A/N: Sorry about this odd update...and it's inconsistency but if I didn't, it would only be about 1000 words long, and I would hate myself doing that to you guys :). Also, my other story that I have posted is terrible, I might just scrap it entirely and start from scratch! But my Katie/Oliver story will hopefully come through. It's pretty terrible right now, but I've barely edited it.

Anyways, here's terrible chapter three.

CHAPTER 3

Rose looked warily at the train before her. She didn't want to go home for Christmas just yet, she had been having too much fun with the boys. Albus was already saving her and Scorpius seats, while they dealt with his things.

Running on the train, Rose dragged Scorpius behind her by his wrist. She hadn't noticed he'd wriggled his arm, so that she was holding his hand instead.

A lot of people could tell that Scorpius liked Rose a little more than he should, but he kept everything platonic. For goodness sake, I'm only twelve; I can't like someone like that! No way! he thought. But even Albus could notice after the two months he had left them alone together, they had grown steadily closer. Albus cursed himself for letting Rose wriggle her way into those loopholes she had discovered back in September.

Now on the train, Rose and Scorpius searched for Albus. It took a good ten minutes, but they finally found him alone in a compartment.

Sitting down, Rose pulled out a neat little book that she had nicked from the tower.

"Hey! I saw that in the common room! Our little Rose is turning into a thief Al!" Scorpius cried, pointing at her novel.

"I'm not a thief; I simply borrowed it…without asking…" Rose stuck her tongue out.

"I think we're making an impression on her Scorp!" Albus said, laughing.

"Oh shove off," she retorted lamely, glaring at the boys.

…

Rose was nearing the end of her book, and the boys were in a heated discussion about the last Ravenclaw game versus Slytherin.

"But did you see that Bletchley kid on a broom? I mean it was ridiculous! He can't fly for beans. Thank God he is graduating this year, so Ravenclaw might have a chance once we join the team, right Al?" Albus nodded, Scorpius smiled. "I think I might go for Chaser. I mean I'm rubbish at Seeking, and Keeper isn't my thing. Beater would be OK, but I don't think those two are graduating just yet. What about you Al? I hear Seeker will be open?"

"Yeah, I think I'll have a go. I mean I'm small and quick like my dad, and I've been pretty good during family games!" Albus replied.

Rose turned to the boys, happy they weren't suggesting she try out like they had been suggesting for the last two months. "Al, you're almost better than your dad. Everyone in the family says so. You should have done something outrageous in Flying Lessons; maybe McGonagall could have spotted you like your dad."

"Yeah, but that chances getting caught by another Professor. And plus, Seeker wasn't open this year…" Albus frowned.

"Well whatever," Rose looked out the window. "I see King's Cross up ahead…" she said absentmindedly.

"Aw, already?" asked Scorpius. Rose nodded.

"You'll write to us, won't you Scorp?" Rose asked with a pleading pout on her face. Scorpius laughed.

"Of course I will Rose. A letter for Albus, and a letter for Rose. Every day if I can!" Scorpius smiled.

"Good, because we plan to write back, don't we Al?" Albus nodded.

Grabbing their things, they prepared for the exit off the train. Rose gave Scorpius one last hug before descending the steps onto the platform.

The three turned to look for their families. It wasn't hard to spot the Weasley's, a big sea of red amongst everything. However it took Scorpius a moment to find the blonde heads of his parents. Finally he spotted Draco and Astoria Malfoy a little off to the side. He waved at Albus and Rose before joining them.

Albus and Rose turned back to their family. Hermione wriggled through the crowd and reached her daughter first.

"Look at my Rosie! Oh how I missed you!" she squealed, giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"Muuuum!" she groaned. "Argh!" Hermione laughed.

It was then Rose noticed her father was not amongst the family. Nor was Uncle Harry. "Where's dad?" she inquired.

"They got held up at work, but your dad will be home in time for dinner. We're spending Christmas at the Burrow this year starting tomorrow. However we'll spend the last two days of the Holidays at home, OK sweetie?" she asked, a knowing look in her eye.

Hermione knew Rose wanted to get home to her mum's famous library. Hermione had been collecting books since she was able to read them, and now had an overly large room filled with them.

"OK mum," Rose agreed.

Rose also managed to find her brother, hiding away with Lily behind their parents.

"Hey squirts! Missed me?" she asked, giving her brother's hair a ruffle.

