The Talented Potter Girl

Chapter 8 Secretive Christmas

'He loves me, I love him, what is so difficult about that? Just go to him, go now! Lily Luna stupid stubborn Potter, tell Scorpius you love him!' I was arguing with myself as Victoire managed to drag me to the, build into dance floor, living room. 'Don't be your stubborn self, go to him, grab him, before Gabriel grabs you. Oh my God, there's Scorpius. He's looking at me. Don't blush Lily, head up.'

I heard that when you hear the person you have loved ever since you were 9 loves you too you feel amazing. Well I guess, like everything, I am an exception. It wasn't that I wasn't happy but without Scorpius knowing that I knew his feelings for me and how those feelings affected his life, is awkward. And honestly I am with my family here, my overprotected way to large family. Are you getting the idea? No? Well what about your best friend loving you but not knowing you don't love him and in a few seconds you might break his heart on Christmas Eve? So I had jellyfish legs, butterflies in my stomach and I was absolutely nervous and feeling dreadful, on Christmas Eve. Great right?

I straightened my shoulders, lifted my head in the air, flipped my waist length red hair from my shoulders and took a step towards Scorpius with my dark turquoise stilettos. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"Dad?"

"Hey Lily, are you enjoying yourself?" His green emerald eyes seemed to be looking through me. I decided not to lie.

"Sort of, though I have to sort some things out before I can really start enjoying." Dad raised an eyebrow and my vagueness. I smiled at him.

"Daddy?"

"Yes Lily-flower?"

"Will you love me if I would do something that you don't agree with?" Dad frowned slightly and took both my hands.

"Lily Luna Potter, I will always love you no matter what." Then he smiled at me and pulled me into a hug. I felt safe in daddy's arms.

"I love you too daddy."

We released each other and at that moment Gabriel was at my side. Before he could open his mouth I felt my courage build up and used it.

"Gabriel, we need to talk. Bye dad." I said and led Gabriel through the people and we went outside.

It was cold and I shivered slightly. It had started to snow and the ground had a thin layer of the white diamonds glittering at me, making this seem very romantic. Gabriel was behind me and turned me around. He looked like an angel, but he wouldn't be my angel, I told myself.

"Lily, your cold." He said and took of his jacket and laid it on my shoulders.

"I…thanks, Gabriel. Eh look, we have to talk. What I want to say is…you see…its not you. Oh god how should I put this…" I mumbled and I was loosing all that courage I had a second ago. 'No, no come on Lily.'

"What is it Lily?" Gabriel said as he took a step towards me, making us to close to be comfortable. His hand went to my face and his finger twirled a strain of my hair.

"Gabriel, I don't love you." He froze, his finger still caught in my flaming tresses. He seemed like a sculpture,

"I am sorry, really. I like you, I…I love you as a brother but not…not more. I mean your great and there is absolutely nothing wrong with you but me. I just, well it wouldn't be fair if I would pretend to love you. Well over time maybe I would, I don't know but, no, forget what I said. Gabriel I love you as a brother and it will never be more. Oh god Gabriel, please say something and don't be angry at me because that would be…" I stopped as Gabriel laid his finger on my lips.

"Shhh, it's ok, I understand." And without any warning he softly planted a kiss on my forehead. He grinned and took my arm and tried to bring my shivering body back inside, I didn't move though.

"Wait, Angel. Are you ok with this? I mean, your smiling, and not that I don't want you to smile but…" I silenced myself again. Gabriel laughed and began to drag me back inside.

"You gave me a clear answer and that's all I need. Of course it hurts but it's ok. I guess it's better if we have a friend relationship. One thing though," He stopped and looked at me, "If your boyfriend hurts you in anyway, I will hurt him as much as possible, and you can't stop me, promise?" I nodded while smiling and blushing at the same time. "Good, now lets go inside because I'm freezing my arse of here." Laughing like friends we went back inside. Waltz music greeted us and Gabriel groaned. I quickly saw all my others cousins and friends huddled together by a couch in de corner of the room. I laughed and followed Gabriel as we walked over to them.

"Oh come on you guys, after the ball we should be great at dancing to this music."

"Lily, I am sick of Waltz music." Dominique said, her purple hair had gone loose and fell elegant over her shoulders.

