I have some sad news.

My flashdrive died about a month ago. Sadly that was where I had about three chapters of this fanfic (and some other important stuff but that's not related). Those chapters were pretty important for the story and I was actually kinda proud over one of them... But there's no use moping. This will probably help me in coming up with an ending for this fanfic. I'm so happy that there are a lot of people who are following this story! If there are any things you would like me to include in this story I'd be pleased to hear them!

And I'll apologise beforehand as I haven't read this chapter for like ages and I just feel like updating.. If you find any mayor screw-ups just tell me!

"He's acting weird," Lily mumbled. She was sitting next to her oldest brother, James, in the sofa in the Gryffindor common room. He had been able to claim one of the sofas closest to the fire and Lily had managed to catch him when he wasn't surrounded by his friends.

"Who?" James sighed and didn't even look at his sister.

"Albus of course!" she said and pulled her brother's sleeve. He turned to her but didn't look convinced at all.

"Why would he be acting weird? Doesn't he always act weird?" James smirked.

"Come on!" Lily leaned against her brother. "He's been ignoring us..."

"He always ignores us," James interrupted.

"... he keeps to himself..."

"He always keeps to himself."

"Stop interrupting! I'm serious," Lily pouted.

"Come on, I'm just messing with you," James said with a playful smile and ruffled her hair and pulled her into a hug.

"But seriously, he's so withdrawn. It's not like him."

"Lily," James said and looked his sister in her eyes, "you have to remember that Albus is a teenager. They act weird sometimes."

"You are a teenager too."

"But unlike other teenagers I'm awesome." James smirked and flicked his sister on her nose. She giggled lightly.

The next day when Lily had said good morning to Albus and he barely noticed her she couldn't help but start to worry again. Albus was in a world of his own and it worried Lily. Something must have triggered it. If James wouldn't care about it then she had to find her cousin and ask her for help instead. Rose was cleaver and she knew Albus better than his brother.

As expected Lily managed to find her cousin in the library. She was engaging herself into a book about the unusual uses of usual herbs. Her untidy, practically crazy, red hair was tied into a ponytail and she had glasses at the tip of her nose.

"Oh Lily!" she said with a smile upon her freckled face when Lily sat down in front of her. She pushed the book a little further in front of her as to show that she had time to talk with her cousin.

"Can I ask you about Albus?" Lily didn't beat around the bush.

"Oh? What about him?" Rose closed the book. This was interesting.

The little girl took a peak over her shoulder to make sure he wasn't around and then she leaned forward. Rose copied her movements.

"He's been weird these last couple of days, hasn't he? Suddenly he barely notices the world around. Usually he would make time to stop and talk with me and ask if everything was okay or if I needed help with homework but this morning he barely noticed me and when he did he just mumbled a hello."

"Are you sure? I haven't seen him lately."

"I'm sure! And isn't it weird that he hasn't been with you? Aren't you guys pretty close?"

"Maybe," Rose took a second to think. "But he spends most of his time with Scorpius so it's not that weird."

"Scorpius Malfoy? Weird. He's been sitting in the common room most of the time."

And that was all it took for Rose to get what Lily was trying to say. If Albus wasn't acting like himself and wasn't spending his time with Scorpius then the most reasonable explanation would be that Scorpius was the source of the problem. Rose tried to explain it to her cousin but the girl didn't really see how it was connected. But they both decided to find Scorpius and question him if he knew what it was all about before going to Albus.

They found the blonde by the Quidditch pitch. It wouldn't have been their first guess but they had been in luck. They had asked the first Slytherin student they had met and it was a polite girl who said that he had gone with a few friends to watch the practice. When Rose and Lily got to the stands Scorpius didn't even seem to notice them.

"Excuse me," Rose said and the six boys that were sitting on the benches turned towards them. "Do you have a moment, Scorpius?"

Scorpius stood up and climbed over his friends legs as his friends started teasing him by whistling and cheering him on. When Scorpius reached the two girls his cheeks was red and Lily couldn't help but giggle a little. Scorpius gave her an icy stare that made her quit.

Rose led them to the backside of the stands where they wouldn't be overheard. She didn't care much if anyone heard them talk but she guessed that Scorpius would prefer if it was more secret.

"What did you do to Albus?" she said without any hesitation. The smaller girl who was holding a firm grip around Rose's arm repeated the question like a little echo.

Scorpius got defensive at once and crossed his arms while he looked utterly irritated. His stern eyes made Lily cling a little closer to her cousin. It was her first time being close to Scorpius so she had no idea what he was capable of doing.

"I didn't do anything, Rose. It was just a rumour!"

"So it was you?"

"I said no, it wasn't. It's Albus' fault he is stupid enough to believe in Moffat rather than me."

Lily pulled Rose's sleeve. "Who's Moffat?"

"Isn't that the guy both Albus and you got in a fight with?" Rose looked from Lily to Scorpius who was nodding in agreement.

"Yes. I really have no idea why Albus would believe in him rather than me. Okay I do. There was others there as well who agreed with Moffat. But that's none of my business. It's not my problem if he's sulking."

That was it for Rose. She released herself from her cousin's grip and took a step closer to Scorpius and was probably taller than she had ever been before. He face was as calm and pretty as ever but there was a gleam in her eyes that was horrifying and dangerous.

"It is your problem. Why? Because he is my cousin and best friend. If he feels bad I find it my duty to make him happy again. My guess is that you are the only way to make him feel better so that makes it your problem. You get that?"

Scorpius gave her a quick nod. She gave him a gentle smile, still with the gleam in her eyes. Her voice became a little bit nicer.

"I'm not sure whatever it is that made Albus care for you in the first place and I've already told you that I'm not interested in finding out the reason. But even though Albus think you have deceived him he does still care about you, otherwise he wouldn't be acting the way he is. Don't let him down and just talk to him. Force him to listen to your explanation and if you are honest he will believe you. Even if you don't want to do it for him or your friendship, do it for all of us who have to see Albus being depressed."

Lily was back to Rose's side and was nodding in agreement. Scorpius was at a loss for words and Rose just gave him a victorious smile before she turned around and walked away with her arm around her cousin.

"Will he really do it?" Lily said and had a worried look on her face. "He is a Slytherin."

"Rose, it doesn't matter what house he's in."

"But aren't Slytherin's egoistic? That's what your father told me."

"Just because one is in Slytherin doesn't mean they are exactly alike. Are you just like everybody else in Gryffindor?" Rose smiled.

"No," Lily said.

"He may be a Slytherin but I believe he will do the right thing. And don't listen to everything my dad says."