Im sorry its been so long! I have exams in January so Ive started to cram for them as well as being so busy at college. Couldnt have completed this chapter without Misspotter94 she is amazing!

Disclaimer - I do not own Harry Potter

Last lesson of the day; Defence against the Dark Arts. I heaved my bag onto my shoulder and shuffled along with the huge crowd of people making their way to class. It was Friday, and the countdown had begun for the weekend. Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were re-playing each other on Sunday since those two teams were now even on points after Ravenclaw has claimed an appeal against how Hufflepuff's seeker caught the snitch and you could feel the excitement. Ravenclaw were determined to destroy Hufflepuff. All the Slytherins and Gryffindors were counting on Ravenclaw to lose since Hufflepuff isn't as big a threat but we all knew that wasn't going to happen. Ravenclaw had been on top form so far this year, winning their past two matches and only losing to us by ten points.

I walked along slowly stuck behind a group of loud and annoying fifth year boys who had managed to cut in front of me on their way in from the grounds. They obviously all thought they were a gift to the Wizarding World since they were flirting with any girl that looked in their direction. They didn't seem to notice the disgusted looks the girls sent back.

I scowled and thought about letting them know what girls actually thought of them but I was sore from quidditch practice the night before and seriously tired so decided against it and carried on walking behind them at a snail's pace.

Most of the crowd disappeared to class as we ventured up to the sixth floor and soon it was just me, the group of boys and the stray student here and then left in the halls.

The group then decided to stop in the middle of the corridor to chat with a mate. It was completely blocking the way through and they seemed completely oblivious. Fed up with having to wait I marched forwards and barged my way through knocking one of the boys so hard he had to stumble before he could regain his balance.

He stood back up straight and scowled in my direction, I recognised him as Connor Peter's the foul mouthed, confident jerk from Ravenclaw.

His scowl dropped when he saw who pushed him, his face morphed into a smirk.

"Ahh Little Potter, I know I'm incredibly handsome but I'd appreciate if you'd form an orderly queue like all the others." He smirked motioning behind him to where his imaginary line of girls would have been situated. "It's rude to push."

I glared at him and took a step back.

"Look Peters the only reason I pushed you was because you and your band of pussies were blocking the way through to class. Usually I wouldn't touch you with a four foot pole! You are revolting and annoying and you do not have girls lining up to be with you, you have girls lining up to get away from you!" I spat at him my temper wearing thin.

He started to scowl at me again. I turned to walk away but he started to say something. "You think you are so special don't you Potter." He growled taking a step closer to me. "But you're not, and if you look around now you precious brothers are not here to protect you now are they." He was getting closer to me forcing me to walk backwards to. I noticed that he and his friends had formed a circle around us. Not liking the angry look in Connor's eyes I took another step back and tripped over an outstretched foot causing me to fall back and hit my head against the stone wall.

Peters laughed at my dazed state.

"Not so tough now are you Potter!" He snarled bending down and stroking my cheek. "Such a pretty face ruined by such a big, rude mouth." He said softly. I slapped his hand away and went to push myself up but he grabbed me by the chin roughly and held me down. I winced.

"Fuck is going on here?" I heard a very familiar voice growl dangerously low and then felt Peters' hands leave my skin.

"This is none of your business Malfoy!" he shouted. I slowly stood up so I was leaning against the wall and looked across to see Scorpius and Peters facing off. Toby and Talia were stood a little away from the two boys, glancing at me and then at each other, small smirks on their faces. Connor's friends were looking at each other a bit apprehensively - since Scorpius fought off my two brothers and cousins at the same time as each other the rumours around school, mainly with the guys is that he can easily look after himself. James and Fred are known around the school as being handy with their fists. But Connor Peters was either drunk or delusional if he thought he could take of all six foot three inches of Scorpius Malfoy! Scorpius was stood staring down at him with a very, very intimidating glare on his face.

"See the colour of her tie? That makes it my business. She barely goes to your shoulders that make it my business." He growled through clenched teeth. "Get the fuck away from her." If I didn't get so excited at the sight of angry-Scorpius, I'd probably be scared too; all of Connor's friends seemed a little scared, Talia and Toby were grinning, trying not to laugh and I was just stood against the wall, looking at Connor's back through narrowed eyes, not wanting them to get into a fight.

