For the next few months, Jade and Draco journeyed through their road of parenthood. Jenita grew in front of their eyes and she got much bigger. By her 8th month, Jenita started to resemble a mix between Draco and Jade. She had soft chestnut colored hair and striking honey colored eyes like her mother. The rest were Draco's features. In these 8 months, Harry and Ginny had gotten divorced and Harry told Jade that she was seeing someone else.
Jade didn't know how to respond to that. She took Harry's hand and held it, watching Lily trying to get a distracted Jenita to play with her. James and Albus sat near the girls, quietly playing.
"Well…is she happy?" Jade asked seeing Harry nod slightly.
"She looks happy. I don't know. I can never be sure. Her mood changes like the weather, especially with men. I don't know, I haven't even seen him but Mrs. Weasley and Ron told me that they're both really happy together. I guess I'm happy too…if she found someone that could make her life easier I guess." Harry said with a weak laugh.
Anger sparked through Jade. "You never made her life hard to begin with Harry. You've always been more than decent and kind to her and put up with her bloody bitch fits. I would have long gone punched her insides out-"
"Well why didn't you when you had all those opportunities to? It's not that easy Jade." Harry said seeing Jade accept this.
"You're right. Honestly the reason why I think I never retaliated was because she had always been kind to me in Hogwarts, and I think that she'd still be kind if she cleared her misconceptions about me. She still thinks I've stolen Draco away from her years ago and now that I've come back, she thinks I broke your marriage with her." Jade said softly.
"You know you didn't. That's all that matters." Harry said.
Harry had gone on with his life and made his kids the center of everything his life revolved around. He shared joint custody of his kids, so contact with Ginny had to always be made every week. After the talk about Ginny, Harry and Jade never brought up the subject again. Jade's life with Draco and Jenita went by as blissfully as ever. If Nessie and Hermione hadn't prodded Jade on about marriage every day, Jade would have found more peace in her life.
"I told you it's not necessary!" Jade argued with the two women who always ganged up on her about the subject.
"Oh of course it's necessary! It's marriage." Nessie said seeing Jade narrow her eyes at her.
"And what in the world will I benefit from it?" Jade asked.
"Jade, it might not be important to you, but Draco wants it." Hermione blurted.
Jade snapped her head towards Hermione and stared at her questioningly. "Did he tell you that?" Jade asked seeing Hermione look guilty about it.
"He knows you don't want it, that's why he's not pressing you into the subject, but he wants it just as bad as you don't want it." She explained.
Jade slapped a hand to her forehead and sat down, feeling Jenita crawl to her and hold on to her leg to stand on her two legs. "See…this makes me look bad. I don't want him to feel bad about it and I don't want him to sacrifice his happiness for mine." Jade said to herself.
"I don't understand what the problem is. You never loved Daniel, yet you agreed to marry him. Now that you have someone you love beyond comprehension who is also the father of your baby, you refuse any talk about marriage with him. Why is that?" Nessie asked seeing Jade shrug.
"I don't know. I can easily tell you about that fag-"
"Daniel." Nessie corrected.
"Fag." Jade repeated. "Anyways, the only reason why I agreed to Daniel's proposal was because I thought I wouldn't have a future with anyone else. Now that I'm with Draco, I feel as if marriage isn't necessary. We're happy. Marriage seems like a business to me honestly. You have to sign a piece of paper stating to the world that you and your property are legally bound to your significant other. Why would I stain my pure relationship with him just because the government tells me so? If I don't, I'll probably get a lot of hell for that you know? If Draco gets into an accident, I wouldn't be able to visit him in the hospital because I'm not his wife. That also scares me sometimes. A lot of things scare me if I don't marry him and it pisses me off and I can't do anything about it." Jade said, feeling the blood creep to her neck and face.
They heard the door open and Draco walked in. "Good afternoon ladies." Draco said politely.
"Good afternoon Draco." Hermione and Nessie chorused gently.
"Dada!" Jenita squealed happily.
"I'm just as happy to see you too honey." Draco said enthusiastically. He scooped Jenita up and smothered her in hugs and kisses. "Hey…are you all right?" Draco asked touching Jade's shoulder.
"I'm fine." Jade said stiffly, glaring at the wall in front of her. He felt scared to press further and looked at Nessie and Hermione who smiled nervously at him. He turned around towards Jade and saw how tense she looked. He brushed the back of his fingers across her cheek and turned to leave with Jenita in his arms.
"It's time for me to leave. My break's over." Hermione said getting up.
"And I need to sleep." Nessie said getting up.
Hermione walked over to Jade and hugged her tightly. "We didn't mean to upset you." Hermione said feeling Jade nod.
"I know you didn't. I just get really heated about the subject." Jade said.
"Goodbye sweetheart. I'll visit tomorrow." Nessie said and Jade nodded. Hermione and Nessie left and Jade got up to see Draco.
She opened the door to find Draco lying on the bed with Jenita sitting on his chest as she rapidly spoke to him in gibberish as Draco nodded; amused and engaged in whatever in the world she was telling him.
"Do you mind if I join your conversation?" Jade asked from the doorway.
Draco and Jenita turned to see Jade leaning against the doorframe, smiling at them. "Jenny, do you want Mummy to join our conversation?" Draco asked seeing Jenita throw her arms in the air and scream 'Mama!'
"I guess that's a yes." Jade said walking towards them. She crawled against Draco and lied down next to him as Jenita continued with her energetic chatter. Jade broke into peals of laughter seeing how adorable Jenita looked while she spoke so confidently that made no sense to either Draco or Jade. Draco and Jade smiled and chuckled for a while until Jenita yawned and Draco pulled her down to fall asleep on his chest.
"How was work today?" Jade whispered.
"Same as always. I'm constantly around men that think they have nothing better to do than rule the world one day. I seriously need to reconsider my Plan B dream." He said, feeling Jade hit him lightly.
"I don't think you would benefit much from exotic dancing in muggle strip clubs." Jade said as he swung a free hand around her to bring her closer.
"It'll bring me to much more lively people with a realistic approach to life. Forget about that, you seemed upset today when I came in." Draco said dropping his tone to a serious level.
"You caught that didn't you?" Jade asked.
"Is something wrong? Did I do something?" Draco asked as Jade shook her head.
"I'm just finding a lot of fault in life. Nessie, Hermione and I were just having a conversation that ended badly." Jade said in a dismissive tone.
"I can probably help. Tell me about it." Draco said.
"No. I don't want to talk about it. If I do I'll definitely tell you one way or another, I promise." Jade said turning on to her side.
Draco believed her. She would always find a way to come back to him and fulfill her promise to tell him.
I have ONE MORE chapter to update for tonight, but it's going to be posted in a few minutes...please bear with me, my mom wants me to vacuum!