A/N: I'm going to answer some of your questions.
I'm sorry, I put it under the wrong genres, I've changed it.
How did she end up there? Well, basically, because this is a magical world and in a world like that, things happen. She was mysteriously taken and misteriously
brought back.
' Knock!' ' Knock!' ' Knock!'
The sound of the knocking woke Hermione, or rather Fayre, up. Luckily, she had remembered to lock the door the night before, or s Her stomache was uneasy, it felt like this bug creeping up her stomache. Nevertheless, she got out of bed with a " COMING!" and scrambled around her room trying to find a hiding place for Leigha. Urgh! This was going to be tiring, trying to hide her little dragon every time someone came knocking. ' The bathroom! ' she thought at last. It was perfect. There was a cushioned seat, she remembered. Carefully, she carried Leigha to the bathroom, making sure she didn't wake her. She looked at herself in the mirror, she was dressed in black, her usual wardrobe choice and went to open the door.
" Mya! Why is your door locked?" her twin, Nicola, exclaimed impatiently from behind the huge oak doors.
" Nicola! " she exclaimed back, somewhat sarcastically as she finally opened the door. " Uh, I was afraid one of your brothers er...barged in," she lied, an excellent actress she was.
" Oh! er...call me Nikki, everyone does," she told her long lost sister. She felt somewhat awkward around her sister. Hatred, jealousy, a sense of loss because she wasn't the youngest anymore?
She didn't know.
" Oh alright then," Mya said.
" Oh they're calling you down for breakfast," she told her, walking into her room. " Oh, OK, just let me go wash up first, you go ahead , I'll be down soon," Hermione told Nikki.
Suddenly, she felt a pain in her stomache. She, at once, clutched it with her hands and leant on the door frame. It did not hurt as much as the cuts and bruises that Mr Granger had given her but it had caught her by surprise. Nikki's eyes widened. " What's wrong Mya?!" she exclaimed.
" Oh, it's nothing, probably need to get some food into this stomache of mine, that's all," Hermione told her twin sister rushing to the bathroom. She felt like puking. Nicola nodded and eyed her suspiciously.
Noises of Hermione puking were audible from the spot Nicola was standing at. Thoughts ran through her mind. What could be wrong with Hermione?
With another suspicious glance, she left the room without a sound.
Hermione was in the bathroom. It was probably all the stomache acids that made her vomit. She washed up and changed into another pair of black pants and long-sleeved top since the ones that she wore to sleep were stained with vomit. She would have worn the big black shirt she used as a nightie but she was too tired to change and so, fell asleep in what she wore.
As she was going to step out of the bathroom, Leigha awoke. ' My little dragon finally awakes,' Hermione thought poetically to herself. " Myknee! It's so stinky!" she exclaimed, pinching her nose as she clutched on to a nasty smelling teddy bear. It was the exact one which Hermione had gotten for her the year before. " Shh... we have to be quiet Leigha, we're in a new house remember?" Hermione whispered to her.
From young, Leigha had thought you had to be quite in a new house, like Hogwarts for example, she had to be quiet then and now, she had to be quiet as well. Hermione hated this, she hated having to tell her lies like having to be quiet in a new house. " I'll be back with some food, OK?" she smiled at the little girl. " OK," was her reply.
She left her room, in search for the kitchen. As she made her search, she looked around the house. There was a glass window just beside her and she took a look out of it, it showed the new wing being designed and constructed. ' That's going to be mine,' Hermione thought. She carried on walking down the long stretch until she came to a flight of steps, the ones Artos led her up the last night. This house was amazing. She walked down the stairs and came to a platform. The platform was where she was the night before, with the portraits and all.
She entered the kitchen, where something smelled so delicious. ' Mmm...blueberry pancakes, my favourite,' Hermione thought as she entered the large kitchen, a large table was set in the middle of it and it was filled with food, from bread to pancakes with syrup. The others were already at the table eating. Lleu, the youngest of the four brothers', ate alot. Hermione wondered how he kept his size. He was piling pancake after pancake. He could even beat Ron!
Hermione sat down between Nicola and the Professor. He gave her a warm smile, she smiled back. Who knew Professor Snape had another side?
Well, the unexpected happens, like when her 'mother' died and when her 'father' started abusing her. Who knew that Doctor Granger, Londons most well-knowned dentist could hurt his daughter so much, she couldn't cry any more.
