This is a rather long chapter, but hopefully that's a good thing? Enjoy!

Chapter 5

"Please, tell me you're joking," Scorpius asked Albus, looking up and the rollercoasters.
I think Voldemort himself created this contraption to kill people."

Everyone laughed loudly. Rose laid her laughing eyes on him, smiling widely, "The people on the rollercoaster are laughing, Scorp, not dying."

Scorp? He tried not to look at her curiously. He did feel his skip a tiny little beat. What? He shook it off, it must be the rollercoaster. "I'm not going on that thing," he announced.

"Oh, Scorpius! Don't be a party pooper!" Lily pouted.

"Excuse me? Party Pooper? I happen to be a riot-"

"At parties, we know," James rolled his eyes. "Now, since you look like you already have girls begging for you to go on a ride with them, Scorpius, Albus and I are going to look for girls for ourselves."

Lily laughed loudly, and Rose tried not to laugh. Scorpius rolled his eyes at the girls as Albus and James went off, "Just what are you two laughing at?"

Lily smiled slyly, "We're not going to beg you to go on a ride with us- we're going to force you."

Scorpius paled, "What? No, I-"

"Relax, not yet," Rose giggled. Scorpius' eyes flew to her, smiling slightly. Then, he realized she was smiling at someone else.

He glanced at the direction she was looking, and saw a boy who seemed about his age smiling at her. "Ooh, Rose, that one is fit," Lily nudged her.

Rose blushed, something Scorpius found incredibly attractive, until he mentally slapped himself. "Him? Oh please, he looks like he hasn't gotten a haircut in ages," Scorpius stated, narrowing his eyes at the yellow-blonde, shaggy haired boy.

Rose paid no mind, "I'll be right back," she said, grinning at the boy she was looking at. She practically floated away.

Scorpius stepped next to Lily, his eyes still narrowed at the boy. A bad feeling settled in his stomach. Lily smirked, tip-toeing to rest her arm on Scorpius's shoulder, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were jealous."

Scorpius looked at her, surprised, and then back at Rose, who as smiling at the shaggy haired boy. "Me? Jealous? Why would I be jealous? Are you mad?"

Lily snickered, "You're jealous because you fancy Rose."

Scorpius stepped away, so Lily's arm fell from his shoulder, "I don't fancy her, we've just become friends. Don't be ridiculous." His eyes unwillingly went back to Rose, and then to the boy.

Lily smirked, "Then why do you keep glaring at the poor boy?"

He didn't even notice he was. His eyes flew back to Lily, who looked amused. "Stop planting ideas in my head!" He exclaimed, "I do not fancy Rose!"

Rose caught her name being yelled and looked at the two curiously. After a few words with the boy, he left. She looked fairly flustered as she walked, no- skipped, back to Lily and Scorpius.

"Did you two call me?" She asked, a big grin on her face.

"What? No, 'course not," Scorpius said, a little too quickly, earning another smirk from Lily. He glared at her.

Rose frowned, "I could've sworn…" She looked at Scorpius, who refused to meet her eyes. She shrugged. Rose smiled at them, "Which is our first rollercoaster?" she asked.

"The Fireball!" Lily replied, bouncing on her toes.

"The fire what?!" Scorpius groaned. "Shouldn't we wait for Al and James?"

The two girls laughed, "They're not going to be back anytime soon. Looks like you're stuck with us," Lily told him.

Then, they dragged Scorpius to the Fireball line. The Fireball wasn't exactly a rollercoaster. It held a few people. The fewer people, the faster it goes. It's a huge circle and all the coaster does is go in circles. Super-fast, that is. With fake flames on its sides as well. Let's not forget it stops upside-down for a few minutes, and then goes backwards ten times faster than it was before.

"We like starting small," Rose told Scorpius.

"This is small?" He asked, frowning.

"Don't tell me your scared," Lily said, smirking.

This made Scorpius stand up a little straighter. "Me? Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy, scared? You wish. This contraption is nothing. I've flown faster than it," he scoffed.

