A/N Hey so this chapter has a lot more dialouge than the other 2. But thanks for reading and thanks to everyone who is sticking with me :) It means alot.
Title: Tell Me You Love Me
Summery: Rose and Scorpius used to be best friends but after a drunken revaluation at one of the Weasley's famous Christmas parties the pair can't look each other in the eyes.
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Chapter 3: Off to Hogwarts we go
It was the last day of the Christmas holidays and Rose and Lily were in their shared bedroom, packing up their trunks before they went back to Hogwarts. Rose was hunched over the trunk placing folded school robes in neat piles, listening to Lily as she moaned and whined about not being able to go to Hogsmead this term. Her parents banned her from stepping foot outside of Hogwarts because she had gotten drunk on Christmas. They also took away her broom - which her father thought was a step too far - enabling her to play for Gryffindor when the Quidditch season started back up.
Mid rant Lily glanced over at her cousin, "hey Rose what's up, you've been quiet?" Lily asked, dropping a hairbrush into her trunk.
Rose looked up from her trunk and looked over, "nothing is wrong, I'm just listening" Rose shrugged, sniffling.
Lily pulled Rose into a hug, "what's wrong?"
"Scorpius hates me, he hasn't spoke to me at all since our fight on Christmas" Rose said, wiping away a tear which was running down her cheek.
"You guys are best friends, I'm sure you will make up with him. You'll see him tomorrow on the train, tell him then that you miss him" Lily said, rubbing her cousin's back.
"Yeah I guess so" Rose said, wiping her face.
"But enough of that lets talk gossip? You still didn't tell me why Mark was here the other day?"
Typical Lily, always wanting to know everyone else's business. That was why she hung out with Chasity Rivers and Miranda Blake. They were dementors when gossip was around, the would suck up every morsel of news and if they could use it to their advantage they would.
"Nothing happened" Rose said, turning her back on her cousin.
"C'mon Rose don't be like that. I know you better than anyone and I know when you are lying" Lily demanded.
"Lily I'm not lying. Nothing happened. And nothing would happen with you lot being in the house. Okay happy?"
"Oh" Lily began, "Oh-you mean you guys haven't-"
"Nope and don't go telling your mates or they'll take the pleasure of constantly harassing me about it" Rose said, shutting the lid of her trunk tight.
"Don't worry I wont tell a soul" Lily said, getting back to packing. She stopped again and looked at Rose, "But you like him don't you?"
"Yes"
"But?" she pushed.
"But nothing, I like him end of story. I just can't seem to get one moments peace with him. Without, you and Scorpius constantly wanting something or Filtch catching us every time we sneak out"
"Well you know what you gotta do, you gotta dress up in your sluttiest panties and bra and surprise him when he finished Quidditch practice" Lily winked. "And then you two will be able to be alone"
"Trust you to go with slutty underwear" Rose said, shaking her head. "I will be doing it my way. Which will be me planning it and not surprising people"
"Surprising who?" came a voice from the now opened door. It was Hermione, Rose's mother carrying a handful of freshly cleaned clothes.
"It's nothing mum" Rose said, accepting a load of laundry from her mum.
Hermione looked at both girls and slowly she said, "okay. Dinner will be ready soon"
"Okay mum" Rose said. When her mum left she made sure the door was closed tight. Cursing herself for not thinking of putting a Imperturbable Charm on the door. She turned back to Lily and snapped, "you couldn't have kept your mouth down, you're just lucky that wasn't my dad, he would have flipped at the thought of me having sex"
"But you aren't having sex" Lily pointed out.
"Well it's all the same to him" Rose said, slumping down onto the bed.
"Hey Rose, Mark is crazy for you. I see it in the way he looks at you. You don't need to rush to have sex with him, when the time is right, I'm sure it'll be worth the wait" Lily said, closing her trunk. Rose just smiled at her cousin in thanks.
Early the next morning the whole of the burrow was up and everyone was running around mad getting their last few things together. Owls squawked as they were being put into their cages, every trunk was packed, shut and waiting in the living room and the everyone who was returning to Hogwarts were bleary eyed and yawning at the thought of the early train journey back to school.
The house smelled of eggs and bacon as Mrs Weasley had the pans in the kitchen sizzling away in the kitchen. Rose sat in the living room, her eyes squinting to focus on the page - due to having a terrible sleep the night before - of the latest addition of Witch Weekly. Lily had a subscription to the magazine and she'd left the copy on the table the night before. Rose was reading through the magazine learning new tips about how to create the perfect pumpkin pie, where the best place to buy dress robes was and the cons of using love potions.
