Chapter ONE

A:N-Here's chapter one! Sorry for the long wait! I have had a lot going on lately.

I would like to thank my beta Celeste for reading this and fix some mistakes. She great with that kind of stuff. Anyway! Enjoy this chapter!


She lied soundlessly on the couch in the living room, not a sound came from her, not even a single snore. Two boys with ginger hair stood over her and snickered lightly.

"What kind of prank should we pull this morning?" One boy asked the other, looking over at him.

"Something that will surely scare her." He said back. "The last few times she hasn't been scared. This one will be big for sure! Let's scare the pants off of her."

They both nodded in unison and agreed upon their plan. The ginger haired boys ran up the stairs to their room, to try and find out what they could use on the sleeping girl.

At the sound of their door shutting, the girl opened her eyes and sat up. She smirked slightly at the thought of knowing what the boys are up too. She quickly ran to the kitchen, where her friend, Ginny was. She moved next to her and whispered. "Are the buckets ready?" She asked.

Ginny nodded, causing her ginger hair to bounce with her the movement of the motion. "Yeah, they're hidden. They'll be down any minute. Let's get set up!" Ginny squealed.

Both the girls casted a spell to help levitate the buckets and hid them above the doorway to the kitchen. Then they hid beside the doorframe on opposite sides and waited as they heard footsteps coming down the stairs.

"Hey Gwyn, we have a-" The twins both stopped in their tracks when they didn't see Gwyn lying on the couch. They looked around trying to find out where she was. They found not even a single hint of where she would be. They looked in the kitchen where their mother was, cooking breakfast. "Mum," They said walking into the door way of the kitchen. "Have you seen-" In that very moment, both buckets of water came crushing down on them, like an endless waterfall.

The girls started laughing hard as the boys turned and faced them. Gwyn waved sweetly at the boys and couldn't stop laughing. Her face as redder than the boys hair and she had tears rolling down her face from laughing so much.

"Sorry, I had to do that. It's payback for putting blond hair dye in my shampoo last week." She smirked evilly at the boys. "Payback was fully deserved for that. And Ginny helped me with this prank." She said high-fiving her best friend. "What time are you boys going to work?" She asked sitting at the table.

"Why do you care?" Fred asked wiping his face with a towel his mother gave him. "You never go when the family decides go."

Gwyn sighed. "Well, today I need a few things for school this year. I need a grand entrance for my return to the quidditch team. I'm fully healed and able to play chaser again!" She smiled brightly and put her hands on her hips.

"I'm sure we can sell you some fireworks at full price of course!" George said smirking at Fred. "How many do you need?" He asked Gwyn.

"Not fully sure yet, still planning it out." She said gently tapping her finger against her chin. "I better see how many galleons I have before I start asking." She started toward the staircase and saw Ron slowly coming down the stairs. "Morning sleepy head." She said sweetly to him.

Ron ran his fingers through his ginger hair and yawned. "Morning Gwyn. You look very happy. Finally prank Fred and George?" He asked.

Gwyn nodded, causing her tousled chocolate waves to follow. "Of course, Ginny and I got them good!" She progressed up the stairs, leaving Ron behind to let him go to the kitchen. She looked back at Ron and smiled softly at him. She had a hard time controlling her feelings about him ever since she realized that she liked him.

She opened the door to her and Ginny's room, where Hermione was, sitting on her bed reading. She looked up from her book and greeted Gwyn. "Morning Gwyn. Sleep well?" She asked.

"Sort of. That couch isn't that comfy." Gwyn said rubbing her neck. "How's the book?" She asked looking at what book Hermione was reading.

"It's great! Your book collection is fascinating!" She smiled big at Gwyn. "I take it you saw Ron going downstairs?" Hermione asked giving Gwyn an intense look.

Gwyn's face began to turn a different shade of pink. "Yes I did. He wasn't very chatty. He didn't have breakfast yet." Gwyn said, making up excuses for herself. Gwyn looked up and saw a letter on her bedside table. "Is this mine?" She asked giving an audacious look to Hermione.

