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Ta-dah! Wahoo! Chapter Two, earlier that I thought I d have it up. I don't even have any reader yet…well no reviewer. Here is the emotional crap. I like the idea, it has to be there but I don't think I wrote this well. Leave a review. Remember Flameslaughter. You cannot hurt my feeling. And for the Review depend on the rest of the story crap? No way! I've worked to hard NOT to finish this!

Chapter 2: Boyfriend

Aludra awoke to the velvety darkness in her, completely awake as though someone had yelled in her ear. Sweating slightly, she sat up her eyes searching her room for the source of disturbance. What had woken her up? It was something. 'Nothing,' she thought with relief, See? Nothing there, you're just getting jumpy over nothing at...…' But then she froze with fright. She'd heard something…but what could it be? Immediately, she thought of Death Eaters, and froze again. What if they've come to recruit her mother, she thought, now completely terrified. Aludra was sure her mother would never go over to the Dark side, she was too compassionate. She wasn't the type. A new thought calmed her. Her mother's a muggleborn. How had she forgotten so quickly? Where was her mother anyway? Was she still in her bedroom?

Aludra climbed out the bed and crossed the room to the door. Her hand was on the doorknob when she heard it again. She stopped dead in her tracks. What if she was asleep still? Maybe it was all a dream. Her mother always told her not to go to bed angry. But a very hard and painful pinch on her forearm, quite knocked down this theory. She stepped out into the dark hall. Nothing unusual. What had that noise been then? It sounded sort of like a door closing, but it was muffled. Aludra tiptoed down the hall toward the stairs, her panic increasing with every step. Her mother's room was on the other side of the stairway. She could run over there. Aludra took a deep breath, preparing to rush past the head of the stairs, but then realized how childish that sounded.

'C'mon! Are you about to be fifteen or about to be five!' she scolded herself furiously. Aludra started to turn on her heel and march right back to her room, feeling foolish, but then she heard a strange sound, a horribly familiar sound, which she hadn't heard all summer, from the darkness below the stairs. Her mother's voice. And she was giggling. Giggling!

Aludra had to use every bit of self restraint she had to stop from shouting out. Disbelief flowed through her. What was her mother doing giggling when she had been so melancholy and moody all summer? She crept nearer to the stairs, and crouched down so she wouldn't be seen. What was making her mother laugh, she asked herself quietly, and her answer came right away.

"Lower you voice Adhara, you'll wake your daughter" came a man's smooth voice from the first floor. Aludra almost fell over. A man? A man was here in her house with her mother? 'Oh this is not happening' she thought. Then disbelief turned rapidly to anger and frustration. How dare she go and get a boyfriend, and she hadn't spoken to Aludra in weeks! What was her problem! Aludra leaned forward and strained her ears, but she hadn't needed to; she could hear perfectly fine from the top of the stairs. Her mother laughed unsteadily and loudly again.

"What is she, drunk?" Aludra whispered to herself, quite appalled. Her mother, Adhara Major, was drunk? This was not happening, it just wasn't happening. Her mother, her almost perfect, nice, charitable mother, was drunk? Then, quite loudly, she heard a series of sounds that sounded sort of like….

"Oh my God," she breathed, her hands flying to her mouth in the dark.

This was not her mother. This was not her mother. Her mother didn't drink and...And snogged men she hardly knew in her living room! The sound grew louder, and was followed, with more of that insane stupid giggling. An insurmountable amount of pressure was building inside Aludra. She was disgusted and angry. Her mother was supposed to be in her room, wallowing in her self pity, not out drinking! Aludra had never felt so…so…mad.

"Oh, Reese, stop that tickles!" Her mother's unsteady, giddy voice floated up to her, and Aludra lost what restraint she still had. She got to her feet. She could feel the waves of anger radiating from her. She was surprised she wasn't practically glowing in the dark right now. Aludra leaned as far as she could over the stair rail, and swallowed. Her throat felt as dry as sandpaper.

"Mom!" said Aludra loudly. Immediately, the kissing sounds ceased and there was one of the tensest silences in the whole of Aludra's life. Then light spilled into the room, and Aludra backed away from the rail, squinting down into the previously pitch black living room.

And there stood her mother, her t-shirt hanging off one shoulder, and the expression of somebody who just got caught on her face. Her dark brown hair was mussed and she had her arms wrapped around a tall man. The man had a brutal, heavy face. His eyes were dark blue-black, cold and piercing and his hair was white blond and pulled back into a tight ponytail. He had a muscular build, and as he looked Aludra in the eyes, she suddenly felt small and intimidated. And unlike her mother, who now looked completely lost for words and was staring at her feet apprehensively, this man showed not one sign of shame. In fact, he looked at Aludra quite gallantly, and seemed amused. But this did nothing to neither soften nor break Aludra's anger and rage. She didn't truly care; she never did when she was angry. She was foolishly brave and headstrong, so unlike her mother who didn't act rash and crazy when she was mad, or anytime else. Maybe she got it from her father….

"Ah, this must be Aludra," said the man bowing shortly and straightening up. His voice was deep, and it held a sort of commanding tone. Aludra walked calmly down the stairs, never dropping her gaze, for the man was still staring at her with a most satisfied and amusing look upon his face. She didn't know who he was, but she knew one thing; she didn't like him one bit. There was something about him…an aura of…suspicion, she guessed. But she didn't like him, not one bit.

