A/N : Hey you guys, I guess alot of you probably hate me by now but I just wanted to say I'm really really REALLY sorry taking so long to update! First off my laptop just totally shut down on me with a virus a few weeks ago and I'm only getting it back now, Second, I've had exams for the last week and a half and they are only over now so that was really stressing and I just couldn't find time to write and lastly I had alot of the chapters to this story saved on my ipad and it decided to spontaneously delete them all so I'm kinda starting from scratch here. As a kind of sorry present for taking so long to update I'm going to try and get up at least 3 maybe even 4 chapters today! So stay tuned, Love Dora :)

Scorpius couldn't wait to find Rose as walked up and down the Hogwarts Express in search of her. Sometimes he wondered did he feel anything more than friendship for her but every time he decided that she was just his best friend Rose Weasley. Scorpius was too engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't notice himself bumping into a beautiful slender witch.

"Oh sorry I didn't see you there" Scorpius told the girl while surveying her from top to bottom, she was indeed extremely beautiful, she was tall and thin with jet black hair running down her back. She had high cheek bones and looked slightly Asian, but in total she was undeniably beautiful.

"Oh its okay, I don't think we've met. My name is Mai Finnigan, I'm in 2nd year"

"Oh that's a beautiful name, I'm Scorpius Malfoy and I'm in 2nd year too, strange we've never met before"

"Thanks it's a Japanese name, my mother has Japanese heritage. Well I'm a Ravenclaw and you being a Malfoy I suppose you are in Slytherin so we don't have any classes together"

"Oh well It's a shame really isn't it" Scorpius spotted Rose at the other side of the corridor and quickly excused himself from Mai saying he would talk to her again some other time.

"ROSE!" Scorpius called as he walked towards her "I've been looking for you everywhere!"

"Scorp! I've been looking everywhere for you too. Who was that you were talking to?"

"Oh that was Mai Finnigan, she's a Ravenclaw in our year"

"Oh I think my parents knew her parents, the name rings a bell." Rose wondered aloud "She's beautiful" she added in a tone he had never heard Rose use before it almost sounded like ...longing?

x-x-x

After their brief encounter on the Hogwarts Express Scorpius and Mai began talking and hanging around each other more and more. It was a week after Halloween now and Rose had come to the conclusion that she quite frankly missed her best friend, she barely got to talk to him anymore and she was really beginning to resent Mai. She felt lonely without Scorp, sure she had Al, James , Erika and all the other girls but she just missed the Scorpius' company.

Rose was sitting by the lake on a cold November Saturday thinking about how it used to be her and Scorpius sitting here talking about anything and everything, when she felt a presence behind her, Here first thought was that it was Scorp so she turned around really quickly with a smile on her face only to see that it was in fact Marco Zabini standing behind her. Her smile vanished and she just nodded at him and sat back down. To her surprise Marco sat down beside her,

" I know you miss him" Marco said quietly in a voice she never thought she'd hear him use and to her own surprise and embarrassment she started to cry,

"I really do, I miss everything we used to do together, we used to owl each other at night and everything! I haven't heard from him in a month!" she sobbed

"Yeah I know about the owling each other at night thing, I share a dorm with him that owl would keep me up all night" laughed Marco, making her smile. "Look I know I'm not Scorp but I just want you to know that I'm here for you If you ever need me" and to Rose's immense surprise Marco leaned down and kissed her on the cheek before disappearing back into the castle.

As Rose walked back to the castle she thought about what Marco had said and how he had kissed her so sweetly on the cheek, that boy really is a mystery she thought. She suddenly made the decision that if Scorpius wasn't going to come find her, she would go and find him and talk to him so she headed down towards the dungeons only to see Scorpius walking out of the common room with Marco.

"Hey Scorp! We haven't talked in ages why don't we go for a walk around the grounds to catch up?" smiled Rose

Scorpius then did something he had never down to Rose before, he looked down his nose at her and said "Well I'm meeting Mai in a while so I don't really have time"

For the second time in that hour Rose felt her eyes start to sting with tears but she couldn't get away quick enough and just as she turned to run away a soft sob escaped her.

"I wonder what her problem is?" Scorp said to Marco

"Can't you see?" Marco answered angrily

"see what?"

"That you're being a self absorbed prat lately! You having a new friend is fine but maybe you should think about you're old one every now and again! You have no idea how much you're hurting her and how much she misses you"

"And how would you know how much she misses me? She's probably fine without me, swaning around snogging Dan or Adam Taylor" sneered Scorp bitterly

"Oh so is that the reason behind all of this? Your jealous? For a matter of fact I know how much she misses you because I've been watching her for the last 3 weeks and she doesn't even really talk to her friends anymore! She eats, sleeps, sits in the library and by the lake by herself and thats it! I went down to the lake this morning to talk to her and the minute I mentioned your name she started to cry!"

"I am not jealous! I never liked Rose as anything more than a friend!"

"Well you've got a funny way of showing friendship then mate!" with that Marco stormed off away from Scorpius leaving him to his own thoughts.

A/N : I know it's short but there will be more today I just had to show the progress in Rose and Scorps relationship and how Scorp is being abit of a git! So what do you think will happen next? Who do you think will hook up next? REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! :)

P.S Mai Finnigan? Wonder who her parents are ;) hehehe