It was Christmas Day, and I'd been feeling weird around Dad and Harry this entire week. Now I was ready to feel even more awkward with Scorpius.

I finally realized I like him and ever since my dream I felt awkward. It was like I finally felt good about something, but his rejecting me in the dream completely sabotaged my thinking.

I was in the kitchen setting up decorations for everyone coming, every single one of my aunts, uncles, and cousins would be here including Neville, Luna, Scorpius, and all of their families. I got lucky only having to set up the kitchen, everyone else was required to get the rooms ready for everyone who was staying over.

"Looks great Rosie, "Mom said as she came inside the room in a black formal dress.

"You look, great mom, I've always admired your style." I admired my mom's outfit when I came across her tattoo. For as long as I could remember she's had her forearm sleeve. It was a set of dark black roses and had some negative space in certain areas, it was extremely detailed and it had aged very well. I always loved it considering she basically predicted me.

"And it goes great with your tattoo," I added

"Thank you, Love." She said with a smile

"Hugo is still butthurt, you don't have one for him yet"

"I got this before I even thought about having children, he can't possibly be mad about a coincidence."

"Well don't be surprised if he comes home with a tattoo for Dad one day."

"I wouldn't put it past him," Hermione smiled

"What are you guys talking about?" Ron came down the stairs with Hugo who headed straight to the kitchen for food. Ron stopped when he saw Hermione. "Woah, your breathtaking Mione." He grabbed her by the hip and kissed her on the neck so that he wouldn't ruin her makeup. Mom trained him well.

"Thank you, Ronald, but please contain yourself in front of the children."

"Seriously Dad, get a room. Harry and Ginny never act like this in front of their kids." Hugo said

"You should be happy we love each other. Not everyone is so lucky." Hermione retorted

"Not everyone's parents grope each other in front of their kids." Hugo retorted focusing on the sandwich he somehow quickly made.

" Not everyone's mother is as sexy as your mother." Just then Ron held Hermione and prolonged a kiss to piss us off.

"Ewwww." "Get out." " Gross" "Perverts" Hugo and I shouted at our parents

As we yelled at our pervy parents, Scorpius came through the chimney with floo powder. He brushed himself off when he noticed the awkward situation he was in.

"Sorry, for interrupting, I came early to help out," Scorpius said feeling incredibly awkward having to see our parents be so intimate.

"Owwww" Ron yelped and rubbed his hand. Behind him was Grandma Molly coming in with her small basket of vegetables for dinner. She had seen Dad's hand on Mom's bum and she immediately pinched him on his hand.

"You act right in front of guest Ronald." she scolded

"I'll take that for you Mrs. Weasley" Scorpius was quick to help take the basket from Grandma Molly.

"Thank you, dearie. So nice to have a proper gentleman in this house"

" Now I know you're talking about me Mom" Uncle George followed her carrying an even bigger basket of vegetables to leave in the kitchen.

"Of course I am Dear." She waved him off and continued unloading her vegetables on the table. " Now whoever is here to help, I'll need you here. Rose, can you go check on everyone's rooms? If any children are finished working send them down here."

"Yes, Gran." I headed towards the stairs before I was stopped.

"I'll come with you, I need to find Al" Scorpius stepped up. I saw my dad narrow his eyes at him.

"That's fine Deary just make sure you start sending them down," Grandma Molly said

We both went up to escape the mass amount of adults about to fill the kitchen.

"So how's your holiday been?" I asked him

"Great, I've spent a lot of time taking care of Gwendolyn," he said referring to his baby sister

"Have you gotten enough sleep?"

"Barely she's still not sleeping through the night. I'm glad to get some sleep while Im here tonight."

" Will I get to meet her tonight?"

"Yes, only for a little bit."

"Your mom with definitely get a break, it's been a minute since we've had a baby in the house and there are a lot of infant-hungry mothers here"

" She'll like that" There was an awkward pause as we were searching the rooms for anyone. I decided to nip this tension in the bud before it stayed like this when we got back to school. "Are we okay?"

"Why wouldn't we be?" He raised his eyebrow at my question.

