CHAPTER TWELVE

Lily walked the grounds of Hogwarts alone and went to one of the towers. Dani was gone and Jeal was gone as well decided to go to Hogsmeade with Ashley and Chelsae since she thought that Lily was on a date with Jaeger. Lily signed. She sat on the rock fence with her back to the wall. Looking around, she saw water hit the massive rocks and spraying over them lightly, she saw those who had not gone to Homemade mingle around in the ground below not noticing a person on a tower watching them. She saw the Quidditch field in which her team has won their third game beating Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor placing Slytherin in first. The Quidditch team has done good as well, beating Hufflepuff and on to play Gryffindor next weekend. Again Lily signed and closed her eyes, putting more of her weight against the wall and to the side where she could land safely. It was about noon and it would still be a while before anyone came back. Thinking that she could do some homework while she was up here and deciding on going to the Slytherin common room to retrieve her books, Lily opened her eyes only to find the one person she was mad at, but also sad about.

Scorpius Malfoy was leaning against the entrance door just looking at her with wonder and a small smile on his lips. Lily turned her head away, books forgotten, looking out into the ground again. She heard him walk closer to her till he was next to her leaning his face on his elbow which were leaning against the fence looking out into the grounds as well. They were quite for some time.

"Do you wanna practice or just stare out this scenery all day"? He asked. Lily piqued up, wondering where he was getting too. First he didn't want to practice, now he did.

"I thought you had something to do today" she told him, not wanting a response back. But also wanting one.

"I thought you had something to do today as well" Scorpius countered back. Lily hissed between her teeth and turned to look at him with rage in her eyes.

"What I do is not your business but don't come dancing into my private time to just bother me about some stupid practice that you all of sudden want to do when you made it clearly that you could not. So now what, just because you decided to make time for me does that mean that I have to as well"? Lily said, her eyes boring into his unturned blond head.

"Calm down Lily, I was just asking" Scorpius said as he leaned away from the wall, still looking out there and not at her. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Lily opened them and looked at him once again. He looked calm but also sad.

"What did you do"? Lily asked him in a soft tone. He smiled.

"I was out on a date..." Scorpius said, cheerfully. Lily glared at him, got off the fence and was about to walk away when he continued "...or was going to only if hanging out with your mother and grandfather what you called a date" as he laughed quietly. Lily stared at him. His mother. His grandfather. Is that what he had skipped on her today?

"Oh" Lily said quietly, feeling a little embarrassed. But when she remembered last weekend, that embarrassment went away. "Oh" she said louder turning toward him. He raised her eyebrow at her.

"Yeah, but apparently, my grandfather found out about the whole thing and threatened my father and mother and so my father decided against it and my mother followed with. I was already in London when I got news of it, and so with that I had something to eat and then came back" said Scorpius. Lily felt a little sad for him, to know that his grandfather didn't want to see him was a big blow to him even though he tried to hide it, but the pain was there, in his sad face. Lily knew that it would hurt if her grandfather rejected her thus, not wanting to see or talk to her.

"I'm sorry" Lily said and he looked at her, after staring at Hogwarts ground for a while, he finally looked at her.

"For what"? Scorpius asked, and Lily hid her sad smile, sad that he tried to even hide it from himself.

"For jumping to conclusion. I should not have jumped on you like that and insulting you when all you were going to to was visit your sick grandfather. I must of sound terrible" And he gave a small chuckle at her apology.

"Its okay. You didn't know" he said to her not even trying to reassure her that she was not terrible. Again they were quite for a while, both just staring out.

"Why are you here"? Scorpius asked her.

"I wanted to be up here looking at other but them not looking at me" Lily responded back to him.

"No, I mean, why aren't you with Jaeger? What about you date"? And at his questions, Lily didn't get mad because she had only said the date thing with Jaeger because he said he had plans.

"That was just a bluff" Lily admitted sheepishly "I thought about going through with it, but then I didn't want to get his hopes up and today and I just rather be alone."

"Oh really, why just to get to me"? Scorpius asked loud and she felt blood flowing to her face and heating it up. He chuckled. "I won't tease you about that. If you want to be alone, I shall leave then" he said while he was turning around but was stopped by a hand on his arm.

"No, its okay. And anyways, I like talking to you" Lily said as she stared at the grounds and not looking at Scorpius. He came back to his position.

"I like talking to you as well. But I also like dueling with you as well" Scorpius said and at this Lily smile at him, got her wand out and pointed it at him.

"You know, that sounds like a good idea" Lily said and both of them laughed, now pointing their wands at each other.

