Snow day from school= Fanfic day (after some sledding and a snowman of course) Sorry about the slow updates, hopefully the next chapter won't take a month! Enjoy.
Down in the Great Hall Hugo Weasley was about to bite into a delicious turkey sandwich when he saw his cousin run in. Now, this wasn't exactly unusual for Hugo. He had plenty of cousins at school with him and he usually saw handful of them everyday.
However, when Albus ran in with a huge grin on his face Hugo was shocked. Hugo liked Albus, he really did. Albus was a good cousin. He never told on his cousins when they snuck out or broke the rules. Albus was the most trustworthy of them all. He never did anything wrong, and all the parents trusted him. At the same time though… Albus was different. He got along with all his cousins but never really fit in with them. When they were little Albus always cried when they kicked gnomes around the garden at gran's house. Even now, he never played quidditch with the rest of them claiming he was no good at it. Well that never stopped Rose, and she was truly horrible.
Hugo continued to watch Albus as he frantically looked around. A moment later their eyes met and Albus grinned and ran over to his cousin.
"Hugo!" he said, before stopping in front of the group of 5th year boys.
"Hey Albus," Hugo greeted, trying to keep cool. I mean sure, they didn't usually talk in school, but Albus was still his cousin, there was no reason not to talk to him.
"Do you know where Rosie is? I have to talk to her."
"I saw her leave about 10 minutes ago. I would assume she is going to the common room. Have you looked there?"
Albus shook his head quickly, and yelled out a thanks as he ran away and back out the doors of the Great Hall.
"What the hell was that about?" one of his friends asked him a moment later.
"No clue." Hugo replied, shrugging it off. In his head though, he couldn't shake a weird feeling. Albus wasn't really depressed, over the summer he laughed and smiled and got angry at his brother, just like normal. But at school he always seemed washed out. He was quiet and hardly spoke to anyone except Rose, like he had no confidence. Whatever had happened must have been really good, but Hugo hoped that whatever it was would last, because Albus tended to be very… fragile. Oh well, he reasoned, he could always ask his sister about it later. Hugo decided to forget about his cousin for now and turned his attention back to his friends and his neglected turkey sandwich.
In no time at all Albus reached entrance to the Gryffindor common room.
"Jellyleach" he said to the portrait of a particularly rotund woman. Nodding, she swung her picture aside and allowed him entrance into the common room. As soon as he entered he saw Rosie and her friends all sitting on an overstuffed couch, relaxing by the fire.
"Rosie!" he said loudly, drawing her attention. All three girls turned their heads and Amy promptly rolled her eyes and turned her head back around in disgust. Rosie gave him an exhausted look.
"What is it Albus?" she asked, in a voice that matched the exhausted look.
"I have something really exciting to tell you!" He said walking over until he was right in front of her.
"Well, go on then." She replied. Albus looked around at Amy's angry face and Grace's disinterested one.
"I was hoping I could talk to you alone." He said, suddenly feeling vulnerable. He didn't want to talk about it in front of those girls. This was his dream, what if they made fun of him?
"Albus, I'm hanging out with my friends, okay? So you can either say what you want to say or we can talk about it later." Rosie stated in a superior voice. Amy gave an approving nod.
"Well alright then." Albus shrugged, and moved to sit down next to her. With a small grin he started his story, "I went to get my class schedule this morning-"
"Oh! Big news!" Amy interrupted. Grace giggled.
"And Professor Longbottom had something else to tell me." He continued, not letting Rose's friends get to him. "He talked to uncle Charlie and got me a sort-of internship working in Saudi Arabia with curse breakers!" he couldn't stop himself from laughing a little, he still couldn't believe it was real!
"You're going to Saudi Arabia?" Rose asked.
"Yeah! Isn't that amazing?"
"Wait, when?" Amy asked, suddenly interested.
"At the end of the school year, during the summer." Albus replied.
