Safe House

Fifty two

with each week of January that sped by, my stomach was growing.

Theodore barely had a conversation with me that didn't involve the baby.

She wasn't even here yet and already stealing all his attention, and I'm getting quite fed up with it. The worst part is that, for some reason every time I look at him, I just want to do such-

It was getting bad, to the point, when we were eating dinner, all my focus was on him as he spoke to the other's around the table, that I didn't catch a word anyone said until Andromeda or Ted would snap me out of it, followed by questions "Are you okay dear?" or "Lost with the fairies?"

The three of us were sat in the kitchen, Andromeda and Ted had gone to bed quite some time ago.

"It's weird to think that Christmas was a whole month ago" I sighed.

"That's kind of how time works" Draco drawled.

"In no time, we'll be meetin-" Theodore started.

"Oh, for Salazar's sake!" I said in frustration, getting up from my chair, a hand coming to support the bottom of my swelled stomach "I can't I need a break" I walked over to the door, Theodore stood to follow me. "No, stop, just leave me alone, please, I need a minute of peace!" I slammed the door shut behind me.

Walking towards the rocking chair on the porch, dropping down into it, curse swollen ankles.

I couldn't even get into a comfortable position.

I stared out at the sky, enjoying the silence, that was until the door opened.

"The- Oh, it's you" I said to Draco. "What do you want?"

He walked over, waving his wand.

The rocking chair turned into a swing, big enough for the both of us to sit on.

"He sent me out with a blanket, and to see if you're alright"

"why, for the baby?" I rolled my eyes but accepted the blanket he threw around my shoulder.

"He understands that he's upset you, but doesn't know why" Draco sighed, as he sat himself down. "For someone to claim that he's the smartest, so fucking dull"

"Right, slower than fuckin Binn's giving a lecture" I said "It really makes me ever regret taking those tests, and finding out, then he wouldn't know, this is your fault!"

"I'm pretty sure this would give it away" He said, pointing at my stomach.

"Shut up, before I take it as a personal attack."

"I'm not entirely sure he actually knows he's doing it" Draco said.

"Really, seems he can't get through a sentence without making it about her, you know, we haven't been intimate for over five months, just he's too infatuated by her, but it's like every second of the day I'm overheating and-"

"Alright, that's enough, try seven months"

"Really, you say that, and yet I can't even remember you getting with anyone, was I your first kiss? Was I your last kiss?"

"Pft, no" Draco rolled his eyes "I just never shout it around, or get evidence" He said, gesturing to the boyfriend stealer.

"Oh of course, "The mighty sex god of Slytherin" I bow down before you" I said, using the name that I heard from some of the girls at Hogwarts use.

"You can understand why he's like this, right?"

"Because he's going to be a father, it's making me resent becoming a mother, it's like that's all I've been pushed to be, stripped of my own self."