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Aries could not get Dahlia's words out of her mind. Lady Malfoy invited the family over for a dinner. A dinner. Formal and stiff, so much was clear, but was it the wisest of choices to stay away? She kept on thinking in the common room, in front of the fireplace in which blue flames were dancing. Why did she fell so funny around Narcissa? She knew she didn't feel that way with Blaise … he was an annoying git, but for some reason when she was around the older woman she felt different. Aries liked the feeling and that's what scared her the most. It was all so new, raw, and unknown … Aries didn't do well with unknown. I have to stay away from her, Aries thought to herself as she pulled her knees up to her chest, Why me?
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"I told you it's nothing!" Said Dahlia again. She sat in the common room as Draco circled around the couch angrily, not letting her up.
"You did not even visit me once during term break!"
"I explained to you in my letter that I wanted to spend all the time with my family. Come on, we only see them once or twice a year when we-"
"I don't care! I wanted to see you!" He roared and smashed his hands onto the leathery surface, causing Dahlia to jump in her seat; too startled to retort at the unexpected noise. Draco glared deeply into her eyes.
"Dahlia..." He then said gently. "Im crazy about you...why can't you see?"
"Oh I can..." She sneered sarcastically, causing Draco to narrow his eyes again.
"I want you to display a little more love towards me." He suddenly said demandingly. "Be affectionate, show that we are a couple. Those kind of things, you know?" He brushed some hair behind her ear, rubbing the top of her head then and kissing it.
She pulled her face away from him and got up but was walked backwards by Crabbe who stood in the way, causing her to roll her eyes and walk back to Draco yet again. Crabbe and Goyle stood around the scene with crossed arms and unamused faces.
"Tell your bodyguards that I want to go to bed." Said Dahlia firmly, glaring at the guys.
"I'm not done with you." Said Draco as he leaned against the couch, crossing his arms as well. "Come here, Dahlia..." He said but Dahlia did not budge. Draco inhaled deeply. "Come here, .A." He said again more firmly but Dahlia crossed her arms symbolically as she glared at him.
Draco snapped his fingers and with that, Crabbe and Goyle moved forward, wrapped their strong arms around the girl and held her locked as they walked ahead towards Draco. Dahlia screeched up and wiggled and tried to kick free but they were stronger.
"Look at me." Draco demanded but Dahlia did not think of it. Crabbe lashed out to Dahlia's neck, moving her head to face the blond male.
"Give me a kiss." Said Draco. Dahlia glared at him and reluctantly leaned in to kiss his cheek but he only turned his head to the side so their lips touched. His kiss was deep and rough, he had his mouth pressed against Dahlia's firmly before he let her go and waved Crabbe and Goyle off, executing the girl into her dormitory.
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Aries sat alone in the Great Hall the next morning. She was always first, it never changed. Unlike her sister, she was early all the time no matter when and where she was needed, while Dahlia was mostly too late for any appointment or deadline. Aries just needed this early morning routine, waking up, starting the day with a nice cup of tea and not too much sugar. She loved the calm early morning scenery. Glancing out of the window she could see the sun rising slowly and everything seemed to be still asleep in a foggy haze. The spoon magically turned anti clockwise, Aries liked her tea best that way. "It makes no difference!" Barked Dahlia all the time when Aries insisted on that particular motion for her tea. But Dahlia was wrong. It made all the difference in the world to Aries. A tea stirred clockwise was not a proper tea and she could instantly tell when it was not done the way she wanted. After a sip to her mouth, she raised an eyebrow, shrugged, then wanted to continue drinking the tea but when her eyes moved from the bottom of the cup ahead, she instantly spat out all the hot liquid in her mouth, causing the person in front of her to duck quickly.
"Whooooo! Hey cutie." Chuckled the male.
"Don't you have nothing else to do?!" Growled Aries while she coughed and tried to suppress any burping, though at second thought she regretted suppressing any, for vain Blaise Zabini would've possibly never tried moves again.
"I realized that you're always here first." Said Blaise.
"Congrats! Only took you six years to realize that. That's fast compared to the fact that you still didn't get that I am in no way interested in you, Zabini." She sneered sarcastically and Blaise only laughed.
"I like your temper, Eladorra." He grinned but his grin vanished once he noticed that Aries kept on glancing towards the doors.
"Waiting on your sister? It would surprise me if she came here today." Said Blaise with a smugger grin as he put his chin on the back of his hand in boredom, resting his elbow on the table.
"What?! Why?" Asked Aries hastily but glared when Blaise did not answer.
"Tell me, Zabini." Aries glowered warningly but Blaise only raised his hands in the "I have no clue" motion. Of course Aries was certain that he knew more than he wanted to tell at this point.
