The brilliant Green eyes were not the only thing that Albus Potter inherited from his Grandmother, he also got her natural skill for potions handed down to him, which made Monday mornings which consisted of double potions with the Ravenclaw's not at all bad. In this class his table was made up of himself and his two Ravenclaw cousins Molly and Dominque Weasley, Molly was his uncle Percy's eldest daughter and she resembled Albus's mother more than any of her own children did, she was the Ravenclaw prefect which made Percy swell with pride, Dominque usually got called Dom she was tall blonde girl with a distinctive short pixie cut and although she had her mother Fleur's blonde hair same as her elder sister Victoire she definitely had the unmistakable Weasley face she just looked as though she could be her father Bills twin. A muggleborn named Olive Jones also joined them at their table making Al the only Slytherin, while the rest huddled together round other tables. The potions master who just so happened to be the head of Slytherin house was a very old man indeed, Professor Slughorn Al guessed had to be in his hundreds, I mean after all he did teach his father and grandmother when they were at Hogwarts also, he fell asleep at least twice a lesson and gave generous points to his own house especially to Al whom he favored over all other students, he would be sad to see him retire at the end of the year. Of course then came the afternoon Herbology with the Gryffindor's, Herbology was something Al was rapidly loosing interest in, he thought a healer was the root he was going to go down hence why he had not dropped it but he was beginning to come to terms with the fact that he had only giving that profession thought because that is what Rosie wanted to do perhaps a ministry job would suit him more and he was quite certain that he was not going to need Herbology for this, Neville his parents dear old friend beamed at him as he walked through the door, "Hello Al, i had your sister this morning, always said she was a natural at this unlike your bother," Neville frowned when he said the word brother James had given him quite the hard time in the first few years before he dropped the subject, "anyway she was telling me that you and our Panda are going to the Hogsmeade trip together that's excellent news she's always seemed to have taken a liking to you our Panda has," Neville said his grin spreading its way through his entire face, Al blushed furiously and returned the smile, Scorpius Malfoy who was moving past Al made a scoff at what his Herbology teacher was saying and made his way to sit opposite Al. Al made a mental note to throttle his sister for exchanging gossip with a professor. Neville returned to the head of the class to begin teaching today lesson "settle down now come on plenty of time for chit chat afterwards," Neville bellowed, Al's green eyes narrowed as they locked onto Scorpius's face, "what was all that about Malfoy?" he asked with bitterness in his tone, "nothing I just forgot you'd agreed to go on a date with one of your 14 year old sisters friends that's all, "Scorpius made a fake gagging noise as if he was going to spew vomit all over the books that he was placing in front of him, "nice one Malfoy except they aren't the same age are they?" he argued defensively how dare Malfoy make him out to be some sort of cradle snatcher, anyway why was he all of a sudden a nasty bugger, sure they hadn't been friends since their 3rd year, but in that time they have never been so friendly, they never went out of their way to act prats to each other, "seriously Malfoy, are you jealous or something?" before he could stop himself the words had already escaped his lips, Scorpius threw his hands up unenthusiastically and said, "yeah Potter, you got me!" he scoffed opening his book without breaking eye contact, "I knew it, you want to kiss me, don't you" Al said sarcastically teasing Scorpius who smirked, licked his lips and winked flicking his hair back from his eyes. Herbology was not an appropriate time to become erect Al scolded himself, and its just embarrassing that the reason being Scorpius Malfoy mucking about. Al forced his eyes shut and began to think of things to make it disappear the unfortunate thing about it was the thought of Pandora seemed to deflate it, he could not lead on her on!, however he also couldn't cancel on her there would be so many people furious with him, he was damned if he did, and damned it he didn't.
The entire way through Herbology Scorpius found himself stealing glances towards Al rather than focusing on his work, he didn't understand why all of a sudden the idea of Al going on a date with this girl was making him hostel towards him, he just knew that he didn't like it and he wasn't make sure that everyone knew he didn't like it. The lesson ended and the students rushed past Scorpius and Lysander to get to dinner, it had been a long morning, or at least to him it seemed to drag, He noticed out of the corner of his eye that Al was taking an unusually long time to pack away his books, doing so without standing at all from his seat, Scorpius stomped towards him "Just make sure to have the child your babysitting back to school before her bed time, yeah?" he spat looking Al up and down, His hair in a perfect black mess he thought to himself, shaking his end to get the thoughts to fade to the back, this was not the time or the place to be commenting on his hair. Al looked up at him with anger in his eyes "Ha ha very funny Malfoy, now run along and go find someone else to annoy" he finally stood up, Al being half foot shorter than Scorpius it made it easy for him to scold down at him "I just thought you would have been better than to prey on vulnerable girls" this seemed to have stuck a deep nerve for Al and he grabbed Scorpius, making him uneasy on his feet and pinning him against the wall "What is your problem?" He spat in Scorpius face, their noses inches from touching, Scorpius couldn't help but stare at his lips as they sat in an angry frown on his face, he almost fun himself leaning towards them before he realized and quickly reacted to the situation "Get your hands off me Potter, how dare you touch me!" He pushed Albus back and brushed himself off, Lysander stood speechless to the entire scene, not even reacting to help his cousin Nott in the same awkward situation quick snapped his head out of it and grabbed Albus by the hand, looking to defuse the tension between the two boys that stood close together "That's enough Scor, don't stoop to his level" Albus stared at Scorpius a little longer, before pulling his head towards Scorpius cousin, who's face was full of sympathy and wanted to leave, Nott had never really been great with physical confrontation. Albus stood back and gave Scorpius one last look before leaving the room, feeling sorry for putting Nott in that position, after all he was clearly nothing like his cousin, Nott looked back at the two boys and sighing heavily.
