Us Chapter 1: Can't Run Forever, a harry potter fanfic

Author's Note: SOOOO, this is the first chapter to my third and last sequel, Us. Please don't read this before you read The New Generation and The Spark. It would be completely illogical, and you wouldn't gain anything except spoilers. The New Generation and The Spark can be found on my profile. So, if you have read, reviewed, story alerted, author alerted ect., welcome back! For the newbies, please read the others, but enjoy this one too! Thanks for your support! ENJOY Us!

Chapter 1: Can't Run Forever

I ran my hand through my hair, pulling it out of the thick ponytail I had had it in seconds earlier. Shaking it out, I looked into the mirror blankly. The girl staring back at me resembled more of myself with my hair down in its normal explosive waves, but the light in my eyes wasn't there. I was going back. Back to the place where he hurt me, where Frank broke up with me, where Scorpius was... How could I face him now?

-A+R+S-

"Is this really necessary?" I whined at Lina's back, her head hidden inside her closet where she was rummaging around for a suitable outfit for me for the first day of classes. She turned back in my direction and threw a bundle of clothes at me.

"Of course it's necessary. You just broke up with your boyfriend, you need to start looking available." she said, dusting off her hands from the dirt in her closet(I have no idea how it got there, truly). I examined the clothes she had given me, and held up one for inspection.

"I have plenty of bras of my own, thanks Lina." I laughed, tossing the pink garment back to her. She tossed it back.

"It goes with the shirt!"

"No, it doesn't, it's a see-through shirt," I scoffed, holding up the, very pretty, but still, see-through, shirt.

"That's the point."

Once Lina had managed to force me into the shirt and bra along with a pair of skin-tight demi curve levi's jeans that I owned, I had to admit, I looked good. And Lina was right, the see-through white shirt did get their eyes on me.

"Aha! Told you the outfit would attract attention! Scorpius' eyes nearly popped out of his head!" Lina said, gesturing to the boy in question. I flushed with embarrassment as I heard that, though it was true, his eyes we on me. Our eyes met for a second and I looked away, my blush growing farther up my neck. We still hadn't talked since the summer, since it had happened. He was probably hating me now, for leaving him in the dark. But what could I say, really? What would happen to our friendship after that? And what about my father? And Al? Nothing ever would be normal between us again.

"Yeah, sure." I said vaguely. Lina stopped and stared at me calculating.

"You've been acting weird lately. I feel like you're not telling me something. I won't judge you, you know that right?" she said gently. I shook myself mentally.

"I'm fine, really Lina." I said, coming back to earth. She didn't look quite convinced, but nodded anyway and we made our way into the Great Hall for breakfast. I didn't sit with Scorpius and Al, but I felt Scorpius' eyes on me the whole time, which only reminded me of the definite fact: I would have to talk to him sooner or later...

-A+R+S-

I went through my classes in a daze, but when we I got to Transfiguration, I finally started to pay attention. "Attention, class!" Professor McGonagall's voice, although old, rang through the classroom. "We have new seating arrangements!" She unrolled a scroll and began to read the names off it. The arrangements were fair, Gryffindors with Gryffindors, Slytherins with Slytherins, and it was clear she had made an effort to put friends with friends. For me, though, she needed to alert herself with my current situation. Because who was I sitting next to? Three guesses.

If you guessed Scorpius Malfoy, you were absolutely correct! Now I would have to spend the whole class trying to avoid his attempted notes sent to me. After the class was over, I opened the charmed paper, and had to contain my laughter as I read what he had written. The notebook now looked like this:

Stop avoiding me.

ROSE, PICK THE DAMN NOTEBOOK UP!

Shaking my head to clear my thoughts, I stored the notebook in my bag and hoisted it up on my shoulder, leaving the classroom early with Scorpius in my wake. I had gotten about halfway back to the dormitory when I froze in my tracks and listened as someone came up behind me. Heavy footsteps informed me on who it was. The boy in question ran up behind me and grasped my shoulders, probably in case I ran away.

"You've been avoiding me," he breathed into my ear, and shivers run down my spine at his warm breath.

"What could I have said?" I whispered back, still not trying to look at him.

"Yes. You could have said yes." he said.

"What if I was going to say no?" I asked, some of my old humor coming back into my voice. He flipped me around to face him and searched my eyes.

"Did you mean the things you said that day?" he questioned me. I looked down at the ground and said in a small voice:

"No."

Searching my eyes desperately, he leaned down to meet my lips for the second time. I felt a shiver race through my body again as his lips connected to mine. One thing I had learned from this little encounter was a fact that I would not tell Abby she was a slut for saying anymore, because it was true: he was a superb kisser. But of course, I would never tell her that, because then she would know, and no one could know about Scorpius and I. Wait—Scorpius and I? No no no. There wasn't an us. There never would be. But as my nostrils twitched at the smell of mint, chocolate, and fresh snow, I realized that that was an empty promise. Of course there would be an us. I recalled a conversation in 5th year right before Victoire's wedding.

*Flashback to 5th year*

"Scorpius said it looked nice." I said mutinously.

"Well, of course Scorpius would." Lily muttered.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It's supposed to mean that Frank Longbottom is a right douche who no one likes."

*End of Flashback*

Scorpius drew back from me, searching my eyes. "What are you thinking?" I shook my head frantically, drew away, and took off in the opposite direction. "You can't run away from me forever Rose!" Scorpius yelled after me as I ran away, and I felt guilt burn through my body. And what would running away from him again, anyway? Maybe I'm just too scared, too scared to face the facts. And the facts clearly stated that I was in love with Scorpius Malfoy as he had been with me for over four years.

A/N: Questions you can respond to this time will be:

1)How should Scorpius eventually win her over?

2)When should Rose end up telling Lina/her dorm mates about the kisses?

and

3)Will Rose ask advice from any of her family members or keep it strictly non-family?