Scorpius looked at Lily as she walked a little bit in front of him. They had practiced for about an hour and a half and both were now walking back to the commons room to just sit around in the much quieter then usual room. They walked back slowly to the lower floors, not in hurry to be away from each other yet. When they were about to round the corner to the great stairs Lily stopped.

"What wrong Lily"? Scorpius asked quickly. She turned around to him shaking her head.

"Nothing, it's just that I can see Jeal, Dani, Mike, Ashley and Chelsea though the windows. They surprised me, it's still early to return" Lily said. He nodded. He knew as well as she that their time together was over. Lily stood there quietly looking at him. Then suddenly she reached for his right hand holding it with her own left hand, and he looked at their joined hands in shock, then shock up to her to find her looking at him in the eyes.

"We're friends, right"? She whispered to him, her eyes worried not like they were earlier in their bright cheerful mood. Friends? He thought as he looked at her. He could be her friend, but she could not be his friend. She could think of him as a friend, but he could not think of her as a friend. She could see her as a friend, but he could not see her as a friend. In every sense he could be her friend but he could never be her friend. He shook his heads of these thoughts and saw the sadness in her eyes. Holding her hand tighter, Scorpius kept on looking at her and with his free hand, ran his hand down from her hair, to her cheek, to her jaw.

"Como puedo hacer amigos con alguien que cada vez que la veo la quiero mas"? He asked her quietly and then dropped his hands from her jaw and walked by past her, down the stairs and out the doors. Once outside, it felt good to feel the cold soft wind in his face and he was about to go walk to the Quidditch field, grab his broom and fly off when Dani called his name. He turned around to find not just hers, but Jeal, Mike, East and McBay all looking at him the same way. All of their faces where shocked. Now what? He thought. All of them ran up to him and stopped there, still with their shocked expression pasted on.

"But...but you were just..."Mike said not being able to finish his sentence and his mouth closing and opening.

"What the hell Scorpius, why are you here"? Jeal said, her faced all mad now.

"What are you talking about"? Scorpius asked her.

"What are we talking about, today we saw you with Maddie being all cozy with her and that was just a couple of minutes ago. And now your here going God knows where. And no matter how fit you are, there is no way you could have beaten us to the castle first since we all ran here after seeing you with that bitch" Dani said. Scorpius looked at her in shock, she had never raised her voice at him or anyone, and here she was accusing him of things he had never done in his life. "And because your wearing different cloths and because you are where there with her and now you are here. Now explain to me what is going on"? Scorpius just looked at her confused. What?

"I don't know what you're talking about. I never been on a date with Maddie today or ever plan on doing so. I just got back an hour or so from the train station" he explained to them.

"What where you doing in the train station then"? Jeal asked this time. Scorpius was quite for a while, wondering if he should tell them. They should know, after all, Lucias was their grandfather as well.

"I... I was visiting our grandfather today since mother asked me to. But because he didn't want to see me I ended up arriving earlier then expected and I ran into Lily and we both practice for a while. So if you want witness there you go, she's my alibi" Scorpius wasn't going to get into the subject of why his grandfather refused to see him. "You must be mistaken, I was never with Maddie today I was here" talking with Lily, Scorpius thought.

"But...but..."Mike went on again, looking back and forth between his sisters and Scorpius.

"But we saw you..." Jeal said unfinished as her eyes focused on something over Scorpius shoulders. Everyone turned to find Scorpius himself walking down hand in hand with Maddie and as they neared the castle and spotted the group of people watching them with anger, their smooth faces turned frightened and looked from place to place deciding where to hide. Scorpius ran up to them before they could run away, went up to the fake Scorpius and punched him in the nose, fell down where he started to bleed. Then he turned to Maddie who was looking at the fake Scorpius scared, then at Scorpius even more scared.

"Scorpius, or are you really..." Maddie said.

"What the fuck is going on around here Maddie? You are behind this and your going to explain to me right away" Scorpius said as he grabbed her arm and pulled her hard towards him, his eyes expressing his angry mood. She gulped.

"Scorpius..." Maddie said her eyes turning wet "Scorpius, why don't you love me"

Another chapter up and finally Maddie is being exposed. Hopefully Scorpius wont fall to her tears (I hate when that happens) and for those who want to know what the Spanish quote means, it is –

How can I be friends with Come pudeo hacer amigos con
someone when every time alugine que cade vez
I see her I love her even more?!que la veo la quiro mas?!

well, its the translation roughly. Its hard to translate anything word for word. See you next time.