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Chapter 3
Stunned into silence, Ebony swallowed hard, her long chestnut hair falling around her, acting as a veil, hiding her features from the blonde boy who had lagged behind his father and turned to her. "Don't worry," he mocked, "we won't whip you…too hard!" laughing hard at his own joke, he strode away quickly to catch up with his father. Sitting on the floor gave Ebony the time she needed to sort out the events that had just happened, 'shit.' She swore 'muggle…pale man, blonde boy…either someone's playing a really well planned joke, or the wizarding world is real and…'she paused, her eyes growing wide at the thoughts in her head, 'I've just been sold to the Malfoy's!'
Struggling to her feet, Ebony went to find her step-mother, safe in the knowledge that this was JUST the sort of thing her step-mother would do, 'typical,' she thought, 'here I was thinking evil step-mothers only existed in fairy stories…oh wait, there ARE such things as faeries aren't there! And I'll probably discover that all the stories are actually true…I wouldn't really be surprised…not after what I just witnessed!'
Ebony found her step-mother in the corridor outside her room, "WHAT are you doing near my room?" Ebony demanded as she roughly pushed past her step-mother into her room. Grabbing a bag, she began to thrust photos of her friends, her mother, her step-father and her real father into her it as she sifted through clothes in her wardrobe and drawers, hoping she would be allowed to wear her own clothes and keep her things. She was so busy sorting things to put into her bag that she didn't realise there was someone behind her until she felt a hand on her shoulder, forgetting where she was, Ebony grabbed the person's forearm and twisted it over her head as she dropped to the floor, the person flew over her head and onto the carpeted floor a couple of feet away from her, 'not bad,' she thought 'considering I haven't done that for at least a year…' Stalking up to the person collapsed on her floor, Ebony realised it was her step-mother and grinned, she had deserved that, after making Ebony's life a living hell for 9 years, 10, if you included before she moved in with Ebony and her father. Her step-mother grunted and shifted position as Ebony once again grabbed her arm, but this time she helped her up onto her bed. Grabbing her step-mother's chin she forced her to look into her dark eyes, 'like coal pits' her step-mother thought shivering. "Look," began Ebony, "I don't know HOW you've done it," her step-mother opened her mouth, "ah ah ah! I don't WANT to know how you did it Darla, I really don't care, all I want to know is how to back out of this idiotic slave market and why the hell you did it!" Her gaze bore into Darla like a poker, and almost as an afterthought she added "oh yes, and how much did you pay for me?"
Heeeey, can you totally tell at the time I was basing this on my relationship with my own stepmother? Heh, turns out nothings changed in THAT department for the past year and a half!
