In the Previous Chapter…

"Well, it's challenging, takes a few months to brew and will guarantee us a good grade" said Rose.

"What's it called?"

"Amortentia" said Rose slowly, unsure as to whether or not Scorpius would find her suggestion too head strong.

"The strongest love potion in the world" Scorpius said thoughfully, before lifting Rose off the floor into a hug and whispering "Great idea! But I don't need a love potion to fall in love with you."

Rose blinked back at Scorpius. Had he really just said what she thought he said? "You love me?" she questioned, stunned. Scorpius seemed to then register what he had said and mentally hit his head against a brick wall repeatedly. How could he be so stupid? He'd only been going out with Rose for half a day and already he'd messed up for confessing his love for her.

"Brilliant, well done Scorp" he muttered to himself.

"Scorp?" Rose asked, worried, "You blanked out for a minute there. Anyway, we should be getting on with the ammortentia" she said before pulling her slightly out-of-it boyfriend to a work desk.

Whilst Rose started to find out the ingredients that they would need and found the instructions in her potions book, Scorpius sat there thinking deeply. Scorpius had only had a few girlfriends before, and all of them had dumped him a few weeks into the relationship because they thought he was too shy, quiet and gentle, especially considering he was a Slytherin. But Scorpius knew that this relationship with Rose felt different.

When he was with rose, he felt more alive. When she wasn't there, he felt slightly depleted of strength. When she held his hand, he felt as if fireworks were dancing around up his arm, and when she kissed him out of the blue, he felt that his heart would explode. Scorpius truly believed that he was in love with Rose, but was slightly scared as to how this would turn out for him. Would Rose get bored of him after a few weeks like all the others had? Scorpius didn't think he could handle it if Rose left him.

"Don't leave me" he whispered, almost on the verge of crying. His mind kept running over and over his last break up. He had been going out with Jaz Macmillan for over 4 months in his fourth year, when she turned around and said she was looking for more action in a relationship, and dumped Scorpius right there and then. After that, he had been too scared to have another relationship, and he was now terrified that Rose would do the same to him again.

"What are you talking about Scorp? I would NEVER leave you, I love you too much for that" Rose said, sitting on Scorpius' lap and pulling him in for a kiss.

"Please tell me you're not just saying that to make me feel better" he muttered.

"Scorp, it takes a lot for someone to admit that they love someone. Whilst you've been off with the fairies over here, I've been thinking too, and I wouldn't say something I didn't mean. I love, you Scorpius Malfoy, but my love is turning more and more into annoyance the longer you sit here either not kissing me or helping out with this Potion" Rose smirked. Scorpius laughed and then leant down to kiss his girlfriend.

"What ingredients do we need then?" he asked, taking Rose's hand into his own.

Rose and Scorpius worked on their ammortentia for several hours. When they finally went to bed, they were knackered. Scorpius gave Rose a goodnight kiss before heading off into his own room.

He was woken up again at 1am by Rose screaming. Scorpius ran straight into her room and cradled her whilst she cried. Once Rose had recovered from her nightmare, Scorpius climbed into her bed and hugged her close.

"I'm too tired for us to walk through to my room" he murmured before hugging her again. "Try get some sleep, hun."

"Hun?" teased Rose, surprised.

"Urgh, just let me sleep, tease me in the morning" her irritated boyfriend muttered into her hair.

"Sure, hun" Rose smirked. Scorpius then grabbed his pillow from under his head and lightly smacked Rose with it.

And then all hell broke loose.

Rose pinned Scorpius to the bed, grabbed the pillow and smacked him in the head with it. He grabbed the pillow off of her and they broke out into a full-fledged pillow fight. Both teens fell back onto the bed half an hour later, panting slightly and surrounded by feathers.

"Reparo" Rose sleepily said. The pillows sprung back together and Rose snuggled back into Scorpius.

"Maybe we shouldn't have pillow fights at 2 in the morning, hun" he murmured.

"Hun again, am I?" Rose gently joked.

"Well, I like calling you hun, so there" muttered Scorpius.

As Rose laughed, she started to hear soft snores echoing around the room. She had managed to over-exert her boyfriend in the middle of the night by having a pillow fight. "Now that'll be a great one to tell at graduation" Rose giggled to herself, before lying back into Scorpius and joining him in slumber.

The next morning, Rose woke to have Scorpius' grey eyes staring down at her.

"Morning hun" he greeted. "Now, I know it's only the morning, but if I ask you now, then you can't hit me when I suggest this" he said very quickly.

"Whaaaaat?" said Rose, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"I want you to tell McGonagall about McLaggen" he said very hurriedly. Rose took in what he had said and groaned.

"Do I have to?" she moaned.

"Yes" said Scorpius, "and do stop whining like a child" he smirked, "It's not nearly as attractive as your normal voice" he joked.

"Ha ha very funny" Rose said sarcastically.

"I know, I'm a comedy genius, hun. You're just jealous because I'm funnier than you" he laughed, but then turned to her again. "I sent McGonagall an owl and said that we wanted to talk to her. She's excused us from first lesson, so you're coming to tell her whether you like it or not" he said.

"I don't like it, no" grumbled Rose, "But you're going to drag me along no matter what I say, aren't you?" Scorpius nodded vigorously, like a child saying that yes they would like an ice cream. "Fine, but can we at least get breakfast first?" she asked as her stomach rumbled.

Scorpius offered her his hand and she wrapped her slender fingers around his. As the left their common room, Scorpius dropped her hand, as he had done before, so that no one stared. But Rose immediately snatched his hand back.

"Rose, are you sure you're ready to tell people?" he murmured.

"Yes. You are my boyfriend and I want them all to be jealous of my fabulous man" she smirked before pulling him close and giving him a passionate kiss in the middle of the corridor. "Oh, and because I agreed to come this morning, you'll be sitting with me today" she smiled, an evil glint in her eye.

"You cheeky little slytherin!" he exclaimed. "You want me to sit with your family" he gulped, "as your *gulp* boyfriend." He gulped again, paling slightly.

"They are not about to murder you, hun, and they can't lay a finger on you whilst I'm sat beside you" Rose laughed. And with that, she dragged a slightly lagging Scorpius into the Great Hall.