WAYS TO WIN ROSE WEASLEY'S HEART ! SCOROSE

a catch-22.

A kind of funny thing happened today.

Me and Albus (er, Albus and I, if we're being absolutely grammatically correct) were talking about something and one thing led to another and this journal came up. Along with, of course, my admiration of Rose Granger Weasley.

"What's next, Scorp? A video montage of every time Rosie's said hello to you?"

That's what Albus said.

"Hm, no."

That's what I said. A video montage is just mad creepy and plus, I don't think I'd have enough clips. Anyway, the prick went on.

"Going to tell her she smells like fresh bread and fresh grass again, then?"

I grimaced as he tried to stifle his (obviously unstif-able???) laughter. It had been a very funny memory for Albus and just got funnier to him the more he thought about it. Like that expression about fine wine except, with my trash compliments. I still cringe about it after all these bloody years and just...ugh.

"Ew no. That's when she mildly/severely despised me, remember? Why would I want to remind her of that again?"

(What I said) Anyway, this is the rest of the conversation w/o my interruption lol :

"You get that I'm kidding right?"

"Oh, yeah. Of course. Mhm."

"I just- why don't you just send her a happy birthday card?"

"A card?! That is so mediocre, Albus. You could learn a thing or two from James-"

At the mention of his older (and honestly more popular ngl, sorry mate) brother, Albus laughed. Loudly and uncontrollably.

"You've talked to my brother about your infatuation with Rose?"

"Well yeah, but I didn't mention her specifically, just asked for anonymous girl advice..."

"You do realize that this is the James that sent a Howler to the wrong girl because he couldn't spell her name right, right?"

I did remember that actually. The whole story all in all was pretty cute.

"But it worked out in the end!"

Albus shook his head at this, but grinned. His hair didn't mess up as much as the other Potters infamously did. I don't know why I added that last part, I suppose extra details might just snazzy up this story a little bit.

"So what'd he tell you?"

"Are you sure you wanna hear it?"

"Um, obviously?"

"Okay, okay. Don't make fun of me, please?"

He thought about it. It took like 3 minutes.

"Fine."

"Hetoldmetokisssomeonebecausefirstkissesaretheworstandtheygraduallygetbetterandidontreallyunderstandandyeah."

"What?"

Sigh. That was really hard to write on paper.

"James said that, if I ever want to be in a relationship with the girl I mentioned (again, never told him it was Rose) then I should already have kissed someone beforehand so that she won't dump me because of terrible snogging or something."

"Wow. That's wild."

"I suppose so, yeah."

"Predictably James, though."

"How does he know you've never kissed anyone- besides your hand, of course?"

"That was one time in first year! Let it go, I was curious. And, I don't know, isn't it obvious? I don't really think I give off the impression of serial snogger, you know?"

"Mhm, I guess."

"But my problem is: I don't want to kiss someone just to kiss someone. I want it all to be meaningful. I..."

"Want your first kiss to be Rose, right?" Albus finished, an eyebrow raised. He knew his best friend well. "Merlin, you're such a sucker for romance, you belong in like, 16 Candles or whatever those movies Lily watches are."

"I don't know what to do, Albus!"

"Well, I think it's a win-win for you because you get to snog someone so just do that."

Typical Albus, honestly. I don't even know if he's ever "snogged" someone himself (he refuses to say) but the boi acts as if he's snogged multitudes (multitudes?) of people and it ANNOYS ME TO NO END. Anyway :

"Wow. I've got it all figured out now. Definitely. Thanks, Albus." (Sarcasm)

"Tsk. Well I don't really know what I'd do in your position because you've got two choices really. One, ask some random girl to teach you how to snog properly, someone our age and alive (not Moaning Myrtle, even if you get desperate). Or two, just stay in your friend zone bubble (even if you don't "believe in the friendzone") and maybe get out and potentially date Rose and wing your first kiss. I'd suggest you not to wait forever though, nerd, because that's probably the amount of time it'll take for her to say yes to you."

I thought about it. What was I going to do? It offended me slightly/ very that Albus thought I'd ever go to the desperate lengths of Moaning Myrtle but dismissed it since much more pressing matters were at hand. It took me a while to make up my mind.

"I know what I'll do now!" I said.

"Are you sure whatever you're going to do is the best idea?" Albus asked cautiously.

"Definitely- I mean! I guess so? Yes."

Albus left after that to go looking for someone who's name he mumbled unintelligibly and I am here writing this. Truthfully, I suck at writing first pov (I think that's what it's called?) and haven't actually made a decision yet, and am not being fully honest about that whole haven't-gotten-my-first-kiss-yet. I'll explain later/ next page.

Anyway, I am going to take my chances that Albus won't open this book again so I think I can make this a quality writing journal/idea book? Would that work? Do I really wanna re-read my day to day activities and thoughts? Sure. Okay.