Andrea's PoV
Draco stepped forward and embraced his mother, obviously happy to be back with her. Me? I stood there, feeling awkward, cuz I didn't know her and she didn't know me. "It's good to be home." He said, then moved aside and gestured to me. "Mon, this is Andrea. My girlfriend. Andrea, this is my mother, aka the most amazing woman on Earth."
His mother looked at me fondly and held her hand out. I shook it, presuming that was what she wanted. "It's wonderful to finally meet you, Andrea. I've heard so much about you. Draco, go set your room up. For the pair of you."
Draco gently kissed my cheek and vanished indoors. He seems a lot happier here. Then his mother started speaking again. "My name's Narcissa, if he didn't tell you. But call me Cissy, everyone does."
We started walking up to her front door, and I took in my surroundings as we did so. It really was beautiful. This place is amazing! Better than anything I've ever seen.
"Thank you!" Whoops. Didn't mean to say that out loud. "Tell me. How is my cousin? I haven't see him in so long."
I had to think for a minute to whom she referred as she led me into the lounge. "Oh, Dad? He's good. Having a little trouble now that Mom left, and he keeps worrying about what he'll do with himself when me, Sab and Noa move out, but he's still good."
"Room's done!" Draco came out from where I presumed was his room in a grey tank top and blue camo shorts. Combined with his suddenly-messy blonde hair, he looked like a surfer dude. "You hungry, Drea?"
"Yeup." He lead me to the kitchen, where Narcissa was grabbing her bag from the wall.
She gave us a fleeting glance. "Draco, I'm going to go to work. I might be throwing you two in the deep end a little, sorry. You two will be right here?"
"Yeah. I'll just show Drea around…" The look he gave me suggested the locals should probably watch out.
Narcissa was oblivious. "Okay! Just don't cause trouble with the locals." Well that's too much to hope for. "I'll see you guys in a few hours." She slipped out the door and locked it.
"Let's get lunch out of the way. Then I'll show you around the place." We'd barely made it to the kitchen before someone knocked on the door.
"We seem to be incredibly popular these days. Nobody could leave us alone today." I said.
Draco snickered softly. "Stay here." He disappeared down the hall, and I sat down at the table, swinging my legs idly. Then, "Drea… we have an uninvited doorknocker."
I didn't waste any time getting there, and stuck my head around the side of the hallway. And my heart almost skipped a beat when I noticed who it was.
"Ah, Miss Black. Lovely to meet you." The Dark Lord smiled cruelly at me. "You two are coming with me."
"We ain't not going nowhere with ya." I pulled my phone out of my pocket and snapped a quick video, just in case. For evidence. And, to Draco, I added conversationally. "Can you tell this doorknocker that we don't want his wares?"
My boyfriend's expression morphed into a lopsided grin, and he slammed the door in Voldemort's face. "Sorry, but we're not interested. Come back never."
"That's some high hopes you have." I'll admit it- he's a scary guy. But I also have this personal hatred for him- he killed my uncle just because he changed his mind on being one of his followers. "What power do you have to keep me out?" The door shook as he hit it with something.
"Uh… the fact that I'm your right-hand-man's son?" Draco backed up against the door, bracing his heels on the ground and addressing me. "Drea, open up your dialler. I'll give you Mom's number cuz you kinda need to call her."
I did as he asked, and he said ten numbers which I punched in and dialled. "Narcissa?"
"Andrea?"
I sighed with relief. "Good. I've got the right number. Uh… we have a slight problem in the form of the Dark Lord on our doorstep."
"… Right. Hang tight for a couple of minutes. I'll Apparate there and see him on his way."
"'Kay." Almost reluctantly, I hung up.
"What'd she say?" Draco handed me a questioning look as the door trembled again.
"She'd be here in a couple of minutes." Hey, should I go get the kitchen table and barricade the door with it? That's what they do in movies, heh. I said as such, but the only response I got was a glare.
If my notoriously faulty internal clock is actually correct, it was two minutes before there was the bashing on the door ceased, and the yelling started. The feminine tone would be Narcissa, and the smooth masculine one Voldemort, would be my guess. Draco backed away from the door and came to stand next to me, also listening to the proceedings. Not that there was much to hear. Their voices were muffled by the door.
"He's gone… oh, thank Merlin you're both fine." The door swung open not long after, revealing a very relieved-looking Narcissa. "What did he want?"
"Just for us to go with him somewhere. Didn't specify where, but." Draco responded, his lips pursed. "Drea's got evidence on her phone, just in case."
"Yep." I said, and stepped out from the safety of the wall, opening up the video in the instance she might want to see it.
"How'd you recognise him, anyway?" My boyfriend looked at me, intrigued. "I thought you hadn't met him."
"I haven't. Not officially, anyway." I pulled a face as I thought. "Doesn't mean I've never seen him, but. That upended jackass son of a bitch killed my uncle when he wanted to swap sides…" And I'll probably murder him in retaliation one day. But that's for another time. Right now, I'm more focused on keeping my voice level.
"… Sorry…" Draco came over to me and embraced me, sounding guilty.
I hugged him back to show there were no hurt feelings. "Don't worry. You couldn't have known."
"How about we all go out tonight?" Narcissa, you're a freaking genius. We both nodded enthusiastically, and she then shooed us in the general direction of what was currently 'our' room. "Then hurry up and put on some warmer clothes or you'll both freeze."
Narcissa took us out for dinner. We had chicken schnitzel, chips, gravy and salad, which just so happens to be my favourite. Wonder if she knew? Then we went to the cinema and saw Alita: battle Angel.
It was the most fun I've had in a while since I was a small child growing up with my uncle and the rest of my family in our small little town house, to be completely honest. I mean, I fell asleep on the car ride home, apparently And I had to be carried to bed by Draco. Slightly embarrassing… but hey he said that I wasn't that heavy. The night was definitely worth it, by a long shot.
If I had the chance to do everything in this night again I most definitely would without a doubt.
