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"Are you ever going to tell me why I'm in here and not in Charms?" I sighed, looking up at the old portrait of Professor Snape behind the Headmistresses chair; I got escorted from Herbology to the Headmistresses office only to find she wasn't here, but the Head Girl told me to sit in the chair facing the desk and wait.
Half an hour later and I'm still here, waiting.
"Patience is a virtue, Rose." Snape smirked down at me; over the past five years, Severus Snape had sort of created an alliance with me and Ivy, Vinnie and Scorpius; he genuinely seemed to like Scorpius, he seemed surprised at how 'un Goyle-like' the twins turned out and how surprisingly pleasant I was. He seemed even friendlier to me when he discovered I was my parents' daughter.
"Yeah? Well I don't have any patience; it's a pain in the arse -"
"Miss. Weasley! When you are quite finished insulting my portraits, will you kindly listen to what we have to say?" I jumped at the sound of McGonagall's voice from behind me. I didn't know she was there, nor did I care.
I didn't bother turning round to see who exactly 'we' were. Within seconds Professor's McGonagall, Urquhart and Longbottom had moved to the other side of the desk and conjured chairs up for the deputy head and my head of house to sit on, flanking the headmistress.
"Whatever happened, it wasn't me! I haven't done anything!" I defended myself when I saw my head of house lay my thick folder on the table.
"We're not here because you're in trouble, Rosie." I snapped my head up when I heard my father's voice from behind me.
He and my mother had just stepped out of the floo; Dad was smiling down at me while Mum was checking her watch discreetly.
"Have you got somewhere more important to be?" I snapped, turning my head back to my teachers; I put my left arm on the arm of my chair and rested my head on my hand, making sure my hair covered my sight from the left side; as expected my father conjured a chair and sat on my right side.
"I was wondering if we'd have time to see your brother before we left, we do have more than one child you know." Mum replied back as she sat down on my left.
"Oh golden boy? I'm surprised he isn't in here, conjuring cushions for Longbottom to sit on; nobody wants to lick a sore arse." I muttered, not really caring if they heard me or not.
"Should we get started?" Urquhart started before my mother replied; I couldn't see her face but I know she'd be frowning at me, highly embarrassed about my comment.
"We're here, Rose, to talk about your behaviour -"
"I've been good! For the past two weeks I haven't done or said anything to anybody!" I interrupted the headmistress, ignoring the knowing look Longbottom shot me; apparently the incident with Lily and the Hufflepuff wasn't as secret as I thought. I saw Dad shoot me the same look out of the corner of my eye too; so one of the brats wrote home.
"We know - we couldn't help but notice that Miss. Goyle isn't here -"
"She's burying her Grandmother." I glared at Urquhart, automatically defending my best friend.
"We noticed that Ivy is currently in Italy due to a family emergency and as a result of that, your behaviour has improved dramatically. Your grades are up, your attitude has changed, you've never missed a lesson...and we've noticed you've been spending a great deal of time with your family -"
"Because Scorpius is bonking Roxanne and with the twins gone, he's the only friend I have in this damn place!" I cut across Neville, who looked at my parents when he said that last bit. I didn't care that he, as well as my father, openly cringed at my crude description of their relationship - before my sorting; I wasn't the only child in my family to call Neville 'Uncle Nev.'
"He won't let me sit at the Slytherin table alone - he seems to think I don't know how to look after myself. Since he spends his time with his girlfriend, I do too! It isn't my fault if his girlfriend, her lame friends and I happen to share genetics!" I carried on, ignoring the deep sighs from both my parents.
"Rose, will you please stop interrupting? This is going to benefit you." Dad assured me softly, moving his hand up to tuck a strand of hair behind my ear like he did when I was young.
"Right, your behaviour has improved, your attendance is satisfactory and the students you're tutoring have actually improved a fraction - we want you to keep on this track." McGonagall told me, pushing my folder in front of her.
"Your teachers have all reported that you've practically become a model student, albeit a model student with a chip on her shoulder -"
I couldn't stop myself from snorting and interrupting.
I couldn't help myself from muttering under my breath.
Even if I didn't want to say it.
"You try being me and not having a chip on your damn shoulder."
The five adults didn't know what to say to that; I could see them all looking at one another through my lashes, Neville was looking from one parent to another with an 'I-told-you-so' expression, McGonagall was looking at Urquhart patiently; they all knew what I meant by it, they just didn't know how to approach it.
It isn't a secret that my family and I don't get on...it isn't a secret that I hate my cousins and I have a slight dislike for my aunts and uncles.
"Rose..." Mum tried to say something, but when I felt her hand on my arm I just shrugged it off and cringed away from her.
"We went through my behaviour." I sat up straighter and looked straight at my head of house - the only other Slytherin student in the room. "May I please be excused sir? I have a question regarding my Charms homework I would like to ask Professor Steele before she dismisses the class."
Even Professor Urquhart - the coldest, not at all paternal, type teacher in the entire school looked sympathetic. I think in this situation, he was the only teacher on my side in the 'Rose vs. the Weasley family' feud that was going on.
"If you hurry you'll make the last ten minutes of her lesson." Urquhart dismissed me and handed me a note for any wandering teachers doing their patrols in the corridor - many of them would love to catch me out of lesson not-allowed.
"Actually...I think this would be better if we waited for a longer period of time after the incident." McGonagall decided, a few minutes later we were all formally dismissed.
I left the room first, but since my father had freakishly long legs, he caught up with me as I was half way down the corridor.
