The Parent Trap

Chapter Eight

"We're finished," Draco Malfoy stated to the blonde woman sitting before him.

The blonde, Melissa Ferris, who was elegantly perched on the edge of the armchair in Malfoy's living room, calmly sipping on a cup of tea, looked up from her drinking to give Malfoy a disbelieving look.

"I'm sorry, can you repeat that again?" she spoke in monotone voice.

"Gladly," Draco said, standing upright and folding his arms, "we," he pointed his finger to and fro, "are .. finished," he smirked to see her reaction. Melissa broke into hysterical laughter, she sedately placed her tea cup on the table and walked up to Malfoy.

Wrapping her arms around his neck, she replied, "no Draco, we're not ... because we haven't even started," making a move to seductively nibble on his ear, Draco cringed at her movements, and pushed her away. Melissa looked dumbfounded.

"I don't think you understand English Melissa, we're breaking up, we're finished, done, fini, finito, no more," Draco stepped away from the woman.

Melissa's body shook with rage, her face turned into a crimson shade, her eyes were nearly bulging out her sockets, steam was coming out her ears. She glared at Draco, stamped her foot in anger, she screeched before stomping out of the room and knocking some expensive antiques along the way.

Draco exhaled a breath that he did not know he was keeping in, but seconds later a smile graced his handsome face as realisation dawned on him that that woman was finally out of his life.

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At Camp Walden ...

"So you do know about magic?" Amelia asked Holly.

"Yeah," Holly fiddled with her hands, "Aunt Ginny taught me, mum doesn't know though," Holly hastily added, "I know some simple spells, I have a few books on magic, the only thing I don't have is a wand."

Amelia smiled warningly at Holly, "that doesn't matter though, I don't have a wand either, I'm getting one as soon as we get to England, in preparation for Hogwarts-"

"-hogwarts?!"

"Yeah, just a month left till I'm going to be shipped off to the place, it'll be my home for the next seven years of me life .. scary thought that."

Holly laughed, "I've always wondered what it was like, Aunt Ginny's description just fuelled my thoughts about it."

Many questions ran through Amelia's head at that time, "wait .. you mean that you don't know if you've had a Hogwarts letter or anything?"

"I don't know, we're in hiding you see, avoiding the wizarding world, so I doubt they even know where to send the letter."

"why?" Amelia asked.

"Mum wanted to get away from the magical world, she had had enough of it after the divorce. Aunt Ginny said that so much media attention was on mum and dad that mum just cracked under the pressure. She wanted to just escape, so she whisked us away without a second thought, and we ended up in Berkeley."

"I can understand why she did escape. I blame Dad really, he should have found you and mum, and he should have put everything into finding you and mum, but I feel like he didn't."

"But maybe he did Amelia, the reason mum went into hiding was because she didn't want to be found."

"Maybe ... but I just wish that they didn't create this huge mess, it was unfair of them to keep us apart and not know about each other, it was unfair on you to not know about magic, it all makes sense to me now, Dad used to keep me hidden away, like I was some sort of secret, and Mum did they same for you-"

"-Amelia! Please don't talk like that, I know that you must be feeling angry at them, but at the time they did what they thought was best for us-"

"-Best for us!! What is best for us?!"

"Look, I think we should be grateful that we've gotten to know each other now, and that we have this opportunity to get Mum and Dad back together."

Amelia pondered over Holly's words, "you're right, I'm sorry."

"It's ok .. did you know that Mum and Dad met at Hogwarts?" Holly asked smiling.

Amelia smiled back, "yeah, Uncle Blaise told me that they used to hate each other."

"The infamous Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy ... what ever did go wrong with them?"

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In Berkeley ..

Hermione stared at her reflection in the mirror, the white wedding gown hugged her body beautifully. The dress was Grecian styled, V-necked, with an empire line, it elegantly flowed outwards travelling to the ground leaving a small train behind. Hermione looked at the mirror again, it was a beautiful dress, perfect in fact.

Ginny walked into the room, and momentarily stopped in her tracks, she looked at Hermione in awe, "you look .." Ginny faltered, "you look incredible," Ginny managed to say, her eyes were watering up, and it took a lot of strength to fight back the tears. She gave her best friend a bouquet of white lilies, and admired the reflection in the mirror, "you really do look mesmerising Hermione."

Hermione turned to her friend and smiled, "thank you Ginny, thank you for being here," she hugged her best friend tightly.

"It's what friends are for," Ginny whispered back, brushing some of the tears that were running down Hermione's cheeks, "so are you going to get this dress then?" Ginny asked, changing the subject.

"Yeah, why not?" Hermione shrugged her shoulders

"Price tag?"

Hermione laughed, "you do not want to see how many zeros are at the end of that piece of paper."

"Ohh please Hermione, pretty please, why should we care? The Wanker is the one that's paying for the whole wedding."

Hermione laughed and Ginny turned over the tag and gasped, and then joined in the laughter.

"Please tell me it's the most expensive dress in this shop," Ginny asked.

"No .. It's the most expensive dress in Berkeley."

"THAT'S my Hermione."

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"This is Uncle Blaise," Amelia showed Holly a photograph of a brown haired, blue eyed, handsome man.

"He's quite a dish," Holly commented, Amelia simply giggled.

"This is Grandfather and Grandmother," Amelia showed a photograph of Lucius and Narcissa.

"Eek!" Holly cringed at the scary face of Lucius, "tell me we don't live with them."

Amelia laughed, "we don't live with them, Grandmother died after the war and Grandfather lives in the Yorkshire Dales by himself, he had decided to abadon the the magical world after all the bad stuff that went around before we were born, you know, with the whole Voldermort business. Although he does visit every week, just to check on Dad's progress of salvaging the Malfoy name."

"Poor Dad, Grandfather looks quite scary."

"He is," Amelia laughed, "but believe it or not, he's quite loveable too, he's always been amicable with me, but harsh with Dad. He always reminds Dad about his past mistakes, the main one being letting someone like Mum go."

The girls sat in silence for a while, before Holly broke the silence.

"Now what are we going to do about your hair?"Holly asked, looking at Amelia's long brown hair.

Amelia immediately touched her hair, alarmed by Holly's idea, "we aren't going to do anything with my hair," Amelia said appalled.

"Oh come on Amelia, you can't expect me to go to England with my hair length like this and you arrive at Berkeley with hair like repunzel!"

"Who?"

"Never mind."

"Well ok, fine, we'll cut my hair," Amelia lovingly stroked her locks, "but you'll have to have your ears pierced."

Holly's eyes widened, biting the side of her bottom lip she thought about the idea, "done," the declared afterwards. Amelia smiled, and the two shook on it.

"Let's do this then," Amelia said.

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A/N: Okay, I know I said that I would update on the 30th April, but I lost my internet, so communicating with the rest of the world has been difficult, I understand if people want to kill me, I really am deeply, deeply, deeply sorry.

Thanks to everyone who has continued to read these story, and for all the kind reviews that have been left behind. I will try and update as often as I can. Good news is that my exams are nearly over, so I should have some free time now (but I am saying SHOULD, it all depends on how evil my school want to be with us)

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Next Update: Either 3rd or 4th July (4th is my birthday – woop woop!!), and yes I know it sounds like a long wait, but I'll try and make the next chapter a bit more interesting.

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