AN: Hello, all! I hope you are enjoying the changes I have made. This chapter is the last one I had posted originally. I do have another chapter in progress, I just need to figure out where I want to break it up into separate chapters, so that one might be coming out later today. Otherwise, I will finish Chapter 5 in my first class tomorrow. I hope you all have a nice night!

Chapter 4

"The boys brought your stuff down so as soon as you're ready, we can leave," said my mum.

I gave the Grangers and the band a hug and the boys said they would see me soon. "I'm ready to go," I said.

We loaded up the limo and started home.

An hour later, we started up a long driveway and stopped in front of a giant house. It was huge! There were 40 windows on the second floor! That means that if there were two windows per room, there were twenty rooms on the front of the house!

"Are you coming?" Mum asked.

"Yeah, I'm coming. Do you have a map? I think I'm gonna get lost. This house is gigantic!"

"It's not technically a house," said Blaise.

"It's a manor," Marcus finished.

"Wow," I said.

We entered the manor and there were three people standing in the foyer. I assumed they were my siblings. There was an older boy about 19 years of age with shaggy black hair and sky blue eyes. Next to him was a girl about 18 years of age with black hair to her lower back with lime green eyes. The last person was probably Casey. She looked to be six. She had long black hair and bright purple eyes.

"I'm Michael," said the boy. "I'm 20 and graduated from the Salem Academy in the States."

"I'm Allie," said the older girl. "I'm 19 and graduated from Beubatons in France. I'm happy you're home."

"I'm Casey," Casey said. She ran up to me and gave me a hug. "I'm happy to have another sister. I'm tired of the boys outnumbering us!"

"Let's go into the family room," said my father. We went into the room to the right of the foyer and sat down. "There are some things we need to discuss."

"Like what?" I questioned.

"Well, how you look now is a lot like what you should really look like." My hair and eyes were still changed from the night before. "Also, your real name is Lyla Marie Zabini."

"That's awesome! I've always liked Lyla."

"It's probably because you subconsciously remembered being called that," Blaise explained.

"Probably," I said. "Daddy, can you take the Glamour off now?" I asked.

"Of course, darling," Daddy said. He tapped my head with his wand and two minutes later, looked at me and said, "You're as beautiful as your mother and sister."

I looked into a mirror on the wall and saw that I looked almost exactly how Brian had changed me the night before, only I didn't have the red highlights. My eyes were still red, however. I also went from a size five to a zero and my breasts grew a couple sizes. "Wow," I said. "I guess it's a good thing that I wore a dress today."

"We'll have to go shopping," Allie said excitedly.

"There's something else you need to know," Mum said.

"What is it?" I asked.

"When you and your siblings were born, you were all promised to someone," Daddy said.

"So you're saying that I have no control over who I'm marrying?" I asked.

"Sort of," Daddy said. "If you fall in love with a wizard from a good family and you, your fiancé, his parents and your mother and I all agree on the match, you can marry him. If that doesn't happen, you have to marry your current match."

"Alright. Who is he?" I asked.

"Draco Malfoy," Daddy said. "He'll be here for dinner with his parents."

"Then Allie and I should get going so we can be ready when Draco gets here," I said.

"Alright. Allie has full access to our vault at Gringotts," Daddy said. When he saw the confusion written plainly on my face, he explained further. "Gringotts is the wizarding bank."

"Oh, Ok." Allie and I used the floo network to get to the Leaky Cauldron after flooing was explained to me. We walked into the back and Allie tapped her wand in an odd sequence on a few bricks of the wall. The wall opened up into a street filled with shops. "Where are we?" I asked.

"We're in Diagon Alley," Allie said.

We got our money from Gringotts (which was a trip and a half) and began shopping. First, we stopped at the book store to get the books I would need to learn all the things I would need to know for school. Then we went to Ollivander's to get my very own wand. I was nearly bursting with excitement. "Marcus and Blaise said Mum and Dad were going to take me to get my wand," I recalled.

"I'm sorry, Lyla. If you want, you can come back another day with them," Allie consoled.

"No, I'll get it now," I said defeated. It took a couple tries, but I finally found a wand that was just right for me. It was a ten inch holly wand with a dragon heartstring core. We finished all our practical shopping, then started on my new wardrobe.

