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This took so long to write I thought I'd never finish :)
I'm sorry if it seems too sudden or has a lot of mistakes, if I didn't put this up nothing would go up. This chapter doesn't sections to it, its just as it is :)
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Rose sat on the floor, hidden so that if anyone walked in they wouldn't see her. She had dragged a pillow off her bed and was hugging it, her face pressed against its comforting softness.
Snow had started falling again; little fluffy flakes of it drifted past the window, unaware that they would soon fall from the sky and hit the hard earth.
One of the sections of the window was partly open and a cool breeze was blowing in, bringing stray flakes of snow with it.
Someone had opened it earlier, and Rose hadn't bothered to shut it.
She'd been sitting on the floor for a few hours now, Al and Scorpius and the others had been sitting with her for a while, idly chatting and asking her if she was okay. But when she hadn't answered for some time they all left, sensing she wanted to be alone.
To be honest, she'd nearly got over the whole Phillip thing, she didn't like to dwell on unpleasant things, so normally pushed them to the side ready to except and look forward to the happier things in her life.
What was really troubling her was the sudden infatuation she seemed to have developed concerning a certain Slytherin who just happened to be one of her very best friends.
He somehow managed to understand her a little bit more than her other friends, Amie was her best friend, but sometimes she seemed a little distant when Rose needed her closest, Even Al didn't truly understand her.
Scorpius had been her friend for nearly four years, and she'd only just got him back, she couldn't go around declaring affection she didn't even understand herself, it would send him spiralling back away from her.
Anyway even if it did work out in some crazed universe where Scorpius actually liked her in the same way she felt for him, it could never work.
It would be like Romeo and Juliet, at the end neither lived happily ever after, their love broken apart on the rocky foundations of families that hated each other.
Letting out an exasperated sigh, Rose slumped to one side, her cheek pressed against the cold floor littered with sparkling flecks of the freezing snow.
She hated feeling like this, her emotions were so torn, and not to mention the black mark that afternoon had left on her mind.
She breathed deeply, and then concentrated on her surroundings. The tower was silent; the rest of the students had gone down to dinner.
The pillow she had been hugging was now underneath her side, cushioning it from the hard floor.
Something hard was pressing into her back and it was kind of uncomfortable. Rose wiggled a little to stop the object sticking in her back but it didn't help.
Flipping over She tugged the offending object from under her bed and lay it down on the opposite side, it was her guitar.
She hadn't played it in months, and a thin layer of dust had settled along its smooth wooden face.
Teddy had given it to her a couple of years ago when she'd told him she had always wanted to learn to play a musical instrument.
Really it hadn't been what Rose had meant, but she had still learnt to play it just to please Teddy who said the guitar was his second favourite after the electric one Uncle Harry had given him for Christmas.
Smiling Rose blew the dust off and plucked a few cords, luckily she hadn't got any worse than when she'd last played.
A soft knock on the door made her hand jerk back; she brought it to her side and stared out of the window again.
After a moment's pause, the door slowly opened and someone walked in.
"Rosie?" Scorpius's voice asked uncertainly into the dark empty room.
Rose froze, her desire to be alone was quite strong but she couldn't just tell Scorpius to go away, that would be cruel, he hadn't done anything.
She mumbled into the darkness hoping he heard her.
She felt his footsteps as they echoed on the stone floor, but didn't bother to turn towards him.
"It's freezing in here, why haven't you closed the window?" Scorpius asked her as he pulled the stiff window section closed with a snap.
Rose mumbled back something even she didn't understand. She hadn't been alone with Scorpius since that afternoon.
He paused at the window, the small amount of moonlight that entered through the old glass illuminating his already pale face making him look like an awkward ghost.
Scorpius was smiling down at her, but Rose didn't smile back, she just stared at his face totally unsure of everything.
Sighing He came and sat next to her, offering his hand so she could pull herself up off the floor and into a more comfortable position.
"I brought you some food" He told her pointedly before pulling out a slice of cake wrapped in a napkin from his jacket pocket.
