Chapter 2
"Blaise?"
"Yes?"
"Where's Draco?" asked Shanara.
"I have absolutely no idea, babe" said Blaise, lounging on a comfortable green sofa near the fire.
"I haven't seen much of him lately" said Shanara, frowning.
"Neither have I" commented Pansy from where she lay, her head cushioned in her fiancé Theo's lap.
"Relax, I bet he's just owling his father or something" said Theo nonchalantly.
"Owling his father?" asked Shanara, surprised, "After the fall of the dark lord, I thought Draco had laid off the daily reports"
"you know Draco, papa's boy to the end" said Blaise, laughing.
Shanara laughed with all of them but couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. After waiting for Draco for another half hour, she grabbed Blaise and dragged him off on a search expedition.
Laughing, she and Blaise chased eachother down the corridors but kept a sharp lookout for Draco or any teachers. Once they narrowly escaped Filch by hiding in an empty classroom and evaded Snape by taking shelter behind an over huge suit of armor. Just as they were discussing whether the suit of armor had once belonged to Hagrid, they heard certain 'noises' coming from a broom closet behind them.
Laughing, Blaise put a finger over his lips and beckoned her over to the closet. Shaking her head wildly and suppressing her giggles the best she could, Shanara found herself helping Blaise open the door and catch the embarrassed couple red handed and red faced.
Little did she realize that by opening that door she would be changing her life forever.
Blaise wrenched the door open and Shanara found herself staring straight at her fiancé, the love of her life, Draco Malfoy, half dressed and wrapped around the someone so completely unexpected that for a second she could only stare, Harry Potter.
Shocked out of her wits, she backed away, ignoring Draco's calls and Blaise's attempts to steady her. Turning her back on the sight that would forever be imprinted on her mind, she walked away from what remained of her broken down world.
To say Blaise was shocked was an understatement. He knew Draco had been unfaithful before, hell, he wasn't called the slytherin sex god for nothing but Shanara finding out changed everything. Draco was now fully dressed (thank god!) and was walking silently by his side.
Blaise was suddenly so angry he could hardly see. Shanara had done nothing to deserve this. All she had done was love Draco. She had turned a blind eye to his affairs, supported him through thick and thin and trusted him blindly. It didn't take a genius to realize that in that one second Shanara's whole world had fallen apart.
"Blaise"
"Yes, Malfoy"
"You haven't called me Malfoy since I broke your nose when we were in the first year"
"well, this is way worse than that, Draco" Blaise said, coldly.
Draco suddenly grabbed his arm and said desperately, "this is different, Blaise".
Blaise rolled his eyes and said "yeah, Shanara knows…."
Draco shook his head and Blaise could hear the desperation and conviction in his voice when he said "this time is different, I really love him".
Exasperated, Blaise grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him "You're engaged to Shanara, you fool!"
"Not anymore" said Draco quietly.
Blaise's laughter died on his lips when he saw Draco's face. It was painfully obvious that Draco had never been so serious in his life.
"what do you mean" he demanded.
"I wrote to my father" said Draco, head bowed, "I told him I wanted out of the engagement, that I wanted to be bonded with Harry"
"And he agreed?"
"Of course he did, he's Harry Potter, how could he say no"
"Yes, how could he…" said Blaise quietly, "And Shanara?" he asked.
"I don't know" said Draco, "I simply don't know".