Secrets withheld

Chapter six

Date ofDeath

Harry and Draco had been seated in the most posh area of the restaurant. Harry was looking around in amazement; he wasn't used to such luxury. The table clothes were made of the finest cotton; there were red roses in a white porcelain vase on their table. There was so much cutlery Harry had no idea which on was for which course.

Seeing Harry's confusion Draco laughed. "Don't worry, I'll explain with each course. I had difficulty as well when I first started eating with all these, however I grew up with it, I ate baby food with this entire lot of cutlery."

Harry gave a half amused laugh but still felt slightly overwhelmed by it all. "God, why to people bother, isn't it simpler to just use one knife and fork?"

Draco looked at him as if he were mad. "This is more civilised and hygienic."

"I still think it's insane."

With the fist course Draco whispered to Harry what cutlery to use but while they were eating Harry accidentally flicked the croutons that had come with his salad across the room and into an elderly mans bowl of soup.

Draco almost choked on his salad, Harry's face had gone bright red, his face was lowered so far down his nose was almost in the dressing.

The mains course went off without a hitch, and just before the waiter came over to offer them dessert menus Draco whispered to Harry. "Want to skip dessert...I'll by you an ice cream?"

Harry nodded, he wanted to get out of this place and never come back.

When the bill came Draco tried to hide it from Harry but his subtly was never his strong point and Harry saw the amount.

"Draco, that's loads, you didn't have to bring me here."

"Harry, it's fine, I have enough money to buy this place, I could eat a thousand meals here and still have enough for a thousand more. Really it's nothing."

"You're too good to me Draco." Harry said, smiling at the blonde who had placed his credit card down and signed the receipt.

As soon as they had left the restaurant they joined hands and headed down the road where the beach was located. It wasn't really a beach but a load of rocks but the couple wandered along the cliff top watching the sun set over the shimmering surface of the water.

They found some grass and sat down, staring off into the distance. Harry leant his head on Draco's shoulder and sighed.

"What happens at college?"

"Well Harry, I've never been there before but I guess we go to class and we learn stuff."

"You know what I mean, like between you and me."

"Nothing changes, we can meet up in free periods and lunch break, I'm not going to say we can't see each other because we go off to college."

They sat there in each others company for what seemed like forever. They sat there until the sun had disappeared behind the horizon completely and the moon was shining down on them, along with the twinkling stars.

"It's beautiful up here tonight." Harry commented. Harry lay down on his back and Draco did the same himself.

"Do you know the constellations?"

"No, why do you?"

"Nope, I never understood them so I always made up my own; you see that really, really bright star and the small group around it, well that's a rose, do you see it?"

"Yeah, I do."

"And you see that collection right over there; well that's Aphrodite, the goddess of love."

"That one I don't see."

"I know that's because I made it up." Draco said propping his head up on his hands and staring at Harry. He leaned down and kissed the other teen deeply.

They continued for a long while until they needed air. The night was getting cold, they could see there breathe as they breathed heavily.

They slowly (due to kissing) made their way back to Harry's home. Harry opened the door and stumbled inside removing his jacket while still firmly attached to Draco's lips.

They broke apart only when Sirius came into the hallway looking ashen faced and even more so when he caught sight of where his godsons hands were wandering.

He coughed and the sudden noise broke the teens part, Harry was about to introduce Draco when he noticed how sad his features were.

"Siri, what is it?" Harry asked curiously, he knew something was wrong.

When his godfather didn't answer Harry went into the living room where his mother sat crying her eyes out and his father sat his eyes cold and almost unseeing, his grief seemed to be beyond tears, maybe when he sobered up a little he would cry but if that was the case then he wouldn't cry at all, after all Will hadn't even been his. Remus wasn't present in the living room, but his presence could be located in the downstairs loo where he could be heard sniffling.

Draco had followed Harry through and was still holding his hand when Sirius spoke from behind them. "Will's dead, Harry," He said solemnly. Harry stared at his Godfather wide-eyed in astonishment

"What?" Harry said astounded, he had little no emotion in his voice except shock but no one was surprised by that, it wasn't like the two brothers had ever been close.

"He was murdered by a new client of his." Lily sobbed loudly as she wiped her eyes, this action seemed to be wasted as more tears replaced the ones removed before anyone could notice the difference.

"Serve him right." Harry spat. Everyone in the room turned to him, Lily in disgust, Sirius in confusion and James just stared at him blankly not saying a word. Draco on the other hand was feeling a little out of place but kept his hand entwined with Harry's. "Don't look at me like that, he was always a bastard to me and you know it, I have no intention of mourning for him, he was no one to me, your no one to me." He said in the direction of Lily and James.

Turning around Harry marched out of the room head held high, dragging Draco along with him up to his room where his shopping bags were still scattered around making the room look lived in.

"Aren't you even a little upset?" Draco asked as he lay down on the bed where Harry had thrown himself upon entering the room.

Harry lifted his head to face his boyfriend. "Do you think I should be?"

"I don't know I never knew him."

"Then don't judge me." Harry snapped irritably as soon as the words had left his lips he regretted it at once. "I'm sorry; I didn't mean to be so mean."

"That's ok, you are forgiven." Draco leaned forward and captured Harry into a passionate kiss once more.

Meanwhile downstairs Remus had remerged from the toilet and had set about comforting his old friends, however they really didn't need it. They hadn't come over only to tell them about Will, if that was the case they probably wouldn't have come at all, what they wanted was Harry back. They wanted their other and now only son back.

Sirius and Remus however weren't overly convinced that they were capable of looking after Harry as a young boy should be looked after; after all he had walked out for a reason. They tried to explain this but every time they did Lily would burst into a fresh set of tears, fake tears but tears nonetheless.

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