I was waiting with my parents in front of the Zabini manor, clutching my cloak for warmth and dreading as to the reason why we are here. Rain was thundering down but none of us got wet because we were surrounded by shielding charms! Well, we were wizards and there are advantages of that! I didn't want to come here in the first place. Why are we even here?

The door opened and revealed the infamous Mrs. Zabini, known for her seven different husbands. Her son Blaise stood behind her, dressed in a dark black tuxedo. Well everything he was wearing was black except for the white shirt he wore inside.

We were ushered inside quickly, and we exchanged a polite greeting. I took off my cloak and handed it to the tiny house elf eagerly waiting to receive them. They took us into the living room and ordered us to stand next to each other while the parents sat down on the luxurious furniture in the manor.

"Now you may be wondering, why we have called you here tonight?" spoke Mrs. Zabini folding her hands delicately on her lap.

"Yes ma'am!" I said looking over at my parents whose faces showed no emotions.

"As you know, in these past few years, these filthy little mudbloods have tainted the pureblood community. So, now it is our duty to regain the might of purebloods!"

My heart sank; I think I knew where this was going. I glanced over at Blaise and saw a similar expression written on his face too.

"And we decided, that there is no better way to do that other than the joining of two very upheld, pureblood families!" she said as she looked at me expectantly.

"But I am only 18 for god's sake!" I thought returning a very fake smile to Mrs. Zabini.

"The wedding will be in two weeks' time! And I fully expect you two to be prepared and know each other!" she said looking pleased at the reunion.

"How am I even supposed to do that! Know him in 2 weeks! I didn't want to do this! I didn't want to marry for money and blood; I wanted to marry for love!" I thought as my heart twisted sadly inside. I knew Blaise felt the same way by looking at the expression on his face. My parents, how could they do this to me!?! They didn't even ask about my opinion. They are just deciding my life as it is theirs to own.

"Now you to may go to the garden and talk! Mrs. Zabini and I need to discuss a business financial contract for Gringotts!" My mother commanded. I shot her a glare as she waved me off with a flick of her hand.

I glanced at Blaise and started walking in the same direction, behind him. My back was straight and my head was held high the way that I have been taught to since my childhood. You should despise muggle borns, be proud you are the best of the best, you should only associate with the top layer of people in this wizarding society because they are the people fit enough to stay with us, make friends with the famous people and only purebloods, you should definitely be sorted into Slytherin! This was all the stuff that was taught to me from my childhood and my head literally burst off with the pureblood mania my parents put onto me.

Now I know that being born pureblood was the worst thing ever because like everything I see or do they are not being controlled by me but by my parents. Everyone I associated were not even my friends, they were the people who my parents wanted me to talk to! I was just their puppet doing everything that they wanted me to do. They wanted me to go to the Yule ball with Draco Malfoy and I had to agree, even when I had a crush who had already asked me out. Everything in my life was a lie.

How could they take the most important decision of my life without asking from me? Now I have to be married to some stupid pure blood maniac.

"Hey, (y/n)!" Blaise said turning to me since we had already reached the massive garden of Zabini manor.

"I don't want to marry you! For god's sake, we are only 18!" I said to him.

"I am so sorry for this. I promise this was not my idea but I had to!" he said looking at me sadly, "I didn't want this to happen as well!"

"I don't want anything to do with you! I wanted to marry for love but now it is only money and wealth that I am marrying for!" I said as I glided down, tears cascading down my cheeks, "Being a pureblood was the worst thing that ever happened to me! I have everything I want in life expect for one thing and that most important thing in a person's life, love! I thought that at least someday I would get to marry someone I loved but that too, was ruled by my parents! My life is horrible and so miserable!"

Surprisingly I was very much relieved now that everything was taken off my shoulders, like I never told this to anyone! But now since I was so angry I spitted it out at my going to be husband, this was the worst thing ever! But we had to do this.

"Talk about this! This life is just hell! I hate this! I don't -" Blaise said as he sat down next to me but then his mother called from inside for Lunch.

I took a shaky breath and said, "I do not love you okay? So, this thing between us is only happening in front of our parents!"

"Yeah, sure!" he said and he clearly was also fed up with the pureblood family stuff.

When we went inside, everyone was seated in the table and at the head of the table was Mrs. Zabini, who was looking at every step that I took.

THIS WAS BAD!

2 WEEKS PASSED BY...

I was fitted into the most expensive wedding dress that you could find in Diagon Alley and I was fretting this day for two weeks but it came so quick. My hair was all loose down with different pins and stuff.

"Okay, head held high, back straight and be proud!" my mother came and whispered to my ear.

"I will never forgive you for this! Both of you!" I whispered back to her, tears threatening to spill.

My father came and walked me down the aisle well, I looked like I was being taken to go and be killed.

NOW THE CEREMONY STARTED...

