The Dark Lord's Daughter

The Plan and Rumors Again

"Hey Drakie."

"Go away Parkinson," Draco said, "I am trying to have a conversation and you are not involved."

Pansy Parkinson stormed off at the lack of attention Draco was giving her.

"So what should you do to torture Potty? I want you to get him to fallen in love with you and drive him crazy because he won't be able to have you," Draco said evilly.

"And how do you plan on me doing that? I already cussed him out not even that long ago and I think he'll be a little apprehensive."

"You come up with a better idea!"

"Damn, Draco are you trying to torture me too, along with Potter?"

"Well no I'm not."

"I don't have to kiss him do I?"

"That's up to you."

"Well good then, but what happens if he doesn't fall for me?"

"Like that's gonna happen."

"So you do believe those rumors about me from Salem."

"Do I have any reason not to believe them?"

"Well-"

"So they are true," Draco said.

"Not all of it is true."

"Then what part of it is true?"

"I do not have to discuss this with you if I don't want to," I said causing one of Draco's eyebrows to go up.

"I guess it doesn't matter who your father is you still have Malfoy blood in you," Draco said.

"Just shut up about it already."

"Why should I?"

Instead of answering Draco I walked right pass him and over to the exit and walked outside and started to walk back to the manor. Draco came out not that long afterwards.

"Well answer me."

"I am not going to answer a stupid question and I am going back to the manor to go to sleep," I said.

"I'm going to stay. I'll see you later."

"Okay, goodbye."

Why do people always believe those god damn rumors about me? I know I never tried to stop them before, but now it's just annoying. Well I hope I can sort it out this school year. I hope Draco and Ashley are the only one's who have heard about the rumors .So on the way home I thought about how what I was going to do differently this year than I did last year. When I got home I went straight to my room. I packed all my things up so I wouldn't have to do it tomorrow, on my birthday, or before we left to go to the train. After I was finished packing I heard to voices out in the hallway. A door opened then I heard a thump. What the fuck is going on out there. Someone is drunk.

"You only had two firewhiskys. You can not be that drunk," Draco said.

"B-but I har-hardly ever dr-drink an-and you kn-know when I d-do I al-always get dr-drunk af-after a f-few drinks," a female voice slurred.

I heard Draco's door close and then I went to bed because I was extremely tired. I woke up to a door slamming. It was still dark so I figured I hadn't been sleeping that long. It must be about four in the morning. I got up to see what was the matter. By the time I had gotten to the door and opened it Draco's door was closed, and everything seemed to have quieted down. Little did I know that Draco had put a silencing charm on his room so no one would hear them screaming at each other. So I walked back to my room and went to bed. I woke up and got dressed then walked down to the dining room to eat breakfast. Draco came down got some food and then started to walk out of the dining room.

"What was up with all of the noise in the hallway last night?"

"What noise I didn't hear anything last night," Draco said walking out the door.

I followed Draco out the door and up to his room. I went into the shadows in the hallway. When he got to the door and opened it up he paused and looked around the room in front of him and then walked in and closed the door. I could here what was going on in the room.

"Here's your breakfast. You probably do not want to go back to school. Since we can not show any other emotions towards each other besides the ones we have for years. Your friends would have a fit about it," Draco said.

"Yeah they would have a fit about it. Considering they hate your guts and want you dead. They would think that I betrayed them or something like that because of my feeling for you," the female voice from last night said.

"Yeah they would wouldn't they," he said with a smirk evident in his voice.

