Chapter 6: The Living
'Stella~'
'My beautiful daughter, must you always make me upset?'
'What is with your attitude, I just asked if you wanted breakfast before going to Uni...'
Shaking the female awake, Ron noticed how her brows furrowed as she started to mumble in her sleep.
"Stel...wake up…" he whispered, eyes dancing around the room to find where McGonagal went. Stella reached out to grab onto his hand, squeezing it as she yanked him closer."Mom, I swear I don't have detention." she mumbled in her sleep. "Stop running…" The young redhead leaned in close to try and listen to what she was saying, noticing how Draco Malfoy stared at him intensely.
"Mr. Weasley, might I ask what you are doing?" McGonagal's low voice called out from behind, causing him to jolt out of his seat, landing on the floor with a loud thud. The entire room erupted in laughter, triggering Stella to wake up from the noise.
"Nothing Professor! I was just..I was just…" Ron tried to explain himself, nervously looking at Stella for help.
"Professor Mcgonagal….I dropped my quill and Ron was simply picking it up for me." Stella smiled, holding up her quill in front of her as if saying thanks to the male for "picking it up."
"Is that so…" McGonagal sighed, walking to the front of the room. "Well, Christmas is arriving shortly. I hope you all have a great break and enjoy some Christmas biscuits at the Great Hall. Class Dismissed."
Shortly after seeing the departure of their Transfiguration Professor, Draco stormed up to the red headed Weasley who seemed to be making small chat with the young Gaunt.
"Back of Weasle." Turning to his fellow Slytherin. "We have something to talk about."
Stella gave her fellow Pure blood a quick smile before averting her attention back on Ron. "I'll see you at the dining hall later then? Take it easy on the scones alright Ron." Pansy linked arms with Stella as the two females walked out of the classroom, heading back to the dungeons to change first.
"What is it that you guys needed to talk about?" Stella smiled, tugging at Pansy's hand and marveling at her new manicured nails. "Cute~." she whispered to her friend.
"It's about Pucey." Draco and Blaise announced together, looking at each other questioningly. Blaise nudged the other as if telling him to continue talking and tell her about what they heard.
"Pussy? What about him?" she chuckled, taking off the current favorite bracelet that Narcissa Malfoy bought for her the other day, and clasping it around Pansy's wrist. Pansy Parkinson grinned widely, flashing her wrist to the boys who were walking behind them.
"He...uhh…" Draco stuttered out, not knowing how to put it into words.
"PureBlood." Goyle whispered as the door to their common room opened, revealing their beautiful dungeon. The moment Stella stepped through the doors, a sight baffled her to the point her eyes teared from the anger that flamed through her bones.
"Well….that's what we wanted to talk about…." Blaise muttered, turning away from the disturbing view. A familiar figure leaned against the wall, trapping a girl who had one of her legs wrapped around the male's waist as they passionately kissed each other. Stella stormed over, clenching her fists tightly so as to not let her tears spill out.
"Who is she? I asked. WHO IS SHE!" Although the young Gaunt didn't exactly treat the male as her boyfriend, she despised being toyed with. "You rat!"
"S-Stella!?" Adrian Pucey gasped out, shoving the female he was snogging aside and running up to hold onto his "girlfriend's" hand. "It's not what it looks like! You know I love you!"
"Oh? Do tell? What was it that you two were doing, huh?" Stella demanded, poking his chest with her sharp fingernail, tears streaming down her green orbs. "Oh and it better be a stupidly good excuse."
"We...we weren't doing anything, I swear. We were just uhm…She..."
"Snogging." Draco interrupted, smiling at the male who was flustered at the entire situation of being caught cheating red handed.
"If you wanted to be with another, you could have at least given me the decency to tell me and not just run along getting off with different women behind my back! How long has this been going on? HOW LONG!?" Stella wanted to bash the male's head into the wall for deceiving her, she didn't care if he had a change of heart, all she asked was for a notice so she didn't walk around looking stupid.
"...Few days...maybe longer…" he whispered, looking down as a crowd formed around them. "But it was your fault Stel! You wouldn't sleep with me, you wouldn't do anything with me! You have to understand, I have desires too!"
"She's not a sex toy Pussy." Draco hissed, placing a hand on Stella's shoulder and ushering her back so he could stand in front. "Perhaps you should change your name to Pussy after all, don't mess with Stella if you're going to shag another girl. " Turning to the female whose hair was disheveled and her lipstick smudged onto the corners of her lips. "An ugly one at that, tch. What a poor downgrade."
"This is none of your business Malfoy. This is between Stella and I, butt out." Pansy smirked at the entire commotion, glancing at Blaise whose facial expression hadn't changed throughout the whole interaction. Pansy had always wanted the hot boys to herself and often felt challenged by the changed Gaunt, so the entire situation delighted her to the max.
"I believe it has everything to do with me Pucey." Draco chuckled, wrapping his arms around Stella's waist. "You know she was just playing with you right? She didn't want to sleep with you because she already has someone to satisfy her needs."
"What was that?" the elder Slytherin hissed, narrowing his eyes at the two youngsters. Everyone who was present stood in surprise, interpreting that the Gaunt and Malfoy had already done the deed with each other despite their young age.
