Hey amazing people!
So sorry for the long wait, I got ill and I didn't feel up to writing, so I wrote you a long chapter to make up for it
Also if any of you want to or care enough, I would love if you made some fan arts for this story, and I will feature them here and on my DA site
Enjoy x
Time flew past after the first week, and soon it was almost Halloween.
Rose had tried to talk to Scorpius after she had come out of the hospital wing, to thank him for helping, but she couldn't find him anywhere.
He had evaded her and Al for almost two days by getting to lessons before them and positioning himself close to the door so as to escape when it ended.
Rose could sense Al had no idea what was going on either, so both just doubled their efforts to get his attention.
When he finally caved into their advances, he was distant and kept glancing along the corridor, as if longing to be somewhere else.
Al and Rose where left confused and just a little bit angry at Scorpius's behaviour, he was Al's best friends after all why would he just suddenly cut both of them?
Rose went early to bed that night, and sat late wondering, could it possibly have been her? Had she done something wrong or behaved inappropriately? She knew it was silly to think like that, but Rose had always doubted these kinds of things, it was her character.
Things between Scorpius and Rose didn't change for some time; he was always with his girlfriend Carlie Wheat, one of the popular, fake girls that had always followed Him and Al around.
Al had told Rose when he had seen them walking around and kissing. Frankly neither of them knew why, Scorpius had always said he hated them kind of girls.
At the beginning of October Rose had given up on Scorpius, he wasn't talking to her, only looking at her with an odd expression on his pale face.
She sat alone once more in Potions and the lessons where they had to sit near to each other were filled with a stiff silence.
To say that She felt sad wasn't quite the exact feeling she felt when she looked at him from a distance, for she felt lots of things. One she felt angry at him for just cutting them from his life and two, whenever she saw him and Carlie kissing, her heart ached for no apparent reason and hot tears prickled the corner of her eyes.
~o0O0o~
The air in the potions room was thick with coloured clouds that the cauldrons where emitting at potent intervals as the students placed the required ingredients into the bubbling purple mixture.
Carlie had her arms wrapped around Scorpius's waist as he leaned back against the desk.
He looked down at the top of her head, Man she is tiny he thought, and why must she cover herself with all that makeup it's kind of off putting, she should be more like Rose and except her looks without having to cover them up. Sighing heavily he looked across at Rose all on her own in the far corner.
Her hair was pinned back in a curly ponytail while little soft curls surrounded her forehead like a small halo, a little bit of black eyeliner was smudged under each eye, making the blueness of them even more striking.
He smiled inwardly, this was the little bit of rose that he allowed himself in indulge in, just looking was safe.
Carlie started to talk to him but he ignored her, he was watching Rose and her fluid graceful movements. My god I love that girl he thought much more than this plastic raptor I am dating, why oh why did I get myself into this?
Why can't I just face up to my family and my father and tell them I am insanely in love with Rose Weasley? He took one fleeting look at Rose, before shrugging off Carlie and bending over the bubbling potion, thinking of the best way to apologise to Al, then to Rose.
~o0O0o~
Rose pushed the ingredients for the potion to the right side of her desk, and started to slice a small, black withered root into small chunks.
She let her mind wander a little bit, she sincerely wished the rain had stopped, she had Herbology next and she didn't fancy falling over on the slick grass.
Placing her knife down, Rose slowly added the root into the potion causing a bright pink cloud to envelope her whole head, spluttering a little she withdrew her head away.
Looking around she noticed she had progressed much more than the other students, even Scorpius, who normally kept pace with her, even if they weren't currently talking.
He was sitting close to the desk sprinkling some powdered spiders into the glistening purple mixture, whilst Carlie was perched next one of her friends shooting angry glances at Scorpius.
Rose smiled a little at the thought all might not be well in their stupid relationship, not that she was bothered.
Well not much.
Well a lot actually, if they broke up for some reason, then maybe, just maybe Scorpius would speak with her and Al again, and they could go back to normal, sort of.
Sighing, Rose leant an elbow on the smooth wood, and rested her head in her hand, she had to admit she kind of missed Scorpius even if he was being a jerk at the moment.
She missed his sarcastic teasing and the fact that he didn't really care what other people thought, and most off all, though she resented admitting it she missed how he called her Rosie.
Looking at him bending over the steaming cauldron, she noticed how nice his hair looked, sort of mussed up and his small serene smile all made her stomach flutter a bit.
Rose returned to stirring the now bright pink potion, but wasn't really concentrating on it, her mind was thinking of the time a month ago when Scorpius had hugged her. When he and Al spent practically all their time together and Scorpius wasn't ignoring them.
~o0O0o~
The rain hadn't stopped.
"Urgh" Rose muttered before stepping outside and pulling a protesting Amie with her.
"Rose! Let me get an umbrella!" Amie squeaked as the cold rain hit her face, and tried to run back into the door way.
"No Amie we'll be late, and if we run we'll be there quicker" Rose spoke with a voice that meant trouble if Amie did otherwise.
Reluctantly Amie agreed, and the two of them set off down the grassy embankment towards the greenhouses. Both slipped a little, but nothing bad came from it, just a surprised yelp and a few giggles.
Reaching the greenhouse thoroughly wet through, Amie and Rose found the rest of the 7th year Gryffindors' and Huffelpuffs huddled in front of the locked greenhouse doors, Professor Longbottom hadn't arrived yet.
Amie let go of Rose's arm and ran for shelter underneath an umbrella Sophia Swallow had brought along with her.
