In the Previous Chapter…

"People think we've had a fight, you know" Rose said to Scorpius as they walked to Potions.

"Well, I think we should give the gossiping school a taste of their own medicine" Scorpius grinned. He leant down and whispered his plan into Rose's ear. She smirked as he finished before staring up at him.

"Let's do it" she grinned.

For the next few days, the students and staff of Hogwarts were stunned at Rose and Scorpius. The pair refused to be with each other, talk to each other or even acknowledge each other. The rumours flew that they had a massive row which ended up with Rose decking Scorpius and the pair splitting up. Rose smirked as she heard all the rumours; how wrong they were.

A week after Scorpius' broken nose, Rose and Scorpius were still not acknowledging each other. To make the gossip even juicier, Rose had charmed all of Scorpius' belongings to march out of the Head dorms and into the Slytherin common room. She changed the password so that he couldn't get in, and so Scorpius ended up sleeping on the couch in front of the fire in the Slytherin common room.

The whole school was worried about them. Rose was asked several times a day what had happened, but every time she just said "I broke his nose." When Scorpius was asked, his response was always "She broke my nose."

A few days later, Rose and Scorpius had a huge fight out in the quads. They hurled insults at each other, as well as a few choice hexes, and both ended up sending transfiguration spells at each other simultaneously. Students were a bit surprised when the head students vanished, and a ferret and a weasel appeared in their place. McGonagall was not very impressed.

The school had no idea, though, that behind their backs Rose and Scorpius were lying through their back teeth. Rose had not changed the password to the head common room, so he came and sat with her every night to go over their scheme, and the duel had been staged, right up to the point when they both transfigured the other.

"They're totally buying it" Scorpius exclaimed as he walked through the door.

"I know. This was total genius" Rose nodded.

"They really shouldn't spread rumours, you know" Scorpius laughed. "Now, we need to plan the finale of our scheme."

"Not even the teachers will have seen this type of magic before" Rose smiled. "My Uncle George has sent us some stuff to use and he said to memorise it all well so that he can watch it back in a penseive later."

The next night, Scorpius and Rose's plan fell into action. The rumour went around that the Head Students were missing. Just as people started to worry, an owl flew up to the Headmistress and dropped a steaming red envelope into her lap. The whole school gasped. Who would send McGonagall a howler?

The red envelope slowly rose into the air and turned to face the school. Everyone waited in anticipation for the screaming to start.

But it didn't come. The red letter floated in the air for about a minute making no sound at all. The students and staff started turning back to their meals when they heard Rose's voice scream out of the envelope.

"HOGWARTS STUDENTS!"

Everyone turned to stare at the envelope.

"YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED US!" Scorpius' voice screamed out next.

"YOU THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD BE FITTING TO SPREAD RUMOURS ABOUT US ALL YEAR, DIDN'T YOU?" Rose's voice screeched.

"WELL, WE THOUGHT WE'D CORRECT THESE RUMOURS OURSELVES"

"DO I SOUND DEAD? DO I SOUND LIKE I DIED IN AN ACCIDENT? NO, SO WHY DID YOU SPREAD THAT AROUND WHEN I WAS HOSPITALISED?" Rose's voice yelled.

"DO YOU REALLY THINK I KNOCKED UP ROSE OVER THE SUMMER AND USED HER FATAL ACCIDENT AS A COVER UP STORY?" Scorpius' voice bellowed.

"DO YOU REALLY THINK I BROKE HIS NOSE?" Rose's voice cried.

"Actually, you did break my nose" Scorpius' voice added at the side in a normal voice, but then shouted "BUT DID YOU REALLY THINK WE HAD A FIGHT FIRST WHEN I OBVIOUSLY LOVE ROSE WITH ALL MY HEART?"

"WELL, WE HAVE SOME NEWS FOR YOU"

"OPEN THE GREAT HALL DOORS!" Scorpius' voice ordered.

