Dance
Let's skip a few years, shall we?
When he proposed to me, I wanted to die of happiness.
But a little something called dread pinched my stomach.
I knew even then.
I made the worst decision of my life.
That wonderful, awful day.
I remember: I was hot inside the ballroom.
It was a Christmas Ball at The Black House. Aunt Walburga wanted to have it at Grimmauld Place, but Mother blatantly refused.
How fitting. The birth of Jesus.
And the end of my life.
Even more so than when we began dating.
I was hot.
I was dancing with Lucius.
"Come outside," he said.
I did.
I was a fool.
A bloody beautiful fool, though.
Outside, I was cold.
He gave me his jacket.
"Can I ask you something?"
"Of course," I said.
We sat on a bench.
He held my hand.
I shivered.
He smiled.
I smiled back.
He stood up, and then sunk down.
Oh.
Sweet.
Merlin.
On one knee.
When we got back inside, Mother noticed the look.
Of both of us, I mean.
She smiled.
She wanted us to be together.
At that time, I hated it.
I hated that smile.
It was cruel.
It was satisfied.
It may have been a bit bitter.
I hated it.
Lucius told her.
Her smile grew larger.
I grimaced inside, but on the outside, I was smiling.
"Mum, we need to get married as soon as possible."
"Daddy, I'm engaged!"
"Bella; we're getting married!"
"Regulus, guess what?"
"Aunt Walburga? Would you come to my wedding?"
I was abuzz with the news.
But I couldn't tell Andy.
When I finished telling Mother, I thought of her first.
"Andy!" I'd say, bursting into her room, "Lucius and I are getting married!"
She'd smile at me.
She'd hug me.
She was the only one who hugged in our family.
But then I remembered.
I would never go up to her in school and say that.
Never.
Besides, she wasn't in Hogwarts.
She'd graduated.
She was gone.
Never would that dampen my spirits on the outside.
On the outside, I was Narcissa soon-to-be-Malfoy, happy with my fiancée.
Happy with my life.
What lies.
A/N: Sorry it's so angsty. xD
And sorry it's so short.
And the lines are short, though I like it that way.
I want to give a shout-out to Time Vortex, my lovely beta. Thanks so much! (Plus you made me re-examine my back-story, and now I'm pretty sure I know MORE about my own story than when I started it!)
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