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"Excuse me." Rose said, and waited for the Slytherins to move.
But they didn't.
"So, there's the little Weasley girl." One of them said. Rose recognized him. He was from Scorpius' year.
"Well, here I am." She said, irritated. "And I'm actually on my way to supper, so if you guys would please move over?" she continued.
"Not before we're done talking." Another person from the group said.
"Then get done." Rose said in an I-don't-really-care tone.
"You have to stop bothering Scorpius." Yet another person from the group spoke.
Rose just laughed at them. "I have to stop bothering him? Excuse me." She kept laughing as she pushed her way through the Slytherins.
She heard them mumble behind her as she kept walking. Something about her not knowing what was best for her, about her being stubborn and so on. Rose ignored them.
When she entered the Great Hall, people stopped eating and talking for a moment, and just kin of stared at her.
Rose sighed and just started imagining a 100 ways to kill Andrew.
As she sat down at the Ravenclaw table and the noise in the Great Hall returned, she hissed to Lisa. "Where's Andrew? I'm going to kill him in his sleep!"
Lisa mumbled, with her mouth full of food. "You could just put poison in his new girlfriend's mouth; there's a great chance that he would get infected by it before she died."
Rose almost spit her pumpkin juice all over the table. "What girlfriend?" she asked, while she wiped her mouth with a napkin.
Lisa pointed, unable to speak since her mouth was filled with meat pie.
Rose looked, and felt her heart sink. Andrew sat at the Hufflepuff table, arms around the Hufflepuff girl Scorpius and Rose has busted Andrew cheating on Rose with. As Rose still looked, Andrew leaned in, and kissed the girl passionately. Rose looked away, feeling nauseous.
"And he's angry with me for dating, even though he's the one to suck of another person's face publicly." She mumbled, and now it was Lisa's turn to almost spit out pumpkin juice.
"What are you two doing? Why is there pumpkin juice all over the table?" Camille asked as she sat down next to Rose.
"Aha!" Lisa said, ignoring Camille and pointing at Rose with her fork. "So you admit that you're dating!"
"I thought you were spitting out pumpkin juice for less obvious reasons." Camille said.
Rose sent her a mean look, and both Camille and Lisa grinned.
"Oh come on Rose, everybody is just waiting for it to get official." Lisa said.
"Well, I don't. I'm not ready for a new boy in my life." Rose said. "And I would get kicked out of home the second I announced that I was dating a Malfoy."
Lisa and Camille had no argument against that. Rose felt despondent. She actually fancied Scorpius. A lot. But a relationship would never be formed. It would only cement her status as the black sheep in the family.
The weeks passed by fast. Even though Rose had neither O.W.L.'s or N.E.W.T.'s, she still had to study a lot for her finals. She and Scorpius continued to patrolled the castle every Friday and Sunday night, but they almost never caught any students. Either the students had stopped playing around at night, or perhaps they had just gotten better at hiding and sneaking around. But even though there was more time to talk, and their friendship had gotten closer, neither had ever brought up dating.
The rumors about the two of them dating had gradually disappeared. The only persons to ever comment on it by now were Lisa, Camille, Fred and sometimes Hugo, who made his fun with reciting the letter he had stolen from Rose from memory. Andrew still made a huge act out of sending Rose mean looks every time he saw her – now with his arms around another girl, this time from Gryffindor.
Rose still sometimes missed what she and Andrew had had. Especially now, on a late Friday night a couple of days before Easter break, when Scorpius had mentioned Andrew.
"I don't know Scorpius. Sometimes, it feels like I'm completely over him and only wish him to be gone. But then I can suddenly feel hurt about his betrayal again." Rose sighed, stopped walking and leaned against a wall in one of the hallways near the Ravenclaw tower. "It doesn't really help either that he's never seen without his arms around a girl, sucking her face off as soon as I'm in sight." Rose continued. "And in addition I have to study more than a house elf work to pass the finals."
Scorpius sent her a small smile. "Yeah, tell me about it." He said. They were both silent for a little while. "You know, we could try helping out each other on the finals? Which classes do you fear to fail?" he then asked.
"All of them!" Rose said defeated. "Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology, Potions, History of Magic, Defense against the Dark Arts. Even Astronomy!"
"Do you have Astronomy?" Scorpius asked.
Rose nodded and Scorpius laughed. "Well, I barely passed my O.W.L.'s in Astronomy." He said, trying to cheer her up.
Then they both heard a sound. The sound of feet.
Scorpius and Rose looked at each other, then they quickly, but soundlessly, moved their way towards the sound. It stopped shortly after, but Scorpius and Rose kept moving.
When Rose reached the corner towards the hallway where they first heard the sound, Rose peeked around the corner instead of bursting around. She had once ended up running right into a very startled professor Longbottom whilst doing that
First her brain denied the facts. It couldn't be true. The sight reminded her to much about the night she'd seen Andrew cheat on her. But this wasn't Andrew. The guy wasn't nearly as tall, and he had dark red hair. And the seemed more familiar, than the random Hufflepuff girl had. In fact…
Rose made a slight gasp as she recognized them. The guy was Fred, Fred Freaking Weasley, her cousin. And the girl was no other than Camille. Rose ignored Scorpius whisper, asking her to tell what was happening, and instead stepped forward around the corner.
"I could send both of you straight to McGonagall for this." She said.
Fred and Camille jumped apart. As the recognized Rose, Camille blush deeply red. Fred smiled sheepishly at her.
"Hey Prefect." He said, but his tone wasn't as teasing as it used to be. In fact, he sounded almost embarrassed.
"So this is the girl you asked me advice about." Rose said. She wasn't angry at all; she just wanted to tease the pair a bit. She felt a movement and a hand on her waist, and knew that Scorpius stood right next to her, arm around her waist, but she kept up the facade and kept looking at Camille and Fred.
"Well…yes." Fred said silent. It would seem that he didn't really know what to say.
"Rose, I…" Camille tried to begin, but Rose held up a hand, cutting her off.
"Why didn't you just tell me?" she asked the embarrassed Camille.
"Well, I wanted to, Rose! But I just didn't know how you would react!" Camille said, almost panicking.
Rose couldn't hold the facade any longer. She started beaming at the sheepish pair.
"Well," she said"I would never have foreseen that, that's for sure. My all-joking cousin and the strict daughter of our beloved professors."
Camille smiled at her. Fred looked happy.
"If you want my blessing, you surely have it." Rose said. "But I would advise you to get the bloody hell out of her. 'Cause the next professor or Prefect who catches you might not be as forgiving as I am.
Fred winked at her, and put his arm around Camille. "Come baby, the Prefects have spoken." He said into Camille's hair.
As they disappeared around a corner, Rose felt a little prick of pain in her chest; the scene she had just witnessed reminded her of Andrew.
"Are you okay?" Scorpius asked her, his breath warming her cheek.
"I think so." Rose said.
She heard Scorpius mumble something, but she wasn't sure what. She just knew that he knew how she felt in that moment. She leaned in and he put his arms around her.