"You may kiss the bride!" the person said.

Blaise looked into my eyes and told me a silent message, "For this time only, please do this!"

I nodded as tears spilled about of my eyes. Everyone was like, "Oh, she is crying for happiness and that is so cute!" but I knew better. I closed in and he too closed in until my lips started moving in sync with him but I quickly pulled over.

THE CEREMONY FINISHED AND WE CAME TO ZABINI MANOR...

I quickly went to "OUR" room and jumped to bed crying my eyes out, all this happened in my life and I was not even in love with the person that I married. This was just all wrong! Blaise entered the room and removed his coat and threw it away, he went to the corner kept his head on the bench and remained like that the entire night or so I thought because like I fell asleep halfway through crying!

"Mr. and Mrs. Zabini, breakfast is ready!" I heard a small house elf come and squeak. Wow! That sounded very weird and now I guess that was what people will call me, Mrs. (y/n) Zabini.

I took a wash and wore my very formal outfits which my mom selected for me to wear here, in hell.

"Good morning!" Mrs. Zabini told me as she nodded her head curtly at me. I just totally faked a smile and went to plop down on the nearest seat. I looked into the table which was arranged for entirely a feast even though it was only breakfast. Blaise came in after that and sat down right in front of me and we started eating.

"So, everybody liked the wedding! They said what a matching couple you two were!" Mrs. Zabini said looking really pleased but she knew how to keep her emotions in check as I was taught but I was very bad at this. I just simply looked down and Blaise too started picking on his food.

2 WEEKS LATER...

This was the worst time in my life, I mean the part where every step of the way you get looked at and treated very respectfully. I was one day, walking in Diagon Alley and this random person bowed in front of me and I just awkwardly looked at him and smiled.

The days at this manor was even worse because you have to be punctual and be wearing your best clothes all the time. The only thing that I like about this place is the huge library and I swear it was even bigger than the Malfoy manor's one. I spend all of my time there indulging in the 100s and 1000s of books there were.

As time passed by, I was even too disgusted to go down and eat with the Zabinis'. This place was becoming hell. I barely saw my "husband" as well. He was mostly hanging out with Draco, Crabbe and Goyle when I had restrictions in having friends too. Two days passed by and I haven't eaten anything except for some water and apples that the house elf brought to me.

Yet another dinner time came and I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in!" I croaked.

"(Y/n), you've got to come and eat! You haven't eaten in two days!" Blaise said as he walked in, he cares about me?

"No Blaise I am not hungry!" I said looking away.

"No, you have to come today! Look at the state of you! You look so fragile and so weak! If you don't want to meet my mother then we can go somewhere else to eat tonight!" he said as I looked him in the eye. He understood all my pains and sorrows. He knew that I was disgusted in his mother.

"OK!" I said to him as I quickly jumped out of bed and went to change.

I wore this really long red dress and put my hair down and I actually complimented myself because I looked very nice, well to me. I went to the living room where Blaise said that he would meet me and he was already there wearing his usual, black except for the shirt.

He said that I was really pretty and I said that too because like he was really handsome too. We flooed to the restaurant that we were wanted to go to and sat down. We ordered our meals and waited till the waiter brought the food in. Till that we talked about how weird this pureblood thing is and I began to actually like him, as a friend. We had a lot of things in come on.

After we ate all the couples went to dance and I really wanted to dance because like I only danced once after the Yule ball. Well, basically because the "PUREBLOODS" only danced during very formal occasions. My mother and father were very strict with the dancing policy that was going on. She wouldn't let me even dance alone in my own room with some music on.

"Is this how a purebloods act? Your grandma will be ashamed of you!" she would have said but go to hell with my grandma. I haven't even seen her and why would I be ashamed of doing something to embarrass her.

"You like dancing?" he asked me.

"Yeah!" I said as I looked at the couples, I would have been like that if only I was born a half-blood or muggle born. Dancing with actually someone who I loved.

"You want to dance?" he asked me.

"I would love to but you know it would be bad for the Zabini name if we do!" I said looking sadly at him.

"Go to hell with the Zabini name!" he said as he took my hand and walked with me towards the dance floor, my long red gown bellowing around me.

The music changed to a slow music and I put my hands around his neck while he put his hands around my waist gripping them as lightly as a feather. We slowly started swaying to the beat and then after sometime the music changed to dancing music and we went wild. He was a natural dancer.

"You had classes for that?" he asked me, "You are a natural!"

"Yeah, I did! But not for this type of dancing but you know the "PUREBLOOD" type!" I said rolling my eyes.

After like 12:00 in the night we went out and flooed back to the Manor and I had to stay Blaise was a really nice guy. He was polite and he knew how to entertain a person when you needed it the most. Like I knew that he would say, "Oh yeah, our reputation, we cannot go and dance!" but he very surprisingly said something like, "Screw my own family name!" and danced with me.

