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Rose's tale

Chapter 21

Scorpius entered Hogwarts with a huge grin on his face, he had met up with one of is favourite girls in the world. They had enjoyed walking around Hogsmeade, sharing ice cream and talking about all their favourite things. Not only that but he had managed to keep Rose away for the whole day. For that, he was relieved, but felt a bit guilty all the same.

"Hey Malfoy!" A voice called from behind him.

He turned round and ducked just in time to see a bread roll fly past him. Sunny stood grasping another roll in her hand. Her black hair was in a wild knotted tornado around her head, a furious expression graced her normally serene and carefree face. Scorpius dodged the other roll as it whistled past his head.

"Sunny! Chill out. What's wrong?" Scorpius asked and carefully backed up against the stone walls near the great hall as Sunny charged towards him.

"What's wrong? You lying, cheating pig." Sunny snarled and whipped out her wand from her waistband.

"I may not be Ravenclaw standard, but I can fire an excellent bat bogey hex if needs be." She growled and poked the wand in his neck.

Scorpius grasped her wrists and yanked the wand out of her hand.

"You may be Rose's best friend, but I don't appreciate being threatened. Now tell me what I have done to make you this insane!" Scorpius said in a deadly voice.

Sunny noticed the menacing flash in his eyes and knew he meant business. But his was Rose, the only girl to befriend her on her first day here. Rose had always stood up and cared for Sunny, it was about time Sunny did the same.

"Just stay away from Rose. Or I swear I won't be responsible for my actions Scorpius." Sunny spat and pulled her wrists out of his grasp.

Scorpius watched Sunny storm off in the direction of Gryffindor tower, he needed to speak to Rose before Sunny got to her.

Thinking on his feet, Scorpius performed the first spell that came to mind.

"Accio broom!"

Rose fluffed her pillows for the third time before straightening her duvet cover for the fifth time. She swept the floor again, then went over to Sunny's bed and drew back the curtains with the ties; she stripped Sunny's bed and recovered her pillows with new sheets. Then she carefully folded her pyjamas and laid them on her clean pillow. She went back to her bed and picked up her hippogriff nightgown, breathing in the homely smell that never went away from her clothes made her want to sob. She had never wanted her parents so much before in her life.

Rose couldn't take it any longer; she released a frustrated screech and sank to the floor. Not crying but breathing in huge, shaking gulps of air. Her chest felt tight and it hurt to even breathe, but she wouldn't give into the tears yet. If she did then she wouldn't be able to stop for a while. And Rose had business to take care of.

She leapt to her feet when she heard a sharp rap on the window, startled she turned to see Scorpius floating on his broom outside.

"Open up Rosie!" He cried as he tried to reach for the window handle. His broom tipped precariously and he clutched onto it before reaching out again.

Rose eyed him in disbelief. How dare he try and come into the girl's dorm! Rose felt a white hot stab of anger course through her, and was even more infuriated when her heart started to flutter at the sight of Scorpius.

She strode over to the window and glared at Scorpius' smiling face; she opened the window and stood in front of it, blocking the entrance. Rose crossed her hands over her chest and stared at Scorpius.

"May I come in Rosie?" Scorpius asked with his trademark smile, he hovered closer to the open window until he and Rose were almost eye level.

"No." Rose spat and went to shut the window, but Scorpius reached out and grasped her hand.

"Please. Rose." Scorpius gasped as he tried to remain balanced on his broom, Rose noticed that the wind was picking up; she felt a raindrop splash on her nose that was peeking out the window, soon fat drops of water were soaking Scorpius, who was only wearing jeans and a t-shirt.

Damn you weather, Rose thought as she stepped aside for Scorpius to fly in.

He performed a few charms and soon he was warm and dry, he turned to the door and locked it before turning and facing Rose, who had shut the window and was now leaning against it.

"Can you explain to me what I've done wrong? Did I miss our four month anniversary or something?" Scorpius joked and flopped down on Rose's bed.

"No, because we are no longer together, therefore we no longer have anniversaries." Rose replied in a calm voice. On the outside she seemed strong and sure. But inside she was struggling not to cry.

