Chapter Three: Rose's PoV

This night is sparkling, don't you let it go
I'm wonder-struck, blushing all the way home
I'll spend forever wondering if you knew
I was enchanted to meet you--Taylor Swift


Parties are so much better when you have someone to talk to.

Scorpius and I got along great, he was easy to talk to, made me laugh, listened to me...It was one of my best birthdays ever.

Finally, looking at my watch, I realized with a sinking heart I had to leave. It was the first time in a long time I was upset to leave a party that I was dragged to.

Looking to Scorpius I said with a sigh, "Looks I got to be off to home."

Scorpius tilted my wrist so he could read my watch (despite the fact he had his own watch) and asked with wide eyes, "So soon? The party's only just begun!"

We both looked around and laughed, at this point in time several people had already left, some had fallen asleep there, and others were talking quietly to each other in different parts of the room. "You know, I never, ever, thought I would say this, but I think we're the life of the party, if only my brother were here. The pranks I could picture him pulling on the ones asleep.."

Scorp let out a chuckle, "Like what? Hand in warm water?"

I shook my head, "Last time, he somehow managed to put Uncle Harry up on the roof, of the neighbors house."
Scorpius laughed so hard he snorted, causing me to burst into giggles. Giggles? Since when did I giggle? "Well, I really do have to be going though. I'm walking home, and I'm already late as it is."

Scorpius stopped laughing, but that handsome in a cute way smile was still there, "Well then, good-bye eighteen-year-old-girl-whom-is-forbidden-to-talk-to-me-but-has-any-way." He gave a slight bow in farewell and I burst into a combination of giggles and laughter, it sounded odd coming from a girl that hardly laughed except for when it was fake...

"Good-bye boy-whom-I'm-not-allowed-to-talk-to-but-have-any-way. Maybe I'll see you at the next party we're dragged too." Although, if I know you're going to be there, I won't have to be dragged to it..

I said good-bye to my cousins then skipped walked out the door. As soon as I exited the building my lips instantly formed a toothy smile that I couldn't have faked if I tried. I danced the whole way home, well, not quite danced...but the occasional twirl on the side of road while staring up at the stars did happen.

We can just say that I was wonder-struck all the way home, because I just had the best day ever. Then, of course, my brat brother, had to notice I was different then my normal sulky self....probably because I was singing quietly to myself as I practically skipped through the door way.

Hugo, who was sitting at the kitchen table when I entered, took one look at my face, looked taken aback, squinted, and held his hand up to shield his eyes. "Rose," he said as if in pain, "your happy glow, it's blinding!"

I rolled my eyes, feeling my cheeks heat up in embarrassment. "Shut it Hugo," I retaliated lamely. Inside though, I still felt "as light as a feather" (not meaning to be all cliche or anything, but that's the only way to explain it.

"There is no way on earth, my sister, the most Anti-Social person in the history of people, likes some guy. It's just not possible, and I know it's true, because your face is beet red," Hugo pointed out, obviously right.

I just smiled at Hugo deciding to go with the best tactic in getting rid of annoying brothers, creeping them out. "You're right dearest brother of mine," I started walking towards him, a wide smile on my face "I have fallen in love, completely and utterly in love!" I put both hands up to my heart, a dopey and creepyish expression on my face. Taking a few steps closer I said, "So in love I can hardly stand it!" I was now right next to him, I wrapped my arms around his neck, he squirmed, my trick was working. "So in love I can't keep it in any longer! I love you Hugo!"I moved in for a kiss on his cheek and was met with empty air, he managed to squirm under my arms and out of the room.

I loved it when I managed to scare my brother.

Then I escaped to my room, before Hugo returned. I flopped on my bed in a very un-ladylike manner, and sighed. Only thoughts of one person were in my mind. One thing was torture though, did he like me?

I mean, he could be a natural flirt and I was dumb enough to fall for it, he could have forgotten about me already. He could have a girl friend. He could be in love with some random girl. The more I thought about the more my heart sank. I doubted that I would ever see him again anyway, and that this was some crush that would pass in a few weeks, or at least, that's what I tried to convince myself.

I couldn't let myself say the four words, enough to myself, for fear of bitter disappointment. I could not bring myself to say those four words that my heart felt. I, Rose Lillian Weasley, couldn't say it. I could say, "I. Am. In. Love."

For the next several hours those thoughts swarmed my mind. I tried to shake them out..but was impossible.

Finally my mouth and tongue and voice whispered into the darkness of my room, "I, Rose Lillian Weasley, am in love with a Malfoy, desperately and completely in love." It was most definitely enchanting to meet him, because now I loved him.

Now the question was, was he enchanted to meet me too? I could only hope...