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JASMINE WAS LEFT FEELING rather confused after her conversation with Draco. She had gotten back to the common room and dragged Hannah into their dormitory and just cried.

Whilst it could be considered a good thing that her potential fiancé was Draco, she also hadn't expected it to be so soon. She was also bewildered at the fact that her father hadn't told her or even given her a hint to warn her of what was to come.

Hannah had consoled her fairly well, trying to aid her in leaning towards the news as being good rather than negative. But then again how could she speak, she wasn't going to be engaged to anyone.

The week had dragged on fairly slowly for Jasmine and she was almost relieved once she had gotten on the Hogwarts express to go home.

As always, she sat with Hannah and her friends for half the journey and then moved into the Slytherin carriage to sit with her brother.

She sat herself down in her brothers compartment, Draco being opposite her and Theo next to her, she let out a sigh and gave Loki a scratch.

"What's up with you?" Theo asked, noticing the glum way in which she sat down.

"Nothing? I'm fine?" Jasmine replied, she wasn't alright though. She was terrified for a potential war, her potential engagement. But for some reason she wanted to be at home, where she could sit with her Slytherin friends and not be judged for being in Hufflepuff.

"You sure?" Theo asked and she nodded. She missed the fact that Draco's eyes were trained on her face the entire time, even when the topic of conversation went onto the fact that Blaise had potentially 18 half siblings.

It wasn't long before they had arrived at Kings Cross station where they all began to pile off the train.

As they got off the train, Jasmine's eyes immediately began looking for her father. It didn't take her long to find him, he was quite a tall man.

She noticed he was stood next to Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, her breath hitching in her throat at the sight.

Their luggage was returned to them and the twins greeted their father whilst Draco greeted his parents.

Jasmine's father immediately greeted her with open arms, allowing her to hug him, "I've missed you, daddy" Jasmine spoke, cuddling into him. "I've missed you too sweetheart" he said as she pulled away from him.

Narcissa then immediately pulled Jasmine in for a hug, "how was your first term?" She asked, jasmine smiles in response, "it was good, studying hard" she said as she pulled away, her eyes meeting Draco's briefly, her cheeks flushing pink.

"We'll have time to talk about it more soon, you're coming for dinner in two days time" Narcissa spoke, Jasmine's eyes widened a little, if that wasn't a sign that she was to be engaged she didn't quite know what was.

Jasmine put a smile back on her face and nodded, "I'll see you then" Theo put his arm around her as they got ready to disapparate back to the Nott mansion.

Jasmine hated the feeling of apparating. She always felt horrifically sick afterwards and she couldn't understand how witches and wizards used the method of transport on a daily basis, she much preferred using floo powder.

The family got back to the Nott Mansion and Theo and Jasmine went their separate ways to their bedrooms.

Jasmine loved her bedroom at home, but it was nothing compared to her dormitory at Hogwarts.

At the Nott mansion, she had a very large queen size four poster bed, which was black and had white sheets. She had white and grey walls, with a few Hufflepuff and hogwarts memorabilia pinned to the walls, as well as some moving pictures. Pictures of her and Theo. Then pictures of Jasmine, Daphne, Theo, Draco and Blaise as younger children, Jasmine and Hannah and the ones that were most important to her. A picture of her mother and father, holding Jasmine and Theo as newborns, this was hours before she died. Jasmine could never understand how genuine her smile looked, when she must've been feeling awful.

The next one was of her mother and father when they were much younger, before the twins were born, it was on their wedding day, and one of her mother by herself. Whenever she looked at pictures of her mother, she was always reminded of how alike they looked. Same eyes, same nose, same hair, the similarities were uncanny.

Jasmine placed Loki down, who happily curled up on the blanket at the end of the bed. Jasmine laughed at how lazy her cat was, and began unpacking for Christmas.

Jasmine walked into her walk in wardrobe planning on unpacking to find a brand new dress hung up in her dress section. She pulled the dress out to take a look at it, with a note on from one of the house elves, "Miss Jasmine, for the Malfoy ball" she made a mental note to go and thank them later. She was always kind to them, which made a change from a lot of the treatment they were used to getting. She hated how they had house elves, it was barbaric and medieval.

The dress itself was beautiful, it was a dark emerald green, Slytherin green, Jasmine thought to herself. It was off the shoulder and looked as if it would be right fitting in all the right places.

Jasmine finished unpacking and moved out of her bedroom and down to her brothers room which was on another floor of the mansion.

She knocked lightly on the door before hearing a small "come in"

She walked into his room, seeing his owl in the corner, flapping her wings.

Jasmine moved so she was lying on his bed. "Feels weird to be back here, doesn't it?" Theo asked, he knew how she was feeling. It was always odd coming home for Christmas and then have to leave again in 3 weeks.

"Yeah, dad seems distant too." Jasmine spoke softly, "did the house elves leave you a suit for the ball on Christmas Eve?" Jasmine asked after a short pause.

"Yeah, they leave you a dress?" Theo asked and Jasmine nodded, "wanna go and get some food? I'm pretty sure there is some muggle popcorn in the kitchen that I left over the summer" Theo added again, Jasmine laughed, if their father knew they were eating muggle foods he'd flip.

"Yes, lets go eat muggle popcorn"