[I] FATHER HAS SPOKEN [open]

[joshua andrew dalton]

i n d e f e n c e o f o u r d r e a m s!

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Joshua tugged the shirt over his head and admired his reflection. It was a Wednesday, and lessons had just finished for the day, so Josh was changing out of the stupidly restricting Hogwarts robes. He wasn’t wearing anything special, just an awesome top that accented the muscles that he was hiding beneath it, and a pair of jeans. He slipped his feet into a pair of converse and wrapped his watch around his wrist. It had been his coming of age gift, as the tradition was to give a seventeen year old a watch when they were aloud to legally practice magic outside of the confines of their learning space. Joshua walked out of the dorm room and headed out of the Slytherin section of the castle, trying his best to avoid Jaslene Malfoy. But considering they shared a house, and therefore a house table at breakfast, lunch, and dinner too, it was proving to be a difficult thing to do. Why was he avoiding Jaslene Malfoy, you ask? Because recently, Joshua found out that his life was about to change, as he was going to be stuck with a ball and chain. Yes, Joshua Andrew Dalton had been put into an arranged marriage, and he didn’t like it one bit. If there was one thing about Joshua Dalton that was a necessity to know, it was that he disliked people controlling him, and freedom was his hero.

Freedom was what was going to save him from a life of constriction and boredom, and he was stoked about actually being able to do as he pleases. And he’d waited months, if not years, to be out of the control of his parents, but here they come with their arrangements, and he had no choice but to follow them like a house elf followed the orders of it’s master. In all honestly, he may as well have been a house elf, because they had more freedom than he did at the moment. At least they didn’t have to marry someone that they didn’t get on well with. Okay, so he had managed to talk to her for a certain amount of time, but the topic of discussion was their spouses, and how they were both going to end up with hypocritical, self indulgent and spoilt losers who wouldn’t allow them to be who they wanted to be. And then they had that stupid challenge (which he won), and the letter from his parents came right on time to hand him that victory in the beak of his own owl. It was then that the two had found out that not only were they both in an arranged marriage, but they were both in the same arranged marriage, and that their futures were tied together completely and unfalteringly unless one of them was killed in some freak accident. Jaslene Malfoy was going to be his wife.

And that, my friend, is exactly why Joshua Andrew Dalton had been avoiding Jaslene Malfoy, because she was soon to be come Jaslene Dalton, and Joshua didn’t want to accept that fact. If he didn’t see her, she didn’t exist, and if he didn’t exist then he wasn’t in an arranged marriage with her, and he was free to do whatever he wanted as soon as he escaped the stony confines of his magical school prison. But this approach wasn’t working because as mentioned above, not only did he share a house with her, but he shared breakfast, lunch and dinner at the same table as her, so being around her at least three times a day was unavoidable unless he starved, and that wouldn’t do anyone any good now, would it? Finding his feet trudge up a huge number of stairs until he was in one of the towers, that he assessed to be the clock one, because of the loud ticking noise that was close by. Well at least there was something to drown out the thoughts of spending forever with Jaslene Malfoy. Well, technically with Jaslene Dalton, and it wouldn’t be forever, because he had to die eventually. And with that morbid thought, he slid his back down the closest wall and hung his head in his hands, unable to deal with the pressure that his parents were putting on him.

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