~Author's note~
Sorry it's taken so long to update! But here is the nxt chapter.
Ch9: Old friends
Sarah walked up to the dimly lit house and stared. Her stomach turned,
'Was she really doing this?' she questioned herself,
'Of course, he's my godson!' another voice told her,
'but… do I still have feelings for his father?'
With this question still unanswered, she rung the doorbell and waited. Anticipation swirled about her as a man with dazzling blue eyes opened the door.
'No,' she answered herself,
'I don't. At least I don't think so.'
"Ah, Sarah," he said with a hint of tenderness. Sarah noted this, but chose to ignore it.
"Thank you for coming."
"I wouldn't have missed it, Lucius, for the world," she told him as she stepped into the house.
'It's huge,' Sarah noted as she was led through the hallway, and into a tiny bedroom opposite to Lucius'. It was decked out in green, Slytherin's house color, and it had a snake-like design on the wall that matched the crib in the center of the room.
As Sarah looked inside the crib she gasped, it was like looking into the past.
"Lucius, he, he looks just like you," she stammered as she picked up the tiny, pink baby.
"I know, it is kinda scary, isn't it?" came another voice from the doorway,
"You'd almost think I had nothing to do with it."
"She has your eyes, Narcissa," Lucius said as he looked at his wife.
'And your smile," Sarah said as she turned to look at her.
A moment passed before either woman looked away. Later, Lucius wondered what moment had passed between them. But it seemed to him that Narcissa had been nicer to Sarah throughout the rest of the visit.
He flopped down on the bed, more tired than he wanted to admit. For seeing Sarah again had brought all the energy out of him.
'She had always done that,' he noted,
'Even when we were dating…'
"When we were dating", the thought echoed in this head. Then he thought of his wife who had hated Sarah for ever since he could remember.
'She was always jealous of Sarah,' he told himself,
'Sarah had always had everything that that Narcissa wanted: the brains, beauty, my love…
'Damn that prearranged marriage! If it weren't for that, I'd be married to Sarah! I love her!' In saying that, he realized how much he missed her.
'How much does she miss me?' he wondered.
As Sarah walked up the porch and into the house. She soon became aware of how tired she was,
'Yes,' she thought,
' a hot bath, and some-'
"Where the hell have you been?" Sirius yelled at her as he walked out of the shadows of her house, towards her.
Surprised by the fact that he was in her house, she walked into the living room to find James talking with Remus.
'I could just leave,' she thought,
'I could just ignore Sirius.' And she had every intention of doing so until she saw the look on his face.
Genuine concern had crept across it.
'He looks like a puppy,' she noted as she decided to answer him,
"I was at the Malfoy's," she simply stated.
"Ha-wha-ah-wha?" was his only response as she passed by him to head into the kitchen, for she had suddenly discovered that she was now starving as well.
'How could she visit the Malfoy's?' this thought echoed in his mind as he turned to James and Remus.
"Did you know she was at the Malfoy's?" he questioned.
"So, doesn't she have a right to be?" James asked.
"What!!" Sirius yelled, getting angrier by the minute.
"Wait, you two know something that I don't! Tell me!"
"Well, it was during our last year at Hogwarts that Lucius and Sarah had dated, actually it was right after the two of you had broken up-"
"What?" screamed Sirius, his eyes widening.
"Sirius," Remus snarled,
"Please, let me continue. Anyways, the story is that they fell deeply in love and were about to get married- don't Sirius, let me finish- but somehow he ended up marrying Narcissa."
"Why didn't he marry Sarah?" Sirius asked, calming down now.
"I don't know," Remus answered,
"He probably cheated on her-"
"No, he did not cheat on me!" yelled Sarah,
"He was betrothed to her, so he had no choice, but he did promise me that I would be the godmother of their children."
"And you, do you still have feelings for him?" Sirius asked, hoping to god the answer wasn't yes.
All eyes turned to her as she spoke,
"Of course not! I may like him as a person, but I love you!"
He smiled, good god, he loved her and wanted to say so. He walked over, took her in his arms an smiled,
"I love you too!" Then he kissed her and she laughed,
"Maybe we should continue this later," she whispered to him, and he saw the light in his eyes. Instead of responding to her body's reaction, she turned to her brother and said,
"Oh, Remus, we have company tomorrow."
"Who?" Remus asked.
"Lucius and his son Draco,' she simply stated, ignoring the look that she got from Sirius.
"What?!" yelled Sirius,
"They are coming over here!?"
"Yes, and they are having dinner with us. I mean, why not? He is my godchild!" she exclaimed.
"Well, then I'm gonna be there too!" Sirius retorted.
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
Sirius stalked off and out of the kitchen, making some excuse about having something to do.
"He's so tiring!" Sarah cried.
"Yeah, but he's so jealous, I think it's cute!" exclaimed her brother.
"Yeah, Lily and I were that way when we dated, and now look at us!" James commented with a sly smile on his lips.
"Don't get any ideas James, or any of you for that matter! Sirius and I are a long ways away from that!" Sarah told him.
"But I do have him wrapped around my little finger, don't I?"
"Yes, you do, but the process also works vice-versa." Remus told her, then seeing the look on her face, he said,
"Oh, c'mon Sarah, he's coming to dinner. The dinner with the Malfoy's!"
"Oh, God! What did I just do?! I'm an idiot! What am I gonna do now?" she exclaimed, looking more and more exasperated by the minute.
"Yeah, you screwed up big time, Sarah, they have always hated each other! If it were me, I guess, I would just play referee the whole time." James answered.
"Ok, thanks, I'll think about it. Now I'm off to take a shower." Then she was off, and putting aside tomorrow's disaster, she finally managed t relax.