Jade felt Hermione's soothing hand on her head, comforting her. Jade lifted herself up and nestled her head on Hermione's lap, feeling her bulging stomach on the very top of her head.
"How do you feel now love?" Hermione asked. Jade didn't know how she felt. She felt a bit relieved from letting out everything she was holding in and felt empty. She couldn't bring herself to tears anymore and didn't know what to think.
"Hermione." Jade said.
"Yes?" Hermione asked. Jade sat up and looked at Hermione.
"What would you have done?" Jade asked Hermione who sighed.
"Honestly I don't know what I would have done…really I don't know." Hermione said.
Jade looked away and stared at the window, seeing the sun already set. It was getting dark out, just like her life was.
"What I would do…is I would talk to him. To listen to him just once and see if he really has changed and deserves a second chance like most of us do." Hermione said seeing Jade draw her knees up and wrap her arms around them.
"Most of us don't go around cheating on the person we promised our lives to." Jade told Hermione.
"But most of us aren't the same Jade. You told me that Draco had been different and changed just a few days ago. Maybe he really has realized that he's loved you all this time and knows now that you're the only person he wants to see and be happy with." Hermione told her.
Jade clenched her jaw and smirked. "I suppose he's filled your ear with all that didn't he? You don't know him like I do Hermione. He once made me choose him over a baby that could have been James's age by now! He forgot about me and it took him 5 years to see me now, all because that wench and him probably had some stupid fight." Jade sobbed.
"She's even said she never fought with him before he left her Jade! She was completely surprised when he had left her to be with you!" Hermione said seeing Jade shake her head.
"Hermione…what about me? Why can't you look at me? How could I just bring him back after he's treated me like nothing after 5 years?" Jade asked. Hermione looked stern and pursed her lips.
"What on earth do you want the man to do for you Jade? Do you want him to kill himself to prove to you that he's sorry? What do you want him to do to make you feel that he's suffered enough to have you have him back?" Hermione asked.
Jade had never seen Hermione this angry before. She knew that Hermione was siding with the both of them and wanted each other to stay together but Jade had already made up her mind.
"I want him to feel like what it was like to be me for the past 5 years. I want him to feel how it felt to be alone in a broken marriage. I want a divorce from him."
Draco couldn't sleep all night. Hermione's words had played over and over again in his head. She told him that it was impossible to let Jade see any reason and told him that Jade ultimately chose divorce. Divorce wasn't what bothered him, the fact that she couldn't forgive him and see his true love for her had killed him. He closed his eyes tightly, seeing the early morning rise from the windows of his living room. He rested his head against the sofa and looked at the little crystalline structure of Rosa that Jade had gotten long ago. He was sure that the angel was laughing at his suffering. It served him right to be alone in his life, that's what he had deserved after ruining Jade's.
His eyes closed and he felt how much he needed sleep right now. He heard everyone asleep upstairs. They too had been up the entire night, worried about what was going to happen to Jade. No one at this point gave a dragon's shit about Draco, only that they were going to seriously hurt him. The twins were even lethal looking, muttering about what kinds of illegal devices they were going to try on him. Draco felt himself sink into a deep sleep and faintly hoped that he wouldn't be able to wake up.
