Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with Harry Potter apart from a Hufflepuff scarf...but even that belongs to Warner Bros.
The love sick, the betrayed and the jealous all smell alike
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
With her realisation replaying over and over on her mind Rose decided some much needed practice was definitely in order. After successfully managing to avoid Scorpius during their shared Ancient Runes class Rose had quickly retreated to the Quidditch pitch. Following the last incident, the bystanders of the stands quickly evacuated, all of them aware of her tendency to send the bludger flying into the stands and inadvertently sending them to the hospital wing. Though James hadn't registered a practice for the day she decided to head down to the pitch to blow off some steam and pretend that the bludger was the bane of her existence.
Out on the pitch everything was simple, you hit or you miss. Real life however was complicated, Rose loudly sighed as she hit the bludger with brute force. Why couldn't life be simple like quidditch; first of all during quidditch there were no crazy emotions, stupidly attractive boys with flawless skin or stupid feelings of jealousy.
Watching the world below her, her problems felt so small, so irrelevant. Up in the air with no worries Rose felt free and that was why she loved Quidditch. The sense of freedom, the sense of control that one just couldn't get down on the ground.
The cold wind whistled around her, her hair in the confines of its ponytail started billowing in the breeze and with her hands firmly placed on her broom Rose allowed herself to relax.
A gust of air blew past her and turning she saw her brother, a small grin on his face as he approached her on his own broom and his own wild red hair being assaulted by the oncoming breeze.
"Thought I would find you here…" He muttered as he started flying circles around her. Rose smiled slightly before lightly punching Hugo in the arm. Her younger brother gave her a goofy smile in response and Rose was instantly reminded of the baby brother she loved to tease.
"It's a nice day out" She muttered with a shrug, however the angry howl of the wind disagreed with her statement.
Her brother cocked a brow, there was no use hiding the truth form him since they were young Hugo had always been able to read her like an open book.
"You always come out here when you're upset" Hugo commented.
Rose cocked a brow in response, though she knew her brother was right she wasn't going to openly admit it.
"Who said I was upset?" She asked with her voice dripping with irritation.
Hugo shook his head with a knowing smirk, which only caused her to scowl.
"What's bothering you Rose?" Hugo asked and Rose had to repress the urge to scoff at his bluntness.
"I had an argument with Suzanne …" She muttered. Hugo's eyes widened at the statement before a small frown crossed his features.
"Suzanne as in your roommate?" He asked with curiosity. She nodded in response, one of her hands had reached back to tuck the stray tendril of hair behind her ear however the wind was having other ideas.
"Now she's not talking to me, Kaylee won't even look at me and um...I never talked to Jodie but now I'm actually considering it" Rose added with weak laughter. Hugo just stared blankly at her, a confused expression in his face and she silently hoped that he wouldn't delve any further into the issue. After all where Rose was book-smart, Hugo was people-smart, sometimes Rose even thought she understood books better than people and that didn't surprise her the slightest.
"At least you have your Hufflepuffs" Hugo said with a smile and she instantly knew that he meant Augusta and Mimi.
"Sometimes I consider moving to that house...no drama and everyone's so nice" Rose stated before Hugo's jaw slacked jaw caught her eyes.
No longer able to keep up her facade she burst out into a chorus of laughter and almost threatened to fall off her broom.
"I'm so glad you weren't serious...imagine losing you to the puffs" Hugo sated with disbelief, and an added shiver racing down his spine to further prove his point.
"They are great people...but just not me" Rose said with a sigh.
Hugo nodded in agreement before a grin formed on his own face.
"We could always get the hat to make another decision" He suggested.
"somehow I believe it's a little late for that don't you think?" Rose commented with a shrug.
Hugo shook his head, the both of them swooping down to the ground and dismounting their brooms.
"Just try and take each day at a time" Hugo said, the two of them heading towards the broom shed.
Rose sighed, placing her own broom in the shed. Things had gotten considerably quiet for Rose, with half if her usual friends not talking to her combined with avoiding Scorpius like the plague things had gotten a bit boring.
She couldn't even see what he saw in Jodie White anyway, she was overly rude however Rose had to admit that the brunette was conventionally attractive. With long brown hair that always looked good in the mornings and slender legs it wasn't that hard to see why.
