Do you believe in love at first sight?
Chapter three
There lips were swollen and sore with kissing.
When the kissers had stopped and looked at the time. Both had been shocked to see that it read Three O'clock! Hand in hand they walked back to the party tent to find the others.
"Oh aye? What have you two been up too?" Roxy smiled at the pair.
"Talking…" replied Rosie but received a skeptical raised eye brow from Lily.
"We should head back, it's nearly Three-thirty." Roxy checked her watch.
Scorpius and Rose stayed hand in hand for the whole journey, as they neared the tents, Rose knew something was wrong. She could see a candle flickering in the door stairs window.
"Rose, Lily and Roxanne! Get inside now!"
"Shit! Busted." Whispered Lily.
Lily and Roxanne hurried past their parents and into the tent, but Rosie stayed still.
Her hand still glued to Scorpius'.
Rose knew that her parents would take one look at her mussed hair and swollen lips and deduce what was going.
"What is going on?" asked Ron keeping his voice calm.
"Nothing daddy." Trying to keep her voice light and sweet.
"Wrong answer. Try again."
"We went to a party." Rose was playing a game with her father, she was a Daddys girl through and through, she could wind him round her little finger. This usually worked but she thought that the fact that she had been caught out and drunk after hours, with the Malfoy boy to boot, was maybe too much for her father to take.
"And the rest…" huffed Ron, glaring at their still linked hands. Rose felt Scorpius cripple under pressure. He'd tried to pull away but Rose wouldn't let him, he had to stay strong.
"We were talking, not against the law, and actually since we are both of age it's not up to you anymore anyway."
"Talking? That's the best way to get into a girls knickers. If he's had you up talking all night well he's half way there isn't he. Look at you?" Ron exclaimed dramatically looking for back up from the others.
"Get lost you hypocrite! You were with mum since you were seventeen, and Harry and Ginny started dating when he was sixteen. And she was fifteen!!" Rosie's ear started to go pink. They matched her fathers.
Harry coughed, "She's got a point." He walked forwards to stand by Ron, "We can't tell her and Roxy what to do as they are both of age…but Lily is only sixteen. So you were wrong to let her tag along."
Rosie nearly burst with incredulity, if only he knew that his darling Lily fronted this little excursion. She didn't tag along, she flippin' organized the whole thing!
"Well fine!" Rose conceded, there was no point getting Lily into more trouble, "I'll apologize for that then, but not for anything else." With that she kissed Scorpius (whose head exploded with embarrassment) and stalked indoors. Her mother not far behind.
Rosie entered her room and flopped on to the bed.
"What did they say? Are we in trouble?" asked Lily, as her and Roxy joined her on the bed.
"Nah, your safe. Your dad seems to think Rox' and I made you tag along." She shook her head, "I can't believe how you've manage to fool your parents for so long."
"Only my dad! Mum knows exactly what I'm like." Lily gave a mischievous little smile.
"My dad says since it was my 'first offence' he'd go lightly on me, honestly…he's such a idiot."
"I wonder grassed us in?" Roxy added thoughtfully
"I bet it was Al..." said Lily bitterly.
"Nah, James and Fred got off there faces and they made so much noise coming back that it woke everyone up, everyone except us because of course we weren't here."
"They've completely ruined it for us now, and all because they can't hold their drink."
"What was going on with you and the mysterious Malfoy?" Roxy leaned over looking Rosie right in the eye. Rosie blushed under the scrutiny and spilled his beans on Scorpius. His past, Hogwarts, his personality and of course his snogging skills.
"I mean I have nothing to compare it too, but it was nice…" Rosie flushed again, "I have to sleep I'm exhausted!" With that Rosie changed, and snuggled up on the bottom bunk bed feeling more contented with life than she had in a long time.
"They live!" Cried George as Rose, Roxy and Lily entered sat down at the table, closely followed by a sluggish Fred and James. No one responded.
"Drink this." Ginny put a drink in front of each of them, it was a grayish green and bubbled slightly, "It'll help with your hangovers." She squeezed Roses' shoulder as she passed.
"What time does the game start?" Asked Rosie trying to take the attention away from herself and her poor cousins, she took a sip of Ginny's concoction and feel bile rise in her throat.
"One, but I have to be there at twelve for pre-game interviews and what not, you're all in the VIP box. My editor got us in so please don't show me up." Ginny aimed the last bit at her eldest.
The family started up about the game, excitement stirred through the table, it had been years since a Quidditch final had been held on English soil and even longer since England had actually been in the final. Too long. The chatter was interrupted by a knock on the tent.
"Ah, Good morning, Mr. Potter, is Rose in? Please."
"Morning Scorpius! You are keen aren't you?" Harry grinned, "She's just finishing breakfast. Come in."
Scorpius stood in the kitchen with fourteen pairs of eyes staring at him. Ron Weasley glanced back down at his Daily Prophet, rustling it noisily. A smile spread across Rose Weasleys face.
"Morning." Scorpius scratched the back of his head nervously, "Fancy a walk?"
"Yeah, Give me ten minutes." Rose shot up from the table and joined Scorpius' side, "In fact give me five." She reached up on her tiptoes and kissed him on the lips.
"Be back by twelve-thirty." Called her mother as Rose hurried off to get changed.
They walked through the campsite entwined like so many other couples they passed that morning. Fingers laced, whispering gently to each other, Scorpius thought back to other couples he'd seen walk past, stitched together at the side with invisible thread, how envious he'd been of them and their closeness. But now, here he was, with his own girl and it didn't feel special in anyway, or even particularly exciting. It just felt natural and completely right.
They kissed in the woods again, they kissed while walking and in between talking, they kissed all the way up to twelve-twenty-five when they arrived back at their tents. Both sets of parents waiting outside, ready to head to the stadium, and the pair parted going in separate directions. Rose followed her family and Scorpius followed his into the hustle and bustle of the crowded stands.
