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POV: Scorpius, Rose, James, Scorpius and then Rose.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter

"Is there something wrong with Rose?" Vincent said from in front of me at the Slytherin table on Wednesday evening (the broom cupboard thing was on Friday). "She looks like she hasn't slept in days."

"Probably asked the guy out she likes and he said no." I said miserably and stabbed my steak with venom.

"Trust me; I'd know if she asked the guy she liked out." Al said.

"How?" I asked him.

Al opened his mouth to say something and then closed it.

"Do you know who it is?" I asked him. He probably did. And why was he withholding crucial information from me

"Yes! Of course I do." Al said exasperatedly.

"Could you tell me?" I asked him.

"No way." He said.

"Please." I pleaded, withdrawing all my Malfoy pride (as you well know, Malfoy's don't plead). "I'll do anything!"

"Sure." Al smirked.

Vincent looked shocked. "You're actually going to tell him!"

"Yes. After he does one thing-"Al's smirk became wider.

"What?" I asked him suspiciously. Al smirking meant something bad for me.

"You just have to ask her out. And then I'll tell you." Al told me and then muttered something under his breath that I didn't catch. (A/n, Al said "If you can't work it out for yourself" under his breath just in case you wanted to know)

"No deal." I backtracked. "You don't have to tell me. I'll work it out another way."

"I hope so." Vince muttered.

"Me too." Al agreed.

"If you two want me to know then why don't you just tell me?" I questioned. Hoping to weasel (a/n no pun intended) an answer out them.

"Because it's not our job to do that." Al said.

"Whatever." I said and tried to forget about the subject.


"You ok Rose?" Bella asked me on Wednesday evening at dinner.

"Not really. I can't work out who it is." I grumbled. I'd stayed up all last night thinking about it. With all of my first clues plus the ones I'd guessed from Bella's reactions the other night I still couldn't come up with anyone.

"It feels so great to finally have beaten you in something." Bella smirked at me.

"You know who it is!" I exclaimed. I was honestly shocked. How come she knew but I'm the one who's been trying to work it out for days?

"Of course I know who it is!" she sighed.

"So who is it?" I asked excitedly.

"I'm not telling you." She said and started cutting up a potato.

"But you're my best friend! How could you not tell me?!" I said horrified.

"Because you need to work it out for yourself." She said.

"No, I need my best friend to tell me who Scorpius Malfoy likes so that I don't go insane!" I snapped.

"No need to get angry Rose. You'll thank me in the end." She said, popping a piece of potato in her mouth.

"I'd thank you right now if you told me." I muttered and took a sip of pumpkin juice.

Bella smiled. She obviously was enjoying herself.

"Well I'll see you in the common room." I said, getting up. "I'm going to the library."

"To do what?" Bella asked.

"To look at the old prophets that always have the top graduates from Hogwarts each year. Maybe he likes one of them." I told her.

Bella just rolled her eyes and I made my way up the Great Hall in between the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff tables. I was just about to walk into the entrance hall when, not looking where I was going, I bummed into someone and fell down. Of course I knew this person all too well.

"Do you enjoy knocking me to the ground?" I asked angrily as I picked myself off the ground and stared into the grey eyes of none other than a Mr Scorpius Malfoy.

"That depends," he replied, "do you enjoy banging into me?"

I flushed. "That depends, do you enjoy being a git."

"Was there any reason for that Weasley?" his perfect lips forming that o-so typical smirk.

"Yes. Because you knocked me to the ground." I continued, more angrily than before. I know it was stupid of me, getting angry, but I just felt the need to take my anger out on someone. Plus he is the one I'm angry at. Well him and this mysterious girl he likes.

"Why do you constantly blame me for everything?" he said angrily, the smirk disappearing.

"Because it's YOUR FAULT!"

"No, it's really not. If you just didn't take everything so bloody PERSONALLY then you wouldn't see a problem with knocking into someone. But of course, you just have to go and blame me. But of course if it had been anyone else you wouldn't have cared!" He was getting angrier, his eyes slowly darkening.

"You're bloody pathetic." I retorted. "You think that I have it in for you or som-"

"YOU DO!" he yelled.

