I had fucking missed my friends.

The train ride back was an interesting one, with some interesting conversation to say the least.

"So Alex, how many Romanian girls did you shag?" Fergus asked, raising his eyebrows a little too high.

"Ferg!" Ruby cried, eyeing him disapprovingly. "We aren't all as sex-obsessed as you, I'm sure that Alex has much more respect for himself, than to sleep with some little Romanian…"

"Can we please change the subject?" Alex interrupted, looking much too sneaky for a carriage full of teenagers.

All of our eyes widened.

"Fucking hell", said Scorpius, propping his chin onto his hand and finally engaging in the conversation. "He fucking did, he's shagged some girl!"

All eyes where on Alex, I'm surprised he wasn't exploding. He looked like he would with the red in his cheeks.

"She was nice!"

Alex was trying to defend himself. You can't justify anything with Ruby around, it's a physical impossibility.

"Had you known her for longer than a week?" Ruby asked, bringing her face close to Alex's to give him a close look of disapproval.

There was an uncomfortable silence.

"Fucking legend" Scorpius winked.

"That is vile" Ruby remarked.

"Was she a good fuck?" Ferg asked.

Alex quickly scrambled to pick up one of his revision books and muttered something about doing homework.

A smile played across my lips as I glanced up at Alex, he didn't look at me. My attention was then moved to Scorpius, who was reading a book in his lap. He really had got even more attractive over the summer. I had had a crush on him since meeting him. Ruby knew about this but asked very little about it. It was, after all, her cousin. But It was almost impossible not to stare at Scorpius. Especially after having being denied the chance to look at him for so long. Not that I hadn't thought about him. I Had DEFINATLY done that. Usually at night, if you understand what I mean.

He looked older, and much more like his Father. His blonde hair had seemed to have got even paler, and was now almost white. His eyes seemed brighter, and looked much greener than they previously had. He'd grown a good few feet, and seemed more muscular. I don't know what exactly had happened to Scorpius, but I liked it. A lot.

Scorpius eyes glanced up and met my gaze.

"Luna?" He asked questioningly, flashing a smile at me.

"ngh?" was all I managed to say.I didn't mean for it to sound like that, but I was thinking about him, and not thinking about myself.

"Are you okay?" he asked, tilting his head to the side and raising his eyebrows into a perfect arch.

I nodded slowly, he smiled and returned to his book.

Malfoy had changed. And it seems the way I feel about him had changed even more. I wanted him. I defiantly wanted him. So I guess that was the mission this year, to figure out how.

The rest of the train journey passed as quickly as it always did. We talked, I stared at Malfoy, we ate, I stared at Malfoy, I gazed out of the window, I stared at malfoy, We slept, I stared at Malfoy, etc. Occasionally Scorpius would once again meet my gaze. Whenever this happened I would look out the window as quickly as I could so he didn't catch me out. At one point though, he did. And do you know what happened? He winked at me. He had the self assured confidence that I was after his cock so much, that he winked at me. Regardless of weather it was true or not, there was really no need for the cockiness.

The train eventually arrived at the station, and I smiled as I was met with a familiar face I had gone all Summer without seeing.

"Ah, Ello' thur Luna!" Hagrid smiled. His beard seemed to have got even bushier over the holidays, and he looked as though he had put on weight. But it was Hagrid. 100% and I'd missed him dearly.

" Hello there Hagrid, good Summer?" I asked, grinning.

"An eventful one at least!" He chuckled. "Went up to Romania for a while to see what's going on wi' these Dragons, Ministery are doin' a ruddy good job of keeping it quite, I tell yer'! Thur's thousan's of bloody people protesting about Dragons up there! They say the ministery's bin' killin' 'em off n' claimin' it's for protection of some sort. Ministery are denyin' it all of course. I'm just not sure what to believe!"

"Alex has been down there with his Brother all Summer you know, he didn't mention anything about protesters. Mind you, his brother lives in the middle of nowhere, but surely there's protesters all over the country, I'm surprised he didn't say anything."

Hagrid raised an eyebrow.

"I didn't even know 'ee was up there! Ahh, tell him to come to mine after the feast for some tea, I'd love to 'av a chat with 'im about what he saw, need some catchin' up. You should come!"

"I'd love too. I'd better be going, everybody's setting off, I'll see you later Hagrid!"

And with that I began my desperate search to find Ruby and Alex through crowds and crowds of people. I kept bumping into first years, asking me where to go and staring at me, I pointed towards the boats and continued my desperate shove. After around five minutes of doing so, I found the others.

The journey back to Hogwarts was uneventful. It was mostly Ruby moaning to Alex about how "now they where alone she felt it is her right to tell him that sleeping around is not clever. And she's frankly disgusted with his behaviour." I completely tuned out. I had spent the summer with my parents, I had had enough moaning.

The feast was everything I hoped it would be. I had spent all Summer drinking Mum's Stews which where not the greatest thing in the world. They'd usually end up over the plants ( which incidentally didn't seem to like them either. I don't think Mum's yet realized that the daffodils in the back garden are vomiting) or in the toilet. It was just nice to eat some real food.

I told Alex about Hagrid's invitation to his hut after the feast, he stayed silent for around thirty seconds before telling me that he wasn't feeling great after the train journey, and was in need of an early night. This was the first I'd heard of this "illness". He didn't seem very Ill on the train when he was bragging about Fergus how wonderful "Lacura" was at giving blow jobs. Neither when he was trying to tell Ruby about how they where "in love" and "ready to take their love to the next level" on the way back to the castle.

I decided to let it go anyway, I was rather tired and would prefer to spend the night in front of the common room fire and thinking about Scorpius. We could visit Hagrid tomorrow, I needed a quite night in bed.

But things don't always go according to plan.