Draco crawled towards the door, pulling down on the handle. He winced in pain, realizing how sore he was. He scowled at Blaise who was still sleeping peacefully, his legs splayed across the bed. 'He raped me.' Draco realized with sickening distaste. 'He really raped me.'
He sat on the ground, his hand still clutching to the cold doorknob, trying to compose himself, prevent the tears from coming down his cheeks.
Finally he took a deep breath and opened it, getting up slowly and shakily. Jared was just walking by and Draco suddenly wished that he had begged to sleep somewhere else. He would've slept on the couch or even on the floor in the bathroom if just to stay away from Blaise.
"Hey." Jared smiled at him softly. "Did you sleep well?"
Draco turned his face away. "Sure." He said.
"Blaise didn't wake up did he?" Jared pressed, sounding slightly worried.
"No." Draco said flatly. He wasn't going to tell anyone, ever. Harry wasn't around anymore. 'And he was the only one I really trusted.'
"Well com'n. Ron's eating, so you'd better hurry before he finishes everything." Jared said rolling his eyes.
Draco smiled, wondering why the world kept on revolving as if nothing had happened.
Ron was stuffing his face with toaster waffles and bacon when he walked into the kitchen and sat down.
"Good. I was going to eat that." Ron said, pointing to Draco's plate. "I don't know how you manage to eat so much and stay that skinny. Models aren't supposed to be that perfect."
Draco glanced at Ron, hardly interested in what he was saying. It was almost as if his whole life had come apart at the seams, leaving him with little bits and pieces scattered over a bleak horizon.
Then he remembered. "Shit!" he explained, glancing at his watch. It was 8:00. "I've got to get to work. I was supposed to leave at six!"
He ran back to Blaise's room and looked around the floor for his pants. Finding them, he picked his phone up, meaning to call his limo. His stomach clenched. 74 missed calls from Harry.
He scrolled through the times, feeling his eyes glazing with tears. 11:55, 11:57, 12:00. 12:03, 12:05. 12:06, 12:09, 12: 13…
He scrolled to his phonebook and pressed the speed dial button. "Yeah, I'm really sorry I forgot to tell you. Hm? Oh yeah, I wasn't there today. What? Oh, no, no, I'm at Madison apartments. Just down the road. Yeah, I'm really sorry. Why? Confidential. Just come for me ok?" The blond snapped, hanging up his phone and feeling the urge to fling it across the room like out of a bad movie. He resisted.
Flinging on some clothes , it didn't really matter, the dressing room guys wound change him, he ran back down the hall right before Blaise woke up.
"Bye Ron, I gotta go to work." He yelled back breathlessly.
"See you later." Ron mumbled through a mouthful of food. Draco pressed the elevator button, scrolling down the rest of Harry's phone calls. When he hit 1:15, his stomach back flipped unpleasantly. While Harry was worrying about him he'd been having sex with Blaise. 'I didn't even deserve him.' He thought, slamming the palm of his hand into the elevator wall.
When he stepped outside the limo was already waiting. "Get in." Clyde hissed urgently. "We're going to have the paparazzi on our heels in seconds."
Draco put on his glasses and flipped his hair over his shoulder, rolling up the heavily tinted glasses. No one would have been able to tell that his life was ruined.
"So Draco why were you on Madison?" His photographer asked in between shoots. "Are you with gossip weekly or something?" Draco asked in irritation, while still managing to look seductive.
"No, babe, you know everyone just wants to know about you."
Draco scowled momentarily before smiling again.
"Draco!! You're boyfriend is outside screaming for us to let him in. Should we?" A man said, racing into the room and looking very bewildered.
It was the camera man's turn to scowl as Draco lost position. "He is?" he said, feeling his voice becoming faint. He hadn't thought of Harry coming here. He hadn't really thought of anything. 'Of course he wouldn't go to work. Of course he'd make a big deal about this. No guy in the world would be in an entirely normal relationship with another guy, get dumped and then just take it like that.'
"No!" he yelled, hearing Harry's frantic voice from three floors down. He blushed. "I need a break." He whispered. "I feel faint."
"Hey Draco. Tall, beautiful and talented. I need to see you in my office. Now." His new manager smiled toothily, sticking his head though the door. Draco followed gladly, wishing he could curl into a ball and disappear. 'How am I going to be able to handle this? My whole life has suddenly been dumped upside down. I need to go into quarantine for a while or something.'
"So Draco. Let me lay the cards out. You are wanted to be filmed in a movie. I mean, they're begging for you."
Draco's eyes widened. "What kind of movie?" he said.
"Well ,it's a gay movie."
"Of course it is." Draco said dryly, laying back in the plush seats.
"Hey." His shark-toothed manager quipped. "You had it coming. Now since you're gay, it shouldn't be a problem. It's not even a porno or anything, just one or two or three…or four sex scenes, a couple of kissing scenes, some groping scenes, slap in a plot and you're done."
Draco scowled. "I'm not a slut." He mumbled.
"Gay coming out movies are getting to be very popular. You can be a ridiculously gorgeous high school kid by day, but by night you're a sex-crazed freak. Only your true love can stop you from digging your own grave." The grey eyed boy's manager placed his hand to his chest poetically. "Pretty hot huh?"
Draco continued scowling. "All right let's be serious. A movie can open up so many future possibilities. You're nineteen, you're modeling career's not going to last forever you know. You need to plan for the future."
Draco breathed in deeply.
