Working On It Chapter 2, a harry potter fanfic

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Chapter 2:

Dear Diary,

Well Dinner was quite interesting last night. Sorry I didn't right this after dinner but I was really tired. But I have come to this conclusion: I really am a Malfoy. I'm not entirely sure I like it though. My Mother is actually a lot nicer then I would have imagined. I also believe that it will take awhile for me and Draco to be more . . . open with each other. My Father however . . . I'm not sure anymore. I've been told he is very heartless and cruel but if that's the case then why would he give me the cure for my disease? Or try to save me when I was a baby? So I'm not really sure anymore. We did decide though that I had to decide what day I come over next week and when I change my appearance. And that I have decided earlier when I woke up. I'm going to go tomorrow. I know it's soon but I don't think I'm really going to be able to put up with my foster parents anymore. So I'm going to tap into my Gryffindor bravery and go tomorrow. I'm going over to Ginny's today. Today's the day that me, her, and Dreea decided two weeks ago to get together. We decided today because Dreea got back from Italy two days ago visiting her aunt and she unpacked yesterday. I just hope that they understand. Well I know Dreea will because she has no history with the Malfoys but Ginny . . . She told me a little about something that happened to her in her first year a while ago. Something about my dad putting a journal that mad her do weird things in her stuff. I don't really see Hermione over the summer so I'm going to tell her when we get back. I hope that she too doesn't hate me. Those three are really my best friends, I don't know what I'll do if they end up hating me. Well anyway I've got to go meet them in Diagon Ally.

Maura

Maura sighed as she closed the book. She really ought to stop writing things then sighing. Anyway she then got up and went to her dresser. She still had an hour till she had to leave and she was already ready to leave. Instead of leaving and sitting at the Three Broomsticks for an hour she decided to start packing for tomorrow. She had already owled her parents and told them she was coming tomorrow but they didn't receive a reply yet.On her dresser she placed her Dairy and then moved her trunk from against the wall in the corner of her room toward her dresser.She was able to pack all of her clothes before an owl came flying through her window. The owl gave her and envelope with Maura on the front of it. She noticed that there was the Malfoy seal so she figured it was the response of coming tomorrow. So she then opened it.

Maura

We are all very glad that you have decided to come to the manor tomorrow. We have not yet finished your room yet but we do have a solution. You will stay in the guest quarters your first night and then we can finish your room together the next day. It will be lots of fun my dear. Unfortunately we will have to do it after your first night because your father has some very important meetings tomorrow and I have to go visit my cousin for some family matters around noon so I will be there for an hour after you arrive. But don't worry dear you and Draco will be alright alone with the house elves. I have already informed him that you two will be alone so you may if you wish invite a friend over. I can't wait for you to come to the manor.

With Love, Your Mother

Alone with Draco! Maura did not take the news very well. Why on Earth did I pick tomorrow! I always chose the wrong thing in school and home. Well at least I can invite someone over. Maybe if Ginny's still my friend after I tell her she'll come. Wait a minute. Maura glanced at the clock. It was 12:05. GREAT! Just great! I'm late!

Maura quickly got up and grabbed her bag with her galleons and ran downstairs. She then ran into the fireplace when she realized. She forgot to grab the floo powder. Great. Got out of the fireplace and went to the other side of the room on an end table to get it. Once she was in the fireplace again with her handful of powder she threw it down and yelled "Diagon Ally!"

Once Maura was at Diagon Ally went through the crowds of people toward the Three Broomsticks. By the time she got there it was 12:15. She went inside and looked around for her friends. They just had to pick the back of the room. She then started to notice a group of people that they were looking toward and talking about most likely. When she looked to see who they were looking at she couldn't believe it. Draco Malfoy, her brother and some of his Slytherin friends were three tables away from where they were sitting. Great. Just another great for my great day. Why did he have to come today!

He however hadn't yet noticed her. So maybe she was more luck then she thought. She then sat down in an empty seat next to Ginny. "So nobody's going to say hello to me?" Maura said after they hadn't said anything to her for a couple minutes. They were still looking toward her brother and whispering something.

"Hey Maura! Thought you weren't going to show for a while." Dreea for the first nine years of her life was in America and she still had a very strong American accent, she just never got into the English accent that much, unlike her brother Alex.

"Hello Maura. Have you heard anything like a rumor about the Malfoys?" Ok maybe she didn't have more luck then sh thought.

"No why?" Did they hear a rumor about her being a Malfoy? Or the people staring at them at the restaurant spreading rumors about last night?

"Nothing really it's just that Malfoy was acting really strange. I mean, he looked at us and didn't even bother coming over and annoying us like he always does in school or that time we meet here last year." So that's what it was. It had nothing to do with her.

"So how are your summers so far?" She decided to try to change the subject to something other than her brother. Hopefully they wouldn't notice like her brother didn't notice when she came in.

"Fine. The Burrow is as crazy as ever but other than that nothings really happened. Dreea how was Italy?" Maura remembered how crazy the Burrow was last summer when she ad Dreea stayed over for a couple days before their fifth year. She had no clue how Ginny isn't crazy or the rest of the Weasley family for that matter. Maura knew she would go insane way before now.

