Chapter 5 - Class Begins
The next day was Monday, which meant N.E.W.T level classes would begin. This meant one thing: homework, and lots of it.
Rose walked downstairs to the Great Hall that morning, dragging a tired and grumpy Alaine behind her.
"How are you so cheerful in the moaning?" the Ravenclaw groaned, "It's inhuman!"
Rose grinned at her pouting friend, "I actually get some sleep, that's why. Besides, if I didn't wake you up this early, you wouldn't get to spend time with my lovely cousin before classes begin."
That perked the brunette Ravenclaw up, and now it was her dragging a laughing Rose towards the Great Hall. "We have to eat quickly!" she chirped, "I'm sure you want to see Scorpius as much as I want to see Albus."
Rose rolled her eyes, still laughing at her friend's quick mood change when her boyfriend was mentioned, "No one could ever want to see anyone as much as you do my favorite cousin. Except maybe he wanting to see you, he's already at his table."
Alaine, of course, had to look over, and just as Rose had said, the raven haired Gryffindor was eating breakfast, much more awake looking than herself. Rose watched, amused, as a huge grin stretched across her friend's face.
Rose had to check Slytherin's table now that Scorpius had been mentioned. To her surprise, he was seated there already. He usually slept in fairly late; she reasoned that it probably had to do with the excitement from their lesson the day before.
After they had all finished breakfast, each of Head of House left the staff table and went down the give the students their schedules for the year. Neville passed out the Gryffindors, the DADA teacher, Professor Elaine Harrison passes out the Ravenclaws, Professor Shaun Wilkinson gave out the Slytherins, and Professor Tala Dixon spread the Hufflepuffs.
Rose checked her schedule; she and Alaine had Potions with the Slytherins, DADA with Gryffindor, Herbology with Hufflepuff, Ancient Runes didn't have house lines, but she knew Scorpius and Alaine were going to be in that class with her, Charms with Slytherin, and Transfiguration with Gryffindor. She wasn't taking as many classes as her mother had, knowing her difficulty balancing all the work when she retook her seventh year.
First class was Ancient Runes and she and Alaine went to the entrance to the Great Hall after they had finished eating to wait for Scorpius, and so Alaine could give Albus a kiss before classes began. It only took a minute for the boys to join them and Rose and Scorpius began walking towards class, talking excitedly about all they had learned the day before from the Headmistress while Alaine and Albus shared their goodbyes. It didn't take long, and she quickly caught up to them and joined in in their excited conversation.
Ancient Runes passed quickly and then it was Potions time, Double Potions to be exact, and as the three shared the class, they walked down together, chattering about the class they had just been in, it was a review of the year before, to ease them back into the class, so they had finished it with ease.
Potions passed in a similar manner, a reminder of the year before, and then it was lunch. When They got to the Great Hall, Rose went to give her blonde friend a friendly kiss on the cheek goodbye, as well as a hug, but he turned his head last moment, and instead of his cheek, the kiss landed at the corner of his lips.
They both froze with shock as a feeling of electricity the like they had never before felt passed between them. Rose quickly pulled back, muttering an apology, which Scorpius accepted with a dazed nod of his head and they quickly went to their separate tables for lunch.
The rest of the day was spent by both in a dazed blur, not really aware of what was going on in the rest of their classes, but still completing the tasks, just not with their usual ease.
As she fell asleep that night, the last thought in Rose's mind was of the accidental kiss and the feeling she had gotten from it, puzzling over what that feeling meant before falling asleep.