She made sure not to eat fast, hungry as she was. So she ate slowly, but she ate alot. The only person who seemed to realise this was Nicola. She stared at Mya with awe. Hermione was not skinny. She still had a bit of flesh, luckily but she was still thinner than other women. Nicola, on the other hand, had the body of a real women, curves at the right places, a nice height and all. The two sisters, were very pretty. Hermione was the only one with brown hair though, the other two had dark hair, almost black.
At last, she finished eating. Luckily for her, Lisel and Zacharias had just came in so they were still eating. That day was a Friday, she remembered. She wanted to ask," So, what's up for today?" but she did not in the end. She felt akward around all these people, her new family. Well, they had always been her family but she did not know it. She shifted uncomfortably in her chair, while the others were having a discussion about Quidditch, even Professor Snape participated. Mya just listened, not bothering to talk. Nicola seemed to notice her state of akwardness and said," So, what is everyone doing today?".
" Oh, we've all taken a day off to spend it with Mya," Eli replied.
" Well, that's nice but I've got to go back to Hogwarts to finish some work," Severus told them.
" Daddy...," Nicola whined. " All you do is work, you have to rest you know," she continued.
" I know but it's just for today," he told her before getting up to leave the room. Nicola stood up to hug him. ' Am I supposed to do that too?' she thought but in the end, she stayed seated, like the rest.
After Professor Snape left, she felt even more akward. She was in a room filled with people she did not know. " Can Blaise come over?" Nikki asked.
" Blaise?! As in Blaise Zambini?" Mya blurted out, they didn't seem to mind. She should have known, they were, afterall, a pureblood family. All of the pureblood families were connected somehow or other.
" Yes, Blaise Zambini, do you know him?," Eli asked.
" Yes, we're, how you say, not on very good terms and all. I, being a mudblood and all," she said without thinking. She found it a little easier to talk to them now.
" Ah but you see, you're not a mud- muggle-born witch and how dare you insult yourself!" Lleu exclaimed. Zacharias just bend his head down. Lisel put her arm around him comfortingly.
" Er, shall we go outside to talk somemore?" Lisel suggested.
" Excellent idea," the rest agreed. They stood up to leave and Hermione just followed. She made a mental note to herself to figure out this large manor. Gigalo-Granger's house was negative 20 times the size of this one. She followed them through the hallway and into some sort of a platform which over looked the grounds of the manor. It was huge. There was at least 40 hectares of land down there in the medows, including the forest and there was a Quidditch pitch with stands and all right smack in the middle of the land.
" Wow," she gasped softly.
" I know, it's beautiful," Nikki whispered. They all sat down on those large beenbags which lay on the wooden platform. " So can Blaise come over or not?" Nicola asked again, somewhat irritated.
" Only if Mya says it's OK," Artos told her. This made Hermione gain confidence. Artos actually asked if it was OK for Blaise Zambini could come over!
Nikki looked at her with pleading eyes. " I guess it's alright," Mya told her. Nikki's eyes brightened. " Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Nicola exclaimed, jumping up and down.
" He can come only after your studies," Medraut told her.
" Oh, alright but if you guys get to take a break, why can't I? I mean, afterall, it's the day after our sister's return!" she told them. Hermione felt even more wanted and welcomed like this. She was starting to settle in fast but there were so many questions needed to be asked.
" Ok, I guess that means you can have a day off from school but it also means that you'll have extra work on Monday if you want to be in 7th year with 'Mione and graduate a year earlier," Medraut told her after thinking.
" Er...school?" Mya asked. Why was Nikki at school during the summer holidays?
" Oh yes, she is home-schooled and we, Medraut and I, are like her teachers," Artos explained.
" But why isn't she schooled at Hogwarts?" Fay asked.
" Because, our father didn't want the same thing that happened to you, happen to her," Eli explained.
" Oh," Hermione said, feeling stupid. Why didn't she think of it before?
" But since Voldemort is dead and you're back, she'll be going to Hogwarts with you next term," Artos said.
" Where's Maddox?" she asked.
" Oh, he's with his nanny in the nursery," Zacharias told her, pointing at the direction of a different wing.
