A/N: I decided against the two year skip for the next couple chapters... I had this whole idea in my head of where this all was going to go, and then I got a review about how I portrayed Victoire and how the relationship with Teddy was just awkward. After some thought, I totally agreed. I just needed a go to guy to portray a hint of jealousy from Scorpius and to later have that rebound, drunken one night stand "mistake" to happen. I am very grateful for that review. Sometimes I get so caught up in developing new plots that I get away from the original story I set out to write. Anyways, I hope the next few chapters clear things up and gets back to the main focus. Thanks so much! Please READ AND REVIEW. (Sorry for that rant.)
Chapter 9:
I Was a Virgin...
Part One(Rose's POV)
The Next School Year...
Teddy and I ended our relationship when he decided that over the summer he was going on a fan tour with the Chudley Cannons before they got to the World Cup. I saw him only a few days out of my entire break and all those times he would try and get me back, claiming that he made a mistake to let me go. I had glumly agreed to take him back the last week I saw him, which was a week before I was to leave for Hogwarts. However, since my 'boyfriend' had ditched me for quidditch over the summer, Scorpius and I had gotten really close for the first part of my break. We spent all of our free time together and I much enjoyed that. We made a joke that he was to be my replacement for James since that arse just had to be conceived a year before me and was leaving school after this year. Over the last month of summer break, though, he spent his time in Australia with his mum and that was the longest we had gone without talking all summer. I assumed that was mostly the reason I took Teddy back, just because I was lonely. To make things a little more complicated between Ted and I, he had this underlying tension with Scorpius. He was convinced that I had slept with him after our first fight even though I had denied it over, and over again. The fact that I had slept with him wasn't even the point. However, Teddy refused to be okay with my friendship with Scorpius and that always caused a rift whenever I saw him. He would always check up with James and Lily to make sure I hadn't been sleeping around and to see if they knew anything. They, of course, knew better than to let anything slip. Not that there was anything to tell and if I had done something, I would of course be keeping it from those loud mouths.
Alas, I was back at school for my sixth year at Hogwarts and I was relieved to get back to living it up with all my friends and away from any drama. Little did I know things were about to get awkwardly wierd.
To get things off on the wrong foot, I was late getting to my first class which was consequently the beginning of the end. I walked in to Potions and was about to take my normal seat next to Scorpius until I saw Perry Zambini in that same spot, playfully tapping Scorpius on the arm. I rolled my eyes and took a seat at an empty table as I shot Scorpius a questioning look. He just shrugged and looked away. The whole class I was just thinking of scenarios in my head as to why Scorpius would possibly be hanging out with Perry again. After the class had let out, they both left hand in hand. To make matters worse, just as I was leaving, I ran into Sam Faraday. He had broken up with Lily just weeks before summer break had ended and she was utterly broken up about it.
"Oh, hey Rose. How are you?" Sam asked, running his hand through his hair.
I tucked my hair behind my ear and sighed. "I'm not really supposed to talk to you, Sam. I'm sorry."
"Did Lily tell you that? Look, I don't..."
"Just save it. Lily's my friend and that is the only reason I can't talk to the guy that dated her for a year and a half then dumped her. Sorry." I tried to shove past him, but he grabbed my arm rather firmly. "Ow, that fucking hurts, Sam."
He glared at me, still holding onto my arm. "She dumped me. She called it quits." He was gripping tighter and tighter to the point that searing pain was shooting up and down my arm.
I wrenched my arm away and slapped him across the face. "Don't you ever touch me again."
"Miss Weasley? Did I just see you strike another student?" Professor Slughorn emerged from his office, looking at the both of us with wondering eyes.
I closed my eyes tightly shut and groaned inwardly. "He was grabbing my arm and..."
"And that constitutes as reason to strike a fellow classmate?" I didn't answer. "Detention, Miss Weasley. Saturday morning at nine, here in my classroom."
I rolled my eyes and walked away, fuming. I looked back for one second and ran right into Scorpius. The both of us toppled to the ground.
"Damnit," I breathed and picked up my books that had fallen out of my bag. I stood up and tucked my hair behind my ears yet again. "What's going on, Scorp?"
He shrugged. "Not sure I know what you mean."
"Scorpius! We are going to be late for our next class!" Perry yelled from down the dungeon hall.
I gave him a look. "You know exactly what I mean."
He shoved his hands into his pockets and looked down at his feet. "We are kind of... uh... dating."
