DISCLAIMER: I still don't own Harry Potter, even though I'd love to.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I understand that this chapter might be difficult emotionally on some of you, and I'm sorry if it brings back bad memories. And, I don't have any personal experience with this, so what Albus says was inspired mostly by Sukhvinder's experience in JK Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy', sorry if it's described/typed/explained weird, I just don't know how to write this stuff.

Albus had a daily routine he went through each morning. He would wake up, take a shower and get dressed, cast concealment charms on his arms, brush his hair, check his schedule and grab his books, check to make sure the charms were working properly, all of this before heading to the Great Hall for breakfast, and class right afterwards, since it was sometimes a pain to try to get into the Ravenclaw Common Room, so he never went there between breakfast and class.

After classes were done, and Albus had returned his books to his dorm, he met up with Rose, Scorp, James, Lily, and Luna. Luna led them to the Room of Requirement, and it became sort of like a common room. Luna and Albus sat on a couch together, James and Lily on another, and Scorp and Rose on a third.

They decided to play one of their favourite games, truth or dare, with Albus asking Rose first.

"Dare."

"Okay, hmm…I dare you to go scare a random first year."

"But…ugh, fine," Rose got up, "Guess I'm not a Prefect here, so I can." She shrugged, walking out.

Luna turned to Albus, "Was Rose a Prefect back in your time?"

"Oh, yeah, she was, forgot to tell you."

Luna nodded, snuggling into Albus' side. Rose returned a few minutes later, not looking too pleased with herself.

"I don't get how you like scaring kids, James."

She sat back down on the same couch as before, looking towards Lily, "Truth or dare, Lily?"

"Umm…I'll take a truth."

"Have you ever had a crush on a professor?"

She blushed a little, "Yeah, it was professor…well, the professor all the girls liked at our old school, his last name started with an 'L'."

They all nodded, except Luna, who looked confused. Lily then checked the time, and turned to Luna, "I have to leave in a couple minutes, but, truth or dare, Luna?"

"Umm…I think I'll take a truth," Luna smiled slightly.

"Umm…if you had to marry somebody in the next week, who would it be?"

"Al, of course. No question about it."

Albus smiled, pulling Luna closer to him.

"That's so sweet, now, I really do have to go, see you all tomorrow," Lily waved at them, walking out.

Luna shut her eyes, cuddling into Al, "James, truth or dare?"

"I always take dares, I like dares."

"Hmm…I dare you to go kiss the first professor you see."

"Right away, I hope I get a good-looking one," James got up, walking out of the room.

A few minutes later, James came back, looking disgusted, "Eww, it was Sluggy. I have to go wash that taste out of my mouth, so, quickly, Scorp, truth or dare, mate?"

Everybody laughed, and then Scorp replied, "I'll take a dare."

"I dare you to run through the corridors in your underwear. Now, I best be off, need to snog a girl to get rid of the taste of Sluggy."

James then walked out of the room, and Scorp stood up, walking to the door before taking off all his clothes, except for his underwear, before running out the door.

A little while later, Scorp came back, not seeming to be bothered by the fact that he had been running around almost naked, and got dressed, sitting back down in the same spot as before.

"Umm…Al, you haven't gone yet, so, truth or dare?"

"I'll take a truth, I don't want to move."

"Fine, you have to tell us your deepest, darkest secret."

Albus glanced down at his arms, and then back up at Scorp, "You all have to promise not to tell a soul, not one."

"Of course not," Scorp answered, and then Luna and Rose nodded.

Albus gulped, and pulled back his shirt sleeves, removing the concealment charms, and showing his self-inflicted scars running both horizontally and vertically, intersecting, along his arms. They looked like they had been made long ago, but just refused to disappear, "This…is my secret."

All of their eyes widened, and they all said, "Albus?!" Luna hugged him tightly.

Albus hugged her back, "It was years ago, I felt like nobody paid attention to me, that nobody cared, nobody liked me. James never helped with any of that, he even made it worse. I had no friends in my house, and few friends outside of my house. It made the pain go away; it would interrupt my painful thoughts with physical pain, which I could handle better. Nobody ever found out, I hid it well, I learned how to heal the wounds, and hide the scars, but I never healed the scars, they remind me to be strong, that my parents, our parents, fought to save lives, and I almost threw mine away, and how stupid that was."

He was crying by this point, holding onto Luna.

"Al, promise me you'll never do it again," Luna whispered.

"I promise, Luna," Albus pulled back slightly, kissing Luna on the lips, "I have you now anyways, I could never feel unwanted with you here."