Chapter Three: ENCOUNTER AT THE ASTRONOMY TOWER
Rose never realized how dark it was up here, but somehow she thought that the Astronomy Tower would be a good place to get some air. Maybe the night sky would help her unwind. She tried to stop crying so she could make it up the stairs without falling. As she was ascending the stairs she took out her wand made of holly wood, 10 3/4 inches in length just like her mothers, and had unicorn hair in the core just like her father.
"Lumos," she said, has she got up the last step.
"For Merlin's sake Weasley! Put that light out!" a slightly familiar voice said in the dark.
Rose was so startled that she almost tumbled down the stairs from the unexpected voice.
"Nox."
As the light went out from her wand and her eyes focused she found to her surprised that it was Scorpius Malfoy standing in front of her. He was a tall boy of 6'2 and from what Rose's parents have told her he looked like his father Draco Malfoy. She wondered what he was doing up here all alone. Students weren't allowed out of the dorms after curfew. He was breaking the rules, but then again so was she. Each of them was just staring at each other waiting for one of them to speak.
"Wha..."
"Have you been crying Weasley?"
That was the last thing that she ever expected him to say. If he hadn't said it in a slightly disgusted tone, it would almost have sounded as if he seemed to care. As she wiped way the moisture around her brown eyes she took a good look at Scorpius and saw that his eyes seemed to be in the same shape as hers. Although he had a seething look on his face his eyes gave way that he was troubled and saddened. If it were any other person she would have come over to comfort them, but this was Scorpius Malfoy. He was insufferable. He was always making trouble for the Gryffindors and he never gave up a chance to use the word Mudblood. So instead of her warm caring nature she usually was she tried to be as unkind as she could.
"I could say the same thing to you Malfoy"
Oh! Can't I be meaner than that? Rose thought at that lame excuse for her retaliation.
"I wasn't crying! You filthy half-blood"
Filthy half-blood! Why did I have to say that? Scorpius thought. Now was his chance to be himself. He was where he always said he could be himself. So why couldn't he just be a kinder person? He needed to get out of there. He didn't want to be the cruel person up here; if he was cruel up here it would mean that he there wasn't a nice person inside him trying to get out.
So before Rose could say anything else Scorpius pushed her aside and ran down the stairs.
Rose didn't know what just happened. She wasn't surprised that he had called her a filthy half-blood. After all it wasn't the first time that he had. What amazed her was that he didn't seem to put much of a fight. It wasn't like Scorpius to run off like that. Rose decided that she should just leave and forget about him, but as she turned to leave she saw something sparkle in the moonlight. As she crouched down to pick up the object she saw that it was a locket necklace with the letters A. G engraved on it. It was very beautiful silver necklace it had swirls around the rim and then a circle row of diamonds that bordered that letters that were engraved on it. She wondered if this was Malfoy's necklace and what he would be doing with something so elegant. Surly it wasn't his, he could never care about something so stunning. Rose put the necklace around her neck and descended down the stairs back to the Gryffindor dorm. Forgetting why she went up to the Astronomy Tower in the first place, at least for tonight.