"I don't see the advantage." Said Blaise in a fake sigh.
"It would upgrade your status from 'completely worthless' to 'worthless'..." Mumbled Aries audibly enough but this did not seem to convince Blaise.
He, instead, got up from the table with a smirk when more students started scattering in one by one, until the hall was filled. To Aries's fear, Blaise was right. Dahlia did not turn up. She glanced over to the Slytherin table every other second, alternating between eying the door and the students and just when she was about to get up, owls flew around the hall. It wasn't a surprising view but what was more surprising was the owl that Aries has never seen before, letting a small package fall down to her spot. She frowned and glanced to the left and right, making sure it was nobody else's package instead. Luna shook her head when Aries made eye movements that asked if it was hers and there was nobody next to her closely enough.
"Hmm..." She looked at the dark blue fabric-like material around the rectangular box. She opened it and inside was a breathtakingly beautiful necklace, diamonds glistening in the light, that her mother had sent to her. With a faint smile, she looked to the white note stuck under the necklace and her heart skipped a beat when she read.
'Dear Aries
I could not help myself but think of you when I saw this necklace. I believe it would go perfectly well with the dress you bought for the ball. In hope to see you wearing it,
N. Malfoy'
Aries immediately dropped the box onto the table as if it had burned her fingers and she let the smile slip from her face. When she noticed Luna giving her an odd looked she quickly laughed tensely as she shoved the piece of parchment into her pocket before her friend could spot it.
"Thought I saw a spider on the box!" Aries chuckled nervously.
Luna merely cringed at the thought of a spider and went back to eating her breakfast. Aries looked around to make sure no one else had seen the small incident before glancing to the Slytherin table once more. She immediately noticed Blaise staring at her and he sent her a wink, while Draco seemed to be brooding over his tea. The young Ravenclaw shoved the jewelry box into her bag and stood up to exit the Great Hall.
"I'm going to head to class," Aries informed her friend, "I'll see you there!"
Aries quickly and nimbly made her way out of the hall, dodging fellow students with feather light footsteps. Making her way to the Transfiguration classroom she found her head starting to spin with thoughts and questions, Why me? Why would she send me jewelry? This can't be happening … Aries stopped and clutched at her stomach, which now felt like it was doing somersaults.
"Miss Eladorra?"
Aries suddenly stood upright, way too fast which made her lightheaded, and turned around to find Professor Snape looking at her with an odd expression.
"Yes Professor?" Aries asked politely.
"The hall is for walking …" He started slowly as he took in her pale and sickly look, "If you aren't feeling well then I suggest you pay Madame Pomfrey a visit in the Hospital Wing …"
"Yes Professor, Sorry …" Aries spoke frantically now, "I'll be fine, I'm just going to go sit and wait for my first class."
Snape arched an eyebrow at her but said nothing else as he continued to walk past her. Aries let out a huge puff of air she was holding in her lungs and tried to regain her composure before entering her classroom.
Once she felt more level headed, Aries entered the Transfiguration classroom where she had class with the Slytherin's first thing in the morning. She noticed Professor McGonagall already sitting at her desk so Aries nodded politely when the teacher looked up at her. She sat down at a desk near the back corner and pulled out her transfiguration book to begin reading for the lesson and taking her own notes. When the rest of the students began filing in she noticed her sister was not among them and when McGonagall started lecturing she wondered if Dahlia was coming at all. The students were working on an assignment when they heard the door to the classroom creak open, all heads turning fast to see the latecomer. Dahlia rushed to the seat next to her sister without saying a word and pulled her books out.
"Where have you been?!" Aries whispered harshly once all the students went back to their assignment.
"Leave it …" Dahlia answered back just as curtly.
Aries stared with a confused look on her face, and a bit of hurt in her eyes. Dahlia turned to see the hurt cross her sister's features and she noticed how pale and sick her sister looked.
"What's wrong with you?" Dahlia asked in a more concerned tone as she copied her sister's work to catch up with the class.
Aries looked around again to make sure no one was listening in on them before she began telling Dahlia what happened at breakfast.
"This owl came … I hadn't seen it before and it dropped this box!" Aries began whispering frantically, "I thought it was from mum! I opened it and there was this note … it was from her!"
Aries had forgotten the volume of her voice and the Professor shushed the two before going back to her own notes.
"She sent you a necklace?" Dahlia asked quietly with a scowl on her face.
Her twin nodded as she leaned over and pulled the box and note out of her bag and handed them over to Dahlia. Her twin nodded as she leaned over and pulled the box and note out of her bag and handed them over to Dahlia. Dahlia read it with a large frown but she just shook her head as she muttered out "all Malfoys are trouble, the rumor was no lie...". The raven haired girl glanced around but she regretted doing so just a couple of seconds later. At the other side of the room, Draco was staring at her, possibly been waiting to catch her attention and once they had eye contact for a few seconds, he threw over a piece of crumbled up paper, unfortunately for Dahlia he managed to bring it right onto her table's surface. Dahlia sighed and Aries looked at the letter curiously and the both of them read.