Scorpius sat bolt upright on Rose's bed. He started to shake his head back and forth. For a minute Rose thought he had gone a bit loopy but he regained his composure and strode over to Rose, he gripped her shoulders and bent to stare into her eyes.

"What?" His voice was flat and echoed around the empty dormitory like the crack of a whip.

"I saw you. I saw you with her. If you think that you can just go around shagging other girls while I skip around Hogsmeade with Sunny then you are sorely mistaken!" Rose screamed at him, trying to struggle out of his strong grip.

Rose lost it; fat tears tumbled down her cheeks as she pulled out her wand with the hand she had managed to free from his grip.

"Get out. Never speak to me again." She whispered in a trembling voice as she pointed the wand at Scorpius.

For the second time that day Scorpius grabbed Rose's wand out of her hand and threw it on the bed.

"What are you talking about?" He growled and grabbed Rose as she tried to lunge for her wand.

"I'm talking about that black haired girl you were sharing an ice cream with today at Hogsmeade. The one who lovingly wiped the ice cream off your cheek, you know the one who you kissed!" Rose cried.

The room was so silent that you could have heard a pin drop. Suddenly Scorpius released Rose from his grip, at first Rose thought he was shaking with tears. She then realised that he was laughing.

Laughing!

Loud peals of laughter echoed around the room, huge chortles of glee burst out from his as he sank to the floor in weakness.

"YOU COMPLETE ARSE SCORPIUS MALFOY!" Rose screamed and grabbed for her wand, she pointed it at his laughing form and released a string of hexes and jinxes.

His once laughing form soon turned into cries of pain. Rose realised that she had performed one to many stinging jinxes as his body convulsed and then went still.

"Scorpius?" She whispered at his now still body. She knelt next to him and shook his arm, which was covering his face.

Worry pooled in Rose chest as she started to breathe heavily, she shook him once again before moving his arms and placing her head on his chest to listen for a heartbeat.

Suddenly Scorpius' arms circled Rose and engulfed her in a huge bear hug; he ignored her flails and cries of protests as he rolled on top of her, forming a cage with her body so she couldn't escape.

"You are a complete dick Malfoy; I am never going to speak to you again. I hate you!" Rose growled as she tried to struggle out from under his body.

"She is my cousin, you idiot." Scorpius said loudly to cover Rose's insults that still flowed form her mouth.

Rose stopped growling profanities and stared at Scorpius.

"She's what?" She whispered up at Scorpius' smirking face.

"My Aunt Daphne had an illegitimate child with a muggle. She's called Jade and she goes to Beauxbatons. Jade didn't want anyone to know about our meeting in Hogsmeade because she thought people would make fun of me for having a half-blooded bastard cousin. I tried to reason with her but she wasn't ready and she made me swear not to tell anyone. That was the girl I was sharing an ice cream with, she was the one I kissed on the forehead because I love her, but not in that way, you stupid, proud idiotic girl." Scorpius finished and looked Rose in the yes to try and gauge her reaction.

"Oh." Rose replied as a blush crept up her cheeks, soon her whole face was an unattractive red and she tried to cover her face with her hands.

"That's probably the cutest thing I have ever seen." Scorpius chuckled as he removed Rose's hands.

Rose looked him in the eyes. She had been such an idiot.

"Scorpius, I am so sorry…" She whispered, she wanted desperately to hug him and never let go but she knew that she had been in the wrong and didn't want to push it.

"It wasn't your fault, I should have said something, anything at least. Now come and hug me, silly girl." Scorpius sighed and Rose nestled into his neck.

The door to the dormitories suddenly flew open, to reveal Sunny. Albus wasn't far behind, hovering on his broom.

"Finally!" Sunny cried, and then she caught sight of Rose and Scorpius together.

"Merlin's beard Rose. You have some explaining to do…"

Hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Now….

Question time

Do you think Jade should be more included in this fanfic? Or perhaps a different one?

And what is your favourite place to visit?

Mine is Gran Canaria 3