Scorpius gulped and said "No."

Rose suddenly turned from a light shade of pink to flaming, angry, embarrassed, red.

She started to croak out things about how scorpius had played with her feelings like the heartless boy he was, etc. It would have been screaming instead of croaking that but was (thankfully) faltered by her burning throat.

She was mad.

Scorpius tried to explain, but every time he started to say something she hissed threats at him. She then got up and stormed out of the room despite her aching head.

Scorpius shook his head and sighed.

What have I done? He thought desperately.

He sighed again and decided to wait awhile before going after her. She, like all Weaslys needed time to cool off.

20 minutes later he got up and started to look around the Headboy/girl common room and even his room.

Suddenly, with a stroke of inspiration he knew where she was.

He Was not a Gryfindor so he could not go into there common room. But, he could ask a Gryfindor to go get her.

He found his way to the portrait door and sat down next to it to wait.

10 minutes later Albus Weasly appeared.

He glared at Scorpius and sneered '' what are you doing here, snake slime?"

"Could you get Rose for me?" he replied evenly.

"Why should I?'' Said Albus suspiciously.

"I accidentally hurt her and I need to fix things." he said desperately.

"Oh, that's why she was running through the common room, crying. But, no. You can't see her. I'm her cousin and what would she think if I told her you wanted her to come out?" said Albus.

Scorpius stared at him. He couldn't believe he had made her cry. He felt like just keeling over right then and there.

"Dude, I'm going to have to ask you to close your mouth before you start drooling and leave." said Albus, who was greatly annoyed.

Scorpius needed to try one more time. "Okay, how about this, if you get her, you can watch us while I explain things to her. You can beat me up if she asks you to but you do have the right to remain completely silent. Deal?" He asked while putting his hand out to shake and make the deal official.

Albus narrowed his eyes and then said "Fine. I won't pass up a chance to hit you up. But screw up, and you'll be sorry." Then he looked down at Scorpius's outstretched hand and said "Let's only pretend we shook hands. I wouldn't touch you for anything."

Scorpius narrowed his eyes and nodded.

Albus disappeared into the Gryfindor tower after muttering the password.

Scorpius waited nervously.

Suddenly the door opened to reveal Rose and Albus. Rose looked extremely angry and Albus looked bored although the light in his eyes betrayed him. Probably excited about the prospect of giving him a beating.

Albus took his place on the bench near the door and Rose turned to Scorpius.

Albus hadn't been lying about her crying. She never cried. Why am I so stupid?

"So..." she said. Her eyes menacing.

Scorpius took a deep breath and spoke "You've got to promise not to interrupt until I say its okay. Okay?"

Rose nodded, her arms crossed.

"Good. The reason why I said 'no' is because I was going to say this very witty, original, remark not often herd by the ears of humans-"

At this, Albus rolled his eyes and snorted. Roses eyes remained cold.

"-and it's 'I love you'.''

Rose's eyes widened and then narrowed again "you're not being sarcastic, are you?"

"Nope, well not about the eye love you part. I was being sarcastic about the 'witty' original',,," rambled Scorpius.

Rose smiled and said "good."

Scorpius was still worried, what if she would make fun of him for loving her? What if she told everyone? What if... "Do you love me?" he suddenly blurted.

Rose smiled and said "Yah, I guess I do." then with a few more moments of thought she said "I know I do."

Scorpius smiled and stepped closer to her. He wrapped his arms around her back and drew her near. She put her arms around his neck.

But before anything exciting could happen, Albus coughed loudly, successfully getting their startled attention.

Scorpius rolled his eyes and pulled up his scarf to block his view while holding her cheek with the same hand. She leaned forward the rest of the way and their lips met.

Beautiful background music, courtesy of Albus's voice box, played in the back ground.

You can take that however you want.