"Why are you so late?!"
Dahlia crumbled the paper back up and simply threw it over to the trash, not responding to it nor allowing any further nonverbal conversation, for she could feel her boyfriend Draco Malfoy staring daggers into her very soul from afar.
"Listen." Dahlia whispered. "He will try to catch me right after class. I will go to the girl's restroom about five minutes before the class stops and leave my stuff here. You will pack it up and meet me at the girl's bathroom, okay?"
"Okay" whispered Aries and watched her sister leave about ten minutes later, eyes still following every step. Just as planned, Aries got up after class and stuffed Dahlia's belongings into her bag and was about to leave when a significant voice called her back.
"Eladorra."
"What do you want?" Asked Aries with a frown as she turned around to Draco.
"You can tell your sister that she cannot run forever." He said simply as he grabbed his black bag and merely passed by, not looking at her any longer. Aries just blinked but after a couple of seconds of realization she stomped after him and wanted to bark but Draco was already gone. With a heavy sigh, Aries walked over to the girl's bathroom, knocking on the only cabin door. "It's me." Said Aries and waited on her sister to walk out and Dahlia did seconds later.
"He bitched at me, saying you can't run forever. What happened?"
"Ah..." Dahlia waved her off. "He's progressively getting worse, his jealousy is...he doesn't want us to spend so much time together and such. Who is he to talk, he doesn't have any brothers or sisters...let alone a twin..." She said as she fixed her hair standing in front of a mirror. "I guess this will go on for a while..." And Dahlia was right. Dahlia gave Draco not a lot of spare time to catch and discipline her again for the next couple of weeks and was not seen alone in the common room, always followed by a crowd of friends just in case.
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"I'm so excited!" Squeaked Dahlia one day in the great hall, nudging her sister with her elbow.
"Hmm? Oh yeah. The ball." Sighed Aries.
"What's the matter?"
"Guess what Blaise did?" Said Aries with a large frown.
"Hm? What did that idiot do?!" Dahlia barked.
"Told everyone that I'm going with him. Nobody asked me out ever since he spread it that I am his partner for the ball..." She groaned and Dahlia grinned.
"Why, we two can go together. Then I wouldn't have to go with Draco." Said Dahlia and Aries smiled brightly, nodding in agreement.
"Okay so what class is first? Ah. Transfiguration again. So same plan...I'll leave five minutes before the end of class and wait in the restroom for you." Said Dahlia as she stuffed her schedule away and Aries nodded, giggling softly as the two of them proceeded their way into class and sat down.
One by one, the students strolled inside and McGonagall started her lesson in time. They had to learn the basics of professional Transfiguration and how to turn a person into a weasel, causing the class to giggle at the sudden memory of Draco's encounter with Mad Eye Moodie. Thinking of which, Dahlia had no single clue where the blonde was. She looked around the classroom, then flinched.
"I need to talk to you." It suddenly said behind Dahlia, it was Draco. With a large frown, she glanced behind and hated to see that Millicent and her partner were not there and instead sat where Malfoy usually sits.
"Bathroom..." Mumbled Aries in annoyance as she got up and walked out of class. Dahlia nodded at her? Then leaned back with her chair.
"How much did you pay her to change seats?" Asked Dahlia over her shoulder coldly.
"Dahlia..." Draco murmured softly suddenly. "Please."
"Students." Professor McGonagall said. "I will leave you here for a minute, I forgot your homework for next class, I will be right back. On the meanwhile, please read page thirty seven." And with that, she stalked out of the room, giving Dahlia the opportunity to answer Draco.
With a large frown and sigh, she felt her heartstrings pulled. He wanted to talk to her. What kind of girlfriend would she be to ignore him now? She bit her bottom lip but turned around to him after a second, a gentle but expectantly expression on her face.
"Okay." She said.
"Let's talk now. While McGonagall is gone." Suggested Draco but he already got up and waited on Dahlia to follow, which she did.
As Aries returned to class, she found Dahlia was gone already. McGonagall walked back inside shortly after, magically turned in their homework as she walked around. Aries checked the clock and realized Dahlia must've gone to the bathroom by now to hide from Draco, and so she stuffed her sister's stuff into the bag and left the room once the lesson was over.
She knocked on the same locked, the only locked, cabin as always.
"It's me Lia, come out. Draco is gone already, I didn't see him in class anymore-"
The door unlocked and with a loud gasp, Aries dropped both of her bags.