Annoyingly short. But I wanted to update. It'll get interesting in a few chapters. Promise.

'Lily? Lily! Lily! Lil! Lil! Lil!'

'What?' Lily yelled exasperatedly.

'Where are you?' Scorpius called, as though the two were on opposite cliff sides.

'In the loo,' Lily said, annoyed.

'Ah, of course,' Scorpius said and made his way to her room. 'Oy, why'd you lock the door?'

'Privacy, genius.'

'Hah, privacy? What've you got to hide from me?'

'Loads,' she said, as she opened the door, wrapped in a towel, with her hair down.

Scorpius grinned widely. 'Why does this situation remind me of something?'

'What situation?'

'You know, you in a towel, having to go to a party…?'

Lily looked at him in an annoyed yet question way.

'How could you not remember?' he demanded.

'Remember what?'

'Goddamn it. Ministry Freedom Ball, a year ago?'

'Oh right!' Lily said, a wide smile forming on her face.

'Knew you couldn't have forgotten,' Scorpius muttered. 'It was our best time.'

'Hm,' Lily thought. 'Not really, I think we've had a few better ones.'

Scorpius looked at her thoughtfully. 'Well. We could have our best one yet right now.'

'Sure,' she said, sarcastically. She turned to find something to wear, but was grabbed at the waist by Scorpius, who twirled her around, with a charming smile. 'Scor, no.'

'Why not?' he groaned.

'Because you're a bitch and I hate you.'

'Aw, you don't mean that.'

'Oh, trust me, I do.'

'You wouldn't be here if you did,' he pointed out, giving her a cheeky look.

'This is my apartment,' she pointed out with an even cheekier look. She untangled herself from him and walked towards her wardrobe.

Scorpius was stumped. She has no feelings for me, he thought, dejectedly. He plopped himself on her bed and stared as she rummaged through her clothes. 'Still can't keep a neat closet, can you?' he asked, smiling.

'Fuck you,' she said, but she was also smiling. She remembered what a neat freak he was, and how he used to clean her place up while she was away. It annoyed her immensely because she never found anything after his wipe down, but the gesture was, as she put it, adorable.

'So,' he said, conversationally. 'How've you been?'

Sensing that he wanted to make genuine conversation, Lily replied, 'I've been okay. What about you?'

'Same, I guess. Haven't found any decent birds since you, Lil,' Scorpius said, disappointed.

She laughed. 'Aw, I'm sorry, Scor. Not even Melanie?' she added, teasingly.

Scorpius threw her a dirty look and she burst out laughing. Unable to help himself, he began to laugh too.

'I miss this,' Lily said, wiping her tears.

Scorpius said, calmly but delightedly, 'We can have it again, babe, it'll all be okay.' He moved towards her again, but this time, she backed off.

'Um. No it won't, because you went and fucked everything up.' She sounded just as hurt and angry as she did when she first found out. 'Anyway,' she continued, easily changing the topic, 'what should I wear?'

Sighing defeated, and feeling extremely guilty, he said, 'The dark blue one.'

Lily pulled out a dress from her closet and scrutinized it. 'You gave me this.'

'Yeah.'

She looked at him and gave him a small, sad smile. She put on the dress, in the loo, of course, and rushed out with an anxious expression.

'I don't know why you bother so much, you look beautiful all the time,' Scorpius said, without even thinking about what he was saying. She did look beautiful though.

Lily put on a pair of heels and looked at Scorpius for approval. He smiled in appreciation. She bent down and gave him a peck on the cheek. It was as though they were together again, the way they were behaving.

'Ready to go, Lil?' Scorpius asked, standing up and holding his arm out.

'Absolutely,' she said, smiling.

'You look…wow.'

'So do you. Shall we go now? Because I think we're a tiny bit late.' They looked at the time, 9:45 p.m. 'Fuck.'

Thank you wonderful people for reading. And I want to give a HUUUUUUUGE thank you and loads of happy thoughts to the reviewers! You really are brilliant. Lots of love coming your way. :)