"I didn't say goodbye to you, I thought I had done something"

"No, not at all, Rose. I'm sorry if I made you feel that way." He stopped me in the hall to show that he surely meant what he said.

"It's ok" Still unsure of the truth.

"Maybe I can make it up to you." He smirked while looking me up and down.

"How?" I smiled once I knew what he had in mind.

He grabbed my hand and led me into the closest room but unfortunately, we were met with Al, Fred, and James.

"What's up?" Fred questioned us. Al simply looked up at us and James had a scowl on his face. They were playing cards and hiding from their chores.

"Just looking for you. Your grandma wants everyone downstairs." Scorpius let go of my hand that was behind his back to hide from the boys and sat down next to Al and created some space between us.

"Bullshit," James said

We all smiled because we all knew what was about to happen. Grandma's charmed cursing jar had floated up to the room and HOVERED in front of James.

"JAMES SIRIUS POTTER. YOU KNOW THE HOUSE RULES. THE FIRST TIME IT'S YOUR WALLET, THE SECOND TIME IT'S THE MALLET. CLEAN UP THAT DIRTY MOUTH." The jar continued its speech until he put money in it. We all laughed as he fumble to put in the money. As soon as he did the jar fell into his hands and locked itself tightly so that he couldn't get the money back. We all laughed at him. Now that the jar is a normal jar he must do the walk of shame to put the jar back into the living room in front of everyone.

"Forgot to close the door!" He cursed at himself. We all followed him down the walk of shame to help Grandma with dinner. We all started filing into the room while James put the jar back on the shelf. As soon as he did, their charm went back to its normal magic self.

"I HOPE YOU LEARNED YOUR LESSON" It finally said before shutting up again.

"I swear I never knew how many potty mouths are in this family," Grandma said while preparing the first dish of the night.

"Imagine what it was like when we're not in the house," George said while chopping up vegetables. "Ouch," Grandma hit him in the back of the head.

"Don't think I don't know. Children! Come for your assignments there is still much to do before our guests arrive."

The rest of the day was spent preparing for the Christmas feast.

After a long day of watching Gran pestering everyone into doing their tasks, it was finally almost time for dinner. Usually, we eat first and then do presents later at night. I was so happy to have Alice there like every year with her family. Everyone was relaxing from the long when guests started to arrive.

Teddy and Victoria had just moved in together so they had come from their floo network. Teddy was the son of Remus Lupin, Harry's uncle. Luckily for him, he had fallen for Victoria, Uncle Bill and Aunt Fleur's daughter, and the first of all the grandchildren. They were Hogwarts sweethearts and have been together ever since, but that's the case for a lot of people.

After them, Luna and her twin sons Lorcan and Lysander had come in.

Then for the first time in Burrow's history, Draco Malfoy and his wife Astoria came into their former enemies' family house.

"Hey Dad," Scorpius said as his father stepped out of the chimney. Soon after him Scorpius' mother Astoria stepped out of the chimney holding his sister. Scorpius' mother was always quite beautiful, she had straight brown hair with emerald hair clips on each side while wearing a tight black dress that fell just below her knees. I believe this was where Scorpius got his looks.

"I apologize if we were late, we were waiting for Gwenny to finish her nap," Astoria said

"Oh don't worry about it. Let's have a look at her." Gran immediately went up to the fresh mother followed by the rest of the moms. I was right about their motherly urges.

All the women crowded around and her child as made his way toward the men and shook everyone's hand.

"Will we be like that one day?" Alice whispered to me terrified. -

"Are you kidding? I'm already fighting the urge to join them." I whispered back hoping no one heard me, but I turned to Scorpius across the room and his smirk said he heard every word.

I have always wanted to be a mother, growing up with so many cousins gave me many babysitting opportunities to see the worst and best parts about children. And I secretly couldn't wait for it to be my turn.

" I hope we won't be that extra." She whispered even more.

"Don't worry about love, you won't ever worry about that because you'll always have a baby of your own to swoon after." James jumped into our conversation

"Babies don't stay babies for long love." Alice roasted her boyfriend's seemingly dumb statement.

"Yea, but you'll always have one with my family plans. My dream is to have at least 5 kids minimum."

