"Merlin, Rose. Not your best day, huh?"
Best day? More like my worst. My head is freaking pounding right now and I have no idea what happened yesterday. Not to mention the fact that everything hurts. Walking is taking way more energy than it should and so is talking. And everyone seems to be talking louder than usual. But I'm sure I can blame that on my hangover. Never am I going to drink again. Well, not that much at least.
"Must you yell? I'm right here."
"Uh, I'm not even close to yelling."
Waving my hand at him, I rolled my eyes before sitting and putting my head down. I did not feel like talking and nor did I feel like moving. If anything, the only thing I really want to do is reverse the events of yesterday. Hey, maybe I would even find out what happened after all the craziness. I wonder if I could get my hands on a time-turner. That would be pretty awesome. Then maybe I wouldn't have to walk around feeling like I've died and came back, not once but twice.
"Have a nice night, Weasley?"
Do you think if I ignore him he'll like disappear or go away? I doubt it but it's worth a try. He's a nuisance, which is not a good component for my bad mood and hangover today.
"And I thought you couldn't get any uglier. Just goes to show that you really do learn something new everyday. Looks like you combed your hair with a cat by the way. Stay cautious of mirrors." That earned a laugh from Albus and if I wasn't so tired I would probably hit them both.
"I'm not in the mood to create a good enough reply to that. You win."
"That's what happens when you let people persuade you to do things."
Picking my head up from the table I glared at him. What was he talking about? Who persuaded me to do anything? Wait. When was the last time someone convinced me to do anything that he actually knew about that would be okay for him to know about? What if he somehow found out about my drunken exploits last night? How is that even possible? I don't even know what happened last night.
"What are you talking about?" I asked sitting up straight now. He had my full attention if he was going to play games.
"Nothing. It's just a common lesson."
"You know something I'm supposed to know but don't know because the thing that you know kind of messed that up and made me not know. Don't you?"
Albus and Scorpius both exchanged confused looks before saying, "What?"
With a sigh I put my head back down. I refuse to repeat myself after I took my time to say that. It hurt to even think about what the hell to say without Albus figuring it out in the first place. Why does my life continue to dig itself deeper into deeper into this hell where I don't know anything? I don't know what to say half the time. I don't know what to feel. I don't know who to like. And just thinking about all this is making my brain hurt. Or it could be the major hangover I have. Either way my head hurts and I don't know what to do about it and talking is not helping.
"Hey, your friend Stephanie is looking for you. I think." I heard Al say or yell. One of those, it might have been the first but due to my circumstances it sounded much like the latter.
"Tell her I'll get over there in like thirty minutes. An hour tops." What? I feel like I'm dragging cinder blocks around. They're not the lightest things in the world.
"Thirty minutes? This place will be empty by then."
"It's as fast as I can go at the moment."
"Then I think you should spend that time going to the hospital wing." Scorpius suggested. I hate to admit that he's right but he's right. But then again, what the heck is the nurse going to do for me? Give me a potion then tell my parents or something? Honestly, I am not willing to take that risk. If there's one thing I don't need right now, it would most definitely be a howler. I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore.
"I'll pass."
"Suit yourself. You're going to be in for one hell of a day."
Ignoring his comment I slowly got up from the table and made my way, just as slowly, over to the Gryffindor table. It would be better if I were with people who actually felt as bad as I do. Those people would also be known as Stephanie, Lauren and Annabeth. If I could actually make the long walk across the desert, ocean and minefield that was the Great Hall at the moment.
)*(
He was right again. My day was an absolute hell. It took minutes instead of seconds to come up with the answers for a question. It took way too much energy to pay attention to what people were saying and not to mention the fact that I have to remember it all. To make things worse, people who never ever talk to me decided that today would be a nice time to become friends. WRONG! Their first impressions of me are now ruined.
And thank Merlin that hangovers and classes come to an end because now I'm in my right mind and I'm going to get answers. I know Scorpius knows something but I've been too busy feeling like I'm dying to ask. Now I'm going to whether he's with his friends or not. I'm Rose Weasley and I get what I want. But of course I always get found before I can find.
"Rose? Are you okay? I'm sorry about yesterday." Annabeth said stopping in front of me. I can't tell if she's sincere or not but I don't really care either. It was just as much as my choice as her persuading me.