My eyes widened. "Are you fucking kidding me? Perry? The girl you said you would rather see dead than to ever date again?"
"It's complicated, yea?" Scorpius mumbled.
I rolled my eyes. "Then uncomplicate it. What is going on?"
"She followed me to Australia and I guess I sort of saw her in a different light. She's changed and as cliché as that sounds, I really want you to be okay with this because you are practically my best friend right now," Scorpius hurriedly spat out.
I held up my hands in defeat. "Okay, okay... but she's a bint when it comes to me."
"She told me she can deal with us being friends and I believe her. Do you want to eat lunch with us after this next class?"
I groaned and stomped my foot. "Merlin... I guess."
"Thanks," he whispered and kissed my cheek. "See you after, yea?"
I smiled and cocked my head to the side. "Yea."
After my class I hurried to the Great Hall to get started on my meal so I could leave as soon as I was finished, but I was annoyed to see them already sitting there together. I sat down across from them and made myself a plate. Perry was spoon feeding Scorpius a scoop of mashed potatoes. I wanted to gag.
I rubbed my arm where a small bruise was forming and winced slightly. Scorpius peered at me and frowned. "What's wrong?"
"Your mate Sam viciously grabbed my arm when I told him I couldn't talk to him. I, of course, slapped him and now am spending my Saturday morning in detention with Slughorn," I stated. "The funny thing he is that he was trying to tell me that he was trying to tell me Lily broke up with him. How delusional is he?"
Perry set her fork down and cleared her throat. "She did."
"No, she didn't. She has been crying for over a week over it," I shot back, growing increasingly angrier at her accusation that my best girl friend would so blatantly lie to me.
Scorpius leaned forward in his seat and gave me a look. "Sam told me that Lily broke up with him. I don't know why he would lie to me about it."
"And why would Lily lie to me?"
Perry shrugged. "Why do any girls lie? She's hiding something." She must have saw the anger on my face because she quickly changed the subject. "So, Rose, how was your summer vacation?"
I shoved a piece of bread in my mouth. "I was so off my face I got lost in my own backyard."
Scorpius laughed. "Like this summer at the beach when we didn't remember how to get back to our group?"
I giggled back. "Yes, and then we just made a tent out of our clothes and just kept smoking like the idiots we are."
"That sounds fascinating," Perry cooed and laid her head on Scorpius's shoulder. "So you two were naked and out of your minds and spent the night together. What happened?" I could tell she was daring me to say more on this matter.
Scorpius and I looked at each other with half smiles. I saw a blush creep across his face and looked away, remembering that night.
"Hello?" Perry waved her hands in front of both of our faces. "What happened?"
I coughed. "We just fell asleep and walked back to our group in the morning, fully dressed of course."
Scorpius hid his grin and shoveled a serving of peas into his mouth. Perry looked less than satisfied with my answer, but in the spirit of being a changed woman, she let it go. I sighed in relief and finished my lunch, leaving them behind to go to the library to study. I skipped my last couple of classes to get high behind the stacks in the library. Before I knew it, the library was closed and I was the only person inside. I commended myself for one, not getting caught smoking and for two, not being discovered as the library was closed. I slowly stumbled back through the shelves of books to collect my things until I was shoved up against one of the stacks by someone. That someone was Scorpius.
"I missed you while I was in Australia," he breathed on my neck as he planted soft kisses along my jaw.
I pushed him away. "How on earth did you find me?" I smiled tapped his nose with my index finger.
"Who the fuck cares?" He grabbed my hand and pulled me into a hot, intense, body tingling kiss. I wrapped my legs around his waist as he snaked his arms around my back and pulled me tight onto his body. Oh yes, and over the summer, Scorpius and I decided to try the whole sex thing again. And again. And again. I wouldn't classify it as cheating, because I am not naïve enough to think that Teddy, beautiful, sexy Teddy wasn't bed hopping all around Europe over the month that we were apart. However, the summer was over and my relationship with Teddy was very much back on.
"Are you still with Teddy?" he asked.
"Are you still with Perry?" I shot back.
He shrugged. "You're right, stupid question." Then his lips crushed back onto mine. He carried me over to a table and laid me down, ripping open my blouse with buttons flying everywhere. He kissed my neck, then down between my breasts and down my naval. I moaned in delight as I grabbed a handful of his hair and pulled him back up to my eye level.
"Do you ever think this is wrong?" I asked, tracing his face with my fingers.
