Scorpious kissed Grace passionately, or at least he tried.

But every time he closed his eyes he didn't feel like he was kissing Grace. He pictured her hair red and her skin paler and splattered with small freckles.

He grabbed her bottom, but somehow that felt wrong, so he pulled it up slowly to her waist. But Grace had other plans and placed it back where it was, and Scorpious thought about the low self-respect she had letting him do pretty much anything he wanted on the second time they have ever talked to each other instead of letting his instincts get carried away.

"Focus Scorpious… You're making out with a hot chick that was all you needed before, what the hell?! Her ass is fine… focus… NO! Un-focus. Just…"

He quickly grabbed her ass with his other hand too. But it didn't feel any better…

Meanwhile Grace was kissing his neck already half way through unbuttoning his shirt.

He couldn't do that anymore… it was agonizing more than satisfying, so he just stoped.

"What's wrong, honey…?" Grace said moving her mouth back to his though a line on small kisses on his jaw line.

Scorpious turned his face away from hers.

Grace immediately stopped, and stepped back.

"Scorpious?" She asked.

Scorpious had to clear his throat to be able to speak. He felt so overwhelmed and yet empty.

"Sorry, I don't feel so well…"

"What?!" Grace said getting more apprehensive and stepping back again, and so they were not touching anymore and Scorpious felt relieved. "Like, right now?!"

"Yeah… I… I got to go…" He said as he opened the broom closet door abruptly and with a clumsiness that wasn't his…

He started walking away as fast as possible. Grace called for him but he pretended he didn't listen. He went through the hall as if they were empty and he was invisible.

That was weird… He had never felt that way before…It was like he didn't want to make out anymore. Well at least not with Grace…

Something was wrong, maybe he was sick, maybe he was going mad. He needed to be alone, he needed to think, or not… maybe he needed to stop thinking…

"I need to get way…" He thought.

He found himself in the library. Books always calmed him down. Books were a good distraction from whatever was bothering him.

He took a deep breath and feel relieved. Like everything could just be back to normal.

At that point life sent a grim reminder that, his wishes were impossible. Because in his favorite spot was a red-headed girl looking through the window with an almost angelic look but watery eyes.

"No!" He thought. This couldn't be.

He ran.

It was forbidden to run in the corridors. Sorpious didn't care. Everyone was staring at him. But still he didn't care.

Scorpious only stopped when he arrived at the lake. Only then he took a deep breath and sat in the grass with his hands buried in his completely messy hair.

Even in his safest place, even there she couldn't stay way. What was wrong with him? It looked like suddenly his life revolved around Rose Weasley. Like everything he did was connected to her one way or another! If he happen to read a book a voice in his head would say: "Rose probably red this one too." Or "Have you noticed how much that character is like Rose". If he went to bed all he could think of was what sort of pajamas did Rose wore, or that she was probably asleep by then… Even that freaking lake reminded him of one argument they had near that place.

He needed to get away from her! Never to see her again! But how? They were in the same school! They had detention!

No! This is nothing. It's a phase… remember? You are not running away from anyone. Especially not Rose Weasley.

-X-

Rose starred at the other side of the castle from the window and wiped a tear from her eyes.

She quickly made sure that no one was watching her. She hatted crying in public!

"This is crazy…" She thought, "I'm going insane… Why did that bothered me so much?!" She got up. Tears were burning in her eyes again. She needed to go to a place where no one could see her.

Rose got up with her head low. Not even the library could make her feel good at that point. She tried to go though people without them noticing her and as she rushed through the Gryffindor common room and locked herself in her bedroom, she sat down against the door.

Rose felt trapped and lost, she felt like no one would understand her and she was all alone in a mess that she didn't even understand.

"Rose?"

"Oh, bloody hell!" she thought. Jannie was standing in from of her. Rose tried to look away so that she wouldn't see her face.

"Oh, hey! What's up?" Rose said trying as hard as she could to sound normal and getting up. "I was just…hum… Resting a bit."

"Yeah… And I'm a unicorn princess…" Joked Jannie yet with a straight face. Yet Rose avoided looking at her so that she wouldn't see her red watery eyes.

"You know I can see you've been crying, right? Your nose gets all red too…" She said sitting in her bed calmly... "Rose, I know things aren't alright with you…"

Rose opened her mouth to protest and lie once more but Jannie cut her of:

"But also know you don't want to tell me about it… You complain a lot about your dad's stubbornness but you're exactly the same… So your just listen for a moment, now."

"Rosie, you are my best friend. You and Al are the 2 persons in the whole world with whom I would trust my life." Rose knew it was serious because Jannie never said that sort of meaningful things if it wasn't so she sat in the bed in front of Jannie's. There was no purpose on hiding her face, she knew she was crying, so Rose looked at her.

"I'm not gonna lie and tell that it is ok for you not to tell us what is going on, because it isn't. And you know I've made that mistake before and I seriously regretted it after… I still do."

"But we're fine now" Rose said slowly.

"Yes we are. And I'm very grateful… but for a while we weren't… and for a while I thought we would never be ok again. And it hurt you because felt like I didn't trust you even though I was doing what I thought it was best.