He and Lily sat across Rose and another girl. He didn't admit that he was nervous as the ride started He was not expecting the ride to go faster than his broom. Nor when it stopped when he was upside-down. His eyes were tightly shut the whole time. His stomached flipped, fell, and liquefied in his body. The sensation of the ride left him feeling like he was going to vomit. He opened his eyes only to see Rose across from him. Her eyes were shut, but she was laughing gleefully as her fair flew around everywhere.

Momentarily, he forgot he was on a ride that went in circles. He remembered once it stopped as it was upside-down. His eyes stayed on Rose, who opened hers and grinned at him.

"Not so bad is?" She asked.

"I bet he's terrified," Lily laughed.

"He is rather pale," Rose giggled.

"It's my first time, okay? I didn't expect it being faster than my broom," he realized the other girl in their group wasn't a witch and corrected himself when her eyes flashed curiously, "I mean my car."

Scorpius couldn't stop staring at Rose. She looked around, as if amazed at how everything looked like upside-down. Her hair hung down loosely, giving her a funny look. Her shirt had flown up a little, making her flat stomach and her belly button show.

Rose really isn't that bad to look at, even upside-down. Maybe if her shirt slid a little higher… Wait, what? He was glad the ride started up again, because he was really starting to question his sanity.

"That was fun," Rose stated when they hopped off. Lily was helping Scorpius off- he was a little woozy. Rose tried not to laugh when she looked at him, "You look a little green, Scorp."

Lily let him go as he steadied himself. He held his head, trying not to feel so dizzy, "Can we just skip to the racing?" he asked.

"'Course not!" Exclaimed Lily.

Rose nodded, "There's plenty more where that came from. Suck it up," Rose told him, earning a glare from him.

Five rollercoasters, four ignored refusals, and one vomit session from Scorpius, they decided to take a break. Rose and Lily snickered as they rubbed Scorpius back, who had thrown up in a trash can. Not only was Scorpius insanely embarrassed, but throwing up didn't exactly appeal to him.

Lily ran off and got him water. He used half to clean out his mouth and downed the other half. After, he made Lily buy him a small mouthwash, and he was feeling a bit normal again. The three sat on a bench. Scorpius groaning and holding his spinning head, Lily laughing, and Rose trying not to laugh.

"I'm sorry, Scorp, but you can't say you didn't enjoy it," Rose grinned.

He smiled slightly, "Only the first three, but that last one- it went up and down and all around so many times…"

Rose laughed, "I'll get you a pretzel. You're probably hungry since you threw up your whole breakfast," she giggled and jumped out of his reach, as he tried to tickle her.

Rose laughed as she went to buy the pretzel. As she made her way over, she passed a couple guys who whistled as she passed. She ignored them; they gave off a bad vibe. She quickly bought the pretzel and started going back. Then, one of the guys reached out to her waist and pulled her close.

"What's your name?" He asked, his voice low and in her ear.

She squirmed out of his grip, only to have him grab her waist again. "Get off me you bloody pervert," she said, trying to get away from the guy, who looked a few years older.

"Is there a problem here?"

Rose froze. It was Scorpius. There was nothing but coldness in his eyes. Rose almost shrank back, he looked very intimidating. The guy who held Rose let her go and she quickly went to Scorpius side. Lily was by him, frowning.

"I think the only problem here is you," the guy retorted, stepping close to Scorpius.

"Scorpius, let's just go," Lily said, her voice small.

"Don't ever touch her," Scorpius growled, clenching his fist.

"Scorp…" Rose started.

Then, the guy pushed him. Scorpius stumbled back surprised. The two were almost the same size. Although the other was slightly bigger. Scorpius has seen one or two muggle movies. He knew what to do.

The guy went to throw Scorpius a punch, but Scorpius had gained a lot of reflexes from Quidditch, so he avoided it and punched the guy on the shoulder. The guy practically had steam coming out his nose and threw a punch at Scorpius's stomach, making Scorpius double over and lose his breath. He heard Rose cry out, and believe it or not, that gave him a little strength.