"Hey Albus!" Rose shouted to him, before running over and squishing in beside him underneath a sheltered ledge.
"Oh, hey Rose didn't you bring an umbrella?" he replied absentmindedly.
She was about to answer him, When Professor Longbottom appeared, his kind face apologetic, and ushered them all inside.
Amie sat down next to Rose and was soon chatting away happily about what Sophia had told her. Rose ignored her and concentrated on what she was being told to do that lesson. But her mind began wander to Scorpius again.
Jerked back by Amie asking her what they were doing as she hadn't been listening, Rose put the thoughts aside and got stuck into the work that was before her.
Half way through Amie had lost interest, and gone to talk to Sophia about her holiday, and Rose had lost her weed cutters.
Sighing, she got up and walked over to Al, who was talking very animatedly with a girl from Huffelpuff, the cutters were in his hands.
Dodging a girl that was having a lot of trouble with her work, Rose walked up behind Albus and started to speak.
"Hey Al ca..." Al span around at the sound of her voice, the cutters still in his hand, and smacked her forehead with the pointed blades.
"Ouch!" Rose exclaimed as she stumbled backwards.
"Merlin! I'm sorry Rose, you okay?" Al asked whilst randomly waving his hands in a distressed manor.
Rose pressed her fingers to where Al had hit her forehead; it was sticky "Oh my god I'm bleeding! Al you idiot!" she shouted before slapping his arm.
Professor Longbottom had drifted over, drawn to the commotion.
"What's going on here?" He asked peering over Al's shoulder.
"Uh I kind of hit Rose over the head with the weed cutters" Al told him before quickly adding "By accident of course!"
"Oh dear, Rose go up to the hospital wing. Do you need anyone to go with you?" He asked whilst expertly plucking the offending secateurs from Al's flailing hand and placing it down on the table.
"Thank-you Professor, and no I'll be fine on my own" Rose answered with a smile. It was hurting quite a bit, but she knew it had been accident, and she didn't want Al to feel even guiltier.
The rain had stopped, and in its wake a crisp freshness had settled in the air. Rose holding a tissue Amie had given to her against the cut, hurried up towards the castle entrance
Pushing open the hospital wing's door gently, Rose stepped in and nearly tripped over her own feet. Madam Lexis looked up at her as she smiled sheepishly from the doorway.
"Hello Miss Weasley, What brings you here?" Madam Lexis asked her before getting up and walking towards Rose.
"Umm, well Albus kind of hit me in the forehead with some weed cutters, and it started bleeding, so Professor Longbottom told me to come up here" Rose rushed her speech, Frankly she was kind of embarrassed, When did normal people get hurt from weed cutters?
"Let me look" Madam Lexis said as she peeled the tissue off Rose's sticky forehead "well it's not deep but I'll need to clean it first, go and sit on the bed next to Mr Malfoy"
Rose turned to look at Scorpius; she hadn't noticed him sitting there. He was smiling nervously at her.
"Hey Rosie" he said. What! Thought Rose He's suddenly talking to me, why?
She didn't answer, just frowned at him before sitting on the bed, and positioning herself away from him. If he could ignore her for month, she could ignore him now.
"Umm Rose I'm…" he started to speak but she cut him off.
"What Scorpius? Why are you speaking to me now after avoiding me and Al for a whole month, a whole stupid month!" Rose near exploded, she suddenly felt really angry at Scorpius, and he couldn't go from being a jerk to a best friend just like that.
She glared at him, waiting for an answer. Scorpius's eyes were wide and his face looked shocked.
"I'm sorry" he said quietly.
"Is that all? No explanation? Nothing?" Rose retorted
"Of course that's not all Rose, you think I avoided you and Al for some stupid reason?" He sounded bitter and looked a little sad.
"Well go on, explain" Rose said softly, her anger suddenly disappearing.
"Merlin Rosie, I don't care if you never want to see me or speak to me ever again, because I honestly don't have a decent explanation to tell you why I acted like this, just know that I had a mini crisis for no god damn reason, and made a stupid mistake" He looked truly heartfelt as he said it, and Rose didn't really know what to say.
"Umm, so why you in here?" she managed to say.
"Hah, got hexed by that cow of an ex girlfriend Carlie as we left potions, turns out she doesn't like being dumped" Scorpius smiled sarcastically.
"What!" Rose nearly shouted
"Ha ha, why so shocked Rosie? I didn't even like her; don't know why I even went out with her" He looked down at the floor.
In the silence that followed neither looked at each other. Rose's heart leapt, Scorpius hadn't wanted to be with her, and now he wasn't at all. She felt kind of warm.
Looking up at him she smiled.
"So you're back to normal? We can all hang out together again and you'll come eat at the Gryffindors table? You and Al will be best friends again?" Rose spoke eagerly; she really wanted it to go back to normal.
"Yeh, of course Rosie" Scorpius smiled widely at her, and she blushed a little bit.
"You just need at apologise to Al now" Rose spoke bluntly "have fun, I once broke his favourite toy and he wouldn't except my apology for two weeks"
"Thanks for making me just that little bit more depressed Rosie" Scorpius replied with a sigh "and are you sure your okay? Your head looks kind of painful"
"Oh I'm fine, it's just a cut. Al was being his usual stupid self and flirting with a girl, only this time with a pair of weed cutters in his hands" Rose rubbed the cut to stop the stinging.
"So how deadly are these weeding cutters then?" He asked her, a spark back in his voice.
"Very" Rose replied, before throwing the crisp white pillow from the bed she was sitting on straight into Scorpius's face, just as Madam lexis walked over.