Ahhh I haven't posted in forever! sorry guys there have been exams :( anywho I used a quote from the fault in our stars in here so John Green- THANK YOU FOR YOUR AMAZING BOOK

Chapter Thirteen- Rose

I yelped and took a giant step away from Scorpius. I glared daggers at Paige but she just smirked and winked at Scorpius who, to my relief, looked as shocked as me.
"Paige! What is going on?" Scorpius demanded but Paige just ran to us and smiled as she grabbed our shoulders.
"See Hugo darling? They're both demanding and stupid, perfect for each other," she said as she winked at us and twirled back to Hugo, who I was giving the death glare.
"PAIGE!" I exploded, ever since I learned she was behind the Great Hall Thing I had had words to say to her and I was about to say them.
"First of all you're a self-aggrandizing bastard! (Quote by John Green) Second, you ruin our relationship the first time and then you think you can just butt in whenever you want but no, not this time! And Hugo!" I said, turning to him, and he looked worried about what I had to say, good. "You go and call me arrogant, fine, you ignore me, fine, you even date my best friend, fine. But when you go and screw up James, then, then, we have problems." I said steely and his eyebrows shot up as he nodded slowly.
"Rose, calm down." Paige said under her breath, I cocked my head to the side and smiled.
"Why, Paige, I am calm." I said and she rolled her eyes as she grabbed Scorpius and my wrists. She dragged us to the corner of the library.
"Listen you two, I owe your brother, a lot. So he said if I gave him information about you, Rose, then I would be off the hook. He doesn't trust you and wants to know what's going on." Paige said and with her standing steps away from me I could see her blue streaks were fading and her forehead glossy with nervous sweat.
"Paige! This is ridiculous! What did you do?!" I asked, outraged, I knew from personal experience that Hugo was always the one that was the 'tattle-tale.'
"I did-no-I-it's not imp-portant." Paige hurriedly said and I shook my head.
"I will never forgive you." I stated as I turned around and marched back to Hugo where I stood in front of him, my hip popped and my eyes narrowed.
"What did you do to my James?" I asked and he just looked at me and shook his head, looking around spooked.
"Hugo! You tell me what you did to James right now!" I screamed and Scorpius held me to his chest while Hugo stuttered that he just couldn't.
"I- I- I can't. I'm s-sorry Rose," He said it with a hurtful glance and I turned away in disgust.
"You are not my brother." I spat out before I grabbed my bag off of the table and storming out, I heard Scorpius run after me but I couldn't face him.

I raced to the only place I knew to be safe, the Common Room. I yelled the password and the fat lady swung open, shushing me. I threw myself on the couch wanting to melt into it. Was there a spell for that? A spell to erase the past year of memory? I'd hope so.

It was then that I saw Albus, his boyish grin was wiped off of his face and the afternoon's events attacked me and I remembered.
"Albus!" I said as I ran to him, he had been the infirmary but I knew he'd only have a bad bruise for the next week or two. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, leave me alone." He said roughly as he pushed me off. I stared at him in shock, Albus was never mean. He was the sweetest boy and James had done this. But who had changed James from the practical joker into the kid who hit their little brother? Hugo, my brother.

I found Lily on her bed, hugging her pillow with tear streaks down her face. Lily cried at the drop of a hat but still, she was like my younger sister. I crawled next to her.
"Accio hot chocolate," I murmured and a second later hot chocolate was zooming through the open window, I gave it to Lily who sniffed in appreciation.
"I thought Hogwarts would be more fun…" she said glumly and I laughed, she was the son of the most famous wizard in all of history who probably had the worst first year in history.

I saw Ace knocking on my window and I smiled, opening the rolled up letter that was tied with a green and silver bow. The ink was gold and dark red, I gasped with surprise, the bottles of color changing ink were expensive, and I figured he would only use a Gryffindor-colored one occasionally.

Rose,

I'm sorry about what happened, I don't know what's gotten into Paige, she won't talk to me, and she's just sulking and on the verge of tears! I haven't had a chance to talk to you ever since what happened in the library. I'm not sure when we're going to be able to talk again since finals and the break are coming up so I'm going to say what you know, and what you don't want to hear. You need to talk to Hugo; he's your brother, even if he doesn't act like it. Obviously what happened in the forest is haunting him. Also, James, he saw what happened in the forest and needs to talk about it, if it was something so bad he hit his little brother then he needs to talk. I'm sorry I'm saying this in a letter rather than in person as I'd like but I am not sure when we can see each other.

-Scorpius

I immediately pulled out a piece of parchment and started writing, I knew he was right and I didn't want to fight him on something so silly so I promised him I'd talk to both of them only if he promised to talk to Paige. I had just sent Ace away when I saw Lily jump down and grab the letter!
"Lily! Give it!" I screamed as she teased me with it, darting around me, she started scanning the letter but before she could get to the bottom I had pulled out my wand.
"Accio letter!" I screamed and it zoomed into my hand, with a satisfied smile I turned and walked out of the dorm, the letter crammed into my pocket.

