Scorpius's POV

"What are you thinking about" I ask.

Char shrugs. "Just thinking."

I laugh. "You have to be thinking about something," I say with a smile.

"Honestly it's nothing." I'm about to press further when Al comes towards our table and flops down next to me. He looks awful, dark circles under his eyes, his face looks a little green and his hair is sticking out in a dozen different directions.

"Here Al drink some pumpkin juice, you need to get rid of that hangover." Damn I feel bad for the poor bloke. What would have provoked him to drink so much?

"Thanks man." Al barely looks up as he tries to down the drink I just poured him.

"Did something happen last night?"

Al finally looks up and he and Char say at the same time, "nope!" that's weird. I give Charlotte a weird look, I wasn't asking her.

"You sure? Because I heard you and Ana broke up again. But that this time it was bad."

"Oh that. Yeah I guess you could say we broke up. I didn't know you were talking about that."

"What else would I be talking about?" I ask incredulously, "You happen to be looking at the bloke who put you to bed last night, along with this wonderful lady." I say nodding over to Charlotte.

Al takes a big gulp of pumpkin juice. "I just want to go back to bed… my head is throbbing."

"That's what happens when you mix fireball rum and fire whiskey." Alec says as he sits down next to Charlotte.

"Hey where was professor Sinistra last night?" I ask Alec. Our head of household was surprisingly absent last night.

With a confident smile Alec looks around to make sure no one is listening, "I took care of her." He says in a shushed tone.

Charlotte looks horrified "I can't believe you Alec!" All I can do is chuckle; parties are so much better when the professors don't hear about them. I look over to Al who has his head in his hands; I doubt he's even listening.

We see professor Sinistra start handing out timetable's as students start getting up and heading to their first class of the morning. When she gets to our little group she hands out the timetables and I take Al's for him.

"Who has Herbology first with Al?"

I do." Alec says, "Need to learn all about those herbs now don't we." He winks at Charlotte and I shake my head.

"Here take this bottle of pumpkin juice to go and give it to Al halfway through class. I don't want him being sick on the first day okay." I pass the closed bottle to Alec and start patting Al's back. "I have class with him before lunch so I'll get him some more then."

Everyone nods understandingly. We've all been there. Charlotte gets up and waves towards Hayley who I'm guessing she has class with. "Bye guys, see you at lunch!" and with one final wave she's gone.

"Alright big boy time to get you to class." I say to Al.

"No I don't want to." He wines which only makes Alec and I laugh.

"Oh no I think Ana is making her way over here..."

And he's up and halfway to the doors before I can finish my sentence. Typical.

Charlotte POV

Walking to class with Hayley is basically like reading a gossip magazine. This girl knows everything. As we walk towards towards the forbidden forest for our care of magical creatures lesson I feel as though I've heard enough stupid gossip and I'm about to start tuning her out and enjoy the scenery when I hear a familiar name on her lips.

"Wait what'd you say about Al." I can't help but ask. If anyone saw our kiss, Hayley would know.

"Everyone's talking about his breakup with Ana."

"What's the big deal about this one? They break up all the time."

"Yeah but like normally they keep really quiet about it when they do and are really casual about it and three days later their back together." I nod urging Hayley to continue. "Well last night Ana was talking some serious trash about Al and saying some pretty rude things. She seems pretty adamant that they aren't getting back together. I even saw her snogging some random bloke."

"Wow." I don't even know what say. I really hope this isn't about me. But I couldn't be. And on top of it Al and Ana have had issues forever. One little incident wouldn't change that. I wonder what Ana said to Al about his family?

"Charlotte, that's not all I saw."

Oh no. Please don't say what I think your going to say. I cant even make eye contact with her, I'm so nervous.

"I saw you and Al kiss. I was so surprised. What happened? Are you guys a thing, and just never told any of us?"

"No, no definitely not. That was the first time that's happened." What can I say to make this better? "Honestly Hayley I don't know where it came from, he was drunk and kissed me out of nowhere. I would never hook up with a guy with a girlfriend and I'd never hide anything from you." Though Hayley and I may not be the closest when it comes to friendships I've shared a dorm with her for 6 years and as far as girl friendships go she's my number one.

"I believe you. Don't worry I got your back and made sure anyone who saw will keep their mouths shut. I have a lot of dirt on people as you know." She says proudly, but then she grabs my shoulder and gives me a good shake. " I don't know how long the silence will last, someone will spill, he is Albus Potter for merlin's sake, and when that happens you have to decide what you want to do about Al and please for the love of god tell Scorpius before then."

"Why would I tell Scorpius?"

Hayley just rolls her eyes at me and by this time we've reached the forbidden forest and our professor and classmates are all there ready for the class to begin. I love learning about all the beautiful magical creatures muggles are too thick to realize live on this earth with us. Since its one of my favorite classes, I get to relax and not think about all the drama to follow.

Albus's POV

I glance around me while sitting at the Gryffindor table in the great hall, to see that Lily, my younger sister is about to burst with excitement. My hangover has finally started to die down and at this point I'm starving. I'm sitting with Rose, Lily and Hugo as well as Molly and Louis who are Ravenclaw's. We don't always sit together, but I was avoiding the Slytherin table for more than one reason and the rest of the cousins followed me to the Gryffindor table. We try to spend as much time together as possible especially since the older cousins are gone now and it's only up to us.

Lily can no longer contains herself and with a big triumphant smile exclaims "so is it true? That you've finally broken up the troll for good?"

"Yeah we're over" after hearing from multiple sources all the awful things she'd said and done last night there was no way we'd ever get back together. Not that I wanted to.

I look around and notice how happy all my cousins look. "Wow guys you all look really gutted and devastated thanks for the support." I say sarcastically. I shake my head; my family has the worst poker face.

"We aren't going to pretend we aren't happy. You know we never liked her." Rose says from across the table.

Lily looks so happy and nods in agreement with Rose, but I can never be mad at Lily for long so I just shake my head and put my arm around her for a one armed hug. We've spent so much time together; since James had left home we'd become even closer.

"Did anyone get any letters from our parents."

"Mum sent us one this morning," Hugo says " she wanted to know how our first night went."

"We told her about your break up! Everyone will be so pleased!" Rose teases.

I grumble to myself, so over this conversation already, why is everyone ganging up on me? I need to talk to Charlotte and soon, but not with everyone around we have to talk in private. I may have been drunk last night but I remember everything.