"5!" Alice said so loud some of the mothers glanced at her. "That's a bit much don't you think?" As Alice and James quietly argued about children, Scorpius somehow made his way toward me.

"Hey. Want to play a game of chess?" He stood over me. I was about to take him up on his offer but Gran had been standing near us.

"No time for games, dinner is about to be ready. Everyone makes their way to the table!" Gran announced to the room. Everyone made their way towards their seats while Gran called for everyone outside to come for dinner as well.

The seats were usually assigned from the adult's side to the kid's side, since I was on the older side of the grandchildren I was able to be near the adults. Scorpius was right across from me sitting next to Al and Alice was on one of my sides.

Everyone started filling their plates, while conversations started to bloom. I could hear the topics of quidditch and boring work as I dug into my meal. All of a sudden Albus stood up abruptly.

"I have an announcement to make." He yelled in order to get the whole room quiet. I saw him look up and down the aisle of his family, but after one glance he looked back down at his feet. "uh" his eyes met mine and I smiled at him, he took a deep breath before changing his life forever.

"I'm gay." He said, still looking at the floor before looking up at his parents. I couldn't believe he just came out to a room full of people. I looked down at the table to see all the surprised faces of the adults in the room.

"Are you serious?" Lily said from a few seats down.

"Yes." was all Al could say.

The room was completely silent, it had never been this quiet in the burrow before. It was then that I saw Uncle Harry stand up from his chair and take a deep breath.

"Wow." Is all he said. Everyone remained silent as we didn't know if he was mad or content.

It was then that Aunt Ginny stood up immediately. "I'm so proud of you sweetheart." She ran over to him and gave Al a hug. Everyone let out a huge sigh of relief. Eventually, Harry made his way toward him and hugged him too. I could hear "aww" to herself as she was touched by the moment.

"Wow, I guess it IS genetic," George said before he was hit on the back of the head by both his wife Angelina on the Left and his brother Percy on the right.

"What?" Al asked extremely confused as the rest of the kids. I looked down and I could see so many of the mothers groan in disappointment over Uncle George's mouth.

"Well, sweetheart I've been more than fond of women for a long time." Aunt Ginny said.

I couldn't help but have my jaw fall to the ground, I did not see that coming.

"What?!" All of her kids said.

"You've been gay?!" Al exclaimed

"Isn't it called Bisexual now?" George said again before Angelina hit him on the head again, but he was able to put his hand in front to soften the blow.

"I mean, your father is the love of my life. I haven't thought about women in a while" Aunt Ginny admitted.

"Why have we never heard this?" Lily said

"As I said, I haven't thought about it." Aunt Ginny was so transparent about it, I'm surprised she hasn't brought it up before.

"I was scared to tell you" Al confessed

"Why would you be scared?" Harry asked

"I don't know, I've been bullied quite a bit for it," Al admitted

" By us?" Aunt Ginny seemed sad at Al's comment.

"No! I didn't know what to think. If only I knew about you."

It was like you could see the bond form between them, it was so interesting. And a little personal, but Al got his confidence from Ginny so it's normal to see them like this.

"She was a professional Quidditch player, son. Most of those women are gay." Dad spoke up too. Thankfully my mom grabbed a piece of bread from his plate and stuffed it in his mouth before he could speak further. Ginny just rolled her eyes and focused on her son.

"I'm appalled, Albus, to think my own child would think so low of me. I love you no matter what, and I accept your life however you choose to live it."

Al began tearing up a bit. "I had no idea."

"How do you feel?" I asked. The room went mute again.

"Hungry." He admitted. Everyone laughed at that.

"Well let's dig in then!" Grandma Molly yelled and everyone raised their glasses to her.

As soon as everyone drank the conversation went back to how it was before. As Albus sat down Harry and Ginny kissed him on opposite checks and went back to their seats.

"How do you feel?!" I asked Al.

"100 pounds lighter."

"Wait, did you tell Rose and not me?" Lily got defensive.

"You would've told Mum before I got the chance to."

She opened her mouth to argue but knew he was right. "Fair point. Did you know James?" Lily asked her eldest brother.

