Scorpius Malfoy; Just friends

Careers

Auror?" "Dad, how serious do you think I am?" I say whilst raising my eyebrows, he chuckles shortly. "Well you're a brave guy, sometimes. Not when it comes to girls though." I furrow my brows at his statement, I've dated plenty of girls to be honest. "What do you mean?" I ask him, with a lot of confusion. My father smirks and looks at me with a soft, childish, twinkle, in his eyes.

"After 8 years you still haven't asked her out, what's the deal with that?" I shake my head at the thought of Harley, I get up from the couch, I walk over to the window and look outside. I can see the greyish clouds forming together to prepare for a rainy evening. Stormy clouds waiting to unleash their powers upon the earth.

"She's with Albus, they're in love.." I run my hand through my uncombed hair and sigh softly. "I'm even third wheeling now, I was never a third wheel whilst we were at Hogwarts, but everything changed after graduating.." My father gives me a pat on my back and looks up at me with a sincere smile, "She'll notice you soon Scorp. I'm sure of it." "Thanks dad." I say giving my dad a small smile and a short hug.

He knows how I've been in love with Harley since our sixth year, I knew it was wrong so I wanted to keep it hidden. But as time passed it was harder for me to hide my love, I've been more affectionate towards her lately but she thinks it's because we don't see each other that much anymore and I wanna make the best of every moment we spent together.

I also couldn't risk losing Albus, he's my best friend after Harley, he truly loves her and well, he got to her first. That's all that matters. I could never interfere in their relationship, I would never sink so low. As long as they're in love, I'm alone.

"I might audition for the Chudley Cannons seeker position." I say suddenly, making my dad grin, "That's a true Malfoy!" I chuckle at his remark, "I could always try and get a job at Hogwarts." "As long as you won't become a defence against the dark arts teacher. Did you know that that job is haunted?" He says raising one of his eyebrows. "Yes dad, you've told me at least twen-" He rudely interrupts me as he begins telling the story again, "It all began in my first year.."

After a few days I set my mind on becoming the new seeker for the Chudley Cannons and when I told Harley about it she went absolutely ape-shit crazy. "Dude, you do know people get seriously injured during quidditch, right?" "Yes, I know." I say with a smirk as I watch her going absolutely crazy. "And you wanna take that risk?! God you're such an idiot!" She says shaking her head, "You're adorable y'know that?" I say with a chuckle, "Down boy, I already have man." She says with a smirk, I laugh softly. "Believe me, I know."

•December•

"SCORP! I GOT ACCEPTED! I'LL BE TEACHING CARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES AT ILVERMORNY!" I hear her screech as she runs up to me, she jumps in my arms and I hug her tightly.

Oh how I love hugging her.. Her hugs are probably one of the best things about seeing her. She always just fits into my arms in the right kind of way. She's been spending all of her time with Albus lately and I haven't seen her for a while. I think Albus might be suspecting my feelings for her. Which means I'm in danger, because an angry Albus means a dead man.

"That's great Harls! When will you start?" Her smile fails, "I'm starting in September, I'll only be in England during the Christmas, Easter and summer breaks." My smile disappears as well, "You're gonna be away for quite some time Afias, I don't know if I'm gonna make it without you." I say with a grin whilst bumping her shoulder against mine, she chuckles softly.

Her shiny blue eyes look into mine with a worried look, "Albus wasn't all that happy about it.. He doesn't like me being away that long. We had quite a fight about it.." I grab her hand and give it a small squeeze, "Don't worry, you'll do great and you'll come back to us all during Christmas and you'll have interesting stories to tell, maybe you get sorted into one of their houses, who kno-" "You didn't make it, did you Scorp?" She says quickly, her eyes looking into mine, laced with sadness. "Damn you, you know me too well." She hugs me tightly, "I'm so sorry Scorp." I hug her quickly, and sigh. "As it turns out: James Potter was far better than me so they gave him the job.. I've got no idea what I'm going to do now though.." "I'm sure McGonagall wouldn't mind hiring you as a teacher at Hogwarts, or you could get a ministry job."

I chuckle a bit, "Me a Hogwarts professor?" She nods furiously, "You're good with kids, plus you kicked off of the shagging random girls thing, so yeah, you'd be perfect!" I shake my head, "What subject should I teach then, you smartass?" I boop her nose quickly, knowing how much she hates it. She slaps away my hand and looks off into the distance for a few seconds, a thing she always does when she has to come up with something. Her eyebrows scrunch up and then suddenly she jumps up,

"Professor Flitwick is retiring, you could teach charms!" Before I can even say a word she's up looking for some parchment and a quill. "We'd both be teachers, how exciting!" I chuckle at her enthusiasm, "I bet you McGonagall will accept you in a flash, she's a darling, she is." "Slow down tiger, maybe there's already a new teacher assigned to the task." She sits down on the couch and starts writing a letter.

I watch as she squints her eyebrows and starts writing the letter, as the quill reaches the paper she's unstoppable. She keeps writing and writing, suddenly she looks up at me. "Okay so, should I say that you're an excellent cook or is that out of the question?" I snort at her comment, "They have house elves for that Harls." She rubs her temples, "Of course, I should say you're good to house elves!"

"Okay, Harley, stop it. Let me read it." She gives the letter to me unwillingly, I read it and can't help but laugh at some of the things she wrote down. "I'm an excellent advice giver?" She raises her shoulders, "You are." "Merlin's beard Harley, I'm not a good actor." I shake my head, "Why are most of these not true?" She flashes me an innocent smile, "You got to lie on your job application, it's normal!"