" OK, let me try getting all your names right," she told them, quite happy to hear that her twin was going to be going to Hogwarts with her. ' Wait until Harry and Ron hear about this!' she thought excitedly. Then it dawned on her that they were probably going to be with their girlfriends. Her face saddened.
" Go ahead," Lisel said.
" You're Lisel Mirabelle Ale- no, Blythe Ellamanda Alejandria Ethele Snape-Malfoy?" she asked
" Correct,"
" Ok, Nikki is, Nicola Adreanne Loreal Arwen Emmaleigha Goewin Snape?" she asked again.
" Correct,"
" The guys are, Artos, Medraut, Eli, Lleu and that's Zacharias," she said.
" Correct once again,"
" I'd like to ask you a question," she asked Artos.
" Shoot,"
" What's my name again?" she asked. They laughed humorously.
" Your name is Fayre Agatha Emmalynn Noelle Giselle Ebony Snape," Artos said smiling.
" Why do the girls have such long names and the guys short ones?" she asked again, it was her chance to ask all the questions.
" Well, there's another secret we haven't revealed to you yet. The girls in the pureblood families are Amazonians. Which means you are part of the Amazon Sisterhood," Lisel told her. " Do you know what they are?" Lleu asked.
" Yes, they are a Sisterhood, as you say, who have supernatural abilities such as the ablity to control the minds of others, extraordinary strength and speed...and so on but the powers have to be trained and you have to keep practicing, very few of them have their own special abilities" Hermione said, as if she was reading it from a book.
" Wow, you're good," Nikki told her, amazed.
" Thank you, so does this mean I have to train?" she asked.
" That's exactly what it means," Lleu said. Hermione whined.
" Oh, quit whining, it's though but you'll benefit from it," Artos told her. He treated her as if he had known her for years, infact, they all did. She liked it.
" Wait, if she girls are Amazonions, then the guys should be Gothikas," she said.
" You're right, we are," Lleu said.
" You know what, I didn't know Malfoy had a brother," she told Zacharias. He apparently realise how she had addressed his brother and said," Are you not on good terms with him?" he said, raising his eyebrows just like the others did.
" Erm...no we're not. He's in Slytherin and I'm in Gryfindor, our blood lines were very different until yesterday. He hates me and I hate him, easy as that," she told them as a matter-of-factly.
" No, it's not that easy," Nicola whispered. Hermione heard this.
" What do you me-," she was cut off when Artos came into the room holding two bunches of vials.
" Here you go," he passed a bunch of vials to Mya.
" Yes! Thank you! Artos, I thought you weren't going to make some fore me until you were free," Nikki exclaimed.
" What's this for?" she asked him, holding them. She examined them closely, it was a metalic silver liquid, like mercury.
" Oh, Mrs. Potts, the head maid of the house, was cleaning your room this morning and realised you had a bit of trouble with the sheets," Artos winked at her. Realisation hit her. ' Shitty Shit Shit Shit, did she see Leigha? Oh my goodness, all the explaining I'll have to do, oh no oh no oh no' she thought but covered up with a quick-
" Oh," she said, blushing.
" Neh, it's OK, this happens to Nikki all the time," Artos told her.
" Hey! It's only because you don't make that potion for me!" she exclaimed in her own defence.
" Thank goodness! No more muggle pads!" Eli exclaimed. " Those muggles look at me like I'm a freak!" Eli continued. Everyone laughed, except Hermione, who looked at him as if he was a freak. " Look at her! She even looks at me like I am one," he exclaimed again. This time, they all laughed.
" Might I ask why he complaining about muggle pads?" Hermione asked.
" Because he has to go and get them for me, they all won't let me go out to get them," Nikki told her, still laughing.
" Why won't they let you?" she asked again.
" Because, she is too young and it's dangerous!" Lleu exclaimed.
" Oh, great, you're just like Ron and his brothers," Mia said without thinking. Why was she speaking without thinking? It was probably her new family.
" Who is Ron and who are his brothers?" her brothers asked her, eyeing her closely.
" Uh oh," she whispered. The other girls just laughed. They knew she would get into trouble for saying that. " He's er...just a friend," it was true, he was just a friend.
" You have a boyfriend?!" Nikki exclaimed. The rest had their eyes wide open.
" No, he's not my boyfriend and what's wrong with my having a boyfriend anyway?" she asked them.
