A/N: The grand prize goes to Aurora Borealia for being the first to guess Scorpius' nickname correctly. His nickname, Ictis, means Ferret in Latin. So, AB, here are your chocolate chip cookies worth $1,000,000 and you Nunicorn. His name is Chubby. Love him or else Jenifer will lend me her dull butter knife.

And thank you everybody else who reviews. Every time somebody reviews my works I feel good that someone else is reading my work and likes it and cares enough about it to want more. It's a tiny ego boost. It makes me say "Hey, I'm not just writing to read it online myself"

(I tried my best to alter the line "I'm not just talking to hear myself talk" but it didn't really work. Edits on that?)

Chapter 10:

"Merlin, I can't believe we're about to do this…" Celeste whispered to Jenny as they waited by the exit to go to Hogsmede. Jenny nodded in agreement. They were waiting for James and Scorpius. James had (blushingly) asked Celeste on a date to go to Hogsmede with him and Celeste was too nice to say no to him. So, Mai had suggested that Jenny tag along with Scorpius and make it a double 'date.' Oh, of all the things to do…

"Well, at least he hopefully won't like you after this." Jenny said meekly.

"Unlikely. He's liked me for three years according to Harry. One date of me acting the opposite of what he likes is so not going to get him to hate me." Celeste replied back, tugging at her blond hair. They were both being the girly-est they could. Her long blonde curls had been pulled up into two high ponytails with sparkly hair ties and she wore thigh high socks, a poufy blue skirt, a ruffled shirt with a high empire waist, boots that went to her calves, and a really thick sweat shirt. They were topped off by her Ravenclaw scarf and hat and gloves. Jenny was dressed similarly, with minor differences. Her black hair had been curled into ringlets and fell down her back in the tiny spirals. Her shirt was black and also had a high empire waist. She word a black sweater over that. She had on a green skirt and also had on thigh high socks and heels. She also wore her House scarf and gloves and hat, emerald green and silver. Both girls wore makeup, which felt bizarre and unnatural against their skin.

James came around the corner, Scorpius trailing behind him with his father. Scorpius was glaring at James' backside viciously. Celeste wondered what James had said to make Scorpius so upset. James saw Celeste and Jenny and stopped dead in his tracks, stunned. These were two girls that were never caught dead in Abercrombie and Fitch clothing, yet now they were decked from head to toe in it. Scorpius too seemed a little bewildered, though he'd been let in on what was supposed to go down on this 'date.'

"Ready?" Jenny hissed under her breath.

"Ready as I'll ever be to go on a date with my BFF's crush." Celeste muttered back. She took a deep breath and pasted a fake smile on her face, beaming at James.

"Hi Celeste." James said uncertainly.

"James!" Celeste squealed. "You came! Yay. Alright, now, we've got to get going. I'm hungry and I'm cold and I don't want to stand here anymore." She looked at Jenny as if to say Your turn.

Jenny took a small breath, and then embraced Scorpius in a back-breaking hug. "Oh, Scorp, I'm so glad you're here!"

"Uh, yeah, I'm here." Scorpius struggled to say something. Celeste wanted to slap him. They'd been over this; they'd reviewed what was supposed to happen for a week. He knew his lines! And he said that?

"Well, I guess we should get going, huh?" James stammered, a modest shade of pink.

"Ooooh, yes, let's. I dib a spot next to you!" Celeste exclaimed, then grabbed his hand and hugged his side. James already seemed vaguely freaked out, or maybe it was just the initial shock of seeing her all dressed up. Either way, if she kept this up, it wouldn't be long before he was telling her it wouldn't work out.

Scorpius' POV

He so hadn't been expecting that. Then again, he should have. He'd been told exactly what was going to go down on this 'date' and exactly what to say and how to act. Albus, Harry, and Mairead were all sympathetic to the predicament that they were all in, and although they didn't want to hurt their family, they knew exactly what James liked and didn't like in Celeste. They were determined to smother the parts he liked and nourish the parts he didn't. The parts he didn't like were her possessiveness over things and her heavy metal side. He also liked that she was humble and down to earth. Welcome the Pretty-and-Pink punk rocker that they'd created. Hell man, they even had Aberforth in on this, because they were going to his pub. Harry was even coming along under his Invisibility Cloak to tell them if they were doing alright.

Jenny crushed herself to Scorpius, though he still hadn't gotten over the blunt sight of seeing Celeste how she was. She looked pretty, there was no doubt about that. But, it just wasn't…her. She looked fake hanging onto Potter's arm, smiling like she was one of his other ignorant bimbo's. A wild, alien surge of possessiveness erupted in him and he stopped looking at Celeste, switching his gaze to Jenny. She looked pretty as well, but still different. He was used to seeing her in her Hogwarts uniform or sweats. Not body clinging clothes and skirts. It just didn't seem right to see them like this, but he had to play his part. He struggled to remember what he was saying. Jenny blinked, her glittery eyeliner distracting him.

Jenny embraced Scorpius in a back-breaking hug. "Oh, Scorp, I'm so glad you're here!"

"Uh, yeah, I'm here." Scorpius struggled to say something after that. 'Yeah, I'm here?' What kind of idiot was he? He knew he'd said something wrong and it was all he could do to not cringe when Jenny glared at him violently. Celeste as well shot him a dirty look and he forced himself to meet her gaze while still looking all 'high and mightier than thou,' which was hard to do because he didn't like thinking like that. She suggested they set off and they did, getting many stares along the way. Oh, shit. This was going to be a field day for Dana. She'd be comparing notes with Alyssa Edgecombe before they got back and would have rumors circulating before the night was over.

