I was sitting the next morning at breakfast when the owl post arrived. Dom, who was sitting next to me, quickly scanned the ceiling until she spotted what must have been a familiar owl. The owl swooped low and landed right beside the plate of toast. Dom excitedly reached over and untied the letter.

"What's got you smiling like that Dom? Did you win something?" Fred asked. Dom was indeed grinning like she had received a letter from the Queen herself.

"No, it's nothing, just an ordinary letter," Dom said trying to cover up.

James reached over and snatched the letter out of her hand.

"James! Give it back, that's private!" shouted Dom.

James's eyes scanned through the letter. "Is this some admirer of yours? 'How I wish I could see you again soon. Too bad we are so far apart'. Whose Will?"

I looked at her strangely. "Will? That muggle from Nan's?"

Dom pried the letter back from James. "Yes, that Will. I've been writing him..."

Fred's eyes grew wide. "How are you writing Will? Did you tell him-"

"No I didn't tell him! He thinks I'm at some private school in France. I gave him Vic's address, and she forwards the mail to me here. It's a long process, but it's the only way I can keep in touch with him..."

"That's brilliant!" said Fred, "Why didn't I think of that? I told Charlotte that they didn't allow mail at my school. I bet mum would forward it to me..."

Just then I heard some snickering from the other tables. We turned around to see Scorpius Malfoy walking straight towards us.

Although his Quidditch robes mostly covered it, you could clearly see fluorescent pink peeking out from above his shoe.

"Nice socks Malfoy!" shouted a boy from the Slytherin table. Scorpius was not at all embarrassed. Instead he embraced the attention. He smirked in the direction of the caller, but continued to make a beeline to where I was sitting.

"Love the socks Malfoy," I said when he approached, "Pink is definitely your color."

"Thank you Weasley, just as green is yours." He winked at me and gave that secretive smile, like he knew something I didn't. "I actually came to ask you if you wanted to help me practice with Al. We could use a third person."

I put my hand on my heart. "Is this really happening? Is Scorpius Malfoy actually asking me for a favor?"

Malfoy rolled his eyes. "I could always find another person. You were just the first one Albus requested."

I stood up from the table. "I suppose I'll help, but only because I want to help dear Albus."

"Don't make him too good Rosie, your house becomes before your family!" said James.

Dom swatted him, telling him that is exactly opposite of what it should be. I waved goodbye to my family, and headed out to the pitch with Malfoy.

...

When we got there, Albus was nowhere in sight.

"Uhm, Malfoy aren't we missing the person who is supposed to be practicing here?"

Malfoy set down the box of Quidditch supplies who was lugging behind him. "He went to go change, shouldn't be long. Until then, why don't we warm up a bit? Race you around the pitch?"

I grinned. "You're on."

Swinging my leg over my broom, I quickly rose into the air without fault. Although I wasn't the best Quidditch player, I was decent on a broom. Scorpius rose up beside me.

"Ready-Go!" I shouted and took off leaving him unexpectedly. I heard him shout something. I wasn't for sure he how far away he was, until I felt him come up behind me. I urged the broom to go faster.

Scorpius zoomed by me, and beat me by a few meters.

We both came to a slow hover.

"Not bad Weasley, you are pretty fast. Though you did cheat."

"It's not cheating! You just weren't paying attention enough!"

Scorpius laughed sending butterflies in my stomach. I could listen to that laugh all day. My mind slowly started to wander to the picture. The way in it his strong arms were holding me close. And the way he looked at me as if I was the only girl in the room...

"-he's walking slow, Merlin."

"Sorry, what?" I snapped out of my daze.

"I said Albus is coming and he's walking slow."

I looked down to see Albus was indeed slowly making his way down to the pitch. I flew down quickly to greet my cousin landing elegantly, Scorpius beside me.

"You didn't start without me, did you?" Albus said, looking from me to Scorp.

