"What?" Albus threw his arms up in an exasperated fashion. "But you think I need to apologise to James?" It was said in a loud and cold tone, and Scorpius" nose scrunched up in the way it so often did when he was confused. He felt his eyes trail down to the floor, fidgeting with his sleeve and rocking on his tip-toes. "Merlin's beard." Albus put his own hand up to his head, cringing as the realisation hit. "I didn't mean to - to snap at you." The smaller of the two boys paced across the room and hit himself in the head, the tears falling from his eyes before he could stop them. "I don't - I don't even know why I did." Scorpius chewed the inside of his mouth. "I'm sorry."