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Chapter 2
Still staring into the mirror as she looked back into the deep green eyes of hers, Aloe noticed something... different. Well, as far as she knew, her eyes were as green as grass or as green as green could be. It almost looked like she wore contacts day and night but now, it was green, oh so very green but there were flecks of a silvery-blue colour. Nevertheless, this made her eyes even more striking but Aloe wondered where in heck's name did she ever get eyes like this? Well, her mother's eyes were blue but she never reciprocated the same blue hue let alone having to shades of colour in her eyes.
Aloe shrugged it off but realised there were way more difference from last night. She couldn't help but wonder if it was from the pain she experienced. Aloe shuddered in just thinking of the horrible pain. Her bones shifted and it just basically... hurt! Aloe was never the one to complain about things. She never cried when her parents smacked her or when those occasional times when the wooden spoon came out. But yeah, this pain topped the lot of 'em.
She looked at her long pale arms. Well, firstly a difference was that they were longer. She knew that she could never reach her table without having to bend over –snickerlaughsnicker.. bend over—before. Another factor was that before she had freckles and the hairs on her arm were more obvious. Now it just looked like she had un-blemished, lovely skin... with no hairs! Her fingers seemed longer and precise, more lady-like rather than the calluses she used to have on the palms of her hands. Neater fingernails and... no eczema! Aloe could scream with happiness. Unlike her nickname, Aloe, the Aloe-Vera her family used to use of her never worked for her unfortunate eczema. Everything about Aloe was perfect except for the freakin' eczema. Luckily, it wasn't a terminal or bad case, just eczema that made perfectly good skin look like shit.
Aloe's shoulders were wider as well. That was quite a surprise to Aloe since she usually had quite wide shoulders from all the swimming she did. Her chest, well, wearing the tight t-shirt left nothing to the imagination. Apparently with the growth spurt she inherited last night gave her a rather full chest. Her small A-Cups were fine in the shirt of hers yesterday but with her larger shoulders, arms, legs, hips, her friggin' brain was probably even bigger as well but yes, her A's were now a nice, round C. Aloe smirked. She had always been lacking that department. She was nice looking everywhere else but she was quite small there. Damnit, Aloe suddenly thought, does this mean I have to go bra shopping without any bras on? Aloe certainly didn't want to wear her mum's.
Wider hips and longer legs were all in this growth spurt. Aloe checked the back of her knees and smirked. No eczema there either, oh how I love you God! Aloe checked her face again and realised that her nose was pointier and her facial structure was more defined. She looked older than the 16-years she was and more like she was actually 20. Her lips were thicker and were plump.
Aloe suddenly frowned. How the heck did this all happen? She was too busy mooning over her delicate and lovely body to even realise that this wasn't even logically possible. From a young age, Aloe had always believed and loved the logical things. She didn't think things were possible unless she saw it herself so this was basically a... nightmare come true! Well, maybe since the things were good it wasn't really a nightmare, more like a... awesomemare? Aloe sighed as she sat down on her chair that was next to her desk. Her silky white-blonde hair curled down at her waist as she picked up her hairbrush and started to comb her hair. Another astonishing thing happened... her hair didn't become weird and puffy like it normally did, it actually looked nice. Aloe raised her eyebrows; her hair only looked nice when she never brushed it!
"Oh shit, what the hell happened last night and what am I going to say to my friends when I'm going to see them, crap, what about Mum and Dad?" Aloe moaned as she covered her face with her hands. She walked around her bedside table to grab some clothes out of her wardrobe. She moved alongside the table to get a bra and some underwear. As she put on her undergarments she realised that it was actually quite painful since the material was straining on her hip and when she put on her bra she rolled her eyes. She looked like a whore from some club.
Then again, you are going underage clubbing tonight aren't you Aloe?
Aloe quickly got a random hoodie from her wardrobe and chucked on a pair of trackies. She walked around her bedroom til' she got to her bedroom door. Opening the door she checked if anyone was there and quickly tip-toed down the stairs until she got downstairs. Aloe suddenly thought to herself why she was being secretive? She was going to be found afterwards anyway—
"SURPRISEEEEE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY AZALEA-VIOLETTE!" Her mother's voice rang through the whole house. Aloe jumped out of her seat, muttering swear words.
"Mum! You scared the heebie-jeebies outta me! Thank you though," she smiled at her mum. Felicity Evans looked at her daughter strangely but smiled nonetheless.
"Honey!" He voice sounded awed, "You look absolutely beautiful and yet I can tell that you haven't put any make-up on. Ohmygosh, my baby daughter is growing up to become a beautiful woman!" Her voice sounded strained and teary. Aloe rolled her eyes, the same fiasco happened every year. She walked around the chair and gave her mum a hug.
"Mum," her voice sounded playfully annoyed, "I'm only 16," Felicity shook her head.
"Which means you're old enough to fool around as you young ones call it!" Aloe's mouth dropped open as she looked at her mother suspiciously.
"I came down here 3 minutes ago and you're already telling me about sex? Mum!" Aloe whined, "You told me last year and the year before... and the year before that!"
