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As I ran up the stairs to Lily's dorm, the only thing I could think of was the memory of last night.
It was replaying in my head, like a stupid muggle TV programme on repeat.
My hand was already anticipating the handle on the thick wooden door separating the stairway from Lily's dorm.
The second my hand touched the cold brass, I had turned the handle and threw the door wide open.
Lily was stood in applying muggle mascara.
The second she saw me, she froze.
"Albus told you, didn't he?" she said, he face beginning to show her anger, "I told the dickhead not to, and he goes ahead and..."
She discarded the tube of mascara she was holding and stood across the room facing me, with her hands on her hips.
I cut her off.
"He didn't say a thing Lily. We were talking and then I had a though, and suddenly, it all came rushing back." I said.
My voice was emotionless.
Lily was next to me quicker than the blink of an eye.
She took the bundle of items I was carrying in one of her hands, and put her other round my shoulder.
She was guiding me towards her bed.
"Do you want to skip lunch today, Rose?" she said gently as we sat down.
I turned my head and focused on her face.
"No, I can't Lily." I said, shaking my head, "I have to apologize for my behaviour last night."
She was staring at me intently.
"Are you sure?" she said, her eyes conveying that she was worried.
I sighed before answering.
"I'm sure Lily. It's one of those things that I have to do. Plus, I already told Albus to make sure Scorpius would be there so I can apologize."
I felt myself smile at her; however it didn't seem to reach my eyes.
"Lily," I continued, trying to summon some none existent Weasley courage, "Will you come with me, when I do it, please? It's just that I could do with having someone hand to hold."
Lily nodded, and gave my shoulders a one armed hug.
"Of course I will, Rose! We're best friends! You mean the world to me!" she said with a smile before standing up, "now, will you be okay for a minute? Because I need to go and find Albus and find out what he said to trigger the sudden remembrance."
I nodded, and Lily quickly left the room.
The moment I heard the lock click into place as she shut the door behind her, I lay back and once again let the memory flood my mind.
"Whatcha thinking about, Posie?" I heard Lily say, in a sing song voice.
Once again my mouth had reacted before my brain could.
"The last time I got this drunk, and how I ended up dancing on the table at the burrow dancing with a musketeer."
Lily started to laugh.
"That means that it's time for truth or dare then, biatch." she said wiggling her eyebrows, folding the map back up.
I drank from the bottle again, knowing that when Lily played this game, she became extremely Slytherin.
"Go on then Lily," I said, staring straight into her eyes, "ask me the question."
She snatched the bottle away and took a drink.
"Truth or Dare, Posie."
I shouted truth, almost immediately.
Lily was prepared with a question.
"Truthfully, would you do Scorpius Malfoy is he offered it to you on a plate?"
Lily knew I drunk. She knew that when I had a bit too much, I didn't think about what I was doing or saying.
Lily knew she would always get a truthful answer because I was completely inebriated.
And it worked. My mouth took over before my brain had realized there was something to process, and within seconds, I was blurting out an answer for her.
"I seriously think I would. But there's a problem, and that problem is that he's the musketeer that replaced me, and he's a huge prick. He's like king prick. I mean damn straight Lils. I would do him. I'd do him sideways. No, actually, I'd do him anyway he wanted too."
Although Lily's eyes widened at what I had said, she was also trying to stop herself from laughing, causing her pretty face to look slightly peculiar.
I was still talking though.
"Ahaa, king prick, that's funny! And for that reason, no thank you. I think it's because he reminds me of my mother's cooking, it might look appetizing, but I know it will taste shit."
Lily finally allowed herself laughed and her lips parted slightly, a sign showing me she was going to say something. I stopped her with what I said next.
"You're go now Lils, truth or dare?"
She said dare without a second glance and I answered her with the only dare I could think of.
"Sneak into your dearest brother, James Potter's dorm, and steal us another bottle of firewhiskey please, because it looks like that one might not last much longer."
Her gaze dropped to the bottle in her hands and one of her perfectly manicured eyebrows arched upward. The expression across her face was one of agreement.
Within seconds the almost empty bottle had been pushed into my hands and Lily had disappeared through the door of her dorm.
I took a drink from the bottle before looking at it. There was next to nothing left in it.
