Scorpius woke up at six o'clock in the morning on the following Saturday and smiled. This is profound because of the loathing he had for weekend morning. He usually refused to get out of bed until noon. Today, however, was special. He had a date.

Scorpius rolled out of bed, stretched, and grabbed his towel and shampoo and headed off to the showers.

Albus woke up at exactly seven o'clock, like he did every day, and shivered, which was only expected as it was only October and he lived in a dungeon.
Albus jumped out of bed and instead of a freezing cold stone floor, landed on a muttering Scorpius clad only in some dark green silk boxers embroidered with golden snitches.

"Finally gone mad old chap?" Teased Albus.

"No," groaned Scorpius. Half from pain, half from frustration. "I have nothing to wear."

"BWHAHAHAHA! You sound like a girl on her first date!"

"Don't laugh Al, it's true!"

"Wait," Albus narrowed his eyes. "You're going on a date?" His devious plans for Scorpius and Rose seemed to crumble before his eyes. How dare Scorpius ruin his plans for another girl!

"No! No date! Just have to look erm, nice! For-for...the ladies!" Scorpius replied quickly, almost too quickly. Had Albus been more awake and not as distracted by the euphoria of his "secret" plot still being intact, he would have noticed Scorpius' face was few shades redder than normal.

After much arguing, shouting, and a few jinxes from the other members of the dorm dealt along with pleas to "shut the bloody hell up," Scorpius entered the Great Hall in a pair of khaki slacks and a dark blue sweater.

"OOOH! There's Rosie! She's never up this early! Save me a seat, I'll be there in a second."

Scorpius looked helplessly at the back of his best friend as he raced over to Rose to say good morning. He sighed and sat down, putting an emerald green napkin on the bench next to him to save a spot for Albus. He risked a glance over to the Gryffindor table and smiled when he saw Rose. She was wearing a dress. It was really pretty on her too, it was a knee length dark green dress that looked amazing with her hair.

He would have been able to describe it more in detail had she not put her robes on over it. Scorpius could tell that the robes were the reason Lily and Albus seemed to be arguing with her. She caught his eye and he smiled at her and winked.

Rose turned red. Bright red.

"What?" Asked Albus.

"Oh, nothing." Replied Rose. "I'm done arguing with you two. It's cold. The robes stay on,"

"Fine! But how will he like you if you leave our robes on? He won't see how pretty you look." Albus muttered as he stomped back over to his table in defeat.

"Never mind Rose. Keep them on. I saw him wink." Lily whispered, consoling her nervous cousin.

Rose turned red again. "Wait-how did you know who…" she thought, James said he wouldn't tell…"

James saw Rose blush and laughed at her. "Why so red Rosy-Posie? You got a date?"

Rose blanched. He would give away the secret! "No, no date. Heh heh. Not today." James would have noticed something was up had that girl not sat down right next to him and wrapped her arms around his neck.

Lily panicked and yelped, "NOT AGAIN!" before racing off, only to be followed by an extremely concerned boyfriend.

"Really James? During breakfast?" Rose growled at her ridiculously whorish cousin.

James would have stuck his tongue out at her was he not having his face sucked off.

Miraculously, both Rose and Scorpius had been able to evade Albus once they arrived at Hogsmeade and had made their way to the last row of shelves in the back of the book store.

"You look beautiful Rose." Scorpius said as he took her hand.

"Thanks Scorpius. You don't look half bad yourself."

"Oh, thanks. It was nothing." If by nothing he meant, 12 shouting matches, 32 different outfits, and 13 jinxes from annoyed bystanders.

"I just..." Rose trailed off.

"What's wrong?" Scorpius was a little worried what if she decided he was a mistake?

"I just wish we could be a normal couple and not have to hide it. I mean, I know we have to because my dad would, well, explode, and the rest of my family, I mean the adults of course, us kids accept you as our own, would totally freak out, and I just can't deal with that! I'm only a teenager! And I don't want the kids to know because even if they approved they might let something slip, also I don't want them to have to lie because they knew about it and didn't tell anyone, that's just not fair."

"Rose, calm down." Scorpius hugged her until she stopped feeling like she was going to hyperventilate.

"I'm sorry I'm just so worried."

"Well, we could always not, you know, date..."

"WHAT? NO. That's not what I'm saying! Of COURSE I want to date you, I'm just saying I'm sorry for all the spy tactics."

"Oh, it's fine. Really it's kind of fun." He smiled reassuringly.

"It's going to get old fast." Rose sighed. Why did her life have to be so complicated? She could never win.

"Well we'll figure something out eventually."

"Yeah, I hope so." She rested her head against his chest and they stood there among the books, comfortable in each other's arms.

"So would you like to escort me to this place I know for a butter beer?" Scorpius asked her after a few moments.

"I get to escort you?" Rose laughed.

"Well, you get to follow me sneakily while I lead you to it."

"Alright." She laughed again and followed behind Scorpius about twenty paces out of the bookshop and to The Witch's Newt.

A/N:

Hey guys! So it's November. Oops. X( So sorry it took two months to get an update! I've been super busy with school. For some reason my English and History teachers really like to pile on the homework. So that's what I've been doing...oh, plus marching band, driving lessons, and awaiting Glee with Darren Chriss :D SOOOO Excited. If you are a Harry Potter fan, which you probably are seeing as how you're reading a FAN fiction about Harry Potter, go to youtube and look up A Very Potter Musical. You will die laughing, or at least laugh so much you cry :D

So anyways, thank you guys so much for still reading this even though I'm a sketchy updater. Not someone to depend on. Sorry again for taking forever, maybe this time it won't take so long?

Lavender

P.S.- .com/cgi/set?id=33181731 Rose's outfit

.com/scorpiuss_outfit/set?id=33182225 Scorpius's Outfit