Chapter Two! Hope you like it! (:.BEFORE I KNEW YOU.
~CHAPTER TWO~
::ALTHEDA'S P.O.V.::
Oh, no! No, no, no! Draco wasn't supposed to find out about me this way! This is horrible. Oh, no.
"Wh-who are you?" Draco stammered, his wand still ready at his side.
I slowly sit up. What am I going to tell him? Oh, hi, I'm your long-lost sister that you never knew about! Yeah, that wouldn't freak him out at all!
"Draco," I said calmly, looking into his eyes, which were identical to mine. "It's okay."
"H-how d-d-do y-you k-k-know m-me?" he stuttered. He was still clutching his wand in his shaking hand, as though I might attack him. What was he so afraid of?
Before I could answer him, our parents had come had come bursting into the room.
"Oh....no...Lucius...he...before we could....no..." Mother stammered, staring at the both of us. She'd told me earlier when I arrived at the Malfoy Manor that she was going to speak with Draco about me, before he saw me.
If you're a bit confused about who I am, let me explain. My name is Altheda Xanthe Malfoy. Allie Malfoy for short. I am the only daughter of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy. Draco is my twin brother. We were separated at birth, and that is why Draco doesn't remember me. My mother and father had thought I was long dead, so they never told Draco of me. They didn't want to worry him.
But I was not dead. I had been living with a family of Muggles who loved me as if I was their own daughter. I always knew I wasn't, though, for I could do many things they couldn't.
So, on my eleventh birthday, I received my letter from Professor Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Hogwarts. My Muggle family didn't know what it was, but they were willing to let me go to the school.
I knew that I couldn't go as Altheda Malfoy, so I went under the name Cecilia Winchester. Much to my dismay, I was sorted into Slytherin, where my brother-who-didn't-know-he-had-a-sister was. I spent two years at Hogwarts as Cecilia Winchester, but towards the end of last year I heard Draco speaking of where his Manor was, incase his friends, Crabbe & Goyle, wanted to visit him. Since I knew where the Malfoy Manor was now, I figured it was time to come out of hiding. That's how I ended up here. Mother & Father welcomed me back with open arms, but Draco still had never known about me.
"M-Mother, who is this?" Draco asked, jabbing his wand in my direction.
Mother glanced nervously at Father. She stepped forward with her arms spread apart towards Draco, as if she was going to hug him, but instead she said, "Draco, this is Altheda. Your sister."
::DRACO'S P.O.V.::
".....what?"
Sister? Impossible! I...I didn't have a sister. I'm an only child.....right?
"Draco," Mother said, softly. "Altheda is your twin sister. You were separated at birth."
No, I refused to believe this. It was just some kind of cruel joke.
"No...no, she can't be!"
"She is, Draco." Father said.
"You're lying! No, no, she can't be! She isn't!" I shrieked. I felt terrified, as if someone was telling me I was a mudblood.
Mother stepped forward and drapped one of her long, thin arms around me.
"Draco," she said, soothingly. "Altheda really is your sister. Think back, Draco, think back to when you were a baby. Don't you remember the beautiful little baby girl who sat next to you the day you were born? The little girl who had your eyes and your hair? The little girl who was right next to you when the doctor held you? That was her, Draco. This is your sister."
I turned my gaze to the girl who sat upon my silk sheets, and as I really looked at her, I could clearly see it in her. The Malfoy blood. The light blonde hair, and the gray-blue eyes were just like mine. Just like my parents. She...she really was my sister. She had to be.
"Why...why didn't you tell me?" I asked, turning my accusations to my parents.
"Somehow Altheda was separated from us when the two of you were born. We had given up hope that we would ever find her by the time you were five. We thought she was dead. But, here she is." Mother explained.
"I'm sorry I just barged in like this, Draco, but...I wanted to come home. Be with my family. You can understand that, can't you?" said Altheda, as she came to stand infront of me.
"I....I...yes...I..I can understand that," As I looked into her silver-blue eyes, I felt like I was looking into my own eyes. "Welcome home."
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