A/N- Ok, so here you have it chapter 8! Hope you enjoy and as always I'd love to hear what you guys think so please R&R!
- Joely
Chapter 8- Bonding
Peony was sure to set her alarm clock so that she can interrogate Rose first thing in the morning. And sure enough at 7:00 am her alarm clock went off.
"Rose, Rose! Wake up!" she nudged Rose hard on the side.
"Go away..." mumbled Rose half asleep as she waved Peony away.
"I will not go away until you fill me in, so if you want me to do something like throw freezing water on you or hang you in the air by your ankle I suggest you get up... now." urged Peony.
"You better not throw water on me, Hugo does it to me all the time." she said as she covered her face with her pillow.
"I'm going to have to if you don't get up." she threatened, "Or is there something you don't want to tell me? Come on, you know you can tell me anything! Was it that bad?" she said, calming down now, she didn't want to obligate Rose into telling her if she didn't want to.
"Actually it was, or it wasn't, I'm not sure..." she said sitting up now.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Peony asked, concerned.
"No-- Yes, I think I have to talk about it in order to have some peace of mind." she said quietly.
"Ok then, I'm all ears." she said cupping her ear.
"Well, after Potions class I was a bit in a bad mood because I didn't get a perfect score. In detention I barely talked at all and just did what I had to, when we left I guess Scorpius noticed my being upset and he went and sort of comforted me. Actually, he surprised me. He said things that made me feel better, that's a first coming from Scorpius." Rose took a deep breath looked at Peony and continued, "And he tried to kiss me--" Rose stopped to see if Peony was going to interrupt but that was the last thing on Peony's mind, Peony's face was full of understanding. "But I didn't let him," Rose continued, seeing as Peony wasn't going to interrupt, "I wanted to, I think. But I couldn't, I'm only thirteen and I know nothing about love, I've never felt it before, I dunno I guess I'm just really confused." she finished with a sigh.
"I think you should do what you think is right. No one can tell you what you should do, because you are the only one that actually knows. If you really like him, and you think he won't hurt then I think you should definitely go for it." she suggested.
"Thanks Peony." she said and hugged her best friend, "I still don't know what I'm going to do, though."
"You're a smart girl, I know you'll make the right choice." They both laughed.
Scorpius woke up with mixed feeling, some consisting of embarrassment, anger, sadness and shame. He was embarrassed to actually make a move and get rejected. Angry because he actually thought he had a chance and he ended up making a fool of himself. He was sad because he really like her, and to not have her feel the same way is awful. He is ashamed of himself because now Rose is most likely going to tell everyone and ruin his reputation, although he doesn't really care he just acts the way he does because that's how he was brought up by his father.
"I guess I knew all along that she doesn't like me, but to have it confirmed..." he mumbled to himself, "Now detention is going to be worse..." He got out of bed, wanting to keep himself busy so he wouldn't think of Rose, but he failed miserably. He imagined Rose sound asleep, the sun gleaming on her bright red hair. That's not helping he thought.
I can't give up just yet, maybe I can make her like me...? It's a long shot, but it's worth a try.
He tried to come up with ideas on how he can get her to like him. Maybe if he acts like himself, and not like the arrogant prat she knows him as.
Rose had made her decision, she was going to tell him the truth, she doesn't know exactly when but she is going to tell him. She went down to the Great Hall along with Peony, Digby and Cassidy. She hadn't seen much of her two friends lately, they were avoiding her.
"Hey Rose, Peas." Digby said.
"Do not call me Peas." Peony said through gritted teeth.
"What have you two been up to?" Rose asked.
"Nothing really, the same as you, school, homework, except I don't have detentions…"
"Shut up."
"Someone's grumpy today." said Cassidy.
"No, I'm not. And besides, even if I was I would have a reason, every night a detention…" Rose lied.