I wonder who he's talking to. It could be that girl from the club that he wouldn't tell me anything about. I got bored and still hadn't eaten anything, so I walked back to the dining room. I had a cheesy omelet and some bacon for breakfast. When I was done I went up to my room to get a book so I could read it out in the garden. I walked to my room before I opened the door I heard more arguing coming from Draco's room. I walked into my room and got the book and walked outside not wanting to listen to them arguing. The book I had was one about how to tell the difference between the different species' eggs. I had been outside for about two hours when it started to rain. Great now I have to go inside. As I was walking inside and up the stairs I saw Draco bringing more food into his room. Not thinking much about I went into my room so I could read and I found a letter that was addressed to my parents (it was opened). I took the letter out of the envelope and started to read it:

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Lestrange,

The adoption went through. You are allowed to raise the girl. We will be sending Ministry Officials in a month to check up on how well you are raising her. If we see that the living condition she is living in isn't fit then the adoption will be terminated and she will be put in a muggle orphanage.

So I was adopted then who are my real parents then? Does anyone else know about it? If they do why didn't they tell me? I put the letter down and started to pace around my room debating over why no one ever told about me being adopted. When I had been doing that for about an hour someone knocked on my door.

"Who is it?"

"Its Draco can I come in?"

"Yeah come on in," I said. Should I tell him that I am adopted but what if I do and he never wants to speak to me again? And who are my real parents anyways?

Draco came in and sat down on my bed.

"So, I bet you can't wait for tomorrow, can you?" Draco asked.

"What was the reason why you wouldn't talk to me when I first arrived?" I asked not answering his question .That's a good way to find out if he knows anything without letting it slip that I know am adopted.

"What do you mean?"

"Why were you so reluctant to talk to me when I first got here?"

"No reason at all except the fact that I wasn't in a good mood about having to share my wing of the house with someone," Draco said.

"Oh. Is that the only reason?"

"Pretty much the only reason, why I wouldn't talk to you when you first got here."

"What do you mean pretty much the only reason?"

"Well I can not tell you the other reason why didn't talk to you."

"Why not?"

"I could be killed if I told you and I do not feel like dying just yet." So he does know about me being adopted.

"Why would you be killed if you told me? And who would kill you?"

"I can not tell you so stop asking me," Draco said.

"Does it have anything to do with me being adopted?"

"Who told you that?"

"No one, I found a letter addressed to my parents about it."

"You know you shouldn't snoop around if you know what's good for you because you can get into a great deal of trouble if you do."

"I didn't snoop. I found it on my desk and it wasn't there when I left earlier. So that means someone put it there after I left. And why would I go snooping when I have no reason to and when I just am adopted. I'm not going to tell anyone if that's what you're worried about. I won't even tell Ashley as far as I know you, my parents, and the people who legalized this adoption are the only ones that know about it, other people could know but I didn't tell anyone," I said in one breath.

"Well there are other people who know. My Mother and Father know," Draco said.

There was a minute's pause, then I said, "And there's someone else you won't tell me about."

"I am not saying anything more about this I came in here to ask if you couldn't wait for tomorrow."

"What do you think and don't change the subject."

"I am going to get something to eat. Goodbye."

"Draco Malfoy get your fucking ass back here this minute," I yelled at his retreating back.

Draco kept walking out of my room and down the hallway. Damn cousin I am going to hurt him if he doesn't tell me soon what he knows. I know he knows something that he's not telling me and I want to know what it is. I walked out the door and downstairs to the dining room since it was almost dinnertime. My Aunt was sitting at the table waiting for Draco and me to come down to eat dinner.

"Paige could you please go up and tell Draco it is dinnertime?"

"Okay."

I walked back upstairs and over to Draco's bedroom door. I knocked on the door and there was no answer. So I slowly opened the door and walked in. The by out of the room was fairly the same way as mine except that the bathroom and closet doors weren't on opposite walls. The bathroom door was on the same wall as the door leading into his room and the perpendicular to that wall was the closet door (it was a walk-in closet similar to mine). There were some clothes on the floor by his bed and two lumps in his bed it looked like they were sleeping. So I walked out of the room and into my room, got some paper and jotted down that he had missed dinner and slipped it under his door. I walked back downstairs. When I got to the bottom of the stairs I saw a prefect's badge was lying at the bottom of the stairs. I picked it up, looked at it and then put it in my pocket. I'd ask Draco about it later. Then I walked back into the dining room.