He shook his head. "We've been doing this for a couple months now. I think we are way past questioning our morals now."
I bit my lower lip and pushed him off me and sat up, covering myself with what was left with my blouse. He sighed and sat down next to me on the table. "What's going on, Rose?"
"We used to do this when Teddy was gone and we weren't together, but he's back now and you are with Perry. We shouldn't be cheaters... should we?"
He looked down at his feet, kicking them back and forth. "I don't know. Hell, I don't even know how we got in this situation."
But we both knew that statement was untrue. He knew full well how we got into this situation. It was about two days after Teddy had left and I had been crying because at the time I thought Teddy was my world. Scorpius had rolled a blunt to start my 'getting over Teddy' party and James has ordered Fred swipe a bottle of champagne by any means possible. After a few hours of partying, everyone had passed out except for Scorpius and I. That was when he made the proposition. Every time that I felt lonely, he would be my fall back guy so I had no embarrassing one night stands to have to explain to Teddy if I were to ever decide to take him back. I had drunkenly agreed, and thus started our no strings attached sex adventures.
"You said yourself that Perry has changed... I think that you should give her a chance and not start your relationship out with a bunch of lies under your belt," I heard myself saying.
Scorpius smiled. "Would it kill you to be wrong, just once?"
I laughed and laid my head on his shoulder. "I really think it would."
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The next morning I was rudely awakened by Lily who was shaking me rather violently. I rolled over and squinted up at her angrily, rubbing my eyes.
"Why in the fuck are you waking me up so damn early, woman? I have a free period this morning!" I shrieked and sat up scratching my head and checking the clock to make certain that I was right as to what time it was. I was.
Lily sat on the edge of my bed. "Don't freak out, but you have a visitor."
I furrowed my eyebrows. "What? Who? Should I be worried?"
"It's Victoire," she replied and bit her lower lip. "She looks bad, Rosie. Like, not done up in her regular Victoire fashion."
I ran my hand through my hair as my eyes widened. "What do I do? My last encounter with her landed me in the hospital where I had to have a helmet strapped on my head for the next four months. I haven't seen or spoken to her since... Wait, I thought she was supposed to be traveling for the next year?"
Lily shrugged. "I don't know, but here..." She handed me a very fat blunt and a lighter.
I smiled and kissed her forehead. "What would I do without you, Lil?"
She shrugged laughed at me. "You would live your life sad and alone."
"Touche," I agreed and handed her the blunt. "I have a question I've been meaning to ask you."
She breathed smoke out of her nose. "And what question is that?"
I pulled my legs up to my chest and rested my chin on my knees. "Did you break up with Sam?"
She looked at me with bewilderment. "Who told you that? Did... did Sam tell you that?" She handed the blunt back to me and stood up. "Why would I lie about someone dumping me?"
"You tell me," I replied, taking another few hits. "Sam got me into detention because of you, I hope you know."
She shook her head. "I don't want to talk about this right now. Later, yea?"
"Yea..."
After smoking the spliff half down, I threw on a robe and trudged down the stairs into the common room where Victoire was sitting on the couch. I took in a deep breath and walked over to her, taking a seat on the chair furthest from her. She looked up at me with wide, saddened eyes. She really did look like a hot mess. Her hair was dull and frizzy, her face was shallow and peaked and her eyes had dark circles under them. She just looked brittle and broken. I almost felt bad for her. Almost.
"What do I owe this pleasure?" I asked, a bit sarcastically.
"I came," Victoire's voice cracked and she gave a soft little cough. "I came to talk to you."
I sighed. "If you came for forgiveness, don't bother. I've already forgiven and I'm completely over it, Vic."
She shook her head. "No, no... I mean, yes, I want to apologize, but I need to speak to you about something else as well," she wheezed out. She looked as if she might faint.
"Do you want to go on a walk and get some fresh air? You don't look so well," I offered. She accepted.
Once we were outside, we sat down on the docks with our feet hanging over into the lake. The water was rather cold, but in comparison to the hot sun, it felt awkwardly refreshing. After a few moments of silence, Victoire finally broke the silence.
"I wasn't traveling," she said.
"Oh?" I replied, not really knowing where this was all going.
She looked down at her feet as she lifted them and sank them back in and out of the water. "I was at a mental house," she choked out.
My jaw nearly dropped and I impulsively reached my hand out and laid it on hers, giving it a light squeeze. "What happened, Vic?"
