Author's Note: Yeah, so I kinda updated twice in one day... You are probably thinking to yourself, Beth, get a life! Well, my plans fell through and there was nothing to TV. My loss is your gain I guess!

Chapter Three:

"Aha! Take that bitch!" Albus Potter yelled as Zephyr Robinson's hair went up in flames.

"Oh my god!" Batty quickly grabbed her wand and muttered a quick charm. Suddenly, Zephyr was soaked, as though a bucket of water had been poured over her head. He hair was smoking slightly as she lunged toward Albus. He attempted to escape by jumping up onto the couch, but the cushions were extremely plush and squishy, and he toppled over.

"Albus I am going to kill you!" she tackled him to the ground, and sat on top of him. "Apologize!" she insisted.

Rose shook her head, and laughed at the two. Clearly he wasn't going to apologize! Why would a seventeen-year-old boy do something that would stop a beautiful girl from straddling him?

Albus was her favorite cousin, but he was such a player. He looked exactly like her uncle, minus the glasses and gangly quality. While Albus may have started off shy at Hogwarts, he soon took on the same arrogance and charm as his older brother James. It was weird not having James at school anymore.

Rose saw that the fight between Albus and Zephyr was getting a little bit out of hand. Her brother, Hugo, had jumped on top of Zephyr in an attempt to save Albus, while Margaret began pulling Albus out from under the mess. Zephyr was ridiculously strong though, and Marg was only managing to yank his arms from their sockets while giving his rug burn.

Rose laughed at the scene, and turned toward Batty.

"So, how's it going?" she asked nonchalantly.

Batty smirked. "Nothing out of the ordinary," she shrugged. I'm actually thinking of going down to Hagrid's hut. I heard he's got some unicorns. Want to come?" she raises her eyebrows.

"Nah, I'm good. Oh, my cousin Louis would love that though. He's a second year in Ravenclaw. He's really into that stuff!"

"Oh, he is adorable! All right then," Batty got up to leave. "Um, Rose?"

"What up?"

Batty tucked a loose stand of hair behind her ear. "About what we were talking about at breakfast… actually never mind. Bye!" she sprinted out of the common room.

Rose scrunched her eyebrows together. Weird girl, she thought.

As her friends wrestled on the floor, she brought her knees up under her on the chair, and started to think about Scorpius again. She thought back to the first time they'd spoke.

Sixth-year Rose lounged in one of the comfortable leather chairs in a secluded area at the back of the book stacks of the Hogwarts library. She turned the chair sideways so that she could prop her feet up on a shelf. The alcove was very narrow though, and her head was pressed up against the other bookshelf. It was a cold Wednesday night, and she was supposed to working on a Transfiguration essay, but her mind was far too preoccupied with more important things to worry about than a silly little grade.

Her older cousins James had finally invited her to one of his crazy illegal parties, on the condition that she could set him up with her friends Zephyr. The party was a mere week away, and Zephyr had a boyfriend. Rose was trying to come up with a plan in which James could think Zephyr was his date without letting Zephyr know. So far, every plan she came up with involved Zephyr's cute Hufflepuff boyfriend ending up in the hospital wing though…

Suddenly, she felt a book fall against her head, hard.

"Ouch! Jesus Christ!" then another one, and other. What was going on? She looked up in time to see someone pop their head through a gap in the bookshelf where the books that had hit her in the head had once been.

"Hi!" the person smirked, looking down at Rose. He had white-blonde hair, pale skin, and icy blue eyes. It was none other than Scorpius Malfoy!

"What the hell Malfoy?! You could have given me a concussion!" she scolded. Rose had sat next to Scorpius in Herbology all year, but she hadn't really ever spoken to him. She had Margaret on her other side to talk to. She didn't really have anything against the guy, but she'd heard her dad tell enough terrible stories about Mr. Malfoy to recognize that she was not supposed to be too friendly with him.

"Hey, can I come in!" the Malfoy guy asked.

"Well, um, you can walk around the shelf and come to talk to me like a normal person instead of bombarding me with books if you like!" Rose snipped sarcastically.

"No, actually I can't," he smirked again. "You have a privacy charm on the entrance to the alcove!"

Rose immediately felt stupid. She had forgotten about that. Still, she didn't really want to talk to him. She had plotting to do! "Uh, I don't know the counter-charm, sorry!"

Malfoy sighed, and then disappeared from the opening. Suddenly, a whole row of books right next to Rose's chair fell to the floor, and Scorpius climbed through the shelf into her alcove. Rose yelped slightly when she saw him. What the hell was he doing?

"Merlin woman, you have your own fucking clubhouse back here!" Malfoy stood up and looked around. It was true, Rose's things littered the floor.

"Did you want something?" Rose asked rudely. Nothing good could come from fraternizing with a Slytherin, or letting one into her clubhouse!

"No, I just need to hide from someone," he started putting the books back in place.

Rose nodded, very confused. She watched him fix the shelf. Scorpius was actually a good-looking guy, if you could get past the whole "being a Malfoy" thing. He was tall and lean. She knew he played Quidditch. He seemed nice enough.

She watched him peer through the books. "Yes, she's leaving! No, damn, she just sat down at a table with the Underwood twins!" he muttered.

Rose looked at Scorpius with a confused look on her face. The whole situation was beyond weird.

He turned his attention back towards Rose. "Well, looks like I'm stuck here for awhile. I guess it'll be up to you to entertain me Weasley!" he smirked.

"Hey, Rosie, think fast!" Rose was jolted back to reality as a Quaffle came hurdling towards her head. She instinctively caught it and looked around the common room.

The exploding snap fight had ended.

"Seriously sis, you have been spacing out a lot lately," Hugo looked at her with a worried expression.

"Sorry!" she shook her head. She had a lot on her mind.

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