"Make me!" Peters snapped back instantly. I pressed my eyes shut knowing was about to happen next but the sound of a fight didn't break out. Instead I heard the familiar voice of my brother. I looked to my left to see Albus and a couple of his friends including Rose and Dominique, jogging towards us; he had spotted my blue hair.

"What the fuck is going on here!" He shouted striding over to Peters with his fists clenched as well.

I watched at Peters looked from me to Scorpius to Albus before letting his hands fall limp by his sides. Albus wasn't as big or as intimidating as James, but he was known for a quick temper and a ready wand just as James was known for a short fuse and a heavy hand.

"We were just leaving." Peters murmured before walking away quickly.

Scorpius instantly stepped over to me. He put a hand on each of my shoulders and bent down slightly so he could look into my eyes. He gave me an 'are you okay?' look. I nodded my head and almost wrapped my arms around his neck; I was just about to when Scorpius was suddenly pushed aside roughly. I forgot we weren't in the corridor alone.

"And you! You can stay away from her as well!" Albus spat standing between her. I frowned and put a hand on Albus's shoulder trying to calm him down.

"Al, he was only helping. He's my friend." I said calmly, preparing for Albus to blow up in my face. I saw Rose's eyes widen with the other Gryffindors, except Dominique who was looking from me to Scorpius slowly.

My brother turned to face me.

"I don't care! He's a Malfoy and you know we do not talk to Malfoy's Lily!" He snapped at me before grabbing my arm and dragging me off in the direction of defence, leaving my secret boyfriend behind in the corridor.

Albus was obviously taking Uncle Ron's warning seriously.

We rushed to defence since we were already late. We burst through the door and got to our seats before realizing Professor Smith was absent and the rest of the class was chatting. I looked up at the blackboard where Smith had left a note stating that he had been called away urgently and we should take this time to study the next topic.

I went to go sit at my normal chair but saw Scorpius sitting on the table with the rest of the Slytherin boys, all of them laughing over something one said. As I looked over Scorpius met my eye and gave me a discreet nod that I returned. I then looked over at the Gryffindors to see them sat in the same positions, boys around one table and the girls around another.

Not really wanting to go sit with the sixth year Slytherin boys and listen to them talk about what they'd do to Dominique if they got the chance, or my brother and his friends and listen to how much Scorpius sucked or Rose to listen to how important it is that I actually do work this lesson, I went to go sit with the Slytherin girls from sixth year.

At the table at the front of the classroom were the five Slytherin six year girls; Talia, Alicia Baskett, Melinda Goldstein, and the twins Henrietta and Harriet Bulstrode.

The twins are two popular Slytherins, extremely rich, attractive twins who Melinda, Alicia and most of the fifth year girls obsess over. The sort of girls who hate anybody prettier and more popular than them; normally they were nice to me but since my 'make-over' they began being distant with me. Talia got along with boys better than girls most of the time so she wasn't bothered if the twins and their friends weren't talking to her, so I sat beside her instead of the clone copies.

Talia and I quickly studied all the pages in the text book on the next topic within a half hour. After that we had nothing to do so Talia kicked her feet up onto the table and pulled out a quidditch magazine. I pulled out my Muggle Studies homework hoping to get a head start on this weekend's work load. Recently in muggle studies we had been studying muggle childhoods and today we had been looking at nursery rhymes. I flattened out the piece of parchment that the rhyme we were looking at written on it.

Little Boy Blue come blow your horn,

The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn.

But where's the boy who looks after the sheep?

He's under a haystack fast asleep.

Will you wake him? No, not I - for if I do, he's sure to cry.

The sound of chairs scraping back made me look up. Toby and Scorpius were walking towards us. They both grabbed the empty chairs from the desk behind us and leant over to physically turn our chairs around. I just had time to pick my muggle studies work up before Scorpius flipped my chair round.

"Right we are here to talk tactics." Toby announced pulling out some parchment and drawing some plays after Talia and I had sent both boys a small glare; Talia rolled her eyes and muttered something under her breath before she put her feet up on the table and got her magazine out again. Toby bent over the parchment to get the sketches right. I returned back to my nursery rhyme.

