Disclaimer: I'm not JK Rowling, if I was, I might be better at creative writing.

A/N: I'm back on my weekly updates! I'm sorry it's slightly late, you have no idea how much work I have to do at the moment. I'm in a pantomime in the next few weeks also (a theatre play thing with lots of jokes to you non-british readers!) so if my updates are a teeny bit slow or not as great or have more mistakes or whatever it's just because of that added pressure *gulp*. Not sure how I feel about this chapter, it's a tiny bit shorter, but there's lots of Rose & Scorpius tension which is fun! Nobody reviewed my last chapter, and although I'm not an author who's going to refuse to update if I don't get any reviews, I would really love to heart your feedback. It really motivates me to write more for you lovely people!

Okay I'm done rambling, but I was wondering if any of you had read my previous authors note about the possiblity of me writing a prequel/spin-off/drabbly thing for this story, a series of notes in class between Rose, Albus & Scorpius. Please tell me if you think its a good/sucky idea! Haha okay off you go...

In the run up to Christmas, Albus kept a very close eye on his two best friends. He knew Scorp still liked Rose and had a strong suspicion that Rose liked him back, although he wouldn't believe him when he'd suggested it.

However there was an increasing amount of tension between them, and not all of it was due to Scorpius's almost constant badgering of Rose to tell him what happened with Finnigan.

There was the time when Rose spent the night at the Potters' with Lily (Al's Uncle Ron wouldn't let Rose stay with Albus when Scorpius was present) and she had emerged from Lily's room in her pyjamas and bed hair just as he and Scorpius were making their way down to breakfast. Rose took one look at Scorpius before uttering a tiny scream, blushing to the roots of her hair and literally running back into Lily's room, slamming the door behind her. When she arrived at breakfast she was dressed with hair done in its usual smooth waves and avoided Scorpius for the rest of the morning. Albus didn't understand at first, Rose hadn't cared about her appearance when Scorpius was concerned before.

Then there was the time when they were decorating the Potter tree, and they had fought laughingly over a piece of tinsel, Scorpius tickling Rose and her wriggling and elbowing him until they found themselves flushed and nose to nose. There had been an excruciatingly long moment between them as they seemed to just gaze at each other and Albus had cleared his throat to break it. They had untangled themselves and hurriedly gone to decorate different parts of the house.

Or the time when they were all in Albus's room and Scorpius had dropped one of his books as he walked past Rose to put it in his trunk. They had both reached to get it, their hands had touched for a second and they snatched them away, blushing. They had avoided touching each other after that.

It was ridiculous! Before that week, Scorpius and Rose had hugged and tickled and play-fought each other all the time, Scorpius had seen Rose is all sorts of states and clothing and nothing had been a problem. Albus couldn't work out how Scorp was being so dense about whether Rose liked him when this sort of stuff happened. As much as it disgusted and pained him to admit it, you could literally cut the sexual tension between them with a knife.

But Rose still hadn't told Scorpius what happened with her and Finnigan. He must have asked her at least 2 or 3 times a day in that week before Christmas, hoping to catch her by surprise and get an answer. Rose was getting more and more irritated with him until Christmas eve, when all the cousins were once again gathered in Albus's room, she finally snapped.

"Stop asking me about it!" She shrieked at him, turning red with anger. "Can't you just accept that I'm not going to tell you yet?"

The whole room grew silent as they watched Scorpius to see how he would react. Albus knew Scorpius well enough to know he would not accept it, and Rose's words would only fuel his curiosity.

"But why won't you tell me?" Scorpius retorted determinedly, standing his ground. "I'm supposed to be your best friend!"

"Oh, come on!" Rose fumed, "That's the worst reason you've come up with so far." She mocked cruelly.

At this Scorpius stood up, "I'm sorry that you don't value our friendship as much as I do." He said, with a sort of calm anger. "But I was under the impression that you could trust me. Because I would trust you with anything Rose." He said quietly.

Rose looked like she was going to reply but instead she slumped and twisted her hair around her finger nervously. "I'll tell you, just not today. I promise I'll tell you before we go back to school." She mumbled before looking at Scorpius in the eye.

"That's all I wanted to know." Scorpius said, not breaking eye contact with Rose.

They stayed like this for a few seconds until James interrupted.

"Oi, you two, stop gazing at each other." He said frowning.

Lily, Lucy and Molly all rolled their eyes and Roxy and Dominique glared at James.

Lucy muttered under her breath, "I don't think he could have less tact if he tried."

Molly and Lily sniggered at this as Roxy leaned across to them and added, "You haven't seen him trying to tell Olivia Thomas that he fancies her." She whispered, smirking, and all the girls fell about giggling at James.

"What?" He asked, annoyed. He hadn't heard anything the girls had said. The girls just laughed harder.

He exchanged a perplexed look with Fred and Louis. Fred just shrugged and Louis said, "They're girls mate, they spend half their lives giggling." as if this settled things.

James then looked at Hugo and the Scamander brothers, but they were looking equally confused and awkward at the laughing girls next to them. James wondered if any man had ever been able to figure girls out.

During this commotion, Scorpius and Rose had broken their stare and were now pointedly avoiding each other's gaze, both of them blushing and trying to change the subject.

Albus pointedly looked at Scorpius and then Rose, but Scorpius just shook his head and Albus rolled his eyes in exasperation, he just didn't get it!

Albus sighed; he was in for a long week.