"WHAT ON EARTH MAKES YOU THINK THAT?" I shouted back.

"OH I DON'T KNOW!" he shouted sarcastically. "JUST THE FACT YOU HAVE A GO AT ME EVERY CHANCE YOU GET!"

"YOU'RE EXACTLY THE SAME!"

"No Rose, I WAS the same." His voice dropped in volume. Only then did I notice that most of the hall was watching us. Unfortunately I could feel my ears glowing red.

"What do you mean, you I were the same." I eyed him suspiciously.

"I've been trying to be nice to you all year, in attempts that you wouldn't think I was the jerk to you that I was-"he started.

My ears heard the words and my brain slowly processed them. Thinking about it I realised he was right. All year Scorpius had been nice to me. I was always the one who started everything. It was never him. That time by the lake, he was being genuinely kind.

"I'm sorry." I said quietly. "You're right. I've been an idiot."

"No, you've just been Rose Weasley." He said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I said, somewhat more aggressively than I had planned.

"Just that you're so BOSSY, you're just a freaking GENIUS, you hate ME and always think I hate YOU and you're just so bloody perfect!" he looked upset. He was acting a bit hysterical.

I, however, still had no idea what he was talking about. What the heck did he mean? I just stayed quiet. Hopefully he was going to say something else because I honestly have no idea what he's trying to say. As I was looking at him I noticed he didn't seem angry anymore, nervous if anything.


"Looks like now is the time." Fred muttered as we watched Rose and Scorpius in the doorway to the Great Hall.

"Right you are. Do you what to summon it?" I muttered back.

"Definitely." Fred said and waved his wand under the table. Good thing Charms was his best subject.


So what now, do I tell her? Oh gosh she's going to hex me everywhere. I'm just going to wind up as this massive big ball of pain. In the silence of the Great Hall I chance a glance at Al and Vincent. Al nods and Vincent grins and gives me the thumbs up.

It's now or never I suppose. I've kept it to myself for over a year. Now's the time to finally ask her.


What's he thinking? Never more in my life have I wanted to be able to perform Legilimency. Mind you, that doesn't read people's minds; it just extracts thoughts and feelings. Well I suppose that would still work. As long as he's thinking a thought. Well of course he's thinking a thought. I suppose it doesn't matter really, I can't do it anyway.

"Um Rose?" he said nervously.

"What?" I asked him. I was relieved to hear my voice had lost the aggressiveness that it had had last time I spoke.

"Can you promise not to jinx me when I ask you this?" he asked me. Looking half joking and half deadly serious.

"Depends on what you say." I told him. My eyebrow rose. What was making him so nervous? Did he realise that I liked him and was telling me that he liked someone else? That was probably it.

"Would you like to go out with me?" he asked me, his grey eyes looking directly at my brown ones which were now wide with shock.

Around us I heard the whole hall hold their breath. Everyone was staring at the two of us and the silence that had been in the hall for the last several minutes intensified as no one drew breath.

"You're deadly serious?" I asked him.

"Yes." He said. There was no laughter in his gorgeous eyes.

"Yes." I said quietly.

"Yes you'll go out with me?" he asked me. His eyes were the ones wide with shock now. "Or yes you'll jinx me?" he suddenly looked worried.

"Yes I'll go out with you." I said exasperatedly. "If I was going to jinx you I would have done it already." I closed the distance between us and stood on tip toe to reach his lips.

The ones I'd fanaticised about kissing for months.

It was so much better than I could ever have imagined.


"I love you, you know." I told her when we broke apart.

"I love you too." She smiled. "And I can't believe I've lost sleep getting angry at myself for being the girl you liked."

"Don't worry. I've been jealous of myself." I grinned.

"You should be. You're far too good at snogging for your own good." She smiled as she put her lips to mine for the second time that evening.

Author's note: So what did you think? I quite liked it. I was originally going to have them shout out that they loved each other in the middle of their argument but it just didn't seem to fit. And I like this way better. Plus I wanted one couple to actually agree to going out before they kissed; Scorp and Rose were the only ones left.

I'm actually majorly excited for the next chapter. It's not important or anything but I'm just excited to write it.

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