James was weirdly quiet, he wasn't looking at Al very much.

"No." Was all he said.

We all sort of went back to our food at that point.

I know James can be heartless but I haven't known him to be homophobic. Maybe he needs to process it more. If he is, the bet won't be my only reason for ignoring him.

While the dishes were busy cleaning themselves everyone began handing out presents to each other.

Scorpius and I were in the middle of our chess game and he was about to lose.

" Checkmate!" I yelled

He looked at the board defeated leaning back in his chair while running his hands through his hair. However, he swallowed his pride and stuck out his hand to me.

"Good show." I took his hand and shook it. We then went to set the board up again for another game when I noticed our parents staring at us.

"I got to say I'm surprised to see you getting along too. We haven't gotten a single letter from you all year. I was starting to worry one of you had killed the other " My mom pointed out.

" Well we can't be heads if we are constantly getting in trouble with each other, so we called a truce," Scorpius commented.

"Oh. So you'll be fine living together?" Mom pointed out.

"Excuse me?" I asked.

"Do they not do that anymore?" Hermione turned to Ginny and Dad.

"No, you're right. I guess I never thought of it like that." Scorpius said, looking back at me. Everyone was sort of looking for my reaction

"Maybe, I'll hex you a few times just to get on McGonagall's nerves." Those around me chuckled at my joke. Even Scorpius.

"Maybe, I'll sabotage you a bit so that I'll still be Headboy." He retorted back.

"You wouldn't dare."

"Try me."

If I didn't know better I would say that we were flirting in front of our families.

Our banter didn't go unnoticed as I looked up at and he was giving me certain eyes that made me feel guilty. I went back to our game to avoid any suspicion.

"Scorpius. I need you to hold your sister for a moment while I go to the loo." passed on his daughter to his son who was sitting right across from me. was in the kitchen talking to some of the aunts and Scorpius was much closer.

"Sure thing." He grabbed her by the head and held her in one arm. I finally got a good look at her and she was the most precious thing. Nothing particularly special from any other baby but I know she'll grow into a beautiful young lady, it's in her genes.

All of a sudden she started to cry now that she was with Scorpius.

"She always does this with me." He said annoyed. He tried rocking her a bit, but it didn't help much. I stared at him with a bit of pity while always trying to hold in laughter since his sister doesn't like him.

"She'll get used to you." I smiled looking down at her, not phased by her tantrum.

"Would you like to hold her?" he asked me.

"Yes, Rose is great with babies." Mom mentioned and everyone nodded their heads in agreement. Now I feel like I didn't have a choice, but I must admit I was a bit excited.

He got up and wasted no time handing her off to me.

Then my instincts kicked in and I started swaying back and forth to soothe her a bit. Soon she stopped crying, I have sort of a magic touch when it comes to calming down babies. I could see her starting to fall back asleep.

"Wow, that was impressive." Scorpius was still kneeling in front of me watching me hold his sister.

"Watch, let's see if this works." I held her given him and took my finger and in a small circle, I rubbed her nose lightly. She started to smile at the feeling. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen. Scorpius started to chuckle at her reaction. "Works every time."

"You're a natural." he was now staring at me.

"Have you seen how many cousins I have?" I joke with him.

"Oh, you've got Gwen to sleep." Astoria came up to me and held her hands out for her daughter. I handed her back to her mother. "Well, I think it would be smart to take advantage of this moment and head out."

Astoria left to go find her husband and thank Gran for the hospitality.

Scorpius followed her to spend a few last moments with his parents.

I turned to see Albus alone in the corner of the room reading. I got up to join him. I need to get something off my mind.

"Hey, Al." I sat next to Al in the corner of the room.

"Hiya Rosie."

"So your mom's gay." I teased him.

"Shut up." He shoved me good for my comment. "You would think you would mention that at some point in your life."

I chuckled at him

"She's just too in love with your dad."

"Gross, love."

"Yea, so how do you feel? Everyone still being cool?"

"I've gotten a lot of positive words so far. Or no words at all." I saw his eyes leave their original place and move to James across the room.

"He'll come around," I assured him but all he did was nod his head at me.

