[Le Cinq Restaurant] An Arranged Marriage [Alessandro]

Aurore stood in front of Beauxbatons waiting for her mother to pick her up and take her home to prepare. Prepare to meet her new fiancée, prepare to bring her family honour through an arranged marriage. Soon enough, Elisabette de Castille arrived, riding a beautiful Abraham horse by the name of Jade. Elisabette smiled a dazzling smile at her young daughter.
"Hop on darling! Oh, isn't this just so exciting!" Elisabette said, and Aurore hopped on Jade and they were off. The whole journey from Beauxbatons to Aurore's Paris home was spent with Elisabette chattering about the marriage and Aurore simply listening to her. But soon enough they arrived at their family mansion and Aurore prepared. She did her hair up, put on a lovely pale blue knee length Cinderella style dress and white sandals, and off she and her mother and father went in their limousine to one of the chicest Parisian muggle restaurants, Le Cinq.
"This is it Aurore! Do us proud." Elisabette said and Aurore nodded.
"I will Maman." She said, and walked into the restaurant, and her future in laws waved her over. When she saw her future fiancée she gasped.
"Aurore, meet Norway Alessandro Marconi. Alessandro, meet Aurore de Castille." Elisabette said.

Ale tugged at his collar. Oh how he hated dress robes! They were so tight and suffocate-y, and just so formal. It didn't help that he was standing in a ridiculously fancy French restaurant, to meet with some girl and her parents.

A few days ago his parents had sent him an owl, letting him know that they would be picking him up from school during the weekend for 'a big surprise' and while he was a bit cautious (after all, this hadn't happened to any of his siblings before) he was also curious as that what surprise could warrant being picked up from school. And besides, if it was something really spectacular, he could brag about it to Teo.

So he'd met his parents in Chatoil, who had promptly taken him home and made him scrub all the layers of dirt and grime off of his skin. Why did he have to get so clean? It wasn't like he didn't already bathe, so why did he have to clean the dirt from his nails and scrub between his toes? It was as his father was shoving him into dress robes that Ale discovered his parents' plot. "You've got to look nice to meet the de Castille's dear," his mother had said as she'd handed him a pair of dress shoes  "it's important make a good impression on your future parents-in-law"

At this, Alessandro had been rather childish and thrown a temper tantrum, asking why they would torture him by 'ruining his life' and refusing to put his shoes on. Unfortunately for Ale, this only made his parents more determined to go through with it, and after shoving his shoes on for him, they'd apparated to a pretentious sounding restaurant.

Now he was trapped by societal convention, too polite to make a scene in the fancy restaurant and not knowing how to get himself out of the situation. As the girl and her parents approached him, Ale wore a grouchy expression. Ah, so her name was Aurore. At first Ale didn't say anything, after all he'd already been introduced (and by his real first name, no less! A fact he was not at all pleased about), but with a firm nudge from his father, the Italian was required to make use of his manners. "Nice to meet you, Aurore" he nodded, sizing up the girl. She was definitely younger than him, and couldn't be older than a second year. Great. His parent's couldn't even have been nice enough to set him up with someone his own age. The whole situation just kept getting better and better.

After meeting being introduced to Alessandro, a boy whom looked considerably older than her, Aurore sized her future husband up. Aurore liked the looks of him, he didn't look prim, proper and serious as she'd expected, but Aurore think better of him if he had a smile on his face, as his expression was a grumpy one. Aurore then met her in laws, Siofra and Cirillo Marconi. Alessandro's parents seemed very kind and polite, and Aurore executed her very best ladylike manners, just as her mother had instructed her to. The parents led the way to a table and Aurore and Alessandro sat in awkward silence for a few seconds while their parents talked until Elisabette nudged Aurore, whom blushed. Her and Alessandro then made polite conversation, though all Aurore really wanted to do was be at school with her friends, and Alessandro looked just about ready to explode. Aurore sighed.
"It's going to be a long night." Auror though to herself.