Lily suddenly reappeared with a bottle of firewhiskey in each hand. I had no idea how long she had taken to complete her dare.
I looked at her. She was unsteadily in the middle of the room.
A bottle of ruby liquid in either hand.
The girl had obviously succeeded.
"It wasn't too hard to complete this dare, my dearest Posie. My brother being who he is, he left these out on his bed, meaning we can have one each," she said passing a bottle to me and opening the one she still had.
She carried on talking.
"There was a note with them too, in James handwriting, and to quote it, it said, 'I'm not stupid and I know that your studying will get boring, meaning that you will both want some of this. Have fun. P.S. You both owe me at a later date.' And to be honest, I'll give my brother anything right now, even my bloody broomstick, and do you know why Posie? It's because I'm having fun for the first time in a while!"
She finished the sentence with a squeal, and raised the freshly opened bottle in the air.
She beamed at me and passed the other bottle to me, before sitting on the bed with a look in her eye.
The look in her eye was saying, 'it's your turn now.'
I sighed.
"I pick truth again" I slurred before drinking the remaining firewhiskey from the bottle in my hands.
Lily looked even happier at this revelation.
"Okay," she said drinking from her freshly opened bottle, "what do you like about Scorpius Malfoy?"
My face was completely unexpressive.
"Come on, think of him in a different way and see what happens." Lily said, her voice beginning to slur a little.
My expression didn't change, but Lily's did.
She had once again raised an eyebrow at me.
"Come on Rose! Have you ever thought about if he wasn't such a jackass?"
My mind was whirring.
I never had thought about him in a different way.
But more importantly, I had never thought when I was drunk.
Not just about Scorpius, but about anything.
And now here I was thinking about my mortal enemy.
When I was thinking about him not being the mortal enemy, I did have to say he had some good qualities.
"I like his smile." I said, concentrating on not slurring.
Lily smirked.
"Expand on that point Posie." she said simply.
At that very moment, she looked like the female equivalent of Albus.
I shrugged in an impassive way and began to speak.
"Well, it kind of makes his face light up."
Lily nodded, willing me to continue.
"And…" she said, her eyebrow once again raised.
There were more thoughts in my head now.
A few were about the topic in question; however, the others were about what it would be like to shave her perfect little eyebrows off.
And in that moment, I felt the urge to say that too her.
I was going to open my mouth and tell her about how I was going to get her and her eyebrows.
I was going to change the subject, but when I opened my mouth; it wasn't that statement that fell from my lips.
"It makes him look radiant." I said with a sigh.
My brain and mouth were once again detached by the alcohol.
Lily looked like she was about to urge me again, but I cut her off with my drunken rambling before she could start.
"Plus, he has features that make him look like angels carved him from marble, because his skin is all soft and smooth looking. And then there are his eyes. They are a gorgeous grey colour that changes depth with his mood, like when he's happy and smiling, they look like molten silver, and when he's pissed off, they are like cold metal, and then if you get up really close, they have blue flecks in them, and they seem to glitter."
It was like someone had opened the floodgates in my head. I couldn't stop myself talking.
"oh, and please don't get me started on his hair! It reminds me of a cross between untouched snow and silk, and it hangs over his face in the sexiest way. Seriously though, it's nothing compared to his body. It's defined and muscular, and it's gorgeous, and it's the same pale colour of his beautiful face and his strong arms. And I know, because I've seen it."
I sighed again; my brain was functioning fine now, and was replaying the memory of when I walked into him when he was wearing only a towel.
"I saw it last Christmas didn't I? I told you all about it, because you let slip to Albus and Louis and the rest of the family. You remember, right? It was when he walked out of the bathroom and straight into me, and he was dressed in only a towel."
I sighed again. It was like I had been slipped a dose of love potion.
"He looked so good, Lily; I seriously wish you could have seen it too. And he smells so good as well, which is weird because he smells good enough to eat."
The expression on Lily's face as I finished my little speech was nothing I had ever seen before.
In fact, it looked although I had beaten her about the head with a frying pan.
Her eyes were so wide, she resembled a mooncalf, and her mouth was a perfectly round 'O' shape.
Just by looking at her, I knew she wasn't expecting to say all that.
And I honestly didn't expect myself to say that either.
I could feel my face, ears and neck reddening with embarrassment and shock.
