We arrive back at the manor and take my bags up to my room, I walked in it looks so familiar yet I haven't stayed in here for just under a year. I sit my bags down in my room and walk around looking at things I have forgotten about, I left the door too and see a familiar figure walking.
"Could you come down the the study please?" My father asks me, I walk down with him and see Lucinda and Austin talking to each other and stop when we pass them.
I walk into the study with my father and look around to see portraits of muggle borns being tortured, that painting still gives me nightmares till this day. My parents sit me down opposite them.
"I presume you know what we want to talk about?" My father says, before I could even reply my mother interrupts.
"Of course she does, it about her acting like a little blood traitor." My mother stares glaring at me coldly.
"Katherine, she's just a child be a little less harsh on her." My father turns around to her and says, he was always kinder to me whereas my mum was always horrible to me even as a child.
"No she knows what she's doing!" My mother shouts, "don't you?" She turns looking at me.
"What am I doing wrong, I know you don't like the Weasleys but this is too far-" before I can even finish what I am saying my mother interrupts me.
"They are blood traitors who associate themselves with muggles it's how you are turning out as well, we told you to break things off with whatever child of the Weasleys and you don't it makes us look stupid!" She shouts
"If you are talking about Fred, then yes and how does it make you look stupid?" I ask her.
"Because of our status and wealth you shouldn't be with someone like that, so that's why..." before she could finish my dad interrupts her.
"Katherine this bit can wait for later, we need y/n to get ready as it is already 5 and guests start showing up at 8 for the big entrance." My dad says firmly as he dismisses me from the study and I make my way up to my bedroom.
On my way I see my brother and sister still talking, "you know y/n this how thing is quite funny." Austin says, "you honestly thought you was going to get away with doing that."
"Does my happiness make you sad or something?" I ask him.
"No just seeing you with a blood traitor is disgusting." He replies and Lucinda agrees.
"Everyone talks about how disgusting it is" Lucinda says, "does that not bother you?" She asks me.
"Nope because I don't care about the opinion of your little rats of friends and it clearly bothers you all a lot more than me." I say as I push past them both and go into my room.
I take a shower, apply make up to my face and do my hair, there was a knock on the door and my mother hands me a dress.
"You shall wear this." She says and walks away.
I slip the dark green dress on that has black layers underneath it, I grab the diadem that was my grandmothers and place it on my head and put my black heels on. I walk over to my window and see guests arriving and I see familiar faces that I go to school with. There was a soft knock on the door and it opens.
"Are you ready?" I was my father.
"Yes," I turn round and give him a soft smile.
"I still can't believe you are 16 now and how beautiful you are." He tells me.
"Thank you dad, lots of people tonight?" I ask him.
"Yes indeed it's not every day one of my daughters turns 16 now is it?" He says as he straightens the diadem on my head.
"No it doesn't." I say.
"Your mother means well really dear, everything will slowly come together." He tells me.
"What do you mean?" Before he could answer there was a knock at the door, it was my mother.
"All ready to go?" She walks in a gives me a soft smile which was unusual for her, "don't you look beautiful?" She asks, most mothers would say things like that to their daughters everyday for my mother it was very rare.
"She does indeed," my father replies.
"Let's get this ball started then." She said as she walked back out the room and down the stairs.
My father and I walk out of the room to the top of the stairs where everyone was looking as a voice says, "presenting Micheal Avery and daughter Y/n Avery." We walk down the stairs and the music started and I danced with him.
It was a tradition at these things to have an opening dance so that's what my father and I done as other people joined in the music then came to a stop and everyone stood and looked at my father as he started to make his speech.
"Thank you everyone for coming tonight, for my daughters 16th birthday ball, we also was some very important news for you all, myself and wife along with the Pucey's would like to announce the engagement of Adrian and Y/n." Round of applause was heard through the hall. "We plan to have the wedding once they have both finished their seventh year at Hogwarts." And another round of applause is heard.
This is what they was talking about, I'm trying to process everything whilst keeping a smile on my face.
"I hope you all enjoy the ball, and let Adrian and y/n take the lead on another dance."
Adrian is actually a fair dancer and it goes smoothly, I personally don't have too much against him apart from being a prick in quidditch but that's the Slytherin team as a whole.
The dance finishes, "Adrian can we talk please?" I ask him.
We walk to one side and start talking. "So what's up Avery?" He asks.
"Did you know about his whole engagement thing?" I question.
"I was told just before we arrived here." He says.
"Better than me, I found out the same time everyone else did." He looks a little shocked.
"Maybe it because they think you'll run away," he says laughing, that is something I would do if all that people weren't here. "How are you going to tell... sorry which twin is it you are dating?" We share a small laugh.
"Fred, I don't even know I'm going to have to tell him face to face, you seem nice Adrian, but I can't see us being married." I tell him.
"I don't want it either y/n it's something between our parents, I honestly have nothing to do with it, also if you need someone to talk to I'm always here." He says, was he being nice to me?
"Thanks Adrian," I pull him into a hug.
We go out separate ways and I see my parents talking to people, as I fiddle with the pendant Fred had brought me for my birthday, how was I going to tell him, he should know that this isn't what I would want anyway.
I walk onto the balcony that over looks the garden and my father stands next to me.
"I wanted to tell you before sweetheart, but your mother told me no." He said.
"You honestly expect me to get married to him, don't get me wrong he is a nice boy but I can't see myself getting married to him." I tell my father.
"You have to choice in the matter." He says firmly.
"I do though, I can't marry him and I won't!" I tell him standing my ground.
"You have to, we believe it will sort all this nonsense behaviour out and hopefully it will." He says.
"Whatever." I say walking back into the ballroom, I need to escape for a couple a minutes but it seems wherever I go someone is a couple of steps behind, I walk into the bathroom and lock the door behind me and open the locket.
I look at the photos and think of how happy being with Fred made me, living in this house just reminded me of the presence of dementors my souls felt like it was being sucked out.
The ball ends not long after midnight and I go off to my room my birthday honestly sucked, I wish it was just with my friends and not these stuck up people, I keep thinking over and over again how am I going to tell Fred about this?
A/n: the drama is starting from here the next couple of chapters will have more in don't worry about that.