Beloved - F. Weasley

37.

{.37. Last week of summer}

Carina Bella Zabini was not looking forward to tonight. Fred Weasley was coming to dinner with Eleonora and Blaise. It wasn't that she didn't want Fred at the manor it was that she was anxious to see how Eleonora and Blaise were going to act. She was then being dropped to Orion's tomorrow for the rest of the summer while Blaise and Nott stayed at the mansion.

Nott had been at Draco's the past few days, he was needed there to give Draco some company as Cissy had said he was feeling lonely. She couldn't imagine what it would even be like being in Draco's shoes. All Draco's life he had wanted approval from his dad and he never got that before he went to Azkaban and he didn't know if he'd ever get that opportunity again.

Carina and Blaise were similar to Draco but they'd never had the opportunity for their dad's approval. They just wanted to believe they both had it. Carina had finally come clean about the truth about their dad too. Blaise had been shocked but accepting. He didn't realise how their reality could have been, they read more of their dads letters from Siri together and a lot more made sense.

Blaise contemplated coming clean to Carina about everything he was keeping bottled but he wouldn't — He couldn't. He couldn't break Carina like that, he didn't want to. He needed to protect her innocence for as long as he could.

Carina was dressed in a nice floral dress with a cardigan while she waited for Fred to arrive via the floo network. He would have apparated but as he'd never been to the manor so he thought to be safe he'd better arrive that way so he'd be safe.

Blaise was wearing a shirt and a pair of nice trousers while eleonora was wearing a long maxi dress. The family chef had been cooking lamb and vegetables. Carina only hoped that Fred liked lamb.

The fireplace lit green and Fred Weasley walked out with a bouquet of flowers, a bottle of wine and a few bottles of butter beer. He smiled and sent a wink Carina's way as he stepped out the fireplace.

"Hi my love! These are for you!" He said passing her the flowers and kissing her cheek "this is for you Mrs Zabini, and the butter beer is for you Blaise. Sorry mate I wasn't sure if you'd like fire whisky so I settled for the safe stuff," he said handing Eleonora and Blaise their gifts

"Freddie you shouldn't have!" Carina grinned as she inspected the flowers, she sent him a wink and headed to the kitchen to put the flowers in a vase.

She set the flowers in the vase and smiled at how thoughtful her boyfriend was. She couldn't believe how lucky she felt sometimes, especially because she rarely spoilt him. She definitely had to start spoiling him more. She didn't want Fred to get sick of her or anything.