"Of course not," said Scorpius, "First you're going to do some warm up laps, then we are going to practice your broom handling, and then end with you practicing catching the snitch. Good?"

We worked on broom handling for about an hour. I was surprised on how much fun I was having. Scorpius showed Albus how to do dives, and I decided to learn with him. After that I got to hit bludgers at both Scorpius and Al and they had to try to dodge them. That was of course very entertaining. Finally Scorp and Al and I raced around trying to spot the snitch first and catch it.

By the end of our practice, I was extremely tired but giggly, Albus was feeling better about the first match, and Scorpius looked proud of what he accomplished.

"I got to say Rose, you did a lot better than expected. You should of tried out for the team." The three of us were making the long trek back up the castle.

I laughed at Scorpius's comment. "Yeah right, I'm not near as good as anyone else on the Gryffindor team." My feet were starting to really hurt, and we still had a long way to go. It was pretty pathetic, but usually I didn't do so much exercise.

I saw Albus's face light up, and turned to see Sarah was sitting under a nearby tree doing homework.

"I'll catch up to you guys later, I need to tell Sarah something." Al jogged off, leaving me alone with Scorpius.

"I'm so tired, I don't think I can walk anymore," I complained. Scorpius rolled his eyes. "Will you carry me?"

I was surprised when Scorp sighed and said," Alright, hop on."

"Seriously?"

"Sure, why not. I mean, you did do me a favor by hitting bludgers at Al and me."

I couldn't decide if this was a good idea or not, because he could drop me. But my feet really were sore, and I jumped onto his back, wrapping my legs around his waist and my arms around his neck.

He grabbed onto my legs and started the walk back up to the castle.

There was three things I noticed while Scorpius was carrying me to the castle.

1. He was really strong. Like he was carrying me uphill with no problem.

2. He wasn't complaining about my weight. I mean I know he has carried me before, but I was unconscious then. I was completely taken aback at his lack of rude comments.

And 3. He smelled really good. Really good.

When we got up to castle he threatened to throw me into fountain.

"Nooooooo," I screamed. He swung me over, but I held on tight laughing. Finally he set me down safely on the ground.

"Thanks for the lift Malfoy. I suppose I'll see you later."

I turned to walk away, but Malfoy suddenly caught my shoulder.

"Hey Rose, do you want to go to a party with me tonight?"

"What?" I blinked at him.

"The Quidditch teams from all fours houses come together and have a party down in the dungeon. The professors just let it happen because is supports inter-house friendships, unless it gets too crazy or too late. Each player is allowed to bring a plus one."

I had heard of this party, how could I not being around all the Quidditch players in my family, but I had never attended before.

I felt my cheeks starting to turn red. "I don't know..."

"Think about it," Scorpius said as he started to walk backwards into the castle door. "I'll leave the spot open for you, if you decide you want to come, just join Sarah. I'm sure she'll be coming too."

I nodded. "We'll see."

Scorpius smiled and said, "I hope you will come." and disappeared into the castle, leaving me outside dumbstruck.

Because I think Scorpius Malfoy might of just asked me on a date.

...

It was green posters. Giant green posters with the Slytherin snake hissing it's tongue at me. There was probably about a dozen of them plastered on my wall. I was going to kill whoever had let him in.

I had screamed when I opened my door. Then spent the next half-hour trying every spell I knew to remove them, until Sarah walked in and also screamed. Luckily she was very good at countering sticking charms.

After we had rolled them all up and disposed of them, I asked Sarah the question I had been wanting to ask her.

"Are you going to that party tonight?"

Sarah looked up at me, confused, "Yeah I think so, did someone invite you?"

I looked away from her, "Scorpius might of asked if I would go with him..."

Sarah's face lit up. "Oh my gosh he asked you out?!"

"No! He just asked if I would like to attend this particular event with him."

"Did you say yes!?"

"I said maybe. I'm not sure if I want to go..."