They got to Aberforth's pub and sat down; Celeste curling herself to James' arm like her life depended on it. He seemed disturbed by the fact that he suddenly couldn't move his arm. He tried to gently disengage her, but she refused to let go, snarling angrily when he tried to ask her to move. Jenny mimicked her, only when Scorpius asked her sweetly to gently loosen her grip, she did so and lovingly laid her head on his shoulder.

"Celeste, I need to eat." James said, trying to shake her.

"Use your other hand. I'm never letting you go." She murmured against him.

James sent her a 'look' that Scorpius didn't miss and Celeste pretended to. He reluctantly lifted his left arm to eat with and Celeste picked at her food and mostly pushed it around her plate. Jenny, however, had completely devoured her plate and then some. She was grinning wolfishly and Scorpius had to prepare himself for what he had to do next. This was going to be weird.

He leaned over and swiftly kissed Jenny on the cheek, murmuring "I love you" against her warm skin. Jenny turned somewhat pink, though she too turned and gave him a small peck on the cheek, saying "And I love you" back. James watched them curiously.

"So how long has this"- he motioned between the two of them-"been going on?"

"Since middle of the summer." Jenny said quickly before Scorpius could say anything. "I visited his place, then asked him out a week later." She nuzzled Scorpius to emphasize her point and he reluctantly intertwined fingers with her. He wondered how long this would have to go on for. He didn't think he could keep kissing his best friend and keep his sanity. Especially when said best friend was in love with the person sitting across the table practically attached to the other best friend.

"And how long have you liked Celeste?" Scorpius replied, his eyes cold and hard.

"Since I saw her in her first year, when she was sorted into Ravenclaw." James replied proudly. "Even then, she was beautiful."

"Awww, thanks James!" Celeste exclaimed. "And I always though you were cute too. Always."

Scorpius couldn't help but be a little jealous. He knew she liked him, a lot. But she'd never said anything like that about him. Never looked at him with those eyes. Never said anything to him period.

He crushed down his emotions by clenching his fist. Unfortunately, that happened to be the exact same hand holding Jenny's hand. She tolerated it for a while, even squeezing back and smiling. But after a certain point, he clenched his hand too far and she muttered "Ow" under her breath from behind clenched teeth and Scorpius immediately released her hand from his, allowing her to flex her fingers quickly. Celeste looked at them curiously, but Scorpius waved her off irritably and they continued the conversation.

"So Celeste, what type of music do you listen to?" James asked.

"Heavy screamo, mostly." She replied sweetly. "Stuff like Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, System of a Down, all of that. I'm really into that kind of stuff. You?"

"Uh," he blinked, "The exact opposite. And I listen to Wizard Rock, not Muggle."

"Oh, that sucks." Celeste said it mechanically, like it was a line she didn't really believe. In fact, she sounded giddy about it, but that was to be expected, since she was acting like an overly excited airhead.

"It's alright, music won't separate us." James said, throwing his arm over Celeste and finally relaxing.

Back to Celeste's POV

Celeste had never wanted to slap James so bad in her entire life. Sure, there had been moments where she'd been so mad at him she could have gone to Azkaban for his murder, but he always knew what he'd done wrong and fixed it almost immediately. This time, however, he didn't and it pissed her off. The audacity to believe that he could just sit there with his arm over her shoulder like she belonged to him! But she had to play along with it. She had to. Well, she didn't really have to; it was more like she couldn't say no to James. She couldn't say no to anybody usually. She was just that type of person. And she didn't want to hurt James. So that was why she was here. Now she sorely wished that she could just tell him that she didn't like him and that was that.

Her life couldn't be that simple, apparently. Now she was caught in a love rectangle that two of them were unwilling participants in. Well, technically, if you included all the help she'd been getting, it was more like a pentagon.

Yeah, her life couldn't be that simple.

Tell him what your favorite song is whispered Harry to her from underneath his Cloak.

"My favorite song is "She's Like Heroin" or "Psycho" by System of a Down." Celeste immediately said.

"'She's like Heroin' wins every time hon." Jenny admonished. "Hands down."

"Nah, I like the part in "Psycho" when he's all like: 'Psycho! Groupie! Cocaine! Crazy! Psycho, Groupie, Coke, makes you high, makes you hide!'" Celeste argued, singing a lyric.

"She's like heroin, sipping through a little glass, I'm looking for some help, I need someone to save her ass." Jenny countered.

"Nope," Celeste shook her head. "Second best. Psycho wins."

"What about "I-E-A-I-A-O?" Scorpius asked. Both girls looked at him in surprise.

"What?" he asked innocently. "I listen to music too."

"Yeah, but SOAD?" Celeste asked, abbreviating the name. "I didn't think you were the type to listen to heavy metal, especially when this particular bands motto is 'Fuck the police.'"

"'Fuck the police?'" James asked.

"Yep. They're really against the government." Jenny replied. "Most of their songs are extremely morbid. I have Cel to thank for getting me addicted."

"Only given in thanks for you addicting me to Slipknot." Celeste replied, smiling at her best friend with false sincerity.

James looked between the two girls and Celeste though he must have thought he was crazy.

A/N: So, you guys found out what type of crazy music I listen to. And yes, they are extremely heavy metal. So unless you feel like listening to music you can't really understand or don't even like, I advise you don't look them up...Okay, that's a lie. You should look them up, because they're really good and fun to headbang to.

And here is a picture of the clothes the girls were supposed to be wearing on their dates:

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That is a long URL. I put random parentheses in there, so if you truly want to see their outfits, I'll PM you the link somehow. Just ask. But it looks like this link will work, provided you take the little ()'s out.

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