Author's Note: Okay, you, I hope that you enjoy it. The quote in this chapter is from the Diana Hoh series Nightmare Hall. I hope that you enjoy this chapter.
Chapter Three: Lesson in Leaving
I watched until the Malfoys were out of sight before turning towards my parents. I had just opened my mouth to ask the question when my father cut me off.
"Please, Mollie, we'll talk about this when we get home. Not in front of strangers." Don't get me wrong, I love my parents and all, but I knew that they had done something stupid again. I pretty much had my guesses, but I hoped that I was wrong. Silently we got on the broom and flew home, for the last time, my heart told me.
As soon as we got home, my parents instructed the house elves not to interrupt us, and they lead me into the sitting room. Usually the sitting room was only for important guests, like the Malfoys', so I knew that it had to be serious.
I turned towards my parents and asked them the question. "What exactly did it cost you to get me engaged to Draco Malfoy? It had to have been a lot because he is the most sought after boy in the entire wizarding world. Com on, face it, the Starres' aren't exactly first choice. Why me? Why not someone like Pansy Parkinson? What did it cost?"
My mother and father shared a look. I knew at this moment that my worst nightmare had in fact come true. My father turned to me to explain, "Mollie, please understand. You are the most important person in our lives. To have you engaged to Draco Malfoy is an honor that we wanted you to have. It is nothing really serious…"
At that moment I cut off my father, "Please tell me that you didn't sell yourselves for me. Please tell me that the promised price wasn't your lives. Please tell me that and I will be quite content. Please tell me that I will see you again."
"I am sorry, Mollie. We wanted you to be happy. We wanted you to have the fame and glory that no one but Draco Malfoy could give you. We wanted you to have a life," my father tried to explain.
"You sacrificed yourself for me," I said, barely managing to keep control of myself. I reminded myself that Starres' don't loose their self-control. "Why didn't you have another child to continue that family line? Why only me?"
My mother spoke for the first time since coming home, "The contract said that by a month after you had gone to Hogwarts, we must depart from this life. We were not allowed to have another child to continue the Starre line. Do you know how many times I had to have an abortion so that you could marry Draco Malfoy and live a happy life?"
"Please tell me that you didn't do that for me. Please."
My mother continued, "Five times, Mollie. Five children that should have lived never did for you. I hope that you are happy. We sacrificed everything for you. Don't you dare throw it back in our faces!"
I cried inside. I wanted to die right then. I never had five siblings. I was the reason that my family was going through this. I really ought to die. Suddenly I remember the prologue from some muggle book I had once read:
'You think that people are stupid. You think they act like sheep. You do all kinds of things to see if they'll notice. If they'll stop you.'
'How do you know that?'
'Because it's true.'
'And it was true. Sadly true. Frighteningly true. Deliciously true. People would do whatever you told them to do. They'd rather go along with the crowd then look foolish. Fit in rather then stand out and risk the possibility of embarrassment.
'They'd die before they let someone else think they were stupid.
'Which made them really stupid.
'Really, really stupid.
'So stupid they deserved to die.'
My parent's are so stupid that they are going to die. I hated that. I couldn't stand to look at them. All I could do was plan my revenge. And revenge would be sweet, it would be a bitch, but it would be sweet.
"Mollie, remember, even the stars cry from time to time." My mother cracked her last lame joke.
The thought of that brought tears to my eyes and I ran upstairs to my bedroom, to cry myself to sleep in a most un-Slytherin type fashion. All alone in the world.
Author's Note: This is the last chapter that I will put up until my teacher let up on the homework for a bit, which might be sooner they expected. I hope that you enjoy it. The next chapter features the train ride to Hogwarts. Please review. Thank you.