The Christmas holidays were one of Albus’ least favourite times of the year, cooped up for two weeks with no one but his insane family. The one thing that would make this Christmas bearable was Scorpius, his best friend and boyfriend.
After weeks of back and forth his father had finally agreed to let the boy stay over.
Albus paced back and forth in his room, excitement flooding through him, he could think only of Scorpius and his arrival. He stopped, staying rooted to the spot, hearing the soft pattering of feet in the corridor. The door opened to reveal a particularly cute looking Scorpius. His soft platinum blond hair was filled with flecks of snow, turning his eyelashes white, His nose was pink along with his cheeks.
“Scorpius!” Albus cried out.
“Albus!”
The two boys ran up and hugged each other, the door closing quietly behind them. Albus kissed the tip of Scorpius' nose and stared into his eyes lovingly.
“I’ve missed you so much!”
“I’ve missed you too, even though it’s only been two days.”
Albus kissed Scorpius’ pink lips but pulled away as the doorknob twisted again. The two boys broke away from the hug just as the door opened to reveal James.
“Dinners ready you two and don’t pretend you weren’t just snogging, I don’t know how the rest haven’t figured it out yet.” He whispered the last part.
“James!” Albus yelled, his face going red.
He threw a pillow at his brother, but missed as James slammed the door quickly. The pillow slid to his floor. Albus sighed. Scorpius laughed nervously, lacing his fingers with Albus’ own.
“Are you okay with him knowing?”
Albus nodded. “James won’t tell, He knows I’ll beat the shit out of him if he does.”
Scorpius shrugged off his large puffer jacket, revealing a white turtleneck and brown corduroy pants. He folded up the coat as much as he could before laying it on Albus’ bed. Albus took his hand again.
“Come on then, we’d better go down.”
At dinner Albus sat in between Scorpius and Lily. As they ate Albus began to notice Lily’s poorly executed attempts to not-so-subtly flirt with Scorpius. After each miserable failure Scorpius shot the same uncomfortable look at Albus. Each time he returned the other boy with a weak smile and a squeeze of his hand under the table.
After dinner they retreated up to Albus’ second floor room. Scorpius liked it there, it was comfortable and overwhelmingly albus-y. From the pinboard of printed out photographs, and the leather jackets covered in pins dangling from hooks on the door, to the band t-shirts messily piled into one of his open drawers. They sat on Albus’ bed, Scorpius’ arms looped tightly around Albus’ middle, Albus’ head lying on his shoulder.
“Lily was acting strange at dinner.” Scorpius brought up tentatively.
“I’d say, she was flirting with you.” Albus grumbled.
Scorpius smiled at Albus and kissed his forehead.
“You know I don’t like her, You're the only Potter for me, Al.”
Albus smiled slightly, pressing his own kiss to Scorpius' jawline.
“Next time she does it I’m just gonna kiss you.”
“Even in front of your parents?”
“Definitely in front of my parents, getting sick of them calling you my ‘very good friend’.”
Albus laughed slightly and pulled Scorpius into another kiss.
The next day, Albus found himself sitting on the couch with Scorpius beside him, his dad was on the couch across from theirs with his mother. James was relaxing in an armchair eating a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans. The boys were both reading from the same history of magic textbook, a subject both of them enjoyed, when Lily sat beside Scorpius.
“Hey, Scorpius. What’re you reading?”
“The textbook for history of magic, it’s a really interesting read when you get passed all the murder.”
“Sounds cool.” She batted her eyelashes at him, twirling a strand of her long red hair around her finger.
Scorpius ignored her, pushing his glasses up his nose.
Lily looked slightly disgruntled at the lack of response. She did have her mother’s looks after all and every boy in her year practically drooled over her, so why didn’t Scorpius. The red head smiled her most charming smile and spoke in her flirtiest voice, hoping he’d get the message. Albus rolled his eyes at the girl’s feeble attempt to charm Scorpius. Scorpius giggled at Albus’ reaction. Albus smiled and kissed the boy’s cheek, then turned back and kept reading his book like nothing happened while the rest of the family went silent. Scorpius laughed again.
“Your laugh is so cute.” Albus said not looking up.
“Yours is cuter.” Scorpius replied.
“Um,” Harry said loudly. “what just happened?”
“What?” Albus said innocently. “I’m allowed to compliment my boyfriend aren’t I?”
“Well yes but- Boyfriend!?! When? How?” Harry stammered.
“We’ve been dating since fourth year.” Scorpius said. “Right after the thing with the time turner.”
“That long!?”
“Jesus dad, it’s only been a year.”
“I saved the entirety of the wizarding world in a year, that’s a long time!”
The conversation was stopped by the jangling of money in the back. Ginny was handing James five galleons.
“I can’t believe you were right...” She said, shaking her head.
Albus grinned at Scorpius, who grinned back his mouth crinkling in the way Albus loved.