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Chapter Three

Boxes

"Ms. Malfoy, are you in there?"

She heard a voice that wanted to wake her up. She tried to ignore it.

"Ms. Malfoy? Are you in there? Are you up?"

She couldn't ignore it. The noise was getting louder.

Ms. Malfoy, it's time for breakfast."

"I'm here William. I'll take a shower and get dressed before I have breakfast. Thank you for waking me up, I didn't realize how long I'd slept in." Malia said. She glanced at the clock it read 9:00am.

"No problem Ms. Malfoy. As soon as you're ready, come down for some breakfast," and with that he left.

Malia got up. She was tired. She hadn't had a good night's sleep for a long time, with studying for exams, and then a party, and then looking through some of her parents' old things. The place she'd slept at last night wasn't even remotely comfortable, on top of a box on the floor of her bedroom.

She decided to go put her things in one of her cabinets in her bedroom, so none of the house elves or maids would know what she was looking at or discovering what she was finding out.

She took a quick shower, dried off, and got dressed, then went down to the kitchens for breakfast.

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'This is odd' he thought. Usually breakfast is the time I see Malia, but she's not down here yet. 'Oh well, I guess she might be sleeping still she probably is still tired from coming home. I'll get William to wake her up later.'

Draco Malfoy sat at his dining table eating his breakfast, and reading the Daily Prophet. According to the Prophet, there had been a robbery down in Egypt, which was unheard of until now. Draco was shocked, the goblins that worked down there were obviously not happy, he could tell by their faces in the picture, they looked even more grumpier then they did before. The funny thing was that the article was all about how something got stolen, and they wouldn't reveal what that something had actually been.

He looked through the rest of the paper, and wasn't surprised to see that there wasn't much else going on with the wizarding world. There were, he noticed, many ads that were about things to do, see or buy over the summer.

He finished his breakfast and then decided that it was time for him to get to work. He put on his coat, and got his briefcase, told William what he wanted for dinner that night, and then went to the house's apparating room, and left for work.

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Malia went down and started eating her breakfast. She had some cereal, and then started to go back up to her room. She was just so interested in what else was in that box. She decided before she got to her room, to go get the other boxes that were in the room, the two boxes that had been underneath the one she'd already taken, she wanted to know if there was anything interesting in them.

She got to the room and took one of the boxes, then went quietly back to her room. She set the box down, shut the door and went to get the other box. Before she picked up the last box, she went over to see if anything, any papers, or something were there, that might've fallen out when she took the boxes. She found nothing. She picked up the last box, which she thought was the heaviest, and took it back to her room.

She took both of the boxes and put them in her closet. Malia had a large walk-in closet that was very long and somewhat narrow. In the very front there were a couple of cabinets where she could store personal items, and other things. It was charmed to fit whatever she wanted into them. 'That's where I'll hide the boxes,' she thought.

She decided to keep the heaviest box out, just to see what made it weigh so much. She opened the box and gasped. It was a huge, framed picture of her father, and what she knew had to be her mother. There were other things inside the box, but they didn't matter to her at the moment. She was wearing a very simple white wedding dress, and he was wearing black wedding robes.

In the picture, her mother stood in front of her father with his arms wrapped around her. Her father would try to kiss her mother, while she would playfully lean away so he'd only be able to kiss her on the cheek.

Her mother was practically glowing. Her father looked like she'd never seem him before, he was laughing he was smiling and he was playing around. For the first time in her life, she saw him truly happy.

Malia was starting to cry. She finally had seen what her mother looked like. Malia noticed everything about her, her face, her body, her smile, her eyes, and just noticing every detail about her. Basically all her features looked just like her mother's.

She took the picture into her bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror, and then her mother in the picture over and over again. They could've passed for twins if they had wanted to. They only thing that wouldn't have made them identical were their eyes and their hair. Her mother's eyes were a golden brown color, and Malia's were silvery gray, just like her father's. Her mother's hair she noticed, was a much darker, deeper, and fuller auburn color while hers was just a light shade of red that had some natural blonde highlights in it, which she also assumed were from her father.

She went back into her room and sat on her bed. She just stared at the picture, trying to take in everything about her mother. She looked at her mother and father again. They just looked so happy, and then it hit her.

She looked exactly like her mother. That's why her father barely looked at her! Because she looked so much like the woman he'd loved; the woman he'd lost.

She decided that she wanted to know more about her parent's relationship, so she took the picture and put it in her cabinet, and took out the first box and started to look through it for a second time.

She looked at her parents' wedding certificate again. Her mother could not have been more then a year or two older then her in the picture. But she didn't know when her mother's birthday was, so she wasn't sure. She noticed that she had been born on august eleventh, two days before their anniversary, which was on august thirteenth.

One thing that she was confused at was why they got married in August. She knew from her father's birthday, that they had just graduated from Hogwarts. If they had just graduated, then why didn't they get married in late June or early July, right after they'd gotten out of school?

While she was looking at the certificate, she realized she had overlooked something. The detail she'd over looked surprised her, shocked her, but above all confused her. Her parents had not been married in England.

There was something else in her story that was a mistake, but she didn't know it yet. The flaw in her story of their relationship would yet again, leave her with more questions then answers.

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I'm done with another chapter. This one seemed out of the three so far, the easiest to write. I think you can understand why. Sorry it took so long to post it up, my computer was and still is being stupid and annoying.

So, anyone know what the flaw is? I don't exactly how obvious it is, so I just felt like asking. Please don't give it away in the review, I'd like my readers to be in suspense, but you could give me a hint at what you think it is.

So does anyone have any ideas what else I could put in the boxes? I have one thing that I know is going to be in the boxes, but I wanted to know if you guys had any ideas, that I could possibly put in to the story.

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