do that? Scorpius felt rejected for the first time in his life.
"What's up, Scorp?" asked Gabe. Scorpius, who wasn't in the mood for anything, ignored Gabe and went straight to his four poster bed.
Meanwhile, Rose, who was still stunned and was shaking made her way to the dormitory thanking God that Peony was fast asleep and didn't have to tell her until the morning, hoping that it would be enough time to get her act together.
(A/N We have 1302 hits and no reviews...how sad, we even have chapter 8 done, but we won't post it until we get atleast one more review.
-Amanda)
