Hi! This is the last chapter for You Ears are Red, Weasley. The prompt is satifaction.
"That son of a bitch!
I didn't have to look up to know who it was or what she was talking about. Rose stormed into the common room and flung her bag on the table.
"What did Scorpius do this time?" I asked, unable to keep my jealousy out of my voice. I envied Rose so much. She had Scorpius; why did she keep dumping him?
"I was talking to David Finnagin, just a polite chat, and he fucking murdered him!" Rose snarled. "Boys get too jealous too easily, especially Scorpius."
"Calm down Rose," I told her, the bitterness rising in my voice. "Just break up with him; break his heart again."
Rose shot me a look. "That's the reason I can't break up with him, though. It hurts him too much. I pity him."
I nearly snorted with the irony of the situation. At the beginning of my third year, I had pitied Rose. Now, in my sixth, she was telling me she pitied the reason I pitied her. She began to do what everybody does when they're worried; she paced.
"If I break up with him, I break his heart," she muttered, "but if I don't, no boy will ever talk to me again. What do I do?"
"He's so dense he doesn't even realize you don't like him," I told her. "Maybe you should make him break up with you."
Her eyes glowed at the idea. "That's perfect! Make him do the dirty work! That's perfect."
And I get the guy of my dreams who finally stops moping over Rose, I thought, grinning with her.
"What the hell?"
Everybody looked up. Every single jaw in the Great Hall dropped down. Rose had just snogged David Finnagin. It wasn't just a normal snog; it was a full out one. It almost seemed fake. Rose winked at me to remind me that they were just acting. So was David; we had to tell him our plan. Then, Scorpius had come into the Great Hall, and he was looking absolutely furious.
"What are you doing?" he demanded.
"Damn," Rose muttered. To anyone else, it would have looked like Rose had been cheating on both of them. I knew that it was an act, though. "Scorpius, you've got to believe me! I always loved you more!"
"Yeah right," Scorpius snapped, scowling. "We're through."
He stalked over angrily to the Slytherin table, and gossip began to spread like a wildfire. It increased when David and Rose sat down like nothing happened. I was surprised no one realized it was an act. Well if they did, they were hiding it. Everybody began to leave the tables, and I caught up to Scorpius.
"You okay?" I asked.
"I've been so used to you comforting me after a break up," he muttered awkwardly, "but it's weird being the one breaking up with Rose. I just never expected her to cheat on me. I think I'm over her, though."
Thank Godric! I though gleefully.
"So," I announced, trying to remain casual, though excitement fluttered in my chest. "Now that you're free, do you want to go to the Three Broomsticks with me next Hogsmeade trip?"
I must've been grinning like an idiot, because he grinned like one to. "I'd like that."
It was a date. An official date. I was so excited, that I forgot we were still in the Great Hall. I rushed forward and pecked him on the lips. He looked a flustered, and I felt flustered.
"Sorry," I muttered, embarrassed by my outburst.
"It's okay," he told me.
I turned. Everybody was staring at us. A strange sense of satisfaction flooded through me as I spotted Erica. She gave me a thumbs up, and then shouted to the whole school could hear her: "You're ears are red, Weasley!"