From the smell that filled my nose, I looked up to see Scorpius leant in closer and read my own piece of parchment. I flicked him on the forehead. "Get out of my personal space Malfoy." I demanded jokingly. He chuckled and leant back in his chair.

"Whatever you say Blue." He replied smirking. I shook my head and went back to my work whilst Toby drew his little scribbles.

"Little boy blue, come blow your horn." I read out loud to see if it made sense. It still didn't, I burrowed my forehead in frustration and looked up. A few people from around the class were looking over at me; I didn't realize how loud I had read that. Scorpius raised his eyebrows at me, his face stretching into a teasing smirk.

"I'd much rather have you blow my horn baby." He spoke just as loudly, making several more people, the Slytherin boys, snicker and more people, the Gryffindor's - mainly my brother and Rose, glare at him.

"Oh please baby, you don't have a horn. You have a bell." I replied cocking my head to the side, arching an eyebrow and laughing a bit. Scorpius raised his eyebrows again.

"How do you know blue? Have you seen it?" He questioned wrapping his legs around mine under the table. Grateful that I had long got passed the over-whelming feeling that I used to get whenever Scorpius touched me so I didn't blush, put a hand under the table and gently stroked the top of his leg that was near my knee, glad that Talia and Toby were blocking the views of my groping him.

"Yeah, remember? We were looking after the boy who was supposed to look after the sheep?" I said playing with the buttons on my shirt. To anyone else it looked like I was doing it without realising but Scorpius could tell I was doing it on purpose. He narrowed his eyes but kept on smirking at me.

"I think we've lost them Blue." Scorpius nodded his head to most of the class who were looking confused. Except the Slytherin boys and Talia - they seemed to be amused but weren't openly laughing. They looked like they were sharing a private joke. "But don't worry, when I get you in my bed, I won't cry if you wake me up." He carried on after another sneak glance down at my work in front of me, looking very pleased with his reply. I laughed and shook my head at him. By now the Slytherins were openly laughing and some of the Gryffindors were snickering slightly. I looked up to see Albus scowling in our direction and Dominique looking at the two of us through a careful expression.

I bit my lip and laughed. Only Scorpius and I could turn a muggle nursery rhyme into flirting.

"Well…the last plan didn't go accordingly, did it?" Toby muttered as the team and I glared at him.

"We nearly killed her!" Scorpius hissed; the six of us were all sat on the same bench, meaning we were all pressed up against each other, I was on the end of the bench and Scorpius was beside me, I was practically sat on his knee we were so close.

"This is why we're changing tactics. I want a beater around Lily at all times! And one to focus on the chasers, they'll target Malfoy because the Potter prats seem to hate him." Toby laughed, making the others laugh too.

"Imagine how much they'd hate me if they knew what we get up to in our spare time." Scorpius whispered so only I could hear him. I felt myself blush and automatically moved closer to him, grinning at the memory of the two of us locking ourselves in a classroom for hours. He'd finally felt my boob, over the bra.

"Alright, come on guys! Let's do this before we freeze to our brooms!" I was snapped out of my reverie by Toby yelling and the entire team yelling back.

After practice, which was made up of me flying around catching the snitch every ten minutes, the team trudged back into the changing room, everybody but me caked in mud, sweat and in some cases, blood from where Lucy got too enthusiastic. I was going to just change and head straight up to the castle, but when I opened my locker and began to pull my practice uniform off, I heard somebody clear their throat from behind me. I thought everybody else was in the showers, but Scorpius was stood with a towel wrapped round his hips, hanging loosely.

"You're not showering?" He whispered, forcing me to look up from the loose towel. If a gust of wind flew around him, that towel would drop.

"Don't need to, I'm just going to change and go get some Dinner, why?" I whispered back, licking my lips and clearing my throat.

"Because, if the two of us just happened to have a long shower we'd be the only two left. I heard Toby and Lucy planning a late-night snogging session in our dorm so she won't be waiting for you." He smirked at me, taking slow, silent steps towards me. I smirked back and felt the usual excitement bubble up inside me at the thought of Scorpius' mouth on my skin, the thought of Scorpius hands on me.

