A/N: Hello, thank you to my reviewers: - Tenshi Yami – Angel of Darkness, Girl-luvs-manga (Not a review but still left a comment) and the guest and anonymous reviewers. Also thank you to all the people who are following this story. This is the second half of the short chapter I posted yesterday. Enjoy!
Chapter Six
Trying to wake Al was like trying to stop water from slipping through your fingers – impossible.
"Al for fuck sake, you don't want to be late for the first day back. Get up before I rip the covers away and cast an aguamenti spell on your face." Scorpius was ready to leave, "Fine I'm going to breakfast without you and you will miss the food".
That did it, he sat bolt upright and started getting ready. "Morning Scorpius, let's go get some food – oh maybe an egg, bacon and sausage sandwich." Al had stopped what he was doing to think about all the food possibilities.
"Get a move mate! Before I resort to physical violence." Scorpius was packing his school book bag and trying to memorise his timetable.
Each year Rose would eat the first breakfast of term with them – it was tradition, not this year apparently. "Al look, she's sat with Rich – what about our tradition", he complained.
Al looked over at the Gryffindor table and sure enough, Rose was sat with Rich at his house table – Rose was a Ravenclaw and they were Slytherin.
"Bloody Gryffindor's" Scorpius grumbled, "I'll tell dad you said that", Al mocked Scorpius.
Scorpius smiled weakly and they sat at their house table and began to eat – it wasn't the same without Rose there, banging on about how she loves the first day of term. Each year she would tell Scorpius how she liked the first term back as she got to use new quills, read new textbooks and had new clothes and she loved the smell - yes the smell, of her new books. He smiled as he remembered all those times she would rant about, why start of term was the best.
Al had followed through on his word and was currently tucking into an egg, bacon and sausage sandwich – of which the yolk was dripping out the end of the sandwich and onto his tie.
"Al you idiot, you are getting egg all over your uniform and did you even brush your hair this morning – sort it out mate" Scorpius was laughing as he watched Al lick the yolk off his tie.
"I did brush my hair but I think it looked better before I did – bloody hair, cant shave it off – we know what happens when someone shaves their head in our family" , he chuckled at the memory.
Scorpius groaned, "Don't remind me – I think dad caused permanent damage to my ears from all his shouting" Scorpius knew he would never shave his hair again – ever!
Al had finished his sandwich and was eating a muffin – bottomless pit he was, "I think you looked cool with a shaved head – all tough, the girls loved it!" then he frowned, "Then again the girls love your hair no matter how you have it – lucky bastard" he huffed and ate his muffin.
Scorpius snatched the muffin away and ate the last part, "Luck and good genetics my friend", and then he punched Al's arm as he stared gobsmacked at Scorpius, the cheek of him for stealing his muffin.
"Al your girlfriend is waving at you – you're so oblivious" Scorpius shook his head – Al was never much of a morning person.
Al waved back enthusiastically and flashed a goofy smile at her. "I think Natalie is a keeper – or she will at least last longer than the previous girls" Al smirked and stole Scorpius toast.
"Oi you wanker. Well let's hope she doesn't do something normal and you dump her for it. What was it- ah Sarah would blink too often, Felicity had a silly laugh, oh and not forgetting Erica had big hands. Dude you should re-consider Erica, big hands could be a very good thing!" he buttered some more toast and started eating it before Al could steal it.
Al shrugged, "I know but Erica was ages ago, before I realised the bonus of having big hands. Anyway what about you – Mr High Standards, no girl can ever live up to what you have in your head? You dumped Jenna because you thought her accent was unbecoming – dude she can't help where she was from" Al thought that was funny – poor girl cried for a week.
Scorpius looked uncomfortable, "Yeah I know I was harsh, but after a month of listening to her loud and obnoxious voice, I snapped. She was very attractive and was a good kisser – but then she would open her mouth and she sounded like a trucker" Scorpius and Al laughed.
Rose was sat watching her two best friends laughing and joking – she wished she was over there with them. Al kept making Scorpius smile and laugh and his whole face would light up the room. She missed the traditional start of term breakfast and her standard 'I love start of term' speech. She tried to talk to Rich about it and he had told her to shut up, he didn't want to be reminded that lessons were starting soon. Scorpius would let her rant for ages about her reasons for loving it and he would offer up other reasons that she had forgotten. Like last year he reminded her that she loved getting her timetable so she could plan her library visits. He knew her so well and Rich seemed to dislike the geeky side of her.
She took another look at her best friends and Al was laughing so hard he was choking and Scorpius wasn't helping at all – just laughing at him.
"Al, Al you alright?" Scorpius asked between laughs.
Al finally calmed down, "You can't say something like that whilst I was about to take sip of drink – made me choke" he whined.
Scorpius shrugged, "Well I can't help it if it popped in my head and I just had to share it with you. It's true though – Big hands Erica wouldn't be a good idea after all, she would make you feel very below average when holding your manhood" Scorpius laughed again as Al tried to fight another laughing fit.
"Scorpius Malfoy – you need to find a girl with very small hands to make you feel adequate" Al joked.