"Ah man, you again?" Hugo asked sarcastically, trying to fix his hair while Lily snickered.

"Har har bro, very funny. How you doing Lily?"

"Great, actually! Dad taught me how to do the Wronsky Feint in Quidditch! I've been waiting for years for that! And now that both the prats are gone, dad's all mine!" she squealed with delight. Great, now the whole Potter family was going to be involved in Quidditch. Rose could see the Ravenclaw versus Gryffindor matches now. Her family would be torn, but they would surely cheer Gryffindor.

"Anyways, how's Ravenclaw?" Lily asked.

"It's great actually! I love going to the Common Room. Instead of a password, you have to answer a riddle. It's funny, because Albus and Scorpius only get them right every now and then, but I haven't gotten one wrong yet!"

"Scorpius? As in Scorpius Malfoy?" Hugo asked. "Didn't dad say to stay away from him?"

"No…he said don't get too friendly…which is different…" Rose grinned at her genius thinking. Lily chuckled nervously.

"Yeah but you know dad, he's going to have a fit…" Hugo warned.

"I told him and mom ages ago, so I'm not too worried…He should have calmed by now…"

"Oh is that why he was so upset after your first letter? He broke three vases and nearly killed your owl. If it wasn't for mum…" Hugo trailed off.

"Has he broken anything since? Or been more irrational than usual lately?" Rose inquired.

"Actually…no. He's been pretty fine. I just thought he was upset over the Ravenclaw bit," Hugo contemplated the idea.

"Well we'll see how angry he really is later won't we?" Rose smiled just as Aunt Ginny and her mum turned back to them, telling them it was time to go.

With one last glance in the direction that Scorpius had trailed off in, Rose followed dutifully behind her family, a little nervous about the next two weeks.

…

Draco Malfoy was frowning as his son approached him. "Scorpius…" he said waringly, not wanting to upset his son the moment he had gotten back.

But Scorpius beat him to the punch. "Yes dad, that was Albus Potter and Rose Weasley. And yes, like I said in my letter, we're friends. And no, you can't hate them until you get to know them. Got it?"

Draco looked at his son for a moment before smiling.

"You should know better son. All I was going to say was watch out for their family. I happen to know Ron Weasley, her father, still doesn't like me much. We are civil towards each other, but that doesn't stop him from hating me for things I did in the past."

Scorpius smiled.

"I have no problem with you being friends with them. Perhaps someday you can invite them and the other kids for a scrimmage? Perhaps a game of Quidditch? Daresay there are enough kids for two teams by now…"

The boy's grin grew, "Seriously dad?" he asked. Draco nodded. "Thanks!" he cried out, before hugging his father, which Draco accepted warmly.

Draco had changed since the war. With his father in Azkaban, and his mother now helping out at St. Mungo's in her free time, Draco had grown away from old prejudices. Especially working as an auror. He's had to put his prejudices aside, as it involved working with muggle-borns and half-bloods. He also spent a great deal of time with his son and his sister-in-law's daughters, so really he'd changed into a big softy over the years.

But something about Ronald Weasley still set him off, and he couldn't help returning some of those nasty looks that were thrown his way half the time.

Potter and Granger he could get along with. Even that Ginny girl. But Ron? Draco didn't think it would ever be normal between them. But for now, he could deal with it. Possibly.

Guiding his son by the shoulder, they made their way to a more secluded spot where Draco held his son tightly then apparated back to their manor.

…

"Rose…I can't believe you would go behind my back and ignore everything I said to you in September!" Ron Weasley said, surprisingly calm to his daughter before him.

"I didn't ignore what you said dad, I just…found loopholes?" Rose offered.

Ron looked like he was about to blow a gasket, yet not a sound came from him. Finally the red in his face lessened. "Rose…I always knew you would turn out like your mother." Shaking his head, he sighed and hugged his daughter.

Rose beamed, proud to be Hermione Granger's daughter. Hugo just groaned, as he had hoped Rose would get into big trouble.

How Ron was able to control his emotions amazed Hermione. The older woman stood in the doorway to the sitting room, arms folded leaning against the frame, her brown hair, still curly, fell in ringlets around her aged face as she watched her husband and children.

Laughing, Hermione entered the room and slung an arm around her husband. "Good boy," she coddled. He grumbled, but wrapped his arm around his wife's waist nonetheless. "Well kids, better get to bed. We're making our way to the Burrow tomorrow morning for Christmas Eve."

