Chapter 15 - Valentine's Day
Then it was Valentine's Day, and the incident at Hogsmeade the month before all but forgotten. Both woke up excited this morning, it was the holiday all about love, teachers wouldn't be bothering to try and teach on such a day where love filled the air more than usual, so classes were canceled. They could spend the whole day together, and with Albus and Alaine if they chose so.
But, in the back of their minds they both feared if the incident from Hogsmeade would be repeated, and their "fangirls/fanboys" would make themselves present, and incredibly annoying while trying to vie for their attention.
They met with a quick kiss in front of the Great Hall and walked in together, sitting at Ravenclaw table, was they had recently since the Slytherin girls became all too clingy and desperate for comfort. Alaine had taken to eating at Gryffindor with Albus, so they could spend more time together, and also because she claimed that hanging out with Rose and Scorpius this early in the morning while both were so much more awake "disturbed her stomach" with their "overtly sweet lovey-dovey crap".
When they heard this, they just laughed and stated that Albus and Alaine were just as bad to be around, especially on a day like this. They ate breakfast in peace, until the owls come and deposited a few valentines for both of them. All were from their fanbase and stated their ever growing love for them, and listed how much better they were for them than they were for each other. They looked at each on of them in the eye, as they were looking on hopefully when the owls arrived, as they set fire to each letter, even one sent to Scorpius jokingly by Albus, filled with accurate drama of their non-existent love, he smirked at him, his eyes laughing, as he set his on fire.
After breakfast was over, they went to hang out by the lake, and exchange their gifts to each other. Rose gave Scorpius a scrapbook of them over the years, and the past few months. Pictures of them, Albus, and Alaine as first years, arms thrown across each other's shoulders, as third years going to Hogsmeade for the first time, Fourth year with a picture of him giving her a look she never understood at the time, and so ignored, but knew by heart now. Christmas this year at her house, them kissing at several places, the train ride this year, snippets from their date with them in Honeydukes, the Three broomsticks, and several other places they had visited. All pictures showing their progression from friendship to where they were now, dating and falling in love more and more each day.
Scorpius smiled sheepishly as he gave her his gift, feeling it was nothing in comparison to what she gave him. It was a jewelery box, and when she opened it she gasped. Inside was a silver necklace of two big cats, a cheetah and a clouded leopard, with gems the color of their eyes. She kissed him soundly as she threw her arms around his neck. Then she asked him to please put it on for her, and as he did, it hung there for the rest of the day and Rose knew that she would hardly ever take it off.
They spent the rest of the day just chattering, kissing, and cuddling. Around them was a bubble of magic, which no matter how their admirers tried, they could not get within 50 feet of the happy couple, no matter how much hexing and swearing they subjected the bubble to.
They finally parted that night with a goodnight kiss and longing looks, before going to their separate beds and falling asleep, their last thoughts before they drifted into dreams about each other.