And you know you need to talk, Rose. You have no need to go through whatever you are going through now, by yourself. We are by your side! We want you to share your best moments with us but also your worst too. We are like family… Well you and Al really are family but… you know, we will not judge you or…"

"You don't know that…" Rose said looking away getting angry. How could she possibly know that?

"But I do. Would you judje me if I was in pain, and when I shared my pain with you?"

"No but…"

"So we aren't going to do that! I know that you…"

"No! You don't know!" Rose said getting up angry. "You don't know anything!"

Jannie got up at that point too getting less calm but still confident and not angry.

"So tell me! Tell me! You're right I don't know, but if you tell me I will! I promise you, whatever you have to say, say it. I will not judge you! You have my word! I will be your friend just the same as I was before! And if you did something that might hurt me, I will find it in my heart to forgive you, just like you did to me!"

"It's not like that..." Said Rose sitting back down, with her head in her hands.

Jannie sat down to: "So what is it like? What is going on?"

"I don't know Jannie… Ok?!" Said Rose raising her voice again. "I don't know what is happening to me! One moment everything was normal and ok, and the other I… just… I don't know!"

She waited for Jannie to say something but she didn't. Rose took a deep breath and said looking away.

"It's like… since this stupid detention started that my world is upside down! I just… can't stop getting…affected by him."

"Him?" Jannie said.

"Oh don't pretend like you don't know who I'm talking about… Don't make me say it out loud." Rose argued looking away. She was really red at that time.

"Scorpious Malfoy" Jannie said dropping the bomb and Rose heart felt like it skipped a beat, and pounding really fast against her chest.

"I was like, I actually started worring about him, and when I saw him in the enfremery it was soo weird… we didn't argue you know? He even… smiled at me…" Rose smiled while saing that but only Jannie noticed that. " We were like regular people… And I thought that everything was going back to normal. We would argue… not giving a damn about each other… but that didn't happen. It got worse! Everything was about him! I got funny when I was with him and then that last detention before Christmas holidays… we kissed."

Jannie almost couldn't hide her surprise but still she said slowly:

"You guys… kissed? Like in the mouth?"

"Yeah…" Rose said. More and more embarrassed.

"And how was it?" Jannie said getting exited and smiling.

Rose was surprised. She wasn't angry or disappointed… she was actually happy?

"What?! Were you expecting me to go like "Rose how could you do that, the Malfoys are this and that and he is this and that…"?"

"Kind of…" Rose confessed looking down.

"Rose I'm not your dad. I'm your friend and a really girly girl so... I don't really care! If you like him…"

"I DON'T!" Rose said really quickly. "I don't like him, ok?! It is just a… thing! Ok? A one time thing! Like from the moment!"

"So why are you crying now?" Jannie asked.

"I…" Rose mumbled. Why was she crying? "I don't know… I feel like I was… Oh forget it… It's crap! He is crap! He is an idiot! He doesn't care about anyone… he just wants to use girls like Eve and me and… Grace Stone…"

"Grace Stone?"

"Yeah… The one he was doing in the broom closet a like an hour ago." Said Rose with disgust.

"Oh! So that is why you were crying…"

"I'm not jealous!" Rose yelled getting defensive.

"I never said that…" Jannie answered. Rose felt really embarrassed… "Well if you say you don't like him…"

"I don't!" Interrupted Rose.

"So maybe it's just an attraction…" Jannie said trying to calm her down. "Like, He is really cute… maybe he is attractive and you guys might have some chemistry..." Before Rose tried to interrupt her Jannie added "Witch happens all the time with a lot of different people, and it don't mean you like LIKE them."

Rose kept quiet. It didn't feel like that but I was the only explanation. Because she certainly didn't like him.

"Yeah… that is probably it…" Rose said with a low voice.

They kept quiet for a while. Until Rose said:

"How do I make it stop?"

"Stop?"

"Yeah… I don't want to feel… hum… attracted to him anymore. I mean I never wanted but… you got it. How do I stop it?"

"I don't know…" Jannie confessed. " But you have a date on Sunday so I gess that might help…"

Rose forgot all about that again…

"Oh right… a date…"

Jannie smiled and got up saying:

"Don't worry it will be fun! At least you might make him jealous."

"What?" Rose said getting weirdly exited.

"I mean that he is probably feeling as confused and weird as you are. You guys kissed. That means he wanted to kiss you, sooo… that can't mean nothing to him, right?" Said Jannie.

Rose felt a bit better after that…

"Now come on… let's go downstairs, drink a couple or butter beers with the other girls and head to bed."

Rose got up. She felt a lot better after that talk. More than she wanted to admit. Jannie really was a good friend, she thought as she stood up and smiled.

"Jannie…" Rose called as they walked down the stairs.

"Yeah?"

"Don't tell Al. Not yet."

Jannie looked at her for a bit. She knew Rose wasn't ready to face her cousin even thought he would be more comprehensive than what she thought.

"Sure thing"

I know I don't updated for months and them babom! a new chapter but… oh well! It's better that nothing! I think…

I hope you guys liked it! And I promise more of our beloved couple next chapter. THAT WONT TAKE LONG! Probably…

PEACE

RITTA OUT!