I was up before sunrise. I woke at half past six and couldn't go back to sleep. So I got dressed and went outside for a stroll on the beach.

The sunrise was beautiful as I walked along the beach, the waters lightly hitting my feet. The air as slightly cool but the rays of the rising sun delicately caressed my skin and kept me warm.

I liked the morning silence. I could see and hear no one but the waves hitting the sand. It made me want to not think of anything, to clear my mind and let the sound take over my thoughts.

But, being me, that lasted for a good few seconds. All too soon, I started to ponder at the last few days. My mind drifted to that morning conversation I had with Scorpius about me. About who I am and what I aspired to be in life. I remembered how for
the last two years, the very notion of thinking about that subject would give me anxiety. But now, I realized I should let things happen. Like the waves, I'd let the sea lead me to where I need to go, hoping I won't meet my crashing point but lightly
dissolve into another wave.

The Auror tryouts were next week, and I decided to fully give it my all. I still wasn't sure if that was my true destiny, but I knew for sure that I wanted to be able to help people, and maybe being an Auror was my way to accomplish that.

As my stomach grumbled, I decided that my ponder time was due to finish and headed back to the Mansion.

Upon entering the kitchen, I met with a smiling Roxy.

"You're up early." I said with an air of disbelief.

She looked up from her coffee.

"Oh.. Yeah.. I just woke up." She said with a shrug and a little smile.

"So…." I drawled as I poured a cup of coffee for myself, coming up to lean my back against the counter next to her.

"So?" She didn't meet my eye.

"Spill already!" I was excited to hear what happened after I left.

"We kissed." She smiled into her coffee. "And he told me he wanted to do that for the longest time but didn't think I would be in to him because of the previous guys I dated, said I had a "type" and he didn't fit that."

"You do have a type, or well, you did till now." I laughed. As we were talking, I piled every breakfast item known to men and started munching.

"I felt it just.. click between us. He feels right." She almost whispered.

"Awww, I'm so happy for you! You deserve someone that will be good to you." I smiled big.

"Cheers to that." She giggled. We sipped our coffee in a moment of silence.

"And…?" I drawled again.

"And what?" She asked confused.

"How was the shag?" I pried.

"There wasn't any shagging." She said nonchalantly.

"Nothing?"

"Nope."

"Clothes came off?"

"Everything stayed in its place."

"Groping?" I was a bit bewildered at this point. Roxy is known to jump the guy if she was into him and not wait for a few more dates before shagging.

"We literally just kissed." She said dismissingly.

"Huh." I said, still confused.

"I don't want to ruin it with the sex. Not that the sex will be bad, but I want to do this the proper way. I want to get to know him, and he to know me better. And I want the sex to be out of more sincere feelings than pure lust or need to get off." She
said seriously. Which, coming from Roxy, was weird.

"Did we somehow switch bodies and I wasn't aware of it? Because you're sounding like me.." Or more like who I used to be. I nervous laughed.

She giggled, "Maybe it's just me realizing what love really is and I want to try harder for him."

I smiled in understanding, "I get that."

"Don't look so down! You'll find someone like that too." She said.

"Was I looking down?" I didn't even realize. She nodded. "I seriously wasn't feeling down. I'm happy for you. And I'm in no rush to meet the love of my life right now. I'm just short of 18, I've still got time." I laughed. I really did feel that way.

"All of this sappy talk is making me feel a bit cringy…" She said shivering.

"Glad to see the Roxy I know is still in there!" We both laughed.

We continued stuffing our faces in various breakfast foods until the rest of the house woke. As it was our last day, we decided to lay out by the pool to make the most out of the blazing sun, as we were sure to miss it in England.

Throughout the day, I noticed something was up with Alice. She seemed to ignore me and yet I'd catch her looking at me a lot more than usual, with a face I didn't quite understand.

Right after lunch, I decided I've had it with that.

"Alice." I called as we were cleaning up after lunch.

"What?" She asked, not looking at me.

I took her elbow and dragged her down that hall where no one was around.

"What is your problem?" I demanded.

"Nothing." She said, unconvincingly. I stared her down.

"Okay…" She gave up real quick. "I saw you." She said not looking at me.

"Saw me..?" I tried to fish for more information than that.

