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Chapter Fiver; Making up.
Rose's POV

Five days. It has been five days sense I've talked to my best friend. To anyone else five days isn't too big a deal. Its one school week. Most grown-ups work week. You get more time off for Christmas break than it has been sense I talked to my best friend. It isn't like I've never spent this long not talking to him. But theres something about him ignoring you when you try and talk to him that really just sucks.

Me Art, and Lu were in the library. It was a friday night, we were in the way back surrounded by shelves and hidden. There was a window next to the table, and you could just make out the trees down below because the sun had just set. "Care to spill oh sweet cousin of mine?" Asked Lu abandoning her Transfiguration homework.

"Spill what?" I asked playing dumb. Maybe the two of them would just drop it. Thats all I'd heard about this past week: 'Why aren't you and Scorpius talking?' 'Are you two fighting?' And even one girl who I didn't even know, asked if we'd broken up. I then proceeded to tell her we'd never dated and to buzz off before I made her.

"You know what. Come on Rose. Scor won't tell us anything either." Artie said in a whiny voice.

"Maybe thats a hint to mind your own business." I said not looking at either of them.

"We won't. And you know that. Somethings up. You and Scor are, and have been, best friends sense you were eleven. Best friends don't just stop talking without an explination." Artie said and Lu nodded next to her.

"We just had a argument. It'll blow over in a few days. We've fought before." I said standing to put back a library book.

"Yeah, teasingly, never have you two had a serious fight. What was it about?" Lu said, and she and Artie stood to follow me.

"Nothing! Look-"

"It was that article wasn't it?" Lu said suddenly.

"What..How..." I started dumbstruck. How could she have known?

"The day you two stopped talking was the day that article came out. I remember cause' you didn't show up to Divination and he got there late and wouldn't talk to anyone." Lu said and Artie nodded. Suddenly Lu gasped. "Your not not friends because of that article are you? Rose! You know its not true, the Malfoys are good people-"

"Lu! Snuff it a second okay!" I exclaimed getting overwhelmed. I sat back down at the table with them. " Okay listen..." I told them the story. Everything, from what Tant said right down to the fact that he called me Rose, and not Rosie.

"Its just a name Rose, I call you Rose all the time-" Lu started and was cut off by Artie.

"Thats not the point Lucy. Rose and Scorp have their own pet names-"

"Not pet names!" I said sharply.

"-and the fact that he called her what everyone else does, means he must be pissed." Artie finished.

"Okay, but it could be worse, he could call you Weasley." Lu said trying to brighten me up. I glared at her. "Or it couldn't be worse..?" Lu muttered off quietly.

"You know it'll be alright Rose." Art said giving me a hug. I hugged her back and I could feel the tears welling up for the third time this term. Over the same bloody boy.

"I don't even know why he's mad. It's not like you did anything." Lu said comfortingly.

But that was it. Did I do something? I'd started complaining about my life, when maybe I should have been comforting him. Maybe all he'd wanted was to vent, and I went and turned it around on me. He should have known I'm not the best person at comforting though. Were going on our fourth year of being best friends, he should know I get my problems with words from my father. When it comes to wording things and situations like that, I just suck. 'Maybe he just needed someone to listen to him' said the annoying voice in the back of my head. Shut up I growled back. Hah, great, I'm back to talking to myself.

"You know, he's been quiet all week Rose. He's probably just upset about the stupid newspaper, so he took it out on you." Artie reasoned and Lucy nodded next to her. "I mean, he has no reason to be angry with you. So what if you yelled back and forth a little, me and Al do it all the time, and he's my best guy friend-"

"What is going on with you and Al?" I piped up. You hardly ever saw them apart. Either Al was looking for Artie, or Arite was looking for Al, or they were sitting just a little too close at dinner to be 'just friends'.

Artie blushed. "Nothing, beside this is about you-"

"I'm happy with getting off the subject of me. You and Al seem awfully close this year-"

"Oh we seem close! You and Scor flip when either of you talk to the opposite sex, and-"

"We do not." I said blushing, I could feel my ears and neck burning red. Stupid Weasley genes.

