Chapter Ten ; Tears and Rain ; Rose Point Of View

We had been peaceful until she came. We had been lying there, happily, not worrying about anything in the world, because it all seemed so far away. And then she'd ruined it. I didn't understand how she even knew the password, and the glance I gave Scorpius much mirrored the way that he was looking at me - mixed between confusion and fear.

I grabbed his sheet, and ran over to the group of our clothes, having enough time to grab all of them, not bothering to leave his, before I ran into the bathroom and shut the door.

I sat up against it, panting slightly, and listened to the other room which I'd just left.

She didn't bother knocking, and she walked into the room. "Scorpius! Where have you been, baby? I haven't seen you in so long!"

I didn't listen to him answer. I knew, from the fact that she called him 'baby' that if he had a pet name for her, I wouldn't hold back on throwing something hard at her head.

I dropped the sheet on the floor of the bathroom and turned the hot water on for the full way, stepping underneath it.

My skin turned red from the heat, and I scrubbed it raw. I rested my head up against the wall, and relaxed.

"YOU STUPID BASTARD!" someone screamed, and my eyes snapped open.

Was I hearing things? I wished I was.

"YOU BLOODY PRICK!"

I grabbed my towel of the rack, turned the water of, and ran to the door that connected Scorpius' bedroom to mine. I didn't know what he'd told her. I didn't know what he'd said to her to make her so angry, but I knew if he'd told her about us and she'd gone that physco at him, that she'd show me no mercy. And even though, without trying to sound stuck-up, I was amazing at spells, I wasn't willing to get Avada Kedvrafied by a witch, who, funnily enough, was something else that rhymed with witch.

I ran into my own room, locking the door that connected the bathroom to my room and the Common Room to my own room. Even though she wasn't very good at spells, I wasn't going to take the chance of her hexing me, and I pulled my clothes on quickly, thinking about an escape.

If only I'd had the Cloak of Invisability. I wanted to find out what he'd told her exactally, but at the same time I was a little scared that she'd try to kill me.

I pulled on blue flannelet checkered pyjamas, and a black singlet, grabbed my wand, took a deep breath, and ran. It was like in the movies, when they weren't sure what was going to be out there for them, but they still had to go. Once I started running through the Common Room, I could hear Scorpius and Amber screaming at each other through Scorpius' door, and I sighed with releaf for myself, then cringed at how she was screaming at him. No matter what the situation, I would never speak or yell at Scorpius like she was.

My instinct was the find Lily, and I knew where she'd be. Where she always was nowadays. I just hoped that they wouldn't be doing anything that wasn't innocent. I knew if I walked in and they were going at it, I'd probably be scarred for life.

I ran into the Gryffindor Common Room, and frowned. It would usually be packed by this time of the morning, and than I remember that it was around breakfast time, and my stomach growled.

One guy walked down the stairs and paused, raising his eyebrows at me. "Nice outfit, Rosie."

I smiled at him. "Why, thank you, Henry."

He laughed lightly at me as he walked past, and then he walked out of the door, and I was left alone in the Common Room.

It was about the first time I'd felt safe in ages, Amber couldn't come in here. She was in Slytherin with Scorpius. She was a bitch too, but everyone knew that.

I took the stairs two at a time, until I came to the third door, and knocked.
"Come in!" Lily called. I wonder if she knew it was me. Then I wondered how she would know it was me, and I opened the door, chewing on one of my fingernails.

"Rose? What's wrong, darlin'?" she asked, jumping off the bottom of Ryan's bed.

Ryan had been sitting up the other end, and it seemed like they were either talking or making out. I knew that they weren't talking. Ryan also came over to me, and put his hands on my shoulders as Lily hugged me to death.

"Oh, no, nothing's wrong with me." I said, breathing heavily from the run over to them. "Scorpius and Amber got into another fight, and she started calling him a prick other than other things, so I got scared and came over here."

"Why did you get scared?" Ryan said with a laugh. "It's not like you're kissing him or anything."

I laughed fakely with nerves, and Ryan brought it, but Lily didn't.

"Babe, could you go get this chicky some food?" she asked, cutting me off.

Ryan looked at her. "Why do I have to get it?"

"Well you go and get it, and then we'll see what I can do for you." she flirted with him, running one of her fingers all over his chest.

I pretended to gag, and soon enough, Ryan was leaving me alone with Lily, and I wanted to go and hide.

The look that she was pointing at me was so severe, I would have jumped out of the window if it were open, and if I could get there fast enough.

"You kissed Scorpius?!" she hissed, putting her hands on her hips.

"Yeah." I said slowly, unsure about how she would take it.

She did something that I never thought she'd do. She did something that surprised the crap out of me. She did something, that nobody would expect her to do. She laughed. And laughed. And laughed.

"Lily, are you okay?" I asked hesitantly, looking at her as if she were crazy.

She smiled at me. "You're finally with Scorpius!"

"I'm not with Scorpius." I corrected her. "We're just best friends with benefits."

"Benefits says sex." she muttered.

I didn't know what to say, so I stopped and looked at her, hoping that I wasn't too obvious.

She looked at me, and figured it out, though. "You two had sex?!"

"Of course not!" I murmered, walking back away from her.

"You had sex with Scorpius? When? Where? How many times?!" she asked.

"I'm going to answer them in order." I blinked. "Yes. Last night. His room. Once."

She clapped her hands quickly and I put my hands on either side of her face.

