(A/N: I edited the last paragraph of chapter 5 a bit, if you feel the need to check that out, but everything should make enough sense without you doing that if you don't wish to.)
Chapter 7 - Confusion Causing Feelings
Several weeks passed; Albus and Alaine had seen their animagus forms, Albus was a dog, a golden retriever to be exact. Alaine, on the other hand, was a red wolf. The four were all making progress towards transforming, and steadily reading through the books.
One thing, however, wasn't changing; Rose's confusing feelings towards her best friend. Though they were becoming less confusing each day, what was replacing the confusion was fear. Was she really falling for the blonde? What would he think if he found out? Would he freak out and stop being friends with her, or feel so awkward around her after that they never interacted? Her emotions were rioting inside of her, invisible to everyone else. Or so she thought.
Scorpius had seen as plain as day the past few weeks that Rose seemed to be feeling awkward giving him the normally friendly and warm hugs they had been sharing the past seven years. He wondered what was going on with her, and hoped whatever it was would be resolved soon.
He missed the contact with his best friend of a simple hug and friendly kisses on the cheek, things he had be valuing since he was a fourth year. That was the year a fourteen-year-old Scorpius had realized he was in love with the young Weasely. As cliché as it sounded, it was true. He was in love with his best friend, the daughter of two of his father's school rivals, and had been for 3 long years.
After another awkward feeling hug before they headed to class that morning Scorpius decided to try to figure out about when things became so weird between them. That is what he spent Ancient Runes doing, thinking back. It didn't take long for him to realize it began the day after Rose had accidentally kissed him. Had she been so grossed out by it that it affected every hug they had made since? Or did it have to do with a much more hopeful option, that the shock of the kiss had left her questioning herself, and the result of this being the awkward hugs that were being exchanged.
God, how he hoped it was the second option, hoped with every fiber in his being. Though, if it wasn't the second, he hoped that it was something her hadn't thought of, because if it was the first, he might actually die of humiliation and heartbreak.
Unlike their love-blinded best friends, Albus and Alaine saw exactly what was going on. Something had happened between them and now Rose was noticing that she in love with the Slytherin. They had known for years that Scorpius was in love with the redheaded Ravenclaw. Now, the issue the couple faced was getting the other two to see that they loved each other.
This is what they were currently doing, sitting next to each other in class whispering ideas to get their friends together.
"Lock them up in a broom closet?", Albus suggested.
Alaine laughed, "That might have worked for us when they tried to get us together 5th year, love, but I don't think it would work for them. Plus, they'd hex us as soon as they got out."
Albus grinned at the memory momentarily, but then frowned again while he thought, "Then what can we do? It's not like we can just tell them they love each other."
Slowly a grin formed on Alaine's face, "No, but we can tell them we know that they love the other and try to give them tips on how to get the other one to date them."
Albus grinned and kissed his girlfriend when the teacher's back was turned, "There's that Ravenclaw mind that I love so much!"
Alaine laughed at her boyfriend's statement and gave him another quick kiss, before turning her attention back to the front of the room for the lesson and Albus did the same.