"Last night. In the hot tub. With Scorpius's dick right up in you."

I was silent, I didn't know what to say.

"I told you yesterday that you would make a nice couple and you said you had no feelings for him. You lied to me. And, I had to keep James from not seeing you." Oh, she was angry.

"I'm sorry you had to see that, but I wasn't lying. I really don't have any feelings towards him, we are just friends. We're not a couple."

"You could have fooled me. You're not one to have sex without being in a relationship. You always say how sex should be something two people in love do."

"I got over that." I said simply.

"That was quick."

"You can't tell anyone! No one knows about this arrangement other than me and Scorpius." I begged.

"What.. arrangement?" Oh no, did I say 'arrangement'. Shit.

"Um… we kind of.. made this deal, that.. we would have sex.. as friends." I struggled with looking at her face.

"For someone as smart as you, you're stupid." She said with a straight face.

"Wha- what do you mean?"

"You should know from the countless movies and tv shows that are centered on friends with benefits or fuck-bodies, that it never truly works."

"Yeah, but those are movies. It could work in real life. It is working for us." I tried to reason.

She let out an exasperated breath, "For now it does." She said dismissingly and began to walk away.

"You won't tell right?" I was frantic.

"Of course I won't! I won't do that to you." She said genuinely.

"Thank you." I smiled.

"If you need to talk about it, I'm here for you."

"You're an angel." I squeezed her shoulders.

"By the way, he has an amazing ass."

I laughed. Don't I know it.

The day went by real fast. I spent most of the afternoon in a wizarding chess match with Al and Scorpius which was so much fun. Al beat both of us, as per usual. He learnt all the strategies from Uncle Harry so it was borderline unfair, but we still tried
to beat him.

"How about we watch a movie?" Tomas suggested after dinner.

"Sure." I agreed.

"No can't do." Dom said with a cheeky smile.

"Why is that, Cuz?" James questioned, already claiming a spot on the snuggliest single coach ever.

"I, have a date." She said proudly.

"With who?" I quirked.

"Only with the most gorgeous, tall, dark and Spanish guy I met yesterday evening." She swooned.

I giggled, "Okay. Have fun, use protection, and remember we leave tomorrow morning." As the reigning responsible adult, it was my duty to say that.

"Yes mom." She said, giggling as she walked out.

"And don't get too drunk because we need all the details from you tomorrow!" Roxy chimed.

Dom's laugh could be heard down the hall.

We settled in the living room. James and Alice snuggling together on the single couch, Roxy and Tomas on the rug lying together and Fred next to them with a beer in hand. I was sitting on the larger coach behind the rug with Scorpius next to me.

"Where's Al?" I noticed he disappeared.

"He went to Clara, probably spend the night there." He said.

"Lucky guy." Fred said.

The movie was on, it was a Fantasy action movie which I wasn't paying much attention to. Fred fell asleep at the begging, probably didn't get enough sleep last night as me and Roxy saw his one night stand leave the Mansion in the morning.

My mind kept drifting to the conversation I had with Alice earlier. If I was being honest with myself, which looks to be a trend with me at the moment, I should be more worried that someone found out about us, even if it was only Alice. But instead, I
was a bit relieved to know someone else shared my secret and they weren't freaking out about it.

At that moment, I realized a peculiar thing. From my current position, being on the large couch, the others couldn't see me, their backs to me. That meant, they couldn't see Scorpius either.

Hmmm. What a girl to do when a movie is not interesting, you're sitting right next to a fine piece of ass, and no one can see you?

Oh the possibilities.

I smirked.

I scooted closer to Scorpius, our thighs now touching. He was well engrossed in the movie, that he didn't even take notice of it.

I reached for the button of his jeans and opened it easily, and still, no indication that he noticed my moves. But as I slid his zipper open, he looked down to my hand and then slowly, followed my limb all the way to my glinting eyes.

He quirked an eyebrow in question.

I bit my lip and reached inside his now opened jeans. He didn't wear underwear.

I palmed his velvety soft length and gave it a slight squeeze. He grunted low and I could feel that vibration on my hand.

"Shhh…" I mouth and pointed out our surroundings.