"I think you should play." Albus said while eyeing Gabriel and me. I slapped him on the head. "Ow, what was that for!"

"We been over that and stop looking at me like that, nothing happened ok?" Albus seemed to relax a bit, Scorpius looked as if gravity had stopped holding him and though he didn't smile in his eyes I saw relief and happiness. Our eyes locked for a second then he slightly nodded towards the dance floor. I got the hint and quickly made a scene.

"Oh but I want to Waltz, is there really nobody who wants to?" I looked around hoping that no one would stand up and when no one did I played a bit more. "Fine, then I will drag someone with me." I saw my family looked at me very nervously as I eyed everyone, until my gaze rested on Scorpius. He played shocked and took one step back. To everyone it seemed like he absolutely didn't want to dance with me, but I knew he just wanted to get to the dance floor as quickly as possible.

"Fancy a dance Malfoy?" I heard Sofia laugh and felt that she knew that Scorpius and I were playing.

"Eh…sure Potter as long as you don't stand on my feet." Scorpius said giving me his mocking smile. He was enjoying this.

"How dare you! I will show you I can dance a lot better than you." I lifted my head high and grabbed him by his wrist and dragged him to the dance-floor. I heard my family laugh and I suppose it must be very amusing seeing me madly dragging an unhappy Scorpius with me. But it was al play, and my heart was bumping hard against my chest.

Finally we reached the middle of the dance-floor and I turned to face Scorpius. His flaxen hair looked slightly unruly and parted at the left to form a sideways fringe. His silver eyes sparkled and his full lips smiled at me. There was a faint blush on his high cheek boned face. His suit fitted him perfectly and his red and gold tie reminded me of Hogwarts and a Christmas tree. I smiled back feeling myself getting red and tried hard to suppress an up coming giggle. Scorpius laid his hand on my waist and softly hummed the tune along. I always loved the muggle 'Emperor Waltz' and dancing to it with Scorpius had been my dream. I pulled myself closer to him as we moved on the music. We twirled past the other guests and I held the tip of my dress up so I could move without tripping. We just danced quietly, looking into each other's eyes only vaguely aware that people were watching us.

"I love you." Scorpius whispered and looked at me so loving I had a hard time trying to not kiss him here right now.

"I love you too, Scorpius." I said back and he tickled the inside of my hand. We were made for each other I realized then and no one, not even Gabriel or Rose or Amy could stop that. Not even my family could even if they wanted to. I looked at him and whispered; "Can we keep this, I mean us a secret? I don't know how my family will react and I only know when you were with Rose they weren't happy. Gabriel…I told him I didn't like him but I don't know how he really feels about it and I don't want there to be any fights in the Common room. But seeing as you're the Quidditch Captain, you can always help me improving my skills right?" Scorpius laughed and held my waist tighter while squeezing my hand slightly.

"I understand Lily. That's fine with me. You definitely need more Seeker practice." I giggled just at the thought of us on the Quidditch field.

"You can call me Lily Luna, if you want to." I whispered and he leaned into me and whispered in my ear.

"I love you Lily Luna."

The party continued until midnight and a few guests went back home like the friends of mum and dad and the family Scamander. Gabriel, Aaron, Brendan, Annabelle, and Maria left too. Granddad and Grandma left as well promising that they would be back in the morning. To my pleasant surprise the Malfoy's stayed. When we found that out, Scorpius couldn't help but smile widely and I quickly squeezed his hand the next opportunity I got.

The Grimmauld Place 12 had been made like a small hotel for the guest. Mum and dad slept in their own room. James shared his room with Fred, Thomas, Ryan, Ben, and Owen. Albus shared his with Hugo, Louis, Scorpius, and Frank. I shared mine with Sofia, Rose, Roxanne, Sarah, and Gabrielle. Victoire and Teddy, Draco and Astoria, Narcissa and Andromeda had the biggest guest rooms. Bill and Fleur with Percy and Audrey shared one big room. George and Angelina did the same with Charlie. Ron and Hermione had another smaller room. Lastly Dominique together with Lucy, Molly, Melody, and Melissa shared a room.