Scorpius chucked, "Nah I could date Big Hands Erica and still look well endowed" he retorted.
They stood and left the hall – Al calling after Scorpius, "Walk sideways mate, your head will fit through the door better" as he caught up with him.
Rose hastily said goodbye to Rich and ran after her friends. "Oi you two look lost, you need your Rose. My dad always said I was the Rose between two thorns!" she smiled as she stood in the middle of her friends.
"Yeah but your dad also bet Scorpius he could down four pints of milk in one go – not a pretty sight!" Scorpius barked out a laugh.
"Your mum was pissed – I won that bet" Scorpius looked pleased with himself.
Rose smiled, "Well dad said he couldn't help it – if a Malfoy challenges him to something, no matter how stupid, he has to prove said Malfoy wrong!" she laughed – "Draco is always thinking of stupid and impossible things for dad to try, Uncle George helps Draco come up with some stuff".
She linked arms with both of her friends, finally getting the start of term happy feeling. "What were you two laughing about earlier?" she enquired.
Al laughed, "How big are your hands Rose?" and then he proceeded to laugh so much he was crying – most likely due to Scorpius face expression when he asked Rose that.
She laughed a small chuckle, "What's so funny – you are so strange Al" then she looked to Scorpius, "Why is he laughing?" she held up a hand, "My hands are fine" and Al laughed even harder.
Al got his self-control back, "Nothing Rose, sorry, your hands are lovely. The perfect size one might say!" he then added, "Remember I dated Erica – well she had Hagrid sized hands" Scorpius snorted and Rose tutted.
"That was mean, you made her feel really self-conscious of them. They are not that big – ok so they are big but not as bad as what you say" she held up her hands again, "Mine are normal size I think?"
Al smirked, glanced at Scorpius, "I'd say they are a great size – they would pass Scorpius' high standards, perfect fit I'd say", then he laughed as he dodged Scorpius fist.
"Perfect fit for what?" That was it Al was laughing uncontrollably again and Rose shook her head – she was definitely missing something.
Rose frowned, "I have a question about hands. Natalie said she read in Witch Weekly that you can tell the size of a man's …um…a man's manhood from his hands." Scorpius and Al frowned.
"How so?" Scorpius asked intrigued.
"Um she said, the way to do it is to make an L shape with your index finger and thumb, then measure the distance between the two tips. The figure you get is supposed to be the same as you'd get by measuring your…um…your…you know" she laughed as she saw both Al and Scorpius make L shapes and stare at their hands.
Scorpius ever the person to be argumentative and factual, "That's a load of shite. That's like saying you can tell a man's penis size..." Roses blushed at the word "from his height or shoe size. I'm sure there are lots of short men that have big wangers" Al started laughing again.
"Scorpius mate where do you get you superb vocabulary from." He always laughed when hanging out with Scorpius.
"What wanger is another word for cock, penis, sword..." Rose cut him off. "Whoa I don't want to hear a 101 ways to say manhood" Scorpius chuckled. "You're such a girl can't even say cock" and he nudged her shoulder with his.
Feeling ruffled, "Fine you say words for lady parts, bet you blush" she challenged him. They stopped in front of their classroom and Al was waiting, this would be fun. Scorpius had the famous Malfoy mask and could hide a many things – but a blush, he didn't think he could.
Scorpius never backed out of a challenge, especially one made by Rose. "Fine, let's see, wizard's sleeve..." Al burst out laughing at that one, first one Scorpius said and he had Al laughing.
"Foo foo, Vagina, Pandora's Box, Chuff, Vajayjay…" Scorpius hadn't blushed once, that was until the professor cleared his throat behind Scorpius to announce his presence – and then he turned bright red.
"Scorpius I would appreciate it if you refrain from such crude words in front of ladies, now class is about to start" he indicated they enter the classroom. Al swore he could see the professor trying not to laugh.
They sat down and Al chuckled, "Wizard's sleeve…great" Scorpius laughed too and Rose muttered, "Why do I have to be friends with two boys!"
"It's good because a wizard keeps his wand up his sleeve – so if lady bits are a wizard's sleeve, then the wand is a man's bits, so …" Rose put a hand over his mouth,
"Scorpius stop being so crude, you are normally the polite one." She removed her hand and giggled, as she thought it was funny really.
Al shrugged, "Rose we are sixteen year old boys, of course we can be crude – this is rather light compared to what we say up in the boys dorms" then he laughed at her outraged expression.
"Boys are so gross" she pulled out her stuff for the class.
Scorpius grinned, "Yep and it's great – beats talking about feelings, make-up and any other boring girly stuff" he dodged a punch and laughed as Al nodded voraciously.
"I wonder if mum had to put up with such antics" she began to copy what the professor had written on the board and Scorpius knew the conversation was over – Rose was in class mode now.
Later that day Scorpius measured the gap between his thumb and index finger and laughed. Being a curious teenager he already knew his penis size – he had measured it, both flaccid and erect. Well that was a waste of time – he knew that was a rubbish way of telling a man's size. It was wrong of course, he assumed that it would be correct on some people – that was just luck though.