Scorpius avoided another punch, then, out of sheer luck, his fist connected with the guy's nose. All of them heard the sickening crack, and Scorpius drew his pained hand back. The only thing Scorpius was concerned about was his hand bruising up. Then, he noticed the other guy's nose gushing blood. The other guy's friends flocked him, taking him to a bathroom just outside the park.

Rose ran to Scorpius's side as Lily went to go find James and Albus. "That prat hurt my hand," Scorpius muttered.

Rose laughed, "And you broke his nose. He did land a blow on your stomach, let me see," she said, lifting his shirt.

Scorpius was fully aware of Rose touching a tender part on his ribs and tried not react. He shut his eyes, trying to ignore her hands touching his bare stomach. Get a grip, Scorpius, it's not like a girl hasn't touched you before!

"It's definitely getting bruised," Rose muttered.

Scorpius hardly heard her. He just wished she would stop touching him before he lost it. He tried to focus on the pain, but realized it was going away. He opened his eyes, only to see Rose muttering a spell.

"Does it hurt anywhere else?" She asked, completely unaware of the effect she was having on him.

"No, nowhere else," he said quickly, putting his shirt down as her hands felt for more tender places. His body felt slightly cooler as her hands drew away. "Thank you, but you shouldn't be performing magic. What if the ministry finds out? And, where did you learn that?"

She smiled, almost embarrassed, "I'm going into the medical field after Hogwarts. And, the ministry doesn't care about a minor healing spell." He could picture it. Rose saving lives, helping people. Then, her bright blue eyes met his grey ones and his stomach flipped. "Thank you, Scorpius."

His breathe caught in his throat. Am I falling for Rose? That's impossible; we've only spent two days together. Then again, I did know her for six years, what if all the dislike I've had for her, also included a bit of… like? All these years, practically fighting with her, I didn't realize under all that…

"Scorpius? Are you alright? You look like you've seen a ghost?" Rose said, concerned her healing didn't go quite right.

"No, no, I'm fine. You don't have to apologize, I looked for the fight. And anyway, I wouldn't let any of them touch you," he shrugged, holding his bruised hand.

Rose frowned as she took his hand and muttered the healing spell. She felt around for any more pain as she spoke, "I don't understand, though. Why would they…"

Scorpius chuckled, "I don't think you understand the effect you have on people," he muttered, looking down at the hand Rose absently rubbed.

She blushed and removed her hands just as Lily came back with James and Albus.

James registered Rose's red face and Scorpius staring at her, and raised an eyebrow, "This doesn't look like the emergency Lily explained," he said, laughing.

Scorpius snapped back to reality, and glanced at the brothers, "Where did you two run off to? I was in hell with these girls," he said, annoyed.

Albus and James shared a knowing look. Albus looked back at Scorpius, "We got a bit distracted with a couple girls by the water tank… But, anyway, what happened?" he asked.

"Scorpius and this big guy got into a fight because the big one touched Rose and then Scorpius punched the guy and his nose broke and he went running away crying," Lily said, her eyes wide.

"It went sort of like that," Scorpius smiled.

"So then what is this? You two seem to be rather comfortable," James responded, smirking.

Lily seemed to notice their close proximity and winked at Scorpius, who shook his head. Thankfully, Rose spoke up. "I was healing him. He had a bruised rib and his hand was a little messed up," she exclaimed, "And, I was thanking him."

"I'm impressed, Scorpius won a muggle fight," Albus nodded.

Scorpius sighed, "I've had enough of this. Can we just go the race track and leave?" he asked.

Rose grinned, "Yes! I've been waiting for that, let's go!" She and Albus took off in the direction of the race track.

"They are rather fond of racing," Lily told Scorpius thoughtfully.

"Then, let's go join them," Scorpius sighed.

They had to go in pairs because there were only four cars. James and a girl he picked up on the way went on a small green one, Albus and Lily went in a blue one, two other guys went in a yellow one, and Scorpius and Rose were stuck together for the last red one. The cars were sort of mini cars, they were half the size of a regular race car.

