Chapter Eight
After knocking on the front door, I waited a couple of seconds before it was answered by a tall dark haired, olive skinned man I recognized as Blaise Zabini, he was in my year at school. He looked surprised to see me at the door; of course he wouldn't know I was Hermione Granger.
"Well hello there, I hope your not here to see Draco because he asked me to send any girls away, I admit you are a beauty, but I had better do…," he began but I cut him off.
"Is Narcissa or Lucius here?" I asked, trying to wipe away my tears. He looked at me and shook his head before saying, "no they went to visit Marcus's parents, how about you come in and we can see if Draco knows you," he said and opened the door and motioned for me to enter which I did and he closed it after me. He began to walk off down a long hallway, so I followed.
"So what's your name?" he asked, looking back at me.
"Aurora," I murmured, he looked curiously at me before saying, "the girl from the bookshop, Theo told me about you." I wondered what he had told him but I didn't really care, as Blaise opened a large door and ushered me into the room. I walked into a large room filled with two large black sofas and a few beanbags scattered around, with a hug screen on the wall which was similar to a television, but it was showing Quidditch.
On the sofas lay two tall figures, one I recognized as Draco, the other I wasn't sure if I had seen him before, but he was absolutely gorgeous. He had dark wavy hair, which reached his ears and really dark brown eyes; he was muscular and looked to be about 6ft4.
Neither of them seemed to notice as I followed Blaise into the room. "Oi Draco, I found a stray at your door," Blaise said with a smirk as he walked across the room and sat on a large beanbag in between the sofas.
"Who?" he asked, and then Blaise pointed over to where I stood, I noticed the other guy staring at me too, but I looked away. I could feel vibes coming from all three guys, but I was so upset that I couldn't pick anything up properly.
He turned around and stared at me before saying, "what are you doing here; I thought you were coming tomorrow?"
"Uh, erm, well I am, I just really wanted to speak to your mum," I mumbled, and looked at the floor.
"Why have you been crying?" he asked, and I struggled to keep more tears from falling.
"Doesn't matter," I uttered.
"It does, now come over here, sit down and tell me," he said in a tone that meant I shouldn't argue, so I just walked over and sat down next to him on the sofa.
"So are you going to tell me why you are crying?" he asked, as I wiped away a stray tear from my face.
"Uhm, well I just told my friends everything, let's just say they didn't take it well, they asked me to leave," I replied quietly, wiping at my eyes once again.
"Right, Marcus can you apparate home and ask my mother to come back please, just tell her it's important," Draco said, I wondered who he was speaking to, and realised that the other guy across from us must be Marcus.
"Of course, I won't be long," he replied and with a pop he had gone.
"I'm sorry to barge in, I didn't mean to," I told Draco, and I felt his finger lift my chin, so that I was looking at him.
"Don't worry about it, you're family," he said and I gave him a faint smile. "Oh wait, Blaise this is my cousin Aurora," he said and Blaise looked quite shocked. "Y-your cousin?" he asked and Draco nodded.
"Draco, Draco, what's wrong?" I heard Narcissa calling from the hall.
"In here mother," he drawled and she walked into the room, Draco pointed at me, and she rushed over and enveloped me into a hug and I burst into tears once more. A loud crash was heard from the other side of the room and I spun round and noticed that the television had fallen off the wall, I must have done it, things like that tend to happen when I get really upset. Narcissa must have realised it was me also, so I quietly said, "I'm sorry". "It's okay dear, we can buy a new one," she replied. Draco started to protest that they couldn't watch the rest of the game, but Narcissa told him to shut up. I knew he wasn't really that mad, he just wanted something to moan about.
"Come on dear, why don't we go outside and have a talk?" Narcissa asked as she slowly stood up, I just nodded and followed her out of the room, avoiding eye contact with everyone else.