"I suddenly feel very…dirty." I whispered when he was close enough for me to touch, which is exactly what I did. I placed my hand on his chest and ran a finger down his chest and over the outlines of his abs. When I ran out of flesh to feel and fingered the towel, I looked up at Scorpius to see him looking right at me with a burning gaze.

"I better go shower." I withdrew my hand and winked at him.

"Yeah…you're very dirty."

"He's staring again." I muttered as I concentrated on painting Dominique's nails a shiny black colour; the two of us were sat in the Slytherin common room just relaxing after a long and stressful couple of weeks - well, stressful for her, I have been having the time of my life with my secret boyfriend.

The boy who's staring at Dominique again, is Elliot Marc - an extremely good looking seventh year. Over the past two weeks Dominique mentioned that Elliot was staring at her a lot, and since Dominique mainly hung out with me since Lucy was constantly stuck to Toby's mouth, I noticed that we had a follower too.

"He always stares. It's because I look so good." Dominique joked, she was wearing only a pair of worn out jeans, a stolen hoodie from either James or Fred, a pair of ratty old trainers, her hair was piled messily on the top of her head and the only make-up she had on was the nail varnish I was applying for her. But no matter how dressed down Dominique was, she was the only girl I knew who could make shabby-chic work.

"Yeah, that's it." I rolled my eyes and tried not to smudge the nail varnish.

"Lily?" Dominique broke the comfortable silence after a couple of minutes; I glanced up to see her looking down at me with a small smile on her face.

"Yeah?"

"Have you got a secret? I'm not asking you to tell me what it is...but have you? The hair, the clothes, the make-up, the flirting with all the boys -"

"Dominique -"

"No, I'm glad you've changed. You needed it! I'm just curious as to why you changed?" She asked me, I didn't look up into her face because she'd be able to read my expression straight away.

"Ok, you have a secret and you don't want to tell me what it is. I understand." Dom whispered a minute later. "I just hope that you mean as much to your secret as you do to him." She added, making me look up quickly. Before either Dominique or I could say anything, the wall opened and Lucy, Toby, Scorpius and some other sixth years walked in, all laughing over something. Lucy pulled Toby over to the sofa where Dominique and I were sat and before we could greet her, she'd pushed Toby down, sat on his lap and was kissing him passionately. I rolled my eyes as I returned to Dominique's nails, not caring who sat beside me guessing it to be Talia or another one of the guys that I had begun to hang around with.

Since Lucy became Toby's new mouth accessory she'd began to hang around him and his sixth year friends more, which meant I did too. But since Scorpius and Toby had appeared to become fast best friends, I did not mind one bit.

"Um...guys, can I sit here? My friends are all out in cupboards molesting poor Hufflepuffs or something." I looked up and saw Elliot stood looking directly at Dominique as he asked our group of friends if he could sit with us, I wasn't interested in him but looked at Dominique for her reaction.

A sly smile had built up on her face and she bit her lip as she shrugged a shoulder...and then blushed a little when he went to sit beside her! She had to move down the sofa a little, which meant I had to move too.

"Sorry," I muttered when I bumped into whoever was beside me.

"Don't worry about it blue." I froze and bit the inside of my cheek to stop myself from smiling when I heard the extra familiar voice of Scorpius. I froze for too long, relishing in the fact that Scorpius' hand was several inches away from my thigh.

"Lily? Are you alright?" Dominique got my attention; she was looking down at me with an arched eyebrow before she slowly looked up to see who was sat beside me.

"Oh, hey Scorpius." Dominique smiled and nodded at Scorpius who smirked and nodded back.

"This should be fun." I heard Talia mutter from the opposite sofa and looked up in time to see her wince from where Joey Mitchell had kicked her shin.

"I'm done." I looked back down at Dominique's hands to see all ten nails evenly painted a shiny black. Not saying anything, I screwed the top back on the nail varnish and put it in my bag on the floor and then sat back against the sofa, looking round my friends carefully.

None of them would meet my eye; Joey, Talia and Matthew Nott were all sat on the opposite sofa smirking at their feet or the ceiling. A bunch of fifth years were sat with us too and even they wouldn't look at me.

When a couple of first year girls walked past us, spotted Scorpius and I sat together and looked at each other before they giggled and hurried away.

