Title-Arrogance and Animosity
Author-IvyCreed6
Editor- Sotsumi ... finally...
Note from the Author-I am so sorry for my lack of posting. I have really really bad writer's block right now and I don't know how to get rid of it….Also I have had a lot of school work. I have been so busy you would not believe.
queenofthefairies – Yes she has wonderful taste and yes there is a dash of grease. For flavor ya know?XD
An Aspiring Author- Don't' worry this chappie should be very long
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Disclaimer- I do not own Harry Potter or any of his relatives.
Chapter 12- In which the Ball begins
"Any questions you've always wanted answered?"
Amelia laughed. "Oh yeah I have several."
Osahar motioned for her to speak. "The please ask away."
"Your name is Osahar and judging by your appearance does that mean I'm Eg-"
"Egyptian? Yes you are half Egyptian. Amelia Nefertari Tau Weller."
"Nefertari?" Amemlia asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, Your middle name. It means The most beautiful."
"My mother always said it mean Nancy."
" Well that is the name we gave you at your birth." He said with a shrug.
"Okay then…Do I have any siblings from you?"
He shook his head. "I haven't met another woman yet."
"Why did you leave me?" Amelia asked too nervous to look straight in her father's eyes.
She heard a heavy sigh from across the table, one that was full of pain and sadness.
"Mia…you have to believe that this wasn't easy for me or for your mother. She wanted a normal life with children who had two parents who loved each other. I work for Gringotts in Egypt your mother and I married young out of school and during the time I was away we…." His words trailed off letting silence settle.
"You grew apart?" Amelia offered looking up at him.
He nodded slowly. "Before you were born she told me about George Weller. They worked together and while I was gone…" He looked as if trying to choose his words carefully.
"They developed a relationship."
"She was having an affair." Amelia added darkly. All this time her mother had made it out like her father was the bad guy.
Osahar grabbed her hand. "Yes, but there is one thing I know you are my daughter no matter what happened while I was gone I know that."
Amelia swallowed hard a lumped forming in her throat. "I know…."
"And you must believe that I have wanted to see you. Now that you're about to come of age I want you to know it's your choice on whether or not I can be in your life."
Amelia locked eyes with him. They looked so much alike everything about herself she could see in him something she'd always longed to see in her mother but couldn't.
"I want to see you again…"
Amelia was drawn from her thoughts as a hand clamped onto her shoulder.
"Mia you okay?"
Amelia looked up at Lily and smiled. "I'm great."
"Did he show up?"
Amelia nodded and Lily returned the smile hugging her tightly. "I'm so happy for you."
"Me too…"
"Hey it's a love fest! Why did you start before I got here?" Amanda asked entering with Frank.
"Because you and Frank were having a private love fest behind GladRags." Hannah teased walking up brushing snow out of her hair.
Amanda stuck her tongue out at Hannah while Frank merely blushed red.
"Well we're supposed to be heading back up to the Castle now. Mia you'd better go get a costume before it closes."
"I won't take long. My dad gave me an idea."
Lily stood before the mirror adjusting her costume and inspecting her hair. She'd taken forever to curl it at everything.
"Lils you look so beautiful." Hannah said coming up behind her the red cape she wore swishing.
Lily smiled. "You look adorably dangerous, Han."
Han looked down at her Little Red Riding Hood costume and shrugged. "I like it… It's Little Red who can kick butt." She agreed holding up the "blood- covered" axe that went along with the costume.
"Hey has anybody seen Mia?" Amanda asked appearing in her pink Snow White dress.
She'd put her dark black hair in an elaborate twist with creamy light pink pearls pinned in.
"Oh 'Manda you look beautiful." Lily said looking at her friend who blushed.
"I hope Frank likes it."
"Like it? Frank won't be able to take his eyes off of you." Hannah agreed grinning.
"Mia!" Lily clalled seconds later She poked her head out the bathroom door.
"Go on down stairs without me okay? This costume is complicated."
"Need help?"
"Nope!" Then she disappeared again.
"Wormtail hurry up!" Sirius called his cape was similar to that of Hannah's except instead of a dress beneath it he wore gladiator armor.
When getting the costume he declared himself. "Emperor of Mischief."
This did not bode well to Remus.
"Hey Moony where's your costume?" Sirius asked as Remus, who was indeed wearing a werewolf costume, approached.
