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The week passed by quickly and it was night of the summer's eve ball at the Malfoy's and I was a nervous wreck. I was stood in front of a full length mirror in my closet when my mother came searching for me.
"Morgan?" She asked.
"In here mother!" I shouted slightly. She pushed the door open and inspected my outfit. She smiled brightly.
"You look beautiful." She said.
"Thank you." I smiled back.
"We will be leaving in a moment." She said. I nodded.
"Okay I will put my shoes on and I will be down." I said. She nodded and then she left. I turned back to the mirror and looked over my dress. It was gorgeous, the bodice of the dress was covered in diamonds and then the skirt flared out around me and it was a green colour. I slipped on my silver coloured shoes and headed out my room and downstairs. Reaching the bottom of the stairs, my father smiled at me.
"You look stunning Morgan." He smiled
"Thank you father." I smiled back.
"We will be apparating." He said as he placed his arm out for me to take and as soon as I took it, I felt the sickening feeling which soon passed as we landed in the Malfoy's entrance hall.
"Woah." I said trying to steady myself.
"Are you okay dear?" My mother asked.
"Yes mother, just not used to apparition yet." I smiled. My mother nodded.
"Leanne!" A woman shouted, I looked in front of me and saw a platinum blonde woman walking towards us. "Oh Leanne I am so pleased you could make it!" She gushed as she hugged my mother.
"Narcissa! We are pleased to be here." My mother gushed back.
"Jason good to see you as well." The blonde woman smiled at my father and then she turned to me. With her eyes on me I suddenly became nervous.
"And you must be Morgan! Oh Leanne she is beautiful." She gushed at me.
"Morgan this is Narcissa Malfoy." My mother smiled.
"It's nice to meet you Mrs. Malfoy, you have a lovely home." I said politely just like I was taught.
"Why thank you Morgan." She smiled at me. "If you excuse me I see some other guest coming." She said and then walked off. After that I followed my mother and father to the Malfoy's ballroom which was huge. In the centre people were waltzing around the floor. Around the sides people stood socializing with one another while drinking champagne. I stopped at the entrance and took a few deep breaths readying myself for what was to come.
"Are you ready Morgan?" My father asked, seeing me uneasy.
"As ready as I'll ever be." I said and walked down the steps after my father and mother. For about an hour or so I spent talking to members of pureblood families and being introduced to people left right and centre. It wasn't until I had excused myself from my mother, father, Mr and Mrs Malfoy to get some air that I got some peace. I walked out onto the terrace that ran along the outside of the Malfoy's ballroom. It was a beautiful night and the moon was full and the stars twinkled brightly in the dark sky. My peace was suddenly disturbed by a voice coming from the right of me.
"I don't believe we've met before." The voice said. I knew the voice, it was one who had tormented me for the last 5 years.
"I'm Draco, Draco Malfoy." He said placing his hand out for me to shake. I turned towards the blonde haired ferret to see him in an all black suit with his hair done perfectly and his signature smirk on his pale face. With him were Blaise Zambini and Theodore Nott. I smiled politely and took his hand.
"Pleasure." I replied almost too sweetly.
"This is Blaise Zambini and Theodore Nott." He said pointing to each of the boys. I smiled at them.
"Oh I know who you are." I said to the trio. They looked at me intrigued; I guess they didn't remember what I looked like.
"How would you know us?" Malfoy smirked. I took a step towards him.
"Because I am the girl who's spirit you tried to destroy each and every day of Hogwarts." I said while glaring into his icy eyes. Malfoy looked at me as if he was searching my face for recognition, after a minute it clicked with him.
"Morgan?" he asked kind of shocked that I was actually at his house.
"Yes Malfoy." I said folding my arms across my chest.
"What? Someone actually adopted you?" He said almost shocked. I glared evilly at him. "What crazy minded people adopted you?" He laughed.
"If you must know, the Sinclair family did." I said, as I said the name Sinclair, Malfoy stopped laughing suddenly.
"Sinclair?" He asked. I nodded. Just as he was about to say something else both our parents walked out towards us.
