Chapter 6: Chapter 6

Aww crap what have I done? Rose thought as she sat up in bed the next morning, the sane you would have never said yes to being friends. He's a Slytherin he always has a hidden motive. Now Rose be cautious.

With her thoughts buzzing she got out of bed and pulled on her cloths. She groaned when she bent down to pull on her socks, she was sore from the intense training she had been doing this week. Rose groaned again as she stretched her long arms across her bed to reach the clean shirt on the floor. She heard rustling in the bed next to her and she turned to look at the bed next to her and saw Jasmine sitting up in bed with her crazy chocolate hair fanned out from around her face. Rose burst out laughing at the ridiculous hair her friend was sporting.

"Will you shut the fuck up!" Jasmine said angrily, "I know my hair looks like a frazzled ducks butt! You don't have to laugh at it! Anyway why were you moaning so loudly anyway?"

Shit! Rose thought, I can't tell her about quiditch, come on think Rose, think of an excuse.

"Well, ummm," Rose said stalling, "I kind of tripped on the stairs yesterday." Rose tried to look sheepish.

"Well that's no surprise," Jasmine said.

"Shut up," Rose said smiling, "It's not my fault I can't walk up stairs. I'm working on it."

"Yeah and that's working so well," Jasmine said sarcastically.

"Okay let's go to breakfast," Rose relied, ignoring the dig at her walking habits on stairs just happy that Jasmine had bought the lie. Rose smiled to herself while they walked to breakfast.

Just before they entered the hall Jasmine grabbed her arm and ducked into a small alcove. Rose let out a small shriek but Jasmine clamped her hand over Rose's mouth.

"Why," Jasmine whispered while pointing accusingly, "are you so happy?"

"Well you see," Rose whispered back, "You know Scorpius."

"Yes I know him. We talk to him everyday."

"Well we are friends now."

"What the fuck! When did that happen?"

"Last night, I saw him after the party."

"And how did the two of you come to that agreement."

"Well, that's kind of a long story that can wait until after breakfast," Rose said hurriedly and yanked her arm back and ran into the hall. She heard Jasmine's angry footsteps following her and she walked quickly towards Al and Scorpius. Rose made a pleading face at the two boys sitting at the table. Albus looked down quickly avoiding her eyes knowing better than to help her if Jasmine was involved. Rose didn't blame him, Jasmine was terrifying when she was angry.

Rose plopped down onto the bench next to Scorpius, if Albus was not going to help her then she needed support from him and that was what friends were for, right? She and him were in this together.

Rose looked at Albus and frowned at him, angry for not helping her. When she looked at his face she realized it showed surprise. Rose guessed Scorpius had not told Al about their change in relationship.

The table shook violently as Jasmine sat down and banged her fist on the table demanding Rose's attention. Rose looked at Scorpius and he furrowed his brow at her. He sighed as he realized she needed his help.

"So Rose," Jasmine said fake nicely, "How did you and Scorpius become 'friends' as you call it, because we all know that kind of change does not happen overnight."

"Yeah," said Albus chiming in, "How does that work?"

"Albus," Rose said angrily, "Don't you get involved!"

"Not get involved! You're my cousin and he's my best friend."

"Fine you really want to know?"

"Yes I do really want to know!"

"Al that was a rhetorical question."

"Oh"

There was a pause of silence.

"We became friends because we thought it would be easier on you," Rose said softly, "Isn't that right Scorpius." Rose jammed her elbow into his side.

"Umghf," Scorpius grunted, "Yeah that's right. We felt bad for you."

Albus softened from the compliments and he smiled.

"Hey that might work on him but it does not work on me," said Jasmine sternly.

"I did it for you sake too for when you and-" a sharp pain shot up Roses leg.

"Okay," Jasmine said, "I understand now."

"What the fuck are you talking about?" said Albus, "She didn't answer the question."

"Well it worked for me. I got my satisfaction and you got yours, happy."

"Yup."

"Okay, glad we are done with that," Rose said, "I want to eat."

Rose filled her plate with a large breakfast and got ready to eat. Strawberries with sugar, pancakes with maple syrup, bacon, a bagel with butter, toast with jam and finally a large side dish of eggs. Rose glanced at Scorpius and then back at her food and then back up again to study the blondes face.

Scorpius's POV

Scorpius sat there with his mouth gaping open at the sheer amount of food Rose was going to consume.

"What?" Rose said, "Is there a problem?"

"No," Scorpius said slowly, "I'm just surprised that a skinny girl like yourself can ingest all that food."

"Are you dancing around the subject that I eat way too much for a girl."

"Yes-"

"Hey that's not very nice-"

"I didn't get to finish."

"Oh."

"As I was saying. Yes, you eat way too much for the average girl but it's a good thing because those supper thin girls who don't eat anything and have that annoying whiny complaining voice, 'Oh I'm soooo hungry' "

Rose burst into laughter at Scorpius's falsetto voice and leaned into whisper in his ear.

"Tonight, eight, quiditch pitch, you can come watch if you want, make sure no one follows."

Her warm breath tickled his ear. Scorpius nodded happily and got up to leave to go to class. Rose's arm snaked out from underneath the table and grabbed his. He waited patiently as she gathered her things and they walked to their first class of the day.

The rest of the day was a blur for Scorpius he could not wait to see Rose fly again tonight. The professor's words sounded like the mumbling of a crowd and his books looked like they were written in Japanese.

Scorpius dawdled through his homework in the library. While they were still in the first week of school the homework load was light. Scorpius flipped through an old potions book while Albus fooled around with a Muggle toy called a Toe-Toe or maybe it was a Yo-Yo, he was unsure.

Finally when Scorpius looked at the clock it was seven-fifty. Not wanting to miss a minute of Rose's performance Scorpius scrambled to put away his books and papers in his bag. Albus looked up as he left but did not question his leaving. Scorpius dropped his bag off in his dormitory and rushed outside and down to the Quiditch pitch, checking over his shoulder every now and then to make sure that he was not followed.

The sun was just reaching the horizon and it looked like a smoldering ember. Scorpius sat down on the dampening grass as he watched Rose pull out her broom from the storage shed. Even while she was preparing to practice he could tell that she moved with an athletes grace.

Once Rose had pulled on her green dragonhide gloves and released the snitch Scorpius watched as she pushed off. He once again marveled at the beauty that Rose could not seem to see in herself. Her creamy skin seemed iridescent in the sunset and her usually shiny red hair seemed to glow. A small smile played on her lips, crinkling her nose and causing small dimples in her cheeks.

Scorpius studied her practicing. She was just releasing the snitch for the fifth time tonight and it had only been about ten minutes. The snitch she used was invisible to him but clearly not to her. He watched as her vibrant blue broom became a streak in the sky high up above the horizon.

As Rose finished her practice Scorpius picked himself up of the wet ground. His back, legs and butt were damp from lying on his back to watch Rose practice. Rose was peeling off her gloves now and placing her practice snitch in a locked box. Scorpius tapped the door of the shed alerting her that he was close by.

"Rose?"

"Mmm"

"Why don't you try out for the school team. I know I should not be saying this and all because I'll be playing against you but your really good and in order to show people you can play and show your parents you can do this without their help you need to play. People looking for professional seekers for their teams are not going to look for someone who's never played the game."

"Yeah you're right. I need to prove my self. I'm going to try out for the Gryffindor Quiditch team."

"Good."

"And I'm going to beat the crap out of you while doing it!"

Ahh Rose she'll never change, Scorpius thought.