"I'd like to drive," Scorpius announced as they neared the red car.

Rose laughed loudly, "Have you ever even driven a car, Scorp?"

He shrugged, "How hard can it be?"

"This will be interesting," Rose said under her breath, smiling. Scorpius settled into the driver's seat and Rose sat next to him. "This isn't a regular car; all you have to do is-"

"Rosie, if you could drive a car, I can drive a car," he scoffed, putting his hands on the steering wheel.

Rose rolled her eyes, "I swear Scorp, if we crash…"

"We're not going to, relax. I've seen a few muggle movies, I know the basic controls." He assured her.

"Ready," the heard the announcer say, "Set… Go!"

Every single car sprang into action, except for the red car Scorpius drove. "What isn't it driving?! Why isn't it driving?!" Scorpius yelled, frantic.

"Scorpius! Hit the gas pedal!" Rose yelled.

"Don't yell at me! And what's a gas pedal?!" He yelled back.

Rose squeezed herself into his seat, to his surprise, and threw her foot on the gas pedal. Scorpius let out a yell as the car jerked forward. They were already several meters behind.

"Scorp! The wheel!" Rose squealed as the car went out of control.

"Which way do I turn?!" He yelled, sharply moving the steering wheel left and right, making the car zigzag.

"Left! Left!" Rose replied, trying to grab the wheel.

From the corner of her eye, Rose saw a car pass her. They weren't even halfway and already someone passed them. Scorpius made a sharp left, almost driving the two into the wall. Rose yelped and put her hand over Scorpius's, trying to control the wheel.

"You should have let me drive!"

"I wanted to try!"

"You're terrible!"

"It's your fault, you should've told me what to do!"

"I tried but-"

"There's a wall in front of us!"

They both yelled as they made a sharp right turn. The car swerved and went straight again. Scorpius lightly pushed her off, they slowed slightly, "I think I got it from here."

"Oh, you better," she replied, her heart hammering.

He stomped on the gas pedal, only to realize it wasn't the gas, it was the brake. The car stopped abruptly, making the car swerve to the left. "Wrong one! Wrong one!" Rose exclaimed, pointing down.

"What?! There's two?!" Scorpius pressed the one beside it and clumsily righted the wheel.

"Go Left! Left!" Rose yelled.

"Left?! I thought that was my right, oh, wait!"

The car jerked forward and he straightened it out. They caught up with the others just as they completed the second lap, Scorpius and Rose only completed one, and there were three.

"Scorpius go faster!"

"I'm trying! And I would go faster but you are yelling in my ear!"

"I'll stop yelling when you go faster!"

"You want to go faster?! Bloody hell, I'll go faster!"

The both yelled as he put more pressure on the gas and the car suddenly sped up, catching up to the blue car. The passed the green car just before they crossed the finish line and Scorpius stomped on the brake. The car spun several times before slowing to a stop.

"Scorpius…" Rose started.

Scorpius looked around. All the other cars were just behind them, slowing to a stop. "I think we won. We beat the green car, didn't we? We won!" Beside him, Rose exploded into laughter, making Scorpius frown. "What? Why are you laughing?"

Rose was nearly crying as she held her stomach. Slowly, Scorpius smiled, "What?!" he repeated.

"Scorp-" Another laugh, "We were supposed to do three laps," she breathed heavily, trying to control her laughter, "And we only did two! We didn't win; we didn't even complete the race!"

She started laughing again as Scorpius groaned, but laughed along with her. They stumbled out of the car, laughing hysterically. Albus, Lily, and James approached them, grinning.

"Laughing at how much of a loser you two are?" Albus asked, chuckling.

"I'm laughing at the fact that we didn't even finish the race! And how terrible Scorpius is at driving!" Rose breathed, holding her stomach.

Scorpius tried to control his laughter, pointing at Rose, "I would've been better if this girl wasn't yelling in my ear!" They burst into laughter again, holding on to each for support.

The Potters looked at each other, wicked grins on their faces. "This is a lot easier than I thought," Albus told them. Then nodded, agreeing completely.