Sorry this took so long! Thank you for the comments I just have been so busy and blah blah blah! On to the story!

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Albus walked into the great hall to grab a late lunch. He smiled when he noticed that there were less then ten people in the hall, they must all be outside enjoying the sun. He was surprised when he looked over at the Slytherin table and saw that Scorpius was sitting there alone. He was never without his friends, just like he was rarely without Lysander.

It was almost tempting for Albus to walk over and ask how he was doing after he got out of the hospital wing but decided against it. It would probably just weird him out. He started walking towards the Gryffindor table looking to see if there was anyone he actually wanted to talk to.

Albus was surprised when he heard someone called his name. He turned around and saw Scorpius was the one that had called to him. He stood there completely shocked before he realized he must look like an idiot. Albus quickly stopped staring and walked over to the Slytheirn table.

"Hey, you feeling any better?" Albus asked as he sat down across from Scorpius.

"Yes, thank you for helping me." Albus could tell that the way he was talking was too...stiff. Like he was trying to act proper or something around him, it was weird. "Do you like to play wizard's chess?" he asked setting up the board that was in front of him.

"Sure," Albus said wondering where this was going. It wasn't exactly everyday that Scorpius asked to play chess with him. Had he somehow found out about Ablus' feelings? There was no way he would be this calm if he had. What would be his reaction if he had? Now was not the time to think of a situation that may never happen.

Albus looked down at the board trying to figure out what his first move should be. "I saw the story in the "Daily Prophet" about your father this morning, you must be really proud." It took Albus a second to remember what the story had been about, he had only skimmed over it knowing when he got home he would get the real version of events.

"Oh yeah," he laughed remembering his father was in the paper because of the apprehension of two more Death Eaters that after the war had killed as many muggles as they could without getting caught, they had recently moved up to wizards that didn't have pureblood. "I'm glad those guys are in Azkaban now."

"Yeah, me too," Scorpius smiled.

"Really?" It was out of Albus' mouth before he realized what he was saying. He wanted to say something to cover it up but all he got out was, "I-I mean..." He stopped when he realized Scorpius was laughing at him. "What?" he asked surprised.

"You're the first person to ask me so bluntly," he snickered. "People usually try to have more tact."

"I-I try, I mean I usually do!" Albus said trying to get Scorpius to stop laughing at him.

"No! I like that you're blunt," he promised finally done laughing at the other boy, "It's different then what I usually get from other people and when they are blunt they aren't as nice about it."

"What do you mean?" asked Albus confused.

"Oh, you probably wouldn't know about it but people still blame my family for what my father and grandfather did when the dark lord was still alive." Albus hated the awkward silence that fell between them, it wasn't like he could say anything to comfort Scorpius. Their entire family had been praised, never when he was alive had people said anything bad about his father.

"I guess my friends are right, I'm always too serious," Scorpius said finally breaking the silence.

"No!" Both boys were surprised by Albus' outburst, "I mean I think its good, you talk about what you're thinking and all." Scorpius smiled back at him, Albus loved that he had been the one to cause that smile.

"Maybe I am just as blunt as you are," he laughed.

"I don't think people who are blunt actually realize that they are..." Albus said thinking out loud. Scorpius starting laughing again, it was weird after all their years at Hogwarts this was the first time Albus had actually ever heard the other boy laugh.

"Check." Albus looked down at the board, he had been too busy with their conversation he had almost forgotten about the game they were having. He didn't want the talking to stop but there was no way he could move that would not end up with Scorpius having a checkmate. In two more moves Scorpius smiled as he called checkmate. "This was fun, we should do it again," Scorpius smiled before standing up and walking out of the great hall.

"Yeah," agreed Albus, "we should."

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Scorpius wasn't surprised to hear running footsteps after he left the great hall. He smiled when he saw it was Adair and slowed down until the other boy had caught up with him.

"I saw you playing chess with someone, was that Albus?" Adair asked falling into step with Scorpius.

"Yes it was," Scorpius answered shortly. He knew none of his friends would be happy with him if they learned he was starting to get friendly with a Gryffindor much less the middle Potter.

"Why?" Adair asked genuinely confused.

Scorpius sighed as if the reason should be obvious, "He helped me the other day, I just wanted to see what he really wanted from me. Turns out he's too thick to be that conniving," he laughed.

Scorpius was lying, at first he had wanted to talk to the other boy to see if he wanted anything but he had actually enjoyed their conversation. The thought of hanging out with Albus actually sounded like fun to him.

"Yeah that sounds about right," Adair agreed slinging his arm around Scorpius' shoulder. "The first trip to Hogsmeade for the year is coming up, got any plans?"

"Not really..."

"Good! We are going to a new bar called Paper Moon, it's a new pub that just opened up!" Adair seemed really excited and Scorpius had heard some other Slytherins talking about it so it sounded like a good time.

"Sure, do the others know about it?" he asked wondering if Mordred or Ivy would also be there.

"Ivy said she couldn't get caught drinking again but Mordred said he would go."

"Okay, guess I'll be there too."

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Next chapter there will underage drinking! Who knows what that will lead to!