"Rosie." I only stopped because he managed to catch my arm. He turned me round and I was slightly pleased to see Mum making her way towards us slowly; looking at me through wide eyes.
"What?" I looked up at Dad - it was only this very minute that I realised the roles had changed. Before I went to Hogwarts, Mum and I were best friends; Dad was the stranger to me. He was the one who dished out the punishments, not that I got many when I was young, he was the one who I saw only when he wasn't working or on missions or taking Hugo to Quidditch matches with my uncles and their sons, or fishing trips with my grandfathers.
Now...now Dad and I were the 'closest' - which meant that he was the one I hated the least.
Mum and I are strangers now. I can't even remember the last time we had a talk, just the two of us without Dad or Ivy acting as mediator.
"You know we love you, don't you?" He checked with me. I rolled my eyes and looked away.
"Do I?" I sighed and checked my watch - definitely not going to catch Steele.
"Rose," Mum caught up to the two of us finally and tried to say something...but failed. Again.
"You don't even know what to say to me, do you?" I shot at her, not caring if I upset her; I briefly noticed the bell ringing and the echo of hundreds of feet hurrying to the great hall could be heard from every inch of the castle.
I rolled my eyes once more and shook my head as she looked at Dad for help.
"You know what? I'll see you in June." I scowled at the two of them. "Bye Dad...bye Hermione."
I didn't look back as I walked away from them.
"She cannot be serious?" I fumed, looking up from my letter to see Scorpius sat beside me, talking to Rose.
As usual we were surrounded by Gryffindors because we were sat on the wrong side of the hall - I still don't understand why he wouldn't let me sit with our housemates, our friends, by myself.
"What's wrong?" Scorpius turned away from Roxanne as she was mid-stream in whatever they were talking about.
"My mother, she's arranged for us to spend every Sunday together until we go home for Christmas!" I shoved the letter under his nose and shook my head. I suddenly lost my appetite and pushed my plate away.
"Wow...this Sunday the two of you is going for lunch at home. Your father is on a mission so he won't be home - just the two of you." Scorpius smirked and laughed as he handed me the letter back.
"Like hell I am!" I scrunched the letter up into a tight ball, put it in an empty goblet and then proceeded to set it on fire.
"I am not spending my Sunday afternoon with her!" I stood up from the table and grabbed my bag. "If she wants to spend time with me, she comes here."
And that's just what she did.
Somehow my mother got wind of me not going home for the day - so on Sunday at lunch Scorpius nudged me and nodded to the doorway of the Great Hall where Hermione Granger-Weasley was stood looking round; she spotted her son and smiled and waved straight away, she nodded at a few old faces she knew on the staff table, exchanged a grateful nod with Headmistress McGonagall and then she found me.
When our eyes met, she smiled and waved a little - I just looked back down to my roast chicken and asked Scorpius to pass the potatoes.
I didn't bother looking up to see her make her way over to where the two of us sat at the bottom of the Slytherin table - for some reason Luke, Logan and Danny were now hanging around with the girls from our year. Scorpius mentioned that Danny and Bella was supposedly a couple, but I always thought Logan and I were good friends; I couldn't help but wonder why he stopped even speaking to me.
I looked up from my plate when Scorpius cleared his throat and said politely, "Good afternoon, Mrs. Weasley. Would you like some food?"
I looked up as I chewed my chicken, glanced at Mum to see her smile slightly at Scorpius but shake her head.
"Rose I -"
"Mum!" Before Mum could finish whatever she was going to say Hugo, Albus, Lily and Roxanne had made their way over to the Slytherin table; Roxanne was already on her way over though so I didn't mind that.
"Come one come all. I won't stop them from biting you know." I muttered and nodded to the other Slytherins who were glaring at Albus and Hugo - Lily was now a no-go area since word got out that not only would Vinnie defend her, but Scorpius and I would too.
"Seriously, go away." I rolled my eyes and sighed. I pushed my plate away and stood from the table.
"Fine, stay. I'm going for a walk. I'll see you later Scorp." I muttered and climbed over the bench, picking my jacket up as I left.
I heard Mum say something to Hugo and heard her follow after me, but obviously on the other side of the table.
"Where are we going then?" Mum asked briskly when she met me at the Great Hall doors.
I turned on the balls of my feet so I was facing her.
"Well I am going for a walk around the grounds. I don't want to be around Roxanne and Scorpius as they suck face and feel each other up. I don't know or care where you're going." I told her, I said the bit about Roxanne loudly because James and Fred where sat at the top of the Gryffindor table and heard every word we were saying to each other.
Before Mum had anything to say, I turned round again and walked out of the Great Hall.
I could hear her following me but I didn't give her any inclination that I knew she was following me as I walked all-round the grounds; from the castle to the owlery, then round to the Greenhouses, down past Hagrids' hut, through the forest and then by the Quidditch pitch. My hands were like ice in my pocket and I couldn't feel my face - so I didn't know how cold my mother was as she followed me ten steps behind.
I didn't say anything as I quickly made my way back to the castle; it was only when we were both in the Entrance Hall that she said anything.
"I'm going to come every Sunday until you talk to me you know Rose." She called. I rolled my eyes but otherwise ignored her. I didn't look back as I made my way down the staircase that led to the dungeons; it was when I was in the damp, cold corridors that I really felt at home.
The rest of the day was uneventful. After my mother left, I returned to the Slytherin common room. Scorpius was not there so I presumed he was with Roxanne and the rest of my so-called family in their common room.
