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'𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒏𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆.'
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Camellia Withlock never expected to be a witch like in...
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Melia was walking back to the common room after the lesson in the great hall. She had forgotten completely about having a date at the Yule ball. And she guessed Draco also had forgotten. That stupid arsehole! When she came to the common room, she saw Draco and the others sitting in front of one of the fireplaces. She got her book from the table and went straight for her dorm.
"Hey, where are you going?" she doesn't answer or spear him a glance. She just continues up to her dorm. "What's up with her?" he asks the others. They just shrug and that leaves him even more confused.
"Did you do something?" Daphne asks.
Draco looks over to her, "No, I don't think so."
"Maybe he forgot to ask her out to the Yule Ball," Pansy jokes, which earns her a few laughs from everyone except Draco. "Wait... You haven't?"
"Well, we're together so I thought it was a matter of course."
"Mate, just because you're together doesn't mean that you shouldn't ask her. Women are complicated I know, but you'll learn eventually," the girls throw their pillows at him. "What?! You are," after seeing the glares from the girls, he gets up from his chair and runs out of the common room. The girls follow him. Draco sits wondering what to do and how to ask her. He ponders for quite some time when he has got it. He gets up and runs straight for the Astronomy Tower.
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"Hey, this was outside the door," Milli gives her a small paper that says; 'meet me at the astronomy tower'. She thanks her and grabs a coat before walking towards the tower. When she gets closer to the tower, she starts to smell something that smells a lot like cherry blossom and when she opens the door, she sees that she was right. The room was filled with cherry blossoms and there by the railing was Draco holding a bouquet of Baby's Breath, her favourite flower. He gives her the flowers and kisses her quick on the lips.
"I'm sorry I didn't ask you before. It was stupid, I know," he says while rubbing his neck. "So, I'll ask you know. Melia Withlock, my beautiful girlfriend. Would you like to go to the ball with me?" Melia throws her arms around his neck and kisses him. He gets surprised at first, but then he kisses her back. When they break apart, he chuckles.
"I take that as a yes then."
She lets out a breathy laugh, "Yes."
They stay like that, in each other's arms for a while before walking back to the common room. He kisses her before they part ways. She goes into her dorm where the girls are waiting in excitement. She explains to them what happened, and they were almost happier about it than her. Then she notices a package on her bed.
"Oh, it was there when we got back. We don't know who put it there." Daph tells her. She walks over to it and takes out the letter.
'Dear Sugar
I will always forgive you and I could never hate you because I know that it wasn't your fault. You didn't ask to be tortured or get the mark (willingly). It was forced upon you and all of us know that.
Anyways, I heard there was going to be a ball at school and thought you would need a dress. This was one of your mothers' dresses. She loved this dress and I thought you should have it. Hope you like it.
Love Padfoot'
She puts the letter down and opens the package to reveal a beautiful dark green coloured dress. The fabric is soft satin and the dress has an open back. She takes it up and gasps at how beautiful it is. Daph steps towards her and reads the letter before hugging her. The two other girls don't understand what is going on and go to read the letter too. When they see what is written about her, they come to hug her too. After some time, they break apart and Melia looks at them with a questioning look when seeing the tears in their eyes. They point at the letter and she understands right away.
"Who tortured you?"
She whispers, but too low for them to hear. She takes a deep breath and tries again, "Bellatrix," they look at her shocked wondering if they heard right.
"Bellatrix Lestrange? The Death Eater?" she nods. "And get the mark means?" Melia hesitantly lifts her left sleeve and shows them the Dark Mark. They take some time to process all of it before hugging her again, which surprises her. She thought that they would despise her, or something, but not hug her.
"You're not mad," she whispers, still in the hug. They break apart and move over to her bed.
"No, of course not," Pansy says.
"That explains why you rarely eat or can sleep," Milli blurs out. Daph hits her and gives her a deathly glance. "Sorry." Melia lets out a breathy laugh while wiping off the tears.
"We couldn't be mad at you for that. Our parents are Death Eaters, for goodness sake," Daph exclaims.
"And eventually it'll happen to us too," Pansy says with sorrow in her voice. "We actually heard from our parents that a girl our age got the mark. We never got to know who, though."
"We had a bet about it. But none of us would have guessed you."
"I guess all of us lost then," Daph points out.
"Yes, I guess so," Pansy points out. "Who knows? I bet Draco does but is there anyone else?"
"Blaise," they fake gasp at her. "He found out by himself. Anyways, Hermione knows too and... and Snape..."
"What?!" they say in unison.
"He found out one day, but nothing has happened after he found out, so I guess it's okay," she shrugs. Then the girls asked her for a full explanation. Melia was tired of speaking so Daph translated for her while she signed the explanation but left behind the mission part. When she was done explaining all of it, they all had tears in their eyes. That night all of them fell asleep in Melias' bed.