"Azalea-Flower! You look so pretty now! I mean it! You look like you're already 25 years old yet you're 16 today! When did you get legs like that huh? Look at your boobs! You're maturing into the beautiful woman you will become, I'm just making sure that you're safe and that you will have safe se—" Aloe cut her mother off.
"I. Know. Mother. Besides, I'm not pregnant and I know!" Aloe said whilst she tried not to blush. Luckily all her life Aloe could always control her blush even though she was very fair. Aloe's mother narrowed her eyes.
"Honey, you've already gone all the way and you didn't tell me?" Aloe looked down, she didn't mean to slip to her mother that she wasn't a virgin. Aloe bit her lip slightly as she nodded her head. Her head snapped up as soon as she head peals of her mother's laughter. "I guess I won the bet!" Her mother said happily. Aloe frowned.
"What bet?"
"Your father thought you were a goody-goody, but I know a Winters when I see one! Besides, you're my daughter and of course you'd inherit my genes of getting in on when you're young and underage! You see, your father waited until we got married and only then I 'deflowed' him so to speak since you can't really deflower a male. But yes, hm! Can't wait to see the look on your father's face!" Before Aloe could say something angrily as in, why the hell are you betting on my virginity! Her father cut in.
"What evil things are you two gossiping about me, huh Aloe? Happy Birthday honey-duck!" Aloe sighed as her dad kissed her cheek. Her parents had the most interesting pet-names for her.
"The bet we made about Aloe ages ago!" Aloe's mother said cheekily. Ash Evans' eyes widened. He looked towards Aloe.
"You didn't..."
"Oh yes she did..."
"NO! I am not cleaning the house for 5 weeks straight!"
"Oh yes you are!"
"No, I'm not!"
"Damn straight you are!"
"SHUDDUP!" Aloe bellowed. The house literally shaked. Her voice was loud, very loud. It sounded like she had one of those voice projector things that makes your voice really loud. But it worked well, so well that it was very easy to hear a pin drop. "Firstly! Why in heck's name did you bet about my virginity? That's just... wrong... and perverted," Aloe said.
"Honey, we were young like you once and we, we loved our bets," her mother said softly. Aloe shot a glare at her.
"Still! It's gross... and perverted and voyeuristic,"
"How are we voyeurs? We're not... watching you or anything," her dad said.
"Yeah but how else were you going to find out if I didn't tell you?" Her parents didn't say anything, Aloe blanched. "Well that's just disgusting; I thought I was going to have a nice birthday today but nope. I'm leaving to Danielle's house! See you tonight," Aloe said as she walked out of the door. Aloe shuddered. Maybe she was a bit overdramatic but then again, her period was due any day now!
touch the untouchable
Albus Dumbledore sat in his office and contemplated the information he just received from the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge. Apparently there was one powerful Veela in Australia who just came into their inheritance. Since there was no magic school in Australia, most of the Wizards and Witches got their letter to come to Hogwarts but this one didn't. Fudge told Dumbledore that he was going to get this Veela and bring them to the Light side before Voldemort or You-Know-Who could get them. Dumbledore knew that this person must've not had any training since apparently they hadn't gotten a letter. Albus also knew that this person would have to be taught the ways of the Veela and the etiquette of one since he knew that there were certain laws of the Veela world. Albus only knew of one person that could teach this person all these things. One person that wasn't qualified for a Death Eater and still was able to come to the Light side. Unfortunately this person hadn't come into his inheritance yet but knew the ways anyway since his mother had been teaching him.
"What do you say Albus? Do you think, Professor Draco Malfoy has a nice ring towards it?" Albus chuckled to himself.
break the unbreakable
On the other side of the world, Aloe knocked on her best-friend's front door and sat on the stairs of the front yard waiting for the door to be opened. Running away from the weirdest fight ever with her parents and having random strangers leer at her wasn't the best morning of Aloe's. Aloe heard the door creak and quickly stood up just before it opened. She frowned. How in heck's name had she managed to once again do that so fast? She wasn't The Flash from those DC Comics she read. Heck she wasn't even Jean Grey or some crazy psychic freak so how was she able to do all these things? Aloe shook it off just before she saw her best friend, Danielle's brother; Alec stand in front of her... mouth open. Aloe sighed, not again!
"Hello Alec, is Dani here?" Aloe said irritatingly. Alec snapped out of it.
"Aloe! Happy Birthday! I'm really not quite sure what just came over me! I'm sorry, yeah Dan's here... unfortunately," Alec said. He started muttering to himself and Aloe was pretty sure she wasn't supposed to hear any of it, "Alec, what the fuck is wrong with you? You have a girlfriend for goodness sakes! Besides, Aloe doesn't even have any of her gorgeous legs uncovered so why are you-? Damnit! Alec, snap out of it!" Aloe would've thought it was funny... if it was directed to her. Aloe had never been one of being popular. Popular she was, but she never thought anything of it.