Shock that she was no doubt feeling too.
I knew that I had to say something. Something completely unrelated to the previous topic.
But I couldn't.
Even in this drunken state, my mouth should have worked before my brain did, but right now, it was like both had shut down to stop anymore embarrassment.
It was Lily that gained the ability to speak first.
She pulled herself together quite quickly, after the initial shock of the revelation.
"Nothing that has been said leaves this room tonight." She muttered, meeting my eyes.
I nodded at her, knowing that we needed to get away from this conversation topic quickly.
"Lily, truth or dare?"
The words tumbled from my mouth in a jumbled slur, almost although they were trying to erase all that had just been said.
And Lily understood them perfectly.
I saw her exhale. She had obviously holding her breath since she'd last spoke.
The air between us was still thick. The previous conversation was hanging over like a black cloud.
"Dare." She said, eyeing me in a way that was saying, 'try me, I'll do anything'.
It was the answer I had been expecting from her. The thing I hadn't expected though, was for the atmosphere around us to clear.
I had nothing to tell her to do. My mind was completely blank.
"I can't think of anything!" I wailed, grabbing the unopened bottle of firewhiskey in front of me before unscrewing the cap slowly, "help me! Give me some ideas!"
"Well, we don't have to stay here all night! Let's get out of here, shall we?" she replied.
There was a smirk plastered firmly across her face.
I nodded at the question. I had a couple of new ideas.
"Lily Luna Potter, I dare you to floo to the Slytherin common room and tell one of your male cousins that if you were not related to them, you would love to do naughty things with them. That gives you a choice of Hugo or Louis to choose from."
She laughed at me.
"Rose Weasley, I never knew you had such a sick, twisted, and quite frankly perverted streak running through you." She said, in voice that was full of fake shock.
I laughed back at her.
"You don't have to be serious with it. I'm not that perverse, but I would like to see their reactions when you say it." I started, before taking another drink, "But I must say thank you, dearest Lilykins, because the sorting hat said something similar to me."
Lily's mouth was open once again in shock, as I carried on with my story.
"Yup, it said something along the lines of 'you are not like the other Weasleys I've ever seen.' And then it was all like, 'even the Weasleys that belong to other houses have some Gryffindor in them, but you seem to have none.' And then it went on to say 'you would do extremely well in Slytherin.'"
Lily's laugh interrupted me.
I scowled at her before carrying on.
"It even said to me that Dominique had a little bit of Gryffindor in her, and that I had less than she did. It was seriously going to putting me there and then I said that I shouldn't trust what it said, because I couldn't see where it kept its brains, and it delved deeper into my mind. Then it was all like 'Ravenclaw for you!'"
Lily laughed again and took another drink from her bottle.
"Does anyone else know?" she asked with curiosity.
I shook my head and took a long drink from the freshly opened bottle in my hand.
"I won't mention it again then," she said, whilst pretending to zip her lips together, "now, I'd like to complete my dare. But before we do, I dare you to get the guys involved in our little game of truth or dare. I mean after I confess my incestuous love to my cousin."
I nodded enthusiastically and laughed.
And before I knew it, Lily and I and the bottles of firewhiskey we were holding, had flooed into the Slytherin common room and had fallen straight onto Scorpius, where the three of us ended up on the floor in a pile.
Luckily, the people we were looking for were the only people there.
Them being my little brother, my three bewildered cousins, and the blonde guy.
Lily promptly stood up dragging me up at the same time, and turned to where everyone but Scorpius was seated.
"We have come here with an announcement, and a proposition," she said, interrupting the conversation that was already taking place, "I will make my announcement shortly, and then Rose can proposition you as a group."
Lily took a drink from her bottle and chuckled. I was watching her intently.
She spoke again in the same bossy manner.
"Is that okay with everyone?"
The four boys in front of us nodded, looking slightly scared at what could come from the pair of us.
However we were one down. Scorpius was still on the floor.
I turned to see what he was doing. I knew I was completely correct with my assumption of him being lay on the floor.
The thing I didn't assume was that he going to look so peaceful.
But he did. He was lay on his back, his hands palm down on the floor, his eyes closed and breathing heavily.
If I hadn't have known what a chauvinistic prick he was, I would have thought he was an angel.
But then again, he was beautiful enough to be one.
