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................................*Talk About BLIND Date*...............................


[*In Previous Chapter*]



Hermione gave a small laugh as she thought all this and pulled the sweater over her head.

"I am ready to go now."

"Good."

As they walked down the stairs an idea plopped into Hermione's mind.

"Does Draco know that I'm his date?"

"Um. Yes." Narcissa said unsure, well, it was more like a question.

"Great. I was almost getting worried for a second there."

"He sort of knows anyway." Narcissa muttered quietly to herself.

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-Chapter 17: The Walking Stone with Eczema and the Fried Chicken-

[*Diagon Alley*]

The two Malfoys were walking in silence down the street.

"Um…so, has Nienna bought her dress already or are we going to meet her and Mrs. Petrell here?" Draco finally asked after what seemed like an eternity.





"No, you're not going with young Miss. Petrell to the dinner. You mother have decided that it would be better for all of us if you went with another lady." Lucius replied dully.

Draco looked at his father with a puzzled expression before he shrugged his shoulders.



'Maybe this won't be so bad after all. A day without Nienna is a day full of joy. This is like an early Christmas gift.'

"Who am I going with then? I don't want to with one of your Death Eater pals' daughter. I've had enough of those." Draco said without thinking twice.

Lucius suddenly took his son by the collar and looked at him with a dangerous twinkle in his cold stormy blue eyes.

"Speaking of Death Eaters; don't you remember that letter I sent you about you-know-what-very-well? Well, let's just say that you are very lucky that your mother found out about my plans and that she's the most dominating woman on Earth. If she hadn't, you would have been on the Dark Side and killing heaps of mudbloods right now." He said and the angry facial expression was gone as fast as it came.

"Oh look, there's a fine looking clothing store, let's check it out." He said almost happily and walked towards the store a few meters away.

Draco stood there confused for a while before he followed Lucius.

[*Inside The Shop*]

When the handsome blond headed boy entered the store he saw his dad talking to someone, give the man an amount of money and then he walked over to his son again.

"I don't have time for this childish nonsense. There is an important business meeting going on at The Three Broomsticks, I'm needed there. Here you've got 500 galleons, buy a nice suit or something." Lucius said and gave Draco a heavy pouch with what he assumed to be money.



What a pity, my oh-so-dear father. I was looking forward to go shopping with you and hear about your last ´triumph´. Draco thought sarcastically.

"Mr. Bubblesour here will help you. Now, behave and I will see you at home later." Lucius said with a sweet voice that made Draco want to throw up.

Draco hadn't noticed it before but the man that his father had been talking to before when he entered the shop was standing in front of him.

The man was short and chubby with a big warm smile on his slightly scarred face, he looked very kind, and actually, he remembered Draco a lot of Albus Dumbledore. His thin sienna brown colored hair was standing out in every direction, making those big green marbled orbs of eyes seem full of mischievousness with that familiar merrily twinkle in them.

Both Draco and the man watched as Lucius walked out of the store and continued down the street, presumably towards The Three Broomsticks to meet his lovely little friends.

"Hello there, I am Argus Bubblesour, but you can call me Guz. And I assume you are Draco Malfoy?" The man said kindly and smiled.

"Eh...hi...Guz? Yeah, I'm Draco, you can call me.Draco."

"Splendid! We better start looking for a suit to you." Argus said and took out a tape measure and begun to measure Draco's length and so on.



"Good. Any special wish? Color? Style? Fabric?" He asked when he was finished measuring.



Argus begun to look through one of the huge closets with suits and once in a while he would take one out and throw it on the big wood armchair beside Draco, who just stood there and watched the small man's actions.

"How about this?" Guz asked as he showed his blond customer a dark blue suit.

"It's 100% micro fiber, vent-less and as you can see, it is of blue texture. And the four buttons makes it look very….what is it that you youth call it? Cool? Yes, it makes it look very cool. It is casual and extremely comfortable. Do you want to try it?"

Mr. Bubblesour looked at Draco hopefully with his kind eyes.

"I really don't think that one would suit me very good." Draco said apologetic with a small smile.

God, that suit looked awful. And how old is this man anyways? He does remind me of Professor Dumbledore though, I wonder why. He doesn't have any relatives…right? Ah.I'm giving myself a headache.

