I was sitting in one of my favorite spot on the fourth floor bay window when Scorpius finally confronted me. I was so engulfed in my book, that I didn't hear him walk up until he sat down by my feet. I looked up and jumped a little.

"Jesus Malfoy, you scared me!"

Malfoy laughed, "Must be a good book huh? What is it?"

A showed him the cover. "The Girl on the Train. Jack and Perry's mum let me borrow it."

He snatched it out of my hand and read the back cover. "Sounds interesting, how is it?"

"Fantastic," I said grabbing it back. I looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to talk, but he didn't. "Well? Was there a reason that you've interrupted my reading?"

Scorpius gave a weak smile, "Yes, there is a reason. I wanted to talk to you about last night actually."

I tried to conceal that I was actually nervous to have this conversation with him by closing my book and looking him directly in the eye with a false confidence. "Alright, go ahead," I said, trying to keep the shaking out of my voice.

"I wanted to say that I rather enjoyed your company last night, and I know for a fact that you enjoyed mine, so I was thinking we should do it again sometime," he rambled.

I snorted. "You make it sound like we were playing cricket or something. Is this your weird twisted way of asking me out on a date?"

"I was thinking more of it being us hanging out more and if casual making out sessions happen to happen then so be it..."

I couldn't help but laugh at that. "I suppose that would be alright...we'll see."

"But don't think that this means I will no longer argue with you Weasley. I can't just agree with whatever you say. I'd be dishonoring myself as the smartest in the class.," He said while getting up from the window.

I stood up from my spot and followed. "Of course Malfoy, who else would I argue with? Everyone else would be too easy to beat."

"Did Rose Weasley just give me a compliment?"

"Yes. And here's another one." I stood on my toes and whispered into his ear, "You're a pretty good kisser." I turned my head slightly and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and walked away, calling over my shoulder, "See you later, Malfoy."

I didn't have to look behind me to know he was watching me walk away with a grin on his face.

...

"I don't know how I feel about you dating my best friend. It's was a terrible sight, seeing the guy who is like my brother kissing my cousin."

Lily looked up from her homework at the table nearby in the common room, and over to where Al and I were laying on the floor in front of the fireplace playing wizards chest. "Al you are Rose's cousin and she has to see you kiss her best friend all the time."

"Besides, we are not dating." I chimed in.

"You're something," muttered Albus. Yeah, we were something. "But this is different from Sarah and you because you know Sarah is good for me. Scorp on the other hand has always been a player. What if he breaks your heart Rosie? Who would I choose?"

"You bloody well will choose me, I've been you're friend since we were born Albus."

Albus considered this but then said, "Yeah of course I would be on your side...but it would be hard to be mad at Scorp after we've been friends for so long..."

I hit him hard with a one of the pillows I had been laying on. He looked at me appalled before hitting me back with it, scattering the wizard chest pieces around the floor. "You ruined our game Al!" I yelled as I hopped up running away from him.

"You hit me first!" He chased after me, and I grabbed another pillow and started whacking him with it. It was nice having some fun with Albus; of course I loved Sarah to death but I rarely got to spend time with Al unless she was there too.

Lily watched us amusingly before I came over and hit her too. She shrieked and chased joined in our pillow fight. The other people and the common room just went on with their business, being used to the weird antics of the Potter/Weasley family.

...

Monday rolled around and Sarah and I found ourselves being stared down by Jessamine and Missy in Potions class.

"I thought they couldn't hate us anymore than they did. I was wrong." I whispered to Sarah.

"You made enemies with a lot of girls that night Rose," she whispered back. She was right, I was consistently getting glares from girls who were in love with Scorp, and a few guys too.

It didn't help either when Slughorn announced, "I want you to find someone besides your usual partner to make some Amortentia." Missy and Jessamine suddenly perked up at the fact we were going to make a love potion. "But we will not be sampling it. Nor will we force others to drink it or take a vial of it to go. All of the potion will be drained at the end of today's lesson. Now find a partner, and get to brewing!"

Albus and Sarah immediately paired up. And Jessamine called from the other side of the room. "Scorp, want to be my partner?" She batted her big fake eyelashes and used her best little miss perfect impression.

"My apologies Jessamine, but I am already partners with Rose," Scopr said as he gathered his belongings and sat in the chair beside me.

I raised my eyebrows. He sighed, "Just this once alright? I'll buy you anything you want at Honeydukes." That was an offer I couldn't refuse. He knew me so well.

When Slughorn walked by he looked apprehensively at the two of us.

