AN: Dedicated to Kayla :D

"WHAT?" I cringed. I had expected this reaction from my father, but it was still a blow.

"What the bloody hell is Malfoy doing here?" He looked like he was about to explode. His face was bright red, his fists were tightly clenched, and his eyes were big and menacing. It was quite scary, to be honest. My mother gave him a stern look and motioned for me to start talking.

"Um, daddy… Scorpius is my… boyfriend." I nervously whispered the last part.

"WHAT?"

"Now Ronald… ," my mother tried to reason with him. He wouldn't hear it.

"Don't 'Now Roanald' me! Did you know about this?" he asked in a surprised voice.

"Well, actually, yes. And Rose might have told you as well if she didn't know that you would react this way. It's obnoxious and completely inappropriate."

"Perhaps this was a bad idea…" Mr. Malfoy trailed off.

"You bet it was! You appearing here and telling me your son is dating my daughter! You probably set this up, didn't you? That's it! Get out, Malfoy! And take your son with you!" I couldn't believe it. This was so much worse than I'd imagined it would be.

"Ronald! That is no way to speak to a guest! And on Christmas, too! I'll have a talk with you later." She walked over to Scorpius and his father, who were still standing awkwardly by the door. "I'm so sorry about him. Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?"

"That's perfectly alright Mrs. Weasley." He looked at my father. "I wouldn't have expected anything less from you, Ronald." He looked back at my mum. "My apologies for interrupting your family gathering, and thank you, Rose, for inviting us even if it didn't go precisely the way you planned. Maybe it'sbest I leave now." He turned, and casually walked out the door, air of confidence still radiating off him. I guess it was in the Malfoy genes.

Scorpius leaned in and whistered, "Maybe I should go, too."

"No! Don't leave. Please," I begged him. He gave a weak smile, and turned to follow his father. I watched him leave, then rounded on my father.

"Dad! Why would you do that? I expected you to be obnoxious and rude, but I didn't think you'd actually kick them out of the house! You're bloody horrible!' I glared at him.

"Rose, he's a Malfoy. You remember the stories we told you. Nothing good ever came out of that family."

"Ugh! You're hopeless!" I turned and ran out the door. The yard was empty. Scorpius had already left.

"Well, this is bloody brilliant," I mumbled to myself. I wouldn't be surprised if Scorpius never spoke to me again. I desperately needed to talk to him. I realized what I had to do. I ran inside and quickly made my way to the fireplace, not looking at anyone. I grabbed a handful of floo powder from the bucket on the mantle, and shouted my destination, two words I never thought I'd say in this circumstance.

"Malfoy Manor!"

I fell out of the fireplace into the Malfoys' sitting room, feeling very dizzy.

"Merlin, I hate floo," I mumbled. I looked around, and saw a beautiful woman standing in the doorway. She must have been Astoria Malfoy, and probably came to see what the crash was.

"Um, hello," I said awkwardly.

"Hello dear… Oh! You must be Rose! Lovely to meet you. I'm Astoria, Scorpius' mum." She held out her hand. I stood up and shook it.

"Pleased to meet you Mrs. Malfoy." I flashed her a sweet smile, which she returned.

Just then I heard a voice call, "Mum! What was it?"

"Oh, Scorpius! Come down here, it's Rose! She came through the floo." Immediately I heard the pounding of footsteps through the house. How long did it take to get to the sitting room? It was then I realized just how big the house was. How did just the three of them live here?

Scorpius came running into the room. "Rose!" he greeted me happily. "You weren't supposed to be here. Not that I don't want you here, but what happened? Why aren't you with your family?"

"My father happened, Scorpius. I left because he was being such an arsewipe. I'm really sorry about that by the way."

"It's okay, Rose. I know you didn't mean it to go that way. I'm sorry for leaving, I just thought it was the best thing to do at the moment." He looked ashamed.

"You have no reason to be sorry. You were perfectly polite. My father just needs some time to cool down. He'll get over it eventually. I'm sure of it."

"I wouldn't be so sure." Draco Malfoy stood in the doorway. "I'm not trying to be rude, but your father never responded to surprises well, and well, he always hated my guts and obviously still does. I don't think there's much of a chance he'll get over something like this. There's just too much bad blood between us. The fact that you tried to fix things is admirable, but I don't think it's going to work out. Your father is too stubborn." He looked weary, like he was remembering a lot of different things at once.

