Chapter 2- Hogsmeade, Dates, Meetings and the Truth

A/N
I'm back! Of course it was only one day, but what's time to an elf? Well anyways, here's the new chapter! Reviews, good or bad, are loved :) enjoy.
Sorry if the chapters are short, but I have to write this on my iPod and then send it to my email, and then upload it. :) so yea, I'll work harder to make it longer.

DISCLAIMER: I do not, nor have own/owned Harry potter. No matter how many people I threaten. Elves get no respect nowadays. :D

Rose

For the rest of the train trip, they only made small talk when necessary. She noticed his trunk was nowhere in sight, which meant he must have transfigured it to fit inside his backpack. Or he wasn't planning on wearing clothes this year. Some small part of her hoped it was the latter. "wait, what?" if she was hoping for that...no it was impossible. How could she, rose WEASLEY, like scorpius MALFOY? She shook her head, trying to erase those thoughts from her head.

"Weasley? Something wrong?" Malfoy asked.

"nothing. But if were going to try to be nice to each other, could we at least call each other by our first names?" she answered.

"I don't see why not rose"

"thank you scorpius."

After that she leaned back in the seat and looked out at the passing countryside. It was raining as usual, and she watched the raindrops race down the window pane. After a while she got bored, and so pulled out a a muggle book to read. After a while she stopped reading and noticed that drake had fallen asleep. He look more peaceful than she had ever seen him. His head leaned against the window frame, so his slivery blonde hair covered his hair. His pink lips were slightly parted and his cheeks were flushed from the cold. Basically, he looked handsome and cute to her. She shook her head, she would not let herself fall for him. There was the whole Weasley-Malfoy feud, not to mention he could never like her back. She was nerdy and ugly. No one could ever like her. Ever. With that final thought she switched on her iPod and fell asleep.

Scorpius

He woke with a start. 'how long ha he been asleep?' he yawned and glanced at his watch. 1:30. He'd been asleep for one hour. He glanced over at Rose. She seemed to have fallen asleep as well. He stretched then got comfortable on the seat. He'd wake her up in an hour. In the meantime he studied her. He had never seen her so relaxed. She was always so stressed about class and what-not. It vaguely reminded him of back in third and fourth year, when they had actually been friends, even though no one had known. Oh how he wished he hadn't messed that up. He was jolted back to reality when the food trolley came back. The lady poked her head in. "anything off the cart dear?" she asked, noting that Rose was asleep. "um..just a bit of everything please" he replied, pulling out a bag of money. She handed him his food, took the money and left. He settled back in to his seat and chewed a chocolate frog while studying Rose. Her eyelids fluttered slightly, and her eyelashes brushed her cheeks. Her perfect lips formed a line, and not surprisingly they were bitten here and there. 'Merlin she's beautiful' he thought. 'wait, I'm not falling for her am I?" he worried about this for a few minutes, before deciding that he wasn't. He moved his thoughts to that school year.
'i have to show people that I'm nothing like my father and grandfather' he glumly thought. He also wanted to convince Rose he had changed. But he doubted she would listen to him.
'she hates me anyways, so why try'

An hour later, Scorpius woke up, and also woke up Rose in the process.

"mm what time is it? She said groggily.

"2:30. Time for our prefect meeting in 15 minutes." he replied, yawning.

"Merlin! Why didn't you wake me up earlier Scorpius?" she shrieked, now fully awake.

"well I'm sure you wouldn't have wanted to be awake an hour ago, which is when I was last awake." he shot back.

"er...thanks then scorpius" she said with a small smile.

He rubbed the back of his neck, which he seemed to do whenever he was nervous. "no problem" he replied.

"um can you wait outside while I change?" she asked.

"...sure"

He got out of there as fast as he could, making sure that she couldn't see the blush that was starting to creep up on him. He had already changed into his uniform and robes, Rose was the only one who had to change out of her jeans and grey t-shirt. He commented to himself how similar their outfits were, considering she had been wearing her grey shirt, a black hoodie, jeans, and converse. Now, as he was let back in, he could tell that her Hogwarts uniform was the same as his, except hers was Ravenclaw, and his was Slytherin.

Back when they had been friends, she would have let him stay, as long as he turned around. That was back when she trusted him. But ever since the Incident, she hated him. Well had hated him, if her efforts at peace were anything to go by. Maybe he could have a shot a repairing the past.

Rose

'before, he could have stayed. Now looked what you've done' she scolded herself. She certainly missed the old days, but she was sure he didn't. Why would he? She was the one who messed everything up, the one who couldn't move on. She erased the thoughts of regret from her mind and stood up.

"Scorpius, we have to get to the meeting" she quietly said.

He stood up and followed her out.

At the meeting they just reviewed all the rules, the prefect duties and when their meetings would be held. She noticed quite a few of the girls eyeing Scorpius, and in turn Scorpius noted the boys staring at Rose.

They knew they had no competition, since it was known that Rose and Scorpius had hated each other in 1st and 2nd year, and then from 5th year onwards. But they hadn't expected them to be acting so civil to each other.

At the end of the meeting, Rose hung back to brief the new 5th year prefects. So did a fellow seventh year Gryffindor, Thomas. As soon as she was done, they started walking and talking together.

"So Rose, I was wondering.. Would you like to go with me to Hogsmeade next weekend?

"Sure! I'd love to Thomas." she replied with a smile.

"Great, I'll pick you up around 9 in front of the Heads castle. Till then, see you 'round." he waved goodbye and left.

Rose hurried to her cousins compartment. All her cousins felt the need to sit together, so they occupies one large compartment, which was known as the Weasley compartment. It was swarming with red heads, since Albus, lily, Hugo, Molly, Lucy, Dominique, Louis, Fred, Roxanne, and lorcan and Lysander, were all there. She was the only one not there.

She burst in, and 11 heads and 22 eyes turned to her. "ROSE!" they all yelled.

"hi guys guess what?" she said, out of breath.

"what?" asked her youngest cousin, Lucy.

"I'm going out with Thomas Johnson, from Gryffindor!"

All the boys mouths fell open, and they all stood.

"come on guys, let's go tell Johnson exactly what will happen to him if he hurts Rose". Albus said, with his teeth tightly clenched.

Rose sighed and sat down, and was soon enveloped by the girls with questions.

Scorpius

He leaned back in his seat, wondering where Rose was. He figured she was with the redhead clan, chatting about ways to get even more freckles on their pecked faces. Suddenly he heard loud voices from outside.

"And if you even THINK about hurting my sister, I will curse you so badly, not even Madam Pomfrey will be able to cure you." Hugo finished.

"have we made ourselves clear?" Lorcan asked threateningly.

Johnson nodded, not even able to speak.

"good. Let's go guys. We'll be watching you" Albus said.

Scorpius chuckled to himself. That someone would be brave enough to date Rose, with her many cousins, was quite hilarious to him. But deep down he felt something else. He could barely identify it.. As jealousy? No, he couldn't be jealous. Because if he was jealous, that would mean he liked Rose. And that was just unbelievable. 'but her hair..her eyes.. her smile' he thought wistfully. Merlins beard, he was falling for Rose.

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A/N well there it is! The 2nd chapter. This one is longer, seeing as this time I actually had time to work on it. But I still think it sucked. Well anyways, one of them finally figures it out. But no oh no, there's the little problem of Thomas. Will he turn out good or bad? Tune in next time to find out more. And what is this Incident that they speak of oh so fondly? Reviews, both good and bad are loved. Until next time, shalom. (peace in hebrew)

-marshmallow out.