Hi-ya guys. First off, I'd like to thank Pinkrose14, my wonderful Beta.

Second, I'd like to dedicate this story to my very good friend, SomethingWithMittens, who gave me some excellent ideas.

I also recommend you check out her story 'Knowing' (James Potter/Lily Evens) and beg her to post the Rose/Scorpius story that I know she is writing.

Enjoy!

"This is ridiculous," Rose told Scorpius as they judges entered the Gryffindor common room. The surrounding students were clapping loudly, all but the left corner of the room, who were all looking gloomy. This was the Potter-Weasley clan. And Scorpius. Albus and Lily sat on one of the couches next to the fire place looking morbidly into its midst, Dominique was sitting on the carpet, glaring at the roof while Hugo, Rose's brother sat next to her and was attempting to do homework. Dominique's brother, Louis was dangling off the top of a table like a puppet and Molly and Lucy were playing tic-tac-toe in the corner. Scorpius and Rose were sitting down next to each other against the wall.

"I absolutely agree. But I guess they sort of deserve it," he told her apologetically and got a sharp glare in return. Scorpius laughed and tossed his arm around her, pulling her closer to him. She leant her head on his chest.

"Ugh, you guys!" Albus complained loudly and all the adults' heads snapped towards the children, though it went unnoticed by the Potters-Weasleys. "Why can't you do that in your own time? The rest of us don't want to see you getting all lovey-dovey together!"

Albus was angry and embarrassed, Rose could see, but she wasn't putting up with it. She swiftly stuck her finger up at him and mumbled "Shut it, Al," before burrowing her head deeper into Scorpius's side. She was too upset to put up with Albus and she honestly needed all the comfort she could get.

It sounded petty, even to her, to be whining over the fact of having her parents around. But it wasn't like that. At home, when she was surrounded by famous parents and aunts and uncles, she felt like she was useless and had to prove something. Hogwarts was the only place she could get out of her families shadow and she was devastated that she had to spend the whole year being over-cast by them. Scorpius had it worse, though.

His father had been a known supporter of You-Know-Who when he had been in school and most of the Wizarding community still avoided him for this reason. Now Scorpius had to go the entire year being looked down on because of his father. And, in the few times that Rose had met him, she rather thought that Draco Malfoy didn't deserve it either.

"Children!" exclaimed a loud voice and the group of gloomy students let out a hearty groan. In front of them was Professor Dellus, smiling greedily at them. "Why, it's lovely to see you all! How have you been?"

The room was quiet except for a few nervous giggles that broke out. Rose sighed. Dellus must want something, she thought, knowing very well that it had something to do with the Golden Trio, better known as her parents and uncle. Suddenly she found herself looking closely at her Professor. Is she. . . Is she wearing make-up? Rose suppressed a giggle. Dellus had a thick layer of powder spread across her face and heavy blush on her cheeks. Her eyes were weighed down with a fat amount of purple eye shadow. It was sickening, really. But what was worse was that Dellus seemed to be shooting lustful glances, every few seconds, at none other than. . . Ron Weasley.

This was too much for Rose and she was suddenly overcome by a wave of hysterical laughter. She brought her hands over her mouth in an attempt to stop herself but that just ended in making muffled giggles sound flatulent. Scorpius looked down and the girl with a fair amount of amusement and curiosity. He knew that Rose was in a bad mood, so what could have happened in the past two minutes that made her laugh so hysterically? He looked up as he heard his name being called.

"Mister Malfoy, could you please remove Miss Weasley from the common room?" demanded Dellus through her teeth. And that was when Scorpius noticed something funny about her.

"Are you wearing make-up?" he asked in shock and Rose, who had finally restrained her laughter to a mere chortle, broke out in hard laughter again, leaning on Scorpius for support as she tried pointlessly to stifle her out brake.

Dellus gritted her teeth. "Out now, Mister Malfoy!"

Grabbing Rose's hands, Scorpius pulled her out of the room, while trying to contain his own laughter. The common room, which had all evidently, been listening and watching, snickered along with them at the thought of their foul Professor wearing make-up.

Outside the common room, Scorpius and Rose laughed for a few more minutes before they finally settled down, sitting against the back of the corridor in silence.

"How long do you think she's going to make us sit out here for?" Rose asked Scorpius. He shrugged in answer, smiling down at her.

"Isn't it weird, how just a week ago we were at each other throats, and now we're really great friends?" Scorpius mused to her and Rose shrugged.

"Not that weird. I mean, the only reason I didn't like you was because of what you said to me in the compartment on the train in first year," she told him casually, but Scorpius could see the hurt reflected in her eyes. Sliding his arm around her tiny frame, he pulled her to him.

"Yeah, I'm really sorry about that," he whispered to her, and she looked up at him smiling.

"It's fine. It was six years ago, after all."

It was then that Scorpius noticed the small distance of space between their faces. His eyes darted down as she nervously chewed on the corner of her bottom lip. Eager to feel the pressure of her soft lips against his, Scorpius lent down and softly pressed a fluttering kiss on the corner of her mouth, before darting to the other corner and kissing there. Rose's eyes were closed and her mouth was parted slightly.