" Well, you see..." Nicola was going to carry on when- " OUCH! " Lisel elbowed her sister in the ribs and shook her head vigorously. She quietened down, rubbing her side.
" Hey all," Blaise who finally arrived at the manor said.
" Blaise!" Nikki exclaimed like a little girl who was going to buy a new Barbie doll. Hermione shifted nervously in her seat. He kissed Nicola's forehead and she whispered something in his ear. His eyes visibly widened.
" Hermione," he nodded to her in greeting.
She nodded and said," Zambini ". No way was she going to call him by his first name, after all he did.
" Anyway, Mya, could you sing that song that you sand last night? It was marvellous!" Lisel said, trying to break the tension.
" What song?" she inquired.
" All the pretty little horses. The one Mum used to sing to us," she said, then clasped her hands over her mouth, realising Hermione hadn't known their mother.
" Oh, don't worry. Its quite alright. I sang a song? When?" she asked.
" You know, when we discovered you," Lleu said.
" Sing me the song, I'm not sure, " she asked Lisel. She started singing, 'Hush Bye Bye....'
" I don't know that song," Hermione replied. It was a lie. A downright lie. She knew the whole song by heart but she didn't dare. It reminded her of how her 'father' used to tell her she croaked like a frog when she sang most pleasantly. Critisizing her in every possible aspect, at first, she thought it wasn't true, that he was just jealous.
Jealous of what? She used to then think and soon, it sunk into her. That she was far from perfect. Far from the smartest girl at Hogwarts since Rowena Ravenclaw. Her grades never slipped but her sanity was hanging on brittle hairs, the ones on Leigha's little head.
The day passed rather smoothly except for a few times where Hermione would misteriously disappear to her room and come back again. She had learnt a little about everyone though, Artos was an expert in Potions and Defence Against the Dark Arts. Medraut in Charms and Potions, and he also happened to be a phsycologist. Eli was a doctor at St. Mungo's. Lleu was an expert at Quidditch, he was one of the best players of the English Quidditch team. Zacharias worked at the Ministry as an Auror, Hermione was surprised that he wasn't a deatheater. Lisel was the mother of Maddox, who was two and Nikki was just like any other teenage girl, boy crazy but she was somewhat sensible.
I'm sorry, I put it under the wrong genres, I've changed it.
How did she end up there? Well, basically, because this is a magical world and in a world like that, things happen. She was mysteriously taken and misteriously
brought back.
' Knock!' ' Knock!' ' Knock!'
The sound of the knocking woke Hermione, or rather Fayre, up. Luckily, she had remembered to lock the door the night before, or s Her stomache was uneasy, it felt like this bug creeping up her stomache. Nevertheless, she got out of bed with a " COMING!" and scrambled around her room trying to find a hiding place for Leigha. Urgh! This was going to be tiring, trying to hide her little dragon every time someone came knocking. ' The bathroom! ' she thought at last. It was perfect. There was a cushioned seat, she remembered. Carefully, she carried Leigha to the bathroom, making sure she didn't wake her. She looked at herself in the mirror, she was dressed in black, her usual wardrobe choice and went to open the door.
" Mya! Why is your door locked?" her twin, Nicola, exclaimed impatiently from behind the huge oak doors.
" Nicola! " she exclaimed back, somewhat sarcastically as she finally opened the door. " Uh, I was afraid one of your brothers er...barged in," she lied, an excellent actress she was.
" Oh! er...call me Nikki, everyone does," she told her long lost sister. She felt somewhat awkward around her sister. Hatred, jealousy, a sense of loss because she wasn't the youngest anymore?
She didn't know.
" Oh alright then," Mya said.
" Oh they're calling you down for breakfast," she told her, walking into her room. " Oh, OK, just let me go wash up first, you go ahead , I'll be down soon," Hermione told Nikki.
Suddenly, she felt a pain in her stomache. She, at once, clutched it with her hands and leant on the door frame. It did not hurt as much as the cuts and bruises that Mr Granger had given her but it had caught her by surprise. Nikki's eyes widened. " What's wrong Mya?!" she exclaimed.
" Oh, it's nothing, probably need to get some food into this stomache of mine, that's all," Hermione told her twin sister rushing to the bathroom. She felt like puking. Nicola nodded and eyed her suspiciously.
Noises of Hermione puking were audible from the spot Nicola was standing at. Thoughts ran through her mind. What could be wrong with Hermione?