"Oh Draco, you've met Morgan, she is Leanne and Jason's daughter." Mrs. Malfoy spoke to her son. Malfoy slightly glared at me then looked to his mother with a polite smile.
"Of course I did mother I was just introducing myself. It turns out we are in the same year at Hogwarts." He said politely. My mother looked at me.
"Really?" My mother asked.
"Yes. We're in the same house actually." I said while looking at Malfoy who looked at me.
"That's wonderful Morgan." Mrs Malfoy smiled at me, then she turned to her son. "Draco, why don't you take Morgan and have a dance?" She suggested. Draco looked at his mother shocked.
"Uh...I...I was actually going to go find Pansy mother, She is my date for this evening after all." He said nervously.
"Nonsense Draco, Pansy can wait a few more minutes." Mr Malfoy said.
"I really think I should find her." Malfoy said to his parents. Just as Mrs. Malfoy was about to speak again Zambini stepped forward.
"I would be honoured to dance with Morgan Mrs. Malfoy. Let Draco go find Pansy." He said with a charming smile. Narcissa thought for a moment and nodded. Zambini walked over to me and put his hand out for me to take. I looked to my parents who nodded encouragingly. I sighed and took his tanned hand. As we walked through the crowd I began to think, What was Zambini playing at? And why in Merlin's name would he want to dance with me?
My thoughts were interrupted as Zambini swung me round and placed a hand on my waist. I looked at Zambini with my eyes narrowed as the music began to play.
"What's with the look Morgan?" Zambini smirked. I looked at him with my eyebrow raised as we waltzed around the floor.
"Cut the crap Zambini, Why are you dancing with me when you hate me?" I asked as he spun me round.
"People change over the summer Morgan. You are proof of that." He said obviously referring to my darker and longer hair, my new wardrobe and obviously the weight I had gained. I glared at him.
"That maybe so Zambini, but you are not one of those people." I said.
"You don't know that." He smirked. "By the way you do look stunning this evening." He said with his charming smile.
"Yeah right Zambini, I ain't going to be swayed that easily. You are probably the same as always. Remember the last thing you said to me? Hey look the poor orphan is crying? And then laughed as you walked away? That was a month or so ago." I said as the music came to an end. He looked at me.
"That was a mistake." He said sadly. I let go of his hand and took a step back.
"Yeah right. You meant every word. Just because I've changed my appearance doesn't mean I have changed the way I think about you, Malfoy or anyone who used to pick on me." I said and began to turn away. "Thanks for the dance." I said and walked off into the crowd.
Third person P.O.V
Mr and Mrs Malfoy and the Sinclair's watched as Morgan walked away from Blaise Zambini and work her way through the crowd. Jason Sinclair turned to Lucius Malfoy.
"What do you think Lucius?" He asked. Lucius looked at the Brunette that was talking to some Ministry officials. She could be useful to Draco this year, He would need all the help he could get with the task that the Dark Lord would be setting him this year.
"She could prove useful, although I did sense some tension between her and my son." He said thoughtful.
"She is a smart girl Lucius, she spends most of her free time reading. She is almost top in every class behind that muggle-born girl Granger. Though the appearance changes may draw her some more attention this year." Jason explained.
"You should have seen her, Cissy she was just all skin and bones." Leanne said horrified.
"Well she looks beautiful now Leanne you've done a wonderful job. She fits in rather well." Narcissa said with a small smile. "Now if you excuse me we must mingle, come Lucius." She said and dragged her husband off. Leanne turned to her husband.
"Do you really think she can help Draco?" She asked.
"I hope so. He can't handle this task alone." He said. "But don't worry about that now, Shall we dance?" He said with a smile and placed a hand out towards his wife. She took it almost immediately and he lead her to the dance floor.
Back out on the terrace Draco paced angrily while Nott and Zambini sat on a wall.
"I can't believe they adopted Morgan." He grumbled. "She doesn't belong here."
"I think that says another wise Malfoy." Zambini said motioning back to the ballroom. Malfoy saw Morgan surrounded by some random Ministry Officials that his father knew, the Greengrass family, Nott's parents and also Zambini's mother. They were all laughing and getting along. Draco hated to admit it but she did look like she belonged here. She looked like the pureblood that she was supposed to be. And for some reason it rubbed Draco the wrong way.