"ALOE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SISTER FROM ANOTHER MISTER!" Her best friend Danielle said as she bounded down the stairs and wrapped Aloe in a big hug. "Girl! Oh daayuum, you are looking fine! When in Chuck Norris' face did you get this smokin' body of yours? I'd turn lesbian for you, ma cherie! Tu es belle! C'est magnifique!" Danielle said as she got one look of Aloe's new body structure. Danielle was the only one that could make Aloe blush; literally.
"Thanks Dani, I have no idea how this happened, I woke up like this, seriously!" Aloe was used to Dani saying random things in French even though Dani herself was Chinese.
"Seriously? Well damn! I can't wait til' I turn 16! Maybe then my lump of black hair would actually curl instead of being friggin' straight all the time!" Danielle evil-eyed her black locks.
"Dani, I was wondering... would you love to use our fake thingies tonight to go... clubbing?" Aloe said quietly. Danielle's eyes widened. She grinned, a grin so wide it looked like it hurt her cheeks.
"YAY! I've been asking you for ages! What changed your mind?" Dani said as she brought her friend up the stairs into her bedroom. Aloe shrugged.
"Parents who made a bet on my virginity," Dani stopped and looked at her friend quizzically waiting for her to continue. "I know, I wake up this morning, accidently slipped about me and Dean and then BAM! My mother's so happy that she won a bet with my father about me having sex before I turn 16," Aloe said bitterly.
"Well isn't that nice, you left the house before they could give you your birthday present," Dani said teasingly trying to break the tension in the air but suddenly she turned serious, "did you tell them about Dean?" Aloe shook her head.
"Heck no! But still, I miss him. I loved him and he betrayed me! He cheated on me! He wasn't even staying in Australia! He just came here for a holiday and I fell for him. It took me 3, 3 freakin' weeks," Aloe cried on her best friends shoulder.
"Chica, we need to go to this club," she smirked suddenly, "and you're wearing this!" She plunged clothes into her best friend's hand. Aloe looked at the clothes and her mouth opened.
"I'll be raped! Look at it! Look at this t-shirt! Have you seen my chest lately? They'll think that I'm some type of whore!" Aloe said ghastly as she looked at the clothes... no, pieces of material that were in her hands. Dani looked at her speculatively.
"Yes, that mother-effin' huge chest of yours which came outta no where. Chica, I think it would be good if you got some tonight. You've been grieving over Dean too long and you need to let yourself loose! This club will help you besides; we'll get some decent guy for you! Not too old and maybe you'll even start a relationship! Then get engaged and have kids and—"
"Whoa too far, red car! We're still on the part of going to the club. I don't know if I'll be able to pick someone up. Besides, I'm into long relationships not one-night stands!" Aloe said. Danielle sighed.
"Fine, I'll give you something better to wear so you won't get raped," Aloe smirked.
"At least you agree with me,"
Danielle glared.
row row fight the power
"Headmaster, you called me?" Severus Snape sat in the Headmaster's office wondering what Albus wanted.
"Ahh yes, Severus. I've heard from sources that there is a... very powerful Veela in Australia. Her name is Azalea and apparently goes by the name of Aloe. She lives in the city, Sydney. I would like for you to bring her here since she isn't trained the likes of magic. I would love for her to stay at Hogwarts. I don't know if it is safe for you to Apparate back with her since she isn't aware that magic is real. If she isn't that surprised do so, otherwise I think it might be best to go by muggle transport like... what is it they call it? Oh yes, the aeroplanes," Severus looked towards Dumbledore in shock.
"You want me to use muggle transport? What if the Dark Lord found out about this, Albus? He'd kill me!" Severus accused. Dumbledore had that annoying twinkle in his eye as he said,
"Severus! Have you even been on those aeroplanes? I remember going on them a couple of years back. Amazing things they are! They play films on these tiny screens on the back of the chairs! Muggles are so interesting; I bet you would think so too!" Severus scowled at his headmaster.
"How am I supposed to find the child?"
"You are a powerful wizard, are you not? I know you know the scent of different types of magical creatures. Surely there aren't many Veelas in Sydney! Go Severus! Enjoy yourself!" Albus said as he shooed Severus out of his study.
Surely Albus Dumbledore didn't know that the child, Azalea Evans was Severus' former love's niece and that was why he sent him. Surely Albus Dumbledore didn't know that, Azalea Evans was going clubbing that night and that was why he sent Severus to make he feel young again. Surely Albus Dumbledore did not know of Severus Snape and Harry Potter's relationship and that was why he sent him to get to know Harry's other relatives. Wait a second; Surely Albus Dumbledore didn't even know that this Veela Child is related to the Harry Potter.
Surely he doesn't. Does he?
End Chapter
Oh snap! Is Dumbledore really that smart?
Hands Up if you can't wait to see Sev in a club! –raises hand- ... –looks around awkwardly and realises that no-one else has their hand up- ... –awkwardly puts hand down- ... –clears throat—Um, erm.. okay then.
oh and yes, I probably won't be updating til' next week sometime since I have the fam-bam coming over this weekend. Cheers!
-Sarah
