HP Bella's Lie

53-Birthday Party

From the first day of the holiday, the Blake family began to prepare for the arrangement of the birthday party.

Black is a big family, and his father, Signus, has been separated from the head of the family on weekdays and lives alone.This time, for Bella's birthday party, each family moved back to live in the main family's manor.

The result is that the restless monkey children in the past all gathered together, which was a disaster.

"Bellatrix! Why are you ignoring my letter!"

Sirius Black, a feisty troublemaker who just turned six, angrily accuses Bella.

"You know how hard I worked to get to the lecture! I recited that tattered family tree thirty times!"

"If you mean the ludicrous plan to sneak in Hogwarts to see a lecture during lockdown with a letter and a few toys, I don't think there's anything wrong with the decision to throw it in the trash." Bella retorted unceremoniously, "By the way, when I was the age your brother Regulus is now, I could already recite the family tree backwards."

"You..." Sirius was so angry that he was about to cry.

Andromeda couldn't bear to persuade: "Sister...he is still young..."

"No, you are not allowed to bully brother!" Regulus waved his small fist, firmly defending his brother's dignity.

"I'm not young!" Sirius pushed Andromeda away, "Don't underestimate me!"

Andromeda: "..." Kindness is like a donkey's liver and lungs.

Narcissa walked over gracefully, and glanced at her: "You haven't learned enough lessons, my good sister." After she finished speaking, she cast a contemptuous look at Sirius, "Childish." Holding her hand like a proud peacock The gesture is gone.

"Narcissa! Stop here!" Sirius exploded like a firecracker, igniting immediately, "Fight me if you have the ability!"

Bella stood in front of him and restrained him: "Sissy is a lady, not the same as you!"

"What are you talking about!" Sirius couldn't understand the concept of a lady at all, "Come and fight if you have the ability!"

"You're a wizard..."

"So what! Don't even dare to fight! Cowards!"

"..." Bella felt that they couldn't communicate at all.So she chose to use a petrification spell to keep him quiet for a while.

The magic circle at Black Manor allowed her to escape the surveillance of the Ministry of Magic, and most pure-blood families had their own means to obtain privileges.Those rules are for those who have no power in the magic world and half-bloods to abide by, so Bella and Andromeda have never had any scruples about using magic at home.

After telling Andromeda not to undo the spell for Sirius, Bella was relieved and sat down to drink afternoon tea with her sister.

It's a pity that Bella's free time didn't last long, she forgot that the Orion's family still had a brother-controlled little bean.

Although Regulus was only four years old, he couldn't talk, but there were still creatures like house elves in the manor.

Regulus said crisply: "Kreacher!"

A wrinkled little elf with big copper bell eyes appeared.Under the order of the little master, Sirius was released from the imprisonment with a snap of his fingers.

Sirius immediately ran over to fight a pain...

The children's fuss did not affect the adults at all. The head of the family called Bella's father, Signus, into the secret room for a long discussion. After coming out, Signus seemed a little erratic.

Orion obviously knew something, and showed Signus a rare kindness.

"Signus, teach Bella well. Black will be the best."

"...Of course." Signus said complicatedly, "my brother."

That night, Signus and his wife talked in bed all night, and neither of them slept.

Andromeda and Narcissa began to hear the advice from their mother to learn from their sister from time to time. Bella found that her parents respected her opinion more and more, and even the grandpa, the head of the house, asked her to talk to her alone.

Bella is already mentally prepared for what these all represent.

She stared at the double-sided mirror in a daze in the dead of night, but never took the initiative to connect with the person on the other side.

Sometimes she wondered if the lie he told that day to cover up his real identity might be hiding some tiny truth.What would it be, if any.

In the end, she didn't understand why he liked her, why he liked her so early, even earlier than her admiration for him.

Is it true what he said is from the future?Thinking about it carefully, his "deception" did not deny his identity as a darklord, but just avoided his true identity in the wizarding world... Could it be that that experience was not a deception, but a blurred truth?

They got married in the future, so it's no surprise that he, back in the past, was in love with her from the beginning.

But in this case, what was their love like in the first place?

Bella began to realize that thinking like this would only go on forever.She wisely gave up being a dead end.

Only under the silent moonlight at night, occasionally facing the double-sided mirror that does not reflect a trace of light and shadow, thoughts will get into that vortex and fall infinitely.

...enough for now.This was all she could have dreamed of.

A few days before the banquet, the ladies of the Black family obviously became restless and tense.Andromeda kept rummaging through her closet, Narcissa changed more than a dozen sets of clothes every day, and kept asking everyone about her outfits, Bella had no patience for Sirius' provocations, and always directly *.

Walburga couldn't bear to see them, so he said to them: "My ladies, it's not okay to go on like this. Why don't I take you to Sharp Point Alley and spend a day choosing the dresses you like, huh?"

The aunt's proposal was unanimously welcomed by the three sisters, even though she was Sirius' mother, she was very cute in their eyes now.

This time, I ran into a few of Walburga's acquaintances in Pointe Alley. Bella saw Lucius with light blond hair, and whispered to Narcissa that he was the Malfoy of this generation.

