Lily sat at her desk, chewing the end of her quill. She had quite outdone herself. She stared at the leather bound cover of her journal, the words Descriptions curling across the page in flourished gold script. Whenever Lily found someone striking or whoever she was acquainted with, she gave them a page in her book, and sometimes embellished on some peoples pages. She had just finished her latest entry to Scorpius's page.
She flipped through it past James, Al-Sev, Rose, Hugo, Teddy, Victoire, Uncle George, Stella Thomas, Zoe Chang, Isabel Wood, Neville, Nora Finnigan, and many many more until she reached the page she had been looking for. Scorpius Draco Malfoy. She smiled at her first one paragraph entry of him, when she first met him as Albus's friend, the summer before first year.
Al's new friend, Scorpius seems nice enough, but Daddy flinches every time he sees him. I asked Daddy what was wrong and he told me that it was just that Scorpius looks so like his father. Mum doesn't really mind him. She treats him nicely and heaps him with food and sweaters and treacle tart. James scorns him, as a Slytherin. Rose and Hugo when they came over met him, though Rose had already talked to him at school. Hugo was disinterested in him, but Rose had warned me profusely that Scorpius Malfoy is a bad character. I asked why and she just shrugged and said she had her reasons. Teddy also told me that Scorpius is bad news, but he just called him "that malfoy kid", and I also asked him why, and Teddy just said darkly, "because he's a Malfoy." Personally, I don't know what to think about him. He's interesting enough, but he seems...different to me. I don't know, I guess I'm just talking nonsense, but as I stare at him during breakfast, lunch and dinner, I can't help notice how this one piece of white blond hair always manages to come out of the otherwise perfect hairstyle, just hanging down in front of his left eye. I can't help but notice how when he smiles, his nostrils flare slightly and the right corner of his mouth comes up higher than the left. I can't help but notice how his clear grey eyes penetrate through anything, like a beacon of light, bringing me closer and closer towards them.
Lily sighed, and began writing a new entry about Scorpius.
Scorpius asked me out. I couldn't believe it at first. This - this sixth year boy, my brother's best friend, coming up to me, clutching my hand to his heart, and asking me if I'd be his girlfriend. I honestly had no idea what to say. Those eyes! They shone through at me, just begging me to say yes. Then he gently brought his head down to my level (he's so tall!) and gave me a soft, lingering kiss, a gentle pressure. It was amazing. Then he pulled away, and waited for my answer, staring at me with those beautiful, gorgeous grey eyes. How could I say no? I gave him my answer, and he smiled so broadly I thought his face would crack or something silly like that. Then, hesitantly, as if he was not sure (the popular, powerful, all-feared Scorpius Malfoy, unsure?), he slipped his hand through mine. His was so large that it completely covered mine! It was so ridiculous, I felt like laughing. But I didn't. Because, while it was ridiculous, it was also...really nice. It felt good, you know? It felt right.
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Albus Severus sat staring moodily in a plush red armchair at the dancing, merry fire. It was so cheerful and welcome looking. So why did he feel devastated? Memories flashed through his mind. Him pushing Lily on the swing. Lily falling down, and him kneeling beside her, and pulling her into a hug. Him consoling her, and stroking her hair when James had tormented her too much. He pictured her in his mind. She was so small, and now she was being thrust upon with something so big. Albus shifted guiltily in his seat. He had had his first girlfriend when he was thirteen. Lily was a couple of months over fifteen now. He sighed. It was just weird, his little sister so grown up.
But if it had to be anyone...
Just then Lily walked through the door, arm in arm with Lisa Macmillan.
Lisa nodded her head forward in excitement, "So, what's he like?" she giggled, "I can't believe you're actually going out with Scorpius Malfoy! I would give anything to be in your place!"
Lily chuckled, "Well he's nothing like you'd imagine, you know? I thought he would be conceited and proud, but really, he's sweet, and caring, and attentive..."