They were sat in the joint common room – when Hogwarts was rebuilt, the headmistress had made one large common room. All houses could hang out here, to encourage friendships between houses. They still had their individual common rooms – but as Rose and Natalie were in Ravenclaw they were currently sat in the joint common room. Rose the only one doing homework, the rest just relaxing.
Scorpius looked at Al, "I measured the gap – no match. The Witch Weekly article was incorrect." Natalie giggled.
"How did you know about that?" she asked, with a blush tingeing her cheeks.
"Rose informed me of said article this morning, I had to check after – so I measured the gap between my thumb and index finger, in an L shape. It's wrong!" He smiled as Natalie's blush depend. He may be polite and charming, but he was a sixteen year old boy and he loved making girls blush.
Rose could see that Natalie was embarrassed, so she thought she would make Scorpius squirm instead.
"Wrong you say, so the gap between your fingers was too big!" she knew Scorpius would know that she was implying he had a small penis.
Natalie giggled and Al patted Rose on the back, "Good one Rose", Scorpius however to Rose's chagrin didn't look fazed by her statement.
"Nope, too small actually" then he smiled as Rose blushed just as deep as Natalie.
Rose threw her quill at him, "There is a fine line between being confident and being cocky and arrogant – don't cross that line" and she huffed as Scorpius wouldn't return her quill.
Scorpius threw her quill to Al, who began to hold it above her head out of reach. "I'm not being cocky or arrogant, I am merely stating fact – you like facts" and he laughed as Rose punched Al in the stomach, causing him to release her quill.
She snottily replied, "Well no one likes a big head" to which Al and Scorpius burst out laughing. "Oh for Merlin sake – get your minds out of the gutter" she scolded.
Scorpius ignored her and decided to look around the common room – not many girls he found attractive. A few seemed like they were 'potentials' but it was the first day back, he'd wait and see. A lot of the girls had 'developed' over the summer and Scorpius was admiring the view.
One girl in particular caught his attention, most likely due to her leaning forward to talk to her friend and he could see right down her blouse. She looked up and caught him watching, instead of blushing he winked. His dad said you could always charm you way out of any situation, she smiled and returned to her conversation with her friend.
Al kicked Scorpius foot, "Stop staring at Kelly's boobs – your eyes will fall out" he sounded like he was fighting back laughter. Rose and Natalie grunted and whispered to each other, no doubt slagging off Kelly.
Scorpius shifted in his seat, "I wasn't staring at them, she just happened to lean over as I was looking in that direction. You can't expect me not to take a peak, she had a nice bra on!" and Al laughed. He missed the look on Rose's face as he talked about Kelly and her assets.
Kelly was pleased that Scorpius was looking at her, nearly every girl in the school fancied him and if she could get his attention then she was very lucky. Deciding to go over there, she stood and walked over to him and Al.
She flicked her hair behind her and she noticed Rose roll her eyes. She smiled and sat on the arm rest of the chair Scorpius was sat in. "Is it true you saved Natalie from drowning, this summer?" she smiled sweetly at him again.
Scorpius was uncomfortable, he never liked boasting and hated people praising him for helping others. "Um it was nothing really – she slipped and I helped her out. No big deal." He no longer sounded his confident self.
Natalie snorted, "It was more than that Kelly, and he's being modest. He saved me and it was great" Rose frowned at her friends, why was Natalie helping Scorpius look good in front of Kelly – but then Natalie didn't know that Rose was currently fighting the urge to push Kelly off of Scorpius chair.
Kelly placed a hand on Scorpius upper arm, "What a hero", and Rose smiled. Scorpius HATED being called a hero and Kelly thinking she could flirt, had called him one. Rose saw Scorpius' brows knit together and he shrugged, "Like I said no big deal, now drop it please" he sounded firm and Kelly immediately removed her hand.
"Sorry, anyway I'd better return to my friend. See you around hopefully" she flicked her hair again and walked back to her seat.
Al being tactless as ever, not thinking of Rose, "You're in there mate – Kelly was definitely up for it!" Scorpius smirked and Rose frowned.
Scorpius knew that Kelly wasn't the girl for him, she was too vapid and giggly. But he didn't have to be serious, she could be the in-between girl - in between something better. Then he frowned – that wasn't very nice, maybe he would leave it.
Rose was jealous and when she got worked up she always retaliated and took it out on Scorpius. She started doing an impression of Kelly, flicking her hair and giggling. It wasn't loud enough for Kelly to hear, she was only doing it to wind up Scorpius. "Oh Scorpius, my hero, oh Scorpius you have such strong arms, oh Scorpius I could look into your eyes forever!" she said in a girly sickly voice.
Rose always managed to wind him up faster than anyone else, "Sod off Rose, you're just as bad around Rich – worse even. Giving him big puppy dog eyes and fawning all over him" he stood grabbed his bag, "I'm going to the Slytherin common room" and then he strode out.
Al kissed Natalie goodbye, stood and grabbed his bag, "Well done Rose" and then followed Scorpius out. Rose turned to Natalie, "What did I do? Kelly was the one to piss him off by calling him a hero" she huffed. Scorpius could be such a drama queen – touchy git.