"Hey, Rose?"

"Yes?"

"You have an owl."

Reaching behind with my left hand, I continued to write my essay with my right. After a few minutes of grasping nothing but air, I turned around to look at Stephanie. She was a bit pale today. I'd ask her about that later though since she was refusing to give me my owl when it could be important. Shaking my head at her, I put my hand out again waiting. Something was definitely weird about her today.

"Who's it from?" She asked brown eyes seeking any hesitation in mine.

"I don't know. How about you let me see first?"

"Oh... right."

When she'd finally gave me the letter I stared at it trying to see if I could tell who it was from without opening it. With no luck I parted the paper and the first word that caught my eye was my surname. And there was only one person, who would actually send me an owl, that called me that. Crumbling up the letter in a frenzy I tucked it into my pocket and gave my friend a sweet smile hoping she wouldn't ask who it was from again. I hated to lie to her but I would.

"So..." Came the words as a warning that she was going to ask anyway.

"It was from Hugo. He was... uh... asking me to help him with some homework. It's not really important. He could have just asked me face-to-face. You know typical laziness..." As my voice trailed off I noticed she wasn't even paying attention.

Waving my hand in her face I whispered, "Come back to Earth. Are you here?"

"Of course. I just did something stupid." Sitting in the chair across from me she bit her lip. I could tell she flustered.

"What did you do?"

Shifting in her seat she ran a hand through her brown hair she laid her face down on the table. Without even thinking my hand reached out to pat her on the shoulder awkwardly. Whatever she did couldn't be as bad as the spells she does but I knew she was upset. And when I went back to writing my essay that's when she shocked me.

"IkissedScorpiusMalfoy. It was nice but I shouldn't have done it. I know the reputation he has around here but I just. I don't know." The words came rushing out like she was afraid.

"Oh." Was all I said without even looking at her. Without even hesitating the slightest bit when I was in fact a bit angry. I just kept on writing my essay like I didn't even care, when I did. I admit it, I cared. It'd been just yesterday that his lips were on mine and I liked him but now he was already kissing other girls. He makes it so hard to like him and that's why I choose not to.

"Rose? Are you disappointed in me? Did I do something wrong?"

Sighing I put on a smile and looked up from what I was writing. "No. Of course not."

"Then tell me it's okay and that one day he'll love me. Or that one day I'll move on."

"I can't."

Turning my attention back to my essay I pretended to read it over so I wouldn't have to see her face. I didn't want to see if there were tears in her eyes or if there was pure anger. I just wanted to rid myself of feelings for once. Was that so hard to ask? Apparently it was because when I looked up to see that she was gone all the guilt came rushing to me. I should have told her what she asked of me. I should have, but I couldn't. Not when I didn't know the answer. Taking the crumbled paper out of my pocket, I flattened it out and began read it.

Dear Weasley,

I'm sorry that I keep "fucking up your life". And I'm sorry that I kissed you yesterday. I shouldn't have and I'm sorry for it. But just so you know, I don't regret it and I would like it if you also stopped fucking up my life. Girls aren't supposed to do that.

Thank you,

Scorpius Malfoy

Rolling my eyes, I tore the paper to shreds. What did he mean I was "fucking up" his life? I wasn't the one who kissed him and then went off and kissed his best friend the next day. Yeah I'm so totally messing up his life. It's not like he wants me because I, not fishing for compliments, am not beautiful in the least. I have red hair that barely ever wants to be straight, ginormous brown eyes, and of course a few freckles on the bridge of my nose. Absolutely fabulous I am.

Grabbing my essay, I rolled it up and made sure to take everything that was mine with me to my room. (Which would also happened to be Stephanie's, Laura's, Annabeth's and Torian's.) I was going to find out what was really going on.

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Where would you look if you were trying to find Scorpius Malfoy? The problem here is I don't even know where to look. He could be anywhere at all right now and there was certainly too many places to look right now. One of the many things you don't want to do in the hallway is finally think about where you're going. Why? Well simply because when you start thinking you stop and stand there and you look completely stupid. Especially when you know where you're at and have known for years. Or is that just me?

"Rose!" Turning to face my caller I noticed it was Albus. Now I would have been happy to see him albeit he was stringing along Destiny. He seemed to have a thing for people I didn't like.

"Hi, Albus!" I said with a smile completely ignoring his girlfriend.

"Hi, Rose. How are you? We haven't talked in so long." She said but I might have caught that wrong because I wasn't even paying attention to her to begin with. That was until Albus gave me a stern look and basically demanded me to say hello. Damn those green eyes to hell.

