From the time they had left the club till the following morning, Lily had not even looked at Scorpious once. She had retreated to her room when ever possible, and when in company was not her usual bright self.
Besides the blaring headache Scorpious was dealing with, the fact that Lily had yet to acknowledge his presence left him feeling alone and anxious. Had he done everything wrong? He knew he should have just pushed his feelings for her aside, but they were too strong at this point to deny.
'Maybe she just looked up to me as a brother and now she feels she can't anymore…. Maybe I just disappointed her…' his mind trailed off from thought to thought. He could've sworn she felt the same way about him, that there was something so visible that drew them to each other, an attraction stronger than the worlds most powerful love potion.
"You should just go talk to her," Rose said absent handily as she flipped through a book that was on her lap. James, Albus, and Hugo were outside throwing around snowballs, leaving Scorpious and Rose in the living room by the fire, Lily was upstairs in her room. "It'll do you both better than sitting around moping."
"Did she say anything to you?" he asked rubbing his forehead. Rose brought her gaze up to him and rolled her eyes.
"Just go," she ushered him with her hand.
Scorpious headed up the rickety staircase that would lead to the door of Lily's bedroom. Taking a deep breath he knocked on her door, only to regret the noise it made as he winced in pain.
"Come in," a soft voice said and he opened the door, hand still on his head.
Lily was lying on her stomach on her bed, a magazine in her hands, her long straight hair hanging off to the side. She wore her emerald shorts that revealed the majority of her thigh and a long sleeved Chudley Cannons shirt.
"Hey," she said glancing up at him for the first time all day.
"Hey," replied and took a seat on Rose's bed.
"Headache?" she asked as he rubbed his temples and he nodded. She smiled at this. "Magic doesn't work on muggle liquor," she said handing him a bottle of Advil from her bedside drawer. "Don't worry it won't poison you," she added when she saw him give the bottle a wary look.
He smiled at her and shook two pills out of it after looking at the directions. He gulped them down without water and then looked back to Lily who had now sat up, her back straight, head down, and her legs pulled in close to her.
"Lily, about last nigh-," Scorpious began but Lily cut him off.
"It was a mistake, I know I'm sorry. I just, well… I thought, it doesn't matter now I guess." She looked up at him expectantly then down again.
"No, Lils," he said, and stood up from the bed he sat on. Lily looked up at him again not expecting this, and when he sat down on her bed she had to do everything to keep her jaw from dropping. She had so convinced herself that he did not want to be with her that these actions were making her question if that really was the case.
"You have always been my friend," he said looking at her; their hands were close to one another's on the bed. "And like a little sister to me. But last night, it kind of changed things." Lily looked up at him, entranced by every word he spoke.
"You're not a little girl anymore, and you, as much as you may feel like it, aren't my family," he was happy when she smiled at this, which made him smile as well. "Do you feel that something's here? Between us I mean?" he asked and she nodded so vigorously that she thought her head might fall off.
"So do I," he replied with a smile that warmed Lily's heart. He took her hand in his and the interlocked fingers.
"I don't know how this is going to turn out, what our families will say, if they'll be against it…" he said and she knew exactly how he felt. "But I want to see where this goes. Lily you're too important to me to lose, and I think I'm falling in love with you, if I haven't already been my entire life."
"Scor," she said trying to tell him how she felt about all this, but no words came to her. Instead she brought her lips to his to show him how she truly felt. His lips molded with hers, and they could both feel the start of something magical like they had never experienced before.