She woke from a dream

Her head was on fire

Why was he so nervous?

He took her to the park

She crossed her arms

And lowered her eyelids

-Question; Old 97s

CHAPTER 2

ROSE WEASLEY

I liked going for walks around the castle after-hours. Everything was so quiet, even the smallest of footsteps made an echo. It was calming. Of course, if I didn't have my Uncle Harry's map it probably would've been less calming, but I did so I knew Filch wasn't lurking around. Seriously that guy should have retired. Or died. I was thinking this when I crashed into something. I saw a tall dark figure, and for a second I thought it was Filch but then I remembered he was on the third floor, and I was up on the seventh. Then my eyes adjusted again to the dark and I saw some attractively tousled white blonde hair and I knew who it was.

"Scorpius! Sorry… I'm sorry… I wasn't looking and I… sorry…" I said, flustered. I willed myself not to blush. I always blushed around him. I could've sworn he seemed to blush too, but it was dark so it was probably just my eyes.

"It's okay, Weasley. I'm always up for seeing a girl after-hours, if you catch my drift." His usual smirk played upon his lips, the redness I'd thought I saw no longer there, and I couldn't help but grin. There was something about him that made me smile, and I could never figure out what it was. Of course, I knew he saw lots of girls after-hours. Fate Brown never shut up about him: "Oh, Scorpius is so lovely! We're in love you know, he told me once that he wants to run away with me and get married!" I very much doubted he said this, and I definitely doubted that he was in love with her. I'd seen him drag other girls into broom closets between classes, but I noticed he always looked bored. It was just a game to him - just something to pass the time.

"Ah, girls like Fate Brown?" I raised my eyebrow at him. Scorpius looked almost… guilty. He shifted from foot to foot a little bit, but then he regained his composure.

"Fate Brown is a whore." He said, smiling at me. I'd never noticed before what a nice smile he had; I felt myself blushing again. "No offence if you like her or anything."

"No, you're right, she is a whore. And I have to share a dormitory with that two-faced bitch. You should hear her go on about you though." That last bit slipped out before I could stop, and I mentally kicked myself.

"Been having little late night chats about little ol' Scorpius here, have you?" He grinned broadly at me, raising his eyebrow.

"I try not to talk to Fate Brown, to be perfectly honest. She annoys the fuck out of me."

"Yeah I know what you mean." To this I raised my eyebrow. Wasn't he the one who kept dragging her into broom closets to run her clammy hands through his carefully mussed up hair and all over his soft, pale skin?

Did you really just think about Scorpius' hair and skin? Snap out of it Rose!

"If you don't like her so much, why are you always with her?"

"I'm not! I've been trying to ditch her lately actually, but she's always there whenever I turn the fucking corner. That's who I thought you were when we bumped into each other, but lucky for me it was just pretty little Rose Weasley." It took me a moment to realise what he said.

"Did you just call me pretty?" I asked, in a mix of horror and… what was that? Anxiety? Nervousness? Excitement. That's what it was. I was actually excited that Scorpius Malfoy would find me pretty. Now I was disgusted. I mean, there was no denying Scorpius was good-looking. No, he was gorgeous. The problem was: he knew it. Also, my dad warned me about the Malfoys. I didn't believe that Scorpius was half the stuff my dad had said about his father, Draco, but still I knew he would be fucking fuming if I befriended a Malfoy. I remember Albus mentioning Scorpius when we were at the Burrow, my dad started ranting about his father while Uncle Harry tried to calm him down, so Albus talked to my mum about him instead. She went a bit pink but continued the conversation anyway, but it couldn't have just been me who could tell she was uncomfortable talking about Scorpius. I don't know why, probably something to do with his father. But, knowing what my dad would be like if I was friends with him - actually, knowing what Albus would be like if I was friends with him - I usually kept my distance with Scorpius, but that didn't mean I didn't notice him. He could get any girl; blondes, brunettes, redheads, anyone. He and Adrian Zabini strut around the castle with his group of Slytherins trailing after them. You could see he wasn't bothered with the rest of his group. It was really just Scorpius, Adrian and a fan club. A bunch of wannabes. And Fate Brown trailing just a little bit behind them.

"Hmmm, I guess I did, can't deny that one. I'll see you around, Weasley." He winked at me, and he turned on his heel and walked back to the Slytherin common room. I felt a smile creep across my face and it was still there when I got back to Gryffindor Tower.

"What are you smiling at?" Dominique asked me, while sat up in bed reading a magazine.

"I guess I just had a really nice walk." I said, pulling my pyjamas on, the smile still fixed on my face when I slowly started to dream.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

sorry it took so long for me to get it up, i had a bit of writer's block, haha. i rewrote this a few times but i think i'm happy with it, which probably means you guys won't like it but hey, it's only just starting;)

i put a Vampire Academy reference in this by the way, if you can see it. VA is completely my favourite book series after Harry Potter. Plus the story revolves around Rose so i thought i'd be fun. I also put a Dramione reference in there, but that's just a little one so you probably won't see that. but if you can, tell me, post a review!

when i uploaded the first chapter, i didn't really think anyone would read it apart from the people i told i posted it, but i got some story alerts and someone favourited the story and you don't know how much i was smiling for the rest of the day:)

my birthday's in a week and it's christmas three days after that, and then i'm going to holland for new year but i'll try to fit in my third chapter sometime in the holidays, so please read!
and please review!

thanks guys
beccasophX