Guz continued to search for suits that might look nice on his costumer inside the different closets. After a while when he had thrown about 4 different kind of suits on the big wood armchair he turned to Draco.

"Try them on," was all he said as he gave Draco all the suits and pushed him inside one of the fitting rooms.


[*Inside*]

Draco sighed tiredly as he stripped his clothes off and put on one of the suits. It was plain black with three medium sized buttons and a rectangular formed pocket on the chest.

'This one doesn't look too bad. Actually, I think it suits me pretty good. But I do feel kind of old in it.'

He walked out of the fitting room and showed Argus how the suit looked on him. Guz stood up from his chair and looked at Draco closely with a bright grin.



"Ah, this is made in Italy by my friend named Zino. This is an excellent suit, it's got superfine 120's and it fits you lovely. It's vent-less too, just like the other one you looked at. Don't you think it's just perfect?" He said with almost tears in his eyes.

"Er...yeah, great, just great, great, great, great, great." Draco said dully and went inside the little cabin again.

The next time he came out he was wearing a light grey suit with three big pockets and thousands of wheat colored buttons on it.

"Oh, that is a classic. 100% linen made by Haspel, who has a shop just down the street by the way. It's very cool for summers; you don't sweat in it that's for sure. I think it fits you nicely." Argus said happily.

"Of course you like it. I look like a walking stone with eczema." Draco muttered as he went to change again.



Draco came out a couple of seconds later with a tight white and light blue suit clutching to his body. It had two buttons just in the end of the blazer and a bright red heart printed on the chest. He couldn't even walk because the pants were sitting way to tight.

"Fantastic. It's both sexy and traditional. The suit you're wearing right now is completely made out of cotton, which makes it perfect for summers. Absolutely fabulous." Mr. Bubblesour said, amazed.

However, Draco wasn't nearly as amazed as Argus. He was glaring at the kind man in front of him with so much hatred that he looked as thought he was trying to kill the man just by looking at him. Wonder where he got that from. [AN: notice the sarcasm.]

"Sexy? You think this is sexy?" Draco finally hissed angrily.

Argus Bubblesour just nodded calmly at the furious teenager in front of him.

"Yeah I bet they will think it's really sexy when I walk like I'm going to piss in my pants any time. Sexy, very sexy, how come I didn't think about that?" Draco said, now very upset.

When the tiny man raised a bushy eyebrow at him in respond Draco gave a little 'manly' yell in frustration before he stormed into the fitting room.



Argus heard someone bang a door quite hard and when he looked up to see what/who it was he saw Draco standing there. His face had gone completely red and he was wearing what was supposed to be a suit but it looked more like a costume. It was bright yellow and....shaggy. And it was so big that you almost couldn't see Draco's face behind all that fur, it was just like a red lump surrounded by lots and lots of bright yellow colored fur that dazzled your eyes. The pants were so short that it looked as if he was wearing a pair of pale yellow tights. It honestly looked as thought someone had puked on his 'pants'.


Mr. Bubblesour really didn't know what to say without breaking down laughing.


"Ahem...nice." Was all he could say, well, he didn't exactly say it; it was more like a little peep.

Draco's face became even redder, if that was possible when he heard Argus words. He began to take deep breaths until he couldn't take it anymore.

"I LOOK LIKE A BLOODY FRIED CHICKEN FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!!!!"

And with that he stormed back into the little cabin. As fast as he was gone Argus broke down in laughs, loud laughs.

After about 10 minutes Argus went inside the fitting room to see if Draco had exploded or something.

Luckily he hadn't.

He was sitting on the floor with his arm closed over his chest and a very sour look on his normally handsome face.

"Are you angry?" Argus asked with a small smile.

"Maybe."

"I have found a really nice suit for you. Come on, take a look." Argus said as he opened the door

"Okay." Draco replied as he stood up

"That's my man." Mr. Bubblesour said as they both walked out of the little room.

Guz walked over to one of the many closets and took out a jade green suit and then gave it to Draco.

"Look at this fine piece of cloth. It's made by Ralph Lauren, one of the best he's ever done I think. As you can see, it is subtle, solid and very handsome. Since it's a Palm Beach, it's very expensive but you will get a good price. Try it." Argus said happily.