In the great hall Scorpius sat in usual spot surrounded by Lysander, his soon to be girlfriend Scorpius believed, and a few other Slytherin's who Scorpius didn't care to learn the names of. He continued to look up and down the long table covered in food, looking for the Same mess of back hair he had almost gotten into a fist fight with only 20 minutes before, the hair was no where to be seen and Scorpius noticed that even know during class his stomach had been almost shouting at him, he no longer had an appetite "Scor, you haven't touched anything, your just pushing it round the plate" a girl with light brown hair asked him, her eyes a deep blue colour "Yeah I'm fine, just feeling a little bit off I guess" he muttered not keeping contact with her eyes, the great hall doors opened and in walked Al and his "Date", along with Lysander's other brother Lorcan, Scorpius grimaced at the image before him, Albus looked up and their eye's met, Scorpius pulled his face away and forced his arm around the girl that he did not know the name of, quickly looking back at Albus who's eyes looked to have saddened at the movement and Scorpius smirked to himself, now who's jealous Potter? He thought to himself. As the three walked past Scorpius he quickly turned to the brown haired girl, who seemed to look a little bit to comfortable in Scorpius arm, this shocked him and he took a deep breath "Would you do the honors of Accompanying me to Hogsmeade, m'dear?" he asked flashing his pearly white teeth at her, she grinned widely and almost shouted "I thought you would never ask! Of course Scorpius!" she stood up and squeaked with excitement, planting a small kiss on his check, which made his inside turn and ran off no doubt to tell her friends. Scorpius chanced a quick look at Albus's face which seemed to have frozen in a look of shock and anger, his pale complexion seemed to have even lightened a few shades, Scorpius smirked but down in the pit of his stomach he felt somehow that he had taken this to far.
"Albus Severus Potter what the bloody hell was that all about in Herbology?" Rose demanded her face in a frown and her brown eyes were fierce, "Malfoy's a git," Al said in that's final sort of tone, "honestly if I here anymore about Scorpius Malfoy I might turn insane!" she pleaded walking towards the front doors, so they could make their way to Hagrid's, "hang on why have you waited till now to confront me on this? Why not say it after class, why wait till I'm fed and tired and venerable," Al said batting his large green eyes at his cousin and pulling out a pet lip, "because there were people present and I thought we need to discuss this privately," she explained exhaling her breath, Al looked away from her, "what me you and Hagrid?" he said confused rubbing his eyes a full stomach always made him feel as if he could slip into a coma at any given moment, "Don't be stupid," Rosie snarled voice raised and nostrils flared she planted her feet firmly on the ground at the half way point to the hut, "alright Weasley calm it!" Al started, "look I'm sorry I let him get to me I won't be so physical with him again" he a smirk found its way across his face as he said the word physical whilst he was referring to Scorpius. The two cousins watched the smoke rise from the chimney of Hagrid's Hut, for a mere moment it was silent, "Look Al, you can tell me anything you know that?" she placed her hand on his shoulder her face no longer squashed in a frown but filled with sympathy, "look I have to say I am pleased that I'm no longer been given my full title but I really have no idea what your banging on about," he sighed as his cousin shoved him, seeing as they grew up together he was used to her quick temper, "Al, I seen the way you looked at him in the great hall when he put his arm around that girl, and before your incident the both of you were blatantly flirting in front of my eyes so please Albus don't insult my intelligence!" she kept her voice at a high whisper but it was sharp, flirting? Was Malfoy flirting with him? He did not want to think about how he placed his arm around that tart, "your mental," he said as he resumed walking quickening his pace to ensure he got to Hargid's fast, "fine bottle it up, but I'm here when you need to talk!" she sort of screamed trying her best to keep up with him, "Yeah whatever Rosie" he said knocking 7 times in a row with great force on Hagrid's door, "Blimey you two! The pair e yese are gonna knock me door down," called the warmly familiar voice of their dear friend Hagrid, Al cracked a smile if anyone could make him feel better it was Hagrid.
