The Perfect Summer

Al's POV

I lay back looking up at the sky with Scorp next to me the sun smiling down on us, in the unusual British heat wave, which surprisingly was known to happen, yet only for a week until the torrential rain came pouring down for the rest of the holidays but I wasn't bothered about that at the present moment of time. "What do you want to do Al?" Scorp asked.

"Can't we just lie here and forget the world?" I asked.

"But Al we've only got two more days then you have to go! By the way have you owled Teddy yet?" he asked.

"No, I think I'll just turn up, I don't want him telling all my family, but he won't if I ask him face to face." I sighed deeply, "no one has even come looking for me yet so it's not as if they care."

"Don't say that Al!" Scorp muttered quietly looking into my eyes.

"What? The truth, frankly I couldn't care less, you can't chose you family." I replied.

"Well I suppose. Hey I have a plan! We could go on a day out to the beach! That would take your mind of things and we could just relax." Scorp suggested.

"Scorp, have you ever been to a beach? And we don't know where one is, we don't have muggle money and no one will take us." I replied.

"One we don't need anyone to take us. Two I know where father keeps his muggle money. And three I'm pretty sure that I've heard some muggles talking about Cornwall I think it was!" Scorp said.

"I dunno Scorp, I mean considering I'm supposed to be talking an OWL today." I said.

"Well you weren't going to take it anyway. And who cares, what matters is that we're together? What do you say Al, it will be an adventure, we can get the Knight Bus!" he exclaimed.

"Nothing to lose." I shrugged, "but Scorp you're really starting to act like a bloody Gryffindor and it's scaring me."

"Well how do you expect us to get there without my cunningness?" He smirked.

We walked of the bus together to the midday heat and the bustle of the small seaside town, St Ives. There were many families sitting on the beach, having picnics, paddling in the sea, playing beach volley ball. The Knight Bus rushed of and we were left together. Scorp had a small rucksack on his back and filled with a towel and the money we salvaged from Mr Malfoy's draw. I didn't know the value of it but we got about twenty of the notes that had £10 written on them. So £200. I hoped that would be enough to by an ice cream each. We'd managed to sneak out somehow in our swimming trunks without anyone noticing through the gates, I was really surprised but apparently Mr Malfoy had an extremely important and busy job in the Ministry of Magic, a head of department or something. "We should probably go and get a spot!" Scorp said, standing on the pavement next to a big modern building that seemed to be an art gallery.

"Yeah, probably." I replied and we walked down to the sandy beach that looked over the turquoise sea, the waved gently rippling through the blue water. The foam at the surface. Further along the beach were fit surfers riding the waves with no shirts. But they were nothing like Scorp. I'd have Scorp any day.

"Here looks good!" Scorp said getting to an empty spot close to the azure ocean.

"Yeah, it looks great!" I said not really knowing where the best place to sit was. He opened up the rucksack and pulled out two plain blue towels. He lay down on one so I lay on the one next to him. I just couldn't relax with all the noise though so ended up sitting back up. "Scorp, I'm hungry!" I complained.

He sat up looking as bored as I felt. "Well we can get an ice cream, I should have enough money and maybe we could go and get some food."

We both stood up but Scorp just told me to sit down and I did so. "You need to guard our spot. What ice cream do you want?"

"But I don't know any flavours. Just get me original." I said.

"You're so boring Al! Anyway see you soon." Scorp said. Feeling hot in the sweltering heat and fowling in the example of all the other guys in on the beach I took of my shirt. My body wasn't that bad, you could see the outlines of my muscles although it was nothing compared to Scorp's body. I sat down on the towel and looked out at the beautiful bay, filled with tourists. I would have preferred the bay to be empty and isolated but there wasn't exactly much I could do and as long as Scorp was happy I was happy. Just as I was looking at the bay a group of three girls in small bikinis came over showing off their tanned bodies with what most people would say nice figures. Two were naturally brown and the other had curly dirty blonde hair and baby blue eyes.

"Hello." The one with blue eyes said who seemed to be the leader of the group.

"Hey." I replied casually hoping Scorp would come back soon. I wasn't good with strangers.

"So where you from?" she asked.

"Umm Godric's Hollow. It's near Dorset. Just come here for a day out." I replied.

"On your own?" she asked looking at Scorp's vacated towel.

"Nah, with my friend. He's just gone to get some ice cream. But how about you, you from around here?" I asked, hoping for Scorp to come sooner.

"Oh right. Yeah we live around here. I'm Hannah. This is Rebecca and this is Amy." She said pointing to the brunettes.

"I'm Al." I said.

"Well Al, we are having a little party this evening and we wondered if you wanted to come. It's at my place which is the big house up the road. It'll start at eight but I reckon it will kick off a bit later. Are you interested?" Hannah asked.

I looked around to see Scorp walk up carrying two ice creams and smiled relieved. "Um I'm not sure how long I'm staying for, but here's Scorp, he should know."

As Scorp walked up he smiled friendlily at the girls. Rebecca looked at Amy and giggled. "Hi Scorp." Rebecca said sweetly.

"Oh hi." He said handing me an ice cream.

"This is Scorp." Hannah said raising her eyebrows. "Well hi, we'd just invited your friend to a party tonight from about eight but we were wondering when your leaving because we'd like you to come along."

"Erm, I reckon we're going to go at about four, sorry." Scorp said. I nearly sighed in relief as Scorp got us out of it.

"Oh that's a shame. But can I have your number. We could meet up sometime." Hannah said.

I finally clicked on. "No, I mean I'm gay! Scorp and I are together!" I exclaimed.

"Oh." Hannah said looking me up and down, "sorry, I didn't know. Sorry."

I didn't know what to say but luckily they walked away and I was able to eat my slowly melting ice cream. "Well that was ruddy awkward." I exclaimed.

"Don't I know it? Anyway it turns out we have more than enough money and we could probably get some food like fish and chips."

"Oh good!" I exclaimed eating my ice cream. I finally finished it and at the same time Scorp did.

"Should we go for a swim?" Scorp asked.

"Yeah." I replied watching him take of his shirt to reveal his perfectly toned six pack. I smirked slightly before we ran down to the beach not bothered about our stuff, although Scorp kept his wand in his pocket; I guess he didn't want to be losing that.