Rose almost liked pretending to be a bad kid. She propped her feet up on the desk she had been assigned to for detention. Put a toothpick in her mouth like a cigarette. She had her imaginary cool person act together perfectly until Scorpius walked in.

She shot up, throwing her legs down while Scorpius just gave her that smirk of his.

"What are you doing in detention?" he asked.

"Jannette's boyfriend broke up with her and she was crying in a bathroom; I had to skip Transfiguration to comfort her."

"Typical."

"Which part?"

"All of it." He took a toothpick from the little box on the teacher's desk and put his feet up, imitating her previous position. "I knew they wouldn't last," he said thoughtfully.

"Me too. It was too...shallow."

"Easy."

"Yeah, like there was no opposition to them hooking up, so they just did. A good love's gotta be worth fighting for."

"Exactly." Scorpius chewed his toothpick and stared at the poster advertising the upcoming winter ball, suddenly very done with this conversation.

Rose wasn't. "And they didn't even know each other, you know? Knowing stuff about a person doesn't mean you know the person. You need both, I think."

"Still, it's sad that it didn't work out."

"It's sad that they're sad. But it wasn't gonna work out in the long run, so the sooner it ended the better."

"Bit wise for you, don't you think?"

"What do you mean?"

"I just mean you've never been in a relationship, so how do you know what's best?"

Rose just smiled. "I don't know, I guess I don't. I like to think stuff like that is ingrained in you, but it's obviously not since stuff like that happens."

"That came out wrong, by the way."

"I know. Anyway, why are you in detention? It's not like you to get caught," she winked at him conspiratorially and he looked vaguely unsettled.

"I forgot too much potions homework and the professor got mad and gave me detention."

"That's not like you."

"Yeah, well, I have more important things on my mind than potions homework, so he can deal with it."

"Hear hear."

Scorpius couldn't help smiling at her as she coolly lifted her toothpick and flashed a flirty smile. It was blatant sarcasm, but Rose could tell it still kinda drove him insane.

Slowly, he got out of his seat. She eyed him with little smirk.

"Whatcha doin'?" she asked in the most sarcastically innocent voice she could muster.

"Not potions homework." He whispered as he slipped in the chair- clearly built for one- with her. There wasn't enough room, so Scorpius gently eased her onto his lap.

"Well that's a shame," she whispered back, not minding this in the slightest. "You may end up stuck in detention again."

"Will you be here too?"

"Hmm, that depends." Their noses were touching.

"On what?" Scorpius already seemed out of breath and Rose hadn't even started yet.

"How this detention goes." And then she kissed him. He still had the mocking toothpick in his mouth, so she stole it with her lips and spit it on the floor. She let her fingers play with his nearly white hair like they'd always wanted to. She felt his hand on her waist, holding on for dear life, his other tangled in her hair after mere seconds, because hair like hers was easy to get tangled in. All 4 of their legs were on the same side of the chair, and Scorpius looped one of his around one of hers. Rose went to drawing circles at the nape of his neck and Scorpius started frantically kissing her neck, starting with the top, the side until his lips were almost at her back.

"How's it going so far?" Scorpius whispered right in her ear before nipping at it. She pressed herself closer to him.

"I give it a nine out of ten."

Scorpius laughed and Rose could feel it on her collerbone, which was the next thing he went to kissing.

"Should I be offended?"

"Just leaving room for improvement. I wouldn't want this to be best detention I ever have."

"Good thinking."

"Mine usually is."

"Good, because I can't right now, so one of us should think good."

"That's not grammatically correct."

"I'll shoot myself for it tomorrow. Not right now."

"No, don't do that, so much talent to waste..."

"I assume you mean at charms?"

"Charms is one way to put it..."

Scorpius went back to kissing her lips.

"You've got talent too, by the way."

"Thank you. You know they say there's no greater joy than sharing your gifts."

"Just don't go sharing them too much."

"I don't plan to. I'll keep my sharing to one other talented soul."

Scorpius beamed for a moment before his eyes widened.

"What was I thinking?" he murmured.

Rose was confused, and more than a little hurt. Did he not want this? Was this some kind of fling? But she knew him too well, and she was sure he'd never do that, not to her.

"I'm so sorry, Rose," he whispered. He kissed her hard, before sliding away. "Obliviate."

Scorpius was on the ground. Why was he on the ground? When had he come in? Where did her toothpick go?

"You dropped your toothpicks," Scorpius said with a weird smile as he held up two toothpicks. He tossed them in the trashcan.

"Goal!" Rose cheered shakily. She had that weird hazy feeling again. Maybe she had a brain tumor? This was getting to be a problem she should look into.