A/N: Come on guys, keep the reviews up! Only a few to go before the 50 barrier is broken! And sorry if you read the old Chapter 20 – I cleverly posted the next chapter to my other story Child Head Girl as part of The Rumour Mill – sorry if I caused any confusion! :L – R xx
In the Previous Chapter…
"We could announce it at dinner?" Scorpius suggested.
"Of course. You two tend to be listened to when making announcements" McGonagall smiled, before standing. "I would go down now, for last lesson is going to end soon, so people will start heading down to dinner."
With this, Rose and Scorpius walked out of the Headmistress' office hand in hand and headed towards the great hall.
"Time to go tell the school that they've got a ball to look forward to" beamed Rose, leaning into her boyfriend as they walked together to dinner.
The announcement about the Ball was taken in three different ways. The younger years groaned because they weren't invited, the older girls squealed and shrieked at the excitement, and the older guys all groaned under their breaths because not only were they invited, but they would be dragged to the ball by their girlfriends, so wouldn't be able to escape.
Because it was a Friday, the house tables were all mixed, so Scorpius and Rose sat down together with all of their friends.
Whilst Beth and Rose started gossiping about the ball and all the preparations and what they were gonna do with their hair etc., Scorpius, Lorcan, Lysander and Jack started to plan their escape routes.
"I'm not gonna go" Lorcan announced.
"I'll be dragged by Beth" Jack mourned.
"I can't leave as I'm maybe in charge" Scorpius complained.
"And I'm gonna go just for the sake of laughing at all the teachers once they're drunk!" Lysander laughed.
"Oh yeah, Rose!" Scorpius nudged the girl sat beside him, "we have to sort an unlimited supply of booze for the adults, don't we?"
"Damn, I forgot. I'll add it to the list. Thanks for reminding me" she smiled, leaning up to kiss Scorpius on the cheek before turning back to her conversation with Beth.
"At least you'll spend the whole evening with Rose" Lorcan commented.
"Can't do much, her dad'll be there along with enough Weasley relatives to form an army" Scorpius scoffed.
"I heard that, Malfoy!" Hugo yelled from down the table. Everyone between Scorpius and Hugo burst out laughing.
Later that evening, Rose and Scorpius were sat on Rose's bed, duplicating tickets. They had half changed out of their school uniforms, so Scorpius had changed into his jeans, removed his tie and had the top button of his shirt undone. Rose had decided to change her blouse for a comfy t-shirt, keeping her school skirt on.
"This is so boring; can we do something else for a bit?" Scorpius groaned, standing up and rubbing his neck.
"Well, what do you suggest?" Rose asked, not even looking up from the pile of tickets. If she had looked up, she would have had a slight warning as to what her boyfriend was going to do next. Rose screamed as Scorpius suddenly pounced on top of her from the end of her bed, pushing her backwards and pinning her down.
"You've got 10 seconds before I tickle you" Scorpius smirked.
"I can do a lot in 10 seconds, buddy" Rose grinned, moving her hands down her sides. Scorpius yelped as Rose grabbed the waistband of his jeans and pulled him down so he was lying on top of her. Rose was slightly winded from having Scorpius fall on top of her, but still had enough energy to quickly roll the pair over so that she was the one now sat on top.
Rose tutted as Scorpius groaned. "Now look what you've done, all the tickets are everywhere" she said, waggling her finger in front of Scorpius' face. Rose leant across her boyfriend and grabbed her wand. She gave it a quick flick and all of the tickets stacked themselves neatly in the corner by her desk.
"Rose, what are you doing?" Scorpius questioned, lifting an eyebrow.
"I'm giving us something to do" Rose whispered in his ear, creeping her hand down his chest and hooking her fingers around his waistband. Scorpius gasped as Rose's cold fingers gently skimmed around the rim of his jeans, tantalisingly tugging at them.
"Rose" he choked, "what are you doing?!"
"I told you" she said, leaning down so that her mouth was right down by his ear, all the while playing with his jeans, "I'm giving us something to do." With this, she undid the top button of her boyfriend's jeans and pulled the zip down.
"I didn't quite mean this" Scorpius gasped as Rose started to slowly pull his jeans down. She stopped and glanced down teasingly.
"So you'd rather do something else?" she smirked, sitting up and gently started climbing off of Scorpius' body. She grinned as Scorpius sat up, grabbed her waist and twisted her around so that once again he was pinning her to the bed.
"No chance" he said, his voice husky, before leaning down and crushing his lips against Rose's. Scorpius groaned as Rose responded by deepening the kisses, opening his mouth with her tongue cautiously. Scorpius took the invitation, and their once gently kisses soon became a battle of tongues. Rose arched her back into her boyfriend, causing him to once again moan.
Rose started to casually undo the buttons of his shirt, but soon gave up and pulled the offending item of clothing over his head and threw it onto the floor. She ran her hands along his nicely toned abs, and felt her breath quicken as Scorpius' hands started roaming under her own shirt. Rose, although enjoying this, wanted to be even closer to her boyfriend, so pulled her t-shirt over her head, revealing to Scorpius her bra and flat stomach.
From there, things escalated very quickly. Soon, Scorpius' jeans, socks and boxers joined his shirt on the floor, while Rose's shirt was joined by the rest of her school uniform and her underwear.
"Rose, are you sure you want to do this?" Scorpius asked quietly, looking down at his now completely naked girlfriend.
"I'm sure" Rose nodded, before pulling Scorpius down and joining her lips to his.
But just as they were about to take things any further, Rose screamed "STOP!", covering her eyes with her hands and began sobbing. "I can't" she wailed. "I really want to, Scorp, but I just can't" she cried, sitting up and hugging into Scorpius. "I love you to bits, Scorp, but this….this brings up bad stuff still" she gulped, before gently standing up. She grabbed her night grown and wrapped it around her before sitting down on her bed next to her boyfriend, who was pulling on his boxers.
"It's alright, hun, I understand" he said, wrapping his arm around Rose's shoulders. "As I said before, only when you're ready."
"I want to be ready, but anything further than kissing and I just see McLaggen's face appear before my eyes" Rose mourned, snuggling into her boyfriend. "I really love you, you know? Most guys would just walk away and never come back if I rejected them sex just like that" she mumbled.
"I love you too, hun. And I'm not about to do anything like that, if that's what you're worried about."
"Maybe I was a little worried" she admitted sheepishly.
Scorpius stared at her. "You thought I'd up and leave you if you turned around at the last minute and said that you couldn't cope with having sex because you're still haunted by being raped by your ex?"
"The most intimate relationship I've had was with Daniel, who was a sex crazed freak, and I told him I wasn't ready, and then when he got me alone, he raped me. You can't blame me for worrying that if I don't please a guy sexually that he's just gonna leave or do worse to me" Rose shuddered as she said it aloud.
"Well, I'm never gonna be like him, you understand?" Scorpius said, lifting Rose's face up to meet his. "Never."