He looked around and smirked, averting his eyes back to the tv. Scorpius apparently wasn't one who minded public display of affections, even when the affections were steamy and in most countries illegal in public. Oh well..

As I stroked, he began growing hard, now no longer able to be hidden inside his jeans, I freed his cock from its confines.

Thankfully, it was relatively dark as there was no light except for the tv and all the other occupants in the room were either occupied by the movie or themselves, not bothering to look behind them at me, un-shamefully giving Scorpius a hand job.

His breath exhilarated as I went up and down his shaft, taking extra care to squeeze the top more and go all the way down slowly.

His hand came to rest on my thigh and began to lightly stroke my skin until I stilled his hand and lifted it back to his side.

He looked at me in question and I shook my head in decline. It's my turn to torture him now.

He moved his hips up, as if indicating he wanted me to go faster than I was. Oh, how sweet revenge is! I wanted him to be begging me for release.

I continued my slow torture, all the while hearing his low grunts of primal frustration.

I really wanted to take his cock in my mouth but was afraid that might draw attention.

I looked around, Alice fell asleep while James was hypnotized by the film. Tomas and Roxy playing footsie and also watching the movie intently.

Should I?

Shouldn't I?

I unconsciously pumped him faster and he was positively whimpering by now. He looked at me and his eyes were pleading.

So I stopped altogether and put my hands to my lap, gazing at the tv again.

The sound of pure rage and disbelief that came from his throat was just too amusing.

"You minx." He whispered.

I moved my face closer to his.

"What was that?" I asked.

"Finish what you started." He said huskily, indicating his raging hard cock.

"Arg, my hand is all cramped. You can finish it yourself." I gave myself a high five in my head. His mouth was gaping open.

"Please." He begged.

I looked him over. I quite like the look of a pleading helpless Scorpius. Note to self – do this again, whenever possible. Hehe.

I leaned my head down to his lap, taking his cock in my mouth wholly. I swirled my tongue all over his length, from his tip all the way to the base. I bobbed my head fast and sucked hard. And that was all it took for his release.

His moan was low and hushed and I could tell it was killing him not to be able to scream out. He liked being vocal, it was part of the fun. He emptied himself in my mouth and I drank him dry. I cleaned him with my tongue all the while looking up to his
eyes. They were full of heavy lust and appreciation. His mouth was slightly opened, drawing heavy breathes and trying to calm his raging heartbeat.

I tucked him inside his jeans and zipped him up.

"You're welcome." I whispered to his ear.

Load knocking was heard on the window.

"What was that?" Alice asked groggily.

Thank Merlin and the Gods above that that bird came knocking not a second before it did, because then I would have definitely been caught with my mouth around Scorpius's cock. And that wasn't something I could easily explain myself out of.

James got up to the owl that was carrying a letter.

"It's for Scorpius." He said and gave it to him.

He took it suspiciously, "Who could it be at this hour?" He asked himself while looking at me.

He read it and quickly sat up and went for the stairs.

"Hey!" I went after him.

The door to his room was left opened, I saw him spelling his belongings to his case. He changed out of his clothes to clean ones.

"What happened?" I asked, concerned now. I sat on the bed and looked at him, he didn't look frantic or worried, just hasty and composed.

"I have to go." He said while grabbing his now packed case and wand. He went out of the room without a second glance and I followed. He rushed down the stairs to the hall near the entrance.

"Wait a second! Where are you going?" I screamed after him, catching him near the fireplace that was connected to the flow.

He proceeded to spell it to turn on.

I grabbed at his upper hand. "Hey, slow down. What's wrong?" I asked softly.

"It's my mother." He said looking at me finally. "She's in the hospital. It's bad." He said and went to go inside the flow.

"Wait!" He stilled. "I'll go with you." I said as I went to turn around to gather my things.

"No," He said quickly. "I don't need you to come." He said. I know he didn't mean it as an insult, but that stung bad.

I was stilled by his comment and couldn't think fast enough before he was already gone in a flash of green light.

Yes it's late I know! But I wasn't happy with the chapter I wrote before this and I didn't want to rush and post something I really didn't like.

I don't love this chapter either but it's waaaay better than what I had before.

I hope I'm gonna get my inspiration back and be excited again to be writing this story.

Please review!