"Hey, you just broke up with your boyfriend didn't you?" his manager tried coming with a new direction.
Draco paled. "What do you mean?" he stuttered, voice weak.
"Hey, I'm not dumb. You come to work late, looking a wreck, after sleeping away for you and your love boat's house, and he comes by later, begging to be let in and screaming for your forgiveness. I put the pieces together. And its obvious you dumped him too."
Draco blushed. 'I need to get out of here.' He thought. 'Harry won't give up and I can't go back.'
"Where is it going to be filmed?"
"America." Was his well practiced answer.
Draco thought carefully. 'I can't be around Harry. It hurts too much.' He thought.
"Fine." He said. "Fine. Do it."
His manager was all smiles. "Great, we'll do the signing off and things tomorrow. Draco nodded dumbly and went back to his photo shoot. 'Everything, everything as I know it is disappearing.'
"Harry, where are you?" Ron said into the phone, trying to mask his worry. "Why aren't you at work?"
"I was looking for Draco. Have you see Draco?" Harry said, sounding so close to tears Ron felt the need to cry too.
Colin had told him the night before not to tell Harry where Draco was, but he couldn't bring himself to do that.
"He came to my house last night." He said, after brief consideration. "He came and made me and Colin swear to secrecy. What's going on between you two?"
"I don't know." Harry said nervously, and Ron could imagine him running his fingers though his thick black hair.
"He said you guys had a fight?" Ron scratched his head, watching the flashing and winking picture of him and Harry hugging at their last Christmas party on his desk.
"We did? Well…I don't know. I guess we did, since he left. He dumped me Ron. He dumped me and now he's avoiding me like hell. I can't see him at work and I tried going to your place yesterday and the weirdest thing happened."
"What?" the red-head asked curiously.
"I couldn't get past a certain point. I mean, I kept walking forward and I was practically bounced back." Harry said.
"Repelling charm?" Ron questioned.
"it was too strong for him. It went round everywhere I went, no matter how far I went. I just know this is bigger than Draco. I know he doesn't want to break up with me. Someone else is in on this." Harry's voice raised as he expressed his long itching for an escape thoughts.
"Like who?" Ron asked.
"This all happened right after he came from the visit with his father. I know he ahs something to do with this. I'm not stupid." Harry said.
"Well then figure it out Harry. We don't have to worry about it." Ron tried to say soothingly, hearing the sounds of Harry's sobbing on the other end of the phone.
"I'm afraid Ron." Harry whispered. "This is bigger than Draco. What if it's bigger than me too?"
"Com'n Harry. Come back to work so we can put our heads together." Ron said softly.
The phone line went dead and then there was a small pop as Harry apparated into the office.
"Where is everyone?" he asked.
"Its lunch time." Ron said, wiping Harry's tear-streaked face. it almost made Harry smile at how motherly Ron was being.
"So you think Lucius has something to do with this?" he asked Harry, pulling up a chair and letting Harry sit beside him.
"Yeah. I definitely do."
Ron played with some ornaments on his desk. "Harry, but how? What could he have done? Put the Crucatius on Draco from inside Azkaban? You know they can't do magic in there."
"No. I know." Harry said, sighing.
"Well then how else could he have gotten Draco to stay away from you. Bribed him with candy? He's in prison Harry. What could he have done to make Draco listen to him?" Ron said with growing frustration. "Face it; I think Draco's just decided to move on. Probably got the ministry to keep you away by saying you were sexually harassing him."
Harry glared at Ron. "You know that's not true. You know Draco loves me. And it was right when I was getting though to him too. Well I was going to anyways. At least I got him to stop treating me like I was his master…"
"Harry what's wrong with you?" Ron said in shock, staring at the look of someone who'd just had an epiphany on Harry's face.
Draco heard his phone ringing as he was catching his breath after his last shooting for the day. Harry's name appeared across the screen. A sudden urge gripped him to hear Harry's voice and he felt his finger automatically press down on the talk button
He pressed the phone to his ear, fear overwhelming him that Harry would hang up after not hearing him. He couldn't speak, whether he wanted to or not. It was if his vocal chords had been pulled from his throat.
"Draco? Draco, I know you're there. Listen to me." Harry said breathlessly. "I know that you can't say anything. I know you're dad did something to you. He gave you an order didn't he? I know he did so I won't say anything else. Draco, I know that you'd never leave me like that and if you really had wanted to be away from me you wouldn't be listening."
Draco increased his breathing so Harry would know he was there. He clutched the phone till his knuckles turned white, loving the sound of Harry's voice.
"I know what's going on and I promise you that I'll help you." Harry said soothingly. "I'll do anything to help you Draco. I got you away from your father once and I don't care what I have to do, but I'll get you away from him and back into my arms again."
Draco listened with rapt attention, his mind swimming with recently passed events.
"We're going to Hogwarts right now. Me Ron, Jared and Hermione. Especially Hermione. That school has the best library in the world. So even if I don't know much about this keeper stuff right now, I will soon enough. I don't care what the stats are. I'm going to break this curse ok? Draco I love you so much, I'll love you forever and I'm not letting you go like this." Harry said earnestly into the phone, willing Draco to gain some hope.
Draco smiled, loving how adorable Harry sounded. He didn't believe that Harry could do anything, but hopefully, he would call again and Draco would have the pleasure of listening to him blab about hopeless dreams. He'd given up.
Thank you for your kind reviews:
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