Chapter 8: UNFORTUNATE DATE

Her heart was beating quickly from the moment his lips touched hers, blood was rushing to her face and her head was swimming. He is kisses were warm and sweet. Rose had never felt something so genuine and so perfect all at once. And it was coming from Scorpius Malfoy. The second that name came into her mind Rose realized what was happening. She was kissing Scorpius Malfoy. She knew this shouldn't be happening. They couldn't be together. Is that what this would mean? She and Scorpius just didn't make sense. They have nothing in common. They didn't even know each other. Rose pushed Scorpius back away from her the second she compiled her thoughts together. No matter how right it felt to her. It just must not happen.

"I'm sorry; I just, I just can't do this"

And with those said words Rose ran down the stairs and away from him. Scorpius was left alone uncertain where to go from here. He grabbed his mother's in his hand. He was determined from then on to be the person his mother wanted him to be. He was going to be a good person.

Over a month passed by since Rose and Scorpius kissed at the Astronomy Tower. Neither had talked to each other since then and day by day the tension between them seemed more and more. Scorpius would pay attention Rose day after day, realizing little by little that he was falling in love with her. Rose was intelligent, beautiful, humble, and honest. Scorpius had never known some to be so genuine. She was the first person to care about him and the first person to get him to express how he really felt and be himself. Somehow he knew that he'd show her that they could be together and that the person at the Astronomy Tower was the real him.

During lunch in the Great Hall Rose was eating lunch with Albus, Lily, Hugo, Alice and some other Gryffindors she got to know better in the past month. Rose was trying her best to forget her night conversation with Scorpius by spending as much time with her family and new friends. Rose attempted a few days at Hogsmeade with Alice and some other girls from Gryffindor and to her astonishment she seemed to have a lot shared interest with Alice's friend Coretta McLaggen. Throughout the past month Coretta and Rose had become fairly good friends. Rose felt that she could have been completely happy, she finally had what she wanted over these past few years, but the kiss seemed to haunt her mind and dreams.

"So, Rose. Do you have a date yet for the Christmas Ball?"

Rose looked up from the book she was reading to see Alice was talking to her. Rose didn't even remember about the Christmas Ball let alone think about a date. She wasn't really interested in going to any sort of ball. Let alone with a date. Rose never seemed to have attraction to the guys in Hogwarts, well not until last month.

"No I don't Alice. I don't think I will be going."

"Oh Rose! You have to go! You know, Core's twin brother Corey has always had a thing for you."

Rose turned her head to look at Corey McLaggen. He was stuffing is face with food and laughing at something causing said food to fall back out onto his plate. Rose was sickened at the sight of seeing his food falling out of his mouth. Corey McLaggen was the last person on her list to ever go out on a date with let alone the Christmas Ball which she had no interest in going to. Corey was all brawn and no brains not to mention that he thought he was God's gift to the earth. It was strange to think that he was Coretta's brother. They were definitely opposites.

"Oh, it will be wonderful! You work in the library tonight right? I will tell my brother to go see you there!"

Before Rose could object Coretta got up from her seat and skipped over to her brother and was most expectedly telling her brother to meet Rose in the library tonight. Rose was not happy about this and with an upset and desperate look on her face see saw Scorpius smiling at her.

Rose tried everything she could to get out of helping in the library, but was unable to say no to Madam Irma Pince when she begged for Rose to help her organize and replace the many books left around the library. Though she loved being their surrounded by the many books, she just couldn't withstand the idea of having to deal with Corey McLaggen. Rose keep on moving around the library hoping that Corey would be unable to find her.

"Hi Rose."

Rose sighed, by hearing someone saying her name behind her. She was really hoping that he wouldn't find her. Rose turned around expecting to see Corey, but instead found the handsome grey eyed boy she couldn't stop thinking about.

"We really need to talk Rose. I can't stop thinking about you. I…"

"ROSIE!"

Rose whipped around to find Corey McLaggen. Strutting towards them with the most arrogant look on his face Rose couldn't help but giggle. She turned back to glance at Scorpius.

"Meet me up at the Astronomy Tower tonight." said at a quiet whisper.

Scorpius turned around gave her a smirk and left her in the library to deal with Corey. Rose turned around and gave the best fake smile she could to Corey and walked to him.

"What the hell did that jerk Malfoy want?"

"Umm…. he was looking for a book for his Arithmancy paper, he thought I might know where it was since I work here a lot. That's all."

"Oh, right, anyway Rosie. My sister tells me that you don't have a date for the Christmas Ball yet."

"Yeah, I suppose that would be true."

"Brilliant! Then you will go with me then! "

"Well you see Corey I don't really think that…"

"No, no, no. Don't even worry about it. Coretta told me how you were hoping to go with me to the dance. I will have her take care of the details. Very bloodily excited! Talk to you soon Rosie!"

Corey grab Rose gave her a kiss on the cheek and a wink and left her dumbfounded. She wasn't happy at the fact that Coretta had told him that she was hoping to go with him and that he kept on calling her Rosie. Before Rose could think more about her problems with Corey and Scorpius, Coretta McLaggen and Alice Longbottom came from around the bookcase to the front left of her. Alice giggled and Coretta was beaming from ear to ear. Obviously they didn't think that Corey was a barbaric idiot like she did.

"This is so exciting! We will all go together! You and Corey, Coretta and Liam Finnegan, and Albus and I will all go together as a group! It will be so much fun!"

Rose sighed. She knew there wasn't going to be a way to get out of this situation, so she tried to make the best of this outlandish situation. Rose gritted her teeth and tried to be as excited as she could be at the thought of going to the Christmas Ball with Corey McLaggen. For the rest of the evening Alice and Coretta stayed with Rose in the library utill her work at the library was over. The whole time the two were talking about the Christmas Ball, what they would wear, their dates, and their excitement that Misfit Magic, their favorite band, would be performing at the Ball. Rose wasn't really listing to the girl's conversation, any time they would ask for her input she would respond with short one syllable sentences, but Alice and Coretta didn't seem to notice. All Rose could think about was Scorpius. Rose's shift had finished so her, Alice, and Coretta left together to go back to the Gryffindor common room. Rose decided that she would rather go talk to Scorpius at the Astronomy Tower than to go to common room with Alice and Coretta and talk about the ridiculous Christmas Ball. As the three of them got to the portrait of the fat lady, Rose decided it was the best time for her to make-up and excuse to go to the Astronomy Tower.

"Oh! I forgot to grab the book I needed for my Transfiguration class."

It was lucky for Rose that neither Alice nor Coretta was taking Transfiguration. It would be easy for them to believe her since they didn't know what was going on her class.

"Well okay. Alice and I will wait for you to come back and we can organize everything for the Ball."

"Why don't you two go ahead and figure things without me. The book I need is the Restricted Area, so I will have to be in the library for a while copying the bits and pieces that I need."

"Well I guess that's alright. Really Rose you work on school too much. You should try harder to have more fun."

Alice and Coretta said their goodbyes to Rose and went through the portrait of the fat lady, leaving Rose to go to the Astronomy Tower. Rose wasn't sure if it was smart to go and see Scorpius, but she knew that he was right. They needed to talk.

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