She began crying. "I don't know, Rose. Something inside of me just snapped when I thought I was losing Teddy and I became this person that I didn't even recognize." She brushed some tears away. "Then when I found out about you two, I... I just lost myself." Her head bowed down and she began sobbing uncontrollably. "What I did to you was so awful and I am so sorry, but you have to understand that the girl was not me. I would never do that to someone I love, Rosie and I do love you. You are my family and I am so grateful for you letting Teddy come and visit me for a couple weeks this summer. It meant a lot."
I was a little taken aback at this. Teddy had never told me that she was going to go spend time with her. Why he would keep that from me was a mystery in itself. Oddly, I felt no pang of hurt or jealousy when she spoke this. In fact, I didn't feel anything. At all.
Victoire finished talking, "...but I understand that he is yours. That you two have found something in each other and I can't stand in the way of that. But I do want you to know that I will always love Teddy. Until the day that I die, I will love him with all my heart." She stood up and smoothed out her clothes. "I think I am going to do some traveling for real this time. Paris, maybe?"
She swayed a bit and stumbled backwards, catching herself on the dock post. I shot up and rushed over to her, grabbing her frail frame and helping her stand up.
"Are you okay?" I asked, walking her over to a nearby bench. "Sit down."
She waved her hand at me as she sank down. "I'm fine. I'm fine."
I frowned. "You most certainly aren't fine."
"It's just all these medications I am on make me a bit dizzy is all," she breathed, closing her eyes and placing a hand over her heart. "I'll be okay, I just need some water."
I looked around and grabbed a bottle from a passerby, expressing my apologies as I conjured up a small amount of water for her. She sipped it and leaned back, grabbing her head. I smiled slightly as an idea struck me. I pulled out the half smoked blunt and lit it up. She looked at me with her nose scrunching up.
"I hate the smell of spliff," she said, her face contorting disgustedly.
I took a couple hits and shoved it in front of her face. "Just try it. You would be surprised at how much you might like it."
She stared at it for a moment and then warily took the blunt from my hand and put it too her lips. I watched as she took in a huge hit and then proceeded to cough like crazy. I laughed and patted her back as she took in another few hits. Once the blunt was handed back to me, she leaned back and smiled.
"I don't... I don't know what this feeling is but it's..." she paused and giggled and bent over until her head was between her legs.
"You like it?" I asked, not able to keep a huge grin from spreading across my face.
She peered at me through glassy eyes. "Fuck yes, Rosie."
"Let's go back in the castle, yea?" I grabbed her arm and pulled her up. "I'm sure James and Lily would love to see the new and improved Victoire."
I ended up skipping my classes that day as well and having Scorpius pick up my course work. I was having much to good of a time goofing around with Vic. She was an absolute joy to be around while high. After everyone had gotten done with their school day, James and Lily and Fred filed into the common room and sat around by the fire, enjoying Victoire as well. Soon enough, my fun was interrupted by an owl that was incessantly raping at the window. It was a letter from Teddy, begging me to sneak out through the old Aberforth tunnel to meet up with him.
"Who's the letter from?" Lily asked, walking over to me near the window.
I shoved it back into the envelope. "It's from Teddy. He wants me to sneak out and meet him at the Three Broomsticks."
Lily shrugged. "Are you going to go meet him then?"
I bit my lower lip and shot a look at Victoire who was doing shots with James and Fred. "I have to."
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About an hour later, after practically spelunking through the tunnel way, I stumbled into the old abandoned Dumbledore flat. I dusted myself off and looked around. I was shocked at what I saw. There were thousands of candles lit and strategically placed and Teddy was standing in dress robes, smiling at me with a single rose in his hand. I suppressed a grin as I scuffled towards him and took the rose. He reached out and cupped my face in his hands. I closed my eyes and let him kiss me.
"I thought I was supposed to meet you at the Three Broomsticks," I whispered, looking up at his dimly lit face.
He gave me a shrug and grabbed my hand and led me over to the little picnic he had set up for us. "I thought this would be more romantic."
I sat down next to him and let him pour me a flute of champagne. I sipped it and looked around. "What is all this, Ted?"
He gave me an inquisitive look. "What do you mean? Today is our nine month 'anniversary'. Don't you remember?"
"Oh, right. I'm sorry, I'm just a little high right now." I set the champagne down and
sighed rather deeply.