I thought it would be a good time to change the subject so I decided to ask him about one of the only other things on my mind.

"Look I've been meaning to talk to you about something." I started

"Are you about to come out too?"

"No. No. It's about Scorpius."

"What about him?" He sort of shuffled in his place

"He showed me his scars."

"Oh." His face dropped.

"What happened on your end?"

"Okay, here it is. Look I didn't want to get in trouble so I decided to hang back at the dorm and wait for him. I was waiting in the common room when the door opened but no one came inside. I went to see what was going on but I saw Scorp bleeding all over his clothes looking like he was going to bleed out to death. I had to carry him inside to patch him up, once I went to get him we heard your scream. Not only did I struggle to lift his heavy ass but he was fighting me to go back to you. I'm sorry but he was really hurt and the only thing I could think of was saving him. It was a lot of blood. I knew James and Lily were watching, and after hearing Lily yell for you I knew you were fine. Anyway, he passed out while I sewed him up and I got my neighbor to get some potion to help with the blood loss. He was fine the next day.

"So it is true."

"scars don't lie."

"I'm sorry you saw that. I'm sure it was very stressful."

"It's okay. He's alive and lives to tell the tale."

"If it makes you feel better, I think our rivalry is over." I never thought I would say those words, but I truly meant them at that moment.

"Really? It took you both almost dying to finally end it?"

"Why shouldn't it? It was too immature to risk dying over it. I feel so stupid."

" Hey, at least you learned a valuable lesson." He teased me.

" Shut up!" I hit him in the arm for making fun of me.

I looked up to see Scorpius walking up to us, standing over us.

"What's up."

"Nothing," I said. He quirked his eyebrow at both of us, he probably knew we were talking about him.

"It was lovely to meet you all, thank you for your wonderful hospitality." said to everyone while making his way to the fireplace with Astoria and Gwen.

They were bombarded with many... "Thank you! Come back anytime! Have A good night! Bye Gwenny!" Say what you want about the Weasley's but we know how to be friendly.

With that, the night slowly started to die down, and after the dishes were done everyone made their way to their special rooms, made just for the Holliday.

After a day of craziness, I retired to my room and started on the collection of books that were given to me as presents.

Currently, I was reading a romance novel Lily had given to me, she said she didn't read it but she heard it was quite spicy.

My room was only lit with a charmed candle that was supposed to be brighter than most and it was the perfect thing for reading in the dark.

I was then scared by the sound of my door opening since everyone had been to bed for a while. I saw Scorpius looking like he was trying not to get caught.

"Scorpius, What are you doing here?" If Gran knew I had a boy in my room, she'd murder me. If Dad knew I had Scorpius in my room, he'd murder HIM.

"I had to see you, watching you all night made me insane." He kissed me passionately.

"What if someone sees us or hears us?" I said breaking our kiss.

"Uhhhhhh, we're fucking wizards." He pulled out his wand, whispered a silencing charm, and locked my door. Thank Merlin I had my own room. We went back to kissing lightly before he stopped me again. "Oh, I got you something." He pulled out a tiny box from his pocket and handed it to me. I couldn't believe I was receiving a Christmas gift from Scorpius Malfoy. We sat down on my bed and he waited for me to open it. I opened the box to a little bracelet with a lion charm on it for my house.

"Wow, Scorp I don't know what to say," I admitted

"I saw it and thought of you. I hope you like it."

"Are you kidding me? I love it." I kissed him and took it out of the box. I ushered him to put it on me.

"You could add more charms to it if you like," he said referencing the charms

"Oh I feel terrible, I didn't get you anything."

"You don't have to get me anything." He gave me a kiss on my cheek that left my cheek feeling warm. I turned to him and kissed him while laying him down on my bed. We both kissed tenderly, it was one of those times when it felt like more than just releasing pent-up tension. But I couldn't stop thinking about my last dream, how I confronted myself about my feelings for Scorpius. The second Rose's words kept echoing in my head, how I couldn't keep doing this without telling him how I truly felt.

"Wait, I think we need to talk about something." I pulled away from him.

"I think I know what this is about."