The doors to the hall automatically opened up to reveal the one and only Rose and Scorpius, stood right on the other side of the doors, snogging each other for dear life. The whole school gawped as they watched the head students passionately make out after a week and a half of ignoring each other.

Rose looked into Scorpius' eyes, smiled against his lips, and turned to face the school.

"You really thought we'd had a fight and that you could make up gossip about us whenever you wanted" she laughed. "Well, your gossip caused us to think. What if we gave you something to gossip about for a change, instead of leaving you to assume what happened" she smirked at Scorpius. "Now?"

"Now" he grinned.

"Ebullio!" they both said, pointing their wands towards the staff table. Instantly, mountainous quantities of foaming bubbles sprayed across the great hall, drenching everyone in foam. Rose and Scorpius waded through the foam to the front of the hall.

"OY!" Scorpius cried, to catch everyone's attention from the bubble invasion.

"Scourgify" Rose muttered, cleaning away all of the bubbles.

"This is your final warning, Hogwarts students. Rumours get you nowhere. They just start conflict and stir trouble, and if you really aren't careful the rumours might just become true" Scorpius smirked. Everyone sat in shocked silence.

"You wanted to spread rumours about us fighting, so we gave you a fight. But from now on, we won't be hearing any more rumours, will we?" Rose smiled sweetly.

Scorpius and Rose then grinned at each other before turning to the Headmistress and smiling. "We had to catch their attention somehow" Scorpius smirked.

"30 points from your houses for staging such a ridiculous stunt" she said, the whole hall hearing her every word, "you two do have drastic ideas to stop the school from gossiping about you though" she chuckled before turning to face her pupils. "If I hear another rumour about my head students again, the entire school will be in here writing lines. Understood?" she stated.

With that, Rose and Scorpius turned around and walked out of the hall hand in hand.

"That was fun" Rose giggled as they sat down on their sofa.

"Certainly was, but no more stunts, yeah? We had to put far too much thinking into that one" he grinned, leaning down and kissing Rose again.

The excitement of the bubble explosion caused the school to become very wary of their head students. The rumours stopped, and Rose and Scorpius found several apology letters sent to them through the post from some of the hard-core shit spreaders of Hogwarts.

Rose's Uncle George laughed for half an hour after watching his newest product, Bubbletastic, explode inside the great hall. "This one'll make me a fortune now!" he grinned.

As December approached, the bubble incident was soon forgotten, and replaced by anticipation for the Christmas Eve Ball. Rose and Scorpius received hundreds of applications for tickets, and in the end had to sort them with magic. The tickets sold fast, and by the 4th December, 4 days after first allowing applications, all of the tickets were sold.

Before they knew it, it was the 15th December and the Christmas holidays had begun. Rose and Scorpius were kept busy right up until the 23rd organising the Ball. On Christmas Eve itself, Rose and Scorpius were well aware that they would be busy all night, so just spent the morning chilling out and doing homework together.

After lunch, Scorpius left for the Slytherin common room and Rose invited all of the Weasley girls into the head common room to get ready. As he walked away, Scorpius couldn't help wonder why it would take 4 girls an entire afternoon to get ready, but didn't question it. He wandered down to the dungeons and was met by Lorcan and Lysander.

"Scorpius, why are you down here? You haven't been kicked out again as a stunt, have you?" Lorcan grinned.

"Nope, I've been kicked out so Rose and her family can spend the afternoon getting ready for tonight" he said, sitting down.

"How does it take the whole afternoon to get ready?" Lysander asked, amazed.

"I have no idea whatsoever, mate" Scorpius laughed. "So what do you want to talk about?"

A/N: I was a bit nervous about posting this chapter as I didn't know how people would take it, but I figured that either way, I had to give you guys something entertaining, so why not send McGonagall a howler and drench the school in bubbles? Reviews would make my day for this chapter – I have no idea what people are going to think. But thumbs up guys – it's the ball next time! - Rxx