A/N: I have no excuse this time so all I can say is I am REALLY sorry for a very lack of update. But I did write this in one day; well it's short, so it doesn't make any difference. Anyway, I hope you can still enjoy this!

Disclaimer: Every character belongs to JK Rowling.

CHAPTER 11

Scorpius was sitting on his bed, figuring out what to write on the quill. Should it be her full name or only her first name? Or maybe just the initials? How about her last name? The more he thought about it, the more confusing it got.

Feeling like his head was about to explode, he scratched his head and stood from his seat. He paced back and forth, hand on his chin. What to write?

It was already time for the students to have their dinner down at the Great Hall. But seeing that Scorpius still had no idea on how to continue his task, he ignored the rumbling of his stomach and stayed on his room.

He suddenly stopped pacing and quickly ran back to his bed, finally knew what to write. He sat on the ground. But when he had his wand ready, his hand trembled. It was shaking so hard, Scorpius' eyes looked like they were about to come out.

"Why am I shaking?" he asked himself, throwing the wand to the other side of the room.

"You're too nervous, mate."

Scorpius almost jumped from his seat on the ground. He turned his head around and saw his friend standing near the door with a smile on his face. "Did you have to do that?"

"Sorry," Albus apologised. But judging by the way he smiled, Scorpius didn't think that he was really sorry for surprising him. Albus then walked to his bed and took a seat. "You just have to write her name. What's so hard about that?"

"The fact that I only have two chances, that is," answered Scorpius, resting his head on the bed. "And what's worse is that I have no idea what to write."

"Her name."

"I know that," he replied, sighing. "I mean: should it be only her first name? Her last name? Her full name? Her initials?"

"I told you before, didn't I? Write her initials. Only two letters and it saves some space," said Albus. "You can even draw some decoration after that."

Scorpius snorted. "I can't even write her initials and now you're asking me to draw?" He snorted again.

"Do you want me to do it then?" Albus offered his help. "You know my writing is not that bad."

"Are you somehow implying that my writing is bad compared to yours? No," said Scorpius immediately. He then stood up from the ground and started looking for his wand. "I have to do this myself." After the wand was found, he walked to his bed and took a seat. "Now that I know what to write, I just have to figure out how to write the initials."

Albus hung his head before looking up again. "Just try to write a simple one first on the paper here." He gave him a piece of paper which had Rose's name all over; from her full name to her initials. "Just write RW the way you normally write."

It took them another half hour to finally decide on the writing. They decided not to put any decoration as none of them was very good at drawing. And they didn't want to take any chances in making a mistake.

"Are you ready?" asked Albus.

Scorpius shook his head quickly.

"OK, let's go."

He looked at Albus. "What do you mean OK? I'm still not ready yet."

"Well, you still have to do it now anyway," he replied. "Come on, Scor. I'm starving."

"You can go down and have dinner first, you know."

"I want to make sure that you don't burn this whole place down," said Albus. "Besides if I didn't come here in the first place, you're still figuring out what to write. And you end up staying up all night doing it when it's just writing her initials."

Scorpius sighed. "OK, you have your point," he said. He looked at the quill in front of him again. He took a deep breath before letting it out. He kept on doing this for several times.

"You know you're just writing her initials, right? Not doing your exams or anything."

"I prefer doing exams than doing this because I know I'd do well."

Albus rolled his eyes. "Well then, think of this as an exam. You have five minutes left on the clock and all you have to do is write her initials on the quill. If you even make a small mistake, you would fail the task," he said. "In this case, you have one more chance to do it all over again."

"You're making me more nervous, Al."

"I'm trying to make this as close as possible to an exam."

Scorpius shook his head. "Even I'm not this nervous before exams."

"I know you're brilliant, you don't have to rub it in my face."

"What?" he said, looking at Albus. "I didn't say that to mean anything like that."

Albus just smiled. "I know," he replied. "Come on. Just do it quickly. I told you: only five minutes left on the clock. Just think of going downstairs for dinner as the finish time." He paused for a while. "It is by the way. I am really hungry."

"OK," he said, nodding his head. He finally looked in front, wand at the ready. When his hand (finally) stopped trembling, he murmured the spell he found this afternoon on a library book and started writing her initials. Less than five minutes later, he finished it. He let out a breath he didn't know he was holding.

"Finally," mumbled Albus, lowering his wand on his hand that was used just in case Scorpius really burned the place down. He took the quill from Scorpius' hand and inspected it. "It really looked like it was done by a professional."

"Great. She wouldn't find out I did it, then," Scorpius said. "I really thought that my hand was about to fall off. It was kind of hot."

"And it still is," he replied before giving back the quill to Scorpius. "Put it somewhere safe. Somewhere you will remember tomorrow before you send it." He then stood up from his seat. "Now, let's go and eat."

When they arrived downstairs, people were already eating. Some of them were almost done even.

"What took you two so long?" asked James as both of them took a seat in front of the older friend. "I'm almost done with my dinner."

"Scorpius had to do something," answered Albus, starting to gather his dinner on his plate, followed by Scorpius. He then leaned in closer just in case someone could hear him. "He was preparing for the next gift for Rosie."

"But the only thing he had to do was write her initials, wasn't it?" replied James. "What's so hard about that?"

"That's what I asked him too," Albus whispered. "He had no idea what and how to write the initials. And he was too nervous to do it."

"You both know that I could hear everything you are saying, don't you?" mumbled Scorpius. "In the end, I did it anyway. Even though it took very long to do it."

James and Albus laughed.

A/N: Now that my summer break is here, I can update it much faster than before. So hopefully you don't really have to wait that long for the next chapter to come up.

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