"I'm fucking fantastic. I don't want to talk to you for longer."

"Rose. People make mistakes stop being so mean all the time." Grabbing her hand he glared at me.

"Fine. You're right. I'm sorry, Destiny. Please marry me! I love you." I exclaimed, feigning love for excitement before adding, "No but really. The least you could do is apologize to me after you did what you did. I see Albus got an apology. Do I not deserve one too? Personally I think of that as sexism." Crossing my arms, I looked down the hallway to see if maybe a certain blond-haired boy would be passing through but nope. No sign of him.

"Uh, you told me you apologized."

"Newsflash: She didn't. She lied. Wouldn't be the first time either."

"I was going to but-" She began nervously twirling a strand of hair around her index finger. Merlin do I envy her black hair, blue eyes and clear face. It's no wonder she got the chance to steal my boyfriend.

"You lied." Letting go of her hand Albus watched her closely like she was hiding another secret.

"Ahem. Before you guys start arguing... Do any of you happen to know where Scorpius is?" I interjected before I could get caught between their awkwardness and be used as a tiebreaker for an argument. It did seem to get their attention though because now both of their eyes were on me forgetting about the fact that Destiny was lying about things again.

"No. Why do you ask?" Destiny asked looking at me suspiciously. But if she knew better she'd know to mind her own business.

"Looking for him. Bye. Do have fun sorting out your problems. Don't forget to play nice. Oh, and I will be looking forward to that apology."

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After thirty minutes of checking every place I knew of in that school, I had one last place to go. The Great Hall. And sure enough when I got there, he was sitting by himself in complete silence. That wouldn't last for long. Starting towards him I let my fingertips run along the cold, polished hardwood of the table he was sitting at. All the while thinking of what I was going to say. What I wanted to say was: "I've been looking for you everywhere." but it came out a little something like this when I stopped in front of him:

"My best friend? My best friend?"

"What?" Was the first thing that came out of his mouth when he looked up.

"Stephanie. You guys kissed."

"Uh-"

"I mean it's not like I care. It's not like we didn't kiss yesterday. It's not like she doesn't like you. It's not like she isn't fragile and thinks the world is freaking rainbows and unicorns. It's not like I have feelings. It's not like I almost cared. It's not like you broke that."

I could tell that he was shocked because I had even shocked myself. I hadn't meant to say all that. I only wanted to exchange a few snarky comments and find out why he had kissed Stephanie. I didn't expect myself to go rambling on about what it's not like. And this is where I regret everything I said and want to jump out the closest window.

"Just so you know. She kissed me. Not the other way around." He said with a smirk.

"Oh. I do recall her saying that now."

"You were jealous, weren't you?"

"What? N-no, I wasn't. Pssh. Don't flatter yourself." Tucking a strand of hair behind my ear I blushed. It's just plain embarrassing to say those things over nothing. It's like crying for nothing.

"You were jealous. Admit it."

"Sod off, Malfoy."

"Admit it."

"There's nothing to admit."

We were just looking at each other now. And for once we weren't really fighting. It was just like were friends. He was teasing me and I was responding as friends would do. But then again, if you really, really think about it. We could never really be friends. I don't think it would ever work. Well, maybe. Just a little though. Okay we could totally be friends. I just don't want to.

"You were jealous of Finnigan."

"Was not. Now if you excuse me I actually have things to do unlike you."

"Suuurrreee." He said drawing out the word to make it known that he didn't believe me. But I did have things to do. I had to tell Stephanie that I was sorry if I upset her and there was an essay that I had to finish. I had put it off for later because this whole incident had been running through my mind. I'd probably had ended up writing a bunch of reasons why I should say sorry to my friend instead. Or a bunch of places Scorpius could have been.

"Don't care." I said turning around and beginning my walk to the doors of the Great Hall with a smile plastered on my face. Gosh, everything went better than expected.

"Jealous!" I heard the word being called as I stepped into the hallways. And you know what's funny about all that? It's funny, and I admit, that I actually was jealous.

Author's Note: Oh ho ho. Did you notice that this chapter was longer than the rest? Well, I was thinking that maybe I should write them like this from now on. This was a pretty random thing too but I felt like adding some cute drama in there. So BAM! There it is. Thanks for the reviews too. They give me the motive to keep writing. Do enjoy this chapter too although my stuff always end up being a little rushed. And... Rose/Albus 4 Lyfe~ I think I'll write them a one shot actually. I'm better at stuff like that. Okay I'm rambling. Sorry.