They served their food and started to eat. Rose hardly ate, when the owls the arrived Rose received two separate letters, one from her parents (which was the thickest), and one from her aunt Ginny and uncle Harry. She opened the one from her parents first, they weren't too mad, at least they didn't send a howler. Her dad, once again, told her not to get too close to Scorpius, "Too late." she murmured.
Her aunt Ginny and uncle Harry weren't mad at all, they were relieved James hadn't tried anything…yet. Her uncle Harry told her about the escape from Azkaban, Aunt Ginny told her that Teddy and Victoire were going to hogsmeade. They all finished their letter's with love.
"Peony, you can come to our house for Christmas." Rose said, and shared a secretive look with Peony.
"Yay! Are you all going to be stuffed up at your grandparents house again?"
"Nope, we're staying at uncle Harry's this year--"
"Hello, Rose." said her cousin Al, brightly.
"Why are you in such a good mood?" asked Rose.
"James said that he wouldn't pull nothing on me. Oh the joy." Albus replied.
"Really? His first prank is always on you…I wonder who he's doing it on this year." said Peony.
"Rumor has it that it's one of the kids from Malfoy's group. Most likely him, James just avoided the question when I asked him." Albus shrugged, "As long as it's not me, I don't mind."
But Rose did mind, for some reason, James' pranks weren't lethal…At least not the one's that she's seen. Rose looked over at the Slytherin table unconsciously, Scorpius was rather down. He looked sad, or embarrassed...?
"Rose? Hello?" Albus said waving his hand in front of Rose's blank face.
"Wha--Oh--I hardly got any sleep last night that's all." Rose said, receiving strange looks from all them, with the exception of Peony.
Scorpius made his way to the Great Hall and ate breakfast in the same manner. And to his surprise (though he didn't complain) no one commented on his 'mood swing'. He was rather grateful that they ignored him, something that on any other day would have annoyed him.
Throughout the whole day he didn't say not one word, he thought that he would lose his ability of speaking pretty soon, until came time for double Defense Against the Dark Arts with none other than the Gryffindors. He was dreading third and fourth period, he knew that he had to try with Rose, but he wanted to hold it off a little longer.
When he walked in the classroom he saw Rose and three of her friends sitting together, he tried to ignore her but found it rather difficult. He found himself staring at her constantly.
"Glad to see you're in a better mood Ms. Weasley." said Professor Longbottom, "Sorry I can't say the same for you, Mr. Malfoy." he added with a confused expression.
Is it that obvious? Scorpius thought.
"Thank you Professor." Rose replied.
"Please take a seat, You'll be polishing trophies today." Professor Longbottom said while looking in a cupboard, he found two towels and handed one to each, "There will be no need for magic." he added with an entertained expression. He decided to make them polish the trophies hoping for them to find out about each others family and their past, and possibly get along better.
"Stand aside," said Professor Longbottom as he murmured an incantation and a large table was placed in the middle of his office. "This should be good enough," he added as he lifted all the trophies onto the table with the Wingardium Leviosa charm. Two chairs appeared on either side of the table.
Rose and Scorpius made their way to the table and sat down, Sorpius was looking at the large amount of trophies that needed to be polished.
Rose picked up a very dusty plaque, it was made from Ash (Rose was able to tell because it was the same wood as her dads wand) and it had the Hogwarts emblem on the top "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus" it read. 'Quidditch' was centered at the top of the plaque in bright gold. 'Gryffindor champions of 1995-1996." was placed right under the word 'Quidditch', in maroon. There were four lists, the first being the Gryffindor quidditch team followed by the Ravenclaws, Slytherin and Hufflepuff. Four names, out of all, stood out to her: Captain and seeker of Gryffindor: Harry Potter, Keeper: Ronald Weasley, Chaser: Ginevra Weasley and Seeker of Slytherin: Draco Malfoy.
"Your father was a seeker?" Rose asked, her eyes still on the plaque.
Scorpius, surprised, took his eyes off the trophy he was polishing and looked up at Rose. "Yes," was his simple answer.