"I believe we made ourselves clear. Crabbe, Goyle. Take him away and make sure my father hears about this." the young Malfoy ordered, leading Stella up to her room.
'Did you hear that?'
'No duh, I heard it loud and clear...'
'That means...it can't be..'
'Oh Merlin. Watch yourself from now on.'
Loud ruckus noised from below as Draco opened the door to the Gaunt's room, sighing as he sat down onto her bed. "Can you believe him, Malfoy! The audacity!" Stella yelled, throwing a pillow at her friend.
"Stop crying over him." Draco muttered, watching as she walked over to the her closet to grab a change of outfit.
"I'm not crying over him! I'm just so angry that the tears are just flowing out! Like seriously?! He blames me for his adultery?" Stella continued, holding out two different outfits to the male, one being an oversize sweater with distressed shorts and another being a sheer black crop top with jeans. Draco narrowed his eyes, noting how all her clothing seemed to be revealing. Pointing to the oversize sweater with distressed shorts, he turned around to give the female some privacy as she changed.
"We're going shopping tomorrow." he muttered, twirling his wand around his fingers disinterestedly.
"It's not your fault he's a pig." Draco started. Stella quickly changed out of her uniform and walked over to her vanity where her fellow mate now stood. Scanning through her selection of makeup, Draco leaned down to pick out a light pinky red lip stain and held it out to her. "This one's nice on you." he whispered, looking away as Stella smiled at him teasingly.
"Seems like you're fairly versed in-."
"I'm not." Draco cut her off mid sentence, knowing exactly what she was going to say. "Let's go."
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Down at the Great Hall, students sat in their respective house dining table, scarfing down the scrumptious meal laid before then. Draco noticed that Harry Potter and his two lackeys were missing, feeling a sense of oddity as at least the Weasley would certainly be inhaling the food. Blaise and Pansy decided to skip out on the meal as they had wanted to head home earlier for break to see Blaise's mother.
"Here. Your Favorite." Draco muttered, sliding his plate of Steak and Kidney Pie to the female who was still angrily indulging into her own plate of pie. "Slow down…"
"You're not eating?" Stella questioned, allowing Draco to dab at her lips with a napkin.
"Not really, I think I'll be heading on out first." He muttered. "Take care of Lady Stella you two." Crabbe and Goyle nodded their heads before returning back to the food in front of them.
"Here." Stella smiled, pushing over two cupcakes to the glutinous male who thanked her happily. "Don't worry about me, I'll head on back myself whenever I'm done. You two can go do whatever you want."
"Miss Gaunt? May we talk to you for a second?"
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"Crabbe. Goyle! What are you doing here?"
Percy Weasley's eyes dimmed the moment he heard a certain voice, his attention at the two male's in front of him changed to the young Slytherin who stalked up to him.
"What are you doing down here?" Draco questioned, taking his place next to his two thick minions.
"I'll have you know I am a Prefect." Percy hissed out, adjusting his robe to flash them his prefect badge.
"So?" Draco questioned boredly, glancing up at Goyle who was wearing glasses. "Why are you wearing those?"
"Uhm...couldn't see." he answered nervously, taking off the glasses and shoving them into his pockets.
"So? I'm allowed to patrol the castle to maintain order and report anything suspicious. You three are quite suspicious." the Weasley stated, rolling his eyes at the younger Slytherin. Draco growled out in displeasure at the Weasley's attitude, turning around to lead the other two back to the dungeons.
Upon arriving at the dungeons, Draco noted how odd the two were acting as they simply stood despite Draco already sitting down. The door behind them opened once again as a familiar female bursted in happily, running up to the young Malfoy.
"Draco! Draco! You wouldn't believe what I just did!" she exploded with laughter as she took a seat next to the young male who smiled at her questioningly. Draco had never seen her so happy towards him before, and even calling out his first name so joyfully.
"What is it?" he questioned, eager to understand the reason behind her ecstatic attitude. Stella glanced over to the two male standing and motioned for them to sit down.
"Oh, weren't you guys just out eating. How'd you get back before me?" she questioned, blinking her eyes confusingly.
"I uh…we..uh.."
"Why are you so happy Stel?" Draco questioned, ignoring his two buffoons.
"Oh! Right!" Stella smiled, clasping her hands together. "So there was these two girls that came up to me and said she found out that Pucey was playing with them. So I just laughed and mocked her for being stupid, then I came up with a wickedly good idea! I rounded up all the girls that Adrian had a thing with and we all stood on top of the podium and announced to the entire dining hall that he had a tiny weiner and couldn't even last a minute. You should've been there to see the look on his face, he looked absolutely stupid. I also announced that his position as Slytherin's Chaser had been revoked. That serves him right for cheating on me!" Stella mimicked the way Adrian had looked by pulling her face down with her fingers as if she was in horror and had her mouth dangling.
Draco chuckled softly, placing a hand on her head, and ruffling her hair gently. He couldn't help but think of how cute she looked as he gazed at her adoringly.
"Adrian cheated on you!?" Crabbe yelled out in shock as if it was the first time he heard about it.
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