Rose was still smiling when she went to bed that night, and her mother noticed. Even as an eleven year old, she still loved being tucked in at night, so Hermione followed her elder daughter to her room and pulled the blankets up to Rose's chin. "Good night my girl," she said sweetly as Rose's eyes drifted closed.

…

"ROSE! Get your lazy arse out of bed! Present time!"

Rose rubbed the sleep from her eyes. Looking around the room, she took in her surroundings. The midnight blue curtains that hung from her four poster bed in her Ravenclaw dorm were pushed back.

"Whuzzhappen-n?" she said sleepily, closing her eyes again.

"It's your birthday, and we're not letting you sleep in any later!" she could hear Felicity cry out fuzzily.

Rose opened her eyes again. The other second years in the room were beaming down on her from their standing positions.

"What time is it anyways?" she groaned.

"Six, now get up, the end of your bed is covered with presents, and I'm curious to see what the big gold one is!" Ah. Now it all makes sense.

Over the last year, Rose had grown a little closer with the Ravenclaw girls, but still couldn't wrap her head around their ringleader Felicity. It seemed she was just as in awe of Albus and Scorpius as the Jacob and Tyler had been at first (thankfully they'd grown out of that stage now!), in fact, she sometimes hinted as to how 'cute they were'. Her words, not mine. And how I should hook her up with them. For Merlin's sake, she's only 12! I'm not helping her in those departments, she shouldn't even be thinking about that stuff! That's pretty much the only reason the girl tolerated Rose hanging out with Sarah and Connie, and sometimes herself.

Sitting up, Rose was surprised to see the enormous pile on the end of her bed. It was nearly double the amount of last years! She gaped.

"Woah!" Rose exclaimed as she clambered to the end of her bed, spying 'from' names of the likes of Uncle Percy and Aunt Audrey, Victoire and Teddy, Uncle Charlie, and more! Even some from other students and friends of the family. "I'm only thirteen, not like I came of age or something…" she grumbled to herself. "I don't need this many presents…"

Felicity looked at the pile. You could tell she was unhappy about something, but Rose let it slide.

Pulling up the first one, she saw it was from her Uncle George and Aunt Angelina. Opening it, she wasn't surprised to see a pile of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes products. As well as a cute little charm bracelet (she suspected this was added by her Aunt).

By the end of her haul, she found she had several new outfits (including a beautifully knit Ravenclaw scarf with her initials on it from Nana Weasley), lots of books (mostly from her mother), a multi-purpose pocket knife (from her father), a new pair of shoes (from her Aunt Audrey and Uncle Percy), a cool organizer (from her Aunt Ginny and Uncle Harry), and a very delicate looking necklace (from Aunt Fleur and Uncle Bill). Even James and his friends sent her some charms to go on her new bracelet – Aunt Angelina must have told James about her gift. The second last gift was from Albus, who had given her a pair of Keeper gloves.

Rose glared at the gloves. Albus and Scorpius were still trying to her to join the team, as they had both tried out and made the team this year, Albus as the new Seeker, and Scorpius, a chaser. But Rose still refused to try out, especially after Flying Lessons in first year. She had hid in a storage closet until try-outs were over so she wouldn't be forced to try-out. The new Keeper was a seventh year, so she would graduate this year, and Albus and Scorpius are practically going to force her to try out. Rose groaned.

The last present was the large square golden one. Looking at the label, she was surprised to see it was from Scorpius.

Opening it, she found a box with large air-holes in it. Looking inside was possibly the cutest kitten she had seen in her entire life, looking somewhat like a white fluffy cotton ball. The stamp on the box read British Longhair, but that didn't matter to Rose.

The girls 'ooh'-ed and 'ah'-ed at the kitten, whom Rose let out of the box. Felicity's glare only intensified.

"Aww he's so cute Rose! Who is it from?" asked Connie.

"Scorpius!" Rose said surprised.

"Boy or girl?" asked Sarah.

Looking at the box, it was labelled 'Female', "Girl." Rose announced.

"Aw what are you going to name her?" asked Connie.

Rose thought for a moment. "I think…Felis after the old constellation? Professor Duke was talking about just before Christmas. I think it's cute…Stands for Cat in Latin."

Felicity looked at Rose apprehensively. "You would use such a stupid name on such an adorable cat? What a waste!" she spat.

Rose winced. This was not starting out to be a good day.

