All righty so there are your chapters, please enjoy. Like I had mentioned before, I finished up my newest story 'Seven Days' just a few days ago and just when I thought I'd be taking a break from writing, I realized that I had absolutely NOTHING to do during the days of my winter break and in some bizarre way I missed college and homework, projects and studying. So I decided to do something with my life before I had to go back to college and sat down to write another story that I had been thinking about for a while now. So that's right, I'm already starting to write another new story and I've finished a whopping 11 pages of it. It's going really really well and I just wish I can post it now but I have to finish it. =] Cant wait to get back at you guys with 'Seven Days' and the new story that im currently writing now! Take care and enjoy!
Jade absolutely did not want to be present when Nessie was told the good news.
"Oh my jumping gargoyles! You're pregnant! I'm going to be a grandmother! Call up everyone in my address book! We'll have a baby shower and then-"
"Hey, calm down buddy. Why do we need a baby shower? We don't need a baby shower. Draco please talk some sense into her." Jade said shaking Draco's arm.
"What about marriage?" Nessie asked.
"Marriage? For?" Jade asked.
"For the baby? The people I know get married for the baby." Nessie said innocently.
"That's really stupid. I never saw the idea of piece of paper claiming marriage bringing a child together." Jade said.
"You do have a point." Nessie said.
"And I am obviously correct with the fact that the idea of a baby shower is preposterous as well?" Jade asked hoping Nessie would get her off the hook.
"You're wrong!" Nessie sang and danced. "Oh I can't wait until the little one comes out! Boy or girl, I will spoil the child rotten!" Nessie sang.
Jade looked at Draco seeing him watch Nessie with fascination. To see her this happy Jade never knew. The woman looked like a child, jumping up and down and running around with her hands flying around in the air. Nessie caught herself and immediately launched into details about the baby shower she was going to plan in New York and one in London for her old friends.
"Er, that's fine really; I don't really have a lot of people that are fond of me here in London. I just have one girlfriend, no one else." Jade said uncomfortably.
"You might have more people that would love to go you know, you just don't know or remember." Draco said.
"Who might that be?" Jade asked.
"I'll send the invites; you take care of our child. Nessie and I have full responsibilities over the baby shower. You can just relax." Draco said.
"I'm scared to ask who you might invite." Jade said as Draco stroked her hair.
"I won't upset you…not entirely." Draco smiled.
"Oh, now I am completely relieved that you set that straight." Jade said. Draco winked at her and turned to Nessie who started to plan the over the top event.
For the next couple of months, Jade felt her body changing in ways she would have thought would change when she was going to enter in her 50's or 60's. She packed on weight and her stomach started growing until it was very obvious that she was actually carrying an actual child in her womb. She would occasionally joke around with Draco, claiming herself to have a Hagrid belly, which disturbed Draco greatly. Nothing pissed off and ruined the moment more for Draco Malfoy when his partner jokingly screaming 'Hagrid Belly' while they were making love. At other times, when Jade was overwhelmed and irritated, they would often get into fights that would result in utter chaos.
Draco and Jade had gotten into a heated argument one night and in the morning, Jade wanted to apologize by making breakfast. The plan backfired, the two argued and Jade threw out a sizzling pan of eggs out the window in anger.
"Go get your fucking breakfast and kiss my pregnant arse!" Jade screamed.
Well at least Draco knew what to expect if Jade were to get pregnant the second time. He stood by Jade no matter how intense the arguments got and how irritable she was. He understood in a way what she was going through. She was unreasonable by birth he knew that and to have her carry their child every day at every moment, it would take a man with balls of iron to manage a woman like that.
He cooked for her whenever he could. It was actually a pleasant surprise to see her trying to make a meal when he got home one evening. He felt a little anxious to see her operating alone but when she looked up and smiled at him, the anxiety melted off like ice cream on a bolstering hot London day.
"I know how much you like pasta Bolognese. So I attempted to make it." Jade said greeting him with a kiss.
"It looks…green? Why…why does it look green?" Draco asked scared that he had to eat that.
"I honestly don't know. I did everything the recipe book asked me to. I put everything in there, but I don't think it should matter. As long as it tastes good that's all that matters." Jade said.
She looked at Draco who gave her his best smile and she patted his bum, telling himself to change and wash up for dinner. When Draco came back, he saw Jade setting up the plates, extremely excited for Draco to eat her death concoction.
"Come! Sit!" Jade said sitting down. She even reached out and served him his food, piling on high.
"Whoa! That's too much-"
"So? You're going to take a second helping anyway, like you always do." Jade said clasping her hands and placing them under his chin.
"Won't you eat?" Draco asked, hoping that the nervousness in his voice didn't betray him.
"In a bit." Jade said. "Eat." She said pointing to the food, her eyes sparkling with suspense. He slowly twisted the fork around the undercooked pasta that swirled in the over greasy and poor meat.