Sarah bounced up and down beside me. "Of course you have to go! If not because Scorpius is extremely good looking, come with him so I have someone to talk too!"

"What about your boyfriend?"

"Rose, you're going."

"But-"

"You are going."

I looked at my best friend, and could see there was no crossing her.

I sighed. "Fine. I'll go."

Sarah squealed with delight. What had I gotten myself into?

...

I had to suck in a breath when I saw Scorpius. Of course I had to admit he looked good in everything, but he looked particularly nice tonight.

He was wearing just a plain blue shirt, but it hugged him in just the right way that honestly made me a little weak at the knees. He wore some simple jeans and black converse that matched my red ones. His white hair was tousled, so it looked like he had woke up and ran his fingers through his hair and just gone with it.

It was such a normal outfit, but since I rarely saw him without his school robes on, I thought he looked pretty nice.

When he saw me, his face broke out into a smile, and his eyes were gleaming. I don't think he expected me to show up.

Sarah gave Al a hug, and Scorpius came up to me.

"You came."

I kicked the ground. "Yeah, well I figured that there was a chance you might make a fool out of yourself here, and I didn't want to miss that."

He chuckled, and I couldn't help but grin at the sound of his laugh.

"Ready?" Al asked.

We all nodded and headed to the party.

...

A seventh year guarded the entrance. When he saw Scrop and Al, he nodded and opened the door. Inside music was blaring. People were set up around the room, some dancing to the music, other chatting in the corners. A table at one end had a variety of food and drinks.

I quietly figured to myself that if everyone brought a date, there would be 56 people, which seemed like much for this small room.

As I looked around, I started recognizing familiar faces. Roxy was in the corner, being a little too intimate with her boyfriend. I don't think she realized that we were here. Lily was chatting with a cute Ravenclaw boy. I gave her a little wave. Perry was the youngest here at the age of 13, and was sitting away from the party with the other younger ones. They was not allowed to go near the fire whiskey that someone had smuggled in, and that Fred and James seemed to have had a bit much of.

I mingled around for a bit, talking and dancing with friends and cousins. I lost Scorpius while he went and talked to other people.

After awhile, my stomach started growling. I made my way over to the table to food, trying to decide what to eat.

"Careful," said a voice in my ear, "Some of this food is dangerous."

I turned around to see Scorpius grinning at me.

I crossed my arms. "Oh really."

"Sure," he said, "Take those candy hearts right there. Do you know what those really are?"

I glanced over and saw the small bowl of candy hearts he was talking about. Of course I recognized them, I had some in my trunk upstairs.

"Why would someone put Heart's Desired candy out?"

Scorpius shrugged. "So people can eat them and make fools of themselves. Makes a good story for the next day."

I reached for a chocolate covered strawberry, but Scorpius stopped me.

"Better let me try one first, make sure there's not a love potion or something."

I raised my eyebrows at him, but let him eat one first anyways.

"All good captain?" I asked.

Scorpius nodded and so I popped one into my mouth. I glanced down at the candy heart's bowl again, and got an idea.

"Alright Malfoy, I dare you to eat one of those."

Scorpius looked at me to see if I was kidding. "Weasley why would I do that?"

I shrugged. "Because I know you won't back down form a dare. Plus I'll buy you a butter beer when we go to Hogsmeade next weekend."

Scorpius took a step forward so he was standing only mere inches from me. My body stiffened.

"Are you sure you want me to eat on Rose? You never know what I'm going to say..." My mouth grew dry, and I nodded. Why was this way more intense than I needed to be?

His gaze never left mine, as he popped one of the candy hearts in his mouth.

My face broke into a smile. "Alright Malfoy, what is it that you desire right now."

Malfoy's eyes never left mine. "What I want is to kiss you again Rose Weasley."

Wow that was a longer chapter than usual. Thank you to all those who are waiting patiently for me to post the next chapter, and I'll try to get another one out as soon as I can! I love you all 3