At exactly 4:00 in the afternoon of that same extremely rainy day Rose tromped down to the Quidditch pitch to meet her slightly insane cousin Albus. Rose wasn't in a particularly good mood, but she wasn't in a particularly bad mood either. Rain usually makes her sad. Rose loves the sunrises in the morning and a rainy day messes up the sunrise and makes Rose quite morose in the morning of rainy days. Some days Albus cheers her up, and others James or Hugo pull a poorly timed prank and she's grumpy for the rest of the day. Thankfully on this day Albus reached her before James or Hugo.

Rose finally reached the pitch a lot wetter and waved to her slightly odd cousin Albus Severus Potter. He waved back.

"Hellllllo my beautiful cousin Albus! Your hair looks simply scrumptious!" Rose pretended to swoon.

Al, being the mature one, stuck out his tongue.

"Soooooo, Rosie, how's your boyfr-I MEAN-your homework?"

Rose narrowed her eyes suspiciously and tossed him the quaffle. "Alright. Professor Scamander just assigned us a four foot essay on the plausibility of Nargles."

Al snorted and attempted to score on Rose. He failed. "I'm not surprised that him and Aunt Luna got married. He is a barmy one!" Rose tossed him the quaffle back and he tried again, but failed a second time to get the ball through the hoop.

"Have you seen Lily with Lorcan? They are just so adorable!" She flashed him a devilish smile.

"Oh, yes lovely." Al said sarcastically. "I just love seeing those two all over each other in the Great Hall."

"You should see what they do in the Common Room!" Al grew drastically paler. Rose laughed and he realized she was joking.

"It seems like everyone's got a boyfriend by me these days." He pretended to sigh longingly.

"Oh shut up Al!" Rose cried and brought her broom to a halt right in front of him. "I can't believe you wrote that note! That was so embarrassing! I know you're planning something, because there's no way you would actually think Scorpius and I were actually dating."

"Scheme?" Albus asked innocently. "Whatever do you mean? ME scheming? NO! Surely you must be mistaken!"

"Hilarious." Rose rolled her eyes.

Al laughed. "Why is it so hard to believe that I actually thought that? You guys would be great together."

"You don't have to convince me." She grumbled under her breath.

Albus wiggled his eyebrows. "I know."

"You do?"

"Um...yes, hello? Why do you think I call myself Al the omnipotent?"

"Because you're strange?"

"NO! Because I know EVERYTHING!"

"Do you know that you're really strange?"

"Yes! Merlin! That's so obvious Rose!" Al responded faking annoyance. "But seriously, I didn't write that to convince you I wrote that to convince Scorpius."

"Why?"

"Because I could tell he liked you but just needed a little push."

Rose was silent for a few minutes as they tossed the quaffle back and forth.

"I dunno Albus. I can't go out with him yet."

"WHAT? But you're practically in love with the guy!"

"No I'm not." Rose rolled her eyes. "I mean, he is VERY attractive, smart, and charming. Plus I might have a massive crush on him… I just don't want to date him until I really know him. I don't want to make a rash decision and find out he really is a just a Slytherin twat like the rest of our family thinks."

"HEY! My parents like him, and James and Lily agree he is alright."

"How do you think my dad would react if we did start dating? Or granddad, or the rest of the uncles?"

"PFFFFFFT. Screw them."

"Al! You know I'm not like that! They're my family and I can't just disregard what they think entirely."

"Yeah, but they don't know him like we do. They think his favorite thing to do is hate on muggles, little do they know he'd rather just HIT on them." Albus snickered.

"ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER!" Rose snapped.

"Fiiiiine, maybe not ALL of them. The hot ones at least."

"Ugh, can we please return to the matter at hand here? You know, your silly, ill-conceived plans and all?"

Al sighed defeated and thought for a few minutes. "Fine...maybe I could somehow arrange for you two to maybe hang out and possibly become friends...and lovers." He dodged a quaffle and laughed. "Alright, so not lovers...YET!"

Rose just rolled her eyes. It was all she could do. She had already thrown the quaffle.

"Does that mean yes?" Al asked. "Cause I've got to go to dinner and plant the seeds of LUUUUUUURVE."

"Ugh...Fine."

"YES! I feel like a fairy freaking god mother!"

"And you wonder why people question your sexuality." Rose grumbled under her breath.

"Lates!" Screamed Al as he performed a magnificent dive and landed, without crashing, on the pitch.