The only people sat on the leather sofas were first and second years. Everyone was probably out causing trouble somewhere. I considered going to find them but my walk seemed to have drained all my energy so instead I walked down the hall to my dorm.
Unsurprisingly Janey, Bella and Emily were lounged across Emily's bed giggling and leafing through magazines. They did not look up when I entered so I stayed silent and crossed the room to my bed. Without thinking, I ducked down into my trunk and pulled out my Herbology book and a sheet of parchment. Picking up my quill and a pot of ink, I sunk down onto my bed and started to write my essay due in on Wednesday.I wrote until my hand started to cramp and I realised how much I had written. Merlin McGonagall was right; I was turning into a model student! I smacked my palm against my head and prayed for Ivy to return I could write another sentence there was a knock at the door.
"Enter!" Janey called out. I rolled my eyes and scoffed. The door opened a crack revealing a fourth year whose name I could not place.
"Rose, Scorpius is in the common room looking for you." She said confidently looking at me and not at the other three girls in the room.
I nodded my head at her and uncrossed my legs stretching them before standing up. Janey had gone back to giggling with her minions and the fourth year had already walked away.
I strolled into the common room to find Scorpius stood there, arms crossed looking stern.
"Where have you been? I've searched everywhere for you." He asked patronisingly. I rolled my eyes and copied his stance.
"Well as you can see I'm perfectly fine." I replied and turned to go.
"I'm heading to the hall for dinner. Come on." He said not giving me a chance to say no before he put an arm around my shoulder and walked us out the room.
I sat at the Gryffindor table staring at my sandwich whilst Scorpius and Roxanne sat almost on top of each other next to me feeding each other. My family members surrounded me, I looked down at my plate to block out the sounds that bought back unwanted memories of my childhood.
I did not look up when someone sat down next to me. It was only when they coughed did I look up. Before me I saw not the Princess Potter that you would normally see parading the halls here but the tomboy Lily I remembered from my childhood. She sat beside me in a pair of ripped jeans; her hair pulled back into a messy bun, no makeup and a hoody that I am pretty sure used to belong to Vinnie.
She sent me a strained smile and I raised my eyebrows at her.
"Look Rose..." she started in a hushed tone. I raised my eyebrows even more.
"I just want to apologise for everything I've done recently, I know you don't deserve it and –"she spoke softly but I cut her off.
"What and that one apology makes it all better does it." I growled but in a hushed tone like hers. Lily's ears started to redden and she scowled.
"None of you have apologised to me for the last five years so why are you now? You think that now you are dating my best friend we are automatically BFF's!?" I growled back and the redness spread from Lily's ears to her face. The buzz of chatter around us was still loud so I guessed no one had noticed us yet.
Lily took an obvious deep breath and shut her eyes. The redness quickly disappeared; she had managed to master the trait neither of her brothers could. She could control the Weasley temper.
"Look Rose I just want you to know I appreciate what you did for me the other day. You protected me even though you don't like me and it made me realise how wrong I've acted towards you. I'm trying to be grownup here since we are going to be seeing a lot more of each other when Vinnie returns." Lily snapped back checking around like me to see if anyone was watching. No one was.
I took in what she said slowly. She was right. She got up to leave sending me one last look, I took this as my chance and sent her a small smile showing her that I'd heard everything and I agreed. She returned it and quickly left.
"Have you heard their latest album?" I asked Scorpius as the two of us walked down from Divination; we'd spent the lesson discussing the Hopping Hags, an underground band that hadn't cracked it into the mainstream audience just yet - meaning they were one of the best artists around.
"Yeah, I still say their second is the best they've ever done." Scorpius nodded his head.
"Oh of course! I mean, Potion of Pain is the single greatest song I have ever - ouff!" I was interrupted by somebody pushing me against the nearest wall and covering my mouth with theirs.
"Missed me?" Lysander Scamander smirked down at me; over the past couple of days the two of us had sort of become a couple. An unofficial couple. We hadn't really had a conversation about what we were - or one at all really. We mainly had intense snogging sessions and then we went our separate ways.
"About as much as you missed me." I teased him, pushing him off me and standing up straight. I looked round to see who he was with - Lysander never travelled alone. Today he had his brother, James, Albus and Rose. Roxanne of course, appeared at Scorpius' side instantaneously.
"Oh, I see you've brought your fan club with you today." I rolled my eyes and picked my bag back up from the floor where it landed after Lysander had manhandled me.
"Their devotion has its strengths." Lysander smirked at his friends as he said this. I noticed that none of them seemed too pleased at what he had dragged them along for.
"So, what are you doing for lunch?" Lysander asked me as the eight of us began walking in the direction of the Great Hall.
"Well that depends." I shrugged.
"On what?"
"On whether Scorpius is sitting with...them." I aimed my question at Scorpius but looked at Lysander.
"Scorpius is sitting with his girlfriend." Scorpius sighed, scowling at the floor slightly.
"Then I'm free as a bird." I arched an eyebrow at Lysander and took his hand, stopping him from walking. "Isn't the Ravenclaw common room around these parts?" I asked him, sending an unneeded and an overly-obvious wink his way.
Lysander caught my train of thought and took my hand and began walking back down the corridor.
"Where are you going Rosie?" Scorpius shouted after the two of us.
"If you need to be told, then Foxy isn't doing her job as a girlfriend right!" I yelled over my shoulder.
