Exposed // scorbus

chapter four ♔ mirror of erised

Scorpius wakes up in his bed, alone. He remembers last night. He cringes. He hears Albus from the bathroom, crying and puking. He feels empathetic. He nervously goes in there, very aware that Albus might hate him.

       He comes in while Albus is mid-barf. The mouth that Scorpius was kissing a number of hours ago now had puke erupting from it. He cringed once more.

      "Hey Albus." Scorpius simply says, coming over and sitting next to the toilet. "Do you need to go to Madam Pomfrey?" Scorpius asks.

  Once Albus stops barfing, he mumbles "I'll be okay. How drunk was I last night?"

"Drunk enough to ask me to fuck you." Scorpius says awkwardly.

"Oh god, thanks for declining. And for the record, if we were to ever - uh - do it - I'd definitely top. I can't see you sticking your dick into anything." Albus says jokingly.

"Way to be blunt, Al. Anyways, Addison said she was gonna be sneaking up to our dorm to hang out, is that okay?"

  "I guess." Albus says reluctantly.

   "Hey, I know you don't like her. If it really means that much to you, I'll stop hanging out with her."

"Don't let me stop you from having friends! Just because I'm not that fond of her, doesn't mean you shouldn't be! I just get a bad vibe from her and it  makes me uncomfortable."

"I'll take that as a "Stop hanging out with her."" Scorpius laughs out.

      Albus continues to be sick, while Scorpius continues to contemplate about what happened the night before. Did Albus even remember it? Did Albus even care? He decides to not mention it to Albus again.

     Around 3:00pm, Addison came over to the dorm, with the boy from last night.

   "Hey Scorp! Meet my boyfriend! His name is Jason Thomas-Finnigan, and I really like him. I'm not gonna be able to stay for very long, me and Jason have a date to attend to in twenty minutes."

    "Hey, Jason. Im Scorpius Malfoy. Nice to meet you! Thanks for stopping by."

and just like that, they left.

   Albus was starting to feel better, he wasn't barfing anymore, his only problem was his headache.

    "How do you feel?" Albus asks Scorpius while simultaneously messing with a chocolate frog wrapper.

    "About?" Scorpius asks, confused.

  "Jason and Addison. Don't you fancy Addison?" Albus asks, his voice straining whenever he said Addison's name.

"Not really anymore. See, I'm kinda into someone else now..." his voice trailing off as he smirks and looks up at Albus.

"WHO?" Albus practically yells, cluelessly yet excitedly.

"I'm not telling you. You won't like the answer."

"Oh c'monnnnn Scorp! You're no fun! I don't give a damn if you like a boy or something! I only get crushes on boys! Did you know that?" Albus blurts out teasingly, talking a mile a minute.

   "In fact, I did not know that you were a homosexual. That's awesome I guess. I'll admit, the person I like is a boy. That's ALL I'm gonna tell you." Scorpius replies, crossing his arms.

   "Are they in our year?"

  "Yes."

"Gryffindor?"

"No."

"Hufflepuff?"

"What the hell is a Hufflepuff? Just kidding, no."

"Slytherin?"

"Maybe!"

  "Do I know them?"

"Yes."

"Is there name Albus Sev-"

"Okay, no more questions." Scorpius says before Albus can finish asking his question.

"Answer my question or I'll tell the whole school that you have a crush on my cousin, even if you don't."

"You wouldn't."

"You're right, I wouldn't. But I still want to know. I won't tell him."

"I gotta go." Scorpius says, leaving the room. He didn't have anywhere to go, he just wanted to get out of the conversation.

    Albus was now worried. Did I come on too strong? He probably thinks i'm in love with him! I mean, I am in love with him, but I don't want him to know that.
Albus just sits on his bed, head pounding, all he does it sit and contemplate.

-- meanwhile --

Scorpius doesn't know where he's going, in more ways than one.

He doesn't know where he's literally heading right now, he doesn't know where he wants to go with Albus, he doesn't know where Albus wants to go, he doesn't know where he's going with life in general.

He just keeps walking. He doesn't know why he left Albus behind like that. He could have done it. He could of kissed him. Then again, that might have not been to pleasant, considering he's hungover and would probably taste like puke.

Eventually, he ends up in some random seemingly abandoned classroom on the seventh floor. Everything in it is all dusty and worn down, and it doesn't look like anyone had been in there for years.

He looks around, and notices how much junk there was. He finds old textbooks, one with the words "half blood prince" etched on the inside of the cover. Most of the room was just random nick-nacks. He's unimpressed so far.

At the back of the room, how ever, was this mirror. It said something like "the mirror of erised" at the top, with some other backwards writing.

Scorpius remembers something Albus had told him.
"When my dad was in his first year at Hogwarts, he found a mirror that showed your heart's greatest desire!"
Scorpius realizes what this is. He has no idea what will be in the mirror. His mother? Power? Him getting respect?

He reluctantly walks up to the mirror, staring into it. For a moment, he sees himself. Tears stained his pale skin, his platinum blonde hair was all messy, his piercing grey eyes staring back at him. After that, the scene begins to change. It's still him, but he's wearing a suit. Albus is there, in a suit too. They are both staring at each other longingly, and then a preacher looking dude comes from behind them. It looks like he's saying something. After that, Scorpius kissed Albus passionately. Draco and Astoria walk into the scene, crying tears of joy whist clapping. It was beautiful.

Scorpius realizes what he just saw was a wedding. Not just any wedding, a wedding between him and his best friend. He realizes what he needs to do. He hurries back to his dormitory.