I gingerly stepped closer to him, until I was almost directly standing over him, the alcohol clouding my brain and my judgment.
And before my brain could register what I was doing, I had kicked him squarely in the side of his ribs.
The boy's eyes flew open in surprise, focusing on my face which was, at that point, leaning over him.
"And that was for what reason?" Scorpius asked, bringing his hand up to his side to rib the spot when my foot had made contact with his ribs.
Even when I was intoxicated, I knew that his reaction was the last one to expect.
I blinked at him.
My drunken motor mouth was in action again.
"It was because you are still on the floor, you mental!" I said before pausing to put one hand on my hip, and to take a drink from the bottle in my other hand, "Now, are you going to get up? Or is my foot going to have to try and embed itself into your ribs again, Scorpy pie?"
His eyes were once again closed, and he was once again silent.
I was about to raise my right foot up to kick him when he sighed and began to speak to me.
"Rose, please don't kick me in the ribs again please. I don't want to have to tell everyone that I was beaten up by a girl."
His eyes were open again, and a mischievous smile was playing across his face.
"And a hand up would be nice too." He added.
His eyebrow was raised in a knowing way. He was being smug again, as always.
I could feel myself want to kick him again, but instead I set my open firewhiskey bottle onto a table close by and held out my right hand for him to hold onto.
I could feel the stupid smile plastered across my face as he reached out and grabbed my hand.
I steadied myself as his soft hand firmly gripped mine and began to pull against my grip.
And then I was horizontal.
Horizontal and face down, on top of Malfoy.
I blinked, feeling utterly confused about how I got there.
His grey eyes were boring into my blue ones, although he was trying to read my mind.
"Rose, are you drunk?"
His tone was soft but enquiring. There was a small smile playing across his lips.
I stared back into his eyes, at that moment; they were the colour of liquid silver, flecked with bright blue, making them glitter.
"Do you want to know a secret?" I heard myself say in the same tone he used.
He nodded mechanically his eyes never leaving mine.
I lowered my head down until my lips were at his ear, and his soft hair was tickling the skin on my cheek.
"I think I am," I whispered, before letting a small giggle fall from my lips, "but why am I on top of you on the floor?"
I heard him laugh dryly, and felt his face move closer to my ear.
"You tried to pull me up off the floor," he whispered, "however, I'm guessing that due to me being a little stronger than you, and due to you being extremely intoxicated, it caused you to topple over, and fall straight onto me."
I giggled.
I could feel his breath against my cheek now, and it was extremely warm.
I pulled my head upwards until I was once again looking at his face.
It was beautiful.
I knew I was staring but I couldn't stop. It was like I had been hypnotized.
It was like I was under his spell.
"Now," he said, pausing with dramatic effect, causing me to snap out of my daze, "Do you want to know a secret?"
I nodded mechanically this time, as he leaned up and pressed the side of his face to mine.
Once again, I could feel his breath on my face.
I could feel the skin of his cheek pressed against the top of my jaw.
His lips were almost at my ear, and within seconds I could hear his aristocratic voice in my ear.
"I would prefer it if I was on top, Rose."
My breath hitched in my throat.
Did he mean what I thought he meant?
As he pulled his head back, the emotion in his eyes was showing me that I had got its meaning right.
He wanted it, and right then, I wanted it too.
I was biting my bottom lip in anticipation.
It felt like there was only the two of us in the room.
I lowered my head until I was at his ear again.
"Do it then, Malfoy," I whispered, trying to sound seductive, "Get me exactly where you want me."
When I pulled myself away from his ear, I felt him shiver below me
At that point, I knew my mouth was completely disengaged from my brain.
I would never have said that if I was sober.
As my thoughts began to carry me away, something jolted me back to my current situation.
I was moving.
Something was causing my weight to shift left.
My hands gripped firmly onto the first thing I could find to steady myself.
And that was the back of his robes.
Scorpius had done as I had dared him.
And now he was indeed above me, propped up on his elbows. One of his hands was playing with the end of my ponytail; the other was on the back of my neck.
He was radiating his usual beauty and elegance.
I was biting my lower lip again. My eyes were locked on his, and his were locked on mine.
He glanced at the hand that was playing with my auburn hair.
