CHAPTER THREE: ALBUS'S FEELINGS

At breakfast, Rose received her letter from her mum. She has scolded her daughter in the most disturbing way. This made Rose angrier and she stormed towards her cousin.

'What is this?' she said through gritted teeth shoving the letter in Lily's face.

Lily glanced at it and looked up at her face with her brown eyes glowing.

'A letter,' she said scornfully.

'From mum,' Rose finished. 'You told Aunt Ginny about this! Of all the people-'

'She's my mum Rose and you have no business about me telling mum, not when you don't care about our family or my brother,' Lily snapped.

'This is my business, I know what to do, I know how to deal with this-'

Lily cut her off by snatching the letter from Rose's hand and shoves it in her nose.

'D'you think you can handle your mum after this letter? God Rose aren't you ashamed of yourself, not even a bit?'

'There's no reason I should be ashamed of myself,' Rose said proudly. 'I love Scorpius and-'

'You love WHOM?' said a loud voice behind Rose making her jump. 'She turned around and turned as red as her brushy hair.

'Al-Albus,' she stammered.

Albus Potter was staring at her, his emerald green eyes wide.

'Are you out of your mind?' He almost shouted at her.

'That seems likely,' Lily commented.

Albus had caused half of the Great Hall to stare at them, including Scorpius Malfoy who was curiously looking at his girlfriend.

'I have to go,' Rose muttered not meeting Albus's eyes, aware of the fact that this might be the last time she would speak to him.

Scorpius got up from the Slytherin table and followed Rose out of the Great Hall.

Albus, meanwhile, had no words to speak. He simply shook his head and went to the Slytherin common room to grab his bag.

This diversion caused James to come over to Lily to ask what happened.

'Rose is dating Scorpius Malfoy,' she told him in an undertone.

James raised his eyebrows and shrugged.

'Cool,' he muttered and walked away, his hands in his pockets. Lily watched him in awe.

'Hey,' said Dominique coming up to her. 'Take this, someone send it to you.'

Her eyes glittering, she went to join her friends out of the Great Hall.

Lily unfolded the piece of parchment and read:

Can't wait for Hogsmede weekend, Two days seem like a century.

Lily smiled and slipped the note in the pocket of her robes. She looked around at the ravenclaw table and saw Simon looking at her. He grinned and winked. She felt herself blush with anticipation.

Moments later Hugo Weasley came to her and they set off together to get their bags while Lily told him about her sister

Scorpius followed Rose yelling 'WAIT' at her, when she didn't stop; he ran to her and faced her, gripping her shoulders. Rose was red and puffy and tears were streaming down her face.

'Hey everything is going to be fine, OK?' he soothed

'N-No nothing is going to be fine,' she blubbered. 'Everyone hates me Lily, Al and D-Dom probably by now.'

'Look on the bright side, Fred and James lover you.'

'Oh who cares about them,' she stomped her foot impatiently. 'It's all my fault, L-Lily's right I'm running the family.'

'We'll work something out I promise,' he assured her and gave her warm hug to quite her down.

When she stopped crying, Scorpius pecked her lips and said, 'I'll see you in herbology then.'

He walked away. But Rose was not dreaming of her boyfriend and stealing kisses as opportunity offered. She could only think of Albus and the torment she was giving him.