"So this is the Ravenclaw common room." I muttered as Lysander quickly pulled me through it; I was surprised when he answered a riddle without even thinking about it - this boy is insanely smart.
"Yeah...and the Ravenclaw dorm rooms are this way." He muttered, before we were even on the stairs let alone in his dorm room he started kissing me, making me giggle. As we were on the stairs, Lysander had to walk backwards.
He kicked his dorm room door open and without even bothering to check to see if the place was empty, he led me over to the second bed. I felt his hands go behind my knees and then felt him pick me up. I wrapped my legs round his waist as he settled his hands on my bottom, keeping me secure as he fell onto the bed, with me on the mattress and him kneeling slightly above me.
As his tongue moved around my mouth and his hands delved under my shirt, I couldn't help but think of my parents' faces when they saw me and Lysander kiss at the Platform.
Lysander and I didn't bother eating after our make-out session; we didn't have time anyway. With only fifteen minutes of lunch left we simply decided to go find Scorpius and Lorcan and then part for the day.
"It's snowing outside...they'll be in an unused classroom." Lysander told me, nodding out of a window as we left the common room and walked down a corridor.
I simply nodded and led the way down the many staircases, ignoring the disapproving glances that many Ravenclaws were giving the two of us as they made their way up to their common room.
I don't know why...but I didn't feel much for Lysander - of course he's hot so I felt something for him, that feeling had completely taken over me for the past forty five minutes!
But, I felt more for Logan than I do for Lysander, and Logan was purely a benefit thing! First to piss my family off, then to sort of experiment with each other, to practice before we moved on to different people.
Maybe because Lysander is new to me - in a...lustful way, maybe that's why I don't feel the same for him as I did for Logan.
"I wish Ivy was here." I sighed out loud, not realizing I did so.
"Did you say something?" Lysander asked me, I just shook my head and opened the door to the first unused classroom I saw before he said anything else.
Luckily, the people we were looking for were in there.
Dominique, Albus, Amy, James, his girlfriend Amelia, two of her friends, Lorcan and some of his friends, Roxanne and Scorpius were all sat together; I noticed as we made our way over that everybody but Roxanne and Scorpius looked a little awkward.
"What's going on?" Lysander asked as he sat in the only spare seat. Instead of getting one from a group of Hufflepuffs across the room, I simply sat on Lysander's knee; fully aware of the unhappy sigh Lorcan emitted.
"Err...Roxanne and Scorpius are having a bit of a disagreement." Dominique - the closest we were sat too, muttered under her breath.
"What the hell is your problem? Seriously, why are you in a foul mood?" Scorpius suddenly yelled, bringing all attention to him and his girlfriend.
"You!" Roxanne snarled, looking at Scorpius and then at me for a second.
"You always defend her! Even when she attacked Amy you were still defending her -"
"Because Amy deserved it!" Scorpius interrupted before I could.
"When she does all the awful stuff she does, you defend her!"
"Because most of the time I do it with her!" Scorpius yelled back, either completely unaware that everybody else in the entire room was looking at the two of them, or ignoring them.
"Well I'm sick of it! I'm your girlfriend, not her!"
"She's my best friend!"
"I'm your girlfriend!"
"Don't I know it?" Scorpius muttered, grabbed his bag and stood up. He glanced at me, saw where I was sitting and muttered something under his breath.
"I'll see you later Rosie." I knew he purposefully used the nickname my family gave me to wind Roxanne up, just as I smiled sweetly at him and cheerily responded with,
"See ya Scorp!"
Scorpius was meant to be in Transfiguration with me after Lunch, but I told the Professor he fell ill over lunch and sat on my own - ignoring the looks from the angry Ravenclaw girls.
When I went to Care of Magical Creatures with Danny and Luke I ignored the glares that Dominique and Roxanne were shooting me and focused on my work. Hagrid was more surprised than anybody when I behaved all lesson, answered the questions he fired to the class - maybe that's why he awarded me thirty points for handing him a bucket of water.
"Nice ter see yeh in a good mood, Rose." Hagrid muttered to me when he walked past me at the end of the lesson.
I didn't bother telling him that for some unknown reason the rest of my housemates weren't speaking to me - well, technically I could work out why they weren't talking to me. Janey, Bella and Emily would rather sing and dance with the Hufflepuffs than be my friend, Logan was clearly jealous of Lysander, Luke always paid attention in Care of Magical Creatures and Danny was currently trying to impress Dominique. Ivy, Vinnie and Scorpius weren't even in the lesson.
Without answering him, I picked my bag up and hurried up the bank, eager to deliver a blow to Roxanne.
"Will you move out of my way?" I pushed apart Roxanne and Albus and sent a very 'Slytherin' glare over my shoulder.
"Will you watch where you're going, snake?" Dominique snapped back - there's the catalyst I was waiting for.
"Oh here we go." I bit back a smirk as I turned on my cousins. "Look, I haven't got time for this. Currently my best friends are all emotionally hurt. Two of them aren't even in the country. Can we do this another time so I can go comfort my best friend? Some of us still have a sense of loyalty about us." I looked right at Roxanne when I mentioned going to comfort Scorpius.
"Oh," One more blow before I left. "Tell Lily her boyfriend will be back in four days." I winked at Albus who turned bright red.
"Scorpius is already planning on getting the guys out of their dorm so Lily and Vinnie won't be interrupted in their...catch up session. Don't you think greeting sex is just the best?" I smirked when I saw Roxanne and Amy Wilson both grab one of Albus' arms each to stop him from lunging at me.
