(500) Days of Lily Pedals

Hi! So, I made a pact with myself to update all my stories TODAY! Here is 500 Days update. I haven't given up on this story. It just take me awhile to update cause I"m lazy...sigh.

Special thanks to Mon Coeur for being the ONLY brave person to review this story! Thanks so much! It means a lot! (:

(8)

It was the first day of practice and Darren had worked their butts off. Evidently, Darren was really serious about winning that stupid cup this year. Scorpius wasn't ever really that into it. Sure, he wanted to win but he never took it as seriously as Darren was. Darren wanted to play Puddlemere United just like his father had. Scorpius could relate, he supposed, to living up to fathers expectations. But after all these years of being a chaser in Gryffindor as opposed to his father being a seeker in Slytherin, he gave up trying to be his father.

When he got onto the ground, he saw Lily Potter sitting on a bench drinking some water. She poured some of it on her head and it almost looked like she did it in slow motion. Of course, that was just Scorpius's imagination.

Scorpius went over to her and sat down. He was sitting up straight and his face twitched a bit. Say something, he thought. "Hi." He said. Good one.

"Hello," she said, taking another sip of her water.

"Nice day," he said, awkwardly.

She looked at him for a second and then smiled. "Yeah, it is."

I'm talking about the weather, he thought and shook his head a bit. "You're a good seeker, Lily," he said, hoping it was an acceptable change of topic.

"Thanks," she said. "I used to play all the time with my brothers but wasn't allowed to join till I got my grades up."

"And?"

She paused and looked at him. "…they're up."

"Right," he smiled, mentally slapping himself. "I'm-"

"Scorpius, I know, silly," she told him. "My brother talks about you all the time."

"He does?" She nodded. "I didn't even know he had a sister till this year."

"Well, I don't follow my brothers around everywhere," she told him. Scorpius didn't respond. "So how long have you been on the Quidditch team?"

"Since my second year," he said.

"Wow," she said.

While the conversation was kept casual and each was exhibiting small talk, Scorpius's mind was not thinking that. He was mostly focusing on the fact that she was talking to him and not necessarily the words he or she was saying. He was also focusing on how her vowels were pronounced louder than her consonants were and thus realized that he was paying way too much attention to detail.

"Do you want to be a Quidditch player?" she asked.

Scorpius shook his head. "No. I don't really want to be one now," he said with a laugh.

"Then why are you here?" she asked.

"Because I'm good at it."

"Makes sense, I guess. What do you really want to do?"

"I want to be writer. Fiction, preferably."

Lily nodded a bit. "Well, good luck. If it means anything, you're a pretty good chaser."

Scorpius shrugged. "It's pretty easy to be a chaser. And pretty useless, too. I mean, come on, the seeker is the main player in the game. Look at how Bulgaria was. Their team sucked but the awesomeness of their seeker made their team win."

"Is awesomeness even a word?" she asked with a chuckle. Scorpius shrugged. "Well, for wanting to be a writer, you sure do have an amazing vocabulary."

He smirked. He was about so say something when they got interrupted. Very awkwardly, at that. It was her older brother, Albus. There was an awkward silence when Albus stared from Scorpius to Lily.

"H-hey, Lily. I didn't know you were…erm…friends with my best friend," he said.

"No," she said, calmly. "We just kinda met." Lily looked at Scorpius whose head was staring very acutely at the bug crawling around in the grass. Albus's head was looking at the sky. His thought was what would happen if he could turn into a bird and poop on someone, then thinking that he could be shot down by some random muggle, which might be a more comfortable situation than the one he was currently in.

Lily was the only one staring from one to the other. "Well…I should go," she said, awkwardly. Scorpius nodded and saluted her with his fingers a bit, Albus watching her go. Albus sat down next to Scorpius and looked at his best friend a little awkwardly.

Out of nowhere, Scorpius smacked him in the shoulder and Albus muttered a little, 'ow'. "What? You told me to meet you at the Quidditch pitch."

"Couldn't you see I was having a conversation?" Scorpius said, angrily. He was mad that Albus had ruined his nice conversation with the girl of his dreams.

"To my sister," Albus muttered and then leaned his foot up to tie his shoe.

"Damnit, Al. Forget it," he said and went back to the common room. Albus rolled his eyes.

Haha, I liked this chapter. So awkward and it would be a situation I would find myself in.