"Oh," said Rose who had taken her eyes off of the plaque and looked at Scorpius whose eyes were on the trophy again.
"I know you are mad at me because of what happened yesterday and I'm sorry, I truly am." she said not taking her eyes off him him, "I read something the other day and it got me wondering something," she added seeing as he wasn't going to talk, "what role did your family play in the war against Lord Voldemort?" she blurted out the question unable to wait any longer, she didn't want to make him tell her because they just met and he was upset with her, but curiosity got the best of her.
"Why do you want to know?" he asked, he didn't mean to sound cold.
"Nothing really, I was just curious but it's okay if you don't want to tell me--"
Scorpius starting twirling the towel with his fingers, "I will tell you." he said, twirling the towel faster, what if she decides to stop talking to him because of his family's past? It was a risk he was going to take. She had a hold on him, like she can make him tell her anything she would like to know.
Rose sat there patiently waiting for him to start, while still polishing trophies.
Scorpius told her everything about his family, starting with Lucius getting locked up in Azkaban to Draco's mission to kill Dumbledore. "My father wasn't able to go through with it, and I think he's changed drastically ever since. I've heard stories of things he's done and I look at him now and would think that he was a different person." he finished, while placing a trophy on the table and starting on another one.
"I'm sorry..." was all Rose could say.
"There's nothing to be sorry about," he assured her, forgetting completely that he was bothered by what happened the previous night.
Rose continued polishing trophies, the pile getting smaller and smaller, as the information sunk in. So that's why my dad and Uncle Harry don't get along with Scorpius' dad.
To Rose, at first, Scorpius was an arrogant prat, but as time passed and she spent more time with him her opinion about him changed, besides the fact that she had possibly fallen in love with him. To Rose, at first, Scorpius was an arrogant prat, but as time passed and she spent more time with him her opinion about him changed, besides the fact that she had possibly fallen in love with him. Possibly? No. More like definitely. At least what she thought was love, she had never experienced it before but she felt how they described love in muggle movies. And it felt good.
Scorpius couldn't believe how his feelings for Rose had escalated, when he first laid eyes on her he hated her. Now, he felt the complete opposite. It was a feeling he couldn't describe, something he thought he had felt before with Hayden, but it turns out that the first time he fell in love was now, with Rose Weasley. Love, it was a strange thing to Scorpius he never thought he would feel this way about a person, much less a Weasley, it was so strong that it was almost tangible.
They both were so deep into thought that they had forgotten all about the trophies, Professor Longbottom, and that they were sitting across from each other.
Snapping out of it Rose continued with the trophies. "Almost done," she said, pulling Scorpius out of his thoughts.
"Yeah, I guess so," he said, grabbing the towel he had dropped without noticing and continued polishing the trophies.
"How can one school have so many trophies?" said Scorpius, for small talk.
"This school is quite old and it was inhabited by great witches and wizards, which would be the reason for all the trophies."
"How do you always know everything?" Scorpius asked, with a smile on his face.
Rose shrugged, "Books, they're things filled with pages on the inside and are usually used for reading, have you ever heard of them?"
Scorpius looked dumbfounded, "I'm not sure," he joked and both laughed.
Professor Longbottom heard the laughter and looked up from his desk and sure enough saw the two laughing, together. Not wanting to interrupt the mood he busied himself with something else.
"Well, that's the last one." Rose said, placing the last trophy on the pile.
"Phew. I've never seen more trophies in my life." added Scorpius, Rose laughed.
"Looks like the two of you have finished, you may go now." Professor Longbottom told them.
They walked outside and Scorpius said, "So, see you tomorrow?"
"Unfortunately..." Rose joked.
"Ha ha, you are so funny." Scorpius said sarcastically.
"Bye," Rose said and kissed him on the cheek.
"Bye," Scorpius whispered too late for Rose had already walked away.
Scorpius touched his cheek where Rose had kissed him and smiled. He walked away and let out a loud "Yes!"