"You do so!" Lu said speaking for the first time in a few minutes.

"Yeah? And what about you and Danny? You run fom him like a chicken when he even looks at you. Why are you so afraid of liking him?" I said defending myself.

"Me..I..Danny and I are a different story. We aren't anything. We never will be." Lucy said looking down at her homework.

"And why not? He's so obviously crazy about you-"

"No he's not" Lucy said sharply cutting Artie off. "He's crazy about the idea of a challenge. He knows I won't have him, so that makes him want me more."

"That may have been the case when he started after you Luce, but I don't think it is anymore." I said softly.

"Yeah, he used to not care when you'd turn him down, now he almost seems lost when you do." Artie said delicately.

"It doesn't even matter. I don't like him like that." She looked close to tears.

"Your a rudy horrible liar I reckon." I said shaking my head at her.

She shrugged her sholders before writing something down on her homework. I looked at Artie, she shook her head and started back on her homework. Did me and Scorp flip when we saw eachother talking to the opposite sex? I didn't think so. Why would we? I didn't like him. I had decided that, anyone who'd had someone close like at the lake would have had mixed feelings. And the tears had been because I was confused. And sure, Scorp had gotten rather more attractive this year, but so had Danny. And I most definetly didn't fancy Danny.

It seemed like the past week had been crazy. I hadn't talked much. Tonight was by far the longest conversation I'd had with anyone sense mine and Scorps fight, and the one I had contributed to the most. I'd felt like a zombie, wandering from class to class. Its a wonder I'd gotten all my work done.

From what I'd seen of Scorp, he hadn't been too well either. He hadn't had a genuine laugh all week. He barely talked to Al, Cody, or Danny in class, and had missed three lessons. No one knew where he went when he wasn't in class He refused to even talk or look at me. His eyes looked dead, and pained. No one else saw it though. I was Scorps best friend. Thats why I saw it. I knew everything about him. More than he thought I did. The way he begged to be accepted by his parents and peers. his parents were crazy about him, but he didn't see it. His peers idolized him. Half the girls in school wanted him, the other half were too young to covet after someone.

The way he carried himself with such confidence, which had been missing this week, made everyone around him confident. The cocky and arrogant attitude was a show. He was so insecure. He was under some impression people thought he was a horrible person, when it was exactly the opposite. He cared too much about what his failure of a grandfather thought, and paid too little attention to what his parents said. He loves chocolate, especially chocolate frogs. His favorite color is green, but he tells everyone its red. As often as he tells himself he's glad he's in Gryffindor, he wishes he'd told the sorting hat, that maybe deep down, he was more like his father than his mother. He wishes he played keeper. He feels the seeker gets all the glory, but only truly plays a few minutes of the game. He sees the world-

"Rose!" Artie said shaking my sholder.

"What?" I asked dazed, coming out of my thoughts.

"Were going down to dinner, its almost seven-thirty, we don't know how much long dinner will be served." Lu said standing up. Her bag was packed and it was pitch black outside. "Besides, library closes soon."

"Er..right." I said packing away my stuff.

"You coming Ro?" Artie said looking at me as she stood.

"Uhm, nah, I'm not feeling too hot." I said. At least I wasn't feeling too hot about having Scorp ignore me all through dinner.

"Alright, well see you tommorow, maybe we can write letters to our parents under the birch tree by the lake, its starting to get cold, we won't be able to do that much longer." Art said as she and Lucy walked around the table towards the exit of our secluded table. I shot her the brightest smile I could muster before nodding. She stopped. "Its going to be Alright Ro, you know that, right?" She said and she walked back around the table to envelop me in a hug. I nodded. If I talked, I'd fall apart. She stood up and rubbed my back before her and Lu made their to the great hall, leaving me alone.

"Yeah..I hope."

