Veritaserum

Chapter 18

Bella was awoken with the creaking of her bedroom door slowly opening. Bells cautiously opened her blue eyes to investigate the source of the sound but found none. Safe and sound she happily closed her eyes to drift back to sleep. SPLASH!! Arabella suddenly sat straight up in her bed dripping from head to toe in ice cold water,looking around she made eye contact with her brother Draco Malfoy clutching his stomach in hysterics whilst pointing at his twin sister. Anger coursed through her veins and her lips released a high pitched scream.

Only seconds later her bedroom doors once again opened but this time in a frenzied hurry banging against the wall as their parents rushed into the room with their wands at the ready to protect their daughter. Both parents stood in shock as they saw the cause of her scream and Lucius couldn't help the deep chuckle from escaping his mouth. After all the scene was rather unusually even for a Malfoy. It's not every day that he would rush into his daughters room to be met with a laughing Draco and a daughter dripping wet. After finally recovering from laughing next to her husband Cissa realised how cold her own daughter was and that she was shivering from the coldness of the water tipped upon her. Quickly Cissa walked into the bathroom and retrieved a Egyptian cotton bath towel and quickly began running the bath before walking back to warm her daughter up. Lucius had stopped laughing and then turned towards his son. "What on earth was that for?" Inbetween laughing and sniggering Draco managed to answer his waiting father. "I've been trying to wake her up for ages now since the Snapes are coming today and Sapphire is her best friend this seemed to be the only way to wake her up without waking you to up but that sort of back fired now that I look at it" Draco concluded as he turned to see his mother and sister curled up closely on her bed. Lucius followed his sons gaze and couldn't help but smile at the cute family moment even if his son was to blame. "Fine your let of but don't you dare think about doing this again you nearly gave me and your mother a heart attack this morning we've only just got Arabella back and I don't want to lose her again don't you agree". His fathers stern words made Draco realise how much he must have scared father. "My apologies it won't happen again" "no it won't unless me and your mother are well aware of it before hand!" Lucius replied as his signature smirk graced his lips once more. Draco couldn't help the smirk that also graced his lips as they turned back to the two most important women in their life before slowly leaving the room to get ready for the day ahead...

In the Malfoy living room sat a rather odd duo of a man and a girl. The man was seated up straight with both his hands resting upon his black trousers, his knuckles were crunched up showing his flexed muscles underneath his black robe. His face had a permanent scowl that was half hidden by a mop of greasy black hair that framed his pale face. Next to her sat a more petite girl she too sat straight but in a more lady like manor instead of rigid like the man. Her face was still pale but it held warmth and the kindest eyes a person could possess. She too had straight black hair but hers was more glossy then greasy and held a natural shine that most girls would be blessed with. Her hands were joined together at the end of her knees and her curious eyes darted around the room taking in the prestigious surroundings to see what new delights had appeared since her last visit. Narcissa had left the odd duo to go fetch some tea before walking with Lucius to greet the guests.

The two malfoys entered the living room with Lucius hand on her back and her hands carrying the tray of tea. Sapphires eyes lit up at the sight of her mother figure since she had grown up at the Malfoy house nearly each weekend and lent forward to pick a biscuit and her tea cup deciding to ignore the glare her father sent her way. Narcissi smiled at this gesture and took a seat opposite the girl with Lucius closely behind. The adults within he room were well aware that they must tell Sapphire about Cetty/Bella's true identity since they were best friends but we're all unaware how to start.  "Sapphire dear we have some news that we believe you should be aware about" spoke Narcissa followed by a snort from Lucius at how proper that sentence sounded, Cissa sent a firm scowl towards her husband and her eyes encouraged him to see if he could do better. "Over the Christmas holidays Cissa and I have found our long lost daughter Draco's twin and we all find that it is necessary that should be aware of this before meeting the girl herself". From across the room Snape rolled his eyes at how badly the two Malfoys were handling this situation in his opinion they could've just said 'we found our lost daughter its your best friends Cettyana but her real name is Arabella' not the most elegant but it got the point across did it not. "See the thing is Sapphire it is-" "Sapphire" called a female voice from the entrance to the living room. At the sound of her name Sapphire's head popped up to be met with her best friend.  But before she could process what was happening Arabella had left from her position by the door into her best friends arms giving her a tight hug. Sapphires eyes were wide as realisation dawned on her pale features and she came out of her friends arms with a surprised face. "Cetty your the new Malfoy? How long have you known? Did you keep the truth from me?" Arabella was shocked at how untrustworthy Sapphire felt about herself. "Saph I found out at the start of the holidays and I've just been so busy since then that I've been unable to get word to tell you I'm sorry!" Bella's head ducked down in shame at how she must have treated her friend over the Holiday time, when she locked up she saw sadness in her best friends eyes and only thought of one thing to do. So lifting up her head high she turned on her heel and fled the room despite the shouts that her parents sent her way, she didn't stop running until she was in the welcoming surroundings of the library. Back in the living room all residents were shocked at how badly that whole confrontation went and Narcissa's hand had crept up to the comforts of her husbands. Sapphire had returned to sit by her father in utter silence as the assessed what had actually happened. Just then the sound of pounding feet met their ears and they all looked up to see a out of breath Draco enter the room. "What did I miss?" He said. Well what didn't he miss they all thought.