"Rose, if you want to go to him go." Alexandria whispered at breakfast the next day.

"She shouldn't," Daphne shook.

"Oh why not? The Ravenclaw thing?" Alexandria snapped.

"No of course not. It's just well she kills him doesn't she? In her dream, what if it's a premonition or something." Daphne looked around cautiously as if any of their fellow Slytherin's cared to listen.

"Oh Daph, you have to drop Divination next year. Please, for my sake." Alexandria sighed.

"She's right Alex, I kill him. Even if it's not a premonition, it could be some dark spell or something. I don't know if I can risk it." Rose chipped in finally, fidgeting in her seat.

The meeting with the Headmistress yesterday had felt like a revelation; that is until they realized that not even the teachers knew what any of it meant. There were a few possibilities it was true but without further symptoms or information they couldn't figure out much else. All it had proved to Rose was that she wasn't alone in this horror and even though it didn't fix any of it she knew Scorpius was in this with her and it gave her the smallest novelty of comfort.

"Rose," Alexandria warned in a motherly tone. "You said yourself you feel drawn to him."

"You sure this isn't some twisted love potion or something?" Daphne laughed through her big brown eyes.

"I'm sure." Rose said quickly.

"God Daph, where'd you pull that from." Alexandria laughed, ignoring Rose's rigid composure. Missing her best friend stand up suddenly. It wasn't till Rose was half way across the room till she noticed, "What the hell is she doing?"

"Hi, I'm Rose Weasley." She offered her hand out to him, his grey eyes searched hers before answering.

"Scorpius." He replied, taking her hand in a quick shake.

She sat down at the Ravenclaw table next to him smiling awkwardly. "Just smile and act like we've just met. I'm sure you don't want gossip spreading any wilder than it probably already will." She spoke under her breath.

"Oh of course," He replied thinking. They sat like that for a moment, he drinking his pumpkin juice.

"If we seem too familiar they'll wonder why. If they see how terrified I feel they'll wonder why." She whispered into his general direction.

"Then why come at all?" He faked a laugh, as if she had just told him something funny. She noticed her friends confused faces from across the room.

"You know why, I'm sure of it." She spoke into the cup of juice that had appeared on the table in front of her.

He sighed and only confirmed her suspicions, they needed to be near each other to feel normal. "Is this apart of some spell, or are we just both so on edge?" He didn't attempt to hide his true feelings and she saw just how tired his face was, it was etched all over his face.

All she could do was shrug, giving him her best hopeful smile. She didn't think it worked but he looked as if he accepted the attempt anyway.

"See you in potions?" She smiled again.

He nodded slightly, his face expressing his concern and continued confusion.

"You didn't kill him!" Daphne beamed.

"No I did not." Rose smirked. "Didn't even feel like it."

"Scorpius Malfoy, seriously?" A voice called out to her from down the hall, she inwardly groaned.

"Excuse me Albus?" She snipped, twirling around to face him.

"You're dating Scorpius Fucking Malfoy?" Albus Potter strode over, hands on hips.

"Albus, I hardly think that his parents would have given him suck a rude middle name." She joked.

"Rose, please."

"What Albus." She folded her arms over her books and watched as her friends floated down the corridor and to their next class.

"Breakfast this morning? Then the rumours about you two dating. God Rose you must know," Albus explained. "Is it true?"

"Does it matter?" She sighed, "It's not true but it doesn't matter does it. What if I did want him Albus, what would you really do?" He said nothing, her face a foot away from his. "I have class." And with that she disappeared down the hall into her classroom leaving her cousin standing there awkwardly.

"I think it would be romantic!" Chirped his little sister Lily appearing suddenly from over his shoulder.

"Hear all that did you?" Albus sighed.

"Yerp, surprised everyone else didn't." She stated.

"Lil, his father and our father, her father, her mother!" Albus gestured around himself wildy.

"Have nothing to do with it!" Lily countered his rambling. "They're like star-crossed lovers! Tell me that isn't romantic and wonderful!"

"Lil!" Albus began, but his sister had already started skipping off. "You know how it ends with star-crossed lovers." He said to himself before heading off to his own class.

Scorpius sat down next to Rose during potions that afternoon and could almost audibly hear the rumours ripple into fruition.

"Great," he groaned.

"Calm down," Rose smirked beside him, eyes still fixated in front of her at the blackboard. "Apparently they think we're dating."

Dating? "How-"

"My cousin tried to scold me in the hallway before class started." She smiled again, her eyes startlingly blue. Nothing like they were in his dreams he decided. He relaxed a little.

"So I guess this morning was all for naught then," he whispered. Smiling as he opened up a fresh roll of parchment at.

"Of course not." She laughed, turning to him casually. "They think we like each other, if it weren't for this morning, they'd think we'd been lovers in secret for years." She raised her eyebrows at 'lovers' for dramatic effect but it just caused his stomach to knot.

"Fuck." He breathed.

She laughed, loud enough for Potions Master Carvel to tell her off for it. "Calm down Scorpius, the rumours aren't quite there yet." She rested her hand on his for reassurance and with the slightest graze of a touch he shivered, she did too, he could see it on her skin. Perfect little goose bumps. She exhaled, removing her hand and withdrawing completely for the rest of the lesson.