"We'll get along, Professor, I swear," I said. Slughorn nodded and told the class that we could begin.

We were arguing within the first 5 minutes.

"Rose, we clearly need more peppermint than that."

"No, it says a fistful. I put in a fistful."

"But your hands are tiny, I'm sure the writer was thinking of someone with bigger hands!"

"Well I think that if we put anymore in, it will probably change the color of it, so let's not add more."

"Weasley, just let me add more!"

"NO!"

Slughorn came over to where we were brewing our potion. "Is there a problem?"

"No sir," we both grumbled.

After he moved on, I commanded Malfoy to get the rose thorns from the ingredients cabinet. He gave me a fake salute and said "Rose thorns for the thorny Rose. Got it." and went to go get them for me, but not before dropping a few more mint leaves into the cauldron.

I turned to Sarah and Albus who were sitting at the table next to us. "That boy is going to kill me."

Sarah just laughed before exclaiming, "Albus we are supposed to add moonstone, that's pearl!"

"Here you go Rose," I heard Scorpius say behind me, I turned around to get a cloud of something white and powdery in my face.

Shocked, I wiped it from my eyes. "What. Is. This."

"Relax, it's just flour," he said laughing smugly, "You look great by the way, the flour blends well with your skin!"

I kept a bitter expression as I wiped the flour off my face, and in one swift movement wiped it all over his uniform. A smile spread across my face as he looked at me with his mouth agape.

"It looks good on you too Malfoy."

Instead of being angry he just laughed as he reached in the bag and threw another handful at me. I shrieked and grabbed some too and threw it back. A full own flour war ensued before we heard Professor Slughorn say, "Miss Weasley, Mr. Malfoy, what are you doing?"

We both dropped her hands. "Sorry Professor," I squeaked, "We were having a bit of fun and got carried away. Won't happen again."

Professor Slughorn sighed and said, "Clean it up, and continue your potion please. And no more throwing ingredients."

We nodded and started to vanish away the flour around us.

"Why do you think he had flour in the cupboard anyways?" I asked after we finished cleaning up most of the mess.

Scorpius started added ten rose thorns to our potion. "Maybe he makes cookie dough in the cauldron?"

I giggled, "I'm sure those taste great." I took another look at my textbook, "I think all we need left is an Ashwinder egg."

"Got that here," Scorp said, and dropped it into the cauldron.

Spirals of steam started to rise out of the cauldron, and suddenly I could smell the Amortentia. My eyes began to flutter shut as I inhaled the scent of the three things I was most attracted too. The aroma coming from the cauldron smelled like Christmas, when I walk into the kitchen and Nana is cooking gingerbread. I could also smell the library, like I was curled up in front of the fireplace with a new book. And lastly, I could smell Scorpius, like when he held me on the way home from the lake, and my head was buried into his shirt.

"Well done Mr. Malfoy and Miss Weasley! I see you are the first to successfully get it correct! I'll just vanish this real quickly."

With a flick of Professor Slughorn's wand, the cauldron was empty. I suddenly snapped my eyes open, my cheeks flaring up. I couldn't believe that the potion had smelled like Malfoy. I glanced over at him quickly, and saw that he looked slightly abashed and I couldn't help but wonder what he had smelled, but I was too afraid to ask incase he asked me in return.

We worked on homework while the other students finished up. Turns out with both of us working together, the homework gets done even faster.

After class, Scorp and Albus walked with us until we had to part ways. Albus gave Sarah a quick peck on the cheek goodbye, and Sarah and I started up the stairs to Ancient Runes while Scorp and Al went the other way for their free period.

"So what did you smell Rosie?" she asked while we trudged our way to class.

"Gingerbread and the library. You?"

"Cookie dough, a log cabin, and uhh," Sarah lowered her voice so only I could hear, "Albus's shampoo..."

I let out a laugh and she smacked my arm with her books. "Well what was your third thing?" she asked.

"There was supposed to be a third smell?"

"Don't play stupid, Rosie, you know as well as I do that Amortentia has three distinct smells." Her face suddenly turned into a knowing smile. "You don't want to tell me do you? It was Scorpius wasn't it?!"

"Shhhh! You're being loud! And so what if it was..."

This time it was Sarah turn to laugh at me. "I knew it! Oh my gosh, this is too good! What did Scorpius smell?"

I shrugged. "We didn't talk about."

"Probably because he smelled you! I bet you 100 galleons that he did!"

She didn't shut up about all the way to Ancient Ruins. I was only half paying attention to what she was saying, because now I wanted to know more than anything what the three scents that Scorpius Malfoy had smelled.