December 22nd

"Come on Ginny! We're going to be late" Hermione says hurriedly. "It's starting in an hour and Luna wants us to be there before". "I know I know I'm done" She brushes through her ginger hair one last time.

Hermione grabs her bag from the table and in doing so the latest Witch Weekly falls on the ground. She kneels to pick it up and can't help but read the cover.

"What a prick" Hermione mutters. "What is it?"Ginny reads the headline "oh my god, How could someone do that". Hermione kept quiet, Only Ginny knew how she truly had felt about Malfoy. She had been devastated when Draco had picked Astoria over her but the more time that had passed the easier it was, and she was pretty much back to normal.

"Are you okay Hermione?" Ginny noticed that she'd gone quiet. "Yeah I'm okay, he doesn't deserve her anyway" Hermione shrugs.

"Good because Luna will kill us if we're late for the wedding so we gotta go!" Ginny jumps up and goes downstairs. Hermione places the magazine back onto the table her eyes lingering on Malfoy and follows her down. She meets Harry and Ron at the bottom of the stairs. Ron and Hermione had worked things out and decided to be friends again. Ginny, who had already smudged her lipstick onto Harry, picks up a pinch of floo powder and goes to the fireplace.

The venue is a beautiful old building covered in red roses and vines turned white from the crisp snow, The room inside was equally as elegant with fairy lights across the ceiling and brick walls, there were white and yellow flowers on all the tables along with a massive dance floor right in the middle.

"Wow" Ginny exclaims "It's so beautiful". "Extremely" Hermione agrees. The two girls leave Harry and Ron to go find Luna. They follow upstairs and enter the bedroom Luna told them to come to. "Ginny! Hermione! I'm so glad you're here!" Luna runs to hug the two girls. "How are you feeling?" Ginny asks. "I'm so excited" Luna smiles, "I thought I'd be more nervous but I'm not".

"Your dress is absolutely perfect" Hermione fixes the brides veil. The dress was a beautiful white gown embroidered with lace with a deep V-neck and back, the skirt flowing out into an A-line skirt finishing with a sweep train. Her hair was flowing in beachy waves with half tied up at the back. Hermione couldn't deny feeling slightly jealous of Luna. "Thank you, Hermione, you both look amazing too"

Hermione and Ginny were dressed in a blue dress so faint it would look white from a distance, full length with an off the shoulder fit.

"Shall we go down?" Luna asks. "Of course!" Hermione and Ginny grab their bouquets and follow Luna downstairs.

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"I cannot believe you are marrying Looney Lovegood" Draco smirked "Argh OW". Blaise hit him with a book. "Can't call her that much longer mate" Blaise jokes. "I know but Looney Zabini doesn't have the same ring to it," Draco says.

"You are just jealous that I am gonna be married before you," Blaise says as he fixes his tie. Draco looks at him puzzled, "Zabini? I was married?" "Doesn't count" Blaise continues. "How does it not count? I got married, just because I'm not anymore doesn't mean I wasn't" Draco says, still just as confused. "An arranged marriage isn't the same because you didn't love tori." Blaise walks to get his cufflinks "I told you it was a bad idea to marry her and you did it anyway. I am always right, you need to learn this".

"I'll have you know I did love her" Draco explains. "Malfoy you can't have loved her, you moped about Granger for like your whole marriage" Blaise laughs "No wonder you had to divorce". Draco jumps up from the armchair "I did not mope about Granger! Astoria and I were always going to divorce it was just a matter of time"

"Oh sure, definitely nothing to do with Granger." Blaise grabs his suit jacket. "Whatever" Draco rolls his eyes.

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"Are you ready?" Hermione, Ginny and Luna stand behind a closed door, "I'm ready" Luna smiles. The doors open and the band starts to play slow music. Ginny begins walking down the aisle, Hermione behind her. The moment Hermione began walking her eyes began searching for familiar faces, She spots Ron who had found Lavender and Neville to sit with, then Harry, who was one of Blaise's groomsmen, You wouldn't expect it but they got on surprisingly well. Her eyes then went to Draco, she couldn't deny the man looked good in a suit. Draco had just missed Hermione starting at him by a millisecond 'beautiful' he thought.

He was standing just slightly behind Blaise as best man. Hermione felt strange seeing him again. Then all of a sudden they'd gotten to the top of the aisle and her eyes went back to Luna who was halfway there now. Blaise's eyes were completely fixed on his future wife as if nobody else was in the room. "Who gives this woman to be married to this man?" Luna's father Xenophilius nods "I do". Luna kisses her fathers cheek and goes to stand with Blaise.