"Good night! And thank you for today it was hella-uh... a nice-"

"Don't worry I don't care! You go on with how you speak with me!"

"So, yeah today was hella fun! I loved it! Thank you so much!" I said.

I went closer to him and hugged him because it felt like the actual thing to do because he actually made this day the best of all the days I spent here. He was actually really shocked at first but then he too hugged me back, very lightly wrapping me around his hands.

The next day morning, I had to wake up early because there was a time for that too. I quickly wore this dress that I could find from my mother's formal attire list and fitted it on. I put my hair in a high ponytail and quickly ran downstairs. Everybody was waiting for me already dressed. When I entered the room, Blaise smiled at me and I returned.

"Good morning!" I said as I sat down next to Blaise.

"You two have done something that disgraced our family name yesterday!" Mrs. Zabini said looking really annoyed and angry.

"What is that Mrs. Zabini?" I asked.

"You two have danced like two wild pigs! And it is all over the newspaper! What will I say to Mrs. Malfoy!" she said her voice really stern?

"I am so sorr-" I started but I was interrupted by Blaise.

"What is wrong with us doing that? Mom, my life isn't yours to decide! How can you take very important decisions without even asking from me? This innocent girl who is only 18 years old had to get married because of your stupid, worthless pureblood mania. I am so fed up with my life! I see no reason as to why, (Y/n) should apologize to you because it is after all our lives, not yours okay?"

He stood up from the table in a sudden manner loosened his tie, took my hand and scrambled away with me leaving only a very disgruntled lady sitting in the dining hall looking at us exasperatedly.

"That was really nice of you, back there?" I said because what he said actually got me in the heart. It was so sweet of him to stand up for me.

"It's nothing! I have been waiting for a time to tell that to her actually!" he said turning around looking at me.

4 WEEKS PASSED BY...

So, you know what the thing is? It is that I am actually developing feelings for Blaise Zabini. I know right! Sometimes if I couldn't see him, I would feel empty. He was such a nice guy but frequently misunderstood because he had to support Lord Voldemort in the battle of Hogwarts. Well that wasn't his fault; he was forced to do so.

The fact that he was staying in the same house wasn't helping but it was actually making this case worse. I would sometimes stare at him too much and he would understand. Then I would blush all over the face like a complete weirdo. I know right! This was pathetic!

2 WEEKS PASSED BY...

So, I was in my room and I was thinking about this thing with Blaise. What if when I say that I like him, he says that he doesn't feel the same way about me? Gods, that would be so embarrassing! Well, this was hard, what am I going to do! I cannot keep my feelings like this forever as well now, can I?

Well, after hours of thinking, I decided that I was going to tell it to him because nothing would happen if I didn't talk to him! Like I can't just be waiting for things to happen, I have to make them happen! So, I got out of bed and went to the washroom. I had a wash and came out.

I wore one of my own outfits without choosing from my mother's pile because he has to see the real me. I wore a nice casual dress that I had and put my hair down. The black curls at the end hung down my waist elegantly. I put some lip gloss, mascara and eye-liner on!

I looked at myself and I looked okay, I guess? I went down and called a house elf. I told her to put the classical music for slow dancing on! She told me okay and ran away to find the music. I was roaming around the manor to find Blaise. He was nowhere to be seen but then I went to the garden and he was there.

He had removed his coat and he was there with his white shirt and black stranglers. He looked really handsome with the moonlight shining down on him. He looked really serene and calm looking far away. I went and sat next to him.

"Hey, what's up?"

"Problems! The Gringotts thing-"

"I think I have something to cheer you up! Hold on!" I said as I quickly went inside and told the house elf to put the music on! She nodded at me and went to the player. When I was going outside, I heard the music.

"Come on! Let's dance!" I said as I took his hand and helped him up.

"You look nice!" he said as he twirled me around.

"Thanks, now come on!" I said as he took hold of my waist and I my hands went towards his neck. We slowly started moving to the beat. After sometime of dancing, I asked him, "It feels better isn't it?" when he dipped me. He nodded his head and did a last twirl.

Then we were walking in the garden when we came to the exact same spot where I said to him, that I don't love him

"Hey, remember me telling that I do not love you, right over here?" I asked him turning around to meet his eyes.

"Yeah?"

"What if I would take the not part out of that statement!?" I asked him as I closed him and kissed him passionately in the moonlight on the exact same place where hatred turned into love.

I think it was time to forgive my parents too because somethings are meant to be forgiven!

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Word Count: 3332 words

So, this one shot is pretty long and I just wanted to say that this was written by another best friend of mine, called Lexi. So, all the credit for this one shot goes to her. If you like the one she wrote, make sure to leave a vote, cause I bet that's gonna make her really happy. And her birthday just passed, so... it would make a great birthday present too!

Well, I hope you enjoyed reading this,

Slytherpuff2006