"Like I said, I have to go." I shook my head and turned away from them.
I hurried up to the castle and down to the common room, not in the least bit worried about what my cousins would do with what I just told them.
Ignoring all shouts of my name from the older students, I threw my bag into an empty armchair and headed straight for the boys dormitories.
"Scorpius? Are you alright?" I locked the dormitory door behind me when I found it was only him in the room. He was lying across his bed, hands under his head and he was just looking up at the hangings above the bed.
"You've been quiet since you and Foxy Roxy had that argument." I thought out loud, walking over to his bed and sitting down beside his feet.
"Rose -"
"So, you feel like you're the only one who takes my side then?" I cut across him and got straight to the point. He never said anything, but I knew automatically he would be rolling his eyes.
"Thanks...although I don't really need people to defend me against my family, I'm used to it. But thanks, I mean, we Slytherins have to stick together - even if that means protecting baby Potter -"
"Will you shut up?" Scorpius sat up quickly. "I don't defend you because you're a Slytherin. I don't defend you because your family don't." He muttered, scowling at me heavily.
"Then why do you defend me? I mean, you argue with your girlfriend over me -"
"Just drop it Rose." Scorpius looked like he wanted to kick himself as he fell back down on the bed. I followed him but lay on my side so I could see his face.
"No, tell me. Is it because I'm your best friend? Am I your B.F.F.?" I teased him, poking him in the side - which turned out to be the most brilliant move ever because apparently Scorpius Malfoy, the arrogant, overly confident Slytherin bad-boy, is extremely ticklish.
"Stop it! Seriously - I - will - ROSE!" He managed to get out half of a threat as he gasped for breath in-between laughs.
"Rose, stop it!" He grabbed my hands and held them together tightly, his face red from laughing so much.
"Tell me! Am I your -"
This time I wasn't silenced by him yelling, grabbing me, interrupting or storming away.
I was interrupted by Scorpius Malfoy, my cousin's boyfriend, my best friend, kissing me. At first it was a light kiss, but when I kissed him back out of instinct, it turned hungry.
I couldn't help but giggle when his tongue trailed over my lips, when I opened them his tongue quickly and effectively took control over my mouth. One of his hands went to the bottom of my back while the other went through my hair to my neck, as soon as his hands touched me, mine came to life. One went to his chest while the other rested on the point his shoulder and neck met.
When he felt my hands touch him, he pulled me closer and fell back down to the bed, so I was laying on top of him. I sat up a little bit so I was a little more comfortable, I positioned myself so I was straddling him with one leg on either side, my back arched and one hand on either side of his head.
When he pulled away from my mouth, I groaned as I expected him to push me away, but instead he moved his mouth to my cheek, my neck and once he quickly undid all of the buttons of my shirt and pushed it out the way, my shoulder.
Since he was undoing my buttons, I deemed it fair that I undid his so I moved my hands to his shirt and began to quickly pull his shirt apart; I'd seen his bare chest many times...it was only now I discovered I'd always had an urge to run my hands over it, to finger the hard abs, to press my lips against his chest.
"Rose..." Scorpius murmured when I leaned back to look at the sight beneath me.
"This is wrong." I whispered, forcing myself to look up into his eyes and away from his chest - which was extremely hard!
"Totally wrong. I'm dating your cousin." Scorpius cleared his throat, but held one hand up so he was cupping my cheek and another to go on the small of my bare back, rubbing it slightly with his thumb.
"Then tell me to stop." I arched an eyebrow and moved both of my hands to start roaming his chest, beginning at his waistline.
"I said it was wrong...I didn't tell you to stop." Scorpius whispered to me, using the hand against my cheek to pull me back down to meet his lips.
I can't remember when...or why, Scorpius and I stopped making out; I can just remember the two of us leaving his dormitory, not looking one another in the eye and then me practically running to my dormitory.
I didn't get much sleep, every time I drifted off, I started dreaming about Scorpius and the new feelings that I suddenly held for him.
I mean, he was always attractive – even the boys in school would be forced to admit Scorpius Malfoy is seriously good looking, but he was my friend. For the first three years, he wasn't even that, only in the last year or year and a half has he become anything more than a friend to me; and that's transitioning from friend to close friend.
Now...forget Logan, forget Lysander – my blood was getting hot for Scorpius Malfoy.
"Watch where you're walking!"
Scorpius and I looked up from where we were sat on the floor in the corridor to see Roxanne snap at a second year Slytherin who just ducked her head and ran.
It has been three days since Roxanne and Scorpius fought...and since I practically dry humped my cousins' boyfriend and the two of them still hadn't made up. It's also been three days since Scorpius and I acknowledged that anything had happened between the two of us.
"What are you all staring at?" She snapped at the Slytherins who were all staring at her in shock; normally she got on well with the Slytherins - which meant they tolerated her because they were afraid that her boyfriend would throw them into the lake if they were anything but nice to her.
"Scorpius, I think you need to service your girl. She seems a little frustrated." Logan called out; making my Housemates chuckle or giggle.
"Oh please," Roxanne snorted and turned her back on us, but kept her gaze towards Scorpius and I. "He can't even service himself properly."
A chorus of, "Ooh's" and "Burn's" came from both Houses as Scorpius smirked and shook his head.
"I don't know...I've had plenty of practice while I've been with you." He quipped back; this time turning the comments back round on Roxanne who flipped him off before turning her back on us properly.