Draco really thought that it looked very nice so he tried it on and it suited him extremely well.

'Whoever I am going with will like this suit, I can feel it.'

"I'll take it." He said with a satisfied grin on his face.

"Great!" Mr. Bubblesour said happily as he went behind the counter with the suit.

"That will be 450 galleons, please."



Draco gulped but gave the man his money anyway.

"You can send the suit to the Malfoy's Manor." Draco said over his shoulder as he walked out of the store.

My date better be one HECK of a woman!  

[*Hermione Granger P.o.V*]

Narcissa and Hermione walked out of Gringotts and continued down the street. They had just gotten some money so that Narcissa could buy herself a new dress too.

Neither of the two ladies said anything but Hermione could feel that there was something on Narcissa's mind.

"Hermione. There is something I need to tell you." The silverish woman finally blurted out.

Hermione frowned slightly at her but nodded understanding anyway.

"You know that big Christmas dinner we're going too? Well, it's kind of a ball too…for Death Eater families. Please say that you will come anyway? Because I have told everyone that you're coming from a famous Spanish Death Eater family and that you're only visiting us for a few days. So now there are a lot of people who wants to meet you. We can't disappoint all of those people, now can we?" Narcissa said worriedly and looked at Hermione with her marvelous grey eyes.

The brunette really didn't know what to say, she was completely stunned.

"Okay. I'll do it even tho there are some dangerous consequences. But you owe me BIG TIME." She finally said after a few seconds of thinking.

"YES! Thank you! You're an angel send from above." Narcissa exclaimed gratefully and hugged the brunette in the middle of the street.

"Come on now, you just have to see this store. I've been shopping there for years. They have got the best gown in Diagon Alley. Not so many people know that it even exist, that's why you'll always got a unique dress if you buy it there."

And with those words Narcissa dragged Hermione further down the alley until they finally stopped at a little lilac colored sign that had the words Missing Rose written in elegant curly letters across it.

When the two women entered a soft cling could be heard.

The store was absolutely huge and there were gowns everywhere.

The walls were painted in a soft red color and there were four other doors too, all in different colors. One was painted in a lavender color with the words Accessories written across it in purple big letters. Another one was pale blue with Shoes printed on it in midnight blue. The third and the fourth were both painted very pale green with the words Special Occasions written in a forest green color.

There was only five other people inside the store and it looked as if two of them were employed.

Suddenly a woman appeared in front of Narcissa and Hermione with a bright smile on her pretty face. She was about 20 maybe and was very tall and slim. Her hair was dirty blond with dark blue tips, matching her navy blue eyes, which was surrounded by tons of short eyelashes. She was wearing a pair of jeans and a turquoise t-shirt with the text Rose Native written in big curly light blue letters.

"Narcissa!" The woman yelled as she hugged Narcissa tightly.

They broke apart a few seconds later and the mysterious woman's eyes immediately swifted to Hermione.

"Is this Anarania and Deratia's daughter?" She asked Narcissa in awe.

Oh my goodness, there really is a Death Eater family named Whicker?

Narcissa nodded slowly and gave Hermione a look that said 'Play along'.

"You are Onessa? You look exactly like your mother, a natural beauty." The woman said with a kind smile.

"Um yes, that's my name. And you are?" Hermione asked a little uncomfortable

"Oh god, I am so sorry. I'm Native Ophet, my mother owns this store. Enough talking. Can I help you two lovely ladies?" Native asked cheerfully

"Yes actually, you can. We need new gowns for the Christmas dinner. Are you and your family coming by the way?" Narcissa said

"Yes, we are coming, if my sister can decide what dress to wear anytime soon. Anyways, let's start looking for those gowns." Native said and walked over to a rack of gowns with Hermione and Narcissa close behind.

[*A Few Minutes Later*]

Hermione was standing in the middle of the huge store with a big mountain of gowns while Narcissa and Native were both running around, searching for EVEN MORE gowns.

"Um. I think this is enough." Hermione peeped from underneath all that clothes.