Of course Rose inherited the Weasley height however with her quidditch practice the usual willowy frame was replaced with a somewhat toned build and Rose felt the least bit lady like when compared with Jodie White.
Rose had what her old tutor called 'piano fingers' which Rose translated simply to 'big man hands' after all she never liked that tutor much anyway and she was glad to see the back of her once she joined Hogwarts. Her fingers were long and slender and she felt out of place among the smaller dainty hands of her peers.
Turning around Rose saw perfect Mimi and perfect Augusta. Instantly her gaze focused on their hands and the redhead was sure that her own hand size was double of Mimi's.
Augusta Longbottom had puberty hit her like the knight bus, she possessed wide hips any woman would crave for, long blonde hair that looked beautiful in her pigtails and bright hazel eyes. Like Rose she possessed height however her shapely figure made her appear more feminine.
Mimi however was a different story, she was the early bloomer who never stopped blooming and Rose had to admit that she may have had a teeny tiny girl crush on her friend. She was all curves in all the right places and most of the male population fancied the brunette.
Rose smiled in a greeting at the two Hufflepuffs; though they were walking reminders of her own body confidence issues she decided to attempt to push the negative thoughts aside since they were her friends after all. They did decide to put up with her moods after all.
As per usual the small brunette had a packet of sweets with her and was eagerly placing them into her mouth.
"How's the situation" Mimi asked, her eyes widening as if to put further emphasis on the events.
Rose shrugged a sigh escaping her lips which didn't go unnoticed by the small brunette. Of course it was all well avoiding Scorpius like the plague and shutting the hangings over her bed to avoid talking and seeing her room mates, however the situation as it were would still forever be present.
"I'm trying to avoid the situation" Rose said with an added weak laugh. Of course both Augusta and Mimi shared identical multiple glances, the blonde worried her bottom lip whilst the brunette gave a slight frown whilst Rose the look of a disappointed mother.
"For the smartest girl here you can be a little…" Mimi paused as if trying to articulate her words carefully whilst Rose glared at her as if daring her to continue.
"Oblivious…" She finished with a grin.
"Oblivious...Mimi I'm being practical he clearly wants to snog the living daylights out of Jodie" Rose snapped.
"Maybe he was drunk?" Augusta suggested almost hopefully. Rose wanted to believe that, she really did however she had read up on the affects of alcohol on the body. The affected person was likely to do or say things they didn't exactly have the courage to whilst sober and that just proved that Scorpius had always wanted to snog Jodie.
Memories of the pair with hands caressing each other and lips locked resurfaced once again leaving Rose with the horrible feeling of being punched in the gut. She tried to ignore him, tried to forget that night altogether and the fact that she now knew why she felt this way only made things worse.
"That's no excuse…" she muttered before abruptly turning to walk away, she ignored the shouts of her friends, the pleas to come back, however she just needed some time alone and she didn't want anyone to see her cry.
Rose had always hated crying it just made everything messy; vision would get hazy, her nose would run and her cheeks would turn a horrible blotchy colour. Of course in the muggle movies the characters would cry and they would appear as flawless as ever, a few tears would fall down and they would add the occasional sniff to make their performance more convincing. However real life was different. Rose felt as if she had a giant lump in her throat, she had obtained a pounding headache from the strain and she felt exhausted.
After crying away all her tears and feeling somewhat pathetic after the emotional outburst, she wiped away the remainder of her tears, wiped her nose and straightened her robes. She was somewhat glad that the prefect bathrooms existed, for it meant that Myrtle was now occupied and not bothering her. As she prepared to leave the cubicle she heard a small noise which sounded similar to her own previous sobs.
Cautiously the red head walked down to where the sound resided from and not to her surprise the sobbing abruptly stopped almost as if the person didn't want to get caught.
Her curisoty got the better of her and she slowly walked to the exit and slammed the door in an attempt to trick the unkmown sobbing perosn that she had left. Rose stood with her back pressed against the wall and waited, she had nothing better to do and she disliked the idea of returning to the common rooms with a tear stained face news of her crying would spread faster than dragon pox and she didnt want any of her family members wortying about her.