"You do?" His response left me confused. I sat up to look at him. There was no way he knew.

"Yes, and I want to let you know that... I still remember all of our rules."

"What about them?" Now I was really confused, I got up to sit next to him.

"You know, just know that I still remember all of them."

I was completely dumbfounded, but then I remembered our rules and I figured he must've done something.

"What about them? Did you tell someone about us?"

"No."

Then I got sad remembering the only other relevant rule. "Are you hooking up with someone else?"

"No! Merlin no." He clarified

"Then why are you bringing up the rules? You haven't insulted me lately and if you haven't told anyone or hooked up with anyone why are you..." And then it hit me, I turned away from him and remembered that dreadful rule, Rule #4: No sex.

"Look Rose I never wanted to make you feel this way. You know from day one I never expected sex from you. I just want to make it clear that... I know you're boundaries." Everything stopped and I turned around to face him. The urge to cry left my body and my emotion turned to confusion and a bit of anger.

"Why are you bringing up sex now? We've never come close to having sex?"

His eyes widened and stopped making contact with me. " Nevermind. Forget it. I was just saying"

" No! I have never brought up sex before, why do you think I'd start now."

"Lucky guess?" he tried awkwardly smiling at me.

" I don't believe you." I got up to leave before he stopped me.

"Rose, wait. I need to tell you something."

" Tell me why you think I want to have sex with you," I demanded of him. I'm not dumb I know what magic can be used for.

" Rose please."

"Did you hear it in my sleep? Have you been using a mind-reading charm?... That's why you were weird on the platform." Things started to come together in my head.

"Rose."

"Tell me!" We both stood there looking at each other, awaiting an answer, but we both know he was the only one to tell us.

" If I tell you, you'll hate me," he whispered

There was a long pause.

" I'll hate you forever if you don't," I whispered back.

I went to leave, thinking I'd spend the night with Lily, but his words stopped me

" Don't leave me Little Red"

I gasped as I turned around to him. I felt the air escape my lungs. He had his head down as if he was in trouble. I just knew his face was full of guilt.

"You've never called me that name before." I almost whispered

"You know where I've called you that"

I gasped again, I grabbed the closest thing to me which happened to be a stuffed bunny, and threw it at him. It didn't affect him at all.

"How did you do it?!"

He had been inside my dreams seducing me! No wonder that stupid nickname stood out to me. It's one of the few things he's never called me.

" A Legilimency Spell, when we both fall asleep I transported myself into your dream and we would do things." he sat back down on my bed and grabbed his head with both hands as if he wished this conversation wasn't happening.

"I can't believe you! When did this start?" I haven't been this mad at him since last year.

"Around the beginning of the year." I could hear him grit his teeth.

I slapped him in the face, I was so mad. But he was able to sit there and take it. "You bastard! You seduced me in my sleep!?"

" I only did it a few times. Rose, I'm sorry"

" You were there for all of them? The field? The bedroom? The library?" I was now pacing around my room.

"The library? I wasn't there for that." For once he was confused.

"Yes, you were, only your sick mind would spank me."

I could tell he fought the urge to smile. " I'm afraid that's your mind love"

" You didn't control them all?" No wonder I was having sex dreams multiple times a week. My Scorpius' dirty mind, and I guess my own. There was no time to sleep. "Well, why did you do it in the first place?" I interrogated him more.

" I overheard you and Alice that day you had a dream about me. I had the plan to repair our relationship this year so that I could... finally tell you my feelings for you. I knew you'd never like me on my own, I needed to use the only redeemable quality about me to woo you. So I continued those dreams you were having about me"

"You started it after that day?"

"Yes. I'm sorry, but it sounded like you may have liked me too."

"Not at that point."

"I'm sorry." he pleaded, he found the courage to stand up and face me head-on.

"How could you do this to me?!" The conversation started to heat up.

"I'm sorry Rose." He begged me.

" I feel so violated."

"I never intended to hurt you!"

"But why would you do this?!"

"Because I love you!" Scorpius blurted out

We both stopped and stared at each other in silence.

It was a few seconds of staring before the one candle that lit my room went out.

There was nothing but silence, in the pitch-black room.