Rose looked up from reading and saw her younger cousin Molly sitting crossed legged on the floor, a large ancient ruins book in her hand. Molly was studying for the exams which took place in May. I should really start studying more Rose thought. It wasn't that she was lazy or because she inherited her mothers intellect she thought she shouldn't have to study. No it was because she couldn't study not until she was in the Hogwarts library surrounded by the smell of dusty books, parchment and quill ink. Until then she would just do some light reading in the form of Lily's magazine subscription.
She put down the magazine after reading the advice column, where it was filled with women complaining about their dead lovelives. Her own love life was getting no where, she didn't need to read about grown woman complaining about there's.
At half past 10 everyone was gathered in the garden with their trunks. Rose looked round at her family, excitement due to going back to Hogwarts setting in. She was currently dressed in muggle clothes, a pair of faded blue jeans, a warm brown jumper and a pair of brown leather boots, to keep away the bitter winter air. Before everyone left, Mr and Mrs Weasley hugged all their grandchildren and wished them luck in the new term.
Even though, she only had a few months left of school and the thought of staying in the Burrow with all of her family, for another day made her feel claustrophobic, her heart still tightened slightly at the thought of being away until the summer.
The old rusty bucket, which sat in the middle of the circle of Weasleys and Potters, began to glow blue. The portkey, which would take them to an alleyway not far from Kings Cross Station, was signaling that it was due to leave.
"Quickly everyone hold on tight!" Arthur Weasley, called to his grandchildren.
Everyone grabbed hold of the bucket which was now startlingly white. And whoosh the bucket lifted into the air with the Weasley/Potter kids still attached. The bucket spun around and the air bent around Rose. She tried to look at the world around her but it was just blurred colours which made her eyes sore. She felt sick as her stomach was jerked as the bucket spun faster and then suddenly she felt solid ground.
She stumbled to get her feet, her head still spinning. She was so glad that they only decided to bring their trunks no way would it be safe for owls to travel to London via portkey. Instead the owls would be flying there themselves and they would set off on their journey just after nightfall.
The Weasley and Potter children made their was into Kings Cross Station. Walking down towards platforms 9 and 10. The train station was packed at quarter to eleven, commuters making their way to and from work on the trains. The smell of coffee and fresh bagels hung think in the air. There was train station workers everywhere trying to deal with the long queues and broken ticket machines.
"Why is it so busy?" Hugo (Rose's brother) asked, he stood staring at the wall in front of them. When everyone shrugged or shook their head in confusion, he ran towards the wall dragging his trunk behind him.
"Hugo!" Rose yelled and watched as her brother slipped through the wall.
"C'mon let's just go. The sooner we get through that wall the better. It's nearly ten to eleven" Albus said, looking down at his watch. He was the next to go through onto platform 9 and three quarters. He then ran towards the wall with his trunk.
"I'm next" Roxanne Weasley said, "I'm meeting Derrick and I want us to get a carriage before they all fill up" made her way onto the platform.
"We are so not sharing a carriage with them. I do not want to know what they get up to" Lily shuddered. "But anyway off to school we go dear cousins" she followed the same process her cousins before her did.
Rose went next; she looked at the wall in front of her and pulled on the handle of her trunk, dragging it on it's little wheels. She ran full force into the wall. Light and sound whizzed past her eyes and ears and then she blinked and everything around her had changed.
She looked up and saw a large sign hanging above her head; Platform 9 and 3/4 it read in gold lettering. The platform was packed with students who were returning to Hogwarts saying their goodbyes to parents and loved ones who were there to see them off. And the one thing which made her smile like an idiot and feel giddy was the site of the Hogwarts Express. The scarlet snake was producing white fluffy clouds as students were climbing aboard and stopping to hang out of the windows to wave goodbye to their parents.
Rose scanned the crowds looking for the familiar blonde head she was so desperate to find. But someone else caught her attention. "Hey you" Mark said, slipping his hand into hers.
"Hey!" she cried, spinning round and smiling up at her boyfriend. She wanted to kiss him right her and now, but to save herself the embarrassment she settled for a warm brief hug. The sharp shrill whistle which alerted students that the train was getting ready to leave the platform startled them and they step onto the train.