Teddy rolled his eyes. "Did I do something wrong again? I thought this was a grand gesture. I thought this is what you wanted..."
"But is this what you want?" I shot, casting him a daring look.
His face contorted into belligerence. "What do you mean 'is this what I want'? If I didn't want this I wouldn't be here, now would I?"
"I know about this summer, Teddy," I replied evenly. "I know about you and Victoire."
Teddy's face fell emotionless. "Aw, come on, Rosie. You told me you wanted to be in an open relationship. It's not like I planned on anything to happen, but old feelings and nostalgia fueled that one night. Just one night. I swear."
I stood up. "What do you mean? You slept with her? I thought you just visited her at the mental house..." I threw my hands up in the air. "Merlin, Teddy! You slept with her?" I realized in that moment I was being a hypocrite, but I suppose I was never prepared for the actualization that Teddy had slept with another woman.
Teddy rushed over to me and grabbed my arms. "Babes, I am so, so sorry. I didn't know you didn't really want to be in an open relationship. If I had, I would have stayed faithful and you know that. I love you so much, Rose. I am so sorry, please..."
"...It's okay. We weren't together, right?" I spoke evenly and looked up at him. "You still love her though, yea?"
The room fell awkwardly silent until Teddy finally spoke, barely audibly. "I'm sorry, Rose."
I sank down onto a chair and smothered my face into my hands. "I fell in love with you, Teddy. You let me fall in love with you and you were still in love with Victoire."
He knelt down by me and lowered my hands and took them in his. "I choose you, Rose. I love you. What Vic and I had was just a first love, but I want you."
As he spoke those things to me, all I could think about was Victoire. How frail and sad she had looked and how much me being with Teddy must be killing her. Even though she had done some rotten things, she was still trying hard to make amends. I knew what I had to do and I knew that even though I had also done some questionable things to Teddy as well, I couldn't help but feel heart broken. Victoire may have been his first love but he was mine. I squeezed his hand and looked at him, hot tears stinging my eyes. I smiled gently and raised one hand to tuck his hair back.
"I love you," I whispered. "But you should be with her and you know it."
"No, no... I don't want to lose you," he replied frantically. "I don't care about age. I don't care about what others with think, I just want you."
I stood up, crying harder now and dipped down to kiss him on the top of his head. "I love you, Theodore Lupin," I breathed through tears and then walked away.
I hadn't planned on going where I was going after my debacle with Teddy. I hadn't wanted to show up where I was, but I had... And as I allowed Scorpius ravish me that night, I knew that things were about to get complicated.
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When I woke up in Scorpius's arms only one thought came to mind: Fuck. I looked over at him and how soundly he was sleeping and it made me smile. He was my best friend. He was nearly my everything and there I was lying in his arms feeling safe, but I wasn't the one who got to feel that way. Perry, the girl that had changed for him, who had swallowed her pride and became civil with me just to get the chance to be held like this deserved all of what I had just stripped away from her. I sat up and threw his robe one around me as I reached over and smacked his head to wake him.
He groaned a little and squinted up at me, no doubt thinking the same thought I had. "What time is it?" He whispered.
"It's only five."
He looked relieved and sat up, grabbing his clothes off the floor. "Let's get you back, yea?"
I nodded as we slyly slipped out of the Slytherin house undetected and hurried to my house. Half way there, we were laughing at ourselves for even worrying because there was no way that anyone was patrolling this early. We were, of course, wrong. Once you spot Mrs. Norris II you know that Mr. Filch is around somewhere. I instinctively jumped into a broom closet, thinking Scorpius would follow, but the idiot stood frozen to the spot as Mr. Filch walked up to him. I kept the door cracked so I could see them.
"What are you doing out this late, miscreant?" Mr. Filch hissed as he picked up his cat and stroked her head, eliciting a purr from her.
"I was just... I was..."
"You were, you were," he mocked Scorpius as he began laughing sardonically. "A detention this Saturday ought to do you some good, eh?"
Scorpius rolled his eyes. "That's not fair, Mr..."
"Oh, that's not fair, he says. Do I hear two weeks coming?"
He held up his hands. "No, no, no... One Saturday is good enough for me. I'm sorry, Mr. Filch. It won't happen again."
Filch grinned rather evilly, showing his nasty rotting teeth. "Excellent work, Mrs. Norris." He stalked away, humming under his breath.
I busted out of the closet and punched him in the arm. "Are you an idiot? You were supposed get in the closet with me!"