"Rose," he said, his gaze returning to my face, "You look gorgeous like right now, but think I prefer it when your hair's down."
I could feel the blush creeping across my cheeks.
His hand moved upwards to the band holding my hair together, and I felt him pull it gently along my ponytail in one swift motion, sending my hair outwards in waves around my face.
"That looks much better, Rose." He said, running his hand through it.
My gaze flickered to his lips, before returning to his eyes.
And then my body was moving almost without command.
My right hand moved to the back of his neck, and my left hand moved up to sweep the hair hanging over his face away.
His hair felt light on my fingers, and was like silk, as I imagined.
And although my brain and my body weren't engaging, my mind wasn't protesting what it knew I was about to do.
I applied a slight pressure to the back of his neck, causing him to dip his head lower towards me.
Whilst at the same time, I lifted my head slightly.
Our lips collided. I could feel his lips against mine, but they were completely unresponsive.
I began to pull away from him, trying to find an explanation to what had happened.
And then his hand was cradling the back of my neck, pulling me back to his lips.
And the other was running through my hair.
He was keeping me pressed against his beautifully soft lips.
The same soft lips that were kissing me with a passion I had never felt before.
Kisses which were feverish and hungry against my own lips. And I couldn't help but respond in the same way.
I felt my eyes close, letting the green light of the dungeons dance over my eyelids.
It felt like there were only us in the room. Everything else had melted away to nothing.
Nothing but five voices. Five separate and yet very distinct voices.
They may have all been talking at the same time, but I could hear all of them individually.
And all of them were expressing something different.
I heard Lily gasp.
"Rose Weasley! Well, aren't you the little minx!" I heard her exclaim; only knowing it was her voice, as it was higher than all the others.
It was James' voice I distinguished next, but only do to the vulgarity of his cat call.
"Get in their Scorpius!" I heard him holler at the top of his lungs.
Hugo was somewhere in the distance.
"Eww, that's my sister." He said, his voice dripping with disgust.
Albus had to be the negative opinion above it all.
"This isn't going to end well. I can see it." he muttered, backhandedly.
"It's about bloody time!" the remaining voice said.
It sounded surprised, and knew the only person it could be was Louis.
Scorpius had obviously heard it all too.
He pulled back from me, causing my eyes to fly open, a look of shock and anger across his face.
It was although someone has flicked a switch in his head, sending him into completely different mood.
His hands moved away from quickly. It was although he had been burned by my skin.
My head fell back against the floor, and I closed my eyes again.
I felt him push himself up until he was standing.
And I could hear his footsteps walking away.
I had to do something to stop him.
"Scorpius," I breathed, "I..."
He cut me off.
"Save it. I don't want your pathetic apologies."
I opened my eyes again, only to find he had walked back and was now leaning over me.
"Honestly Scorpius, I'm…" I began.
He cut me off again.
"I told you to save it Rose, because like I said, I don't want your pathetic fucking apologies."
Something inside me stirred.
How dare he speak to me like that? He wasn't completely innocent in what happened.
I pushed myself up until I was standing facing him.
He was angry. The emotion in his eyes was showing that he was furious.
Still, he didn't get to say that to me.
"You don't want my apologies? Well, at least I'm trying to apologize to you! You arsehole!" I shouted, poking him in the shoulder, "You act although you are better than me, and you act like I don't deserve to fucking exist in the same world as you! Seriously, all I want to do apologize, and all to show you that when I make a mistake, I realize that and try and apologize for it! But obviously you can't see that."
His expression changed suddenly. It went from one of anger, to one of disappointment.
The look disappeared as quickly as it appeared though. His face was once again furious.
"A mistake? I didn't think you made them." he said, in an accusatory tone.
He was making me angrier by the second.
"Well, I do make mistakes, I'm only human." I spat at him, poking him in the shoulder again, "I would like to inform you though, that I didn't think that that was a mistake, but obviously you do! Like how you suddenly stop and jump up, and then how you act like I burned you, and then how you try and walk away!"
I could feel the anger burning inside of me and I couldn't stand being there with him.
I couldn't stand the nasty sneer plastered across his face.
I couldn't stand the venomous look in his eyes, making me feel like I was worthless.
I turned away from him and began to walk to where Lily had perched herself on the arm of James' chair.
