Hey everyonnnnnne! :) Thank you all for reading these! I'm glad you're liking them! I'm planning a multi-chapter ScoRose soon, suggested by the amazing tiiinam, but Merlin knows when I actually get it up! And then when I get up the planned sequel to Help Me, Please. Plus, Primeval fics keep distracting me - so I'm very sorry for that! Anywho, I will be continuing this story, just updates might be every couple of weeks or something, or the chapters will be shorter scenes, like this one. So sorry, and thank you all for reading and supporting this! You're all truly brilliant.

I hope you like this chapter - I only checked it over like a hundred times, as opposed to my usual billion, so I hope it's still okay. This one was prompted by That . Quirky . Laura, so thank you for that! :)

A friend waits for you after school if you get detention,

A best friend will get themselves in trouble just to keep you company.

"So… what? I'm just supposed to sit around and wait for you and get to the party when it finishes?" Al grumbled across the table to me.

I spared him a glance, rolling my eyes, then turned back to my work. "I'm not purposely ignoring you Al. I have detention."

"On the night of the biggest party of the year!" He hissed back, his eyes flicking across the quiet Ancient Runes classroom towards the teacher at the front of the class.

"Then go without me," I snapped, coughing to cover up the noise of our conversation.

"But…" He looked completely confused. "But I can't go on my own."

"Why not?" I sighed, more sympathetic now. Al thrived in social situations, so long as he knew at least one person there. He needed a wing man.

"Because it's just sad."

"No, it's not."

"Yes, it is."

"Then go with Lily," I suggested, turning the page of my book. Al's was still closed in front of him, even though we'd be told to get on with our work more than fifteen minutes ago. Honestly, if he failed his exams, I think I'd know why.

"I can't go with my sister!" He looked horrified. I tried my hardest not to laugh. "Besides, her friends will drive me crazy."

"Her friends are our cousins."

"Exactly!"

I grinned at him then, looking up to catch his eye. "Stop complaining Al. I have to sit in three hours of Astronomy detention because somebody copied my work and I have to redo it all."

"Come on, it'll take you one hour, an hour and a half tops, to do that work."

"I've still got to sit there for three. Just me and bloody Professor Farrow," I reminded him. "It'll be boring as hell."

Before Al had the chance to respond, Scorpius interrupted, having quietly been sitting on our table doing his last-minute homework for the next class we had, Herbology.

"Do you guys mind? Some of us actually want to pass our NEWTs."

We both glared at him.

"Some of us want to go to a party," Al retorted.

"Some of us don't care, Al," I snapped, catching Scorpius' agreeing nod from the corner of my eye.

"Fine," He huffed, giving up entirely and crossing his arms across his chest, sulking back into his seat. "I'll see if Alice wants to go with me."

"Oooh," Scorpius teased Al under his breath, crossing out a word on his parchment. I smirked, and we exchanged a knowing look out of the corner of our eyes. Al noticed, and was not pleased with the teasing.

"Shut up, Scorpius," He threatened.

Scorpius and I just exchanged another grin.

"You better watch out, Scor," I joked, trying not to laugh, lest I pushed Al too far. "He's warning you."

"He is?" Scor continued the teasing.

I nodded, mock-gravely. "He is. He used your first name and everything."

"Merlin, he must be serious."

"I guess he is."

"He must really like Alice," Scorpius teased again. I had to try not to laugh at how red Al had gone, from annoyance and embarrassment.

"I'd say," I continued.

"Shut up, you two!" Al finally snapped, earning himself a glare from Professor Farrow. Scorpius and I kept our heads down so it looked like we were doing work. "Merlin, you're so irritating when you're together! I wish I'd never introduced you, then maybe you wouldn't have become friends."

"Ouch," I said, exchanging another glance with Scorpius.

"Harsh," Scorpius continued the sentence. "We were only-"

"-Joking," I finished. "Gees, Al. You are touchy about Alice."

Scorpius scoffed, trying not to laugh. "Good choice of words, Rose."

"Thank you," I grinned at him, tearing my gaze away from Al to look at my gorgeous best friend.

Best friend, Rose. Take out the 'gorgeous'.

But it's true.

It's Scorpius.

"It was completely unintentional as well," I continued.

"I'm impressed," He teased, now grinning at me.

We smiled at each other devilishly for a moment. Then Al ruined it.

"When you two have finished flirting," He snapped, "You might want to realise that Professor Farrow is looking this way."

We both blushed a little, having been caught out a little. We flirted a lot, but we never said it - that was just dangerous territory.

"Maybe it's because you haven't opened your book yet, Albus," I snapped.

"Yeah," Scorpius agreed.

Al stared between us both. "Stop backing her up!" He snapped at Scorpius.

Scor shrugged.

Al gave up and finally opened his text book. I didn't have to look at the page to know it was the wrong one - he'd just opened it to a random number, three topics behind the one we were actually studying.

"I can't believe you're making me do some work," He complained.

I rolled my eyes. So did Scorpius.

"I have detention on my own, later, Al, and you're complaining as if it's the end of the world for you! All you've got to do is go to a party."

"Fine," He huffed, suddenly getting an idea and sitting forward in his chair, leaning across the desk. "I'll stop complaining-"

"Not likely," I muttered dryly, but he ignored it.

"-if Scorpius comes with me."

Scorpius snapped his head up to stare at Al.

He couldn't do that!

"Hey," I complained. "Scorpius' is mine, get your own best friend, you loser."

"I introduced you! And you're in detention," Al reminded me. "Plus, maybe Scorpius would like to have fun once in a while."

I glared daggers at my cousin. Then we both turned to look at Scorpius.

I thought he'd either be (a) mock-irritated that I'd claimed him like a prize (who is he kidding, he loves it really) or (b), annoyed that we were including him in our argument.

Surprisingly, he was neither - he looked completely bored.

"I can't go to the party, anyway, Al," He mumbled casually, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Why not?" Al asked, confused.

"Because this is why not."

And then he got up, stood on his chair, drawing the attention of everyone in the room, turned pointedly to Professor Farrow, and shouted, "Expecto Patronum."

The shape of a silver Komodo Dragon, in mist form, bounded about the room, causing chaos. Students screamed in surprise, jumped back from their tables, starting shouting across the room at each other, and a few tried to take photos.

Professor Farrow was not amused.

He stood up from his chair, and shouted, "Scorpius Malfoy!"

"Yes, professor?"

"Get down from that table right now."

"Yes, Professor," He grinned at me as he did so.

"Detention, tonight," Farrow snapped at him, sitting back down behind his desk, righting the room of stray parchment that had been strewn across the floor as the students took their seats again, settling down. "That was an inappropriate disruption of my lesson. You can assist Miss Weasley with her star charting this evening… and Scorpius?"

"Yes, Professor?" He tried not to smile in front of the teacher, but failed.

"Try not to look so pleased about it," Farrow sighed, turning back to his marking.

Scorpius took his seat again, giving a sulking Al one glance, then turned and smirked at me.

"Am I the best friend ever, or what?" He grinned.

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