Scorpius's POV:
After the sorting ceremony came to an end and all 58 of us first years had been put in our proper houses (a total of 17 new Ravenclaws including Rose and I as well as Zara and Jace) the headmistress- Professor Larson, gave us all an "inspiring" speech. She told us all the rules as well as what to expect this coming year. As soon as she finished and the applause died down, piles of food appeared by magic on the empty plates in front of us causing me and my fellow first years to gasp and the hall rang with laughter followed by the sound of food being piled on plates and forks and knives scraping as people begin to cut their food.
I immediately start grabbing at everything in sight, it all looked beyond delicious. The house elves had truly outdone themselves. Because everyone was busy stuffing their faces with food, there was very little conversation. After a few minutes when people began to satisfy their hunger, the hall became a roar of conversation. This had to be the most amazing school ever.
After everyone finished up their dessert, Professor Larson announced it was time to go to our house common rooms and then our dormitories. Our house prefects stood up and told all the first years to follow them. We followed the prefects (who's names we learned were Rebecca and Kory) to an entrance where we learned we would have to answer a question each time we wanted to get in, and Kory answered the question as we all followed him through the doorway that appeared. We stepped inside a room and there was an awe about the first years. I glanced over and Rose was smiling that beautiful smile of hers. The common room was huge. There were several desks with lamps and huge comfy looking armchairs and couches everywhere. A huge fireplace took up an entire wall. The room was all decorated in silver and midnight blue, I immediately fell in love with the place. Kory then asked the boys to follow him while Rebecca took the girls and Rose looked at me as she left, smiling and waving.
Rose's POV:
Our dorms were incredible. Zara, me, and the 7 other first year (girl) Ravenclaws shared a room. It seemed that we would all get along well enough. The other girls were Elizabeth, Hannah, Jenny, Isabella, Natalie, Angela, and Rachel. We introduced ourselves and found which beds were ours (each bed had one of our trunks on it) and either changed into pajamas to go to sleep or went back down to the common room.
I decided I would go back down to the common room to see if Scorpius was down there. I glanced around and felt my heart sink. I decided to go sit in a large chair by the fire for a bit to make it look like I wasn't trying to be antisocial.
"Rose?" I heard from behind me. I turned around to see a beaming Scorpius holding an armful of leftover sweets.
"Told you we would have a celebration if we both made Ravenclaw." He said and I couldn't help but smile back. We went over to a corner where no one was sitting as he dumped all the "goods" onto a small table and we sat on the floor next to it.
"Well," he said, "here we are. We got what we wanted. Well errm we made Ravenclaw at least." he said, looking down and blushing as if hinting to something more. I pushed it away.
"Why yes we did! I think most of that had to do with our WANT to be in Ravenclaw, I mean obviously we also belonged. But yeah.." I trailed off, unsure of what else to say.
Our conversation eventually consisted of what we were looking forward to not only this year but in all the years to follow at Hogwarts. We talked for what seemed like mere minutes.
"Everyone get to bed!" Shouted Kory with Rebecca standing next to him.
Nooo! I thought to myself. I never wanted to end this day, I still hadn't run in to any of my family members and wasn't looking forward to when I did knowing that they probably had seen me with Scorpius- if they knew who he was of course, and if not they would ask.
Scorpius looked disappointed as well and we gathered what was left of the treats. We stood up and he gave me a hug and walked towards the boys dormitories, stopping to turn and wave before disappearing up the staircase. My heart skipped a beat; I had never had a friend outside of my family, let alone a guy. I didn't want to screw this up. I decided to not tell him that I liked him if it meant ruining what was already becoming a great friendship. This was going to be hard.
Scorpius's POV:
When I got upstairs, I stashed the rest of our treats in my trunk and flopped onto my bed. I'd never really had many friends, and I certainly had never been friends with a girl. I wanted to make sure I could always have her there to depend on, making my decision easy and yet hard at the same time. I would not tell Rose that I liked her. I needed a best friend. I sighed and slowly drifted to sleep.