I sat next to Teddy in one of the chairs and waited for James to walk into the Common Room, I had no idea where he'd be but I knew he'd have to come back to the Common Room at some point.
"What if one of the other houses' let him stay for the night?" Teddy wondered, he wasn't so fond of the whole stay-in-one-place-and-stare-at-the-door thing.
"Then we wait another night," I said, determined.
"Rose! Finals are coming up! We need to study!" Teddy exclaimed and I whipped around to face him.
"You really think a stupid grade is worth more than your cousin?" I asked hotly and he shook his head as he sank into his chair.

Teddy waited until 12am. When he promptly went upstairs, grumbling about his loss of sleep.

"James will come, James will come, James will come, he has to come, James will come," I whispered to myself as I sipped on a cup of tea in hopes to keep me awake.

The door creaked open at 3am and my eyes shot open, there was his black hair, his face poking through the door. I shut my eyes and waited for him to close the door behind him. I finally heard the door close and opened my eyes. There he was, walking towards me with a blanket. My eyes shut one last time as he came close, he wrapped the blanket around me and right as he was about to leave I grabbed his wrist and pulled him to me.
"James!" I whispered angrily, his face, which was once soft and gentle, was now angered and filled with rage. He tried to pull away but I pulled him next to me onto the couch and sat on him.
"I don't care. I don't care what's going through your messed up head or why you punched your younger brother, or what happened in that forest. I care about what happened to my favorite cousin, to my brother because my real one sucked. I care about what happened to my James." I said quietly, and I hadn't even realized it was true until I said it.
"Rose, I missed you!" He said as we got up and I gave him a hug, he buried his face in my shoulder and I sighed, I had finally gotten my James back.
"I'm so, so sorry, I never meant- I just got so…angry, I couldn't control it." His shoulders shuddered and I realized he was crying. I hadn't seen James cry since we were a kid and Lily was in the hospital, she was sick for six months but made a full recovery.
"It's- ok, well no, it's not ok. What you did was horrid but I forgive you and I know everyone else will too, you just- need to explain. You've kept us all in the dark when we're the people you've known all your life." I said as I gave him a pearl white tissue, he nodded gratefully before sinking to the floor, his head in his knees.
"I don't know what to do, it's so horrible I can't- I can't even think about it without getting angry." I nodded, I didn't know what had happened but I knew it was so bad that it just needed time. Isn't that what they say healed everything? But what if you couldn't wait? Couldn't wait the weeks, months, years, which come with healing.
"James, I can't lose you again, you can't get all angry and hurt someone. Please, just think about talking to me." I whispered before I stoop up and glided to my room. I knew I wasn't going to be able to sleep but I couldn't stay there with him. I hadn't forgiven him. He was the one person I could rely on to make me laugh when I was going to cry and instead he made fun of me. How could I forgive a person like that?

Scorpius's POV:

I got Rose's reply and smiled, I knew I needed to talk to Paige, but that could wait another day…right?
"JAKE! I SWEAR IF YOU TAKE ONE MORE STEP I WILL CRUCIO YOU!" I heard Paige scream…maybe it couldn't wait. I ran downstairs to see Paige holding her wand to Jake's chest; there was a look in her eye that told me she could Crucio James if she wanted to.

"Paige," I whispered as I pulled her into my chest, she burst into sobs and ran into my dorm, I followed her up and wrapped her in a long hug.
"Scorpius, why did I do it?" she asked into my shoulder, I tilted her chin up, curious.
"Do what Paige?" I hadn't seen Paige this mad in a while and I was almost too afraid to ask what she had done.
"I-I know what happened in the forest." She whispered and I gasped, only two people knew what had happened, and those two would be pretty messed up for a while.
"What-How?" I pressed; I didn't really care what had happened, Rose would probably tell me. Now that we were back together, I was thrilled about that but since there were so many other bad things it was hard to enjoy it.

"No Scorpius, I can't- not now, it's too soon." She said before she got up and walked out of the room. That was Paige, broken one second, repaired the next. Even if some of her were still broken she'd pretend they weren't until someone forced her.

"Christmas break is coming." I said and she turned around, she gave me a small smile.
"And we're not going to Malfoy Manor." She said with a grin. I smiled and decided to find Rose, I knew this would be the last time I'd see her for a while.

I found Rose in the library, her nose in a book. Her red curls fell next to her, popping out more brightly than ever.
"Rose," I said and she looked up at me, her eyes brimming with tears. I sat next to her and hugged her, the sweet scent of vanilla and green apples. She gave me a half smile before resting her head against my chest, I smiled and softly closed my eyes, and I could just live in this moment forever. Forever just Rose and I, everything all right, with all our problems gone, vanished.
"Scorpius, why don't you tell me anything?" she asked calmly, her eyes still closed. My eyes sprung open and I sputtered, trying to tell her that I did tell her things.
"Yes, you do tell me things, but not important things, you never tell me things that are important to you. You know me, I'm an open book, so why is it I've never even heard you mention anything relatively important." She said, still on my chest. I squirmed restlessly, she wouldn't understand, and then again, it was Rose.
"Please, tell me, I just- you can trust me, and I don't know if you do." She went on and I bit my lip uncertainty. She got up and looked at me, her brown eyes melting me as her hair fell into her face.
"I-" I took a deep breath, I'd only ever told one person, Paige, but I'd known her since as long as I could remember, I had just met Rose this year, but she was Rose. My Rose.
"I-"

"I-I can't." I said before I grabbed my books and hurried out of the library, I couldn't stand the thought of her knowing, knowing the real Scorpius. The one hidden behind childish jokes and snarky smirks. The one that had been buried for so long that he was barely recognizable.

