Chapter Four:

Payton loved to window shop, she was very good at it too. She never had any money of her own. All of her belongings were bought by the Malfoy's. The Malfoy's were always giving her money, but she only used it for the things she needed, like new robes, or her school books, or any simple item of clothing or makeup that she really needed.

Today, other than needing Hogwarts robes, Payton needed a dress for a ball that was happening at Tess's house in a few months. Payton told the Malfoy's that she would be right back, and she wondered into the muggle world. She found a muggle Prom dress shop and decided to go there. Payton looked through the hundreds of dresses and found the perfect one. It was a cherry red halter dress. The halter strap was made out of diamonds. The dress fit Payton perfectly; it was supposed to be extremely tight and big at the bottom of the dress.

The only problem with the dress was that it was very expensive and in muggle currency. Payton racked her mind to try to find a way to get $500 in muggle money. She could see no way how. She decided that she would go back to Diagon Alley and see if anyone knew about muggle money. As Payton walked through the crowded walkway of Diagon Alley she spotted a group of people dressed in Hogwarts robes. Payton decided to ask them about muggle money.

"Do any of you know how to obtain muggle money?" She questioned them. No one answered her. All of the boys looked at her like she was them most beautiful thing she had ever seen and the girls looked like they were about to attack. Payton slowly backed away since she guessed they would be no help to her.

Payton spotted the Malfoy's a few feet away, so she walked over to them. Before she could ask Mrs. Malfoy anything, Draco had run over to her and scooped her up into his arms. He hugged her like she had been missing for ten years. He looked straight into her eyes and smiled.

"Now, now, Draco lets leave the mushy stuff for home." Lucius sneered. Malfoy looked up at his father then gently set Payton down. "Good boy Draco. Now Miss Payton, where have you been?" Mr. Malfoy questioned her.

"I went to a muggle dress store to find a dress for Tess's party!" Payton told Mr. Malfoy. "I found this beautiful dress but it's in muggle money."

"Why do you have to wear a muggle dress?" questioned Lucius angrily. "You have gorgeous dress robes. Why make yourself look like a muggle, which brings me to asking why you are wearing muggle clothes. Why did you waste the money I gave you to make yourself look like a lowly muggle?"

"Mr. Malfoy, I cannot wear robes into the muggle world!" Payton answered just as angry. "And, I cannot wear dress robes to Tess's party because there will be muggles there!!!!" Payton explained in an exasperated voice.

"Then, Payton, I forbid you to go. I will not let you associate with muggles. Now we are going home since we have all we need from here." Lucius grabbed Payton's arm and dragged her to the fire place in the Leaky Caldron. He gave her a handful of Flew Powder and shoved her into the fire place.