Chapter 5- Rose

"Hey Rosie," Hugo called to me several weeks later in the library as snow was falling outside of the stained glass windows. Almost daily I would receive jeers from Goyle and his posse but I quickly learned to ignore him and he left me alone as long as I was with a witness.

I turned to greet him, "Hey shortstop what's up?" I ruffled his already messy red hair as he sat down next to me.

"I just wanted to check that you're going home this year for Christmas," He wondered.

"Of course I am," I confirmed. I had never stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas clearly this was an excuse for Hugo to talk to me about something else.

"Ok sounds good, me too. Oh, and also, I wanted to request someone to patrol with for prefect duty," There's what he wanted to talk to me about.

I grinned at him, "Who's the girl?"

He shook his head, "No girl, just Frank Longbottom," Frank was a year older then Hugo. Despite this, he was Hugo's best friend most likely because of the family friendship that occurred outside of school.

"Only because I know expect a fantastic Christmas present I'll say yes,"

"You're the best Rosie!" He exclaimed.

"Don't tell anyone!" I yelled at him as he left me to return to my schoolwork. I received a thumbs up in reply.

A few days later after dinner I was walking to the library with Lauren, "Rose I need to speak to you," Lysander's voice spoke painfully to me.

I hesitated a moment before turning around and replying, "I can't talk now I need to finish my herbology essay," I knew if I talked to him I wouldn't be able to hide my feelings. Nothing good would come of it.

"Yes the herbology essay due next week. Please Rose ten minutes that's all I'm asking," Lysander pleaded.

I paused for what seemed like an eternity before nodding my consent, "Lauren I'll see you later," I followed Lysander down the stone corridor towards a deserted section of the school that he and I used to use when we had wanted to talk. "What do you need?" I needed to be rude, I needed to drive him away, I needed him not to like me.

"I need to know do you love him? Do you love Scorpius Malfoy?" His voice broke midsentence. I knew now that what I was doing was affecting him even more then myself because he didn't know why I was doing it.

I thought about my answer for a moment, "I'm on my way to,"

"Why? What happened? Why don't you love me anymore?" His voice began to rise.

I wanted to scream that it wasn't his fault that it was everyone else's for having dumb prejudices that I had to fix but I couldn't so instead I leveled my voice and said, "You did nothing wrong Lysander you just weren't the guy for me. Scorpius and I had a steady progression from last year when we were study partners. During the summer I saw him at Albus's and then it just took off from there," I tried to keep my voice steady but it was extremely difficult as I saw the tears welling in Lysander's sky blue eyes.

"You began to like him starting last year? While we were dating?"

"No of course not," I quickly backtracked. This would be so much easier if I wasn't lying through my teeth, "We were just good friends but that was the foundation for our relationship."

He began to scream now, "Then why do you guys snog every five seconds? Everywhere? With no regard for who might be watching and how they might be feeling?" I hadn't thought about how our displays would affect Lysander. A sinking feeling in my stomach began to settle. "Yet you wouldn't let me touch you without me being called a pervert yet supposedly you loved me?" His voice had lowered to almost a whisper by now.

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry Lysander. I really did love you the circumstances are just different now."

"Yes because you are agreeing to date him you slut! Yet you might love him! Do you even know what love is?" Lysander scoffed.

My breath caught in my throat. How did he know any of this? "Lysander," My voice trailed off.

"Save it I know you're just doing a little deed for your Uncle spying on an ex-death eaters son," That's what he thought I was doing? Better then him knowing the reality but how did he get that?

"Lysander can we at least be friends?" If he was my friend I would be able to convince him not to tell people. Or so I told myself.

I held my breath as I waited for his answer, "I think my hearts too shattered to consider that at the moment," The blonde boy then sprinted down the corridor past me. His footsteps echoing behind him. I don't know how long I stood there or when I began to move but eventually I found myself standing in front of the heads dorm saying the password with a wet face and numb feeling.