"Draco's asleep and I didn't want to wake him up. So he'll be missing dinner," I said sitting down.

"Okay so it will just be the two of us eating dinner tonight then," my aunt said signaling to one of the house-elves to bring it up.

We ended up having steak for dinner. My Aunt and I talked about what we would be doing the next day. When we were done I walked out of the dining room. On my way upstairs I met Draco halfway up.

"Did you go into my room?"

"I only opened the door and looked in I saw you in bed and didn't want to wake you. So I left the note under your door."

"Oh, well I'm going to get some food."

"So who was that other lump?"

"Drop it."

"Did you drop anything at the bottom of the stairs?"

"Yeah," Draco said slowly.

"What was it then?"

"My... I don't know just give it to me already."

"So it's the girl in your bed's?"

"Is it any of your business who's it is? Just give me the damn thing."

"Fine then do not yell at me then," I said throwing the badge at him then continued walking up the stairs and into my room.

When I got into my room I plopped down on my bed. I laid there string at the thinking about what had happened over the summer. Well I promised Draco I'd help him and I don't go back on my promises, even if I am mad at him. God I hate that I never go back on promises. I ended up falling asleep out of boredom. The next day I woke up and got changed into clean clothes. I walked out of my room and started to walk down the stairs when I heard a door behind me open.

"Happy sixteenth birthday, Paige," Draco said following me downstairs to the dining room, "Your present should be arriving sometime today."

"Okay, thanks," I said walking downstairs to the dining room and sitting down at the table.

I had a plain bagel with cream cheese, and Draco had some eggs for breakfast. I finished eating my bagel and then went back upstairs to open the present I had gotten from Ashley. I walked over to my desk and moved some papers around and then I picked up the gift and unwrapped it. It was a book on Dragons that I had not yet read. The front cover had a Chinese fireball on the front cover. Every few minutes it would breathe fire. When I went to leave my room to show Draco the book on the nightstand and picked it up the book. The book was called "So You Want to Raise a Dragon". Wonder who put that there. Maybe it has to do with what Draco got me. He did say it would be arriving later in the day. I hope I am right. I walked out with both books to find Draco. I knocked on Draco's door.

"Come in," Draco said after a few seconds.

I opened the door and walked in, "This is the book that Ashley got me for my birthday," I said handing him the book.

"Can I borrower that book when you're done reading it?"

"Yeah sure, thanks for the book."

"What book?"

"This book," I said showing him the book on raising dragons.

"Oh that book. Sorry I forgot. I'm tired, didn't get much sleep the past couple of days."

"Wonder why," I said raising an eyebrow.

"Shut up. What fascinates you about who I'm going out with anyways?"

"Because I do and does it bother you that I have an interest in who you are going out with?"

"Yes it does so stop, because I can make your time at Hogwarts a living hell."

"Fine, but don't threaten me on my birthday," I said starting to sound irritated.

"God don't get your panties in a bunch."

"Shut up or else there will be some embarrassing stories about you going around Hogwarts this year," I said knowing I hit a nerve.

"You wouldn't."

"Yeah I would. What will you do about it?"

"I'll make sure everyone at Hogwarts knows those rumors about you."

"Fine I won't say a thing about you going shopping with your mother when she goes to buy her..."

"Shut up and don't you finish that sentence," Draco cut me off.

I heard a soft laughing come from somewhere by Draco and me but no one was in the room with us. Someone else is in here with us using an invisibility cloak and as far as I know Draco doesn't have one. So who is it? I looked around the room trying to find the source of the noise, but I figured Draco knew because he wasn't trying to find the source.

"Well I better get ready so we can leave and start shopping the sooner we're done the longer we can stay at the beach and I can wear my new bathing suit," I said as I walked out of Draco's room.