"But still she doesn't belong here." Draco spat.
"I think your parents, my parents and Zambini's mum would disagree. Anyway we always told her she was a pathetic excuse for a pureblood now she making us look like idiots." Nott said. Draco just glared at Nott then turned round and glared at Morgan who was dancing with her father with a smile on her face.
Morgan P.O.V
The Malfoy Summer Ball was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I actually had fun, even if I did have to see Malfoy and them. I actually didn't mind his parents they were fine, it was just Malfoy I couldn't stand.
It was a bright summer's afternoon and I was sat on the library balcony when my father called me to come downstairs. I sighed and put the book I was reading on the table in front of me and stood up and exited the room. Walking along the landing I could hear my father talking to some people. As I got to the top of the stairs I saw the Malfoy's, Blaise Zambini and the Nott family stood in our foyer. I glided down the stairs and greeted my father.
"Hello father, Mr and Mrs Malfoy, Mr and Mrs Nott, Theo, Blaise, Draco." I greeted them all in turn glaring at the three boys slightly.
"Morgan, The Malfoy's Nott's and Blaise here will be staying until the four of you go off to Hogwarts." My father said to me. I groaned inside my head, other three weeks with those three. Great.
"That's wonderful father." I smiled sweetly.
"Would you mind leading the boys to their bedrooms while we talk in private? They are staying in the room next to yours, the room opposite yours and the room next to that one." He asked. I didn't want to but I nodded anyway.
"Of course father. Draco, Blaise, Theo follow me and the house elves will bring your luggage later." I said as I turned on the bottom step and headed back up towards my room. We walked in silence until I stopped outside my room. I turned round to face the boys.
"This room is mine." I said as I motioned to my door. "You can choose whose staying in what room. It's that room, that room and this one here." I said motioning to each room. I began walking past the three boys when Malfoy stopped me.
"Where are you going?" He asked. I sighed and turned round.
"To the library if you must know." I said folding my arms across my chest.
"Aren't you going to show us around?" He said.
"And why would I do that?" I asked sounding bored.
"My, my you obviously weren't told that the host always gives new guests the tour of their home. Wouldn't your parents be disappointed to find that out?" Malfoy smirked. I glared at him. What a prat!
"Fine Malfoy. Choose your rooms and meet me in the Library in 15minutes and the Library is through these double doors." I said motioning to the dark doors behind me, and with that I turned round and marched into the library. I can't believe that boy. The nerve of him, I knew that I had to give them a tour, it was one of the first things my mother told me. I sighed. I really didn't want to disappoint the people who gave me a home and showed me love. I took a seat back out on the balcony and picked up my book that I was reading and took it back in and put it back on the shelf I had got it from. By the time I had put it back, Malfoy, Zambini and Nott walked through the doors.
"All right let's get this over with." I said turning to them. "As you can see this is a library." I said already bored. As we walked round my parents home Malfoy asked pointless questions just to annoy me, and the whole time he wore that stupid smirk. It was doing the tour that I realised that this house was massive even though it was only three floors. I showed them everything, from our library to our wine cellar and even our massive ballroom that overlooks the grounds to the house. By the time we were finished it was almost dinner time. My father called me into his study.
"Yes father?" I asked as I entered.
"Are the boys settled in their rooms?" He asked looking up from some papers on his desk.
"Yes father, I also gave them a tour of the house and showed them everything." I said.
"Very good. Can you tell them to dress smartly for dinner please? We also have some ministry officials attending this evenings dinner." He said. I nodded.
"Of course father." I said. "Is that all?" I asked.
"It is my dear. See you at dinner." He said with a kind smile. I smiled back and walked towards my room. I got to the bedroom next to mine and knocked on the door. I heard someone say come in so I pushed the door open. Sat on the bed was Malfoy, sat on the desk with his feet on the desk chair was Zambini and Nott was sat in a chair over in the corner.
"What do you want?" Malfoy asked, well it was more like he spat it at me.
