and an extra side of weasley

the black sisters used to be inseparable.  they were trapped away at ilvermorny during the school year, but the summer – and the city – was theirs to do whatever they pleased with. they knew the ins and outs of the upper east side, and they used that knowledge to their advantage: they snuck bottles of wine to the rooftop at every gala, dangled bags of galleons in front of shopkeepers’ faces for the new dresses hidden in the back, and piled all of their friends into luxurious hotel rooms when they didn’t feel like going home after a night out. they used to be inseparable, but dromeda ruined it. there were plenty of acceptable pureblood families to marry into – the malfoys, the lestranges, the averys – and yet dromeda had set her sights on ted tonks. it was one thing when she romped around the castle with him – not ideal, of course, but not yet life-threatening – but then she had the audacity to bring him to a gala in their very own home. the house was packed to the brim with every real wizard in manhattan, and dromeda dressed ted up in the nicest suit she could find, so perhaps she thought she could get away with it. she should have known she stood no chance against bella’s keen eyes. she should have known her sisters wouldn’t allow her to throw her life away.  bella didn’t even allow cissy to warn dromeda before the two of them marched straight to their father and told him the truth: that dromeda had brought a muggleborn from brooklyn into their home. worse even, she was in love with him. they expected her to be angry. they expected her to lock herself away in her room, refusing to talk to them or take meals, for at least a few weeks. they didn’t expect that she would pack her favorite belongings into one bag and leave that very night, pausing only long enough to tell them she would never forgive them, never speak to them again. they watched her go, bella’s jaw twitching angrily and cissy’s eyes brimming with guilty tears. they didn’t expect that she would keep her word. the black sisters used to be inseparable, but dromeda fell in love with the wrong man, and they separated for the first time, never to reunite again.