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Chapter 9: Third Year
Scorpius and Rose had both chosen Care of Magical Creatures and Arithmancy for new subjects so they could have even more classes together. Albus was in their Care of Magical Creatures class, but he chose Ancient Runes over Arithmancy. He said he just wasn't interested in the subject but he really wanted to give his two best friends some alone time.
The three of them generally took their classes seriously but it just wasn't possible to pay attention in History of Magic. They would sit at the back of that class and laugh and pass notes. Professor Binns wouldn't have noticed if someone started dancing on a desk in their underwear.
Scorpius decided to start a round of Truth or Dare. After Albus had shot a spitball at Professor Binns (it went right through his forehead but he didn't notice), he asked Rose to choose truth or dare.
"Truth" she said confidently
"Do you like anybody?"
Rose looked furious and whacked his arm. "Shut up!"
"Ooohhh touchy subject." Scorpius said, grinning.
Rose blushed and went back to taking notes.
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Now that they were in their third year Rose, Albus, and Scorpius were allowed to go to Hogsmeade. Their first time they went they were awed by all the different types of sweets there were in Honeydukes. And they spent so much time in the Three Broomsticks just looking around they had to run to get back up to school in time to avoid getting detention.
As they were sitting in the pub drinking hot butterbeer Rose noticed a lot of couples kissing or on dates. She wanted so badly to be here on a date with someone. She had to shake herself back to reality when Albus asked her a question and she was flustered for the rest of the trip.
Rose began to notice that she felt strange around Scorpius now. Different from how she felt around her other friends. She almost felt… nervous. She was confused until an older girl explained to her that that was how you felt when you liked someone. Rose thought she was crazy. She didn't like Scorpius like that, he was her best friend.
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In early March was the final match of the Quidditch season. Unsurprisingly Gryffindor and Slytherin were competing for the Cup. Rose was no longer nervous at matches, she was only excited. What made her nervous was going up against her best friends.
When they walked out on the field for the captains to shake hands Scorpius winked at her and she smiled back. Then it was time to kickoff.
The players were like red and green blurs. Even the bludgers seemed to be going faster. Roxanne was barely able to keep one of them from knocking James off his broom. Rose had to do a sloth grip roll to avoid being knocked off her broom by the Slytherin Captain.
The scoring just kept going back and forth, keeping the total around the same for both teams. James needed to catch the snitch before it turned ugly. The match went for over an hour before the Potter boys saw the snitch. They both dove for it at the same time and it was impossible to see who had grabbed it first.
Then they came up out of the dive and… it was Albus with the snitch. Gryffindor had lost. Rose was heartbroken, especially for her cousins because it was their last year, but they had won the Cup in their sixth year so they didn't mind too much.
When the teams landed a swarm of Slytherins came out on the field. Scorpius waved at her before a horde of simpering girls suddenly descended upon him. It was then, when she noticed the jealous feeling inside her, that Rose realized she liked Scorpius. Albus was being attacked by girls as well, but she wasn't upset about that.
That night Rose stayed up for a long time thinking about what she was going to do. She finally fell asleep with tears of exhaustion in her eyes.
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