We entered a nice looking store and started looking for bottoms. After we finished that, we looked for tops, dresses, and underclothes. When we were finally finished, I had a large variety of miniskirts, short shorts, jeans, dress pants, corsets, crop tops, tube tops, off-the-shoulder tops, T-shirts, tank tops, long sleeve shirts, evening gowns, summer dresses, and clubbing dresses all in a variety of colors. I also had a variety of scandalous bras and panties.

Our final stop was to get make-up and jewelry. "Crap. We need to get home," Allie said. "The Malfoys are going to arrive at the manor in an hour."

"Then let's go," I said nervous that I wouldn't be ready in time. "I have a lot to do yet." We started making our way back to the Leaky Cauldron with all of our purchases to floo back to the manor.

"I'll help you get ready. You need to look your best. First impressions are important," Allie said.

"I know that," I replied. "I'm just glad that when Dad took the Glamour charm off, my highlights came out. I'll have to redo them for my next show."

"Show?" Allie asked confused.

"Do you know Blaise and Marcus' friends, Brian, Kyle and David?"

"Of course! They come over at the last week before school every year for Blaise and Marcus' birthday."

"Did you know they're in a band?"

"Nope."

"Well they are. Kyle sings lead vocals and guitar sometimes, David plays the drums, Brian plays the bass guitar, and I play the electric and acoustic guitar. I also sometimes play the piano or sing."

"That is so cool! I wish I could do something like that."

"You can if you work hard at it. I'm sure lessons aren't too expensive. Here we are." We had arrived at the Leaky Cauldron.

"Make sure you hang onto your shopping, otherwise you might lose it," Allie said.

"Can't you just shrink it? That's what the guys did with all of my stuff."

"Why didn't I think of that?" Allie then shrunk all of our shopping, and we put it in our pockets. "I'll go through first, and then you can follow."

"Ok."

Allie grabbed some floo powder and stepped into the fireplace. She threw it down and shouted, "Zabini Manor!" I followed soon after. When I stepped out of the fireplace, Allie grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the family room. We went up a flight of stairs and down a hallway. "This is your room," Allie said stopping at a set of double doors. There was a plaque on the door that said, 'Princess Lyla' on it.

"Why does it say 'Princess Lyla'?" I asked.

"When you were little, you insisted on being called Princess Lyla and it just stuck."

"Oh." I opened the door and all I could say was, "Wow!" My room matched my hair and eyes in color. I stared around my room in shock. Directly across from my door was a wall practically made of all windows. There was probably a foot of wall around the edges of windows. There were long curtains to hide the windows while I sleep. There was a door amidst the windows where I could walk out onto a balcony.

I turned to my left and saw one of the most awesome entertainment systems ever! There was a giant TV on my wall, which had to be six feet tall and ten feet long with two six by three foot speakers. Underneath that was a red desk with a silver chair pushed in and a red, black, and silver laptop and a silver lamp sitting on top. Next to the desk was a door.

I turned back to the door I came in through and it was a wall of book shelves alternating in red and black. It was full of books. I knew I was in love when I turned to the last wall. There was a giant four-post bed with black curtains, silver posts, and red foot and head boards. The sheets were silver, along with the pillows, and there was a black and red comforter. To the left of the bed was another door and above it were the letters "W.W." I think it's supposed to stand for Whomping Wizards.

In the middle of the room a fire pit and two couches were placed. Allie explained to me that there were spells around the fire pit containing the fire and smoke.

I didn't get a chance to explore the other rooms because Allie grabbed my arm and sat me down on the bed. "You can check everything out later. Right now you need to get ready for the Malfoys. Give me your bags," Allie said. I took the shopping bags out of my pocket and put them on my giant bed behind me. "Take out your wand," she instructed me. I took it out. "Wanna try some magic?"

"Hellz yeah!" I replied.

"Alright. Point your wand at the bags and say 'Engorgio'."

I did as I was told and all the bags grew back to their original size. "Wow!" I said. "I just performed my first spell!" I was so excited.

Allie started looking through the bags and pulled out a red, strapless bra, a red thong, black high heels and a red dress. The dress was baby doll style with spaghetti straps and a black belt under the bust. "Put these on," she told me. "Then come down to the receiving room to greet the Malfoys."