"One this my house no need to snap. Two Zambini feet off the furniture before you leave a mark, my mother will go crazy if she finds you sitting like that. And three you need to dress smartly for dinner which will be in about an hour or so." I said and with that I turned and left the room to get ready. I went into my closet and picked out a plain and simple fitted black dress with matching black heels and then I went and showered. After I had showered I dried my hair magically so it settled in waves going down my back and then I applied a light layer of makeup. After I had placed simple silver jewellery around my neck, I headed down stairs getting to the bottom of the stairs I heard voices coming from the formal lounge. Upon entering I saw I was the last one to arrive, Malfoy, Zambini and Nott were all stood talking to each other wearing black suits. My mother and Narcissa and Mrs. Nott were chatting amongst themselves and my father was talking to Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Nott and some Ministry people I assume. I gave a small cough.
"I do apologize if I have kept you waiting." I said as I walked into the room looking at my father.
"Nonsense Morgan, you actually just in time." He said. "Shall move along to the dinning room?" He said as he walked past me. I turned round and the rest of group followed my father into the dinning room. The table that usually had three chairs round it now had extra chairs to accommodate the extra people. My father took a seat at the head of the table and my mother took a seat next to him on his left to his right was Mr Malfoy and his wife and then it went on. At the other end I was sat at the head with Zambini on my left and Malfoy on my right. Safe to say I was not happy with the seating arrangement. The talk mainly revolved around the happenings at the Ministry, but at one point the conversation turned to me.
"I must say Jason, Morgan has blended into our society well." Dad's Ministry friend said.
"Thank you Simon." My dad replied.
"You must be very proud. She did so well at the Malfoy Ball." Simon said as he looked down my way. I smiled politely and continued to eat.
"We are very proud aren't we Leanne?" My father said back while looking at her wife with a smile. My mother smiled and nodded and went back to having a conversation with Narcissa.
"I'm sure she's going to have plenty of suitors lined up and waiting to marry her." Simon said, and as he said it I began choking on the piece of food I was eating. Everyone on the table looked at me. Malfoy and Blaise just sat there smirking at me. As my coughing died down my father looked at me concerned.
"Are you okay my dear?" He asked.
"Yes father." I coughed out.
"Simon, we are nowhere near thinking about a suitor for Morgan. She is going to finish her education first." My father said sternly, as he said that I breathed a sigh of relief. Thank god he wasn't going to marry me off. I ate the rest of the meal in silence after that and the subject of me was completely dropped. After dad's ministry friend's left everyone retired for the evening. As I lay in my bed I began thinking about what Simon had said. A Suitor? Is that what my future holds? Being a house wife to a pureblood rich man? Was I going to be able to have a career like I want to? Questions ran round in my head and it was stopping me from sleeping. I gave a frustrated sigh and sat up grabbing my wand of my bedside table. I climb out of bed, and went to the one thing that would help relax me. Instead of going to the library to play the piano I made my way through the house to the ballroom. Inside the ballroom at the back on a stage stood a large black grand piano. I gave a small smile and padded my way across the room, I sat down on the piano stool and lifted the lid to reveal the ivory and black keys. I ran my hand gently over the keys, and then softly began to play.
I loved to play. I've loved the piano ever since I could remember. The earliest memory I have is of my biological mother playing to me while I sat in my crib by a piano. I don't know how long it was before they died but that is the only memory I have. So being able to play the piano is the only connection I have to them.
"I didn't know you played piano." A voice said to me. It shocked me and I hit the wrong note. I turned towards the person and immediately glared at the person. Stood in the middle of the hall stood Malfoy, in long black bottoms and a black fitted t-shirt and his hair was slightly messed up. The moonlight cast a shadow on his pale face. Over all in this light and without his smirk he did look attractive.
"There's a lot of things you don't know Malfoy." I said lifting the lid of the piano down over the keys and standing up and facing him.
"Look, Morgan maybe I was wrong about you." He said. I looked at him bewildered. Now where in Merlin's name did that come from? "We got off on the wrong foot." He said. I walked towards him with a glare.
"Malfoy if you are trying to apologize to me it's not going to work. We will never be anything more than enemies. I will be civil to you because of who your parents are and who mine are but other than that forget it." I said and with that I walked out of the ballroom and back to my room.
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