"Lily, we're…"
I was cut off by my arm being jerked backwards; I turned to the source of what was stopping me.
Scorpius had hold of my wrist, and was staring straight down at my face.
"I only did what was necessary at the time, Rose!" he was shouting at me now, "because we both know that given the chance, what happened there would have gone a lot further than it did."
I could feel the anger rising up inside me again and pulled my wrist away from his grip.
He was still shouting at me.
"And trust me, I'm not going to allow you, the 'oh-so-perfect Rose Weasley, run off to your stupid superficial friends tomorrow, and let you brag about how you 'got one up' against Scorpius Malfoy, the low life scumbag."
I was conscious of my hands being balled up into fists by my sides.
And I was definitely more conscious of his cold and unexpressive eyes and how they were piercing into mine.
I was about to respond to him, when Albus cut in.
"Scorpius, why are you acting like this? This isn't you!" his tone was calm and inquiring.
He was closer to us than I thought he was.
In fact, he was so close; he reached out and put his hand on Scorpius' shoulder causing him to involuntarily turn towards Albus.
Albus began to speak directly to Scorpius then.
"Scorpius, you know she's drunk. We all do." He said in a calming tone, whilst gesturing to my brother and cousins, "You know that while she's like that, she will do and say stupid things, and you know because you have seen it before."
Albus sighed and put his other hand on Scorpius' free shoulder, making him face him, before carrying on.
"And you know, at the same time, that if she didn't want to do or say anything, then she wouldn't do it. You know full well that everything that has been said and done is the truth."
Scorpius shrugged Albus' grip off and began to speak.
"Albus, you might be her cousin, but I think we both know exactly what she was doing," he said, sounding extremely snobby, "honestly, you and I both know that she is a prick tease, and one of the best, I must say, and that she had me right in the palm of her hand, which coincidentally is exactly where she wanted me."
He glanced sideways at me before returning his gaze to my raven-haired cousin.
Albus raised his eyebrow at the blonde boy.
"Are you being serious with me Scorpius? Because if you are, then I suggest that you need your head checking."
I stood frozen watching the exchange between the two men in front of me. However, no matter how I tried, I could not get my body to move away.
My knees felt unable to bend. My arms pinned to my sides. My fists still in the tight balls they were earlier.
Scorpius' voice piped up again. He was responding to Albus' retort.
"I'm being deadly serious; you know full well I am."
Albus ignored the comment, and turned to face his little sister.
"Lily," he said, in a quiet voice, "I think it's time that you and Rose went back to your dorm, if that's okay?"
I turned my head to see Lily nod quickly.
She slid of the arm of James' chair and was at my side in seconds.
"I want to sleep Lilykins," I heard myself say to her, although the voice sounded extremely child-like and vulnerable.
"You can in a moment, Posie," I heard her whisper. "Come on, they obviously aren't in the mood to play with us tonight."
I felt a small, shy smile on my lips, that quickly changed though as I looked around the room.
There was a heavy and awkward silence hanging over the room. The only sound cutting through it was the rippling of water from the lake above us.
Hugo, James and Louis, had taken to staring at the floor, avoiding looking at me what so ever.
Albus was staring at Scorpius. The expression on face his was unreadable. The same look was visibly hardening his features.
Scorpius was staring back at Albus looking thoroughly pissed off.
Lily was the only one looking at me. Her face was completely sympathetic and her left hand outstretched, beckoning me to hold it with my right hand.
I looked at floor, knowing I was the one who caused the awkward atmosphere.
I needed to be comforted, and Lily's hand was the offer.
I unballed my fist and reached forwards, capturing her hand in mine.
She tugged my hand gently, helping unclench the muscles in my legs, and helping me take a step forwards.
We slowly walked to the fireplace we had tumbled out of earlier that night, Lily discarding her half drank bottle firewhiskey on the same table my almost full one was sitting on.
And then she stopped, causing me to stop too.
Lily looked over her shoulder to talk to Albus, and I automatically copied her, looking over my shoulder at the same time.
We found the same thing. Albus was sitting in the same chair he was occupying earlier. The same tense look on his face as before.
"I'll leave this for you lot. Because I think you might need it more than I do." she said to him.
Albus absentmindedly nodded at the comment.
My gaze shifted to the place where Scorpius was seated for a second. He was staring at me.
