HIDDEN SECRETS

Chapter 11

Before I knew it, it was time to go back to Hogwarts and Aunt Megara, Mum, and Cassiah were all standing around me at the train station. "Did you girls know that this was the year I met and started dating your father?" Mum asked as she wiped her eyes. "Wow." Cassiah said as she checked out a couple of nearby seventh years. She was wearing a lot of black muggle makeup-- I think it's called eyeliner, and she was wearing a black and white tribal print shirt that showed a little bit of her stomach, and she had white skinny jeans to match. Her blonde hair was in a loose fishtail braid over her shoulder , with a couple of loose curls that she had tucked behind her ears that had been pierced many times. I could see the seventh years checking her out and smiling. She noticed and smiled back as she tossed her braid over her shoulder.

When Mum saw she bit her lip back from saying anything. She probably didn't want to offend her 'new' daughter. Just then I caught sight of Astoria talking with Draco. I waved them both over. "Mum this is Draco Malfoy. And you know Astoria Greengrass." Mum smiled and shook Draco's hand and hugged Astoria. "Did you say Greengrass?" Aunt Megara asked suspiciously. "Um yeah, I did. Why?" I asked, also a bit suspicious. "Oh, no reason dearie." She said quickly as she nervously eyed Mum. At the same time, Astoria was eyeing Cassiah's interesting choice in clothes and she looked confused. "Ah Mum, Aunt Megara, Cassiah," I nodded at each person as I said their names. "We should go get a seat on the train, it should be leaving here in ten minutes, and it fills up pretty fast." I quickly hugged each person in my family and said farewell until Christmas. "Let's go." I whispered as I grabbed Draco and Astoria's arms and lead them towards the opened doors of the Hogwarts Express.

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Luna met us in the compartment five minutes before the train was scheduled to leave. "Hey who was that leaving with your mum?" Luna asked as she sat by Astoria. "My Aunt Megara. She stayed with us for a couple of weeks." I answered. "Who was the other girl?" Draco asked speaking up. "Well... that's my sister... Cassiah." Everyone besides me gasped. All of their voices overlapped as they all asked me questions. The thing was, was that I had no idea how to answer them. I knew just about as much as Cassiah as they knew.
Ignoring their questions, I launched into the story of how I found about her by reading my father's journal.

Wasn't this a great way to start my fifth year at Hogwarts?