If she knew the real Scorpius she'd be gone. She'd never forgive me.

Rose's POV:

I bit my lip as I saw him leave. I knew I pushed him and I knew there was a chance he would leave but I had really thought he'd tell me, at least something, a childhood prank, a small secret that multiple people already knew. Anything.

I just buried my nose back in my book, defeated, there was no point in going after him, and he'd just keep on running until he felt he was far enough away from me.

It was then that I saw Alice walking in, her robes were open revealing a short mini black skirt and a low top, she walked in giggling, holding onto the arm of none other than Hugo. I ducked behind one of the shelves and spied, yes, spied, what else was I supposed to do?
"Hugo! I really suck at Herbology want to help me?" She asked as she leaned forward, I decided I'd had enough and slipped out of the library, gross.

I went back to the Common Room and found James laughing with a few of his friends, I smiled and put all of Alice and Scorpius's drama behind me as I walked up to James and Lily.
"James!" Lily screeched as he gave her a piggyback ride around the Common Room. I laughed and sat back in one of the chairs, watching Lily get her brother back.
"Rose! Come help me!" Lily said as she ambushed James, I sprung up and ran over, helping to pin him down as Lily tickled him. James quickly had me on the ground as we were running around like lunatics having fun. James was running at top speed and ran into a person, they went tumbling down and James fell on the ground laughing, it was Albus.
"James." He said before he yanked open the Common Room door and raced through. James tried to run after him but I held him back, Albus needed space, not a constant reminder of what his hero had done.

The next week went by quickly; James was slowly getting back to normal yet Scorpius was still keeping his distance. One day in potions I decided to talk to him, we couldn't go on forever not talking to each other.
"Psst, hey Scorpius!" I said, he turned around, gave me a small smile, and then turned back to his friends. I gulped and turned to Teddy, Alice was skipping, which she hadn't done until she started hanging out with Hugo.
"Teddy, I tell you everything right? And you tell me everything right?" I asked and Teddy looked at me strangely.
"'Course Rose, why? Is something wrong?" He asked worriedly. Duh everything's wrong, why else would I be asking you that?
"No, well, yes, well it's not that, it's just that I have a secret, sorta." I said as I absentmindedly flipped through my Potions book pages.
"Rose, wanna talk later?" I heard Scorpius said and he gave me a tight smile and a pointed look towards Teddy, I shrugged and nodded.
"What was that about? I've never seen you guys talk," Teddy said but went back to his work.

After class I raced out of there and up to the Common Room.

Scorpius,

Yeah, we do need to talk! You think you can butt in right when I'm talking to Teddy and you say we need to talk when I've been trying to get you to talk for a week? Yeah, talking would help. But I don't know if I even want to talk to you.

Rose.

I sent Ace with it and cringed as he flew away, I knew this was going to end badly but I was so infuriated with him I couldn't think of anything else to do. Ten minutes later came a reply.

Rose,

I'm sorry you feel that way, I've had private family matters going on and I've been very busy and worried, if you would like to talk I'll be at the library until 9 tonight studying.

Scorpius.

I could feel his hurt through the letter but his formalness made me angrier. I paced around my room until 4, then went to study in the Common Room until 5, ate dinner until 6, paced until 7, studied until 8, and at 8:30 I made my choice. I went.

At 8:35 I walked into the library to see it almost deserted, I walked to our normal table but he wasn't there, he was an aisle across studying by himself. Had things gotten that bad?
"Scorpius?" I whispered and he jumped, he had been so immersed he hadn't even noticed me.
"Rose, you said we needed to talk?" He asked point-blank, no small talk, no lovey-dovey. Oh gosh.
"You don't want me to tell anyone," Well now it was just rapid fire.
"That's right."
"Why not?"
"Why not."
"Scorpius, listen, we really need to talk."
"I thought you didn't want to talk."
"I was angry, wasn't thinking."
"I've realized you were angry but I think you were thinking." He said and I frowned but sat down, this was going to take a while. "I've had a lot of time to think, from 5-now I've been studying and thinking. At first I was nervous, that you wouldn't show, then sad that things had gotten like this, then annoyed that you'd let them get like this, and finally understanding, that you don't know me so you couldn't have fixed things."
"I don't know you because you wont let me." I said back, it was true and we both knew it.

"Because I won't let you? You never tried to talk to me for the whole week! And you don't seem to care about why I was so intent on not talking to you. I-just-I think we're not right for each other. We're done Rose."

I'll post another chapter tonight probably, R&R!