Draco lifted the fork, seeing some of the pasta slop down from his fork. He looked at Jade who could barely contain her excitement. Seeing her this excited and hopeful, Draco didn't have the heart to bring her down. He always wanted her to be this happy, but he needed a clever idea to convince her to never again attempt to make food for him again.
Draco gave a nervous smile and shoved the food into his mouth, feeling the nauseating flavor of cream, spinach, meat with tomato sauce and heavy use of oregano and salt, oh the ungodly use of salt. Draco would be fine drinking from the Dead Sea, but he could barely force it down his throat, it was so horrible. He choked when he finally swallowed and grabbed the glass of water near him.
"Oh my goodness, what's wrong?" Jade asked touching his arm.
'Everything.' Draco thought. "It's hot." Draco lied.
"Oh…I'm sorry about that. We'll let it cool." Jade said stroking his hands. She frowned a bit rubbing his arm, expecting him to wolf her food down. Draco sensed her tinge of disappointment and sighed.
"I love it. It's the best Bolognese I'll probably ever have. In fact, it's so good; I think I'll finish that whole…pot you made." Draco said.
Seeing her flash her teeth in response, Draco thought he had said too much. He bravely scooped up more pasta and shoved it into his mouth, trying to look like he was enjoying it when in fact the salt and other ingredients that Draco swore would probably be the ones Snape kept in the very back of his shelf in Hogwarts that had been untouched for years. He swallowed and found his eyes tearing.
Jade looked touched to see that she had brought tears to Draco's eyes. She was so happy; she thought she should give her Bolognese a try as well. She went to serve herself but Draco stopped her.
"No you can't eat that!" Draco said through his half stuffed mouth.
"Why not?" Jade asked.
"Because…because I like it." Draco said gulping painfully.
Jade looked flattered but served herself anyways. "Oh Draco, I'm happy that you love it, but you can't eat all this by yourself you know." Jade said.
'Thank Merlin.' Draco thought. He inwardly frowned. His child was probably going to hate it as much as he did. He watched Jade take a forkful of the pasta and put it in her mouth. She immediately spit out her food and stared at it as if there were dragons hatching from it.
"Draco, this shit is disgusting! It fucking tastes like vomit!" Jade yelled. "How can you eat this?!" Jade asked seeing him push his plate away and throw his head back.
Jade sprung up and walked into the kitchen and walked out with the recipe book in her hands. "Oh my fucking…fuck! Fucking pages were fucking stuck to each other!" Jade screamed.
Draco felt too sick to laugh at her. He got up and with all his strength towards the bathroom to throw up the death concoction up.
Hermione had gone into labor when Jade was entering her 6th month. Jade remembered how stressful that day was and how bad her back hurt. She walked around the entire day, waiting to hear Hermione's bundle of joy to make his debut. When Jade received the owl that Hermione was in labor, she immediately left work and apparated to St. Mungos.
She was met with a nervous Ron, an extremely anxious Harry who was delighted to see Jade after a while and a livid Ginny. Jade remembered that they spoke for a while until it got to Ginny's nerves. Jade was too skittish to start an argument with Ginny so she left the room and waited until Ron burst through the delivery doors screaming 'It's a BOY! And we're going to name him HUGO!'
It was a sight to see. A grown man jumping around and screaming the same thing over and over again, hugging people he didn't even know. It was quite a shock when he pulled Jade into a hug and apologize immediately if he had touched her inappropriately or hurt her child. Jade shook her head and told him it was completely fine. He was taken aback by her kindness and the fact that she didn't fling an insult or death threat to him.
"She probably wants to see me." Ginny said relief and happiness thick in her voice. She pushed past Harry and walked across the room, stopping in front of the Healer who walked into the waiting room.
"Congratulations everyone! I know how absolutely thrilled you are to see the Mum and new baby, but as hospital formalities go we can only allow one visitor to visit the patient before she gets shifted." The Healer said with a bright smile.
"I'm right here. Where do we go Healer?" Ginny asked brightly.
Jade saw Harry's tense look and Ron flush deep red. She looked away before she got to see the sorry look on Harry's face and heard the Healer ask Ginny her name.
"Ginny Potter." Ginny answered.
"Oh I'm sorry, Healer Weasley asked for a Jade Harper? I'm assuming that's you my dear?" the Healer asked looking at Jade who gave him a nervous smile, ignoring Ginny's furious glare.
"Yep. That's me." Jade said.
"Follow me. Mrs. Potter, I apologize but you can definitely be able to see the patient within an hour or so." The Healer told Ginny who didn't change her face. If looks could kill, Jade would have been disintegrated in the deepest darkest super massive dark hole of the universe; but this was Jade, did she care? No. Jade simply shrugged Ginny off and followed the Healer out to meet Hermione and the newborn Hugo.
Done for tonight! Please review!!