Hey guys! I hope you enjoy this story. The prologue is a bit short, but the rest of the chapters will begin to get longer, I promise!
When you're a witch from a pureblood wizarding family, you do not expect your mother to drag you away to a Muggle suburb and settle down. You don't expect her to get a job as a receptionist for some Muggle corporation and even force me to attend the local Muggle school.
There is no point in asking her why. I know exactly why.
She wants to hide from my father.
When I was younger, I used to ask her so many questions about him. All of my friends lived with both of their parents. Where is my father? Why is he never around?
Mother always says that he isn't who she thought he was. When she found out the truth, it shattered her heart. But despite all of that, she never stopped loving him, but he left her, not knowing that she was pregnant.
He doesn't know I exist, but it's for the best. Mother always has my best interest at heart, and if she's keeping me hidden, there's unquestionably a good reason behind it, even if she won't tell me just yet.
I have a picture of him that Mother gave me when I was young. It's the only one we have, and I've always treasured it. Even if he is, as Mother puts it, estranged, he's literally still a part of me.
I look so much like him, with dark, wavy hair, midnight blue eyes, and pale skin. Mother, with her slightly tan skin, blonde hair, and light green eyes, looks more like a foster guardian than my immediate family.
Every year, Mother made me move with her to a different location. We never really stopped anywhere for longer than a year. So, when she decided to finally settle down, it drove me crazy to know that the location she chose was a Muggle suburb, Surrey.
She was trying to stop being a witch. But why? She's a Slytherin, for Merlin's sake!
Sometimes, while she's at work, I sneak down to Diagon Alley and spend hours at Flourish and Blotts. There are countless books on purebloods, and I do know for a fact that my father is a Slytherin as well. But no matter how much I hunt, no matter how many months tick away, I never come across his name.
Now, I have simply given up, because I know I will never come across Tom Marvolo Riddle.
So, what do you think? Does she come off as the typical girl from a Slytherin family? Please review!