He shrugged. "It's not like I've never had a detention before... and don't you have one too?"
I shot him a questioning look. "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
All I got from him was coy smile as we walked the rest of the way back to my common room. By the time we got there, it was six in the morning and we both had a free period so I invited him to stay and relax for a while, but as soon was we walked in, we both saw Teddy sitting on the couch talking to Victoire. I felt so stupid for forgetting that Victoire had stayed over and that Teddy knew how to get in and out of the castle undetected. Reality really struck when I remembered what I was wearing... an emerald green robe. Now, if that wasn't an invitation to suspect that we had slept together, my messed up makeup and Scorpius's unkempt hair was the whipping on top.
Teddy stood up, clenching his fists. "I knew it," he growled angrily. "I knew you two were sleeping together. You are such a hypocritical slag."
"Hey, now hold on," Scorpius snapped. "You have no right to talk to her like that. What she does now is none of your fucking business."
Teddy advanced toward Scorpius and connected his fist into his face. He toppled to the ground as I knelt down by him, smoothing his hair back and trying to comfort him. I looked up at him, seething with anger. "I am so glad I dumped you."
Victoire looked at me with wide eyes. "You guys broke up? Why didn't you tell me, Ted? It wasn't because of what I said, was it, Rose?"
"Of course it's because of what you said, Vic," Teddy spat and pointed a finger at me. "Apparently Rose loves to please everyone around her, except for the people that profess their love to them because she has some sort of underlying commitment issues. Someone gets to close to her and she just has to pull away and make up some bullshit excuse about someone else deserving me. Yea, Vic and I slept together but you and I both know that she doesn't love me anymore and you just wanted an out."
Just as he spoke those things, Victoire stood up. "I do love you, Teddy and I would prefer you not blame your issues all on me. I have done nothing but try and rectify everything that has happened this past year and you putting this mellow drama all on my shoulders isn't helping me or anyone else around you."
"You love me?" Teddy turned his attention to her now. "I thought you said..."
"...I said we couldn't be anything more because of Rose. I've always loved you, Ted."
I helped Scorpius up and then turned my attention to the both of them. "Listen to me because I am only going to say this once, Teddy, you were the love of my life for a fleeting moment until you kept letting things like age and sex and quidditch get in the way of you ever truly being happy with me. And once you realized that you wanted me, it was too late because I had nothing left to give to you. And then Victoire came along and I could tell that she was still in love with you the way that I once was and I knew that she was going to find a place in your heart once again, much to her own protest that she wasn't even going to try. I know you are angry with me and I know that you want nothing more than to blame all world problems on me at the moment, but can't you, just this once, please let it go and get to the part where you are falling back into mad, passionate love with Vic again?"
Teddy's expression softened as I spoke, processing all I was saying. "I just don't want to lose you."
"I'm not going anywhere. I'm here, I will always be here, but I can't be with you. I can only be your friend and I'm sorry, but that is all I have to give."
"I can try," he offered and I gave him a half smile of encouragement as he focused his attention back to Victoire.
I took that as my cue to make an exit as I grabbed Scorpius and walked through the portrait hole. I sighed and leaned up against the stone wall and looked over at Scorp who was now doctoring his red eye that would no doubt turn into a black eye. I started laughing, not really knowing why but pretty soon my uncontrollable display of jovial cheer prompted him to start laughing too.
"Why are we laughing?" he asked offhandedly, still giggling.
I sank down to the floor, pulling my knees up to my chest. "I really have no clue."
"When did our lives become so dramatic? What happened to just partying and having fun without useless drama and teenage angst?" he asked, joining me on the ground. He looked at me sideways and gave me a come hither stare.
I bit my lower lip and leaned in slowly, our lips almost touching just as Lily stumbled out of the common room. "Uhm, hi guys. Did you know that your boyfriend is sucking face with your used to be mortal enemy?"
"One, not my boyfriend as of last night and two, not my mortal enemy," I stated and smiled up at her.
She sat down on the other side of me. "And how long have you two been fucking?"
Scorpius's jaw, as well as mine, dropped. I shook my head. "We aren't... we didn't..."
"Oh, please, Rosie. You're wearing his robe and you have that nasty post-coitus stench."
"On that note, I'm off to bathe... I have the prefect's password if you would like to wash up before you talk to your girlfriend today."
He nodded and stood up, taking my hand and pulling my away from what was about to be an awkward conversation. I looked back to see Lily who was now standing.
