A/N: Not mine… well some of it is. Snape is Pure-blood in my story and Spinners End doesn't exist. Instead it's Snape Manor.
Chapter 7
The meeting went on forever. When it finally ended and Voldemort left, I was almost asleep. Father, Draco and I walked out of the meeting hall together and went to the front of the house. Before father and I could leave, dad asked Draco something.
"Draco, did you get it out of your father's vault, like he asked before the ministry took him?" Father asked, turning to Draco.
"Yes I did." Draco said and he reached into his pocket and pulled out engagement ring.
"Oh, no you don't! There is NO way I'm getting married to him. I told you this before and I'm not going to wear the engagement ring because there will be no wedding!" I practically yelled.
"Yes, you are." Draco said gruffly and he grabbed my left hand and thrust the ring onto my ring finger.
I pulled and pulled but it wouldn't come off. I turned to my father.
"Please daddy, please get him to take it off." I pleaded, giving him puppy dog eyes.
"No, you are going to marry him. We made a contract." He said, not looking at me. "And it's a beautiful ring, why are you so angry about wearing a beautiful ring?"
And indeed the ring was beautiful. There was a large 3 karat diamond surrounded by six smaller diamonds.
"Because it's from him and I don't love him." I said. "And YOU made the contract, not me. You still didn't tell me how you got my blood, or why mum wouldn't marry you."
I tried to slip that in whenever I could. Since the first day I met him and he let it slip that he had asked my mum to marry him and she turned him down, he wouldn't tell me why. It just killed me.
"I'll tell you later." He said which was his usual response. "Now if you don't mind Draco, we will be going. Give my best to your mother."
"Of course. But I do have something for Alondra. It is after all her birthday." Draco said, pulling a small box out of his robes. He handed it to me, a smirk on his face.
"Thank you," I said with forced kindness.
When I turned around to leave, I felt my fathers hand on my arm, turning me around.
"Aren't you going to open it?" he asked forcefully.
"Oh, what was I thinking?" I said and opened the box carefully.
For all I knew, it could have a piece of Venomous Tentacula in it. But to my surprise, in the box was a small pure silver bracelet with an emerald snake charm on it. I gasped involuntarily at the sheer beauty of it. I estimated the price of it to be about six hundred galleons.
"It's beautiful." I said, then started to hand it to him. "But it's too much."
"No, no, you keep it, it was a gift. After all, this time next year, all my money will be your money." He said, giving me a devilish smirk.
"Like hell it will. I'm still going to find a way out of that marriage contract thing." I said, glaring at him. Then I turned to glare at my dad. "That you did without my knowledge."
"Yes, yes, I'm so horrible. It would affect me more if the teens at Hogwarts didn't say it every day during the school year." Father sneered at me and Draco burst out laughing.
I huffed and turned away, walking out of Malfoy Manor.
Why must they always torment me? I thought.
"Because we love you." came my father's voice from behind me.
"I know you do. But him, he… he… he's just… ugh!" I screamed.
Father just put his arm around me and apparated us to Snape Manor.