Author's Note: There will be more to come I promise. I just haven't had much time - I'm a mom- so I'll keep writing though and thanks for all the encouraging reviews!

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Chapter Four

"You have to ask Marjorie out."

"Excuse me?" Scorpius turned to look at Rose as if she'd grown a second head. "Have you gone mental? What happened to you over the holiday?"

"Please, Scorpius, just ask her out."

"Didn't you get my letter, Rose? It's Albus that fancies her, or thinks he fancies her. I wrote to you that so that you'd tell your Uncle Harry so I wouldn't feel bad anymore about telling Albus… wait a minute. Do you want me to ask Marjorie out as a way of getting back at Albus? Because he wanted me to tell you about his possible feelings because he thought for sure you'd tell his dad and then you'd be even."

"No, that's not why I want you to ask her out. I'm trying to be a better person than Albus. I, unlike him, don't have to run to Uncle Harry or my parents with everything. Besides, I thought I could help him out. That's why I need you to ask Marjorie out."

Scorpius sighed. He didn't want to ask Marjorie out. She wasn't who he wanted to ask out at all. If he asked any Gryffindor out it would be Rose. Honestly, if he asked any girl out it would be Rose. She was the one that occupied his thoughts most of the time. It was her opinion that meant the most to him. He also knew he'd do anything for her.

"Can I ask why me?"

"Because I trust you not to break her heart and you're Al's friend. You know how he feels about her. Trust me, I'm doing this for him. I've got a plan to help him realize how he feels for sure. We have to get him jealous. You have to ask Marjorie out, he has to see you two together and he can't know that you're going out only as friends."

"What about Marjorie? Do I tell her we're just friends? Or do I ask her out and have her turn me down because I'm not who she wants?" Scorpius thought Rose's heart was in the right place, but she really hadn't thought the whole thing through. Feelings were going to get hurt, not realized, but again he'd do anything for her. So, with great misgivings, he agreed.

"I'll do it. But for the record, I'm only doing this because you want me to and because I want Albus to be happy." She smiled at him, and he walked off to the Great Hall feeling very much like he'd just signed his life away.