A For Short

Chapter 6

"Ana honey! Hurry up please!" I heard mother calling from the other room.

"Mother, how do you intend on using this thing in my hair?" I called back to her. I heard the sound of shuffling feet and then mum entered the room. She looked beautiful. She had a dark blue ball gown on, that had jewels starting from the top and faded down the dress. On her head she wore a tiara. Her hair was nice and pinned up. "You look beautiful mother." I smiled at her.

"You haven't even gotten into your dress yet!" Mum exclaimed ignoring my compliment. Typical.

"I'm sorry!" I whined. "I don't know how!"

"You could've asked." She scolded.

"Okay well I'm asking you now to help." I snapped back. "I hate corsets anyway so the longer I can wait to not wear one the shorter amount of time I'll have to be in one."

"I won't make it tight. I promise."

"That's what you said the last time and I could hardly breathe."

"Alright alright turn around. We're going to be late for our own Christmas ball if you keep it up." I obeyed and turned around so Mum could do my dress. Once she was done she turned me around and took my face in her hands. "You are so beautiful Anastasia Malfoy." She smiled and kissed my forehead. I liked when mum did that. It made her seem not so bad. She walked over to my closet and grabbed the dress that was hanging. I slipped it on and turned around so she could do that corset too. Once she was done, she did my hair and then grabbed the hair piece and put it in my hair. "There. All done."

"Thanks Mum." I smiled giving her a kiss on the cheek." She smiled. There was a knock on the door. Mum walked to it and opened it. Draco.

"Almost everyone has arrived." He said. I looked at Mum.

"Where is your father?" She asked.

"Right here!" Dad said walking over. I smiled. Yeah we were a broken family, but we were still a family. That's what made us special. "Children remember-"

"We are to hold hands and pretend we like each other." Draco and I said together then looked at each other and laughed.

"Alright. You guys go down first. Have fun tonight okay?" Mum said. We both nodded and grabbed hands. As we reached the bottom of the stairs, everyone looked at us in awe. I couldn't help but smile. We to the middle of the ballroom and began dancing to the music. Mum and Dad soon joined us. It was a tradition for our family to have the children and parents be the first to dance. Once the song was over Draco released me and Dad came over.

"You look beautiful. May I have this dance?" He smiled at me. I nodded back taking his hand. I looked around the room. I suddenly felt the urge to run. There were way too many people here. I looked at my father. He looked concerned. "Are you okay?" He asked. I gazed around the room again ignoring his question. I didn't even know half of these people. The song ended and Dad squeezed my hand. "Ana," I looked up at his grey eyes.

"I just need some air." I reasoned.

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"Anastasia?" A deep voice called. I looked up. It was Severus. Or should I say Professor Snape. "Why are you outside at your own ball?"

"Too many people." I smiled weakly. "You know how I am."

"Of course." He walked over and lent me his hand. "Can I have this dance?" I took his hand and nodded. We walked back into the ballroom and started dancing. Severus was like my second dad. He meant a lot to me. The song ended and he left.

"Ana!" A voice shouted. I looked behind me to see Blaise. "Ana!" He came up beside me. "Will you dance with me?"

"Blaise I think I'm all danced out." I laughed.

"Just-" there was a piercing screeching sound and the music stopped. And then the lights began to flicker. The air felt cold. I knew what was happening. I had to get to my family.

"I've gotta go. Sorry." I said to Blaise as the lights went completely out. Everyone started to panic. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." I said running into people. "Mum! Dad!" I shouted. I felt someone grab my arm and I screamed.

"It's just me Ana." Dads voice said. "Are you okay?" I hugged him. No I was not okay. I was scared. The Dark Lord was here and I was not ready to see him again.

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So it's been awhile and I hope there are still some readers:) I've been crazy crazy busy so to make up I'm gonna do some chapters. Hope y'all don't mind:)