prompt two
colour: yellow with red tips
symbolic meaning: falling in love
"A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever."
– 500 Days of Summer
From her first day of Hogwarts, when her dad points Scorpius Malfoy out at the train station, Rose Weasley promises herself that she will not fall in love with boy.
Because that would be terribly cliché and she can't possibly have that.
She's positive she wouldn't fall in love with him anyways – they've been best friends ever since she plopped down in his and Albus's compartment and she's only eleven and boys can be so annoying (as her cousins have most definitely proved).
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But when she's thirteen, she starts to realize how attractive Scorpius actually is, with his platinum hair and greygrey eyes like a storm.
She's find herself flushing at the sight of him, though thankfully she's never as red as her hair. She's more sarcastic around him, but also more giggly, which doesn't make sense to her at all.
(As smart as she is, Rose was never known for making the best decisions.)
They're only friends. Nothing more, she reassures herself.
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By fifth year, Rose finds herself having this odd feeling when other girls flirt with him that she's sure is just protectiveness and not jealousy. She obviously doesn't have any pent up feelings for bloody Malfoy, who just happens to have a confidence that's rather sexy and a charisma that's oh-so-attractive. She tries to push these thoughts out of her head - she's his best friend and best friend only. She's not looking to become another Teddy the best-friends-falling-love-thing that happens frequently in those Muggle romances she reads? Not for her.
Yet she finds its infuriating how other girls giggle and bat their eyelashes at him and he actually smiles. (She's quite sure it's a fake one. Quite sure – she's seen his real smiles before, of course.) He actually flirts back with those stupid, giggling, girls.
"Oh, no, I'm not jealous! Why would I be jealous?"
Besides, even if she did like Scorpius (which she doesn't, thank you very much), he wouldn't like her back, not when there are other (prettier) girls.
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What she doesn't realize is that she, Rose Weasley, a storm of wildwild curls and electric blue eyes and a personality to match, is more than just other girls. She's too busy being in denial that she doesn't notice Scorpius's deliberate excuses to spend time with her without Albus mean something.
(She also doesn't realize that both of them are falling harder each day.)
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It's on an impulse when she kisses Scorpius, during the summer before their seventh year – Rose was never known for making the wisest decisions, no matter how smart she is – and to her surprise, he kisses her back.
"So..." she says when they break apart, her blush almost as red as her hair.
"I guess it all changes now, doesn't it?" he replies, a smile, no, not a smirk, but a smile, on his face.
A/N: I had fun writing this. :) No favorites without reviewing, please and thank you!