Speechless, I turned to look back at my friends and saw most of them looking at the floor; except Lucy and Toby who hadn't broke away from each other, Dominique who was talking to Elliot quietly and Scorpius who was scowling at everybody, a thoughtful look burning through his eyes. At the same time we looked at each other and then back at our friends.

I hated walking up from the Quidditch Pitch by myself; Lucy and Toby were still in the changing rooms, Talia and the other guys had all finished changing ages ago and went up to the castle without showering and Scorpius had felt ill and asked to be excused from training. Only because Scorpius threw up three times before he finally asked, Toby relented and let him leave. In Scorpius' haste, he forgot his school bag so I volunteered to take it up to him. As I walked up alone, I thought over the knowing grin that Toby gave me when I grabbed Scorpius' bag from the floor.

My housemates were beginning to make me paranoid - every time Scorpius and I were in the same room as each other they smirked or laughed or purposefully included the two of us in the same conversation. At first I thought it was to wind my brothers up - it had spread round school that Scorpius Malfoy came to my rescue after Connor Peter's cornered me and James was furious. The same day that the tale had spread round school, Connor and two of his friends ended up in the hospital wing. Connor for broken and dislocated bones, one for severe bruising and the third for a severe mix of home-made jinxes. I was convinced they knew but Scorpius and Lucy just laughed it off and told me I was being paranoid.

Lucy had walked in on the two of us snogging last week. We were in his dormitory and she opened the locked door, clutching the Marauders Map in her hands and a small glare on her face.

"Seriously? Do you two want to get caught? It's a good job I borrowed this from James a week ago isn't it?" Lucy's yell made Scorpius and I jump apart from each other, as we jumped from the bed I pulled my skirt and shirt down a couple of inches as Scorpius quickly buttoned his shirt back up. We both relaxed when we saw Lucy closing the door behind her. After she left, we looked at each other and burst out laughing.

I was too busy smiling at the memory of Lucy putting us both in a very good mood to finish our session off that I didn't notice I was already in the Entrance Hall until I tripped over one of the rugs, sending the contents of Scorpius' bag spilling all over the rug. With a stressed sigh I quickly picked all of his stuff up and shoved them in his bag. I was just about to walk towards the Slytherin common room when I saw a parcel with his name on it, a large square parcel. On closer inspection, I saw an open letter tucked into the strings that kept the parcel wrapped up. The last words from the letter caught my eye, "All my love, Mum."

Scorpius' parents were always a mystery to me; he never ever spoke about them. I assumed that he wasn't close with them, or that there was some big secret involving the Malfoy family that he wasn't telling me - I already knew his father had worked as a double-agent when we were both young children, but why was he being so secretive?

Before I had a chance to chicken out, I grabbed the box and hurried down the corridor that led to the dungeons, ducked behind a tapestry that hid a one-ended corridor (a favourite hiding spot of mine and Scorpius') and lit my wand. With quick fingers I carefully pulled the string loose and picked the letter up.

Dear Scorpius,

Your last letter caught us out of the blue! What happened to the three times a month plan you suggested? Missed your Mummy? Ha-ha, I'm kidding sweetheart, if you want me to I'll write everyday! Twice a day!

In response from your last letter, of course, you can have some friends over in the Easter and summer holidays. As for the gender of these friends...well, just how many girls are you planning on inviting over Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy? Again, I'm kidding! The more friends the merrier! But while we're on the subject...how are you and this girl getting along? I don't know why you won't tell me her name, it isn't as if I'm going to send the girl a Howler is it? Is it that Talia girl? Please say it isn't one of the Bulstrode girls? The younger one isn't so bad, but she is only twelve and the twins are horrid girls! I have no idea how your Aunt Daphne can stand to be friends with their mother, Pansy Bulstrode is really something else!

Your father has been teasing me because he knows who the girl you are clearly obsessed with is - I know you two are close, but can't I be let in on the secret?

I know your father joked about you only dating from Slytherin, but really we wouldn't mind if you dated a Ravenclaw or a Gryffindor...a Hufflepuff would be surprising but bearable - KIDDING! I can almost picture you rolling your eyes and scowling as you read this.

