He carefully guides Lex out so he can turn around and properly hug him, because he is a cuddler and he is filled with affection for this stupid sad boy right now.

The three kids seem to just be brushing their teeth and refilling their water jugs, so they should be gone pretty soon.

Once they're gone, Lex mumbles into Scorpius' shoulder, "I'm... not sure where we go from here."

"Well, we should probably finish showering, but I had no other plans for work period other than help you. Could go mal hunting, I guess."

"You can't really - you can. Jesus. I'm talking about our - whatever we have. Sudden-onset pitched rivalry, now with added sex. I don't feel like insulting you right now but it might come back with further exposure and should I or should I swallow it, should I compliment you in public, should I tell Liu we're stepping out, what's happening here."

"—oh. Uh. I don't... No, that's a lie, I do care when you insult me but in the way where it's kind of really refreshing? Uh..." He runs a finger absentmindedly along Lex's spine as he thinks about it. "Don't really know. I just play things by ear. —oh, I should maybe tell Pevensie about this? He and I don't have anything official going on or anything, we just kissed, but most people feel more strongly about this kind of thing than I do. ...and on that note I'm fine if you wanna be with anyone else, too."

"Right, I won't cancel on the throngs of admirers hungering for my affection, you fucking twit - ah, there it is again. And of course you should tell Pevensie about it. He's obviously completely gone over you."

"Is he?" Scorpius says, and startles himself by how—hopeful—he sounds. Which then brings his attention back to the local situation. "And how... are you? I—it's—I—" He tries to find his words, again, then says, "I don't want this to be all it is," all at once in a single breath and he's glad he's hiding his face a bit on Lex's shoulder because he's not sure he has enough control of it right now to get it to say only what he wants to it to say. Doesn't help that he's not sure what he wants to say.

"Do you really think I know? I've been told that sex makes you stupid and I've got nothing but evidence for it, I want to skip off with you into the fucking sunset but I've got no idea if that'll last ten minutes! You want to know if I'm in love with you or something? Ask me in a month and I'll have any idea!"

Lex hugs him closer.

"I don't know a Goddamn thing about what I'm feeling. I just know - this was good, and you're too damn good for me but apparently no one else is giving you what you need so it's my job to make sure you stay a person. So I'm not going to stop."

He laughs into Lex's skin and plants a small kiss there, his hand still going on its repetitive motion of finding places on Lex's skin to run by. "Sex does make me a bit stupid but I gotta say this is a very different kind of stupid than I've had before, and... I like it and want more of it. " He laughs again and shakes his head then pulls away a bit to look at Lex's face properly. "I don't want to be your job, but I do want to, uh... keep... hanging out. So, I guess we could do that and figure it out. As we go along."

"I don't take jobs I don't want."

He incants his cleaning spell again, this time at Scorpius, then turns the water off once it's run its course. "Come on, Lake, let's go... I don't know. Study in the library, or something, like we're people."

"Alright, sounds good, why not."

Scorpius sticks his head out of the stall just to make sure they're actually alone—exhibitionist or no he doesn't feel like being caught in the act again this year—and once they're clear and both out he casts a weaker version of one of his fire spells to just send a strong hot breeze against their bodies and get them dry.

Lex gets dressed alongside him and accompanies him to the library. He's not skipping, but he's suspiciously light on his feet.

...is it okay if Scorpius plants a kiss on his cheek in the hallway while no one's around to see? Because Lex is ADORABLE.

"Hey! I've got a reputation to uphold!"

"Notice how I waited until no one was around," Scorpius says, amused. "Unless this is one of the things where you want me to claim my territory while everyone else's watching," he adds in a musing tone.

"Oh, did you want to plant your flag as well?" Lex smirks gratuitously.

"Absolutely," he says without a drop of shame in his body.

"Maybe I'll make you beg for it. Later, though."

"You know just how to make a boy feel special," and he somehow manages to make that sound genuine rather than sarcastic.

The library isn't so far away, at least in the mood they're in. Lex enters and gestures grandly. "Books!"

"Books!" says Scorpius casually, even as he scans the whole place for tactical considerations as he always does. "I don't really know what—" then he stops when his eyes land on a small group of sophomores. "—uh, give me a few minutes?"

Lex follows his gaze. "-sure."

He really wants to kiss Lex right now but that would give everyone else the wrong idea altogether so instead he squeezes Lex's shoulder and then goes to the space of the reading room usually reserved for London.

Edmund sits in an armchair, slightly too big for him - he's fairly tall for his age, but it's built for seniors. Other sophomores with free period now have swarmed around hoping to curry favor or just sit in safety; he's reluctantly permitted it, because refusing would give nothing but wrong ideas.

He's going through a Latin text. Occasionally he jots down a note. 

"Hey, Ed?" Wait is he even okay with being called Ed, Scorpius never asked, but they kissed and since when did Scorpius second-guess himself like that anyway? "Got time for a chat?"