This one's a bit shorter...
Rose was in double Herbology, not thinking at all about the closest relative of a mandrake.
Rose had been partnered with Eva Sinclair, who was indeed one of her best friends, but that wasn't what upset her. Normally when they picked partners, she would determinedly look across the room at nothing so that everyone assumed she had a partner in mind and not ask her so that she would 'accidentally' end up one of the last two partner-less, the other always Scorpius. Today, Scorpius had turned straight to Craig Marshall for a partner. Poor Eva was stuck doing almost the entire assignment as Rose stared at Scorpius, his face unsmiling, as it usually was in public.
He hadn't so much as looked at her in a week and a half.
Typical Slytherin, she thought, but in reality, she wasn't all that mad at him. She always found it hard to be mad at him, for she saw through him much too well. She saw how scared his scowl was.
Still, this had gone on far too long.
She wanted to see him smile. She wanted to smile herself, without having to try.
The only time she smiled naturally these days was when she first woke up, rolled out of bed, glanced in the mirror the girls had hung in the dorm and heard Scorpius's voice.
You know you're beautiful, right? She would feel his lips through her mind and then she'd remember it ending with him running. That concluded her natural smiling for the day.
Her friends noticed, of course, but she just said she was tired and they fell for it. So she was left in peace to think about whether Scorpius' friends were asking him if he was okay, then remember what he'd said that one night in the Hufflepuff dorm. I'm a lone wolf; you're different. She'd think about when he'd said they should get matching t-shirts with her quote on them.
She couldn't go on like this. She'd say something. One way or another, this had to end.