"Oh, too bad." Grace added. "If only you were leaving now we wouldn't have to deal with you anymore." Amy laughed, but Albus was watching Rose's expression. It didn't change at all, she didn't even react.
"The feeling is mutual, Grace." Albus replied angrily. Rose still didn't react.
"Don't get us wrong Albus we'll miss you tons. But, just the idea of you spending all your time in a desert digging through dirt, wow I mean we wouldn't want you to miss out on that great opportunity." Amy snorted.
Albus was furious, he knew this would happen. He knew that they would ruin his perfect news, before he knew it he was standing, and yelling.
"Just because some of us have dreams beyond getting pregnant by some rich guy and living off him and doing nothing for the rest of your life, doesn't mean they aren't worthy of your approval Amy."
Well, that sure got Rose's attention. She had stood up too, and put a hand on his arm. "Go away Albus." She said sternly. Albus felt all his anger leave as he looked into the face of his best friend
"Rosie, you didn't even say anything. Aren't you excited at all? Don't you even care?" he said quietly.
"We'll talk about it later Albus, but only if leave us alone now." She said letting go of him and sitting back down.
"But Rosie…"
"Albus, GO. And you if you plan on treating my friends like that ever again, you might as well never talk to me again." She turned her head to the side, ignoring him, and making it clear that their conversation was done.
Albus turned to go and felt tears rising to his eyes. He walked quickly to the staircase leading up to his dormitory and started to climb. By the time he reached the door tears were streaming down his face. He reached to open the door, but the handle moved on its own, and a second later the door opened, with Jeremy standing in the other side. He stared at Albus for a second, before his face broke into an evil grin.
"Well good morning Albus, I see you're doing well." He pushed past Albus laughing and walked down the stairs. Albus entered the room, and noticed that it was now empty. He let himself go, and his silent tears turned into loud sobs. He flopped down on his bed and pulled the curtains closed around him.
Closing his eyes, Albus tried to clear his head of the last ten minutes. He tried to imagine that Rose still liked him, and that she wasn't dating Jeremy, and that he got even a little bit of respect from anyone in this whole school.
When that didn't work, Albus buried his head in his pillow, and imagined that he was in Saudi Arabia.
Scorpius walked out the large oak doors that served at the main entrance to Hogwarts and felt the sun instantly warm him with a rich yellow glow. It was September, which meant autumn was on the way, but it sure hadn't arrived. The grounds were covered with students sun bathing, and sitting around chatting. Scorpius walked on for a while until he saw the familiar faces of Jaysen and Andrew.
He walked over, threw off his cloak and sat down. "Hey." He greeted sullenly.
"Well if it isn't Mr. Poutypants." Jaysen said with a grin. "Why the long face?"
"Jayse, if you say that ever again I'm gonna kick you in the nuts." Scorpius replied.
"Bad meeting with the Birgmout?" Andy asked giving his friend a supportive pat on the shoulder.
"You have no fucking clue." Scorpius said, laying down and throwing a hand up over his eyes.
"So, what's the damage?" Andy continued, laying down next to his friend.
"Transfiguration, defense, potions, divination and care of magical fucking creatures." Scorpius practically spat.
"Dude, that's better than me." Jaysen whined, "I have to take fourth year astronomy AGAIN."
"Its not our fault your such a dumb-ass." A new voice added to the conversation. Scorpius looked up and saw Tess and Stephanie standing over them.
"No exam should be in the middle night." Jaysen whined, "How is anyone expected to stay awake?"
"Well somehow every fourth year does it, except for you that is." Scorpius deadpanned.
"Where have you both been?" Andrew asked the two new members of their group.
"Tess just finished her meeting, I waited for her." Stephanie answered. She sat down next to Scorpius, and ruffled his hair. "I take it your meeting didn't go too well. Instead of answering Scorpius just groaned again.