With another suspicious glance, she left the room without a sound.
Hermione was in the bathroom. It was probably all the stomache acids that made her vomit. She washed up and changed into another pair of black pants and long-sleeved top since the ones that she wore to sleep were stained with vomit. She would have worn the big black shirt she used as a nightie but she was too tired to change and so, fell asleep in what she wore.
As she was going to step out of the bathroom, Leigha awoke. ' My little dragon finally awakes,' Hermione thought poetically to herself. " Myknee! It's so stinky!" she exclaimed, pinching her nose as she clutched on to a nasty smelling teddy bear. It was the exact one which Hermione had gotten for her the year before. " Shh... we have to be quiet Leigha, we're in a new house remember?" Hermione whispered to her.
From young, Leigha had thought you had to be quite in a new house, like Hogwarts for example, she had to be quiet then and now, she had to be quiet as well. Hermione hated this, she hated having to tell her lies like having to be quiet in a new house. " I'll be back with some food, OK?" she smiled at the little girl. " OK," was her reply.
She left her room, in search for the kitchen. As she made her search, she looked around the house. There was a glass window just beside her and she took a look out of it, it showed the new wing being designed and constructed. ' That's going to be mine,' Hermione thought. She carried on walking down the long stretch until she came to a flight of steps, the ones Artos led her up the last night. This house was amazing. She walked down the stairs and came to a platform. The platform was where she was the night before, with the portraits and all.
She entered the kitchen, where something smelled so delicious. ' Mmm...blueberry pancakes, my favourite,' Hermione thought as she entered the large kitchen, a large table was set in the middle of it and it was filled with food, from bread to pancakes with syrup. The others were already at the table eating. Lleu, the youngest of the four brothers', ate alot. Hermione wondered how he kept his size. He was piling pancake after pancake. He could even beat Ron!
Hermione sat down between Nicola and the Professor. He gave her a warm smile, she smiled back. Who knew Professor Snape had another side?
Well, the unexpected happens, like when her 'mother' died and when her 'father' started abusing her. Who knew that Doctor Granger, Londons most well-knowned dentist could hurt his daughter so much, she couldn't cry any more.
She made sure not to eat fast, hungry as she was. So she ate slowly, but she ate alot. The only person who seemed to realise this was Nicola. She stared at Mya with awe. Hermione was not skinny. She still had a bit of flesh, luckily but she was still thinner than other women. Nicola, on the other hand, had the body of a real women, curves at the right places, a nice height and all. The two sisters, were very pretty. Hermione was the only one with brown hair though, the other two had dark hair, almost black.
At last, she finished eating. Luckily for her, Lisel and Zacharias had just came in so they were still eating. That day was a Friday, she remembered. She wanted to ask," So, what's up for today?" but she did not in the end. She felt akward around all these people, her new family. Well, they had always been her family but she did not know it. She shifted uncomfortably in her chair, while the others were having a discussion about Quidditch, even Professor Snape participated. Mya just listened, not bothering to talk. Nicola seemed to notice her state of akwardness and said," So, what is everyone doing today?".
" Oh, we've all taken a day off to spend it with Mya," Eli replied.
" Well, that's nice but I've got to go back to Hogwarts to finish some work," Severus told them.
" Daddy...," Nicola whined. " All you do is work, you have to rest you know," she continued.
" I know but it's just for today," he told her before getting up to leave the room. Nicola stood up to hug him. ' Am I supposed to do that too?' she thought but in the end, she stayed seated, like the rest.
After Professor Snape left, she felt even more akward. She was in a room filled with people she did not know. " Can Blaise come over?" Nikki asked.
" Blaise?! As in Blaise Zambini?" Mya blurted out, they didn't seem to mind. She should have known, they were, afterall, a pureblood family. All of the pureblood families were connected somehow or other.
" Yes, Blaise Zambini, do you know him?," Eli asked.
" Yes, we're, how you say, not on very good terms and all. I, being a mudblood and all," she said without thinking. She found it a little easier to talk to them now.
" Ah but you see, you're not a mud- muggle-born witch and how dare you insult yourself!" Lleu exclaimed. Zacharias just bend his head down. Lisel put her arm around him comfortingly.
" Er, shall we go outside to talk somemore?" Lisel suggested.
