So. Here you go!
THE FEAST.
ROSE'S POV
My stomach rumbled as I sat down. The first years were still on their way. Merlin, I'm Hungry! Everyone in my family says that I have my father's appetite. And It's true. So does Hugo. It's hilarious how all three of us race to the table at Grandma Molly's. My stomach rumbled again as I moaned. "Why can't they hurry up for once?" I complained to my friends, Dora and Helen.
They chucked. They knew me so well. We had met on the train to Hogwarts, when I had refused to share the compartment with Al if he was sitting with the boy dad had told me to stay away from. Scorpius Malfoy. The arrogant prat who's ambition in life was to torture me. He had, in fact, started annoying me from the minute he met me. And he was now head boy. Head boy. My last year at Hogwarts was gonna be hell. I just knew it. After all, we hadn't gotten off to a very good start, had we...
"Louder Lils, I can't hear!" I said, excited.
Just then, the compartment door opened and Scorpius Malfoy stepped in. Just like him to spoil the moment. She was just gonna tell us who she liked. My face turned stony.
"Get out, Malfoy."
"Can it, Weasley," He said, as rude as ever. Well maybe I was rude too, but it was his fault. His very presence infuriated me.
"I just came to tell you that the prefect meeting is in five minutes. And as head girl, I don't you think you should miss it."
I smacked my forehead. "Merlin, I forgot all about it! You'll have to tell me later, Lils."
Then I glared at her. "And don't you dare tell them without me." She nodded nervously. Good.
I pinned the Head Girl badge to my robes, which I already had on (Hugo and I had come by side-along appartion) and mused, "I wonder who Head Boy is..." I hoped it was the Hufflepuff prefect, John Jarvis. He was kind and helpful. Well actually, anyone would be fine, anyone but Sc-
"That would be me." Came Scorpius' voice from the door. He turned around and walked out. "Hurry up, Weasley!"
I froze. This could not be happening. "You have got to be kidding me."
"Go on, Rose, or you'll be late." Said Hugo, sounding amused. Amused? AMUSED? This was no time to be amused. This was terrible. It was a catastrophe, a disaster, a calamity! It was the apocalypse! The end of the world! It had to be a mistake. This was supposed to be a disaster, catastrophe, calamity-free year! It was supposed to be a Scorpius Malfoy-free year! No one in their right senses would make Scorpius Malfoy, Scorpius EarnerOfAThousandDetentions AnnoyerOfRoseWeasley SarcasticToTeachers Malfoy Head Boy. Hugo pushed me out of the compartment, and I numbly made my way towards the prefects compartment, my head spinning with thoughts on how I could get back at Malfoy. Needless to say, not many of them were legal.
I reached the compartment. I took a deep breath and walked in. Everyone was there, of course. I waved to Louis, who was the Ravenclaw prefect and then I smiled. "Sorry I'm late, I got a little caught up with my friends." My smile was abruptly wiped off my face when I saw a certain blonde-headed Slytherin lounging on one of the chairs.
I took another deep breath. "As I suppose you all already know, I am your new head girl, and Malfoy here is your head boy." He smirked and waved. I was quivering with anger now. Breathe Rose, Breathe. Louis saw the warning signs and shook his head slightly, and then mouthed 'He's a jerk'. My mouth twitched. My cousins always knew how to cheer me up.
I carried on with the introduction, welcomed the new fifth year prefects, and gave all of them their various patrolling timetables. Scorpius, the lazy prat, stayed sprawled on the sofa. I tried to ignore him. I would not want to blow up in front of these prefects; finally, I told them to patrol the train. I was about to let them go, but then I couldn't resist.
"Now Malfoy here has a little speech to give on how to be a good prefect." I smirked. Ha. He had probably not seen that one coming.
He looked panicked for a second and then stood up, giving me a filthy glare as he did so, brushing his blonde hair out of his beautiful grey eyes and winking at the pretty Ravenclaw prefect as he did so.