"Oh...the logo of their house is so recognizable." Narcissa showed a mocking expression, "But I heard from Andromeda that he likes to attract bees and butterflies."

"Really?" Bella looked at Andromeda in surprise, "I don't know about that." She didn't pay much attention to matters in the lower grades.

Andromeda frowned and said, "He dated two girls in our dormitory, but it wasn't long, and they were all separated."

Narcissa clicked her tongue: "How old is he?"

Bella laughed and said, "You're not as old as him, Sissy."

Walburga, who heard their conversation, smiled: "My Bella, you are only under 15 years old. Anyway, Lucius Malfoy is the only precious son of that old Malfoy guy, and he will not only inherit The family business is very likely to be the core backbone of the Volpes Knights..." She looked at the father and son walking away, and fell into a kind of thought, "Half of Malfoy's glory now is because of old Malfoy The status in the knight order...huh...but it doesn't matter, now Black..."

What happened to Blake now, she didn't go on, but her tone was self-evident.

Bella suddenly felt a chill.

When they returned to the manor in the evening, the layout of the banquet had already taken shape, and they were just waiting for the final perfection that morning.

Surrounded by her younger sister, Bella showed her mother the effect of the newly purchased dress, and finally decided on the dress for the banquet under the discussion of the family.

After tossing around until eleven o'clock before returning to the room to wash, Bella sat in front of the dressing table, suddenly disgusted with the birthday party.

She will benefit, Blake will benefit, and those who have a good relationship with her will benefit and benefit greatly; those who are against her will be hit, and some may even be a huge blow, a devastating blow...

All because of his preference.

That was the love she dreamed of.

But this love only benefits her.

It shames her.

Bella has always been proud.She is excellent, pretentious, believes that she is strong and brave, and believes that she can give her lover the purest love and strength.

But she found more and more that he didn't need it.Her love and strength are nothing compared to his.She is a complete vassal in front of him, she is becoming the most contemptuous appendage and parasite he ever had, and even her family is the same, eager to cling to his power.

She is not a hypocritical person, she always tells herself that these are not her goals, everything is just going with the flow, and there is no need to worry too much.

But she doesn't like escaping from reality even more. Every little thing that happens around her every day reminds her of the truth of reality, and she has to force herself to face up to the disparity between him and her.

Day after day of suffering made her gradually understand that she could tolerate being misunderstood, accused of being unworthy of him, and even willing to be his secret lover forever, but she could not tolerate being useless to him, which made her feel own incompetence and ugliness.

She can fully imagine how profound and dramatic the RT appearing at her birthday party will have on herself and the people around her.

She began to feel conflicted about that future.She didn't want him to know this feeling at all.

On the day of the birthday party, everyone in Black Manor got up early.

The house elves have been decorating since the night before yesterday. The manor is clean and bright, with magical ornaments adorning every corner of the room. The hall and front yard have been organized as the main venue. There are cheese drinks for the little ones.

The banquet started in the afternoon, but as two of Bella's closest friends, Mona and Rodolphs came in the morning, and the three who hadn't seen each other for most of the holiday chatted happily for a long time.

After the lunch break, the guests of the banquet began to arrive one after another. The elders were busy welcoming the guests. Most of the young children came from pure-blood families, and they were more reserved and proud than the other. They either behaved like their parents or mocked each other with their peers.

Lucius took the initiative to come over to greet Bella, expressing his admiration for the Black girl by the way, including all the Black girls of the same generation. Stop curling your lips.

"No matter how good Black's girl is, there's only one Malfoy like you, so I'm afraid I won't be able to enjoy it." Narcissa said harshly.

Lucius raised his eyebrows: "I don't have that much ambition, there are so many good girls, I only love one girl."

"Oh? I heard from my sister that you had several girlfriends when you first entered school."

"Of course it's because I haven't met that her yet."

"Hmph, I'm afraid you may never meet in your lifetime." Narcissa sneered, and pulled Bella, "Let's go over there."

Lucius stared at their backs, dazed.

The guests were almost all there, and while they were pushing glasses and changing glasses, everyone's eyes frequently moved to the door, looking forward to who's arrival.

Bella is no exception.People kept coming to congratulate her, from important figures in the wizarding world to unknown purebloods, but she became more and more absent-minded, and couldn't control her eyes and thoughts all drifting towards the person who hadn't appeared yet. on the person.

Obviously a decision has been made, but near his arrival, the whole mind is occupied by him, and it is almost overflowing.People have not arrived, but the sense of existence has reached its peak.

This seems to be his usual tactic.Tried and tested.

Suddenly there was some commotion in the venue, Bella immediately looked towards the foyer, and as expected, someone was walking in.

The heart skipped a beat.

But when he took a closer look, it wasn't him.A tall man with short brown hair walked in, whom Bella didn't recognize.

Others, however, seem to think otherwise.Those who recognized the identity of the person held their breath.

It's Avery. Darklord's most trusted confidant.

At this time, his appearance represented...

Bella could clearly hear the gasping around her.She subconsciously turned her gaze back to the hallway...

The heart was beating wildly, like a drum, like a torrential rain, and it couldn't stop.