There I found a different blonde boy. He looked up as I walked in. "Rose have you been crying?" Scorpius immediately stood from the couch and rushed over to me as I nodded my head. "What happened?" I was gently led to the red couches and cradled in his arms.

"Lysander confronted me. He asked me a lot of questions and it was," I searched for the right word, "rough very rough,"

"I'm sorry," Scorpius rubbed my arm allowing me to lean against him for support, "What did he ask you?"

"He asked if I loved you, he asked how we happened, he asked why I didn't love him anymore, he asked why he kiss so much in public, and then he said we could never be friends again," My voice had steadily rose until the end when it had dropped to a whisper. "I've lost him forever,"

"You've saved his life though," Scorpius reminded me.

"He knew that I was agreeing to date you." Scorpius' eyes widened, "He read it from a letter from my Uncle Harry. He thinks that he's having me spy on your dad or something through you," I shrugged. I felt Scorpius stiffen beneath me.

I felt so exhausted from the fight, "Funny how it's the opposite your dad protecting the wizarding world and working with my Uncle." Scorpius stroked my hair, "Can we kiss a little less in public for Lysander's sake?" He nodded. I lay on the red couch for a minute thinking, "All my plans of being productive today are so gone."

Scorpius laughed, "It's not like you're two weeks ahead in each of your classes anyway,"

"Nope it's not like that," I smirked before having a realization, "Lysander is going to be at Teddy's wedding. I can't avoid him," A groan escaped me.

"Luckily I received an invitation as well," Scorpius smiled.

"Really!" I grinned. I had gotten so used to Scorpius' presence that it would have been almost weird not to have him there.

"Yep I am his cousin after all and you received an invitation to my families Christmas Eve ball at Malfoy Manor," Scorpius brandished an invitation it was still a month before we had to go home but the thought of this was highly intimidating. I was going to a ball with the elite of the wizarding community. I had gone to my fair share of balls because I'm the daughter of two war heroes but nothing like this.

"Really?" I squeaked.

"Come on it'll be great plus we can introduce us as a couple to over half of the pureblood community. Also, you can come early and meet my parents," I think meeting his parents was scarier then the purebloods.

"What would I wear? Do I have anything to wear?" I began to babble like I normally do when I freak out.
"Rose!" He exclaimed cutting me off. "I wasn't going to mention this because I thought you might say no but since you're freaking out about your outfit my mom offered to take you shopping during our next Hogsmeade visit," This is probably the sweetest thing I have ever heard.

"I'll owl her back straight away with a yes," I smiled, "I would love to shop with your mother plus then I know I'll fit in," It was a win-win situation.

Scorpius rolled his eyes at me before going back to his essay. I knew that I wouldn't be able to work so I headed up the gold staircase after saying goodnight and went to bed.

The next day was a Friday and thank goodness for that. The week had been exhausting and I was ready for it to be over. I quickly headed down to breakfast with Scorpius. I plopped down next to Lauren at the Gryffindor table as Scorpius began chatting with Albus at the Slytherin table. Lauren and I fell into a discussion about our potions assignment.

"So do you turn it clockwise or counterclockwise first? Oh hi Lysander," Lauren greeted.

I whipped around to find Lysander looking at me, "Rose, I really wanted to apologize for what I said yesterday. I think I can try to be friends it'll just take time if you're wiling to give it to me,"

"Of course I'm willing to give it to you," I smiled at him.

"I'll see you girls in class then," He said.

"See you," I nodded before turning back around and addressing Lauren, "You turn it clockwise first eight times and counterclockwise five times,"

I then drank the rest of my pumpkin juice.

Lauren and I headed to potions in the dungeons with Professor Zabini. We had this with the Ravenclaws and Lysander was in here along with his twin brother Lorcan. Part way through class I began to feel funny- my head was spinning, my stomach was in knots, and my vision was going blurry. The last thing I remember is my Professor asking, "Miss Weasley, are you alright?" Clearly the answer was no.

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