I lay on my back silently listening to Rose and Sofia's steady breathing. Roxanne had gone to Ben. Sarah and Gabrielle I assumed were sleeping as well because I didn't hear them turning. I stretched my mind searching for Scorpius' mind. I felt he was as wide-awake as I was and while trying not to go through his thoughts I send him an image of the living room downstairs. I could basically feel him grinning. Quietly I got out of bed paying absolutely no notice to the fact that I was wearing long checked with green, silver, white and black pyjama pants and a black tank top. Neither did I think about the fact that I wasn't wearing any make-up or that my hair was wild. Only when I had slipped out of my room, managed to get down stairs without one stairs making a sound, and passed a mirror before the living room did I stand still and noted now much I looked like a muggle witch right now. Waist length flaming tresses were in tangles. My skin was the colour of light cream, covered with freckles. My hazel brown eyes surrounded by unusual black eyelashes had a golden glow to them. I looked at my waist and disgust bubbled up as I saw how my tank top marked every single layer of fat. I was discussing with myself whether to change into something that would hide those horrible folds when I heard someone curse so softly that no one besides me would have heard it. I smiled and opened the door to the now normal living room that had shrunken back into its original size. A large Christmas tree decorated with multicoloured decorations took up most of the space in the corner of the room, closest to the fireplace. Under the tree lay at least hundred presents seeing as everyone bought a gift for everyone. I became excited as I thought of my present for Scorpius. I knew he loved Charms and had therefore had not been able to resist to buy a quite expensive care-for-wand-set. I had bought it in the summer when it lay sparkling in the shop window. My first idea was to give it to him for him birthday but seeing as I had been angry with him and not expected him to be here I didn't have a Christmas present for him, so this was a great time to give it.

Scorpius himself was half lying on the large couch by the tree, holding his ankle with both hands. I realized then he was wearing a tight black shirt that marked every muscle on his torso. He had quickly slipped on a pair on light jeans. Suddenly I felt slightly uncomfortable in my pyjamas, but before I could even think about going back upstairs he saw me and smiled, though I could clearly see he was in pain. Grinning softly I carefully went to the couch, something Scorpius obviously hadn't done. It was dark but the moonlight shone through the windows that hadn't been covered with curtains and the snow outside only made it seem brighter. The light made Scorpius' hair look silver and his eyes were like tiny moons. He seemed to be carved out of marble. I knelt beside him and gently touched his hands with mine.

"What happened?" Scorpius didn't answer first, he was to busy looking at me, probably realizing that, I, Lily Luna Potter was alone with him, in the living room of my parents, while everyone was sleeping. I raised an eyebrow and Scorpius smirked.

"I tripped after I hit the table." He said in a defensive tone and gave me a sad look on his face. I laughed and held his cheek with my hand.

"Poor Scorpius tripped, well let me get some ice then darling." And I stood up wanting to head of the kitchen but Scorpius wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me towards him.

"I don't think it needs ice." He whispered husky before planting a soft kiss on my lips. I placed my arms around his neck and leaned in to the kiss. His tongue trailed along my lips asking for permission. Like snakes our tongue wrapped around, moving in circles and while not breaking the kiss I sat down on the couch beside him. Scorpius pulled my closer and his hands held onto my back, while my fingers softly combed his flaxen hair.

It was heaven, kissing was heaven. It only stayed with kissing something I was glad about. Scorpius wasn't pushing at all. He was careful, trying to make me feel at ease. Did I already mention it was like heaven? I felt loved, I felt great. I was perfect and beautiful and just right, exactly right for him. I loved him and would die for him.

We abruptly broke apart when we heard something move and the creaking of stairs. We sat up strait and didn't make a sound. I rolled up into a ball next to Scorpius hopping that whoever was coming down didn't see us. The door opened and the light of the hall way spilled in side. Through the shadows we saw someone standing in the door opening, someone wearing a long nightgown and a large belly. I gasped softly and heard Victoire giggle. She walked towards the couch.

"You two might want to get up stairs before people start waking up. I have to admit it was my fault if people woke up." She looked over the couch and a huge grin formed on her face as she saw our faces in absolute shock. "I will cover up but you have to get up now." She said and gave us a warning look. As quickly as we could we untangled ourselves and made our way to the stairs. Scorpius planted a quick kiss on my cheek before slipping into his room and I returned to mine, heavily blushing.