Rose Weasley yawned and rubbed her eyes. She was up late thinking about her date with Scorpius the night before so she decided to take a nap after "talking" to Scorpius for a while. Glancing at the clock she saw that it was lunchtime. Sighing, Rose rolled out of bed and put up her hair using a hair band from around her wrist. Almost as soon as Rose walked into the common room she was pulled aside by Lily and James, who were both obviously concerned.

"Rosie!" Lily huffed out of breath. "We've been looking for you all over! Where have you been."

"Sleeping." Her cousins gave her a disbelieving look.

"SLEEPING?" James exclaimed. "MERLIN WOMAN! Your best friend is super upset-because of you-and all you've been doing is sleeping."

"Albus is upset? What for?"

"You and Scorpius." Lily whispered into her ear.

Rose shook her head, "What are you talking about, Me and Scorpius?"

"Oh cut the crap Rosie, we ALL know about you and your little boyfriend."

Rose's eyes grew twice as big as normal and she became very, very red.

"Not all of us." Lily corrected. "Just the more perceptive of us."

James waved his hand, "Not that it matters because you didn't tell your best friend and now he's in a right state."

"It can't be that bad." Rose reasoned. "He wanted it to happen in the first place."

"He's in the kitchens eating chocolate cake."

Rose's eyes widened again, this time in horror. Apparently it was that bad. "I'll go talk to him." Rose sprinted out of the common room, down numerous flights of stairs, past the Hufflepuff common room, nearly running into a third year, and to the familiar portrait of fruit. She tickled the pear and ran into the kitchen.

"FORK DOWN ALBUS."

Albus dropped his fork in surprise. He looked up and saw Rose, glaring he looked back down to his fourth piece of triple layer chocolate cake. "What do you want?" He asked with a mouth full of frosting.

"To tell you something."

"What." Albus looked blankly in the direction of his cousin.

"I'm dating Scorpius."

"You don't say." Albus stabbed his cake too forcefully and scraped the plate.

"I do. I'm sorry I didn't tell you before, but in my defense, our first date was yesterday, you can't really be dating someone until you've been on one can you?"

"You've still been hanging out without telling me."

Rose raised an eyebrow, "Oh, so you're my mother now? Am I twelve again?"

"No." Albus huffed and set his fork down. "Look, you should have told me you were snogging my best friend. Especially because then I would have been able to stop making intricate plans and would have noticed that my own brother had somehow managed to get a girlfriend."

Rose laughed. Albus stared at her. "Oh, you weren't joking…James has a girlfriend? Okay, I'm officially oblivious, but how the hell did that happen? And when?"

"A couple weeks. She's very nice. A Gryffindor a year below us."

"What? Really…not Holly?" She winced hoping someone sharing her blood wouldn't dare touch that stuck-up drama queen.

"No, Lisa Woodward."

Rose had to think hard to remember the girl he was talking about. "OH! That girl. She's really quiet…how did that happen? And didn't she hex him in the Great Hall in the beginning of the year?"

"Yeah, she did…I forgot about that. Don't know how. That was beautiful." The two cousins shared a laugh.

"So, I'm sorry about not telling you. Will you forgive me, Albus?"

"Of course cousin mine, all you had to do was ask." He gave her a hug.

Rose pointed to the dirty plate in front of him, "No more of that." He pouted.

"But it's so good."

"Not for dealing with your problems, we've talked about this before. Don't turn to cake in times of need. All it does is make you even more upset and less agile for Quidditch."

Albus sighed and rolled his eyes. "Yes mother." Rose swatted him on the back of the head as they walked out of the kitchens back up to the Gryffindor common room.

Albus arrived in the Great Hall for dinner with the complete contingent of Weasleys: all ten at Hogwarts, plus two Scamanders, and one Woodward. So all in all it was a particularly normal day at Hogwarts. Scorpius looked up from the Slytherin table and noticed his best friend was sitting at the Gryffindor table, which was again, fairly normal for Albus. Scorpius got up and went over to sit by Albus, as he normally did in this situation. He walked up to sit next to Albus and James, Albus slid over to force him to sit in between him and Rose instead.

Scorpius looked at him and Albus smiled smugly. "He knows…" He thought. "I shouldn't have pretended to be allergic to jam…"

Albus leaned over and whispered to him, "You've got some explaining to do mister." Scorpius nodded and continued to load his plate up with baked ham and mashed potatoes.

"OI, Scorpius," James yelled past Albus, "Meet my girlfriend, Lisa."

"When did that happen…not another confundus charm I hope." James glared at him but Scorpius smiled and waved to the quiet brunette next to James.

"No one saw that happening actually." Said Rose. "I was surprised at least."

"James gets all the luck." Grumbled Hugo from across the table.

"Well maybe if you talked to a few more girls you weren't related to you'd find someone."

"UGH, I know Rose. But I'm shy."

"Come on, where's that Gryffindor courage?" Teased Scorpius.

"Courage has nothing to do with talking to girls, its all charm, and I have none."

"I could help you sometime." Offered Scorpius.

"I'll be your wingman!" Albus added.

Hugo laughed and accepted before returned to stuffing his face. The rest of dinner passed uneventfully and they all left feeling satisfied. Rose and Scorpius sneaked away from the group when they passed a small enclave.

They sat down on the bench against the wall and Scorpius wrapped his arms around Rose.

"So Albus finally figured it out?" Scorpius asked.

"Yeah, the whole allergic to jam thing tipped him off."

Scorpius groaned, "Merlin, I'm an idiot, I can't believe I thought he'd buy that."

"Well, he would have figured it out sooner or later."

"He hasn't told anyone else has he?" Scorpius still didn't think the world was quite ready for their relationship.

"No, but Lily and James already knew. James has the map and apparently Lily saw us in the library once."

"That must have been awkward for her." Scorpius laughed.

"She totally deserves it. Her and Lorcan are forever making people feel awkward in the common room."

"Oh really? How so?"

Rose smirked. "Like this." She reached around Scorpius' neck and pulled him close. She sucked on his bottom lip and he smiled before kissing her back.

Well there you go! Another chapter, and so soon after the last one! You must be super lucky ;)

I've still got a couple more finals so my stressing won't end until next week, but after that I've got ALLLLLLLLL summer! Woo! I'm more than a little excited for summer to be here. Looking forward to the fall too...and marching band, because let's face it, that shits pretty awesome :D

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~Lavender