"Adhara has told me so much about you," he said smoothly, yet his voice still sounded sharp and rough, like a slow growl of a dog. Adhara didn't say anything nor even looked up. Aludra finally dropped her gaze to look at her mother, anger growing more and more prominent with every sign of weakness her mother showed. Her mother still stared at her feet. Then she glanced up at the man, who smiled with crooked teeth in he thought was an encouraging, warming loud. But it did not in the least looked warming to Aludra. It looked more like a sneer. And Aludra realized there was an aura of danger, really, more than there was suspicion. Though, her mother didn't see it though, because she gave a smile back and looked at Aludra, however apprehensively.

"Err…Aludra...I…" Aludra glared at her viciously, and her mother backed down, and looked pleadingly at the man, who gave the fake sneering smile to Aludra, who in turn, glared at him too. She wanted to hear what they had to say before she started to yell. But she wasn't really sure she could last that long…

"What your beautiful mother is trying to explain, Aludra," the man said still giving her a cheesy smile that probably wouldn't fool a five year old. "Is that when she stepped out tonight, she didn't intend to be gone long. She was feeling a bit down, and seemed to need a pick me up. I happened to be out at the time also, and when I saw her, well," he said shooting her mother a sly smile with those crooked teeth of his.

"I was simply obliged to buy her drink. I had never seen anyone so beautiful!"

Personally, Aludra thought amused for a moment, if that wasn't the corniest story she'd ever heard, she didn't know what was. But Aludra looked at her mother who was smiling up at that man with such a look of adoration, her anger rose right back up again. 'She has officially lost her mind' she thought furiously with slight disbelief, She's mental!

Adhara caught the look in Aludra's eyes, and immediately began to stammer, her eyes pleading.

" Aludra, I didn't mean to be gone long...I really didn't, truthfully…really I didn't…its just that Reese had asked if he could buy me a drink…really I only meant to be an hour…" But Aludra shot her another look full of contempt and she quieted,looking at the so called "Reese" looking helpless.

"Dear child! I'm sure you can forgive her this once," he said incredulously that stupid smile still on his face. "You, of all people, her own daughter haven't noticed how beautiful your mother is! I was quite surprised to hear she wasn't married, I was sure she would be! Don't be angry with her, I'd hate for that to happen."

"Don't you tell me not to be angry with my mother! I have every right to be!' Aludra said suddenly, not really realizing what she was saying. She was caught up in her anger and rage, the anger and rage that had been building non-stopping over the last three weeks.

"Aludra!" her mother said, her voice sharp suddenly, but Reese held a hand up and she shut up immediately. His face seemed even more amused than it had been, and he smiled at Aludra, not the cheesy stupid smile, but a truly amused smile and he let out a short, derisive laugh.

"I see what going on here now! You're not angry your mother was out and left you alone. You're upset because she was with me! Because she has a boyfriend now? You want your mother to yourself, don't you?" he said

"I do not!" shouted Aludra, folding her arms. "I'm not selfish!" Her voice went up an octave as she said it and she knew how young and stupid she must sound. Her mother's eyes went round as saucers and Reese leaned in toward her mother, and said quietly, but just loud enough to for Aludra to hear,

"Don't worry, Adhara. It's common with children who have single parents. They think they are losing their parent to someone else. She should've grown out of this buy now, though, almost fifteen already! She should have realized you would've met someone by now…."

"I don't give a damn about who you go out with," said Aludra coolly, glaring in their direction. "Especially if you go and pick up Death Eaters like," she jerked a thumb at Reese "like that" She didn't know what made her say ; it just seemed to her that he was worthy of that particular insult…

Her mother gasped and paled and Reese stopped smiling and looked furious, and dangerous; then a moment later, the fake smile returned,

"Now you don't mean that! You just haven't met me properly is all! I'm Reese Yaxley, since the subject of names was momentarily forgotten..." he said grinning, but Aludra cut him off sharply.

"I don't give a damn who you are!" Aludra shouted, and then she turned to her mother who seemed torn between anger and afraid. Aludra felt her eyes start to sting, and tears start to fall unwillingly.

"Why Mum? Why are you doing this to me? I …wish I could live with my father…whoever he is, wherever he is, its better being here, ignored with you!" Aludra said pleadingly, and with that she saw her mother's stunned and hurt expression, turned on her heel and ran back up the stairs. She felt Yaxley's eyes follow her all the way to her bedroom, where she slammed the door, tears pouring already. She looked at the photos on the little bedside table.

"What had happened? What had happened to us, to me, to her? Why aren't we happy like we used to be?" she wondered out loud. She received no answer and in one swift movement, she grabbed the picture of her mother and she threw against the wall. The glass shattered around her, making a noise that sounded like gunfire to her. Aludra sank to the ground sobbing as she never had. That man was right, she thought with terrible certainty, except I don't think I'm losing her. I am! I am losing her! And she is all I have….

And this horrible thought filled her with guilt and stayed put in her mind as she cried, laying amid the broken glass and the waving picture of her mother. And eventually she fell asleep, but it was a long time before her mother stopped crying, as a cat cried in the bright moonlight.

Ha-ha! Good or fair? I love the next chapter, totally more interesting. Features a lot of this Reese man, who if you don't know why that last name sound familiar, you are not as obsessed as I am. Read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince over.

Should be up in a few weeks!

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