There was a small creaking noise followed by the loud thud of footsteps and then more sniffing. Peering round rose slmost thought she saw Mimi standing in front of the large mirror with tear stained eyes, however when the she turned she saw brown eyes rather than blue, short brown hair rather than long and realised that it was infact her younger sister Saoirse.
Anyone would have felt uncomfortable under Saoirse's gaze- Rose wasn't an exception. Of course being as stubborn as she was, she wasn't going to make her own unease obvious. The two girls were close in height, Saoirse being only a couple of inches taller than Rose however with both of them holding the same position in /quidditch they both held slightly tones builds and broadened shoulders.
By the way the younger girl was staring at her Rose felt as if she interrupted a private moment, the usual stoic girl had wide eyes and she looked vulnerable.
"Maybe I'll just go…" Rose mutted before slowly turning to leave.
"It's just you…?" Saoirse asked, her voice small and hoarse and very different to Mimi's light and musical like voice.
Rose turned back and gave the younger girl a small nod "Yes...just you and I" She answered and Saoirse nodded before turning back to mirror in an attempt to smooth down her hair.
Rose watched the girl with curiosity; she had only one conversation with the girl and that was back in her third year when Mimi had introduced them back on the Hogwarts express. Ever since then she had seen the younger girl keep to herself and was only seen in a large group during the quidditch games. Even then people feared her, like herself the younger girl had a bit of a reputation due to her temper and it wasn't until now that Rose mused that the girl must have been awfully lonely.
She forgot she was even staring at the girl until Saoirse turned to face her with an unreadable expression, the corner of her mouth curved into a ghost of a smile and her deep brown eyes were staring into her own in an almost intense staring match.
"You, Mimi and um.. someone else...you're the only ones" Saoirse muttered with a shake of her head before turning back to the mirror.
Rose cocked a brow in confusion, the younger girl seemed to notice her expression and turned back to face her.
"You don't stare at me like I'm about to snap you like a twig" The brunette stated bluntly.
Rose snorted in amusement however once she noticed the brunette's expression realised that she was indeed serious.
"Is that why you're here?" Rose asked carefully.
The younger girl shrugged before wiping away all evidence of her earlier activities from her face.
"Maybe...or maybe it's because I have the build of a teenage giant" Saoirse added with a bitter smile.
Rose didn't miss the bitterness of the younger girls tone, she knew that some girls at the school were mean and would resort to whispering in dark corners but she had no idea that someone like Saoirse Finnegan would be at the receiving end of such abuse.
"They actually said that?" Rose asked with a frown.
Saoirse shrugged "I wouldn't be here if they didn't and besides let's not talk about me" She stated before a pause and then turned to face Rose with a face void of all emotion "Why are you here?"
Roe suddenly felt uncomfortable under the brunette's gaze, like Mimi she had a way of staring at you as if she knew what you were thinking, however unlike her sister there was no bright smile only a blank face.
"Just trying to forget a certain situation" Rose muttered however to her surprise Saoirse nodded in understanding and then Rose remembered that she was Mimi's younger sister after all.
"Meara told me...and to be honest that Jodie she's a bitch" Saoirse told her with a frown.
Rose released a sound that sounded like a mixture of a snort and a laugh "Glad that we have the same opinion" Rose stated with a small laugh.
Saoirse nodded in agreement "Never have liked her...I've heard what she's said about people- about my sister and to be honest I just want to hex her" She stated before a grin formed on her face, a grin which reminded Rose of the older Finnegan sister "Or punch her in the face" Saoirse added.
Rose groaned in embarrassment, her cheeks turning a bright red colour and to her surprise a light giggle filled the room.
"Thank you for doing that...I'm glad that Meara has people to look out for her" Saoirse added and in that moment Rose saw a different side to Saoirse Finnegan. This side was compassionate for her sister , protective and vulnerable. To be honest the girl in front of her reminded Rose much of herself and she understood just why Mimi had taken a liking to her.
"Any time…" Rose muttered before shifting her bag on her shoulder and preparing to leave.
"Give him a chance" Saoirse called out, a knowing smile on her lips and eyes wide with anticipation an expression she had seen much on Mimi.
Rose cocked a brow and opened her mouth to speak, to protest and state that pursuing was a ridiculous idea.
"He's different" Saoirse added. Rose expected her to elaborate to explain exactly why Scorpius was so different when another smile appeared on the younger girls face almost as if she had seen this 'different' side first hand.
