A/N This was supposed to be funny. Also, I'm not completely sure I understood the prompt correctly, but bear with me.

Title: The dumbest couple in the room

Summary: Picture this: prom in two weeks, a lot of flirting, two incredibly stupid best friends and 6 quills. Yep, that was basically Albus Severus Potter's life right now.

Word Count. 1,314

Triggers/warnings: none

Genre: Romance, Humour

Characters: Albus P., Rose W., Scorpius M.

FOR HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY

House: Ravenclaw

for assignement 3: Task/subject: Floristry Task #1 Corsage : write about someone participating in prom or homecoming

for august auction: Day 15/ Auction 3 [trope] Didn't know they were dating

"Who are you going to prom with, Rose?" Albus casually asked one day, while his cousin, his best friend and himself were sat around the Slytherin table (yes, you got that right, Rose Weasley sitting at a Slytherin table. Gasp, shocking! If only her father knew…) eating a lunch mostly made of broccoli and Brussels sprouts (the elves had recently decided to go vegan),

His red-headed cousin (though frankly, that description could probably fit 70% of his cousins) put down the pen she has been using to draw hearts and stick figures all over Scorpius' Arithmancy homework. "I don't know. No one has asked me yet."

Albus stared at her. Wait. What? What was the stupid idiot waiting for? Never mind, change of tactic. Maybe this was a test from Rose to prove her that he wasn't a sexist pig like she claimed all men were. "Ummm. Then, have you asked him out to prom yet!"

"I don't quite see who this 'him' you are talking about is," she dismissed him and returned to her doodles (her neighbour retaliated by playing with a particularly springy price of her hair).

Okay. Rose was seriously teasing him right now. Obviously, there was only one 'him' who would ask her out. This was probably some great prank (because, yes, Uncle George had gotten to Rose before Aunt Hermione could say "George! No pranking!" or something else along the lines of a certain muggle kids TV show) to confuse Albus and then make fun of him for the next seven years (like the incident with the left glove and the ham, boy, his family was never going to let him off that one).

Though maybe Albus should supply some context information. See, Professor Slughorn, though an illustrious and very intelligent professor (surely), was getting slightly… older, and his penchant for mingling with students lives combined with the fact that he had spent the summer reading only trashy teenage romance novels had convinced him that a Christmas party was not enough, no. So as much as Professor McGonagall, their beloved headmistress, tried to stop him, Professor Slughorn had happily introduced the population of Hogwarts to homecoming, spring fling and prom. But due to the popularity of events, the multiple dances had been opened up to all of the students of Hogwarts, instead of just the slugclub, and the responsibility of organising all of them had gone to special committees. The committees, however, had no problems over having so much responsibilities. Quite on the contrary, they loved it. They loved it so much sometimes they were scary. (There had been more than one report from the infirmary of a student being attacked by a committee member, something about "HAVE YOU BOUGHT YOUR TICKET YET?")

Needless to say, the couple of weeks before these dances were often very exciting and one could often here Professor McGonagall muttering something along the lines of "should have gone to Ilvermorny if he wanted a 'prom'". Fun times.

Albus checked in the two teenagers in front of him again. Rose had decided to abandon her doodling and turned to studying herself. Scorpius meanwhile was writing a message on her notebook. Albus watched as Rose read it, blushed, and hit the blond Slytherin with the quill she was using, which snapped in two at contact. Scorpius then quickly offered her his own before reaching into his bag for his wand, with which he performed a particularly flashy spell to repair the broken feather.

Rose must seriously be joking if she thought he didn't know just exactly who she was going with. He had asked her the question as a joke, thinking she'd be mad at him, but clearly she was out-joking him. Never mind. He always had another option (cousins were, after all, generally very annoying).

"Sooo, who are you going to prom with, Scorpius?" he asked, even more casually.

"No one, but I sure have an idea…." Cue lovey dovey eyes to Rose (which he had been seeing for quite some unfortunate time now, frankly, it disgusted him and being the third wheel wasn't always the funnest).

"You mean you haven't asked her yet?"

"Umm no?"

"Shouldn't it have been the first thing you did when the date was announced?"

"Why would I do that?

"Because that's what you do when you've got a girlfriend!"

Scorpius stared at him, eyes wide with surprise, as though he wasn't aware of this. Wow. He was a really good actor.

"I have a girlfriend?" he asked, looking positively bemused.

"You have a girlfriend?" shrieked Rose and she hit him on the head with his own quill, which snapped again (boy was she good at snapping quills. Clearly, being a Chaser for Gryffindor gave her some serious arm power).

Albus was now thoroughly discombobulated. "Well, obviously! It's you Rose!"

"She's my girlfriend?"

"I'm his girlfriend?" Rose now looked quite perplexed too, and she was sitting down again in her seat, the broken pieces of her quill falling to the floor.

The genuine look of surprise on his stupid two best friends' faces made him seriously doubt wether or not this was a joke after all. "You mean you didn't know you were dating?"

"We're dating?" the pair cried out together at the same time. It would have been quite funny if it hadn't been quite so bizarre.

"You aren't?"

"No!" cried Rose.

"But we could-" tried to add Scorpius, before getting hit on the head by another unfortunate quill (note to self: buy Rose quills for her birthday, and probably an ice pack for Scorpius).

"But there were so many signs!" Albus protested. Okay, clearly, the pair of them were a lot dumber than he thought them, despite the fact they were both top of every single class they had.

"Like what?" asked Rise indignantly.

"You constantly flirt!"

"We do?" said Scorpius.

"Yes! Just read whatever you wrote on Rose's notebook aloud, then."

"Oh no! There is no way you're doing that!" Rose blushed again (imagine a tomato, dipped in a bucket of red paint, blushing. Yeah, that was about Rose right now) and slammed her notebook.

"Exactly!" Albus said triumphantly. "And all that unresolved sexual tension?"

Rose hit him with a quill. Dang, those things hurt! "There is no unresolved sexual tension!"

Hmm. Unlikely. Being in the same room as them had made more than one person angsty. But"What about at Valentine's Day, where you literally went on a date together!"

"That was a friend date!" Rose argued.

"Then why wasn't I invited? And for Rose's birthday, when you sent her sixteen dozen of red roses?"

"I thought that was funny, sending Rose some roses!"

"Scorpius, please, spare me your humour."

"I thought it was funny," Rose consoled him.

"Exactly my point!" Albus was in total disbelief. "And what about when you came over for the Easter holidays and Aunt Hermione literally had to force Uncle Ron into giving his approval!"

"Oh, so that's what it was!" mused Scorpius.

"I thought it was just like, 'go be friends, kids' and 'don't let your parents' prejudice blind you'!"

"You guys are impossible." Albus burrowed his face in his hands.

"So, like, I guess we're dating?" Rose asked tentatively. Oh here we go again. Scorpius and Rose world. Albus-who-? world. Albus watched his two ridiculous friends stare dreamily into each other's eyes.

"I guess we are…"

"Wow."

"Then, would you go to prom with me, Rose?"

"Oh, Scorpius, I would love to!"

Needless to say, a couple of weeks later, Albus watched his best friend and his cousin twirl around the dance floor, both dressed in their best (Albus had known Scorpius since he was 11, and boy had he made an effort), disgustingly in love with each other. He had the sneaking suspicion that Prom Queen and King would go to the dumbest couple in the room this year.