Still angry about the conversation they had at the party, Draco decides to go strolling in the park, but it turns out to be useless. He decides to go to the GoGo bar and drink his sorrows away.

He gets a Grindr notification on his phone.

It's someone trying to hook up with him.

"Hot pics. Into?" The message said.

Draco was about to accept as he typed 'Wanna play?' He was going to send the message, but he stopped. He couldn't send it at all. He took a moment and wondered what he was doing.

"What am I doing?" He asked himself. "Why am I doing this?"

He didn't give a fuck about any of the guys that he was sleeping with at all. In that moment, Draco came to a realization. Meeting up with these men, sleeping with them, and leaving them never to contact them again, only made him feel bad about himself. This wasn't the life that he wanted, especially at 35. He just turned 35 a couple of weeks ago, and this is not how he pictured his life. Years ago, he believed that he would be married and living a great life with Cormac, but now, he thought that it was time to stop hidding from himself in the beds of strange men. He wasn't a fan of that person and he knew deep down that things needed to change ASAP.

He took a sip from his drink and deleted the app from his phone, not even noticing that Ron had entered the bar and sat down next to him.

"Draco." Ron says trying to get his attention. "Draco?" He tries again, but he ignores Ron and he takes a long sip of whiskey from the bottle. "What's wrong?" Ron asks him taking the bottle from his hand.

"Harry's leaving." He bluntly tells Ron. "And I'm fucking mad at you."

"Oh well. Deal with it. And I know that you don't want to see me right now either, but I don't care about that at all." Ron started. "Since I'm your only friend right now and at work, I'm here to tell you that you're going to have to move on eventually."

"You knew that party was a going away party." Draco snarled. "I can't believe that you made me go to that party with my hopes being raised."

"First of all, I said that you were invited to Hermione's party. I never said that you had to go. No one forced a gun to your head and make you go to the party. Secondly, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you, but I thought that you deserved to hear it from Harry himself. If I had told you the truth about that party, you never would have gone."

"You don't know me! You can't possibly tell me all of this and get over it so fast. Harry told me that the party was his going away party. The one that I didn't even know about. I guess it's just better if he just leaves and create happiness on his on terms."

"It's a pity that you think that I don't know you." Ron said. "You're acting as though we've never met."

Draco sighs.

"Will you forgive me?" Draco asks his friend after a few minutes of silence between them "I'm just glad that you mean well."

"All is forgiven."

Draco sighs again.

"You know, you can either walk with the devil or you don't and he's definitely not walking with the devil on this one. After all he is a hopeless romantic. It's probably best for the both of us if he leaves." Draco says as he's trying to see himself in Harry's shoes.

"Well, there's nothing wrong with that, Malfoy. I mean everybody needs someone, even you. I will say though, you certainly know what's best." Ron says, slighly mocking him.

Sadly, Draco didn't notice it as he is staring at his hands.

"I'm not like Harry though." Draco says. "I... I am good with being alone."

"Stop trying to convince yourself. You're crap at being alone."

"But I am."

"Well, I guess it's true, because you aren't miserable when he's not gone." Ron says sarcastically, hoping that Draco would catch on.

"All Harry wants is to be loved."

"Which is truly unreasonable."

"And he's the biggest people pleaser. It's all he ever thinks about when he's with a guy."

"Ugh, he's sooooo horrible! I can see why guys would hate that about him."

"He's just so... He's like a penguin. He'll bond with you, he's dependable and trustworty."

"You're making me hate him." Ron replied playfully, shocked that he wasn't catching on to all the sarcasm he's been throwing for the last few minutes.

"Can you imagine me, Draco Lucius Malfoy, in a relationship with Harry James Potter, Ron?" He asked Ron. He was trying to wrap his head around that concept. In his head, it seemed ridiculous, but his heart was telling him something that he couldn't quite figure out yet.

"I think the better I should ask you should be this: Do you think it's crazy that two people who wrote a promissory note to each other a decade ago, who actually care for one another, would actually be in a committed relationship?"

"If Harry is the perfect guy for me, wouldn't I have noticed that years ago when I fucked his brains out multiple times?"

'Even a fake psychic could have told you this years ago.' Ron thought to himself.

"I mean, I'm no fool at all. I am not one to be subtle, but I can't be that oblivious to miss out on the most perfect guy that has been brightening up my world for over well over a decade."

"True. You could never overlook something so obvious for sucha long ass time." Ron says.

"Exactly! Harry just wants to find his happy ever after. He just wants to be happy, and have someone to take care of and I just want him to be happy." Draco tells his friend with tears in his eyes.

Now, Draco knows that he and Harry are two different individuals to be in a relationship together. Was Harry making the right decision in leaving? Was leaving him and everything that he knew here the best option for the both of them? Was it truly his job as his best friend to support this decision in letting Harry go?

"I guess the only way for that to happen would be for Harry to remove you from his life." Ron says.

Draco nods at him after he wiped his eyes.

'Oh, Draco.' Ron thinks to himself.

He has been so sarcastic to everything, while Draco was being oblivious to the whole thing. Ron decided not to explain the absurdity of the situation at all because clearly, Draco didn't see it. It was as clear as day, and Draco had missed it, even when it was right in front of his face. It was clear to Ron that Draco didn't see it, and that he would never get it. What mad Ron sad was the fact that Harry spent so much time trying to show that Draco was capable and worthy of finding love. He's heard stories and even witnessed it himself, but he just didn't know what to do or say anymore.

'If Harry failed at the task, then why did I think that I would succeed?' Ron thought to himself.

"Let's go, Malfoy."

"Ok."