"You have your toothbrush? Textbooks? And you have your wand right?" My mom questioned me.
"Yes mom." I reply exasperated. "I packed everything. And if I forgot something you can owl it to me. And yes, I rememb-", I shriek. When I turn around I see a tall, blond haired, and gray eyed boy laughing at me. Scorpius gave me hug without me expecting it.
As I'm about to start yelling at him, but mom stops laughing long enough to say, "Rose, you can yell at Scorpius on the train. If you don't get going you'll both miss it." Mom smothers her last laugh and says, "I love you Rosie and don't forget to owl us!" She hugs me. As I'm grabbing my trunk I see her wink at Scorpius out of the corner of my eye.
"By Mom! Love you!" I wave goodbye then grab Scorpius' hand and pull him onto the train.
"Glad to see you too Thorn." Scorpius mutters. I send a glare his way and his attitude shuts down. My glares are a gift, they can shut anyone up, even Mister Annoying.
As we're walking to the compartment that Al is in, I can make out whispers of, "Are they dating yet?" "I bet you two galleons that they will be by the end if the year." One girl even yelled, "My OTP! It's happening! It's happening!" Stunned, I look at Scorpius. I must've looked perplexed because he started laughing at the look on my face. He shrugs his shoulders and mouths, "I'll explain later", which did not make me feel better about the situation.
When we get to the compartment I say, "Spill. Now."
"Well you see a lot of people in this school think we would be a cute couple so they ship us. OTP is 'Only true pair'." He explains. I must've been blushing because he smiles at me. "Anything you would like to tell me Pricker?" He raises an eyebrow.
I raise one back and exclaim in a lovey-dovey voice, "Oh pain in my arse, I love you very very much! I just can't wait to live in a gingerbread castle with you and live happily ever after!" I give a high pitched laugh before my expression and voice return to normal.
"A gingerbread castle? I haven't heard that before. But I have an extremely important question, would the roof be made out of candy canes or gum drops because you know how much I hate gum drops." Scorpius exclaims in a serious voice. I laugh at him and shake my head.
"Sarcasm, my old friend. But on another note, why did you tackle me at the platform? And did I see my mom wink at you?" I interrogate.
"Well you see Red, when someone puts their arms around you, its called a hug, so henceforth, I did not tackle you, I simply hugged you without your knowledge. And for the record, I winked at your mom too. She saw me coming but didn't say anything to you. I was merely thanking her."
Al comes into the compartment laughing. "Um. Rose, you might want to close your mouth, you'll attract flies. Oh and those shippers out there are getting rowdy. I reckon that by the time we get to Hogwarts they'll be chanting 'Kiss. Kiss.' It is quite a scene." Al sits across from Scorpius and pushes my feet off of the seat.
Annoyed I pull out a book. "Look what you've done Al." Scorpius says jokingly, "You've released the inner bookworm. Now I'll have to wait until she finishes to talk." I slap his arm lightly and respond with,
"This bookworm can hear you and she suggests that if you want to keep your arm that you be nice."
Because of my threat, Scorpius laughs and starts a conversation with Al. I tune them out and focus on my book.
I jump out of my skin when I hear gasps and shrieks. I look around and find girls staring through our door. When they realize I'm up, their smiles turn to frowns and they slink back to their compartment. As I rub my eyes I ask, "What was that about?" Scorpius looks as confused as I feel. We turn to Albus. He's laughing at us.
"Rose you fell asleep and were leaning on Scorp here so he took your book and saved your spot. Then Scorp fell asleep so you were leaning on each other. When one of your many fans passed by, she saw you two and went to grab her friends. Then Rose jumped out of her skin, in the process waking Scorpius up and that pretty much brings you up to speed. Anymore questions you would like answered?" Al manages between laughs.
"So what your saying is we have a friend that's too lazy to ward off a few girls to let his mates sleep?" Scorpius grumbles.
"Actually you're friend is a business man. I charged each one five sickles to watch. I made a few galleons." Al is still laughing.
"Albus Severus Potter. You better watch your back. Or split the money. Your choice." I lecture. Al stops laughing. Needless to say, Scorpius and I made some money that day.
I shove the boys out of the compartment so I can change. When I'm done it's my turn to leave. As I'm going to go visit my cousins I walk smack into another person. We both fall and I land on top of him. He has brown hair that's falling into his green eyes.
"It looks like you're falling for me." He winks. "I'm Travis. Travis Hart." Travis stands up and extends a hand. I take it.
"I'm Rose and I promise I'm not normally this clumsy." Travis laughs. "Anyway, I have to go meet my friends, and sorry about running into you."
"No problem. See ya around Rose." Apparently one of the "Scorose" shippers saw my encounter with Travis because she burst into tears. "Seriously?" I mutter while shaking my head. "It's like they planned out my whole life. And with a person I'm not even dating." I mumble. By the time I reach Lily's compartment I have to go back to mine to grab my trunk.
"You'll never guess what happened. I ran into someone, then one of our fans started crying." I exclaim. Albus has an expression on his face that says, "I told you." and Scorpius looks shocked.
"You ran into someone? Who is this someone and how hard do I need to punch them?" Scorpius says, trying to keep his voice calm.
"His name is Travis and I'm the one who didn't watch where they were going." I reach a hand up to Scorpius' shoulder, "Mister Annoying you need to relax. The only bad thing was that I ran into him." I can feel him slightly relax, but by the look on his face I know he's upset. "I promise he did nothing. Now let's go catch a carriage. I really don't want to walk to Hogwarts." And with that I walked out of the compartment, dragging Scorpius with me and a smug looking Albus behind us.
