Scorpius Malfoy
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It's time to begin, isn't it?
I get a little bit bigger but then I'll admit
I'm just the same as I was
Now don't you understand?
That I'm never changing who I am
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Scorpius gulped, he'd never been so nervous in his life. For his first three years at Hogwarts he and Rose had been at each other's throats. They'd been challenging each other for top or the class, throwing insults at each other and had even been known to give out the occasional hex or jinx when they passed in the corridors.
But their last year had been different, Scorpius had actually decided to talk to Rose like a normal human being and she wasn't so bad after all. In fact, they'd become close friends despite Rose still insisting she hated him and he had to change everything about himself to actually be her friend. She knew he wasn't going to chance, of course. Scorpius wasn't stupid enough to change themselves for the sake of any person other than himself.
Despite Rose insisting she hated him, she'd still agreed to meet Scorpius in Hogsmeade on their last trip before the end of the year. Scorpius wanted it to be a date, a real date, but he hadn't said as much when he asked because he assumed she'd just laugh at him for being stupid or something. But, he'd come to find that he really did like Rose and he actually wanted to be with this witch.
As he waited for Rose to arrive, Scorpius noticed that he'd started to sweat. Weather this was from the summer sun or nerves he had no idea, but either way he used his wand to stop it. He didn't want to be sweaty and horrible when he asked Rose out. Because that is what he'd decided, he had decided that today was the day he was going to ask her out. Even if she didn't feel the same, he still had to try.
It might shake up the school a little – a Slytherin and a Gryffindor dating – but who cared. Surely by now people should realise that their houses didn't mean anything more than how they used their brain and the students aren't that different from each other, even the Gryffindors and Slytherins.
Scorpius saw Rose appear at the top of the hill and wiped his sweaty palms on his jeans. Snap out of it! Scorpius shouted at himself in his head before meeting Rose's eyes and smiling at her.
"Hey…" he said weakly, unable to hide his nerves.
"Hey to you too," Rose said, a curious expression on her face.
"How… how are you?" Scorpius asked with a stutter. He really needed to pull himself together.
"I'm fine," she told him, "you, however, I'm not so sure about. What's up, Scorp? Where's all that Gryffindor bravado?"
"I… Rose, I…"
"Oh just spit it out!" Rose was tapping her foot. Scorpius could tell she was getting impatient, she didn't like people beating around the bush a trait she'd inherited from her mother.
"Rose, willyougooutwithme?" he rushed, his mind going blank of the speech he had prepared.
"I'm sorry, what was that?" Rose asked with a smirk on her face. It was a Malfoy smirk; she'd never had that particular smirk before she'd become friends with Scorpius.
"Rose," Scorpius started, able to compose himself this time, "would you do me the honour of being my girlfriend?"
Scorpius smiled to himself – that was more like it. Even though he was more nervous than he had been telling his parents that he'd been sorted into Gryffindor, he was still able to be gentlemanly. His mother would be proud.
"Dear Scorpius, what on earth has gotten into you? People have to be friends before they can date, and I've told you that you're going to have to change before we can be friends…"
"Ah but Rosie, dear, we are already friends and I am never going to change. Surely you've realised that by now. Or are you as dumb as Slytherins are supposed to be?" Scorpius said with a wink.
Rose scoffed, "Weren't your parents in Slytherin? By calling Slytherin dumb are you not, by default, insulting your parents?"
"Oh, okay Rose – you win. Just answer the bloody question!" Scorpius snapped. If she was going to turn him down he wanted it to be over as soon as possible.
"Fine!" Rose snapped, glaring at him. Scorpius prepared himself for the worst, but what he wasn't expecting was Rose's soft, pink lips coming up to meet his and the whisper of "yes" in his ear.
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This is for:
The Codebreaker Challenge;
nervous [orange] - 'From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate'- Socrates [red] - 'It's Time' - Imagine Dragons [purple] - Scorpius Malfoy [light blue].
If You Dare Challenge;
614 - Kissed.
Open Category Competition 2;
Next Gen.
Prompt Relay Challenge;
Station 4: Imagine Dragons - It's Time.
A-Z Competition;
S - Scorpius Malfoy.