After Lu and Art went for dinner I slowly made my way up to Gryffindor tower. I put my bag in our dormitory before grabbing Romeo and Juliet as I made my way for the Astronomy tower. I decided I was pissed. Scorp had no right to be mad at me. I hadn't done a single thing! Who did he think he was ignoring me, when I had come after him! All I had wanted to do was comfort him and he'd flipped on me. He was being an arse, and I planned on expressing just how I felt about that the next time I saw him.

I reached the Astronomy tower, I climbed the steps all the way up, when I got to the top I was gasping for breath. It was one hell of a workout, and I was in shape. I made my way over to the part of the top over-looking the lake and sighed. It was a chilly night. The breeze was cold and nipped at my cheeks and ears. I should have grabbed a jumper before I left. Too late, there was no way I was going all the way back down the tower, just to climb back up some stairs for a jumper. I could deal with the cold.

September was coming to and end finally, and fall was officially going to start. I loved fall. It was my favorite season. The trees always looked so breath-taking with their vibrant colors. When I was younger, dad would always use his wand and get all the leaves that fell from the trees in a pile. Me and Hugo would jump into it for hours. Our afternoons would be filled with laughter and giggling, and once we were done, and nice and cold, mum would make us hot chocolate. We hadn't done that in so long. We were never home during fall anymore. When the leaves fell from the trees, we were stuck in class. Mum and Dad wouldn't have been home much lately anyway. They were both so busy with work lately I wondered if they bothered sleeping after we left for the start of term. The entire wizarding world was in a panic. Something dark, and dangerous was out there, and it was after everyone. There wasn't a single person safe. There were rumors of course that they were planning on getting into the school.

I shivered, but not from the cold. The thought that they could be out there right now plotting to harm people in this very school, people I cared about made me cringe. Great Rose, I thought, now your freaking yourself out. I still-

A board behind me creaked and I froze. I whipped around grabbing for my wand in my robes-

"Scorp..." I sighed when I saw him, my heart hammering, and then I smacked him. Anger coursed through my body and I bent down and grabbed my book before starting for the stairs.

"Ow! Rosie, Merlin what was that for! Wait Rosie." He said grabbing my wrist but I wrenched free and kept going. "Okay, Rosie, so I deserved that, I get it, I'm a prat-"
I turned back around "And a git, and an arse and tosser, wanker, bigot, you insufferable stupid-" I snarled getting fired up.

"Okay I get it!" He said putting his hand over my mouth "All I want to do is talk."

"Thats all I've wanted to do all week, and you completely blew me off!" I said turing my back on him getting to the top of the stairs.

He grabbed me around my waist, pulling me back towards him. "Rosie, I'm sorry. I really am. I blew everything way out of proportion, and I flipped out on you because no one else was around for me to be mad at. Your my best friend, I made a mistake, I swear I won't do it again." He finished looking at me hopefully. I didn't say anything. He still had a hold of me, I tried to push away a little but he tightened his grip. "Rosie, please just forgive me! I can't do this without you. This whole going through the day without talking to you hurts. I wasn't even mad at you. I was mad at stupid Tant, and that article about my father. I shouldn't have taken it out on you, but when you acted like you understood, I didn't want to hear it. I wanted to yell, and scream, and you were the only one who came after me. It doesn't even make sense...look, if you don't want to talk to me, thats fine. I'll leave I just...I needed you to know, how sorry I really am..." He muttered off getting quieter, until I couldn't hear him,

"Scorp, your an arse." I said, and he loosened his grip his face falling. "But your still my best friend. But I swear if you ever get pissed at me for no reason again, I'll hex you to no end." His face lightened and a smile slid across it.

"Aww Rosie!" And he hugged me, squeezing me till I couldn't breath, but I didn't mind. I had my best friend back. No matter where things went from here, I knew I'd always have him.

A/N: Finished! Let me know what you think please, I'm not sure how I feel about it, and let me know if you'd like some Quidditch in the next chapter or not. Or what would you like to see in future chapters. Please Review!