The train corridor was tight with Hogwarts students as they trudged up and down to find seats and meet up with friends. As the train pulled away away from the station, the crowds started to thin out as students disappeared into carriages.
"Hey babe. I gotta go now " Mark said, pulling Rose in for a quick peck, "See you tonight" Rose nodded as he when through the sliding doors connecting the carriages. It was tradition that the Ravenclaw Quidditch team would sit together in a carriage, discussing their holidays and talking battle strategy about what was the best way to claim the Quidditch House Cup. And since Mark was the captain he was required to show up. She sighed and walked towards the back of the train where she knew her cousins and friends would be sitting.
In the carriage at the end she found it empty bar on member of the Weasley clan. Dominique Weasley sat staring out of the window as the train chugged along passing towns and cars on the motorway.
"Hey Dominique" Rose said, shaking her cousin out of her daydream. "Where's everyone else?" she asked. She stood on the seat and stuffed her trunk onto the overhead baggage shelf.
"Away to meet other people. Be thankful that this carriage is quiet the now soon you wont be able to hear yourself think" Dominique rolled her crystal clear blue eyes. Dominique like her sister and mother all looked identical. With the same silvery blonde hair and blue eyes, although Dominique was also like her father; she had the same smirk and nose. And unlike her her older sister Victorie who inherited her mother's blunt critical manner, Dominique got her father's relaxed laid back personality.
Rose just shrugged and sat across from her cousin, "are you excited to be finished Hogwarts this year?"
Dominique grinned, "yup, mum and dad said I can go to Paris this year and study". A dreamy look came over her face. "Hey! You should come with me. We could rent a little flat by the Seine, eat amazing pastries and date sexy French men" Dominique giggled, fantasising.
Rose thought about it for a moment, it would be pretty amazing to live abroad. She could always apply to the French Ministry of Magic and do an internship. But she knew her parents would never let her go, well her mother would but Ron would straight out refuse to sent his eighteen year old daughter to a foreign country. She sighed, "I would never be allowed to go"
"Yes you would! I'll be there. You're not going alone Rose" Dominique pouted, "at least ask, please. It'll be so much fun"
"Okay I'll ask"
"Ask for what?" Hugo, asked sliding open the door and flopping down beside his sister.
"If I can go to Paris this year after graduation" Rose explained.
"No way will dad let you go to Paris" the confirmation of this made Rose deflate.
An hour after Hugo joined Dominique and Rose, followed by Albus and his girlfriend Wendy Price a Hufflepuff prefect and Lily who was in a foul mood after having an argument with her on and off again lover Patrick Mathews, Rose got up to go for a walk. Being stuck in a compartment with her family made her feel claustrophobic. She had just spent two weeks at Christmas with them all, she needed a break for the Weasley/Potter banter. And she needed to apologise to Scorpius.
She walked down the train looking in compartment door windows, asking passing students - some had already changed into their school robes - if any of them had seen Scorpius. She stopped Ruth Parker the one of the beaters on the slytherin Quidditch Team. Even though Scoripus wasn't on the team at least he was in her house.
"Hey Ruth"
"Hey Rose, good Christmas?" Ruth asked.
"Yeah great. Hey look you haven't seen Scorpius have you?"
Ruth stopped and tapped her chin with her forefinger as if she was thinking hard. Ruth wasn't the bright button in the box but she could kick anyone's ass on the Quidditch field so that made up for the brains. She shook her head, "no sorry, I haven't seen him" she started walking and said over her shoulder, "if I see him I'll let him know"
"Thanks" Rose said to Ruth's back.
Rose stood in the corridor of the noisy train as it tumbled past country roads and green fields. She looked at her reflection of the glass panels in the train doors. Where had Scorpius gone, it felt like he had disappeared. A thought entered her head. She knew exactly where he was. She darted through the doors Ruth had went through she walked quickly down the train passing the last carriage which her family were in. The large grey door at the end where all of the food supplies were kept was closed like normal.
She pulled her want out and pointed it at the key hole, "alohamora" she called out. There was a click of locks being undo and she slid the door opened. The inside smelled like wood and sweets. In amongst the wooden crates sat Scorpius with a book in his hand.
He looked up at Rose when she entered and dropped his gaze quickly.
Rose's throat felt dry and her stomach was knotted. She had no idea what she was going to say to Scorpius, she knew what she felt but it was putting the feelings into words which was the tricky part. She walked over and slid down onto the floor her back pressed against a box. "Hey Scorpius...um, look. I'm really-"
"-what do you want Rose?" Scoirpus cut across her.