" Excellent idea," the rest agreed. They stood up to leave and Hermione just followed. She made a mental note to herself to figure out this large manor. Gigalo-Granger's house was negative 20 times the size of this one. She followed them through the hallway and into some sort of a platform which over looked the grounds of the manor. It was huge. There was at least 40 hectares of land down there in the medows, including the forest and there was a Quidditch pitch with stands and all right smack in the middle of the land.
" Wow," she gasped softly.
" I know, it's beautiful," Nikki whispered. They all sat down on those large beenbags which lay on the wooden platform. " So can Blaise come over or not?" Nicola asked again, somewhat irritated.
" Only if Mya says it's OK," Artos told her. This made Hermione gain confidence. Artos actually asked if it was OK for Blaise Zambini could come over!
Nikki looked at her with pleading eyes. " I guess it's alright," Mya told her. Nikki's eyes brightened. " Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Nicola exclaimed, jumping up and down.
" He can come only after your studies," Medraut told her.
" Oh, alright but if you guys get to take a break, why can't I? I mean, afterall, it's the day after our sister's return!" she told them. Hermione felt even more wanted and welcomed like this. She was starting to settle in fast but there were so many questions needed to be asked.
" Ok, I guess that means you can have a day off from school but it also means that you'll have extra work on Monday if you want to be in 7th year with 'Mione and graduate a year earlier," Medraut told her after thinking.
" Er...school?" Mya asked. Why was Nikki at school during the summer holidays?
" Oh yes, she is home-schooled and we, Medraut and I, are like her teachers," Artos explained.
" But why isn't she schooled at Hogwarts?" Fay asked.
" Because, our father didn't want the same thing that happened to you, happen to her," Eli explained.
" Oh," Hermione said, feeling stupid. Why didn't she think of it before?
" But since Voldemort is dead and you're back, she'll be going to Hogwarts with you next term," Artos said.
" Where's Maddox?" she asked.
" Oh, he's with his nanny in the nursery," Zacharias told her, pointing at the direction of a different wing.
" OK, let me try getting all your names right," she told them, quite happy to hear that her twin was going to be going to Hogwarts with her. ' Wait until Harry and Ron hear about this!' she thought excitedly. Then it dawned on her that they were probably going to be with their girlfriends. Her face saddened.
" Go ahead," Lisel said.
" You're Lisel Mirabelle Ale- no, Blythe Ellamanda Alejandria Ethele Snape-Malfoy?" she asked
" Correct,"
" Ok, Nikki is, Nicola Adreanne Loreal Arwen Emmaleigha Goewin Snape?" she asked again.
" Correct,"
" The guys are, Artos, Medraut, Eli, Lleu and that's Zacharias," she said.
" Correct once again,"
" I'd like to ask you a question," she asked Artos.
" Shoot,"
" What's my name again?" she asked. They laughed humorously.
" Your name is Fayre Agatha Emmalynn Noelle Giselle Ebony Snape," Artos said smiling.
" Why do the girls have such long names and the guys short ones?" she asked again, it was her chance to ask all the questions.
" Well, there's another secret we haven't revealed to you yet. The girls in the pureblood families are Amazonians. Which means you are part of the Amazon Sisterhood," Lisel told her. " Do you know what they are?" Lleu asked.
" Yes, they are a Sisterhood, as you say, who have supernatural abilities such as the ablity to control the minds of others, extraordinary strength and speed...and so on but the powers have to be trained and you have to keep practicing, very few of them have their own special abilities" Hermione said, as if she was reading it from a book.
" Wow, you're good," Nikki told her, amazed.
" Thank you, so does this mean I have to train?" she asked.
" That's exactly what it means," Lleu said. Hermione whined.
" Oh, quit whining, it's though but you'll benefit from it," Artos told her. He treated her as if he had known her for years, infact, they all did. She liked it.
" Wait, if she girls are Amazonions, then the guys should be Gothikas," she said.
" You're right, we are," Lleu said.
" You know what, I didn't know Malfoy had a brother," she told Zacharias. He apparently realise how she had addressed his brother and said," Are you not on good terms with him?" he said, raising his eyebrows just like the others did.
" Erm...no we're not. He's in Slytherin and I'm in Gryfindor, our blood lines were very different until yesterday. He hates me and I hate him, easy as that," she told them as a matter-of-factly.