"It's good to be back."
My head snapped up at the sound of the all too familiar voice at the same time most of my housemates' did.
"We've been back five minutes and we've witnessed a disagreement between the golden couple an over-heard Malfoy's wanking habits." Ivy chuckled, pushing her way through the Slytherins until she was stood in front of me, smiling broadly down at me.
"IVY!" I was on my feet and had my arms around her neck within seconds; she smelled of her Grandmother...a range of herbs and spices, a sweet smell and then the jasmine perfume her Grandmother always wore to mask her sent.
"Rose! I have missed you so much!" She whispered as we squeezed each other hard.
She had barely pulled away from me when Scorpius pulled her to him and Vinnie had wrapped his arms around me in a tight hug.
"So, you and Lil are friends now?" Vinnie whispered in my ear, I pulled away and rolled my eyes in his direction.
"Hardly."
"So, what's been happening?" Ivy asked as the four of us sat down at the Slytherin table for lunch.
"Everybody knows about Lily and Vinnie now; it's public knowledge." Scorpius said through a mouth full of chicken.
"I thought everybody knew anyway?" Vinnie smirked, sending a very huge wink over at the Gryffindor table, Ivy and I turned round on our bench to see Lily's eyes light up when she saw him.
"They did," Scorpius nodded, rolling his eyes as Lily left the Gryffindor table. "They just knew it was the truth when Rose and I came to her rescue when that Ravenclaw creep tried it on with her." He carried on, smirking when Ivy looked at me with her mouth in a perfect 'o' shape and Vinnie looked surprised momentarily until Lily herself sat down next to him.
"So why are Foxy and Malfoy rowing?" Ivy asked as she looked away from her twin being giving by his girlfriend an over the top welcome home kiss.
"Over me - apparently my darling cousin doesn't like that I'm Malfoy's best friend." I muttered; Malfoy himself was now sat talking to Logan and Danny, Vinnie was too busy tasting Lily's saliva and there wasn't anybody else around so we were practically alone.
"Oh, are you two B.F.F.'s?" Ivy teased, making me choke on my mouthful of soup and spit it out everywhere.
"Thanks, Red." Danny muttered, wiping soup from his face.
"What happened?" Scorpius asked, laughing as Logan and he tried to eat around the soup on their plates.
"Nothing, I asked if you two where B.F.F.'s and then mount Soup erupted!" Ivy nodded to me; for a moment I thought I was the only person who saw Scorpius' face freeze for a second and I hoped I was the only person who saw his eyes look up to meet mine for a minute.
But of course, Ivy saw it. Like she picks up on everything.
And of course, like only Ivy can, she immediately put two and two together and got four.
"So what were you saying, man?" Scorpius cleared his throat and turned back to Danny and Logan.
"So how's your Dad?" I looked at Ivy who just smirked and shook her head.
"You two -" She laughed but stopped when the two of us subtly shook our heads. "You two really need to loan me your class notes."
For the rest of the day, Ivy would let neither Scorpius nor me out of her sight; not even when Roxanne and the Gryffindors came up to us in Defence Against the Dark Arts and she apologised and they made up.
"Did he kiss you like that?" Ivy whispered to me when we took our seat at the back of the classroom.
"Ivy, seriously, are you going to do this?" I sighed and looked at her, grateful that there was a full empty table in front of us so nobody could hear.
"I am. Come on, what happened with you and Scorpius?" She smirked and looked over to where Roxanne and Scorpius where sat with the Gryffindors.
"Alright...we were just messing around - obviously I now know it was flirting we were doing - but then one thing led to another..." I trailed off and tried to pay attention to what the Professor was saying.
"Did you two sleep together? Did his penis enter your vagina?" She teased me, giggling like crazy.
She ignored the warning look that the Professor gave us and continued to tease me. "Did his finger enter it? It did didn't it!"
"No!" I hissed, kicking her under the table.
"Ouch!" She groaned, and caused the entire class to turn our way.
"Weasley, Goyle, you two have only been reunited for a couple of hours and you are already getting on my last nerve!" Professor Steele yelled, slamming a book down on her desk.
"I've only been in this class for ten minutes and you're already getting on my last nerve." Ivy snapped back.
"You've only been in this class for ten minutes and you've already gotten yourself a detention Miss. Goyle!" Steele glared at Ivy; I rolled my eyes and shook my head.
Steele is not intimidating; a three year old wouldn't be intimidated by her.
"I think I've broken some sort of record?" Ivy mocked.
"I wish you would change the record." Roxanne snapped at Ivy; I saw Scorpius try to hush his girlfriend but she wouldn't; I saw him look towards me with a slightly panicked expression on his face.
"You know what, Foxy?" Ivy smiled grimly at her, her eyes getting a little dark.
"Ivy, don't." I whispered so only she could hear me.
"I'm in a very generous mood." She looked at me for a second before she spoke to Roxanne. "I'm sorry, Professor, we'll be quiet now."
After the shock of Ivy Goyle apologising for miss-behaving had wore off, Steele started her class up again; as everybody paid attention, I looked towards Scorpius and saw him look away once he caught my gaze.
When his arm snaked over Roxanne's shoulders, I resisted the urge to grab my wand and curse her into oblivion.
I settled back in my chair and tried not to smile at the thought of Scorpius' hands on me instead of my cousin.