He's teasing me, she thought vaguely, though she was far too caught in the moment to say or do anything productive. Scorpius was lightly tracing her top lip with his, centring his lips, and was about to eagerly push his lips onto Rose's when-

"Hey! Blondie! You get off of my girlfriend, do you hear?"

Both teenagers spun around to face a red faced Slytherin boy, who had both his fists up, as if readying himself for a fight. The boy had black hair and brown eyes, his face was screwed up in an angry expression and his eyes were narrowed at Scorpius.

"Oh, Dammit!" Rose cursed from beside him, as she scurried to her feet. She leant down to Scorpius, under the presence of helping him up, and whispered: "Scorp, you have to help. This guy has already put five people in the hospital wing just for looking at me wrong! And I promise I'll explain everything after."

Turning towards the Slytherin, she put on a fake, bright smile.

"Julian! How are you dear?" she asked him kindly, and his face softened a little as he looked at her.

"Babe, what the hell are you doing kissing this bloke? We're meant to be together!" he shrieked, tears filling his eyes. If the situation wasn't so confusing to Scorpius, he might have laughed at the sight of a crying Slytherin. Rose looked alarmed.

"But Julian, I told you, I will only consider going out with you a week from now. Not until then," she said soothingly to him, and he seemed to calm slightly.

"But, you were kissing him," Julian accused, glaring at Scorpius angrily. Rose sighed.

"Yes, but only to see if I truly feel for you, of course. What other reason could there be for me to kiss him?" Scorpius could see that Rose was straining to keep her tone casual and truthful, but a spiral of pain shot through him anyway. Was she being serious when she said that the only reason she would kiss Scorpius was to see if someone else was compatible for her? And why did that theory hurt him so much? Scorpius shook himself out of him thoughts as the conversation continued.

"Oh well. . . I guess that's okay then," Julian said swiftly. He turned on his heel and walked hurriedly away. Rose sighed, and smiled thankfully at Scorpius. She frowned when Scorpius didn't return the smile and moved towards him.

"Hey, what's wrong?" she asked him worriedly. Scorpius backed away from her as she moved to touch his arm.

"You have a boyfriend?" he asked her harshly. Rose shook her head furiously, her frown deepening.

Scorpius laughed angrily. "No, wait, you're just going around kissing a whole lot of other boys so that you can see if you really like the Slytherin dick head." Rose's head snapped up as she shot a glare at him.

"How dare you. Do not go around kissing lots of boys, nor do I have plans to do so. If you would just let me explain"-

"No, Weasley, I don't want to hear your pathetic excuse. Now if you excuse me, I have more important people to entertain than you. Maybe someone that's worthy of my time." and with that, Scorpius fled through the portrait hole, leaving a tearing Rose behind him.

Rise slid down the wall so that she was sitting flat against the ground before she burst out in tears, hanging her head in her hands. It was a worry, really, that just a few words from her ex-worst-enemy could make her like this. Sighing, Rose got up from the floor, brushed her tears away and headed for the common room confidently. There was no way she was going to let Scorpius Malfoy ruin her year.

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"Rose! Oh, Rosie, wake up! I have something important to tell you!" Rose groaned loudly. She didn't want to arise from the comfortable slumber that was encasing her, but her best friend's voice was high and excited. Rose sat up in bed to face Hadley.

"What do you want Had's? It's way too early!" she complained to her whiningly. Hadley shot a strange look at her.

"Rosie, it's noon," she told her. Rose shrugged.

"Exactly, far too early." and with that she flopped back down on the bed tiredly. The events of last night came swirling back through her head, and she was about to tell Hadley what had happened when Hadley started talking.

"Oh, Rose, it was so nice, and I didn't even realize that he liked me, and he just came through the portrait hole and asked if he could talk to me. Of course, I followed him because he looked really wired up, though now I know it was just nerves, and he just came right out and kissed me! And, oh my gosh, he is such a good kisser, and then he asked me out, and of course I said yes, but I was kind of worried that you liked him, so do you?"

Rose blinked at her best friend. She blinked again. "Do I like who? And what are you going on about?"

Hadley sighed. "My new boyfriend. He asked me out last night, like I just said. As to whom it is. . . Well, I'm now the proud girlfriend of Scorpius Malfoy," Hadley teased lightly, and kept talking. But Rose had tuned out. A cold, harsh stab of jealously lashed at her heart, though anger quickly followed. Scorpius had tried to kiss her only moments before he had kissed Hadley, and the prick had the nerve to accuse her of getting around. Rose ground her teeth together and interrupted whatever Hadley was saying.

"I don't like him Hadley, just to ease your worries. And now I'd really like to go down to lunch, so I'll meet you down there, okay?"

Hadley frowned at her friends haste for her to leave, but let it slide. "Okay then. Well I'm walking down with Scorpius anyway, so I'll see you there!" and with that she flounced out of the dorm room. Rose put her head in her hands tiredly. She had already decided that she was not going to talk to Scorpius until he apologized to her, but now he would have to put up with him every second of the day. Finally Rose pushed her worries away and adopted an air of indifference. She wouldn't worry about the lazy excuse for a Gryffindor any longer. She would just continue her year as if their bazar friendship hadn't happened.