"Well I think it's adorable," said Sarah, and Connie nodded in agreement.

"Fine then, if you think that, go right ahead and continue being little miss priss' friends, 'cause frankly, I can't stand being around you guys any longer," and with that, Felicity stormed off.

Connie looked torn for a moment, before giving Rose a look as if begging her to understand, and sidling off after Felicity. Sarah, however, stayed by Rose's side.

"I never liked Felicity very much, anyways," she said, grinning.

…

"Scorpius!" Rose cried out in the Common Room, as she saw him leaving through the door.

He turned and when he saw Rose he beamed. "Happy birthday Rose!"

A chorus of 'Happy Birthdays!' went around the room, and Rose blushed. Catching up with him they exited Ravenclaw tower together.

"How dare you give me such an expensive gift! Especially after the travesty I gave you last year!" Rose pouted. Back in September of the previous year, Rose was short on time for getting Scorpius a gift, as his birthday was only a few days into their friendship (his birthday was on the ninth). So she had scrambled together a poster of his favourite Quidditch team – the Tornadoes – and managed to find some Smart-Answer Quills, thanks to her mother. It was quite lame, but Rose had made up for it though, by getting him tickets to the Quidditch World Cup at the end of their school year, that was bound to feature the Tornadoes, for Christmas. And even then, she had only managed to get him a decent birthday gift this year, but not nearly as nice as this!

"Well after those tickets you bought me last year, and those Omnioculars for my birthday, I had to pay you back somehow! Now we are even…" he grinned.

"Fine…" Rose grumbled, not exactly agreeing, but just wanting to shut him up.

At this point they were nearing the Entrance Hall, and they ran into James, Fred and Lucy coming from the Great Hall.

"Rose!" shouted James, but not before sending Scorpius a glare. James still didn't like the idea that Albus and Rose joined Ravenclaw because of him. "Happy birthday!"

Next thing Rose knew, three bodies had pounced on top of her, and she was wincing on the floor.

"Guys, geroff me!" she cried, but it sounded more like "Gmhmh geroffhmm mmeh!" as James knee was somehow in her mouth. She could hear Scorpius somewhere above laughing, followed by a resounding "Oof!" and more weight added atop of her. Great…they had added Scorpius to the pile.

Finally moving her mouth away from James' knee, she cried out, "Hello! Becoming a human pancake here!"

Laughter was heard again, before finally the weight on her grew steadily lighter.

"Thank Merlin!" she cried when James finally removed himself.

Rose was still face down on the floor. "Well is anyone going to help me up?" she snapped.

Two arms laced under hers and she felt herself hauled up from the floor.

"There's our Rosie!" cried Fred.

"Oh sod off Fred," Rose grumbled, but a smirk was on her face nonetheless. "Can I go eat now?" she pleaded. Lucy nodded and shoved her and Scorpius in the direction of the Great Hall.

Sitting at the Ravenclaw table, Rose turned to Scorpius. "Where's Al?" she asked.

"Still asleep I reckon. He'll be down soon though, I rigged that Weasley Wizard Wheezes 'Never-Will-You-Sleep-In-Again' Alarm Clock to ring every five minutes after I left, and only way to turn it off is to bring it back to me." Scorpius smirked at his genius-ness. Rose laughed.

"He is going to murder you one day Scorp…Good thing it's a Saturday, or you'd waste a good day of classes in the Hospital Wing," she said, laughing harder as she piled food on her plate. Just like her father, she could eat everyone under the table, however despite her father; she rarely gained any weight from it. Her twig-like form was another thing that made Felicity jealous of her.

As if on cue, the doors to the Great Hall burst open, and in stormed Albus Potter in a rage, albeit a non-scary one. Almost comical.

"SCORPIUS MALFOY HOW IN THE NAME OF MERLIN DO I TURN THIS BLOODY TRINKET OFF, AND IF YOU DON'T TELL ME IN THE NEXT TWO MINUTES AND IT GOES OFF AGAIN, I SWEAR I WILL MURDER YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS!"

Rose was laughing so hard, she had doubled over and clutched her sides. By this time Albus had reached their spot at the Ravenclaw table.

"Calm down Mr. Potter! Points…" said an amused Professor Longbottom, "will be taken if you don't stop your incessant shouting." The Professor laughed, before continuing on past them. Albus glared at the back of his head.

Albus' glares are about as harmful as the kitten now asleep on my bed. This only made Rose laugh harder.

