-Smile-

Come Together

Scorpius sat in his bedroom, looking at the photo album of his past five years with his friends. There were pictures of Al, Rose and him on Christmas of their first year, the trio in the Potters' backyard and some of them individually. He paused on a picture of Albus and his little sister, Lily, playing with the tire swing in the Potters' yard and smiling at the camera. The little Lily in the picture was sitting in the swing spinning herself and appeared to be laughing, while Albus continued to push her higher. After a few seconds, they went back to looking at Scorpius with the same bright smiles as before.

Scorpius looked at Lily in the picture and felt his own lips lifting into a smile. He turned the page and there was a picture of just Lily under the big oak at Hogwarts, smiling at him. He just sat and looked at the photograph while the wind flipped her hair around her head and she was laughing at a hilarious joke, her teeth twinkling from the flash of the camera.

The sixteen year old boy sat in his room at that picture for almost five minutes before he realized he was, in fact, staring at his best friend's little sister. Shaking his head to clear the thoughts of Lily he was having, he turned the page again to find a picture of the whole Weasley/Potter family standing in front of the Burrow, waving. Lily and Rose were standing in the front, being part of the shortest kids. Will she just leave my mind? Scorpius almost screamed internally, You just can't have her. Plus she wouldn't want you, she can have almost any guy in the school if he wanted them.

"Plus why would a Potter want to be with a Malfoy?" he spoke out loud this time. "It would be like cold and hot getting together. A tornado of destruction."

The next morning Scorpius got a letter from the Potter children's owl, Felix. He opened it, expecting to find the letter to be written in Al's rough scroll, but it was Lily's neat handwriting.

He opened the letter and started to read.

Dear Scor, (or can I call you Scorpie like Rose does?)

Al doesn't know I'm writing to you so please don't tell him. I'm planning on seeing if Mum and Dad will let me go to Hogsmeade this summer to visit Uncle George. I thought I'd ask you if you wanted to join me. Everyone else is too busy. Al said he had to plan for when you get here in two weeks... yeah right! He's just out with his girlfriend. And Rose is too busy being like her mother ("I have A LOT of summer homework to finish!"). Please reply with Felix when you find out if you can, it would be really cool to hang out, just the two of us.

-Lily

Did she just ask me out? Scorpius's head was filled with repeated questions. Finally he regained some of his composure and asked his father if he could go.

He thought he was going to jump for joy when Draco said yes, and he ran to tell Lily that he could go (with the biggest grin on his face he'd ever had before).

As Felix flew back towards Godric's Hollow, Scorpius let out a sigh. He got to see Lily's wonderful smile again.

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