"You, you are quite right. Why would like to start try on the gowns?" Native asked

Narcissa looked Hermione in the eye and raised an eyebrow as if she was asking if it was okay if she begun. Hermione just nodded and informed Native that Narcissa would begin.

"Okay then. Try this on." Native said as she gave her a lilac colored 2- piece dress.

Narcissa muttered something and waved her wand so that she was now wearing the dress. She looked herself in the mirror and smiled slightly.

"Is it satin?" She asked Native

"Yes actually, it has a satin back taffeta. Isn't it beautiful?" Native answered

The dress was strapless with a sophisticated side draping and the skirt was smile with a mini fishtail.

"It looks really nice on you Mrs. Malfoy but don't you think it's a little too…tight?" Hermione asked carefully

Narcissa frowned at Hermione but looked in the mirror again and smiled gratefully.

"You are absolutely right. I can't wear this." She said

"Okay. There are two other gowns that I think would fit you nicely." Native said and waved her wand again at Narcissa.

The silverish haired woman was now wearing a simple yet elegant gown in matte satin. It was a strapless fit and flair style. The color of the dress was black and there was a pair of matching gloves that reached to her elbows.

"It's very comfortable." Narcissa said as she looked herself in the mirror again.

"This is a perfect black dress for all different occasions. And it really compliments your figure." Native said as a matter of factly

"You look lovely Narcissa." Hermione said with a bright smile.

"Thank you Onessa. I do like this a lot but I think I would like to try the last one first before I decide." Narcissa said after a few seconds of thinking.

"That's alright. This is the last one then."

And with that said Native gave her wand a small swish and suddenly Narcissa was wearing a whole new dress.

This time there was an antique silver colored classic satin back taffeta dress with dropped waist, rouching and flattering portrait collar. It had Bias cut and was slim. The skirt had a graceful mini fishtail train.

Narcissa looked absolutely gorgeous.

"Wow. That dress definitely was made for you to wear it. If you don't wear that, I won't come to the dinner." Hermione said playfully with a smile playing on her lips.

"Fine, Missy. Your wish is my law. I'll take it Native." Narcissa answered, smiling right back at her.

"Great choice there Narcissa." Native said as she walked over to the counter.

"Anything else?"

"No thanks. Well, we do need a dress for Onessa here and shoes and maybe some nice accosories." Narcissa said

"I'm sorry but I have to close the store in 10 minutes. It's my little sister's birthday today so I've got to get home as soon as possible." Native said with an apologizing smile.

"That's quite alright. Do you know any other store with gown and such things?" Narcissa asked

"Hmm..well, there's always Morina Petrell's store, but you'll have to stand out with Nienna and her friends then; they're working there this week. But they do have the best gowns after us." Native said and rolled her eyes when she mentioned Nienna and her friends.

"Well, we have to get all those things so..we'll just have to go to Morina's store." Narcissa said with a painful expression on her face.

'NO! Not Nienna! I know that hate is a very strong word but I can honestly say that I do hate her.'.

"Bye!" Native yelled as Narcissa dragged Hermione once again down the street.

[*Outside Morina Petrell's Store*]

"No! I don't want to go in!" Hermione wined as Narcissa tried to push her inside the door.

"You're coming whether you like it or not." Narcissa said stubbornly

In the middle of the two ladies fight the door suddenly opened and a black haired girl's face appeared through the doorway.

"Hi." She squeezed cheerfully

Nienna.

"Hello there Nienna. How are you?" Narcissa asked in a false nice tone.

"I'm like in the best mood ever. Come on in!"

Hermione glared at both her and Narcissa but walked inside the door anyway.

When she entered the store she thought she was going to throw up.

The walls were bright pink with the word Babe painted in lime green all over the walls. And the roof was very low so Hermione got the feeling of being trapped.

There were four other people in the store, which were all standing behind Nienna.

One was a middle long girl with straight onyx black hair reaching to her chin and what looked like midnight blue colored eyes. She was wearing a knee length navy blue bandana skirt and a denim halter top. The girl remembered slightly of the woman in the other store, Native.

The second girl on the right side of Nienna was wearing a crimson colored embroidered cotton sundress and was pretty short and a little chubby. Her hair was a blood red color and her eyes were cornflower blue. She looked kind of shy but very nice.