Lisa smiled, "Wow. Scorpius Malfoy. Never would have guessed to be sensitive."
Lily walked across the room with Lisa, gesturing wildly, "Oh, he is, Lis! And he is the most amazing kiss-" she stopped short as she and Lisa caught sight of Albus Severus.
Albus's face was expressionless, "Hey, Lils."
Lisa bit her lip, "Um, Lily, I'm going to go up to bed, ok?"
Lily nodded, wordless.
Albus smiled, "It's ok, Lily. I think I'm being the immature one here, and I realized that I should treat you your age and accept that you and Scorpius are going out."
A broad smile broke across Lily's face, and she ran to throw her arms around her brother, "Oh, Al, thank you!"
Albus laughed, "Don't thank me, you don't need my permission to do anything."
Lily grinned, "I know. I just don't like making you mad, especially not at me."
Albus hugged her again, "Good night Lily."
She smiled back at him, "Good night Al."
And once again, brother and sister were in harmony, accompanied by the presence of a certain Scorpius Malfoy a young handsome man harboring something extremely like...love for the young boy's sister.
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"Lily!" Scorpius ran across the great hall to meet his new girlfriend.
She turned to smile at him, "Hey, Scorpius."
He grinned, just feeling the smirks and sneers of his fellow slytherins burning into his back, "I just wanted to say good morning."
She smiled even more broadly, "Good morning. Do you want to come sit with me?"
He nodded excitedly. The two of them made their way over to the gryffindor table, and sat down next to Albus Severus, James, Teddy, Hugo, Rose, Lisa Macmillan, Vikram Patil, and Zoe Chang.
James glared at Scorpius, then even more so at Lily. He stood up and went farther down the table to sit with some other seventh years. Lily sighed. She supposd it would take some time for her family to get used to Scorpius. Hugo and Rose didn't leave, but didn't look too pleased by this arrangement. Only Albus and Teddy said good morning to Scorpius.
Lily glanced sideways down the table to glare at James. He shrugged and continued to converse with Harold Mclaggen. Imagine, picking McLaggen over Scorpius Malfoy!
Scorpius squeezed her hand, "Your brother doesn't seem to like me much."
"Don't think anything of it," she said, holding onto his hand tightly, "I suppose it's just a bit of animosity handed down the generations."
Scorpius smiled, "Well I knew this wasn't going to be easy. Your father and mine hated each other, our relationship probably isn't going to be the most stable thing." he said, grinning at her.
Lily giggled, "I suppose not."
Scorpius pressed his lips to her forehead, "I don't care. All I care about is that you're sitting right here next to me."
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"You and Scorpius Malfoy! I couldn't believe you would do this, just disregard the family name, just go off and dilly dally with any guy who happens to cross your path, it's disgraceful, and dishonorable!" James was pacing in front of Lily, his eyes blazing, lecturing.
She jumped up in anger, her face flushed, "Look, James, you can't tell me what to do! You talk about me as if I'm a common maid who will jump for any guy who happens to look her way! I am not, and I don't choose my boyfriends without carefully considering them, and Scorpius is not like that! Who the hell cares if his father and daddy didn't like each other back in school! Scorpius is not Draco Malfoy, and I am not Harry Potter, we are two different people with different minds, and their feud doesn't matter on whit to us!"
He snarled, "Malfoy is a conniving ass! He's a dirty philanderer, and you're letting him take advantage of you!"
Lily stared at him, her eyes livid, "Get something straight, James. This is my life! I already had to deal with Al, now I just need my family to support me! I really like him, and I don't need you being a horrible prat!"
She turned on her heel, and stalked out of the room, leaving James wondering just when had his little sister grown up.
I know I haven't written in quite a while, but I promise I'll be more punctual from now on! I've been writing a different story on my own called Forlorn, it's on my website--if any of you want to read that it's quite good, so send me a private message from my profile page and I'll send you the link!