Dilemma

Diclaimer: i do not own anything that is recognisable related to HP. I also don't own all them company names. As much as i'd love to say they were mine, they're not. If they were mine, i'd be rich, and i'm not, so i am reduced to having to write fanfics about JK Rowlings novels instead of actually being out there making the money .... blah blah blah blah blah.....blah blah blah.....ok i'll shut up nowz.

Chapter Seven

"Look Vanessa, as much as I love you, I just can't stand the paparazzi. I'm sick of it!" Draco paced around the room as he said this.

Vanessa was silent. She opened her mouth to say something but closed it again.

Draco stopped and stood in front of her. "You getting what I'm saying here?"

"Yeah, yeah." Vanessa nodded. She looked at her shoes. "You want to end our relationship because you can't handle the pressure of always having cameras in your face. I understand." She said the last bit very quietly.

"I'm so sorry, 'Nessa-baby. It's just I hate it when I'm drawing, there are people taking photos of me. And not a lot of the customers like being photographed and being put in the magazines. I mean, we're even in the muggle tabloids, for crying out loud!" Draco looked at his soon-to-be-ex.

"I just can't believe it's just gonna be over, just like that." Vanessa put her hands over her face. She had thought that Draco, of all people, would be used to the attention and be okay with it all. But if he couldn't handle it, then who could? Who could she finally settle down with when her time comes for her to start a family? But no, she was just thinking ahead of time, and that was just bad, they were only eighteen.

"Don't worry, 'Nessa. There'll be heaps of good men waiting to take my place. And who knows, they might be better than me."

Vanessa didn't look up, although she did take her hands away from her face.

Draco whispered a goodbye and said that they could still be friends, and with that he walked out of Vanessa's apartment.

When he got to the ground level and walked out he looked back up at her window.

He remembered all the things inside. And he would forever.

It was just ... everything. They had a special relationship. One that developed from friendship, and Draco had always believed that no other lovecould be as special as that one that began to blossom when two became friends.

But that was all the past now. He had told Vanessa to move on, so he must too.

--A week after Draco and Vanessa broke up--

"Hey, guys. Charlie just got back to me, he says that he can show me how to handle dragons now." Ron announced excitedly over the table at breakfast one Sunday morning.

Hermione and Harry were over for dinner last night and they all stayed up til very late so Molly insisted that they stayed the night. "You both can share Fred and George's room, there are no other beds in those other rooms, and its way to late for us to rearrange the house." Was what Molly had said, sure enough Harry had loved that idea, just him and Hermione.

"Oh that's great! Good for you Ron!" said Molly, equally as excited. "But remember that you have to come home every Christmas and Easter. And see to it that you can bring Charlie too."

"Yeah, I will" replied Ron.

"Hey everybody look at this, isn't that the Malfoy's boy?" said Arthur Weasley, holding up the Daily Prophet.

"Yeah it is." Said Hermione. "What's it 'bout?"

"It's saying here that 'Draco Malfoy, son of Lucious Malfoy has broken off his relationship with the famous Vanessa Fitzgerald.'"

"Hmmm." Harry said. "Yeah, that's right, he was going out with a girl of that name at the start of seventh grade wasn't he?"

"Yeah" Ginny agreed. She still liked Harry, though Harry was too busy noticing Hermione.

"Anyway, when are you leaving, Ron?" Hermione asked him.

"Wednesday."

# Ring, ring. Ring, ring. #

"Oh it's that blasted cell phone that Vanessa insisted I used. Muggles, think of everything these days." Draco said to himself.

He was driving a muggle car. A flash car actually. It was a Mercedes-Benz convertible. Thought Draco believed that going by broom was much faster, no need to worry about traffic, he did like this car.

# Ring, ring #

Draco reached for the ear-phones, he didn't want another muggle police fine for driving while using the phone. Did muggles really have small brains? Can't they do two things at once?

# Ring, ring #

"Hello?"

"Hi Draco!" came Vanessa's voice. "You were right! I've found another guy. His name is Tony, he's half Spanish, and he's real cute too!"

"Oh that's great!" Draco said, pretending to be interested.

"But…"

"But what?" Draco smiled, there was always a catch, 'cause who could be better than Draco Malfoy? Draco was the best. Draco the Modest! He laughed at his own joke.

"What are you laughing at? You're laughing at me!" Vanessa teased.

"No I'm not!" protested Draco.

"Yeah, but Tony's a muggle." She held her breath.

"A MUGGLE?!?!" Draco lost control of his steering wheel and swerved off his lane. "Sorry!" he apologised to the driver that was now beeping his horn at Draco. "Sorry."

