A/N: Written for the Pairing Set Bootcamp challenge, 31. Albus/Scorpius and for the Freeverse Frenzie competition, poem 123.
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33. Rivals' Children
He wondered what his father would say when he heard.
When he heard he'd fallen in love with a boy.
A boy that also happens to be his father's rival's only son.
But neither of them could help who their fathers were
Or with whom they fell in love.
It happened. All of it just happened
And they couldn't stop
Being in love.
No-one could make them stop
Even if anyone asked
Which they didn't –
Couldn't
Because parents didn't stand in the way of a child's
Love – not their children, who looked so happy playing together
In the sun. And the fathers had to wonder if opposites attract
Had another meaning after all
To drive the pair together – and if they might have been in love
Deep down as well.