Okay guys. This is going to be a seriously short chapter. I started writing the next chapter after this chapter but then I realised I never even put who Rose crashed into so that is what this chapter is. I warn you that it may be very short.

Just in Rose's POV for this one.

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"Sorry." I said as I got up off the person I had fallen on.

"Rose. Are you okay?" Lily asked.

"What?" I said, wiping the tears off my face that I hadn't even realised were there. "Yes, I'm fine. Never been better."

"You're lying." She said.

"No I'm not." I said, trying to hide the tears that were reappearing.

"Rose Molly Weasley. I'm your cousin. I know that you're upset. Heck! Even if I wasn't your cousin I'd know." She told me with her hands on her hips, looking exactly like a photo I had seen of Aunty Ginny back when she was younger.

"How so?" I asked.

"Rose, you are running up the stairs, tears streaming down your face, you let out a massive sob and then you bang into a clearly solid person, me, which obviously means you didn't know where you were going which is weird because you always know where you are going. You are the most organised person I have ever met, well equal with Aunty Hermione but since she is your mum I can see that it is genetic.

"Fine, I'm not fine and I certainly have been better." I admitted huffily.

"Some improvement." She said. "You gonna tell me why you're upset?"

I shook my head. There was no way I was going to tell anyone what was wrong especially not my cousin who could easily tell the rest of my family and then they would all be on my back.

"Come on Rose. I promise not to tell anyone." Lily told me and I believed her.

"Scorpius Malfoy." I muttered.

"Ah, I thought as much." She said knowingly. "Let's sit down and you can tell me all about it." she steered me down the corridor and into a room that I had never noticed before.

It was the most wonderful room I had ever seen. It was quite small and the walls were lemon yellow, the carpet cream. There was a fireplace in the wall and a small fire was glowing from it and the room was filled with warmth. There was a squashy white leather couch in front of the fire, with two identical arm chairs on either side. Lily pushed me onto the couch and then took the armchair closed to me.

"What is this place?" I asked her as my eyes searched around the room.

"The room of requirement." Lily said. "It appears when the seeker has need for it. Dad told us about it when we were little. He wouldn't tell us where though. I found it first in my first year and then Al found it about a month after me. James took a whole year after Al to find it which was pretty stupid of him because he had been at the school for 6 years."

"How do you find it?" I asked in wonder.

"Well it only appears when you need a room to do something in. I know for a fact that it isn't always the same size. The room has always appeared like this for me but Dad said that when he was a school it was a huge room for practising defence in and I know that Uncle George and Uncle Fred hid in here from the caretaker but it was only a broom closet then."

"This is so cool. But what..." I started.

"Don't get me distracted with questions Rose. We are here to discuss Scorpius Malfoy." She cut over the top of me.

"I wish we weren't." I grumbled.

"Don't be like that Rose. What did Malfoy do?"

"Well I saw him in the corridor and he was helping this first year find his way to class and I thought that was really sweet and that he was being really nice..." I started explaining.

"Aw..." Lily interrupted. "That is so cute."

"Yeah well anyway," I continued. "So I just stood there for a minute or two and then he came up behind me and he asked me what I was doing. I said I could ask him the same thing and then I said I had just got a book out from the library." I showed Lily the book. "And then he said something like 'You think that'll help you pass Charms. I don't think so' and I retorted with something like 'well that's saying something from the guy I bet in charms by 12% last year.' And he said something like 'well this is this year, not last year' and then I said 'it doesn't make a difference what year it is Malfoy, I've bet you in every Charms test since 1st year. What makes you think this year will be any different?' and then he retorted with something about us getting the same mark in 5th year and I said 'that was only because there were 6 possible grades and that I was willing to bet all my families money that if it had been marked in percentages like they usually are then I would have bet him.' And his exact words were 'wow, a whole 2 galleons you are willing to bet.'" I had started crying again.

Lily moved quickly from the arm chair to by my side on the couch. She wrapped her arms around me and I cried into her.

"It's okay Rose. He was just being a moron, he had to think up a quick response because there was no way he was going to admit that you were right. He didn't mean it Rose." She told me.

"How do you know? He's always acting like such a jerk and then the one time I thought he was kind and suddenly he's not anymore."

"I just know. I just know he wouldn't want to hurt you intentionally."

Author's note: Well I hope you liked this chapter, despite its length. As you can obviously see, Rose is clearly upset about what happened and this is the first (well not really the first, more like a) step on the road to admitting she likes him. She is so much quicker than Scorpius.

So anyway, the next chapter is Scorpius's POV. Lily is also going to play a bigger part which will be fun to write. I kind of imagine her a very Ginny like character. Anyway, please review. And thanks to those who have!

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