I stepped into the great hall for breakfast and the atmosphere was electric. I swear I felt my hair frizz a little as I passed the tables on my way to my group. I scanned the room frowning trying to understand why everyone was so hyped up. A crimson and gold banner flapped straight into my face. I ripped it away and glanced at its owner. The tiny second year Gryffindor's lip trembled at the sight of me before he scurried away. Looking around I could see much more of the same colour along with some blue and silver. I suddenly remembered. Today was the day that Gryffindor played Ravenclaw and the winner would go on to play us after Christmas.
I rolled my eyes, the Gryffindor quidditch team was made mostly of my family. This included Hugo as keeper. I groaned loudly as I sat down with the usual group. My parents would probably be in the crowd cheering on their son so I would be forced to interact with them sometime today.
Vinnie slung his arm over my shoulders as I let my head hit the hard wooden bench. He laughed loudly.
"Come on Rosie I'm sorry I ate the last of the bacon but there is no need for that!" He joked slipping his hand beneath my head so it no longer had such a hard target. I couldn't help but smile at his joke and sit back up straight. Surrounding me this morning was Danny, Logan and Vinnie. Janey, Emily and Bella were sat further down the table with some more sixth years.
I had left Ivy in bed, we had stayed up late the night before secretly discussing the mess I had got into whilst she was away.
Scorpius wasn't around so he had to be with Roxanne somewhere. I would have looked over to see if they were at the table but didn't feel like seeing him with her now they had made up. Instead I tucked into some toast whilst sort of listening to Danny and Logan quiz Vinnie on his relationship with Lily.
I was just finishing my toast when a loud cheer from the other side of the room made me look up. Across the hall half the Gryffindors were on their feet cheering as my cousins Albus and James entered in full quidditch uniform. Both had arrogant smirks on their face as they strutted forwards. They were the complete opposite of how I imagine Uncle Harry at that age.
"Cocky Bastards." I snapped making my fellow housemates laugh loudly.
My cousins were soon followed by more of the team. This included Hugo looking slightly nervous with his lanky legs shaking and Roxanne with her beaters bat slung over her should. She flicked her hair and received a couple of whistles from the crowd before them. She smiled back her dark hair and tanned skin looking perfect against the red of her jersey. Her brother Fred walked over to them slapping them all on the back grinning. Fred usually would have been there with them but after his last prank he was suspended from the team for a month. It didn't seem to be bothering him today though; he was all grins for his team mates.
The rest of the team was made up of Jimmy Carter the substitute fourth year beater, and Billy Pearce an excellent fifth year chaser. These two were stood behind the respective Potters and Weasleys seemingly happy to be stuck behind the golden children.
The last member of the team then entered. Lily walked normally into the hall and I watched as she instantly locked eyes on Vinnie behind me. She tried to squeeze around the people in front of her but was blocked by her brothers. They both said something I couldn't make out before spinning around to face their admirers with Lily wedged between them.
Bored of the events happening in the hall I jumped up.
"I'm going to get Ivy; I'll meet you guys in the Slytherin stand?" I told the boys. Vinnie smiled and nodded quickly at me before turning his attention back to Lily.
"Sure Red, Oh and bring some parchment so we can make notes on their plays."Danny said already thinking forwards to after Christmas when it would be our turn.
Logan shot me a wink and I smirked back before hurrying out the hall making sure to shove my way straight through the middle of Gryffindor's little parade.
"Common Ivy up and at em." I whispered to my sleeping best friend rolling into her bed. She groaned and ducked under the sheets.
"I know I wish we could stay here all day especially since my parents are down there but McGonagall said we had to. She doesn't trust us up here with everyone busy at the match.
Ivy groaned again and said something incoherent. I hugged her tightly before getting up and walking to her trunk. I chucked clean underwear at her and that was followed by a pair of jeans and a woollen jumper I knew she loved.
She got changed quickly grumbling about it being too cold and too early for a weekend whilst I searched through my stuff for the parchment Danny requested. I found it and shoved it in the inside pocket of my thick winter coat along with a muggle pen which I found easier to use when out and about. I looked up to see Ivy fully dressed with a toothbrush stuck out her mouth whilst she wrapped her scarf around her neck and tucked it in her coat.
Once we were all wrapped up for the bitter early December weather we made our way out of the dungeons and onto the grounds. We joined the crowd of people making their way down too. Everyone was wearing house colours Ivy and I included with our Slytherin scarves and green hats.
We reached the Slytherin tower and found our group easily. Danny, Logan and Luke were joking about something. Most of the Slytherin girls were sat down or still in the castle, Janey included. Scorpius and Vinnie were both staring intently onto the pitch where the Gryffindors were warming up.
I sat down next to Danny and silently handed him the parchment and pen, he murmured his thank you before turning back to Logan. I stared across the large stadium, at the other end the Ravenclaw team were also warming up. They all hovered around the team captain for a while before she sent them all off to do laps. Blurs of blue surrounded the stadium with one of them peeling off from the pack. He started doing loop the loops and corkscrews in the middle of the stadium making the Ravenclaw supporters roar loudly. I grabbed Vinnie's Binoculars to try a find out who this daredevil was.
I raised them to my eyes and squinted. I was surprised to see the dark, blonde messy hair and excellent body of Lysander Scamander working that broom. I had completely forgotten he was on the Ravenclaw team. He spent so much time with James and Fred that sometimes I just thought he was a Gryffindor. He zoomed away and I was left staring straight across towards the opposite viewing tower where my family happened to be sat. There were my parents, Uncle Harry, Aunt Ginny, Teddy, Uncle George, Aunt Angelina and a couple other relatives. They all had a pair of binoculars so I knew they could see me. It seemed that at that moment my dad was looking straight at me too since he raised his hand and waved at me.