I walked back to my room and put the books into my trunk. I would try to read them during the school year. I made sure that all my potion supplies were full. When I was done I walked down the stairs and towards the sitting room to wait for everyone. When I walked in I noticed that my Aunt was sitting there waiting and drinking a cup of tea.

"Do you want some tea?" my aunt asked.

"No thank you, but I could use a cup of coffee," I said (I had been here all summer and I still preferred to drink coffee over tea).

"You'll never be able to live without your coffee for very long will you?"

"No. I don't like tea very much," I said sitting down and taking a cup of coffee with my usual French Vanilla creamer in it from a house-elf that was standing close by, "Thank you."

"Oh, well I guess growing up in the U.S. can do that to you. Since most people have more coffee than they do tea."

"Yeah, because most people have at least one cup a day to them up in the morning over in the U.S."

"Morning Mother," Draco said walking through the door.

Draco had a cup of tea, my aunt finished hers and I finished mine and after Draco was done with his we left. When we got to Diagon Alley Draco poked me in the back.

"Why'd you do that?" I asked turning around to face Draco.

"Potter's over there. You should start now and not when we get to school."

"Fine," I said walking toward Potter and some other people, friends probably, with Draco following me over there to make sure I do what I was suppose to.

"Hello Scar head, and weasels," Draco said looking at Potter and two redheads but completely ignoring the brunette standing between Potter and the male redhead.

"What do you want Malfoy," Potter asked.

"For you to move the fuck out of my way," Draco said.

"Draco play nice. Will you?" I asked nicely.

"Fine but then I'll be fucking bored out of my mind with nothing to do. So Scar head how are you and your little fuck buddy doing?" Draco asked.

The female redhead blushed a violent shade of red.

"Draco is it any of your business what Potter does if it doesn't concern you in anyway," I said.

"Shut the FUCK up Malfoy," Potter said to Draco.

"You're not my mother Potter!" Draco said.

"Thank god. I'd probably kill myself if I was," Potter said with a disgruntled look on his face.

"Do not crack jokes about my mother Potter or else I'll beat the crap out of you," Draco said.

"Draco don't do anything too harsh, please," I said trying to control my anger towards Potter about that crack he made towards my aunt.

"Oh, now you have girls defending you Malfoy," Potter said.

"For a-matter-of-fact I am not defending him," I said.

"Yeah okay," the redhead guy said not believing me.

"Shut up Ron," the brunette said.

God how I am I suppose to get Potter to like me when I am ready to kill him and that "Ron" for dissing my family. Draco stopped fighting with them.

"Who are you anyways?" the brunette asked me.

"My name is Paige," I said.

"Well nice to meet you Paige. My name is Hermione Granger, this is Ron Weasley and Ginny Weasley," the brunette said.

"Draco has told me so much about you three.

"Must not be good if it's coming out of his mouth," R. Weasley said.

"Depends on your definition of good," I said, "cause by my definition it is good."

"So before my cousin beats the crap out of you Weasley why don't we go and get some drinks?" Draco asked.

"Why are you trying to be nice Malfoy?" Potter asked.

"Let's just go. You know he's not going to try anything in public that could get us killed or hurt cause there would be too many witnesses that he wouldn't be able to get out of it," Granger said, "and anyways I am thirsty."

"Well I guess you are right I'm thirsty, too," Potter said considering the matter.

"Have you two gone off your rockers?" Weasley asked looking at the two curiously.

"No, I just have a point that he won't try anything that will get him into trouble where there would be too many witnesses. So he couldn't get away with it and I am not in mood in get into a fight right now," Granger said.

"Fine whatever there's no point in arguing with you two," Weasley said looking past Draco and me.

The G. Weasley stepped on his foot then whispered something in his ear (probably about what he was looking at), he started to blush a violent shade of red.

"Well since none of you have any objections let's get going I don't have all day. I have places I need to be later," with that said I started to walk towards the Three Broomsticks and they started to follow me (with Draco right behind).