Leaning against his warm body, Rose gently pulled back the napkin and started to pick at the squishy chocolate cake.
The two of them sat in the dark, silent room, not talking or looking at each other, just listening to the world.
Sighing quietly, Rose crawled forwards and placed the half eaten cake on her bed-side dresser, she wasn't really hungry.
"Rose?" Scorpius asked her quizzically as she leant back against his side. He was using her real name instead of her nickname, that couldn't be good, could it?
"Mm hmm" Rose mumbled back at him, indicating that he carry on talking.
"Well...uh…right Rose just hear me out, If I'm totally wrong you can punch me okay" Scorpius stumbled over his words, a slight grimace on his face.
Rose gave him a confused look, and then arched her eyebrows telling him to finish what he was saying.
"Right, well this is just what I think so don't go around thinking every else does" Scorpius told her without looking at her face "Rosie, it's just I think your sad about something else other than this Phillip business" He muttered in to that darkness.
This was what she'd been thinking, Scorpius was so much more perceptive than the rest of her friends, but she really wished he wasn't on this occasion.
"Oh my god" Rose breathed. He knows! She screamed mentally He knows I like him!
Scooting away from Scorpius's one armed hug and jumping to her feet, Rose thought of ways in which she could possibly escape explaining her totally inappropriate feelings towards him.
"Whoa" Scorpius exclaimed as she ripped herself from next to him and tried to jump over her bed and run into the small bathroom that Rose and her dorm mates shared.
Clearing her own bed Rose sprinted for the bathroom eager to lock the door and ignore Scorpius, but she tripped and went flying head first onto Amie's neatly made bed.
Groaning Rose flipped over and stared at the material roof of the four poster bed, she had just made the situation so much worse than it already was.
"What on earth is going on Rose?" Scorpius demanded as he made his way over to where she lay on the bed.
Defeated by her own clumsiness, Rose groaned once more. What was the point of hiding it from him? He probably already knew with his amazing perceptiveness that she really liked him.
Squeezing her eyes shut so she wouldn't have to see his reaction Rose muttered "I think I'm in love with you"
Love? She thought astounded why did I say love?
Scorpius was deadly quiet and it unnerved Rose a fair bit.
Snapping open her eyes, Rose turned her head to look at him.
He had stopped dead, his eyes wide and his mouth agape. His lit wand had fallen out of his lax hand and onto the floor.
Rose swore, then ran into the small bathroom and locked the door, the bright light hurting her eyes after so long in the dark.
Sitting down on the edge of the old bathtub Rose sobbed mournfully, she had successfully just ruined her friendship with Scorpius and possibly just lost him from her life once more.
Why? Why had she had to say anything? Couldn't she just have gone on pretending she felt nothing more than friendly affection?
Burying her face into her hands, Rose cried big wet tears. She knew she couldn't have kept her feelings quiet; it just wasn't in her nature.
Al is so going to kill me when he finds out I've just pushed Scorpius away again Rose thought bitterly as she dried her face on the scratchy toilet paper.
Realising Scorpius would have gone by now, Rose pulled back the bolt and opened the door; she wanted to curl up and cry till she fell asleep.
Treading softly Rose made her way to her bed, not seeing the hunched figure of Scorpius with his head in hands till she was a couple of feet away.
Pausing, she held her breath and backed in to the shadows.
Scorpius was sitting on her bed, he was looking out at the falling snow and muttering to himself. Occasionally he would grab fistfuls of his hair and let his head fall into his hands again.
Rose stood in the darkness, watching him, wondering why he was still there.
He should be down in his own common room now, wondering why someone he'd known for years had suddenly told him they loved him.
He should have been running, vowing never to come near her again, but yet he was still there, sitting in a cold and dark room waiting.
She stayed still, hardly daring to breathe, if he saw her he might leave and Rose was really intrigued as to why he had stayed when she had obviously just brought the walls of their friendship crashing down.
Scorpius sighed and brought his head out of his hands, Rose saw his eyes flicker to her guitar on the floor, and she watched as he gently picked it up and started strumming a tune softly.