I'm fine, your father's fine - works a bit hectic but other than that he has no complaints. I've had a bit of a head cold lately but I'm over the worst of it. Your Grandfather Lucius says he can't wait to see you at Easter - he's interested in taking you and your father hunting again. I wish you wouldn't be so enthusiastic about it, it's a horrible sport!

Speaking of sports, I asked about coming to see you play and your head of house is wondering why I need to ask if I'm allowed, honestly Scorpius Malfoy why don't you want your mother to come watch you play? I asked your father and he apologises but he's working, your Grandfather has an appointment that day also but your Grandmother Narcissa and I will be attending to watch you play.

I've included a gift for you. A camera, I want you to make me a scrapbook of you and your friends and the castle - it has been so long since I was last at Hogwarts! I miss it so much! I know I've said it before, but you really have no idea just how pleased I was when you asked to be enrolled at Hogwarts rather than continue to be home-schooled.

Now, I hope you'll use this camera! I know Slytherins and I know they never miss an opportunity to miss out on being photographed!

Also in the box with the camera is a pouch with some money - treat your friends and yourself to a round of Butterbeers (and NOT Firewhiskeys!) on your next Hogsmeade trip!

(Don't tell your father I sent you more money, he's convinced I baby you too much.)

Write back soon.

I love you.

All my love,

Mum.

His mum sounds sweet. She sounds a lot like my mother - her letters are full of how much she misses us, to be safe, to not tell our father she sends us extra pocket-money, to not tell the boys she sends me extra-extra pocket-money. My mother understands that when a parent comes to watch their child play Quidditch, it's sometimes embarrassing so she never comes...unfortunately Astoria Malfoy doesn't seem to understand this.

I remembered the camera and picked the box up; it had been opened, but the camera still had a small clear bag round it. Of course Scorpius had took the money out and put his gift back in unopened.

"What?" I gasped when I saw the make of the model; the latest magical camera released. It was extremely expensive - and he hadn't even opened it! The letter was dated as two weeks old, so why was he carrying it round in his bag? The camera, unopened and still boxed?

Was he scared of asking our friends for their photo?

Why? Our friends loved their photo being taken!

"If he's too Hufflepuff to do it himself, I'll do it for him!" I muttered, smiling at the thought of giving him a late Valentines present.

I carefully took the camera out of the box, took a hairbrush that was roughly the same weight of it from my bag, put that in the box and then put the box and the letter, carefully wrapped and sealed back inside his bag.

I was just about to push the tapestry aside so I could leave when I heard my name being mentioned.

"I don't see why Scorpius and Lily won't just come out as a couple." I heard Toby laugh; he and Lucy must be on their way back from the changing rooms. Carefully, I got rid of the light from my wand and stepped back from the tapestry, but kept it sticking out a half inch so I could hear what they were saying.

"And I don't see why you won't just tell me that they're a couple anyway." I heard him say, and then followed by Lucy's gasp, giggle and the sounds of two thuds I guessed he had grabbed her and pressed her against the wall.

"I'm saying nothing. My mouth is shut -"

"We all know what they're up to anyway." Toby muttered.

"What do you mean?" Lucy questioned. I braved pushing the tapestry open another couple of inches and was glad to see Toby's back to me and Lucy was too busy looking up at her boyfriend to notice me.

"It's like an un-spoken agreement between everybody in our house; Scorpius and Lily are banging -"

"I doubt they're banging." Lucy rolled her eyes and bit back a smug smile. She knew we hadn't had sex, she knows she'd be the first person I'd have told.

"Whatever, every single Slytherin knows something is going on between those two. Talia says she sees them sending fuck eyes to each other all the time."

"Fuck eyes?"

"Yeah, it means that they're fucking each other with a look. You do it all the time." He growled and dipped his head to kiss her neck.

"Hmm...So why hasn't anybody said anything? If you all are so convinced that something is going on? A boy and a girl can be friends you know. With our family, a friendship with him can't happen. No wonder she's keeping their friendship a secret." Lucy defended me as Toby kissed her neck.

"Whatever babe, I don't blame you for keeping her secret...I'm just saying in Hogwarts, secrets don't stay secrets for long."

So what do you think?