Rose recoiled slightly as she looked at the hurt look on his face and the storm brewing in his grey eyes. "I'm sorry" she said in a small voice.
"Oh that's great Rose you're sorry" Scorpius slammed the book closed. "You weren't the one to make a fool of yourself at you grandparents Christmas party, confess your feelings and then have then threw back in your face, were you Rose?" he spat.
Tears bubbled in Rose's eyes, "no but if you just listen to me" she began.
He shook his head, "no Rose I told you the truth and you never even consider it from my point of view" Scorpius said, his voice thick with tears. Rose had never seen him cry, she'd seen him angry and sad but never cry. It made her heart squeeze just seeing him look so torn. "I told you how I felt and after it I felt like an idiot"
"I really am sorry Scorpius. But I'm with Mark. You know I love you but you're my best friend, I would never want to ruin something like that" she sniffed loud.
"What do you see in him?"
Rose was taken back by the question, sure she'd been asked it by Lily and Dominique, even her mother but never Scorpius and never in that tone of voice. Rose thought for a minute, what did she see in Mark. Why did she choose him out of every other guy in her year? Sure he was sweet, he bought her things, like the necklace at Christmas. And he was so hot but they didn't have anything in common. Mark was always talking about Quidditch and when he wasn't talking about it he was playing it. They only had one class in together which was Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Rose felt sad thinking that they had never been close emotionally. Rose had never poured her heart out to him, let him hold her and sit with her until she was finished crying. He wasn't the one who held back her hair that time she got so drunk she was sick everywhere. He wasn't the one who sat and had to endure hours of Rose bitching about how it was unfair that she had gotten an Exceeds Expectations on her Ancient Ruins O.W.L when she deserved an Outstanding. It was Scorpius who was there for all of that.
"He cares for me Scorpius" which made Scoripus snort, "he treats me right, he hasn't pushed me to have sex with him" she licked her lips trying to think of other things Mark does. "He loves me" Scorpius shook his head in disgust.
"Rose listen to yourself. You are just generalising a person. Not a boyfriend" he sighed, he picked up his book and stood up.
Rose scrambled to her feet, "so Scorpius you're saying you don't think I should be treated the way Mark is treating me?" she asked standing in front of him with her arms folded.
Scorpius shook his head, "Rose I don't want to discuss this anymore. I'm done with this" he tried to move past her but she just stood in front of him again.
"No. I want to talk about it so we are" she said, "how should I be treated"
He sighed desperately. He so did not want to get into this, he had came in here to hide away and not have to deal with anyone until Hogwarts. Rose was his best friend and he really did love her, ever since they had been kids. But right now he wanted to run away and hide from her. She was so close to him that he could smell the lingering smell of her skin which drove him crazy. Her long red hair was framing her beautiful face and she had that determined look in her eyes which made him love her more and always made him slightly scared of her (but he would never admit that to her)
He looked her in the face, he knew he had to give her an answer or she would never drop it.
"I would show you off, tell everyone how lucky I was to be your boyfriend. Tell you were beautiful every single day, even if you thought you weren't. I would never lie to you. Never cheat on you or look at any other woman" his throat dry and he felt naked and exposed. "Rose I would look after you when you got old, love you forever. And never ever let you tell yourself you aren't good enough"
Rose's breath caught in her throat. She had been open with Scorpius before but she had never ever heard him say these kind of things before. Her head felt dizzy as she looked into his thunderclouds coloured eyes. She was now just aware that their chest were touching. Her heart was beating fast and she felt lightheaded.
"Rose I know you are with Mark but I will never stop loving you and when he hurts you I will be there to pick you back up"
Rose jerked out of it, "what? What do you mean 'when he hurts me?' Mark wouldn't do that to me" she snapped, anger now surging through her bones.
Scorpius blinked, "that was not what I meant Rose-" he started.
"Save it Scorpius. You may be able to convince me with your words that you are only trying to be a friend. But you've always been jealous of Mark" she spun on her heel and marched out of the door, not turning round once.
Scorpius kicked the closest box to him. He didn't wince as pain shot up his leg. His heart had already taken a beaten and he was still recovering from that pain.
A/N A longer chapter this time. Yay! Sorry it has taken me ages to upload I was just really busy with college and stuff. But thanks again to everyone who is reading this little story and enjoying it, it means alot. Please give it a review really helps me out and so I know people are interested. Okay bye.