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A/N: I'm back at school *sigh* so back to weeekly updates now, sorry guys! Keep reading though cause I'll try to be punctual. This chapter gave me so much trouble, I'm sorry if it's not great but whatever I did didn't seem to come out how I wanted it! But Rose is actually in this chapter (finally! I hear you cry) and we'll be getting to the good bit soon with lots of cute romancey stuff :) I actually have a plot now as well, so I'm not doing all this mysterious stuff just for fun haha. I also wanted your opinion, whether any of you would be interested in me doing a sort of prequel, drabbly thing for this story; a collection of notes passed in class between Al, Scorp and Rose, set before and during this fic. Review or PM me if you'd like that or you have any ideas or whatever :) Okay, I'm done!
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Scorpius paced up and down the length of Albus's room as all the Weasley's watched him apprehensively.
"What's he doing?" Hugo whispered to Albus warily.
"Pacing, it's what he does when he's nervous, or trying to figure something out." Albus murmured back, eyeing his best friend carefully, but knowing that it was just best to leave him alone at this point.
"Should we say something to him?" Lucy asked, "He looks kind of manic."
"It's best just to leave him to it." Albus sighed, leaning back. "The crazy look in his eye will go when he talks to Rose."
"He's a strange guy." Fred said, bemused. "He's not even reacting to us saying stuff about him."
"He's just focused on something else." Molly replied calmly. "Leave him alone for a bit will you?"
"Okay, okay." Fred replied, waving his hands in surrender. "I'm just saying it's a bit weird!"
Lily, Dom and Roxy entered the room and Scorpius stopped and looked up at them.
"She wants to see you." Lily said with a strange pleased look on her face. Scorpius didn't give it much thought, heading towards the door, but stopped and turned around just as he was halfway out of the door.
"Where is she?" He asked quickly.
"Oh, my room." Lily said. Scorpius quickly left. "She wants to see you too Al." Lily added, settling herself back onto a beanbag.
Albus shrugged before getting up and leaving.
Scorpius raced down the flight of stairs to Lily's room on the third floor and went in, but stopped at the sight of Rose was sitting on the large bed in the centre of the room, with tear stains and mascara smudged down her face. He didn't know what to say to her. Rose looked up to see who had entered.
"Scorp." She whispered before running at him and throwing herself into his arms. "I'm so sorry." She said, pressing her face into his chest.
Scorpius just stood there, holding her, and smelling her hair and her fruity perfume which was just so Roseand smiled. There wasn't anything that needed to be said in that moment.
"I can't believe a boyfriend came between us." Rose sighed, looping her arms around his neck and smiling up at him.
"Promise it'll never happen again." Scorpius mocked in a high, girlish voice before stopping when he saw the dirty look Rose was throwing him.
He leant his head down as she rested her chin on his shoulder and whispered, "I won't let it happen again Rosie, don't worry." "
"Well isn't this just adorable." Albus said in a dry tone from the door, leaning casually on the doorframe.
Shut up Al, and get your sarcastic arse over here." Rose said, blushing furiously before unwinding herself from Scorpius and glowering at Albus. Albus walked over to the two of them and Rose hooked an arm around both of their necks and grinned.
"The three musketeers reunited once more, hip hip hooray!" Scorpius cheered sarcastically.
"You two are impossible!" Rose huffed, folding her arms. "Remind me why I'm best friends with Slytherins again?"
"Because we're wonderfully charming, incredibly smart and also amazingly handsome?" Albus suggested with a smirk.
"Oh yeah, of course." Rose said, rolling her eyes.
"So come on Rose, what's the deal?" Scorpius asked, sitting down on Lily's purple desk chair and spinning to face them.
"What do you mean?" Rose asked, sitting on the floor in front of Lily's mirrored wardrobe doors and getting her compact and mascara out of her magically extended shoulder bag.
"Well, why did you burst into my room 10 minutes ago, practically bawling your eyes out without your supposed boyfriend?" Albus asked as though it was obvious, throwing himself on the bed. "And what exactly are you doing?"
"Fixing my makeup." Rose replied calmly. "I cried it all off."
Scorpius snorted and Rose threw him a dirty look.
"And the whole Finnigan part?" Al prompted.
"Look, I don't really want to talk about it." Rose sighed, "Let's just say, it didn't work out and maybe he wasn't so great after all."
Albus and Scorpius exchanged a look of revenge.
"Can we hex him?" They said in unison.
"No." Rose replied flatly, applying mascara.
"Can we beat him up?" Scorpius asked hopefully.
"No!" Rose exclaimed, frowning.
"Can we spread a rumour about him so he'll never get another girlfriend?" Albus asked with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"How very Slytherin." Scorpius smirked. "I like it."
"Maybe." Rose conceded with an evil grin of her own, "That'd wipe the self-satisfied grin of his face."
"Okay, we're on it." Scorpius smiled, but then his face fell slightly. "Will you tell us what happened?"
Rose turned to face them, nibbling on her lip in worry. "I can't tell you now." She confessed, avoiding Scorpius's gaze.
"What do you mean now?" Scorpius asked warily, furrowing his brow.
"I mean, I'll tell you at some point, but I can't now." She replied, fiddling with the zip of her hoodie.
"Are you deliberately being bloody cryptic?" Scorpius growled, glaring at Rose.
"Maybe." Rose said mysteriously, throwing him a wink.
Scorpius determinedly ignored the sensations that this stirred in his stomach and tried again, "Can't you just tell me?" He asked, using his puppy dog face again.
Rose rolled her eyes, "No." She repeated.
"Will you tell me?" Albus cheekily interrupted.
"Nope." Rose, shook her head and stood up. "No more harassing Rose for now." She said, first yanking Albus off the bed and then poking Scorpius forcefully in the shoulder. "We should go back upstairs."
"Aw c'mon Rosie." Scorpius whined.
"Forget it." She replied. "And don't call me Rosie.
And with that she smiled and left the room.
Scorpius groaned, he might be friends with her again, but he was no closer to telling her he liked her, and before he did he was going to find out what happened with Finnigan. He got up and followed Rose out of the room with Albus following behind. How was he going to get it out of her?