I resisted the primal urge to give him the finger and instead just pretended not to see him. I carried on staring though, watching their every movement.
My view was suddenly blocked; I put down the binoculars to see a sweaty Lysander hovering in front of me. I raised my eyebrows and he winked at me and before I could say anything leant in and kissed me. I could do nothing but kiss back and hope he didn't pull me out the tower. Loud cheers and whistles sounded out from throughout the stadium. I guessed one of the many floating cameras had zoomed in on us and we were now being shown on the newly installed giant screens at the back of each tower.
Lysander eventually pulled back when a whistle meaning the match would start soon was blown. He smirked and saluted the camera which was in fact hovering to my left before flying away to face off against Albus in the seekers position.
I laughed and turned around to see everyone looking at me smirking. Ivy was smirking the most, she loved the fact I had managed to pull the two hottest blondes in the school whilst she had been away. Scorpius was looking pretty annoyed as he always did when I made out with Lysander. I've always put that down to them not liking each other but now I'm not too sure.
Three hours we were still watching, the two teams were so evenly matched it was taking forever. Gryffindor would score and then Ravenclaw would equalise and vice versa. Albus and Lysander hadn't even spotted the snitch yet and we could all see how annoyed they were getting.
I was getting fed up, it was freezing cold and no one had been critically injured. I was just about to ask Ivy if she wanted to sneak off when there was a loud cheer and I looked up to see Albus and Lysander in pursuit of a speeding golden orb. At the same time Lily Potter sped down the side over the top of the Ravenclaw keeper and scored putting the lions 20 points ahead of the eagles.
Albus and Lysander were climbing higher and higher both trying as hard as the other but Albus had the smaller stature and was using it to his advantage as he quickly gained on the snitch.
We all gasped as the snitch suddenly dropped and both boys followed without hesitation. The hurtled towards the ground with their arms outstretched grabbing at the snitch.
II know that everyone watching was scared that they would smash into the grass below as they were getting extremely close. No one was breathing in the stadium as they approached the floor still speeding. Through the binoculars I watched as Albus stretched out and grabbed at the snitch in one last desperate act.
A cheer rang out as his hand closed around the snitch and he quickly pulled up and away from the ground. Lysander followed him forgetting that he had just lost the match too intent on congratulating the boy he had known most his life. I looked around, everyone was on their feet. Opposite me Uncle Harry and Aunt Ginny were jumping up and down with the proudest grins on their face.
Most of the Slytherins stayed where they were but Vinnie and Scorpius stood up and left the tower. Ivy and I followed suddenly excited to see my families face when they saw Lily and Vinnie together.
The two teams where at the center of the stadium shaking hands and hugging. In front of us we saw Scorpius and Vinnie enter onto the field strutting towards their girls. I could see everything on the big screens around us so I knew my family would see too.
Both Lily and Roxanne peeled away from the mass of blue and red to run towards their boyfriends. Holding up my binoculars I watched Harry and Ginny's faces morph from proud to confused as they watched their daughter run towards a Goyle.
They reached each other and were instantly in each other's arms kissing hard. I looking up at the screens, this was not PG stuff. Another camera zoomed in on my family so everyone in the stadium could now see their shocked and confused faces. I burst out laughing as Ivy and I crossed the grass to be with Vinnie and Scorpius.
At the same time we reached them Albus and James also got there.
"Lily Luna Potter what the hell is this!" Albus screeched at his sister his face bright red. Lily pulled away and spun around to face her brothers.
"Oh come on Albus you knew Vinnie and I were dating, don't act all surprised." She snapped back putting an arm around Vinnie's waist as he pulled her close.
"We all thought it was some sick joke Lil." James piped up "You honestly can't expect us to believe you actually like this guy and you are willing to be around this – "he paused searching for the word. I smirked at him daring him to say it. "SCUM!" He finished almost as red as Albus.
This time it was Vinnie's chance to get angry; he pulled away from Lily and took a step towards my cousins.
"Who are you calling scum Potter?" He growled moving so he was standing chest to chest with James.
Lily rolled her eyes and stepped forwards to pull her boyfriend away from her brothers.
"James this scum happens to be my boyfriend his sister and our cousin so you can be a good little boy and shut your mouth for once. I suppose since I'm going to be hanging out with them now I'm scum too?" She spat at her brother before walking off leaving both Potter boys looking shocked with their mouths hanging open.
I watched carefully as they both looked up towards their dad and shrugged. Not paying attention to Vinnie anymore he ran a hand through his hair before following Lily.
Beside me Ivy was grinning, she loved a bit of drama. She started to say something but I wasn't listening. I was staring ahead at Scorpius and Roxanne. I watched as they kissed. It was nothing new I had seen them do it so many times in the past year but for the first time I felt my blood boil and my hands clench.
I resisted the urge to run over and strike up a conversation with Scorpius so they would stop sucking face. But I knew that would let everyone know something was up. Instead I looked around for the other sexy blonde on the pitch.
I spotted Lysander standing with his brother, dad, some of my family and some ravenclaws. Without hesitating I strolled up behind him. I tapped him on the shoulder waiting for him to turn around before I pounced on him desperate to make myself feel how I did when I was with Scorpius.
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