Scorpius had realized the problem with asking the girl, who was named Cassie, out to Hogsemeade, she was also in his year, which gave Albus nothing to talk about but she seemed to have had her eye on Scorpius for some times and had been planning with her friend how to get hi to ask her out, he sighed deeply and rubbed his temple as she asked, for the third time "Does this mean we are like together?" her and her friends giggled to one another "Please stop" he breathed looking at her, his grey eyes showing signs of rage "You sound like s desperate old women" the girl looked slightly hurt "Just like his dad" she squeaked causing her and her friends to once again to fall into uncontrollable laughter. Scorpius began looking around for a way to escape when he noticed Albus and Rosie emerging from Hagrid's hut "What are they always doing down there?" he question softly to himself, he thought back to the few times in the earlier years he had gone to Hagrid's with Albus and received large cups of scolding tea and cakes that would break the teeth of any dragon that temped to eat them and he smiled to himself, "Look he's smiling, he's in love with you Cassie" her large round friend shouted coming up to Scorpius face and smiling at him, her breathing smelling of chocolate and pumpkin juice, he pulled his head back and gaged slightly "Personal space please women" he said hatefully, the girl continued to smell ignoring his obvious disgust. Scorpius noticed that Al and Rosie where only feet away from them and he pulled Cassie to his side, he forced a smile on to his and looked out of the corner of his eye to see if they had noticed. Al noticed the too sitting on the grass surround by what only be that girl's friend and he frowned to himself, he realized very quick that Scorpius looked the most uncomfortable he had even seen him, in the entire time he had known his. His arm lazily threw around the girls shoulders as she smiled admiringly up at him, this caused Al to smile to himself, was Malfoy really going to go this far to make him jealous? Albus stopped his inner voice, why would he be making me jealous? Was he trying to make him jealous?, either way the scene of the group of girls laughing and staring at Scorpius, and Scorpius looking as if he would rather let fang snog him than be there couldn't help but bring a smile to Al's face and he walked with Rosie who had been talking about homework's' that she had found easy, and he realized that he hadn't heard a thing she said since he set eyes on Scorpius, he made the mental note to listen to her every word as they entered through the front doors.
Scorpius watched as the doors closed behind the two and he quickly pushed the girl off him and stood up, the sky had darkened and it was almost curfew time, it had become terribly cold which he had not noticed before and he now had a good reason to make an escape he thought to himself "Girls it's been a treat really" he said sarcastically "But I'm afraid I must go and shower and ready myself for bed, as classes call once again in the morning" he gave a fake bow and before any of them could answer he was climbing the stairs and entering through the giant wooden doors that would save him from entertaining the young girls any more. Scorpius headed straight for the common room, a quickness to his step for a reason he was not sure of, the girls would find him there for sure, they were after all in the same house, but for some reason Scorpius needed to be there, in the heat and the company of- His thoughts were cut off before they could finish "Now Scorpius don't be so stupid, get in washed and into bed, it's been a hell of a long day and you don't want to waste anymore of your time making chit chat with people" he said to himself entering the common room, quickly scanning it everyone had either gone to bed or were doing homework that was due for tomorrow's class, but yet no mess of black hair was present, he felt a sadness in his chest and continued to the dormitory to get showered and ready for bed, at least he hadn't outright lied to the girls.
As Scorpius exited the bathroom with his green towel wrapped around his wasit and one over his shoulders to dry his hair, he noticed quite a few of the boys had fallen into deeps sleep already, but one blacked hair, green eyed boy sat staring at him as he walked across the room "Potter" He grunted not making eye contact, but knowing full well that Al hadn't taken his eyes off him, this made his groan tense and he tried to think of something to make it stop "Malfoy" Al finally choked out. Scorpius sat on his bed and turned to Albus "Now is there any need to be so rude" he smirked, his grey eyes never leaving Albus "I wasn't being rude I was responding to you" Al answered looking quickly down at the books laid in front of him "Why so hostile Potter? Have a conversation with me maybe?" Scorpius said turning his head and drying himself, dropping his towel on to the ground, leaving him standing naked. Scoupius could feel Al's eye's burning into the back of him and he stretched his back and shoulders "You started it all Mal-Scorpius" Al said making the first move to take it back to first name basis, a sweat making it's way down his head. "I suppose your right Al" he smirked knowing that him calling Albus by his shortened name would make his back tense "I guess you could say, I was bored and looking for a bit of entertainment, but it's become boring now and I would rather be able to approach you and discuss Quidditch Practice rather than being pinned up against a wall" Scorpius remembered how close they had been either that day and shivered as he pull on his emerald green bottoms and climbing into bed "I mean unless you enjoy that sort of thing" he winked, he could have sworn he seen Al flush a light pink on his cheeks before he cleared his throat "I'm sorry it was a spur of the moment thing" he said softly looking back at his books "That's how must romance books start" Scorpius smirked again at Albus and flashed his white teeth before laying down and turning away to fall into sleep, leaving Albus to make sense of what he had just said. This excited Scorpius and he didn't care why anymore, they were talking and at the moment that was better than nothing.