I hope you all are enjoying the story. I changed the title to 'Seven Days' because the last one sounded really dumb...::blush:: anyways, enjoy!
When Draco returned home, he saw Jade sleeping on the sofa. He breathed in the delicious aroma and his stomach grumbled in return. It had been a while since he ate from home. He took off his jacket and went into the bedroom, changing into more comfortable and casual clothes. He sighed and covered his face with his hands. There were so many mixed feelings in him; he didn't know how to explain himself. There was so much to do, so much work to do and on top of that, his co-worker Gwenda demanded that he spend Christmas with her. He didn't know what to do. He didn't want to hurt Jade by spending Christmas with another woman, but she didn't know that so it couldn't hurt her. She'd understand if he told her that he would be going on an important business trip. Of course she'd understand.
"Draco?" he heard her call softly.
"In here." Draco replied. He heard her soft padded footsteps in the hallway. She peeked in the room and met Draco's gaze and smiled softly at him. She still took his breath away after all these years but Draco never reminded her how much he loved her in a very long time. He grew distant from her after he started working and found that he didn't want to be there when she wanted to sit and talk to him. He felt he was going to be losing other opportunities if he let her bother him with trivial things.
She wanted to talk to him after he came back from work but he honestly didn't. He just wanted to sleep and wake up for the next day. He loved her, there was no denying that, but he couldn't listen to the things that didn't matter to him. That wasn't why he married her. He knew it was hard for her to stay away from her family and live by herself but she had to realize that they were the biggest bunch of pricks he had ever met for not allowing her to marry him. She had to toughen up and forget them but she couldn't. He rolled his eyes every time he saw her affectionately look at their pictures. They didn't want her to be happy so what the hell did she miss them for? He was particularly angry over her for that. He was happy in a way that she wasn't a housewife or he'd be in a real crisis.
He was also surprised that she still hadn't gotten over that abortion. She was heavily depressed and he tried his best to help her get over it by giving her space to breathe so he never came home. He guessed that she'd want to be alone after that so he spent most of his time in work rather than coming back home where they would feel uncomfortable with each other. However, she was a Healer and the career was obviously demanding so there were so many things she was busy in. He was grateful for that otherwise she would have sat at home every day and would have killed him in irritation.
"You're home early. How was work today?" she asked, still standing near the doorway.
"Fine. How was your day?" he asked none too enthusiastically. There was a tender look on her face as she recalled something that occurred today.
"Come here. I want to show you something." She said.
"What is it?" he asked getting up. She walked up to him and took his hand.
"Come with me." She said. She led him out of the bedroom, out of the hallway and into the living room. She picked up a crystal angel and showed it to him, smiling brightly.
How could this cheap little thing make her so happy? He could buy her the world and she lit up when she saw this little thing?
"I could buy you a better one Jade. This looks cheap." He said as he held the figure in disgust. Jade took it away from him and held it protectively to her chest.
"I love this very much Draco. This can never be replaced, do you understand? This lovely and kind man gave me this-"
"What?" Draco cut in narrowing his eyes dangerously at her. How dare any man gift his wife a cheap and ugly angel to woo her? He was furious at the thought of her being with anyone else except for him. It made him see red from rage, the thought of another man taking advantage over his wife.
"If you let me finish Draco…I went to pick out a tree today and the owner of the place was kind enough to gift me this angel because he said it reminded me of his daughter. Isn't that sweet of him?" Jade asked setting the angel down on the coffee table again. Draco shrugged.
"That's the first time I've ever heard that. I guess women find it endearing nowadays when men tell them that they remind them of their daughters." Draco said looking at Jade who gave him a bewildered expression.
"He's old enough to be my father Draco. You can be really shallow sometimes did you know that?" Jade asked walking past him.
"Is that why I married you?" Draco asked as she fetched the dinnerware.
"Possibly." Jade answered.
He helped her transfer the dinner to the table and they ate as Jade shortly told him about her day. She sensed that it didn't matter to Draco so they ate their dinner in silence, cleaned up and worked in separate rooms before falling asleep.