"Yes." I answered simply.
"Well, isn't this cute?" Surprised we both turn around to face no other than Scorpius Malfoy. He's everywhere. Glancing over at Annabeth I see her flirtatious side take over and I want to punch her right in the face. I don't know why, but I do.
"Hi, Scorpius. Are you and Violet still together?" Can I punch her? I totally forgot about Violet now she wants to bring her back up.
I could tell Scorpius wasn't very interested in Anna though because he was looking straight at me when he answered. "No. I broke up with her actually. You can't teach an old slut new tricks."
"I believe it's 'You can't teach an old dog new tricks.'" I interjected and shrugged.
"I can learn new tricks." Annabeth offered and both me and Scorpius gave her a look of disgust.
Yes she is my friend but honestly, it's not exactly a good thing to be throwing yourself at other guys when you're in a relationship. Especially Scorpius Malfoy. She could do so much better than him. I wonder if Thomas knows about her continuous flirting with other guys. She flirts so much that you would assume she's single and that she's desperate to have anyone. Not exactly a nice thing to hear about your girlfriend. Although I bet Thomas is running around the school doing the exact same thing. Typical. I'm sorry to say this but I don't think they'll last long.
"I'm sure Flint would like that. Now how about you go run along and find him." Scorpius said and stepped out of the way so she could get by.
Looking around, I made sure no one was paying attention to us and that she was gone before hurriedly asking, "What do you know?"
"About what?"
"Last night."
"Well, I found out we're going to get married."
"Who says?"
"You said."
Lies. I couldn't have said anything along those lines. But wait... that means he spoke to me last night while I was drunk. That's so embarrassing. What if I really did say that? Can I die? I try to stop the heat from rushing to my cheeks but I can feel them burning already. I can only imagine the other things I said to embarrass myself last night. I'm going to get Annabeth for this one.
"It was only a drunken statement. I probably couldn't even remember your name." I stated avoiding looking at his face. I already knew he would be smirking.
"Samuel. Samson. Close enough for me."
"Continue."
"You said you loved me."
"Everyone and yourself knows I hate you."
"On the contrary, Weasley. Haven't you heard? Hate's the new love."
I thought about that for a moment. If hate was the new love did that mean that love was hate now? If so then I guess I really, really loved Scorpius Malfoy. But then again I wouldn't even say that if it was Opposite Day. I would never say that. I guess I'd have to settle for something a little different. I ran through a couple of synonyms for hate for a second before settling for the first thing that popped into my mind.
"I guess I very, very, very, strongly dislike you then."
"I guess. By the way... Hugo knows about your little adventurous state last night."
And I was running to the Gryffindor common room as fast as I could. Why? Well, because two people who should never know about my mistakes are Hugo and James. Hugo is known for telling our parents or bribing me. James is known for making things even worse by trying to attack people to get answers and he listens to rumors a lot. I'd rather have Hugo know than James though. That's why when I actually go into the common room I stopped to catch my breath while Hugo smiled at me.
"Don't tell." I practically begged through pants.
When he didn't say anything I knew exactly what he wanted. He wanted me to do something for him like always. I prayed he didn't come up with something crazy, too, because I'm going to have to do it anyway because I don't want my mum and dad to know about me drinking.
"What do you want?"
"I'll let Annabeth decide. Hey, Anna. Come here." He said a little too eagerly as he waved her over. I could he'd planned this whole thing out. He just loved to torment me. But I must admit that this was his worst.
"Yeah? Oh, hey, Rose."
"Give Rose a dare to do. Make it an embarrassing one too." Without even a second glance, he looked back down at his book as if he didn't care what she said.
"Since you don't like Scorpius I'm sure you won't mind kissing him in front of everyone tomorrow." She's lucky we're friends because I would have wiped that innocent smile right off her face by now.
This is why I do not like playing Truth or Dare with Annabeth. Her dares are always something that will ensure an enormous increase in drama. I was torn between telling my mum and dad myself that I got drunk and just doing the little dare. I mean it's not like I haven't kissed him before because I have. Then I wouldn't have to go through the disappointed letters from my parents. What do I do?
Author's Note: o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o. What's going to happen? Lol. I got writer's block after the first part and this is what happened. Whelp. I'll deal with it for now. Enjoy and review I guess.