" No, it's not that easy," Nicola whispered. Hermione heard this.
" What do you me-," she was cut off when Artos came into the room holding two bunches of vials.
" Here you go," he passed a bunch of vials to Mya.
" Yes! Thank you! Artos, I thought you weren't going to make some fore me until you were free," Nikki exclaimed.
" What's this for?" she asked him, holding them. She examined them closely, it was a metalic silver liquid, like mercury.
" Oh, Mrs. Potts, the head maid of the house, was cleaning your room this morning and realised you had a bit of trouble with the sheets," Artos winked at her. Realisation hit her. ' Shitty Shit Shit Shit, did she see Leigha? Oh my goodness, all the explaining I'll have to do, oh no oh no oh no' she thought but covered up with a quick-
" Oh," she said, blushing.
" Neh, it's OK, this happens to Nikki all the time," Artos told her.
" Hey! It's only because you don't make that potion for me!" she exclaimed in her own defence.
" Thank goodness! No more muggle pads!" Eli exclaimed. " Those muggles look at me like I'm a freak!" Eli continued. Everyone laughed, except Hermione, who looked at him as if he was a freak. " Look at her! She even looks at me like I am one," he exclaimed again. This time, they all laughed.
" Might I ask why he complaining about muggle pads?" Hermione asked.
" Because he has to go and get them for me, they all won't let me go out to get them," Nikki told her, still laughing.
" Why won't they let you?" she asked again.
" Because, she is too young and it's dangerous!" Lleu exclaimed.
" Oh, great, you're just like Ron and his brothers," Mia said without thinking. Why was she speaking without thinking? It was probably her new family.
" Who is Ron and who are his brothers?" her brothers asked her, eyeing her closely.
" Uh oh," she whispered. The other girls just laughed. They knew she would get into trouble for saying that. " He's er...just a friend," it was true, he was just a friend.
" You have a boyfriend?!" Nikki exclaimed. The rest had their eyes wide open.
" No, he's not my boyfriend and what's wrong with my having a boyfriend anyway?" she asked them.
" Well, you see..." Nicola was going to carry on when- " OUCH! " Lisel elbowed her sister in the ribs and shook her head vigorously. She quietened down, rubbing her side.
" Hey all," Blaise who finally arrived at the manor said.
" Blaise!" Nikki exclaimed like a little girl who was going to buy a new Barbie doll. Hermione shifted nervously in her seat. He kissed Nicola's forehead and she whispered something in his ear. His eyes visibly widened.
" Hermione," he nodded to her in greeting.
She nodded and said," Zambini ". No way was she going to call him by his first name, after all he did.
" Anyway, Mya, could you sing that song that you sand last night? It was marvellous!" Lisel said, trying to break the tension.
" What song?" she inquired.
" All the pretty little horses. The one Mum used to sing to us," she said, then clasped her hands over her mouth, realising Hermione hadn't known their mother.
" Oh, don't worry. Its quite alright. I sang a song? When?" she asked.
" You know, when we discovered you," Lleu said.
" Sing me the song, I'm not sure, " she asked Lisel. She started singing, 'Hush Bye Bye....'
" I don't know that song," Hermione replied. It was a lie. A downright lie. She knew the whole song by heart but she didn't dare. It reminded her of how her 'father' used to tell her she croaked like a frog when she sang most pleasantly. Critisizing her in every possible aspect, at first, she thought it wasn't true, that he was just jealous.
Jealous of what? She used to then think and soon, it sunk into her. That she was far from perfect. Far from the smartest girl at Hogwarts since Rowena Ravenclaw. Her grades never slipped but her sanity was hanging on brittle hairs, the ones on Leigha's little head.
The day passed rather smoothly except for a few times where Hermione would misteriously disappear to her room and come back again. She had learnt a little about everyone though, Artos was an expert in Potions and Defence Against the Dark Arts. Medraut in Charms and Potions, and he also happened to be a phsycologist. Eli was a doctor at St. Mungo's. Lleu was an expert at Quidditch, he was one of the best players of the English Quidditch team. Zacharias worked at the Ministry as an Auror, Hermione was surprised that he wasn't a deatheater. Lisel was the mother of Maddox, who was two and Nikki was just like any other teenage girl, boy crazy but she was somewhat sensible.