Wait what? Did I just say beautiful grey eyes? No. I meant stupid, mocking, dull, ugly grey eyes. Just like his ugly hair and body. Hell, who was I kidding? He was one of the best-looking boys in school. With his grey eyes, his blonde hair that was ever so slightly rumpled and fell into his eyes so perfectly, his muscular arms(not that I noticed) and toned body because of all that Quidditch, he was... well I would never admit it. I, on the other hand, was quite the opposite. I had my mother's bushy hair and my father's freckles. My eyes were a boring brown and my hair was the bright Weasley red. Ugh. It didn't do wonders for my self-esteem when I saw him. Not that I cared.
He spoke and I snapped back to the present. "Well, Weasley here has told you everything there is to be told, except for one little point. I'm afraid to tell you that being a prefect means that you can take points whenever you want, give random people detentions, be out after curfew and say that you had rounds, and do a whole lot of other stuff." My jaw dropped. He didn't just...
"Peace!" He cried and then chucked himself on the sofa again. The prefects laughed, and started moving out. I stepped in front of Malfoy and yelled my head off.
"SCORPIUS HYPERRION MALFOY!" The prefects had stopped, and were staring, but I didn't care. "What the hell did you think you were saying?" He opened his mouth, But I beat him to it. "What on Earth was McGonagall thinking, making you head boy? Or did your daddy just buy the badge for you?"
He was angry now. "I don't need my father to buy me a badge, Weasley! And have you ever heard of a joke? Just because you have your nose in a bloody book all day long and don't have any friends except for old librarian doesn't mean that you get to rule it over me. I'm head boy, and you'd better deal with it! Little Mudblooded freak!" he spat out.
I felt tears of rage in my eyes. How dare he talk to me like that? "DEATH EATER SCUM!"
"Perfectus totalus!"
I blocked the curse.
"Rectumspemtra!"
He blocked it. We were duelling hard now, he had a bloody nose and black Potter hair and a scar, and I had a huge cut on my arm, as well as green and extra-fizzy hair. The prefects were watching avidly. Suddenly, both out wands flew out of our hands and we turned to face an extremely angry McGonagall.
"Hello Professor," said Scorpius weakly. If there was one teacher he was scared of, it was McGonagall. "How nice to see you here!"
"I had the feeling I was going to be needed on the train with you two as heads," she said in a dangerous voice. I blushed bright red. So she had expected this? Were we that bad? I was so ashamed. And it was all Malfoy's fault.
In the end, we had ende
d up with detention on Friday and a huge lecture, all with the new prefects listening. Ugh. I had never been more embarrassed in my life. Well maybe except for the time Al had read my diary and told everyone in my family about my huge crush on Jake Davis, back in third year.
"ROSE!" someone yelled. I blinked and looked up. Helen was waving her hand energetically in front of my face.
"Sorry," I said. "Was just thinking about how I could kill Scorpius Malfoy without being found out."
"Rosie, you honestly spend too much time obsessing about that boy," said Dora Longbottom. Obsess? I do not obsess. "I know he's irritating and all, but you really need to stop this. You spend all your time thinking about him."
"I know,". I told her. "But he is just so bloody irritating!"
She rolled her eyes, and turned to look at the first years. They all looked terrified. Strange. I had just been excited during my sorting... Albus, however, had been very much like the ones over there. Petrified. All because of James. And then, when he had been sorted into Slytherin, he had taken it in his stride. Lily had been quite cool too.
Lily... Oh Merlin, Lily! Poor, poor Lily. In love with Teddy, who was married. I glanced down the table to where she sat with her friends. She was staring at the gold plate in front of her, paying no attention as the rest of the table applauded loudly as a plum little boy waddled down to the Gryffindor table. Poor, poor Lily. My heart ached for my cousin. She seemed to notice me looking at her, because she glanced up and gave me a half-hearted smile. That was Lily, always brave. A true Gryffindor. I smiled back at her and then turned back to the sorting, as she did too. I noticed her friend Lucas gazing at her. I raised an eyebrow at him and he blushed, turning away as well.