When we got there Draco, Granger, and the two Weasleys went to find a table. Potter went with me since is friends didn't completely trust me with their drinks and I would need help bring them back. I order Draco's and mine drinks and waited to get them, and for Potter to get his.

"So why do you guys hate Draco so much?" I asked trying to start a conversation with him.

"Because he is an arrogant git who thinks he's better than everybody else because he is a pureblood who has money," he said.

"Watch what you say. I won't tell Draco but don't go dissing him behind his back."

"Why should I, he probably does it all the time. Why did you want to know anyways?"

"I was just wondering. Come on let's go our drinks are here," I said paying for Draco's and mine, and then I walked back to the table.

When I got there I noticed that Weasley wasn't at the table. I handed Draco his drink and then sat down and started to drink my drink.

"Where'd Weasley go?" I asked Draco.

"I don't know maybe he had to-"

"Do not you dare finish that sentence Malfoy," Granger interrupted.

"Why should I listen to you?" Draco asked.

"Both of you just shut up! If people didn't know any better they would think that you two were together," G. Weasley said.

"So now you think you can boss me around now," Draco said.

"Draco stop arguing with everybody already," I said.

Before Draco could say a thing Potter, R. Weasley and some tall black girl walked over to the table. The girl sat down next to R. Weasley and Potter sat down next to g. Weasley.

"He wasn't driving you two crazy was he?" Potter asked.

"No, he wasn't," Granger said.

R. Weasley seemed to not to care what was going on around him because he was too busy staring at the girl sitting next to him.

"I don't want to be mean or anything but who are you?" I asked.

"My name is Leah. I never caught your name what is it?" the girl asked.

"My name is Paige and I am going to be going to Hogwarts with all of you this year."

"Oh where are you originally from?"

"I am originally from England then my parents moved to America when I was a couple of months old so I grew up in America."

"How was it going at Salem when you left?"

"Pretty good nothing really happened last year minus some kids got expelled for getting drunk on school grounds in the middle of the year so I guess they got moved to a private school," I said.

"Oh do you by any chance know who they were?"

"No."

"Oh well it was nice meeting you. Come on Ron let's go," she said.

"Paige we better get going," Draco said standing up.

"But I don't want to leave. I want to continue talking to them because talking to three or four people all summer is rather boring," I said still sitting in the chair.

"Fine I guess you don't want to go to the beach then."

Umm... the beach where there are probably a whole bunch of hot guys to look at or stay here and continue talking to them. Umm... the beach.

"Okay I'm coming," I said as I got up and started to walk toward the door, "See you on the train."

When we got outside we saw Aunt Narcissa coming out of a shoe store with none other than Pansy Parkinson and her mother. Before Draco could even react or hide the three of them had spotted us and had started to walk toward us. Pansy looked like Christmas had come early and was hurrying over to us and got there a whole lot sooner then Mrs. Parkinson and Aunt Narcissa did. Pansy tried to kiss Draco but he moved to my other side to avoid being kissed. She looked like she was going to start crying. At that moment the two Weasleys, Potter, Granger, and Leah decided to leave the Three Broomsticks and by the looks on there faces were surprised by what they saw happened a few minutes ago.

"What's wrong dear?" Mrs. Parkinson asked Pansy.

Draco shot her an evil look, "Nothing, I am just so happy to see Draco Mother," Pansy said.

"Ok. See you tomorrow Narcissa. Come along now Pansy, we have things to do before dinner," Mrs. Parkinson said walking away.

"So are we going to the beach now?" I asked.

"Yes dear. So let's get going so you guys can stay there for a while," she said.

So we went back to the manor got our swimsuits and left to go to the beach. As I had thought there were quite a large number of hot guys there that day. About an hour into being there Draco and I saw Potter, Granger, the two Weasleys and Leah setting out their stuff not that far along the beach. I caught Draco staring over at then with his mouth opened.

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