"Listen, Lil. I'm excited that we're finally making a relationship, too. But you have to relax, okay? I mean, I have a boyfriend. I-" It dawned on me that I had a boyfriend, and my stomach seemed to drop.

"You have a boyfriend." she said slowly, reading my face. "And now you have to tell him."

"And now I have to tell him." I repeated her, leaning up against the door, my eyes closed. "And now I have to break his heart."

"It's not your fault, you know, sweetie. You've fallen for someone else. You can't be in a relationship with someone who you don't feel for anymore."

"How'd you know that I've fallen for Scorpius?" I asked, watching her face.

"Once you start talking about him, it's a little obvious. You just need to know everything that's happened." she said with a smile.

I shook my head. "I have to break up with David. How am I meant to break up with him?"

"Ask him to meet you somewhere in private, and then tell him that you don-"

"I'll figure it out." I cut her off. "Do you have a piece of parchment and a quill?"

So I got what I needed from her, sat down with a book, and started writing.

David,
Meet me the Black Lake tonight at 7:30.

Have important news.

Rose.

The letter was impersonal. He'd have to know something was wrong. I usually wrote 'xo' or 'lots of love' at the end, before my name, and now it was just 'Rose'. It was like saying, 'I'm about to break your heart'.

I sent it to him, with Lily by my side, and then I spent the rest of the day with Ryan and Lily, chatting about everything and anything except Scorpius, kissing and David.

I hadn't gotten a letter in return, but when I walked down to the lake that night, having to sneak out of the castle, I could see David's figure against the dark ocean.

"Hey, baby." he said softly, standing up and kissing my head.

I gave him one last hug. It was probably going to be the last hug that he'd let me give him. After all, we wouldn't have to talk anymore. We weren't on the Quidditch team anymore, we didn't share a Common Room, and after we left school, we wouldn't see each other.
I stayed silent, trying to figure out what to say, as I sat down on a fallen tree log.

He was watching me for a while, and then he said a couple of simple words. "So...it's over, huh?"

I looked up at him, my eyes already filling with tears that I knew would spill out. "David, I'm so sorry."

He gave me a small smile. "Nahh, it's alright. I knew it wouldn't last. I mean, you're you and I'm me. We're two different people."

I didn't know what to do. "David. I want you to know. You are the perfect guy for me. But-"

"But perfect doesn't fit well with Rose, despite how perfect you are." he nodded, brushing my hair away from my face. "It's alright."

My tears spattered over my face, and I closed my eyes.

"Hey, little girl, don't cry." he whispered, grabbing my waist and pulling my over towards him. He pulled my head onto his chest, and held me tightly. "It's okay."

"How come you're so great?" I whispered. "How come you're so nice to me, even when I'm breaking up with you."

"Rosie, it wasn't right. It means something better is out there, waiting for us." he said, smiling down at me.

I put my lips up to his, and gave him one last kiss. "I'll always love you, David. Just not in the way that I should."

"I'll always love you too, Rosie." he said softly. "And, you know, we'll always stay friends."

I laughed slightly. "I was scared that you'd hate me."

"I'll never hate you, Rose. No matter what you do."

I hated how he was so perfect. I hated how he made me feel good, when I should have been feeling so down that I could have commited suicide. The only thing that I didn't hate, was that I could tell, even through everything that I was going through, that I still needed to be with Scorpius.

We spoke for a little while longer, about the memories that we had, and the things that we'd do in the future as friends. And then he walked me back to my room, and kissed me on the cheek before he left.

I walked into my room, and went to the bathroom, looking at myself in the mirror. I was a total mess, and I looked like one.
I grabbed a towel and wet it, then put it to my eyes so I could take some of the red away from them.

"Where have you been?"

I jumped violently. I hadn't expected him to sneak up on me like that.

"Baby? What's wrong?" he asked, pulling me towards him.

"I broke up with David." I said slowly, putting the towel down in the basin.

He brushed my hair away from my face. "Yeah?"
"Yeah." I said softly, leaning up against his chest.

"Was it terrible?" he asked, kissing my hair.

"Worse than the fight you had with Amber this morning." I thought about it.

"He yelled at you?" he asked. His voice told me he didn't believe it.

"No. He didn't yell at me. He was totally understanding." I murmered. "That's why it was so bad."

He kissed my forehead, and intwined our fingers. "I broke up with Amber."

"What?" I asked, leaning back to look at him.

He nodded. "That's why we were fighting this morning."

"Lily found out what we did." I said, turning around to look in the mirror. I leant up against him when I was somewhat happy about my appearance. My hair was still messy, but it looked good messy, and my face was now all it's normal colour.

When I looked at us in the mirror, it was perfect. Scorpius was still a head taller than me, and when I looked at us, it just looked right.

He brought his lips down on my neck. "What. Did. She. Say?"

"She was excited." I said softly, putting my arms up so they went around his neck.

In one movement, he'd turned me around and pushed me up against the bathroom door, and while I tried to find the handle, he kissed me with ridicolous passion and skill.

Once I'd finally found the handle, I opened it, and pushed the door open. We stumbled into his room, and then the door was shut, and I was pushed up against the other side.

His tounge ran along my bottom lip, and I wrapped my arms around his neck.

I loved Scorpius. I loved him very much.

A.N/ Rose broke up with David. Scorpius broke up with the cow! What did you think? :) -Tiarn. xx

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