I frowned to myself. My cousin didn't need any more drama in her life. It was already like one of those bad muggle soap operas.
"GRIFFINDOR!" Yelled the sorting hat, and I clapped absentmindedly again.
"Zabini, Cleo!"
"SLYTHERIN!" Huh. I didn't know Leo Zabini had a younger sister. What was I thinking about? Oh, yes. I had to talk to Louis Finnegan.
McGonagall stood up to give her start-of-term speech. She always gave it before we ate, which I thought was kinda mean. I mean, here we are dying of hunger, and she goes and starts talking about what not to do.
"...and now, go ahead and eat!" Finally!
I piled my plate high with potatoes and stuffed my mouth before turning to look at my friends. They were staring at me.
"You know, Rosie, we've seen you eat every day, for the past seven years, and we still can't get used to it," said Helen.
I shrugged. "Ah ge i 'om ma fah-ha"
They looked at me again, and then served themselves, shaking their heads. I scowled. It was times like these that I longed for my cousin Albus' company. I glanced over to the Slytherin table, to where Al was sitting next to Malfoy. Al and I had always been close. Till now, we've only had two fights, and both were over Malfoy. The first time was when I had pulled a very embarrassing prank on his friend in second year. Albus was on Malfoy's side until the idiot 'got back' at me. From then on, Albus seemed to understand that his two best friends would never get along. The second time was at the wedding, when he had actually had the nerve to tell us 'you guys act obviously like each other, so why don't you just shut up and kiss?' That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard anyone say in my entire life! And with the family I have, that is saying something. I glowered some more at Albus, while shoving food into my mouth.
"Rosie..."
Stupid Albus and his stupid friends.
"Roosie..."
Stupid Scorpius Mal-ferret and his stupid good looks that make all girls except me swoon.
"Roooooosieeee..."
Ugh! He just made me so mad! That dorky-looking blonde hair that looked so amazing and soft that made you want to run your fingers through them... Those annoying grey eyes that you wanted to get lost in... That strong jaw you wished you could stroke... Those lips that looked so absolutely kissable... The key word there being 'you'. He glanced up and noticed me starin- no. Looking. He saw me looking and sneered. I sneered beck. Idiot idiot idiot idiot idiot idiot idiot idiot id-
"ROSE!"
"What?" I snapped. "And there's absolutely no need to yell."
Dora and Helen opened their mouths to speak, their faces indignant, when Lily came up. She beat them to it. "Actually there is. Aren't you supposed to go to McGonagall after the feast?"
I looked around. The prefects had already left with the first-years, and the other classes were filing out.
"Bloody hell!" I exclaimed. "Thanks guys."
"Lily said something as I left, but I didn't bother to listen, and just nodded at her. I strode towards the door where Mal-freak was standing with McGonagall.
Ok. So that's it. Not much Lily in it, but I wanted some Rose-Scorp. Though all said and done, there isn't much romance yet. But don't worry! Plenty of drama coming up! Just you wait and see. The next chapter will be on Friday, with classes and stuff. And I can't guarantee that there will be LilTed in the end, but there might be. Oh, and to those of you who found the lack of description at the wedding boring, I'm sorry, but I'm not very good at describing stuff like that. Plus I find weddings dull and boring. So... each to his own. Anyway, will try to update soon. What with school 'n all I'm very busy.
So... R&R! Oh, and I have this other fic up. It's a one-shot, and a very sad one, of Scorpius. So you can read that if you're bored. Oh and this other one about Voldy in luurve. But seriously. Go read it. It isn't a crackfic. (Yep, shameless advertising!)
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PS—if you wanted to know, Lily said "Day-dreaming about a certain Malfoy, are we..?"
