Rose's POV

First year, second term

I was in the Library sitting at one of the study tables trying to finish my homework with just one problem: I was stumped. I had tried asking James for help back in the common room, but he had ignored me saying he had better things to do. So much for a great cousin. All of a sudden I heard footsteps sneaking over to me and my hair got pulled a side. Someone whispered into my ear; I already knew who it was, but I didn't want to say anything.

"Need help?" Asked a very familiar voice who happened to be my best friend Scorpius. I turned around to see him smile at me and of course without failure this made me smile too.

"Can I join you?" he asked.

"Yeah sure," I told him.

We ended up talking the whole night, and he helped me with my homework; and of course, he happened to be a bigger help than James. I didn't want the night to end so I asked all the questions I could think of and he did the same. We were laughing and telling funny stories about our family. We had lost track of time and it was exactly 10:30 when James and Albus came looking for me.

"Rosie! There you are." Albus said.

"James, al what are you guys doing here?" I asked with a disturbed tone and confused face.

"Looking for you; I hope you know it's 10:30 and there's class tomorrow. "James lectured.

"Yeah it's only Wednesday," Albus added.

"Yeah well I wish it was Friday, and then I wouldn't have been disrupted by you guys," I whispered under my breath.

"What was that?" James ordered.

"Nothing," I answered as I got up from my seat, put my things in my bag and put it over my shoulder.

"Bye Scor; see you tomorrow in class," I said.

He just gave me a smile and ran his hand through his soft blonde hair. This made me melt and turn scarlet red.

"Bye red," he finally said.

I began to walk away between my cousins, not feeling right. It felt like part of me was being left behind and I had a knot in my stomach, like I should still be sitting at the table laughing and talking to Scorpius.

"So what was that all about?" Albus demanded.

"Nothing. We were just talking and he helped me with my homework." I replied seriously. "Because someone was too busy to help me," I added while looking at James like he should be ashamed.

"What? Sorry! I had better things to do."

"Sure. Like snogging your girlfriend," I pointed out.

"Hey I was with mine and you were with yours," James said while he and Al were holding in their laughter.

"He's not my boyfriend," I whispered a bit annoyed, turning bright red.

"Sure," said James while he and Al cracked up laughing.

We all walked into the common room hoping no one would find us out this late. The rule was to be in your houses by 8:00, but most people broke it anyway. Well mostly the older years, the younger years were afraid of getting into trouble. We had decided to stay up a bit. James got some hot chocolate for us to drink by the fire. We talked for a while, it was quite interesting how quiet it was and for them to just sit and talk without fighting or yelling over something pointless. Al was talking about Lily starting school next year and I was saying how much I was enjoying Herbology and that I loved the fact that I had a family friend as a teacher. Al had gotten on the subject of Quidditch and James joined in.

Al had gone to bed before the both of us, which left James and I. He talked about wanting to become an Auror and working for the ministry of magic, since he only had about a year left. It was soon that I had fallen asleep and James carried me up to my four poster and said goodnight.