Slowly, But All at Once

He did not know how or when she had begun to matter to him, this girl with her piercing blue eyes the colour of forget-me-nots, fiery red hair that appeared almost golden as it caught the candlelight just so, fingers laced with his under the table even as she pretended to read her Ancient Ruins notes. He fell in love then, slowly, and all at once. Rose/Scorpius snippets.