"Sto-stop it Al! You're going to k-kill me!" Rose said between raucous laughter. Albus only tried glaring at her, but this just made Rose laugh harder.

Scorpius picked up his wand, pointed it at the odd contraption Rose only just noticed in Albus' hand, and muttered an incoherent spell, and its whirring stopped.

"Thank Merlin!" Albus said, before slumping at the table, head in hands, already halfway back to sleep.

Rose took the time to notice how haphazardly he was dressed. His shirt was buttoned wrong, his belt was undone, and, sadly, his fly was wide open to the world. And Rose was pretty sure his shoes were on the wrong feet.

Flicking her wand a couple of times, she did her best to try and fix her cousin's state of disarray. When he could be deemed presentable, she heard him mutter through his fingers, "Thanks Rose, dunno what I would do without you…" he groaned.

Scorpius chuckled as he helped himself to a little more breakfast, and tried to throw some on Albus' plate. "Eat, boy," he commanded.

Albus tiredly picked up his fork and shovelled eggs into his mouth. "Hffappee?" he said, mouth full of food, a few bits of egg falling out.

"Gross Al. Very mature of you," Rose said, handing him a napkin. He just grinned and continued to eat.

When breakfast was over, the trio hurried off to go see what Hagrid was up to for the day.

…

"I'm EXHAUSTED!" cried Al as they slung up the stairs to their tower.

"I believe it's riddle time guys, let's do this!" said Scorpius.

Knocking on the door, they waited for the Eagle's voice.

But it never came.

Albus knocked again. Still nothing.

"I've never heard of this happening before!" Rose cried, clearly flabbergasted by their predicament. "We need to find Professor Duke immediately!"

Turning, Rose headed down the tower stairs, when suddenly they transformed into a slide, as if she were a boy heading into the girl's dormitories.

"AAH!" she screamed, as her feet slid from under her, as did Scorpius and Albus', and the trio hurdled down the slide.

Rose landed with a hard thud at the bottom, but managed to move herself just in time so the boys wouldn't land on her.

"What the bloody hell is going on? Why is the tower turning against us?" asked Scorpius.

"I have no idea. Good thing Professor Duke's office is only down the hall by the Astronomy Tower. Let's go!" Albus said, hauling his two friend's up off of the floor by their arms.

"PROFESSOR!" cried Rose, as they knocked on his door minutes later. "Professor Duke!"

Seconds passed and finally he opened his door, yawning as if he had been napping.

"What's going on? What's happened?" he looked at the three of them, "What is the meaning of waking me from my glorious dream?"

Rose resisted the urge to giggle.

"Professor, something has gone wrong with Ravenclaw Tower. We were up there, and knocked on the door, but the eagle never responded! And then moments later the stairs turned into a slide as if boys were sneaking into the girl's dormitories, and we fell down the whole tower! It's a wonder we never got hurt!" Rose explained.

"Speak for yourself, my tailbone aches…" Albus groaned.

Rose shot him a glare. "What do we do Professor?"

Professor Duke looked dumbstruck. "Honestly…I have no idea. Look, you three go back and see if the tower has returned to normal, I'll go retrieve some other Professors."

Exiting his office, he locked the door behind him, before waving them off in the direction of their tower.

When they got there, however, the stairs were still transfigured into a slide, and a few Ravenclaws stood bewildered at the bottom.

"What's going on?" asked Connie.

"Not sure, but Professor Duke is rounding up re-enforcements," Scorpius said.

Minutes later Professor Duke arrived, along with Professors Corner, Macmillan and Vector, probably the first Professors he could find.

"Alright students, back it up now. We're going to do our best to get you to your beds. If not, a night in the Great Hall won't kill you!" Professor Duke said. Rose surely hoped he was joking.

She had heard of the time her parents and many other students had to sleep in the Great Hall in their third year. But that was because there was fear speculating that a mass murderer was in Gryffindor tower. Even so, Sirius Black was innocent in the end, but it was still scary to think about. Imagine if he hadn't been innocent?

More than a half an hour later, Rose, Scorpius and Albus sat on the floor, bored out of their minds, as the Professors were still waving their wands at the tower's stairs.

"Aha!" came a cry, as Professor Corner stood, arm raised, apparently observing his work.

The stairs were finally visible once more as the slide disappeared. Several Ravenclaws cheered as the Professor ambled up the stairway, followed closely by Professors Duke and Vector, then Rose, Scorpius, Albus and the rest of the students.

