Chapter 7- Parents and Professors
Previously...
Momentarily forgetting about the spell, Scorpius grinned mischievously at me, then he yelled at the top of his lungs "Last one in is a- a smelly teenager!" and he took off, jumping into the bath.
I started to laugh at him, but stopped when I was suddenly sent flying into the pool after Scorpius
"Garrh!" I yelled as I flew through the air.
I cannoned into the water headfirst, and came up spluttering "Thanks" I said sarcastically, spitting water out of my mouth and wiping the bubbles off my face.
Scorpius shrugged and grinned sheepishly at me, the bath was so deep that I couldn't touch the ground with my feet so I was treading water to keep myself afloat.
"Sorry." He apologised sheepishly "I forgot."
"Like hell you did, I'm gonna get you for that!" I warned him
He laughed at me, "Bring it on!" He challenged
I lunged at him, pushing his head under the water, he came up spluttering. He pushed his wet hair out of his eyes, and I knew exactly what he was about to do, so I turned and quickly began to swim away, laughing.
He came after me and grabbed me around the waist, I squealed and he dove underneath the water, pulling me with him.
We resurfaced and I spat water out of my mouth again, glaring at him.
"Oh, so it's like that is it?"
"Yeah, it is." He replied, mock meanly.
"You know what this means?" I asked him, but I didn't give him time to answer. "This means war!" I shouted "For Narnia!"
"And for Aslan!" He finished.
Then water flew everywhere.
~O~
Now, on with the story...
Walking into Arithmacy the next day, I stopped short at the sight of the familiar bushy haired woman in front of the blackboard. Scorpius was taken by surprise by my sudden stop and walked straight into the back of me, sending me stumbling forward uncontrollably. I would have fallen if he haven't have grabbed my arm, pulling me up right at the last minute.
"Hey, you okay Red? Why'd you stop?" I didn't answer him, I was staring at the back of the woman writing on the board, praying hard that it wasn't who I thought it Scorpius's question, the woman turned around and I felt my stomach fall into my feet.
"Mum." I said weakly
"Rose!" My mum stepped forward and hugged me,
"Mum, what are you doing here?" I asked
"Well-" She stepped back and caught sight of Scorpius behind me, I saw a look of confusion flicker across her features, but it was replaced with a smile almost instantaneously. "I'm relief teaching!" My mother told me gleefully "Melinda's -Professor Bobbin's - sister is going to have a baby and she wanted her sister to be there. Minerva owled me yesterday and asked me to do some relief and as my departments quite slow the moment I said yes!"
"How long will you be here?" I asked, wondering when she would ask why Scorpius was here. I could see that she wanted to, obviously McGonagall hadn't mentioned anything about us to her and, knowing my mother, she'd already read through the role and was wondering why he was in a class he wasn't enrolled in and also why he hadn't sat down yet.
"Just under two weeks, I leave on Friday." She looked at Scorpius, who she knew because Al had dragged him along to more family gatherings than I could count, "Scorpius, how are you?"
"Fine, thanks." He answered, stepping forward to shake her hand
"Were you looking for someone?" She asked "I noticed you aren't enrolled in this class."
"Crap." I thought, I looked up at Scorpius. After living together for almost a month now we understood each other pretty well.
He gave me a look that said "Go on, tell her."
I gave him one back that said "I don't want to."
"Come on, just get over with." he replied
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"NO"
I heard a small cough and looked up to realise mum had just witnessed the whole silent conversation and was looking extremely puzzled.
"Scorpius?" She asked, "Why are you here?"
I couldn't see any way around it, I sighed in defeat. Taking a deep breath, I thought, "Come on Rose! You're a Gryffindor, for Merlin sake! Just say it!"
"Mum, he's with me." I said in a rush. She looked even more confused at this,
"Why, Rose? I thought you hated him?"
"Well, I did-" I began but mum cut me off,
"Are you dating?" She asked, still looking puzzled
"No!" I blushed, but she just kept talking,
"Because you know I wouldn't mind-"
"Mum"! I yelled, "We're not dating!"
She stopped and looked at me, "Well, what is it then?"
"It's kinda a long story," I looked down at my watch, we had about 15 minutes before people would start arriving. I sat down one of the desks, Scorpius followed suit and, after a second, so did mum.
"You know how Al and Fred like to experiment?" I asked her
She nodded, so I continued "Well, on the first Hosgmeade weekend this year I went to visit Fred and Roxy in the shop..."
~O~
"... and McGonagall said it could last year or so." I finished a few minutes later. Scorpius and I were sitting at a desk with my mother in a chair opposite us. I had a told her the story quite quickly with Scorpius adding things every now and then.
My mum and look at us for a moment, then a wide grin spread across her face and she clapped hands in delight.
"This is absolutely wonderful!" She exclaimed, I rolled my eyes, I knew she'd react like this. But Scorpius didn't, it was now his turn to look confused,
"You're not mad?" He asked
Mum look at him, "No! Why would I be? This is a perfect opportunity to promote house unity!"
I rolled my eyes again, that's my mum for you.
~O~
Four days before holidays, Scorpius, Al, Ally, Stella and I were in the library. The boys were working on a potions essay that was due the next day and us girls were chatting in whispers so as to avoid the wrath of the one hundred year old librarian book Nazi, Mrs Pince.
We were tucked away in a dusty corner of the cavernous room at a desk at the far end of the History of Magic section, the most boring part of the library, which is exactly why we had chosen to sit there. No one ever comes anywhere near this place, we actually had to pull cobwebs of the chairs before sitting down. Monday afternoon was only time all five of us had the same period free.
"So what are you and Scorpius going to do about the holidays?" Stella asked me after about half an hour of talking about absolutely nothing and everything.
"We decided we do one week at each house," I said unhappily, "I wanted to stay here, but we were too late."
"It can't be that bad," Stella was trying to make me feel better, but I didn't believe her.
"Yeah, and your mum knows and so do Scorpius's parents, so the only one left to tell is your dad and your mum can tell him." Ally added.
"She won't, she says I have to tell him-responsibility now that I'm 17 and all that." I rolled my eyes at them.
"That sucks, what are you going to do?" Stella asked me
"Well, I figure he's going to be mad no matter how I tell him, so I'm just gonna turn up and explain when we get there."
Stella and Ally nodded and I glanced down at my watch, "Dinner's in 15 minutes," I glanced at Scorpius, "Wanna go and drop our stuff off in the dorm before?"
He continued writing, "Just... give me... a... sec..." He finished the sentence he was writing with a flourish. "Done." He announced and blew on the ink to dry it before stuffing all his stuff back into his bag, when he was done he stood up.
"See you at dinner." I said the others
"Bye guys." Scorpius said as we began walking away.
We crept past Mrs Pince and began making our way up to the seventh floor as we walked in a comfortable silence, I was thinking about holidays.
The first week with the Malfoy's, and the next with dad glaring at me the whole time. The only good thing that was going to come from it was Autumn Weasley day, Weasley days were the best days of the year (excluding Christmas).
But other than that I was not looking forward to the holidays.
A/N Hey everybody, sorry its taken me so long to update, I've been super busy with TAFE, BUT I did give you a super long chapter! YAY!
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