The next ten minutes were spent sharing, and then vehemently complaining about their classes for the next year. Scorpius felt much better when he discovered that most of his friends had failed the majority of their OWLs as well, and that he would not be alone in either Divination or Care of Magical Creatures.
"Look on the bright side," Stephanie said after they had all their complaints out, "We will have a lot less homework, so we can hang out more this year."
"When has homework ever stopped us?" Jaysen said with a laugh, and they all joined in.
Now that they were almost all together Scorpius remembered why he had been looking for his friends in the first place.
"I worked on our little project today." Scorpius said.
"Albus Potter?" Tess asked, "I got the impression that you weren't too excited about that idea."
"Yeah well I found out some stuff about him today, and I think it will be very entertaining." Scorpius said with a small smirk.
"Some stuff huh? And where did this information come from?" Stephanie said with a knowing smile.
"I had a little meeting with Isabella Swane, she was very friendly and more than willing to tell me about her housemate." Steph and Tess both rolled their eyes while Jaysen and Andy both grinned at him.
"Nice work. She's so hot." Jaysen said sounding a little jealous.
"Yeah, she's also pretty fucking needy. Asked me if I wanted to be her boyfriend." Scorpius laughed.
"Yikes, you better stay away from her for a while. I heard she can be kind of crazy." Tess said.
"Alright, enough about some slut, I want to know what she said about Albus." Andy interrupted.
Scorpius quickly recalled everything she had said about Albus Potter to his friends.
"Huh. Although families are usually the people you can count on, it seems that Potter is continually being screwed over by them." Sullivan said from behind them when Scorpius finished. Everyone in the group jumped, and Jaysen yelled out.
"What the fuck man!" Jaysen said a moment later. "Don't DO THAT!"
"Seriously," Tess added, "Haven't we talked about sneaking up on us, its really creepy."
"Well I didn't want to interrupt Scorpius' story." Sullivan explained, sitting down in their circle. "Next time I will announce my presence."
Scorpius shook his head, he liked Sullivan a lot, but the guy was still pretty fucking weird.
"So, what do we do now, about Albus I mean." Steph said, trying to stay on topic.
"I mean, the guy has no friends, right? All we really should have to do is ask him to hang out with us, and he should jump at the chance. He'd probably do whatever we say." Tess concluded, "Easy."
"Bleh," Andy complained, "I don't want easy, it's no fun."
"This was your idea." Steph reminded him, "Besides he's still a Potter, I have a feeling this will be a lot of fun."
"Ugh, if we are gonna keep talking about this, can we go get lunch? I'm starving!" Jaysen got up and brushed grass off of his pants.
"Yeah, me too. Come on." Tess said, standing. A moment later they were all up and heading back towards the castle.
"Oh, Sullivan, you never told us how your meeting went." Stephanie asked.
"Fine," he replied, "I got O's on everything, so it was a very short meeting. Birgmout seemed surprised I think."
"WHAAAAT?" Jaysen yelled theatrically, "Fuck you man!"
Yeah, Scorpius decided, all his friends were fucking weird.
Albus woke up and no one was left in the dormitory when he finally got up. He had purposely stayed in bed until they were all gone, because he didn't want to have to talk to any of them. The only problem was that now he was late for class, his first class of the year, perfect. Quickly he got dressed, ran his fingers through his hair a few times, and didn't even bother brushing his teeth. He grabbed his books for his first couple classes and headed down to the Great Hall to grab some breakfast.
About five minutes later he was walking out of the castle with a bagel in hand. His first class was Herbology and he still had about 10 minutes until it started. He smiled, as he took a bite out of his bagel, today was turning out to be better than accepted.
No sooner had he thought that then someone walked right into him. His bagel flew out of his hand and landed on the wet grass. Glaring, Albus turned to look at the person who had cost him his breakfast. As soon as their eyes met, Albus' glared melted away.
Scorpius Malfoy.
He tried to say something but no words came out, the only thing he could think of was, why the hell didn't I brush my teeth?
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