CHAPTER 22

                                    

                                          
"How have you been feeling?" Hermione asked me as we walked down the stairs and towards the kitchen for breakfast.
                          
"To be really honest, I wasn't feeling too great after you know..but when you guys invited me here I've been a lot better"
                          
"That's good to know" Said Hermione as we entered the kitchen to see Sirius, Harry, Ron and Ginny already eating breakfast.
                          
"Good morning" Sirius chirped.
                          
I was still a little weirded out by the fact that an alleged mass murderer was eating breakfast with a group of teenagers.
                          
"Good Morning Sirius" I said hesitantly.
                          
"I see you're still a bit confused about my presence here. All you have to know is that they put the wrong person in Azkaban" Sirius said.
                          
I nodded politely and picked up a piece of toast from a plate.
                          
Suddenly, there was a loud bang upstairs and everyone shook in their chairs.
                          
"What on Earth was that?" Molly cried, wiping her hands on a towel.
                          
"Fred and George. They're working on something" said Ron.
                          
"Punching telescopes is what they called it" said Ginny.
                          
There was a pop and Fred and George apparated into the kitchen. Their faces were strewn with dust.
                          
"Did the both of you just get back from a coal mine?" I chuckled.
                          
"Fred! George! I will not have you sitting on the breakfast table with all that dust on you!" Molly yelled, smacking both of their heads with her hand.
                          
"Ow! Alright alright!" George said before pulling out his wand and making the dust vanish from his and Fred's clothes.
                          
"So, Alice" George said, beginning to pour milk into a bowl.
                          
"You didn't tell us that Malfoy was your cousin"
                          
"WHAT?" Hermione, Harry and Ron said, looking at me with shock. Their cutlery clattered on to the table.
                          
"George you absolute arse-" Fred started,
                          
"Language!" Molly said.
                          
"You weren't supposed to tell that to anyone!" said Fred.
                          
George shot me an apologetic look.
                          
"Alice I'm so sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to keep it a secret. Fred only told me because we had to send all those letters to him"
                          
"No George, it's alright, everyone should know"
                          
"Hey! If you're Draco Malfoy's cousin, that means I'm your uncle!" said Sirius, a grin on his face.
                          
"Barely, you're my mother's, ex sister-in-laws cousin"
                          
"Yeah but still, hello niece!" Sirius laughed.
                          
"Wait, what's going on? You're related to that git Malfoy?" Ron said.
                          
"Yea, my mother is Lucius Malfoy's only older sister, Helena Aster, or Malfoy, that's her maiden name and now it's Malvolio because we changed our names"
                          
"Hang on a minute, your mother is Helena Malfoy?" Sirius said, straightening in his chair.
                          
"Why, did you know her?""
                          
"Did I know her? Of course I did, she was only the prettiest girl in our year" Sirius said, gazing into the distance as if remembering his school days.
                          
"You know your father Harry, he bet that I couldn't ask Helena out on a date but I did and she said yes. I dated her briefly before that prat Cadmus came and ruined things for us"