"Oh, I knew you would do that!" Vanessa whined.

"When do you plan to tell Tony that you're a witch? How do you think he's gonna take it 'Nessa? WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT'S GONNA DO TO YOUR MUGGLE REP.? Huh?"

"Um, not now, but soon. He'll be shocked I'm sure … and what was the last question?" Vanessa answered.

"Just think of what being a witch will do to your reputation towards the muggles! Versace will be too afraid to let you wear their clothes! Everybody will think you spelled yourself to look beautiful!" Draco expressed his frustration by hitting the horn for no apparent reason.

Vanessa coughed at that.

"YOU SPELLED YOURSELF TO LOOK THE WAY YOU LOOK?!?!?!" Draco screamed.

"Oh, never mind. Oh, well, then if Tony loves me, he'll keep it to himself."

"Oh what ever you say, sweetie." Draco shook his head. "But did you really cast a spell on yourself to look gorgeous?"

"Ah..."

"'Nessa, tell me!" He demanded.

"Oh only my teeth, I have a major sweet tooth so I always had bad teeth, so I 'spelled' them." Vanessa confessed.

"Anything else?"

"Um... and my fingers, I had short stuby fingers, MY GOSH, they were UGLY! I just had to fix them."

"Nothing else, everything else is natuaral beauty, right?" asked Draco shaking his head.

"Ah... yeah, right. Anyway, dont tell anybody those things I just told you. PLEASE."

"I wont" What was she getting into? "Take care of yourself, and don't do anything irrational."

"Thanks Drakey-Poo. Bye-byes." Said Vanessa.

"See ya."

"Bye." Said Vanessa's voice just before Draco hung up the phone.

Draco pulled up at Malfoy Manor. He unlocked the door, pushed it wide open and walked through without closing it, One of the elves will get it later he thought.

"Muggle boyfriend...she friggen spelled herself?...what if they knew?...Versace...L.V....Dolce&Gabanna...what's gonna happen to her?..." Draco muttered all the way into the kitchen.

He opened the fridge door in search for a snack.

"You dumped her." came a voice from behind Draco.

Draco turned around and noticed that his father was sitting at the breakfast table holding the Daily Prophet. Lucious threw the newspaper on the table and stood up. "You dumped her!" Lucious repeated.

"I know" Draco said simply, taking a bite of the apple he took from the fruit bowl. "So what?"

"Do you know how hard I worked to get you two together?"

"Hey, you didn't work at all, the relationship that grew between Vanessa and myself, was purely from the chemistry and love between her and I!"

"Shut up!" shouted Lucious. "I will have none of that! I planned everything. It was me who first talked to them, introducing them to our family. It was I who did my homework and found out that they a pureblooded and wealthy. I did all that! Was that not work?" Lucious questioned his only son.

Draco thought for a moment with one hand on his hip, and the other extended, holding the apple. "Well, I wouldnt deny it, though I still say that the relationship only started because I..."

"SHUT UP!!!" screamed Lucious.

Narcissa was sitting in the court yard. From there she had saw her son drive on to the estate in that silver muggle thing. Although she must admit, it did look nice, and the device suited her son perfectly.

She watched him throw the doors open and strolled in like he owned the place, though he once did, but not anymore. She knew what was going to happen soon.

She had heard the news about him and Vanessa.

From where she was sitting she could hear her husband scream at Draco. Oh my beloved Draco she thought, what is he to do now?

"I WILL NOT TAKE THIS FROM MY SON! A SON SHOULD RESPECT HIS FATHER, WHAT SO EVER!" Lucious' voice was heard over the grounds.

Thank God that our neighbours live so far away.

"If a son is to respect his father, his father must have some respect for his son's personal life!" Draco shouted, though not as loud as Lucious' voice, it was stillloud enough for Narcissa to hear.

Oooh, I've never heard Draco this mad before, poor baby. How must he feel now?First Vanessa, and now this ... issues have arisen. Oh my poor baby!

Narcissa stood up, then thought better of it and sat down again. She bit her lip.

"GET OUT! GET OUT!!!" shouted Lucious. "You will not live here anymore! Go pack your things and GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"

Draco muttered a few words and walked out to his car, closely followed by many house elves carrying suitcases containing Draco's belongings.

He wasn't taking much. Just a few clothes, muggle ones of course. And two robes. Some art supplies, he could always come back for the others later. His mother would let him.

He waved his wand and said some magic words, and into the boot flew the cases. Draco instructed the elves to carefully place his art things in the back seats.

Narcissa watched as her son drove away once more. To a place she knows not of. Hopefully he would owl her. She waved to him even though he was out of sight already.

A single tear slipped from her eye.

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