Teddy x Rose.

Chapter 5.

After returning to one of the many Weasley households, this one owned by Ron and Hermione, Teddy was sitting in the kitchen with a warm cup of tea in his hands. Despite only being only very early Autumn, it was quite cold outside and his hands had been feeling slightly numb. The owners of the house, his good friends, were bustling around in the room with him. Hermione was trying to clear up some of the mess they had left behind that morning in their haste to get to the station on time. Ron was only interested in finding a packet of biscuits for dunking.

"Oh, Ronald, really! Can you not wait for 5 minutes whilst I finish this? You're getting in my way!"

"No!" He retorted with mock outrage in his voice, "The tea will get cold! You cannot dunk in anything other than hot tea, it's just not right." His voice was grave as he finished, as if he had said something deep and profound.

Hermione was unimpressed. She threw him an evil look and carried on tidying, shoving past him as he did. Ron only smirked. He seemed to love winding her up now as much as he always had. Teddy smiled at Ron in secret, not wanting Hermione to see and get annoyed at him too.

"I know you think he's funny Teddy, you have a very similar immature sense of humour."

"Ah, busted." Muttered Teddy.

Teddy had always been friendly with Ron and Hermione, as well as Harry, Ginny, Neville, Luna and all the other Weasley family members. It was like they had all helped to raise him a little bit, and he considered them all to be his family. Though he had never known his parents, he always felt like he had grown up having about 15 of them instead of two, because everyone pitched in a little to help him along the way. So to him, being around these two was like sitting having tea with his closest relatives.

I suppose that makes it weird then, liking Rose, we've always been more like cousins than anything else…

He forced himself to stop thinking about her. She was too young for him and it could never work.

"So, Teddy… how are things with you and Victoire?" Asked Hermione when she joined him and Ron at the table.

"Oh, everything is fine. We're both really glad we got back together." At least until today, I was…

"That's Lovely. Are you having any thoughts of proposing?"

"Steady on, Hermione!" Ron exclaimed.

Teddy chuckled. "No, I want to take things slow, you know? Since what happened before… I don't want to rush her into anything. It will probably be a while before anything like that happens, I'm afraid."

"Oh well." Hermione replied. "If you're not ready, you should wait. I always forget how mature you can be."

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Rose always enjoyed the first day back at school – She got to watch the sorting, eat an amazing feast, see all her friends again, and most importantly, there was no work. Professor McGonagall still told the first years about the sorting before entering the Great Hall, even though she was now the headmistress. After she took her seat at the middle of the teachers table, the sorting began. As usual, the hat sung an elaborate song before sending all the new students to their houses. Eventually, the food appeared magically through the tables as usual, and the feast began.

During the course of dinner, a friend nudged rose in the arm and then nodded their head in the direction of the Slytherin table. Confused, Rose followed her gaze. She noticed that Scorpius Malfoy was staring at her from across the hall. Being the 15 year old girl that she was, Rose giggled and looked back at her friend. Albus, on the other side of the table, also noticed, and he looked disapproving.

After the meal was over, Albus separated Rose from her friends.

"Do you like Scorpius?" he asked her accusingly "I saw you looking at each other in the Grat Hall just now…"

Rose was annoyed by Albus' cheek at trying to tell her off, even though she didn't like Scorpius, she felt she should tell Albus how rude and out of line he was being.

"Why does it matter to you if I do?" she asked in an offended tone, before walking off without giving him a chance to answer.

As she was walking towards the common room, an idea occurred to Rose. If she got herself a boyfriend, maybe her mind would be taken off of Teddy, she could get over him, and it wouldn't cause any problems. Besides, despite the fact that their parents were enemies, Scorpius wasn't that bad. He always seemed quite nice… and he wasn't bad looking, either.

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