The Parent Trap
Chapter Seven
The twins lay in silence as they watched the stars above them through the small window in the cabin. It had only been a few hours ago that Holly Granger and Amelia Malfoy found out that they were twins.
The two girls decided to join their beds together near the centre of the cabin. Lying down on them, they decided to share stories about their lives.
"She was totally barmy I tell you!" Amelia spoke, both girls laughed.
"So Dad has never been with anyone since Mum?" Holly asked.
Amelia turned to her side, deep in thought, "thinking about it, No, I mean not really. He has loads of women throwing themselves at him, but he just rejects them ... he says I'm the only girl in his life," Amelia spoke quietly. Talking about her Dad like this made her realise how much she missed him, it was coming up to a month now since she last saw him, "So what about Mum?"
"Mom's always busy with her bookshop, she doesn't really pay any attention to the male species."
"How is she though? Do you think that she thinks about Dad sometimes?"
"Oh definitely! I sometimes see how lonely she is, she's always thinking of him I know that. When I was little, she used to sometimes creep into my room and sneak a peek at the picture that I have of Dad, I know that she misses him a lot."
"I know that Dad misses her too, it's strange though, neither one of our parents moved on."
Holly thinking about what Amelia said suddenly had an idea flash above her head. Abruptly sitting up right she turned to Amelia, "I've just had an idea, and you're going to love me for it."
"Oh really? Pray tell what is this idea I will love?"
"I think we should switch places when camp is over."
Amelia burst into laughter, "What? Are you mad?"
"No, No, Amelia hear me out ... we both know that Mum and Dad are right for each other, they just don't know it themselves. But think about it ... if I go back to London as you, and you go back to Berkeley as me, our parents will eventually find out and have to unswitch us."
Amelia contemplated with the idea, "and then they will have to see each other again .. face to face." Holly beamed with delight as Amelia was catching on.
"So?"
"But ..."
"But?"
"There is a problem," Holly sighed in exasperation, "How can I go back as you, we're nothing alike."
"That's the thing Amelia, we have two more weeks of camp left, and in that time, I can teach you to be me, and you can teach me to be you-"
"-Oh come on Holly-"
"-Look," Holly pushed up her hair into a ponytail, and putting on an English accent she spoke, "It's a nasty awful bug I tell you, you wouldn't want to catch it."
Amelia broke into giggles, Holly still sensing that Amelia wasn't on board with the idea, decided to give another shot, "Come on Amelia, if we do this then we can both meet the other parent, don't we at least deserve that?"
Holly's words meant a great deal with her, if she did this then it would mean that she will finally be able to spend some time with the mother that she never had, "oh ok."
Holly jumped on her twin to give her a hug, "this is going to be great, you won't regret it!"
Amelia, still uneasy with the idea decided to smile and at least feel some happiness with what outcomes will come of the plan.
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Back in London, England ...
"Blaise, she is like a leech!! I can't get rid of her," Draco cradled his head in his hands. Sighing, he got up from his chair and went to pour himself a glass of firewhiskey.
Blaise Zabini, the best friend of Draco Malfoy, was calmly lounging on a sofa across from Draco in his private study. This is where both boys would hang out to escape from reality.
"Oh Draco, I'm sure you're just exaggerating. She can't possibly be as bad as you make her out to be," Blaise spoke with an amused look on his face.
Draco chuckled as Blaise didn't know what hell he was going through. Swinging back the shot of firewhiskey he moved to the pool table that he had placed in his private study. Picking up a cue and positioning himself at a suitable position he hit the balls, "Blaise ... she wants me to marry her."
Blaise sharply turned around to look at his best friend, gob-smacked by this unexpected revelation. "SHE wants you to marry her?"
Draco nodded, moving around the pool table to make a shot that will send a red ball into the hole.
"Un-bloody-believable," Blaise spoke, "so what are you going to do?"
Draco shrugged, "I was thinking about running away."
Blaise laughed at the situation that Draco Malfoy had got himself into.
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Back in Berkeley, California ...
"A month?" Ginny spoke quietly, her best friend had just told her that she would be getting married to this nutcase in a month, Ginny chuckled lightly not believing what Hermione was saying, "a month?"
Hermione stood silently waiting for Ginny to explode, Hermione merely nodded in answer to Ginny.
Ginny stood behind the counter of the bookshop, shaking her head. She wasn't really going to believe that her best friend was being bribed by Nathaniel and forced into a marriage that she did not want. Ginny took in a deep breath, "a month," she said quietly.
Hermione knew what was about to come next, so she quietly took another step back, she was nearly up against the entrance door now.
And then Ginny exploded, "THAT FUCKING WANKER!" Ginny screamed quite loudly, "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! HE'S FORCING YOU TO MARRY HIM! WAIT TILL I GET MY HANDS ON HIM, HE'S not gonna know what's hif him the bludy asshill" any words that Ginny said after that were not understandable, as she started to blubber and then broke down into sobs.
Hermione moved towards he best friend and gave her a hug, soothingly rubbing her back, Hermione made shhhing noises to calm her best friend down.
"Hermione .." Ginny broke away to look at her friend, "I'm so sorry, this is so my fault-"
"-Ginny," Hermione sternly spoke looking at the girl straight in the eye, "this is not your fault ok."
Ginny nodded and continued to cry in her best friend's arms.
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Morning had quickly come at Camp Walden. Holly and Amelia were quietly sitting at the isolation table in their cabin.
"Holly .." Amelia nervously spoke to her twin, "there's something that I've been meaning to ask you, and I'm really unsure about how I should ask you, but I'm just going to come out with it anyway."
Holly, having no idea what her twin was talking about simply stopped what she was doing to listen.
"Do you know anything about magic?"
"Magic?" a confused Holly repeated.
"Yes magic," the look on Holly's face still remained the same, "Oh fiddlesticks, you don't know about magic."
"No, No I do. Mum and Ginny have magical abilities, I know that much. I've never given it much thought as I'm not meant to know anything about it."
"Holly, do you know if you have any magical abilities?"
"I think so."
Amelia realised how much of a challenge this was going to be, "I'm going to have to teach you some basic spells-"
"-spells?"
"Yes spells, oh crumbs this is going to be harder than I thought!! I've grown up in the magical world where as you've been brought up as a muggle! .. you do know what a muggle is don't you?"
"A non-magical person?"
"How do you know that?" Amelia asked quite amazed.
"Amelia, lets put it this way ... I'm not as clueless as you think I am."
A/N: Ok, so I know that this chapter was quite shorter than the others, and for that I am sorry. But yes anyway, thanks goes to all the people that reviewed for Chapter six:
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Next Update: 30th April 08