Chapter two

Five years earlier

The heavy silence was suddenly broken when Hermione walked up and gave her husband a light peck on the cheek and then turned towards the younger pair at the table.

"Scorpius, this is Ron, Rose's father." Rose felt like didn't want anything else than vanish from the whole situation. Ron's eyes were slightly narrowed as he scrutinized Scorpius from head to toe. She couldn't believe that he was acting like this, even though both Rose and Hermione had specifically told him to at least act civilized.

"So you are Malfoy's son." Scorpius nodded and straightened up under the hard gaze he received and stared Ron straight in the eye. There was silence as the two men seemingly tried to intimidate the other, or Ron trying to do so, but Scorpius refusing to back down.

"Enough!" Rose's voice was drowned slightly by the screeching sound her chair made when she abruptly stood up, all the while glaring at her father, who stared at her as if it wasn't until now he realised that she was present in the room too.

"Let's go." She grasped Scorpius arm tightly and pulled him away towards the stairs. Scorpius could make out the angry voice of Hermione.

"Civil, Ronald, do you even know what that means!?"

He was shoved into a bedroom, which he assumed to be Rose's and then the door slammed shut behind him. He looked around and smiled inwardly at how the room resemled Rose. It was simple yet it made him feel welcome.

"I can't believe he did that, it's so embarrassing. Now you…" Rose rambled as she paced the floor and Scorpius found it best for her to get it out of her system, otherwise she might blow up in his face. He silently sat down on her bed and patiently waited for her to be done.

"I'm so sorry about that." Her voice sounded like a small child who knew it had done something bad, and it made him pat a spot beside him and she slumped down.

"I guess it's a good thing then, that I'm not trying to date your dad." His arm found its way around her shoulders and she let her head rest against him. "It wasn't that horrible, after that howler from last year we could only expect this." None of them had ever brought up that faithful day until now, they had both tried to ignore why they had spent so long time apart until only a couple of weeks ago.

"I'm sorry for that too." Rose mumbled and Scorpius squeezed her lightly.

"Yeah, me too."

"Ronald, you stupid prat. You promised her you wouldn't do anything like that." Hermione was fuming as she struck down at Ron, who only glared back at her.

"I'm aware of that, but he's a Malfoy. Really Hermione, have you forgotten the years at school." By the look alone Hermione would probably have been able to do serious damage to anyone, and even if he had been married to the woman in question Ron almost began to wonder about his own sanity when he found himself arguing with her now.

"From what I remember, I didn't go to school with Scorpius Malfoy. It's one of the differences between us and Rosie, and she knows him and you should trust her judgement about this."

"She's just a little girl. She just started Hogwarts for crying out loud!"

"She's finished half of her last year, which means she's been at Hogwarts for almost seven years!" She had to fight the urge to scream as she tried to reason with him, but it was like always, he was too stubborn to actually listen to her.

"I know math."

"It sure doesn't sounds like it."

"I suspect that she's already planning the wedding." Rose laughed as she could so easily see Isabelle as she with sparkling eyes cling to Scorpius while proposing to him. He had just finished telling her how it was at Ted's, where Scorpius was spending the holiday.

"She'll have to get in line, I believe it's a few ahead of her, and there are girls who have been planning for years. That means they started thinking about it long before Isabelle was even thought of." She smiled at Scorpius thoughtful expression.

"I'd have to consider her age, but I'm not ready for marriage just yet, so I can wait. She's smarter than a lot of the other girls, which is good, but her real downfall is that she is my cousin's daughter." He smirked down at her and suddenly Rose could feel butterflies inside. "However there's still the most important problem for all those girls."

"And what would that be?"

"You are clearly the main reason why I'm not together with anyone else. Seriously, you're supposed to be… mphf…" His reply was muffled by her pulling him towards her and then firmly planting her lips over his. Immediately Scorpius' previous thoughts went out the window and was replaced by the thought of Rose and having her as close as possible.

Without knowing really how or when, Rose was straddling him and she felt shivers through her spine as Scorpius' hands ran up and down her back until settling in her hair to pull her even closer if that was even possible.

Rose smiled against him as her own hands travelled slowly down until they found the hem of his shirt and tugged it upwards. Swiftly it landed on the floor, momentary forgotten as Rose explored what was hidden underneath.

Scorpius reminded himself that he had to breathe as his mind became slightly fuzzy as Rose's hands and lips roamed over his upper body. A cloud of ecstasy engulfed them both as they gave into it.

The hit of reality came when the distinct sound of someone walking up the stairs reached them, and for a split second they stayed frozen, that until they realised that the slow steps were moving towards them. The realisation of this slammed them into action, Scorpius dived for the shirt and Rose pulled at her own clothes and tried to smoothen out her hair as much as she could.

It was like time had slowed down when the door began to open up and Ron came into view, and his already annoyed expression became even darker when he saw their flustered faces. It looked like he had to struggle with himself until he finally managed to open his mouth.

"Dinner's ready." With that he was gone as soon as he had appeared and for a moment they just stared at the spot where he had been, before Rose let out a sound close to a giggle and stood up.

"Wow…" She held out her hand for Scorpius and pulled him to his feet.

"You can't say that wasn't awkward."