And then there was two girls that looked exactly alike, almost. You could see that they were at least relatives.

One of the two had orange curly hair that reached to her shoulders, she had pale green eyes and was tall and skinny. She was wearing an orange tank dress, just like her sister.

The other one was short and pretty thin. Her eyes were lime green and her hair was red and curly. She was wearing similar dress as her sister, except that it was red. Both of them was wearing the same thing as Nienna and Hermione thought that they remembered her a lot of Crabb and Goyle.

"So, can we like help you or something?" Nienna asked rather rudely

"Um yes, we need a new dress to Onessa here." Narcissa said as she glared at most of the girls clothes.

"Oh, that's like so great! Come on Sapphire, we can help you choose a dress." Nienna exclaimed, excited.

'Oh Lord, I can't even look at those..girls and now I have to TALK to them!?'

"Ehh..what am I suppose to do then? Clean up the store or something?" Narcissa asked almost a little angrily.

"You can like look out for like some shoes and like accessories with Diamond and Emerald!" Nienna yelled over her shoulder as she practically dragged Hermione off towards a rack off gowns with the two curly haired girls close behind.

The black and red haired girls just shook their heads as they watched their friend's actions.

"Sorry about that. I'm Steema Ophet. I have to go now because it's my birthday and my family wants to celebrate me but it was nice meeting you Mrs. Malfoy." The black haired girl said with a smile.

"That's okay. Happy birthday by the way." Narcissa said and smiled back.

"Thank you. Bye!" Steema said as she walked out of the door.

"Hi. I'm Jaena Vesp. I guess you'll have to stand out with me if you want to get those shoes and such." The readhead said playfully

"That's okay."

"Good, now lets's get started." Jaena said

"Lead the way." Narcissa said as they walked away.

[*Hermione with Nienna etc.*]

"Try this! It's like great!" Nienna said as she threw in one more dress into the dressing room.

Hermione had tried all kinds of gown by now; green, red, blue, black, pink, striped, checked, silk, cotton, everything! You name it, she's tried it.

She catched the dress that came flying inside the little room and looked at it.

It was a one piece light blue sleek, matte satin dress with high neck in front and corset-like lade up back. The skirt was slim and had mini fish train in back.

The brunette stripped off her clothes and put the dress on.

This dress looks really classy. It doesn't show anything but you can still see my figure. Draco will love it, I hope. NO! I do not want to go to the dinner with Draco, I'm just doing because I want Narcissa's forgiveness…right? Yes, it doesn't matter to me one bit that I'm going with Draco. But it's not like it hurts. He's just a bonus. Bonus, yes, a bonus, a very handsome bonus that it. Ahh..I am suppose to consentrate on the DRESS!!

"I'll take it!" Hermione yelled after she had but her regular clothes on again.

"Like goodie!" Nienna exclaimed and ran to the counter, where Narcissa and Jaena were waiting.

Hermione walked over to Narcissa and smiled at her.

"Did you find anything?" She asked

"As a matter of fact, I did. Do you want to see them?" Narcissa asked

"NO! Lets just get out of here while we still have the chance." Hermione stated

"HELLO!? Aren't you like going to pay??" Nienna yelled from behind the counter, it really wasn't necessary since they were just standing a meter away from her.

"Mmm..yes, of course." Narcissa said and began to rummage in her purse.

"That's 650 galleons." Nienna said proudly

Narcissa gave the blackhaired girl her money, even tho she thought it was very expensive.

She and Hermione were just about to step outside the store when they heard a very shrill voice yelling.

"WAIT!! ONESSA!!"

Hermione groaned and turned around.

"What??" She hissed

"How's MY Draco doing?" Nienna asked

Yours? YOURS? Bugger off, he's MINE!!

Of course Hermione couldn't say that out loud.

"FINE!! HE'S JUST FINE!!"

And with that she stormed out of the store.

All the girls looked at Narcissa wondering, she just shrugged and walked off too with a small 'bye'.

I think I better have that talk with Hermione. She thought as she walked down the street, looking for Hermione.

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Okay so, that was chapter 17. Liked it? Hope so.

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Until Next Time...

Heaps of Love,

-LiNe

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