"Yes it is. Scarlett brought it early this morning. I haven't paid much mind to it." She looked over Gwyn's shoulder and noticed only one thing on the letter, the Malfoy crest. "Why do the Malfoy's want you?" She asked looking up at the horrid face of Gwyn.

Gwyn quickly hid the letter from her sight. "Um . . . I have to go to Diagon Alley." Gwyn gulped hard and loud, trying to keep the bile from rising any farther. "I'm sorry Hermione. I'll pick up more books while I'm there." She quickly left the room and headed down the stairs. Though she hadn't opened her letter, she still knew who it was from, her Aunt Narcissa. She wanted them to meet in a secret fallow place so she and her parents can discuss their payment to the Weasley's for keeping her again this school year.

"I'll go with you! I can get my own book." Hermione smiled. "I don't mind."

Gwyn quickly turned to her. "I must go alone Hermione. I . . . I need to clear my mind. Sorry." Gwyn grabbed her navy blue wool coat and put it on. She walked over to the fireplace and grabbed a handful of floo powder; she looked up at Hermione and regretted what she told her. She did want to be alone. Her secret would be out if she went. Gwyn just couldn't risk that. She quickly tossed the floo powder into the fireplace. "Diagon Alley!" And soon, she was gone, engulfed by the green flames of the fireplace and taken to Diagon Alley to meet the dark side of her family.

She wondered down Diagon Alley and looked around at all the shops that were open. Gwyn's favorite was Flourish and Blotts. That was where she bought all her books to read and her extra potions books to help her make potions at the Burrow.

Gwyn kept her hands in her pockets and kept on proceeding towards their normal meeting spot. She peered into the Quidditch supply shop and noticed new shipment of broomsticks. She knew she had to go back in there after her visit. She slowly took her time to get to Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, where her family was.

She walked into the parlour and the first thing she saw was Draco's platinum blond hair in the corner of the ice cream shop. Gwyn gingerly strolled over to them. "Hello Uncle Lucius," She said to the man next to Draco with longer platinum blond hair. She sweetly turned toward her aunt and greeted her. "Aunt Narcissa, you're looking more beautiful and younger each day!"

Narcissa smiled at her niece and nodded in agreement with her. "Thank you dear."

Gwyn turned her head towards Draco and gave him a disgusted look. "Malfoy . . ." She said coldly.

Draco looked up at her with a fierce look. "Pertrue . . ." He whispered something under his breath, she didn't catch what it was but his father did and elbowed him gently.

Gwyn sat next to her aunt and glared at Draco. "Do we have a problem Malfoy?" Gwyn asked. "If so we can settle it like adults."

Draco looked away from Gwyn and out the window to avoid her serious glare.

Gwyn heard the door open; she turned her head slightly and saw her parents walk in. She avoided their eye contact for a reason; they weren't even looking at her. They were so ashamed of their daughter and the choices she made. They stood at the end of the table and tossed a bag of galleons towards her.

"Ready?" Her father's deep voice said. She knew he wasn't speaking to her. "We should hurry. You know he hates to be kept waiting."

Gwyn generously got up and grabbed the bag of gallons and slipped it into her coat pocket. "Father, what about my school expenses?" Gwyn asked hasty tone. "You know they can't afford my stuff! You have my account under lock and key from me . . ."

Her father stopped in his tracks and turned towards his daughter. He narrowed his gray eyes at her. "That isn't what we agreed too. Now run off and go back to the Burrow." He grabbed his wife's arm and turned to the door to leave.

Gwyn felt tears sting in her eyes, she quickly wiped them away, trying hard to stay strong and sow no signs of fear or weakness. She looked up and saw her Aunt Narcissa looking at her with a concerned look. She quickly looked behind her and went to Gwyn.

"Here Gwyn, they can use this for your schooling. They have been very generous in taking you in their home and treating you like family. Something your parents never did." Narcissa gently set a velvet bag in Gwyn's hands and closed her hands around it. "Don't let them know." She patted her shoulder and quickly joined her husband and son.


I hope you like this chapter. Narcissa is the mother figure in Gwyn's life and has always been there for her. she doesn't judge her on her flaws and mistakes.

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~menalliha