"You're hilarious Padfoot, a real riot." Remus answered calmly.
"Love the irony." James said nodding.
Peter entered the room without a costume.
"Wormtail what have you been doing all this time? Where is your costume?"
"I don't know what I should be…" He answered with a whimper.
Sirius and James exchanged glances.
"Oh we have some ideas…"
The Great Hall glittered with hundereds of carved pumpkins and spider webs covered the walls. The lights around the dance floor were dimmed slightly making the castle look
Even creepier than usual.
At the top os the swooping stair case the lights were on.
Lily looked at a group of giggling girls who were meeting up with a group of guys, whom she assumed were their dates. Her emerald eyes scanned the crowd at the bottom of the stairs looking for Andre.
"Oh here's Frank, I'll see you girls later!" Amanda waved goodbye as Frank, looking extremely charming in his Prince costume came and took her arm.
"Shall we go Milady?"
Amanda grinned. "Yes, let's." She replied and they slowly walked down the stairs together. Lily watched her for a bit before Hannah left after seeing Violet and several other Quidditch players.
Lily sighed looking around for Andre.
'Where could he be?' She thought glancing around, finally after waiting for a few more minutes Lily went down the stairs alone. When she reached the bottom she was nearly knocked over by somebody sliding down the stair rail.
"Hey watch where you're- Oh Hi Andre." She smiled.
Andre was breathless. "Sorry I was late." He offered his arm. "Ready?"
"As ready as ever."
They walked through the crowd and headed to the dance floor.
The teachers sat at the tallest table each with their own costume.
Dumbledore was wearing a huge ten gallon hat and was decked out in cowboy clothes with the usual amused glint in his eye he seemed to watch her walk by.
In McGonagall's seat sat a striped cat with an odd rectangular pattern around her yellow eyes.
Professor Kouba had taken halloween to an extreme and was dressed in the most gruesome costume she had ever seen. ((When later asked about it he said that he was his mother-in-law.))
Slughorn was dressed as none other than Dumbledore himself, however the effect was slightly creepy on him.
"Do you want to dance?" Andre asked drawing her attention away from the Teachers.
"Hm? Oh yes I would." She responded catching a glimpse of Amanda and Frank dancing.
Lily wasn't the only one who noticed it. Sirius sat by the Gryffindor table watching Amanda and Frank dance. She was smiling and seemed so happy.
'That could be me out there with her…' The glass a girl was holding next to him exploded as he stormed away from the table.
Melissa, who dressed as Marilyn Monroe, had signed up to decorate earlier and now sat enjoying the dance her foot swaying to the beat of the music.
James, dressed in a white t-shirt and a black leather jacket sat next to her and smiled. "It looks nice… You did the decorations?"
"Yes I did, thanks." She looked at him cautiously but took the compliment.
They sat in silence for a little while.
"Do- you…I mean wanna…um…"
Melissa looked at him raising an eyebrow. "What?"
"Do you wanna…." He looked nervous.
"Dance?" She inquired.
"Yeah…" He answered sheepishly.
"I'd love to."
"You're alone too?" Hannah asked sitting at the table next to the werewolf Remus.
"Yeah, I'm not big on the date thing. I was surprised when Sirius and James didn't bring one either."
"They seem to be the type to go alone. Sirius because girls would jump each other and well…James seems the Stag type."
Remus looked at Hannah with wide eyes and then realized she didn't mean his animal form. "Especially because Lily wouldn't go with him…" He added.
Hannah nodded looking out at the crowd and was shocked upon seeing James and Melissa dancing.
"That's odd…."
Amelia took a deep breath at the top of the staircase and gulped.
She wasn't accustomed to wearing this sort of thing and was nervous about what people would think.
'Funny I never used to care…'
"Mia?" She turned hearing somebody call her name.
She turned to see a seventh year Hufflepuff boy that always used to tease her in second year.
"Wow…you look." He was speechless at the white linen dress she wore that exposed her shoulders and hugged her curves intimately and fanned out at the bottom permitting movement. She wore golden sandles with laces that twisted up to her knees and a thick gold necklace adorned her neck. Instead of braiding her hair she'd left it down and it had remained wavy from the braid that she'd had in it earlier that day.
"I'll take that as a compliment." She said trying not to blush as she descended the stairs.
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