When they reached the top, Professor Duke knocked on the door.

"Thank Merlin you figured that out Professor! I didn't know what was going on; it was as if I was frozen! Someone must have misplaced a spell!" The eagle said.

"No worries, anyways, we wish to enter!"

"Why, yes, of course. Hm. Let's see, what riddle to give today? Oh I know…

What must one pay to scratch?"

Scorpius eyebrows knitted together, as did Rose's. However they were all surprised as to who answered this riddle.

"Er – would 'Quidditch' be the answer?" asked Albus.

Rose looked at her cousin. How did he get that kind of answer? But sure enough, the eagle grinned somewhat, and the door swung open.

"How does that even make sense?" she asked him.

"You of all people should know Rose, with your mum being muggle-born," he replied, shrugging. When Rose never replied, he continued, "A 'quid' is slang for a pound. You know, muggle money? And well, you 'scratch an itch'…so Quidditch."

"That's genius Al!" Rose squealed throwing her arms around her cousin, "Looks like you're a bit of a late bloomer, but finally Ravenclaw appears in you!"

Albus groaned. "I've answered riddles before Rose; you've just never given me a chance!"

Rose looked at the floor, her eyes downcast with shame.

"I didn't say that was a bad thing Rose, in fact, I'd rather you answer them anyways. Less thinking for me!" Albus grinned, bringing a smile back on Rose's face as she wrapped her arm around his shoulders.

"Well, night you two, I'm tucking in early because we have a lot of homework to catch up on tomorrow, as it was your great idea to go frolicking off to see Hagrid Al."

"But Roose, it's your birthday! I wasn't letting you work on your birthday!" A few more rounds of 'Happy birthdays!' were heard, even from Professor Duke, who was chatting amiably with the Eagle door.

"You've got to stop doing that Al…" she groaned, turning back to the stairs. "Night boys," she called, before disappearing.

Albus turned to Scorpius.

"So Scorp, when you going to tell her you've got a crush on her?" he asked. Several heads turned their way, itching for gossip.

"Uh – I don't know what you are talking about Al…" he replied, his cheeks burning.

"Hey, I may be dumb sometimes, but I'm not that oblivious…" Albus raised an eyebrow.

Scorpius grabbed Albus' arm and dragged him up to their room, where thankfully Jacob and Tyler were no where in sight.

"Look Al, you're...well you're sort of right. But it's really nothing. Probably be gone in a few days. She just stood out today that's all."

"Scorp, this has been going on since last year. It won't go away that simply," Albus said, raising an eyebrow.

Scorpius' blush deepened. "Look Al, there's no way she'll like me like that anyways. And we're only thirteen for crying out loud! Nothing will happen. So I'm just ignoring it…"

"Yeah if ignoring it means staring at her when she's not looking, buying her really expensive gifts – she has no idea that you paid a fortune for that kitten you know. She knows it was expensive, just not how expensive – oh and don't forget telling off any boy who even looks at her…" Albus rolled his eyes.

"Hey, I only told off that Underwood kid from Slytherin. Remember him? Ben something or other. He was giving Rose the look…you know. That one!" Scorpius shuddered.

Albus rolled his eyes. "I spoke with Ben afterwards. He wasn't giving Rose the look he was giving it to Connie next to her. You just miscalculated!"

"How do we know he wasn't lying?" Scorpius said, eyes narrowed.

"Because remember how he tried to convince Connie to go out with him the following week, however she ended up blowing her potion up in both their faces and they had to go to the Hospital Wing!"

"Oh…right…" was all Scorpius could say. "Well I was wrong OK. I admit that…" he grumbled. "Still aren't we all a little young for the look?"

"Scorp, you're scaring me. You sound like my Uncle Ron."

"Oh God, don't tell me that!" Scorpius groaned, covering his ears. Albus laughed.

"Can you imagine if he found out you liked his little Rosie? You'd be a dead man."

Scorpius paled. "Well let's see to it that he never finds out."

Albus rolled his eyes. "Anyways, Rose is right. We have a lot of homework to do tomorrow. I'm going to sleep. Night Scorpius."

"Night Al," he replied, climbing into his four poster.

All night however, he was unable to get a certain auburn-haired girl from his mind.

A/N: Go ahead and attack me for the weirdness and annoying-ness. I promise it gets better...I hope.