I got dressed and went down to the receiving room. When I entered, Daddy, Mum, Allie, Marcus, Blaise, Casey and Michael were sitting waiting for me and the Malfoys. Daddy looked at me and said, "You are right on time. They will be here shortly."

Mum hugged me and said, "You look beautiful."

"Thank you, Mum. Allie picked it out," I replied.

A few minutes later, the fire turned green. A beautiful woman stepped out of the fire, followed by an older man, about my dad's age, and a younger man about the same age as me. They all had platinum blond hair and silver eyes. "Hello, Joshua," the older man said. "You look well."

"Thank you, Lucius. You know my family, but this is my daughter, Lyla," Daddy said, his hand on my back. "Lyla, this is Lucius, Narcissa, and Draco Malfoy," he said, pointing to the older man, woman and then the younger man who had moved towards my brothers. I thought Draco looked like a friend of mine from long ago.

"It's a pleasure to meet you," I said curtsying.

A few minutes later, a weird looking creature that was explained to me as being a house elf, Tiny, came in and announced that dinner was ready. When we entered the dining room, Draco pulled out my chair. "Thank you," I said.

"My pleasure," was Draco's reply.

When everyone was seated and served, Narcissa turned to me and asked, "So, Lyla, what do you like to do in your spare time?"

"Well," I started, "I've been in a band for a few years now with some friends who turned out to also be wizards. I always wondered why they wanted to call our band the 'Whomping Wizards'. I guess it was because they were wizards."

"What instrument do you play?" Draco asked, curious.

"I play quite a few instruments, but my favorites are the piano, electric and acoustic guitar, the drums, and bass guitar."

"How did you learn all of those?" Lucius asked amazed.

"I don't know. I just kinda picked up a guitar and instantly knew how to play it. It was like I was born with the knowledge of playing and understanding everything about music."

"It's your gift," Daddy said.

"My gift?" I asked.

"Yes. Everyone on my side of the family is born with a special talent, or gift. I can speak all the languages known to man; Marcus has very good gaydar…"

I looked at Marcus strangely. "I think it's to help me find a boyfriend. It comes with the territory."

"Daddy, you said that all of us were arranged to be married. What is Marcus going to do?" I asked.

"When Marcus came out to us, we dissolved the contract."

"OK."

"Anyway, Blaise can see through walls," Daddy continued, "Allie knows everything about clothes and fashion; and Michael knows everything about technology. We don't know what Casey's gift is yet. She's not old enough for it to manifest."

"That's so cool. So, Michael, if I ever have any troubles with my computer, can I come to you?"

"Of course."

"Is there anything else special about our family?" I asked my parents.

"Since our family line was first created, we've had one creature in each generation. They are unlike any other creature because many of them are not human or humanoid, but they can transform into a human so they are not always in their animal form," my mother said. "My grandfather was a Veela and my sister is a Unicorn. When she transforms, she is exactly like a Unicorn from the wild, but she can understand humans and has a human personality."

"Has it come out in anyone in our generation yet?" I asked.

"No," said Blaise. "It's either one of us or Casey. It will manifest at the exact time we were born on our birthday if we have it. If it's not any of us, it will be Casey and we don't know what we will become."

"What if it's a rather large creature? Couldn't that be dangerous?" I asked.

"Yes, it is. That's why we usually go outside. It was quite anti-climatic with Allie and Michael. Michael was the worst. He was born at 4:39 in the morning on December 18, so we had to wake up and go outside with him in the freezing snow," Dad said.

"What time were we born at?"

"Blaise was born at 3:58 pm, Marcus was born at 4:14 pm, and you were born at 4:25 pm."

"That won't be too bad. At least we probably won't be doing anything," I said. There was a lull in the conversation after that.

"So," Draco asked awkwardly, "who's in your band? I don't think you ever mentioned it."

"Brian Higgens, Kyle King and David Todd."

"Oh, we know Brian. He's such a sweet boy," Narcissa gushed.

"He and I have been dating for the past couple of years."

"Hasn't it been hard? Him being away at school and all…" Narcissa asked.

"It's been kinda hard, but we always wrote letters and we saw each other during the summer and holidays."

"What are you and Brian going to do now that you are going to be married to Draco?" Lucius asked.

"I don't know. I haven't really thought about it much. I guess I'll have to talk to him the next time I see him and see what he thinks," I replied.