"He's the third person to not look at me like everyone else" She stated a small smile on her face and for a moment Rose felt a pang of jealousy. Did Saoirse like Scorpius too?
"he's like a brother to me" She stated as if she could sense Rose' train of thought, she suddenly felt embarrassed over her jealousy and she blushed once more.
"Talk to him" Saoirse stated before swiftly walking out the bathroom, head held high as if their conversation never even happened. Rose smiled, so what if Jodie had snogged Scorpius there was little use in feeling jealous about it. After all Jodie may have scored but she was going to get the snitch and Rose couldn't just believe she thought that.
They were sat in the room of requirement both Augusta and Mimi shared confused glances, the vast amount of makeup brushes and makeup in their hands.
"Are you sure about this Rose...I mean we don't have to do this" Augusta pointed out as she slowly fidgeted with the foundation brush in her hands.
Rose nodded, there was no turning back, she needed this plan to work after all.
"Positive" She confirmed not missing the squeal of excitement from Mimi.
It was then that both Augusta and Mimi exchanged identical grins and started on making over Rose.
She couldn't help it, it was just so exciting and no one could wipe the wide grin from her face. Mimi practically bounced in her seat as she awaited Rose's arrival for dinner, of course the redhead disliked the idea of having a grand entrance however Mimi had convinced her otherwise.
Her sister shook her head with disbelief before turning back to her potatoes, however Mimi noticed the small smile on her face.
She was currently sat in the furthest corner of the table where mostly a close knit group of Slytherins sat, which included her sister, Scorpius and of course Al. However that was only on some occasions for Mimi noted that the Potter-Weasley clan tended to sit together during meal times .
The brunette reached into her pocket and pulled out a packet of fudge, of course this type was once again sent over from India from her grandparents and Meara was certain it contained an ingredient which want yet legal in the United Kingdom.
The dinner did look rather appetizing however memories of the first three years of Hogwarts came back to her and she slowly reached for a lone potato and ignored the grumbles of protest from her stomach.
Her sister watched her from her peripherals, it was normal of Saoirse to watch her like an overprotective parent and despite Mimi being the oldest Saoirse would always remain by her side.
"Does she ever eat real food?" Scorpius asked her sister, Saoirse being Saoirse managed to sneak herself a piece of fudge before turning to face the blond. Mimi blushed slightly, usually no one took any notice of her eating habits despite Saoirse and there was the odd occasion where Rose would watch her with a cocked brow during meal times.
"That and potatoes...my sister is a strange one" Saoirse commented before taking the bag of fudge and offering it to Scorpius.
Mimi pouted somewhat, she was all for sharing however with her sweets she was somewhat protective.
Her eyes remained glued to the great hall's entrance, any moment now Rose was to waltz through and if the plan worked out she would also gain Scorpius' attention.
With a little smile she placed a handful of fudge into her mouth however once her eyes glanced up she was met with a sight that caused her to grin like a madman- or woman.
With auburn curls bouncing being her with each step, Rose Weasley walked into the great hall. Mimi noticed the small blush in her friend's cheeks at the multiple stares she got however Rose proudly powered through by keeping her head held high.
The students either side of her gasped with shock and pointed at the sight of the redhead.
"That can't be Rose Weasley…" Primrose Nott, a small fifth year girl commented with disbelief.
Mimi smiled before glancing towards her sister, Saoirse shared the same look of approval and both girls had to hide their own grins.
Turning to her left she noticed how Scorpius couldn't keep his eyes away from the redhead. Once Rose had joined them at their own table the blond attempted to regain his composure and turned his gaze towards his own plate.
Rose too seemed to notice and gave Mimi a small smirk in disbelief at what was actually happening. Mimi grinned once more, their plan was in action and if things continued to go in this direction she was certain that those two were going to be a couple.
So what did you think of that?
Thanks to Esthela89 for following *yay* and if any Hufflepuffs were offended by this chapter please feel free to vent.
It was kind of fun to write from a new POV and the Finnegan sister just happen to be my favorite OC's.
Stay tuned for the next chapter where Rose attempts to fix things, Al is confused and Rose and Scorpius get some alone time.
JustAnotherFairy :)