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Chapter Seven

"So Scorpius, how was your summer?"

He looked at Katie and shrugged. "It was alright. I pretty much ignored my father the whole time. It would have been worse, but the letters from Rosie made it all the more bearable." Scorpius looked at the lake, where Charlotte and Rose were running around, splashing eachother.

"Well that's sweet. Honestly boy, do you have any guy friends?"

Scorpius laughed. "Yeah, I do."

"You never hang around them!"

"Yeah, well that's because I'd rather spend my time with Rosie, really. I get tired of them constantly talking about sex and boobs."

"Rose was right." Katie said, tilting her head to the side and smiling.

"About what?"

"You really aren't like other guys. You're different."

"I'm hoping you meant that in a good way."

"I did."

"Then thanks."

"Scorpius!" Rose called, running away from Charlotte, who looked about ready to tackle her into the water.

Scorpius laughed and got off the ground. Katie got up too, and put a hand on his shoulder. "You like her, don't you?"

"Rosie's my friend. I care about her, a lot. I guess it's easy and natural to be her friend, because I feel better than I have in a long time. I feel like i'm not fighting against myself anymore."

He walked over to the lake, where Rose was still running away from Charlotte, and Katie stood with her hands on her hips. "You didn't answer my question, Malfoy!"

Scorpius ignored her and Rose ran out of the water to hide behind him. Up close it was easier to see why Charlotte was so set on revenge; she was dripping wet from head to toe. He couldn't help but laugh.

Charlotte glared at Rose from over his shoulder and Rose hid behind him completely. Scorpius walked towards Charlotte slowly. "Charlotte, you do know that you could be dried off in less than a few seconds with the right spell, don't you?"

"Yes, but that doesn't make up for me getting soaked. That means Rose will have won."

"You canget her back some other time, okay? Lets go steal ice cream from the kitchens of something."

"Come on, Scorpius! You know you want to see her in a wet shirt, just let me dunk her already!"

He laughed and Rose was happy no one could see her blushing. "That's still not a good enough reason for me to let you dunk her. Regardless of what I want."

Rose hit him hard in the back, and he smiled. He turned around and grabbed her bridal style. He walked over to the lake and held her over the water. She clung to his neck for dear life. "Sc-Scorpius, i swear I will hate you forever if you drop me in there!"

He laughed and put her down. Just as she got to her feet, Katie and Charlotte pushed them both into the lake. Scorpius fell on top of Rose and they went completly under water. While under there, their lips touched for just a moment. Both of their eyes flew open and they thrashed around in an attempt to get back to the surface.

Scorpius got up frist, and he pulled Rose out. Rose rung out her hair and Scorpius shook his. As she was attempting to squeeze the water from her skirt, she glared at her two friends. "That was not funny, you two!"

"Sorry I fell on you." Scorpius whispered, since Charlotte and Katie were laughing too hard to say anything.

"Oh! No, don't worry about it, I'm fine." Rose said, bringing a shivering hand up to touch her lips.

"Sorry about that, too."

"You've nothing to be sorry for."she murmered, dropping her hand.

Scorpius raised an eyebrow but before he could say much else, Rose walked out of the water and dried herself off. "Come on, Scorpius or you'll get sick."

He rolled his eyes but walked out of the water. Rose pointed her wand at him and muttered a spell. Before he knew it, he was perfectly dry. Rose still looked like he wanted to kill her friends, so he walked over to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. She seemed to calm a little just from that.

"Anyone up for some icecream? They've got every flavor you can think of!"

"Yeah, lets go." Katie said, starting to head for the castle. Charlotte followed her and Scorpius and Rose trailed behind them a bit.

Rose looked at Scorpius and started laughing. "What?" he asked.

She made him stop walking and ran her fingers through his hair. "It was messed up. More than usual, I mean."

Scorpius laughed and tugged on one of her curls. "Yours is absolutly perfect. As always."

Rose smiled and started walking agian. "Come on, or they'll have eaten all the ice cream."

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"We'll see you up in the Dormitory, okay Rose?"

"Okay. See you in a little."

Charlotte and Katie waved goodbye and then headed towards the Ravenclaw tower. Rose and Scorpius headed for the library. They were more or less silent until they were sitting down at a table. "So has your first day of your sixth year been?" Scorpius asked.

"I think this is the most fun I've ever had at school before. Today's ben great."

"And does me being around you have anything to do with that?"

"I think it does."

Scorpius smirked and Rose noticed something. "You have a mole!"

Scorpius touched his face until he hit the mole on his upper lip. "Yeah, I know. My mum hates it."

"I think it's cute." Rose said, smiling.

"Thanks."

She rubbed her arm and watched as he crossed his arms on the table, then lay his head on them. "Hows your brother?"

"He's alright, I think. Still annoying and babyish. Really carefree, actually."

"Those were the days."

Rose laughed. "You make us sound so old."

"Compared to him we are. He's yet to have his mid-teen crisis that we've already had or are going through right now."

"And have you had your mid-teen crisis yet?"

Scorpius nodded. "I've had my period of self loathing. What about you?"

Rose thought about the pills hiding in a bag under her bed. "I've not had one yet."

"Tell me when you do." he said, bringing a hand up to caress her cheek. "I'll try and help you through it."

Rose found she couldn't look at him after that, and when he dropped his hand her cheek seemed to burn. "W-we'd better go Scorpius, it's getting late."

Scorpius sighed and sat up in his seat. "Yeah you're right."

They got up and snuck past the sleeping librarian. As they walked, Scorpius couldn't help thinking about what his father would be doing at that time of night when he was in school. Surely something he shouldn't have been doing.

"We should do this everyday." Rose said suddenly. "I mean, if we got to the library earlier, we wouldn't have to worry about not getting homework done..."

"Sounds good Weasley." Scorpius stopped walking and Rose realized they'd reached the Ravenclaw Tower.

"I'll see you tomorrow." she said, backing agianst the wall next to the portrait door.

Scorpius walked towards her and she held her breath. He bought his hand up and twisted one of her curls around his finger. "Night."

He turned around and started walking towards the dungeons. Did he just go out of his way to walk her there? Rose let out the breath she's ben holding and watched him walking away. Why did he have to strut, even when there was no one else around? Egotistical prat.