In The Morning - Ginny
Ginny stayed with Sarah for a few days while she found a more steady job and a place of her own. She managed to get a job as a secretary for a random office a flat not too far from Sarah's.
They spent most of their evenings together and Sarah held Ginny as she cried it all out. Ginny didn't know whether to be grateful or hurt that he hadn't tried to see her or explain. When Sarah told her about his day at the office, his absence, and then his disappearance, Ginny really worried about him.
She put off telling her family as long as possible and when she finally did so it was just a short little note letting them know she was getting a divorce and other than that was doing fine. Her mother immidiately came to visit and tried to find out what had happened, but Ginny refused to give any details. Hermione, who had married Ron shortly after Ginny had married Draco and hadn't had much time between her job and her rapidly growing family to visit, came for three days to help Ginny move into her new flat. Ginny finally told her the whole story.
Both Sarah and Hermione were with her when she talked to the lawyer about the divorce. She didn't ask for anything. She didn't want to worry about splitting their assets or taking any of his money or any of that. She just wanted the divorce.
Sarah ended up getting a job at the same office in which Ginny had become a secretary and Hermione made it a point to find time for friends. Sarah and Hermione soon became as close as each were with Ginny and within three weeks of the day she had moved she had a completely new life organizing itself around her.
The others kept trying to keep her mind off of Draco, but it was pretty difficult to do when she insisted on wearing the necklace he had given her and refused to let them wash that one shirt that smelled like him still. They tried tea and sympathy, but she was in love with him and would always be in love with him.
She woke up every morning expecting to find him beside her and cried when she realized where she was. She slept on the couch rather than climb into an empty bed. She turned a stereo on as soon as she got home and didn't turn it off until she left.
The only thing that would help her was time, lots of time. She would always love him, she knew that, she just hoped that time would dull the pain a little. She hoped that someday it would merely be a soft emptiness in the back of her heart, a sweet meloncholy. For now, though, it was a gaping wound that made it hard to breath.
She couldn't even bring herself to hate him. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't make herself angry. There was no anger, only pain.
She tried to let the girls distract her. She went out with them and talked to them and laughed with them even when she didn't feel like. Mostly though, she spent her time at work and at her new home, reading by the fire.
Five weeks had passed and Ginny was late for a dinner with the girls. They were about to go looking for her when she finally showed and sat down at their table. They immediately exchanged a worried glance with each other because she looked as shell shocked as she had when the receptionist told her Draco had left early.
"Um, Gin? You okay?" Hermione finally asked when Ginny remained silent.
Ginny turned a blank stare on her friend. "I'm...pregnant."
Sarah dropped her glass of water and Hermione embraced Ginny.
"You know?" Ginny said, sounding more as though she was talking to herself than to the others, "I'm happy. I'm glad I'll have someone to love and take care of, that needs me." She finally focused her eyes and looked at the girls in turn. "I'm happy about this. There won't be a child more loved."
Sarah and Hermione smiled at her, both of them knowing that a great deal of pain would be wrapped up in that bundle of joy. "You know it," Sarah finally managed to say.