Hi! Welcome to my new story. I'm currently working on two stories at once so be kind to me. I didn't want this idea to be forgotten. So here's the first chapter. I'd appreciate if you didn't write flames. I like reviews a lot and I love getting private messages.
I do not own Harry Potter.
Chapter 1- Trouble is a friend
My red hair was tightly tied up in a bun. I pirouetted across the black stage and spotted so I didn't run into the rest of the dancers in class. I looked at the clock and noticed that practice was almost over and I grimaced at that fact. After class I had to return home to our over crowded estate filled with my parents and siblings. I concentrated on my last move which was a relive and a throwback. I did it so beautifully until I groaned when I saw two familiar faces in the blue matted seats. One face was my twin brother and the other was that little twirp named Malfoy.
I thought to myself as I caught my breath from the dance. Why was he here? He didn't have a sibling in the class. He had no right being here.
"Alright ladies, you're done for the day." Mrs. Rosenthorpe dismissed us. "Good job all of you! See you next summer! Make sure you keep practicing over the school year."
I grabbed my bag and jumped off stage only to run right into Malfoy, who had always discriminated against my family.
"Oh, it's just a Weasly. I thought your family couldn't afford classes like this." Malfoy sneered.
"It's called a scholarship Malfoy." I responded to his rude comment.
"Riley, there you are!" My twin brother, Ron, ran up to for my defense. "Mum told me to pick you up. Dad got held up at the ministry."
"Isn't this lovely? The second set of Weasly twins." The blonde laughed.
"Why are you even here? Isn't creepy for you to walk in on a girls ballet class and watch? You don't have the right to be here!" I raised my voice.
"I have every right to be here. My family bought the place. And Riley, I have the right to take away your scholarship and sit in class and watch."
"Why would you buy a ballet studio Malfoy?"
"It's business Weasly." Malfoy said.
"You wouldn't take away my scholarship, I'm one of the more talented ones here that get the public to come to the shows."
"I don't want a Weasly dancing at my family's studio. The scholarship is making us lose money!"
"You vain little monster." I muttered. "Let's go Ron." I walked out of the auditorium and made my way to the portkey.
A few minutes later, we arrived at the small house we called home and made our way inside our cramped quarters.
"Riley, dear, how was ballet?" My mother rushed me to the long table already filled with food and my siblings. Everyone was talking at once which created a huge roar. Fred and George were finishing each others sentences and Herminoe and Harry were sitting by my younger sister Ginny. I had almost forgot that school was back in session tomorrow.
"Could have went better." I grumbled as my mother handed me a plate piled high with pasta. "I may get my scholarship taken away."
"That's not possible Riley." My mother assured me
"It is when the Malfoy's buy the studio out." I twirled spaghetti onto my fork.
"Well I'm sure we can dig up some money..." My mother looked unsure.
"Why would the Malfoy's buy out the studio and take away your earned scholarship?" Hermione turned to me, eager to find an answer.
"All he told me is that it is business." I looked down at my plate.
"Who's he Riley?" Harry joined in on the conversation.
"That blonde ferret we all love to hate." I mumbled.
"Riley, don't you worry, your father and I will find a way to pay for your lessons if the scholarship is taken away." My mother flashed a kind smile.
The front door flew open and in came my father who barbets same color hair as all my siblings and I.
"Hello!" My father greeted everyone as he grabbed a plate of food and sat down next to my mother. "Sorry I'm late, I got held up at work."
"It's alright." We all said in unison.
The rest of dinner, we discussed how we were going to spend our year at Hogwarts and how the twins joke shop was going.
Since the alley was destroyed by recent attacks, the alley had been a ghost town, but my brother's joke shop had been very successful and immune to the attacks.
Last time we went to the alley, The Malfoys were at the furniture store. Weirdly enough, Harry thought it was an "initiation." To be clearer, I bet he thought it was an initiation to become a death eater.
My parents almost didn't send us to school this year because of everything that was happening and because it was dangerous. But I talked them into letting us go, only because I wanted to graduate with my class.
As soon as my father and mother were done eating, they left us teenagers to mingle until bedtime. I was still upset about the studio but I only danced in the summers.
"Riley, stop looking so glum." Hermione rubbed my shoulder.
"I don't blame her for looking glum." Ron, my twin brother said.
"Thank you Ron!" I said sarcastically.
"Look, just stay away from him at school, then maybe he'll forget about it." Ginny suggested
"I'll try." I fumbled with my hands.
After our long discussion of the classes we were taking, I decided to get to sleep early since I had to wake up at the crack of dawn to get to the train.
*DRACO POV*
I laid on my bed staring at the blank ceiling thinking about how I was supposed to fulfill Voldemort's wishes. I didn't want to do it. Although I was determined to do it, everyone thought I'd end up just like my father, a failure. I wasn't one of those. I hated how everyone harassed me about my father being in Azkaban and how he was a failure.
Every thought in my mind flew around my head creating the most terrible headache. I thought about how the the dance studio was my family's now and how I had to take away Riley Weasley's scholarship. Oh, and the task Voldemort had given me.
With school starting up tomorrow, I knew I had to put up with Potter and his gang of friends and my ex-girlfriend Pansy who was still obsessed with me. I also had to come up with a plan to fulfill the task.
The odd thing was, Riley looked attractive at the studio today.
*RILEY POV*
I laid in bed, thinking about my dreams about becoming a professional dancer were going to end because of the incident at the studio today. I knew my scholarship was going to be taken away because the Malfoy's hated my family.
It was funny how I was the only sibling that didn't really have a boyfriend or girlfriend. Ginny always talked to me about how she and her boyfriend snog but sometimes fight to the point that it makes her cry. George and Fred had their girlfriends. Ron always had talked in his sleep about Hermione and Parcey was getting married to Fluer next year. I was the only one, who really didn't have anyone.
Oddly enough, the ferret who had always made fun of me looked amazingly hot at the studio today. Too bad he wouldn't think the same about me.
So I'm working on two stories at once so don't get mad if I don't update soon. :0
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