Little Things

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Scorpius Malfoy

"Uncle Harry," Rose said, scooting further away from Scorpius, trying to put as much distance between them as possible. Scorpius looked up at Harry, trying his best to not make eye contact with him. At least, Scorpius thought to himself, It's not her dad.

"What are you doing here?" Rose asked.

Harry looked at them, not really expressing a certain emotion. "I should be asking you the same question." He said, firmly. Scorpius tried not to think about the fact that his sweater vest and shirt were on the floor and that his bare chest was exposed.

Scorpius saw Rose shift uncomfortably out of the corner of his eye. "Well, we were just, um, I, I mean we," Rose stuttered trying to find something to say.

"What she means is," Scorpius started, trying to help out Rose.

Harry held up his hand, silencing them both. "Look, I don't care what you were doing or what you were planning on doing. What I want to know is, how long has this been going on? You two, together."

Scorpius and Rose glanced at each other, sharing a look. "Since about Christmas," Scorpius said, hiding his eyes from Harry's gaze.

Harry looked at them both, his expression unreadable. Then suddenly a smirk seemed to appear on his face. A full blown smirk, just as if he were in Hogwarts again. "It's about time!" He exclaimed.

Scorpius and Rose looked at each other again, this time in shock. "Excuse me?" they said in unisone.

Harry laughed. "Man, Albus was right, you two are oblivious. Everyone has known that you too like each other for years. Hell, when you first started going to school together, Ginny, Hermione, Ron and I are placed bets on how long it would be till you two were an item."

"Are you serious?!" Rose exclaimed.

Harry laughed some more. "Of course not! I was joking. But we all knew it would happen eventually."

Scorpius sat there, feeling as if his body was going to go into shock. Sure, he'd pretty much always had a crush on Rose, but he never knew he was that obvious.

"Do your parents know that you two are dating? You are dating right?" asked Harry.

Rose sighed. "Yes, we are dating and no they don't know."

"We were kind of too scared to tell them," Scorpius added, sheepishly.

"Well, I think you owe it to them to tell them," Harry said, giving them both a meaningful look. "You might be surprised by their response. Now, get to bed you two before I tell Professor McGonagall on you two."

Rose jumped off the desk, as Scorpius grabbed his shirt and pulled it on, hurriedly trying to button it up. The two walked out the door, sheepishly and ran away, hearing Harry lightly chuckling behind them.

They ran all the way back to the Ravenclaw tower and into the common room, before they stopped. It was late and everyone was up in their dormitories. Rose went and sat down on the couch, putting her head in her hands. Scorpius went and sat next to her, wrapping his arm around her. He felt her start shaking, yet no noise was coming from her.

"Rosie, are you crying?" He asked, scooting closer to her.

Rose moved her hands away from her face to reveal she was actually laughing. "That was probably the most embarrassing thing I've ever gone through in my whole life," she said, before she starting laughing again.

Scorpius started laughing too. Laughing a lot actually. Both of them were in hysterics, heads leaning onto each other for support. Once they had finally settled down, Rose laid her head onto Scorpius's lap, grabbing his hand and intertwining their fingers.