Draco had left after the cigarette was finished. He had looked down at his forearm and sworn to himself before giving her a slight smirk and wink before apparating off. She had a feeling why he had run off so fast. The Dark Lord had been around often. Her father had been off to the Malfoy Manor many a night and had not returned till the wee hours of morning.
She looked down tracing her feet in the dewy grass as she thought. These were good times of course. Purebloods would soon get back to their rightful state. And it wasn't like any of this truly affected her. Looking up Astoria caught a rustle in the curtains of her home and spotted her sisters long golden hair fly past the window.
Feeling her breath come fast Astoria stood up and began running for the house. She slipped in thru the kitchen taking the servants passage up to her and Daphne's room. Daphne turned the moment she entered and stared at her younger sister before giving her a look.
Astoria knew that look well,it meant she was in for a lecture. "You are so lucky mother did not see that little stunt in the garden." Daphne hissed her eyes narrowed. "It was nothing you smoke all the-" Daphne slapped a hand over her sisters mouth glaring at her.
The two stood their frozen in horror. Downstairs, the sound of tinkling music and tea cups scrapping on saucers seemed to stop. Suddenly the noise picked up again followed by a few loud laughs and shrieks of excitment. Daphne let her hand fall from her sisters mouth and dropped to the floor,looking shaken up and pale.
"Sorry,Daph-" Astoria apologized as Daphne nodded before picking herself up and repowdering her face shakily. Astoria knew the consequences if her mother found out that Daphne smoked and drank and that she was not a virgin. She'd kill her. Make it look like an accident to ,not kill her but she'd call off her and Theo's engagment.
"Mother says it will be over in an hour or so...I'll sneak you up some biscuits." Daphne promised before smiling slightly at her sister and making her way back downstairs her heels clicking all the way down the staircase. Astoria let out a sigh of relife before flopping onto her bed.