"Come on! I want the gory details!" she yelled after us as we broke into a sprint.
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The rest of the week went by rather lethargically. Scorpius and I kept our distance to throw Lily off her trail and in doing so, she became increasingly more annoying which has made me avoid her. So with no one to talk to, besides James, everything was low key and it was refreshing. So, when Saturday rolled around, I was ready to delve back into talking to Scorpius. I was sitting in the Potions classroom, expecting it to start filling up with delinquents, but when Scorpius was the only one to show and nine thirty rolled around I finally realized that we were the only bastards that got detention the first week of school.
Slughorn emerged from his office and held out his hand. "Wands, please." Scorp and I looked at each other as we relinquished our wands. "Thank you..." He set down a caulron in front of us. "Seeing as you two are nearly the brightest students in my class, your detention will be served brewing me Veritaserum."
"Really? That's it?" I asked. Scorpius elbowed me. "Ow, I was just asking a question."
The professor chortled. "Like I said, you two are some of the brightest students I have and waking up early and going for a walk is hardly anything to merit a detention."
"What about hitting another a student," Scorpius inquired, laughing.
"Ah, yes, Mr. Faraday explained it all to me and told me it was not your fault and that you were provoked. Not that there is any excuse for taking out frustration with an act of violence, but I believe a slap on the wrist ought to prevent such behaviors in the future, yes Miss Weasley?"
"Yes, of course, Professor." I stifled my laughter.
"Alright, well. All the ingredients you need are in the cabinets over there and I will be in my office if you need me, otherwise... leave me alone, yes?"
Scorpius and I smiled. "Yes," we replied is unison.
After three hours of brewing the Veritaserum to perfection, we were released to spend the rest of our Saturday 'enjoying school sanctioned fun'. We left the dungeons and unexpectedly, Scorpius pulled me into a kiss. I started to kiss back and then thought better as I pulled away, looking around.
"We can't do this here," I smirked at him, oddly turned on by his spontaneity.
"Aren't you dating Perry?" Lorcan Scamander asked, causing me and Scorpius to turn around suddenly to stare at Lorcan and Lysander who were just standing there looking at us with dumbfounded expressions strewn across their faces.
I shrugged. "Yes, he is, but today is national kiss day. You didn't know?" They shook their heads no. I smiled and sashayed over to them and planted a two huge kisses on their lips. "Have a great Kiss Day!" I exclaimed and waved goodbye to them as they stumbled away, too elated to even think. I sighed and turned around. "Crisis adverted."
"And how do you know that it worked?" Scorpius asked, raising a dubious eyebrow.
"Those twins have been in love with me since year one," I answered, wiping my mouth.
He shoved me into a dark corner and kissed me forcefully. "I don't like seeing you with other guys."
I dodged his second attempt at a kiss and slithered out from the corner. "You are with Perry, you moron. And you think I like the fact that the guy I'm fucking is dating someone else?"
"Actually I broke up with her this morning and to be honest, I didn't think you cared. I like sex with you more than I ever liked it with Perry and I thought that is why we started doing what we were doing."
"You were fucking her? This whole time you were sleeping with her while were sleeping with me too?" I nearly screamed, feeling very hurt and confused at the moment and a little relieved to hear that I wasn't a home wrecker.
Scorpius looked at me like a bomb just went off. "You're meaning to tell me that you weren't sleeping with Teddy while we were messing around?"
"Of course I wasn't. I never had sex with him, I've only had sex... with you," I blurted out, feeling like an adolescent prude.
"You told me..."
"...I know what I told you. I lied, alright?" I started crying, and looked away from him. "Fuck, I hate being this emotional."
Scorpius bowed his head. "I didn't know, Rosie." He reached out to console me.
"No, just don't touch me." I backed away yet again and shook my head. "This is over. Whatever was going on between us, it just has to be over. No matter if you don't have a girlfriend or do, we can't do this anymore. We have to stop."
"I can't do that," Scorpius breathed.
I ran my hand through my hair, completely frustrated with him at the moment. "And why not? Why can't we just go back to be fun and flirty without any underlying sexual tension?" I shouted.
"I just can't," he answered, raising his voice again.
"Why not, Scorp?"
He shook his head. "I just cant," he said again.
I rolled my eyes and shrieked, "Are you fucking serious? Why the fuck not?"
"Because I'm in love with you!"