"I agree that he may be the most stubborn man on the face of the earth, but my mother is just as stubborn. My uncles all told me the stories of how long it took them to even admit to themselves that they liked each other, let alone each other. My Uncle Harry particularly had a bunch of stories about their stubbornness. And I'm their daughter, which means I inherited the stubbornness from both of them. Add that to the fact that I'm "his only little girl" and he's a complete pushover when it comes to me only and I'm pretty sure that if I want him to get over it, he will eventually." I smiled victoriously.

"So much like your mother," Mr. Malfoy mumbled as he walked away.

"Well, I'll just leave you two alone for a while." She smiled at us and left gracefully.

"So, uh, do you want to go for a walk?" he asked me sweetly.

"Sure, I guess so."

We set off walking through the house.

"So, how's your break been?" I asked him.

"Not too eventful, I guess. My parents picked me up and we came here. I actually spend more time with the House Elves that with them. It's not that we don't try to spend time together when we can, but my father is a Healer so he works late at St. Mungo's all the time. We get to eat together as a family maybe once a week during the summer. He managed to get a few days off for Christmas so he could spend it with us, but the day after tomorrow he's back to work. I see my mum a lot because she doesn't really work. She just occasionally writes articles for Witch Weekly. She's actually working on her first book right now. We'll see how that goes. How about you? Apart from tonight, I mean."

"It was ok. Paula's staying with us for the first week of break while her family is abroad. She stays with us for a short time over every break, so that's normal. It's really fun, though. Nothing big has really happened so far apart from what you saw tonight. I hope that was the family drama that happened. There's always something. When the whole family gets together for some occasion, we just know something big is gonna happen. Uncle George actually has a pre-family gathering betting pool going on. Well, actually this year two big things happened. Victiore and Teddy are getting married! They just told us last night!" I had almost forgotten! I was so excited!

"That must be really exciting for you. I mean, there must have been a lot of weddings in your family with how big it is, but have you been around for any of them? Or were they all before you?"

"Yeah, I wasn't around for any of them. My parents were the last to get married before this. Can't say I didn't expect it when they told us."

"Yeah, from what my father told me about your parents, I would have expected that, too."

"Yeah."

By now we had reached his bedroom.

"Do you want to come in?" he asked me.

"Sure, I mean, is it ok with your parents?"

"Possibly. If it wasn't, they wouldn't have left us alone together. Besides, what they don't know won't hurt them. Right?"

"I guess…" We walked into his room, and he shut the door. I was a little nervous about being caught, but I was also really excited.

He led me further into the room, and sat down on his bed. He patted the space next to him, and I sat down gingerly. He wrapped his arm around me and I snuggled closer to him. We sat in silence for a few minutes.

"I'm really sorry about tonight. I know I already said that, but I feel just terrible. It was my idea, too. You must think I'm a horrible person. I wouldn't blame you, I feel like one right now."

"Don't say that! Yeah, tonight didn't work out with your family, but it'll blow over eventually. Like you said, with you and your mom bothering him your dad will have to get over it sometime. And when that happens, I'll be glad to forget this and try again. This was just a… trial run. I won't hold it against you. No harm done."

"You'd do that for me?"

"Of course I would! I'd do anything for you, you know I would."

I smiled, content. I was so glad that he wasn't angry with me. I don't know if I could bear it if he was. We were silent for a long while, just sitting there contentedly. Then…

"Rose?"

"Hmm?"

"I love you."

He loved me? Well, I mean, I knew that, he had told me the night I broke up with Ernie. But I didn't respond. I couldn't, I didn't really love him yet. Or at least I didn't know I did. After that, he hadn't mentioned it. I figured it was just a random outburst and filed it in the back of my mind. But now, he said it again. And I could hear how genuine he was, perhaps even more so than he was the first time. I couldn't respond then, but now I could. I loved him, and he needed to know that.

"I love you, too."

AN: Yay! I really like this chapter. Ron's reaction was really fun to write, let me know what you think of it in a review! I have been trying waiting to write this chapter for soo long because I really wanted to write the "I love you"s. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, but let me know what you think! This is my first multi-chap fic and constructive criticism is greatly appreciated! Okay, I'll stop boring you. Please review!

~BurritoTown