"Italy was awesome." Over the years that they knew Dreea they were finally able to translate almost all of her American slang. They also sometimes used it themselves but not very often. Dreea the went on telling them about how she went to both muggle and wizarding Rome.

"Maura how is your summer." Now this she didn't think of when she changed the subject to summers. This was just another great to add to her great day.

"Well I've been meaning to tell you a couple of things that happened to me so far this summer. Well first off remember when I told you I was adopted?" When they both nodded looking confused she continued. "I found out who my real parents are."

"Are they wizards? Do you have siblings?" Ginny asked her. The second question she really didn't want to answer truthfully.

"Well yes they are. I was forced to go eat dinner with them last night even though I didn't really want to but it turned out ok. Hey do you guys want to go shopping now?" She said as she was trying to change the subject again and get up. Where did that Gryffindor bravery go when she needed it?

"No." Ginny pulled Maura back down into her seat. "Now answer my other question because it sounds to me like your avoiding it." Why was Ginny always right on target?

"Yes."

"Yes what?" Dreea just sat on the other side of Ginny watching the two. Even though she wanted to know as well she still found it quite amusing to watch.

"Yes. I have an older brother."

"How much older is he? Does he or did he go to Hogwarts? Wait. I just thought of something. What's your name now?" And there it was. The one question she did not want to answer.

"Well, he is one year older than me and going to Hogwarts." Hopefully they would forget about the other question.

"What about your name?" Great. Just another great.

"Maura." There. She didn't lie to them. They never asked for her last name.

"Maura stop fooling around and tell us already." Ginny was getting impatient. Now she had to tell them. Here it goes.

"Maura mmlmmefermsmsoy" Or not.

"What?" Dreea was getting impatient as well and that's not a good sign at all because she will get you to say anything when she is impatient.

"Maura Malfoy." Maura said it so that they could barely hear it and so that anyone around couldn't hear. Not that that was really a problem because the only other people in the place were three tables away.

"What? Are you sure?" Ginny said just as quietly. She couldn't believe it. Who could believe that one of their best friends was all of a sudden the sister of her 'enemy?'

"Yeah. I couldn't believe it either when I first found out. And then right after that my foster parents told me that I had to go eat dinner at some restaurant with them the next day. They are also going to America so I have to go live with the Malfoys the rest of the summer. Since its already August 7 its not much more but I still have to go. And that's not the last of it my appearance is going to change too! They told me that there is some spell on me to hide who I really am. The only good thing about being a Malfoy is that I get to stay in Gryffindor."Maura didn't realize that she had said all that until after she said it. Luckily she didn't say it loud enough for people at the table three tables down from them to hear.

"Maura, your telling me you're a Malfoy and in Gryffindor? They're not making you get resorted?" Didn't I just say that?

"Yeah. My Mother told me that its like- well how you and Alex are." Maura friend to explain it to them. "You know how like your whole family is in Ravenclaw but you are different because that's the way you are."

"Ohhhhhh I get it." Dreea was just one of those people who are just dense sometimes.

"You guys are still my friends even though I'm a Malfoy right?" She was pretty sure Dreea was still her friend but Ginny hadn't really said anything since she told both of them that she was a Malfoy.

"Well of course we are right Ginny?"

"Well..." WELL! Well what? When Ginny saw the look on Maura's face she laughed. "Of course I am! It's like you said. Your still you no matter what your last name is or you meant something like that when you were talking about Dreea and Alex. I just hope that you can promise me two things."

"What?" Maura and Dreea asked at the same time.

"First that you'll let me still not like your family. And second that you promise that you won't turn into one of them." After Ginny finished she and Dreea laughed.

"Deal." Maura said and held out her hand which Ginny shook.

"Well that explains it." Dreea all of a sudden said.

"Explains what?" Maura asked her. What on Earth could she be talking about?

"Why Malfoy didn't annoy us today."

"Why?" Maura and Ginny were still confused. Why wouldn't her annoy them now?

"Because we're your friends. He must be trying to get on your good side for something." That was when she remembered that tomorrow she would be alone with Draco. Maura groaned and looked down onto the table.

"What is it?" Ginny asked. She had no clue why her friend was all of a sudden acting like that.

"I just remembered when I move to the manor tomorrow my mother won't be there long because she has to leave to visit her cousin and my Father has to go to meetings all day. That leaves me and Draco there alone." Maura then looked up. "Wait she said I could invite someone to sleep over." Maura then looked at the two hopeful.

"Sorry Maura, I have to go to my cousins tomorrow for his birthday party." Dreea almost always had something going on. First Italy now a party in less then a week apart. Maura nodded then looked to Ginny who sighed.

"I'll ask my Mom. Plus if I come I'll get away from the madness of the burrow. But I'm telling you now that we're not at school so if Malfoy bothers me I will not hesitate to kick him." Good old Ginny. A smile lit up on Maura's face.

"Great! Now that all of that is settled let's go shopping!" Maura said excitedly. She had no clue why she was worried they wouldn't want to be her friend anymore. The three of them then got up and left the Three Broomsticks for the many stores of Diagon Ally. She just now hoped that everything would be ok tomorrow at the manor. But at the moment she was going to forget everything about being a Malfoy and take a what she thought was a well deserved break with her best friends.

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