Chapter 10
Rose had successfully avoided Scorpius, over the last two weeks, since the lake incident. She had gone back to staying at her parents' house, in her own room, claiming that it was an easier base for her apartment hunting in London and she had to pack up all her stuff anyway. That's not to say that he made it easy. Often, Scorpius would be over to chat with Ron or help her mother out in the garden. Not that this was completely unusual, because even when Rose was staying at the Burrow, Scorpius would still drop in to see her parents. However this time it was different, she knew that he had never came over this much. It seemed like everyday he was there. She had to stay in her room for hours, or go shopping for supplies to avoid him and more recently Victoire's Bachelorette Party provided a great chance to leave the house.
Scorpius had arrived at Rose's house just after dinner. He was there to help install an awesome, new, wizard technology that Ron had got. Whoever invented it was a genius in both Ron's and Scorpius' eyes. It was 5 wizarding channels that could be added to your muggle TV and more importantly 3 were quidditch channels. They had found a way to broadcast quidditch into your own home. However as Scorpius fiddled with the box hook up and his Charms text book, he couldn't help but wonder if he might be lucky to see Rose tonight. He hated this girl for doing this to him, it's like she is trying to kill him by avoiding him. He understands that Rose doesn't feel anything for him but all he wants to do is see her. See her, so he can set things straight so that they are no longer awkward around each other. That's what he kept telling himself anyway. Nevertheless Rose was no where to be seen. Apparently, she was out for a girl's night. So he thought he should try and get her when she came home, besides Scorpius really enjoyed playing chess with Ron.
It was late, she was a little tipsy and it was unsafe for her to disapparate from the club, so Rose caught the knight bus home. As she stumbled through the front door of her childhood home she was surprised by how well she knew the house in the dark, avoiding the umbrella stand and Hugo and Ron's mound of shoes by the door. As she walked past the lounge, on her way upstairs, she was distracted by a figure lying on the couch. Rose immediately thought that her father couldn't hold his tongue again and her mother had sent him down here for the night, she did not think that Scorpius would still be there. So as she walked around the couch so that she could give her father a kiss goodnight, she gasped as she saw blonde hair shining in the moonlight.
Scorpius was stretched out on the couch; with both his left arm and his left, denim cover leg, hanging over the edge. His right hand had pushed his blue t-shirt up a bit, again showing off his hard abs, resting just below his chest. As Rose stood there admiring him, he rolled his head, now facing out from the couch, so she could get a better look at his face. He looked so peaceful and boyish yet his chiseled jaw covered in a shadow of stubble gave him an attractive, rugged quality that confirmed he was definitely a man. Rose was snapped back to reality from her thoughts by him making a noise that sounded like a moan. She got the throw rug from her mothers arm chair and unfolded it. He started mumbling half words that she couldn't understand when she laid the blanket over his sleeping form. She moved to pull it up further to cover his top half when he finally said something understandable.
"Ro-ose," he muttered softly. She checked to see if she had been caught out or if he was still asleep. Thankfully it was the latter. Then it hit her, he was saying her name in his sleep, as if she was special. He said it again and snuggled into the blanket. Rose didn't know what came over her but before she could stop herself, she leaned down and placed a soft lingering kiss on his forehead.
"Rose," he mumbled a final time, as she pulled away and retreated, up the stairs, to her bedroom.
Scorpius awoke to find himself lying on the couch, in Ron and Hermione Weasley's living room. He remembered falling asleep there the night before. What he didn't remember was getting the blanket that was draped over his body. He thought Mrs Weasley must have put it on him in the middle of the night to keep him warm. She was always really nice to him. He sat up and stretched his arms above his head, yawning and running his hands over his face, through his messy hair before looking up at the clock that hung on the wall. It was a Saturday and he knew Mr and Mrs Weasley wouldn't be up at six. Wiping the sleep from his eyes, he ambled over to the downstairs toilet. When he came out he could hear movement above him. 'Rose', he thought. Scorpius knew that he had to talk to her; and assure her that if she wanted him too he would just forget what had happened in the library and at the Burrow and they could go back to the way things were before. Rose would never let him in her room, so how was he going to talk to her. Scorpius then thought he could talk to her at the rehearsal dinner tonight or the Wedding tomorrow. He soon had doubts in that idea. Seeing Rose dressed in a flowing gown was not going to make it easier for him. The sun shinning brightly into his eyes through the windows, told him how he could see her. He folded the blanket and placed it on the couch, writing a quick thank you note to Mrs Weasley, before exiting via the back door.
I have a bit of writers block and struggled with some parts of this chapter, so that is why it has been a bit of a longer wait. I am sorry to say that the time between update may be a bit longer then they were at the start as uni is starting up again but I will definitely try and update every week :) I hope you like this chapter and please feel free to make suggestions. Please review, follow or fav :)