"You play guitar?" Rose whispered before she could stop herself.
Scorpius nearly dropped the instrument in shock as his head snapped round to look at Rose.
"Rose!"He exclaimed as she walked forward and flopped on top of her bed, pressing her face into the remaining pillow and refusing to look at Scorpius.
"Rosie look at me" Scorpius asked her, his voice pleading.
Shaking her head, Rose burrowed even deeper into her fluffy duvet and pillow, she didn't want to see his face when he told her he didn't like her back.
He sighed, and Rose just knew he was pinching the bridge of his nose like he always did when he was slightly annoyed or stressed.
"Rose just look at me okay?" His voice now void of any intelligible emotion.
Begrudgingly she followed his request and twisted her face up towards him.
Something in her miserable face must have been amusing for as Scorpius looked at her, he couldn't hide his smile or stifle the short ripple of bubbling laughter that escaped his lips.
Cursing him silently Rose turned back to put her face in between the soft sheets.
"Why are you still here Scorpius?" She spoke into the muffled blackness.
"Well" He said quietly, his voice irresistibly close to her ear "I stayed to tell you that I came up here to tell you the exact same thing you just told me, well not exactly the same cause it's me liking you, not you liking me" Scorpius had started waffling, his voice had a hint of embarrassment in it.
"Really?" Rose asked, her smile hidden by the duvet's thickness.
"Yeh I do, so that means you can stop acting like a miserable little kid who's puppies just died" He had tried to get his jokey, sarcastic tone back in his voice but failed, ending up sounding like an awkward little child.
Twisting so she was in a sitting position, Rose let a large grin split across her face; she didn't know whether to feel happy or relieved.
Scorpius was smiling too, a little awkward but still Rose thought, beautiful.
"Oh Rosie, I think I better be going, I've been up here a seriously long time, People will start making assumptions" The flare in Scorpius's voice was there again, live and kicking.
Laughing, Rose stared at his face. His lazy smile and twinkly eyes confirming the feelings she had been so unsure about a little while ago.
She loved him, she was definitely sure about that.
"Hey, I've got something I've been meaning to give to you for a while now, but you have to close your eyes first, it's a surprise" Scorpius told her, a cheeky glint in his eye.
Gladly obeying his request, Rose sat up straight and closed her eyes; humming a little tune to herself she wondered what it possibly could be that required her eyes closed.
Scorpius was quiet for a while, just his breathing could be heard, and after a few seconds he placed one of his hands on her shoulder, the other the side of her face.
Rose's stomach flipped over a couple of times, but was replaced with a warm fluffiness the second Scorpius's mouth touched hers.
The kiss that passed between them wasn't insistent or salty like Phillips had been, but tender and sweet.
Rose's arms had snaked around Scorpius's neck, and his hands were tangled up in her curly hair.
The kiss deepened, then broke as Scorpius pulled away, a huge grin on his face.
"Well" Rose breathed, slightly giddy after the kiss "I wasn't expecting that when you said you had something to give me"
"Really?" Scorpius asked astounded then started laughing "My god Rose, for the cleverest girl the year, your actually kind of dumb" He told her between chuckles.
Trying not to laugh, Rose threw a slipper at his head but missed and ended up knocking her alarm clock of its perch.
"Merlin" Scorpius exclaimed as he retrieved the clock from under-neither the window "I have to go; I've been up here about an hour"
Rose smiled as he walked over to the door and nearly fell flat on his face as he tripped over the discarded slipper.
The door clicked shut as he left the room, leaving Rose in the dark that didn't seem as miserable as it did before.
The door opened again, just a few seconds after it had shut.
"Oh Rosie" Scorpius called to her from the doorway "Of course I play the guitar, I was the one who taught you to play that song you were just humming"
She heard his laughter as he walked away and down to where Al and the others were.
That boy is such a jerk she told herself as she smiled, but a jerk who just told you they loved you.
Do you want me to write Scorpius's view on this chapter ?
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