Rose would have never admit that out loud but she enjoyed that summer. They met twice a week, on Mondays at Potters and on Tuesday in Malfoy Manor for quidditch practice. She liked being part of a team. She was surprised that Gregorys plan of having each chaser from different house actually worked. Scorpius, Albus and Ravenclaw's shy Andrew Corner work together in weird harmony, in spite of different flying styles. With twin Hufflepuffs beaters, she assumed twin beaters are always the best, her as keeper and Gregory as seeker she truly believed they stood a chance.
She experienced many not so typical things. First was that Draco Malfoy, the ex death eater, liked comedies. It turned out after meeting with Ms and Mrs Grzetrzewiński and learning about muggle movies he changed one of rooms into small cinema and almost forced them to watched some with him and Astoria after practice. Her father almost had a heart attack when he heard that his daughter was chilling and eating popcorn with "the Ferret".
Second was the fact that Amortentia was telling the truth. Scorpius Mum was fabulous cook and made the most awesome pancakes. She wouldn't be surprised if she smelled them next time in this love potion. Only hard quidditch stopped her from gaining few pounds.
Although she was having good fun, during all the summer she never talked with Scorpius, except from good morning or sentences like pass me the salt. They avoided each other and when their eyes met they would look quickly at something else. Gregory was a little afraid that they would never be able to recover and he would be stuck in awkward silence forever. That, and he missed how they challenged each other.
No matter how they tried to forget their situation and avoid all of confrontations they faced them in Hogwarts Express. When Rose entered Heads compartment, Scorpius was already there. She looked at him, and she couldn't hold it any longer.
"I have enough. Can I hit you, shout at you, hex you or something? This polite I don't notice your existence is making me sick"
Scorpius at first didn't say anything for a while, so Rose thought that she cross the line.
"This is pathetic" he responded.
"What?" she felt offended. "I mean, look at us. We used to have such fiery clashes. Now, we are so helpless. We have to learn how to coexist again. Right from the start" He explained.
Rose took a deep breath and sat next to him, far too close for her or his liking. She threw away her shoes and hugged her legs. She put her chin on her knees and make a long whistling sound while exhaling making cute frown.
Scorpius looked at her. He was aware of the need to break the chain of hatred and misunderstanding. He just hoped that he would not be crossing the line and understand her intention. He leaned over her, put arm around her and side hugged her.
At first she stiffed but then after a second she accepted new form of contact between them and make herself more comfortable and cuddled into him.
"I believe we are overcomplicating this. You are smart, caring, good at quidditch, sarcastic and Merlin I don't believe I am saying this, handsome. Why can't we be friends?" Rose said and probably for the first time she smiled at Scorpius.
"I am handsome?" he cocked an eyebrow at her.
She rolled her eyes "I am not going to live that one, don't I?"
"No. I am going to repeat that for a long long time. Rose Weasley, while hugging me said I was handsome"
"Are you making me hate you on purpose? she asked him and elbowed him. "You want us to came back to fighting, right? You cannot leave me alone, you need to make me furious" She started to fired up.
"shh… easy sweetheart, don't get worked up" he said while he pet her head, he leaned forward and kissed her forehead. She lifted her head to meet his eyes.
"So this is real Scorpius Malfoy. When everybody were accusing you on being next Voldemort or head death eater, you were secretly mastering being soft dumpling, huh" she smirked at him.
He laughed out loud. "Yes, that's exactly what I was doing behind your back. Dueling with you was only a cover of me being soft kitten"
Exactly in this moment, Gregory entered the compartment.
"Whaaaaat…?" His jaw dropped low. They looked at him, and again at themselves and understood that their position was the last thing Gregory would imagine to came across. "I… why… you… I mean, I am sorry to interrupt" he turned around and closed doors. He opened them again and added: "That's why people should knock, damn it"
For a moment they were frozen but later they started laughing very loud.
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Autor's note:
No, I have never entered room without knocking and I've never interrupted 2 people... No, it was my evil twin that I have while being an only child... People, knock, for your own sake.