He had noticed that I had glanced at him, and I could tell he had something to say about it.
"Good," Scorpius said spitefully, trying to stare me down, "I'll need most of that now to try and help me forget tonight's events. Although, it does make me happier knowing that we will no longer have Rose in our company."
I assumed he had finished speaking and turned back to the direction I was originally heading in, before taking a tentative step towards the fireplace.
But he hadn't finished and he spoke up again.
"Yeah, that's right Rose, run back to where you came from because I don't want to be in the company of someone like you. A blatant user and a cheap whore."
I turned around slowly until I was completely facing him. He was standing now, an evil smirk gracing his features.
"Seriously, you disgust me," he sneered, "and that's saying something, because I'm a fucking Malfoy."
He paused and looked me up and down, although surveying my whole appearance.
It made me feel cheap, dirty and worthless. Although I was nothing better than dirt off his pristinely clean shoes.
"You know rose, they say beauty is skin deep, but I assure you, ugly is to the bone."
He took a step forward towards me.
"Now fuck off, and don't come near me again." he spat at me, his voice low and menacing.
It was obvious that he had finished ranting now, as he stood their looking overly smug.
I could feel the anger at everything boiling up inside me, and this time it was going to boil over.
Any other person would have questioned their family about not defending them, but I knew the exact reason why mine hadn't jumped in to defend me yet.
And it was because they all knew I was going to snap at some point.
And that would be when Scorpius would pay for everything he had said to me.
I dropped the hand of Lily's that I was holding, and closed the gap between him and me.
"Remember arsehole, it takes two to tango." I snapped at him, "but most of all you should remember that I'm not the only guilty party in this."
I twisted my torso to walk away before I heard something.
"Whatever, whore" Scorpius muttered under his breath, obviously not realizing I had heard what he had said.
I felt my right hand ball into a fist, and I felt myself twisted my body back round towards him.
Once again my body was working before my brain was, and now my fist was catapulting towards Scorpius' face.
The sound made, when my fist connected with his jaw was satisfying.
It was also satisfying to see Scorpius, who obviously wasn't expecting it, fall backwards into his seat in surprise.
I couldn't help myself now; the anger seemed to have taken over me.
I took another step forwards and leaned over him slightly.
"Well, maybe now I'm the only guilty party."
I was going to hit him again, but the obvious pain in his eyes and Lily stepping forwards, grabbing my hand and towing me towards the fireplace, stopped me.
"Now we're going!" she said to me a stern look on her face.
When we reached the empty fireplace, she pushed me into it before blocking the opening with her body.
She was trying to stop me from going back and hitting Scorpius again.
I looked out from behind Lily, to find Albus approaching her with a small brown pouch in his hand.
The moment he reached her, he held it out to her.
"Albus," she said, putting her left hand into the pouch, pulling out a small handful of powder, "I'll come back later when she's asleep, and he's calmer. Is that okay?"
Albus nodded stiffly, and glanced at me.
He was smiling at now, his expression showing that he was dying to laugh.
Lily stepped back into the fireplace and linked the little finger of her right hand with my left hand.
She glanced at me briefly.
"You ready?" she whispered.
I gave her a small nod.
She lifted her left fist in front of her, face down but still balled up into a tight fist.
And then she paused.
"Louis!" she shouted, forcing the red haired part veela boy to drag his eyes from the floor and up towards Lily. "We came here so I could do a dare, and I have to complete it."
His expression was confused.
"And what does that have to do with me?" he said back. His voice showing he was confused as he looked.
Lily glanced sideways at me and winked.
I could see a small smile on her lips.
I could feel the same small smile on mine too.
"Well, I had to come and tell you something. Do you want to hear it?"
"Okay then," he said smirking, "give me all you have."
Lily glanced sideways at me again, a huge smirk on her face now.
"Well, I just have to tell you that if we weren't related, I would be trying to hit on you. Oh, and have a nice night everyone."
As a collective laugh echoed around the room, Lily opened her fist and the floo powder within it fell to the hearth of the fireplace.
This caused emerald green flames to engulf us, and as she needed too, I heard Lily shout our destination.
And the second my feet hit the floor in Lily dorm, I dragged myself to her bed, where I felt myself collapse into sleep immediately.