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"I'M MARRIEEEEEEED!" Blaise shouts from the table he was standing on "All girls stay away I HAVE A WIFE". "Oh dear," Luna covers her face and giggles. Everyone was laughing and drinking along with him. It was later into the night and Draco and Hermione still hadn't spoken, they'd exchanged glances but nothing more.

"That's enough." Hermione thought. She was fed up of him, she'd had enough drink to be confident enough to go and speak to him. She stumbled up to the bar where Draco was sitting with some brunette girl, who was all over him. Draco didn't seem interested but he wasn't exactly pushing her away. When Hermione got there she stopped and stared at the girl, raising her eyebrow "leave please" she said bluntly. The girl gave Draco an offended look, he shrugged and she stormed off.

"Granger" He greets her. "Malfoy" She takes the brunette's stool and orders another drink. "Should you be drinking more?" He said, slightly concerned. "Nope" Hermione giggled taking a sip of the drink she was just given. "Right" he takes her drink away from her. "Excuse me! I need that" Hermione leans over to grab it again almost falling off her stool onto Draco. "Whoops" She picks herself up. "Definitely enough Granger". "I'm fine Malfoy" She smiles sweetly at him "Please". Malfoy gives her drink back.

"Don't have anymore, Okay?" He tells her. She frowns "You have no right to tell me what to do Malfoy". He rolls his eyes "Right". "Gave up that right a long time ago" she mutters to herself. Draco, however, hears this statement. "DRACO mate, what are you doing over here?" Blaise comes running over and puts his arm around Hermione "He bothering you 'mione?" "No, of course not," Hermione says quietly. "GOOD" Blaise shouts "Now come and join the party, I found someone who wants a dance with you!" Draco's eyes dart up at this news, he wasn't jealous, he just didn't think anyone here should be with Granger, they weren't exactly good people.

"Great" Hermione's eyes light up at the opportunity as she follows Blaise to the dance floor "Bye Malfoy". Draco didn't know what to think, he felt different seeing her. He felt comforted, he had missed her. He looked for her around the room, 'God' he thought, she was dancing with Nott 'he's bad news'. Draco downed his drink and got up to save Granger.

He walked over to the two who had gotten closer, "Nott" He raised his eyebrow "Fuck off". "Malfoy you can't just have everyone" Theo defends himself. "Yes I can" Draco takes his place and Nott walks away muttering to himself. "Malfoyyyy" Hermione whined "that's not fair" Just as she says this the band begins playing a slow song 'Damn' Hermione thinks to herself. "Don't worry Granger, you'll have just as much fun with me" Malfoy winks, puts his hands on her waist and pulls her in closer. Hermione shudders and tries and fails to pull away from him. "Can't leave in the middle of our dance Granger" Draco whispers. Hermione puts her arms around his neck and plays along.

Blaise manages to notice the two dancing together "Aww shit" Blaise's eyes widen "That won't end well". "What won't?" Ginny questions following where Blaise is looking. "Those two lovebirds" Blaise points at Draco and Hermione. "OH Come on! She's just over him" she says frustrated. "Leave them to figure it out" Blaise turns away and goes back to his wife. 'easier said than done'.

The song had ended and Hermione pulls away from Draco somewhat distressed. Draco looks at her as she steps away. "Granger-" "no" Hermione turns around and leaves him. She bumps into Harry who is carrying two drinks, "Careful 'mione" "Hi sorry Harry" Hermione apologises and continues walking until she finds herself outside in the snow.

'Who the hell does he think he is? Coming back and acting as if nothing had happened!' She was really irritated. 'All he put me through those weeks. Choosing Astoria over her and then divorcing Astoria because she couldn't have children like it was nothing.' She hears a noise behind her and whips around pulling out her wand and pointing it at the shadow "Who's there?". Draco Malfoy walks out with his hands up as a surrender. "You'll freeze out here Granger".

"I'm fine Malfoy" She lowers her wand and folds her arms "What are you doing here?" "Well, you left me alone on a dancefloor, not good for my rep. What's wrong?" He asks.

"Why did you come and dance with me?" Hermione questioned. "I was saving you from that prick Nott" Draco lies. "You just come and dance as if nothing ever happened between us" Hermione sounded hurt. "You could've had me a year ago, and you sent me home. Don't you understand how much I cared about you" Draco felt a pang in his heart, he'd never wanted to hurt her.

"Granger, I didn't want to send you home. I didn't have a choice. It was the best thing to do, for both of us and you know that". "No, we aren't having this argument again" Hermione felt herself get emotional "How could you leave Astoria like that?" Draco's face dropped, "Astoria and I knew we weren't going to last from the first month we got married, we both decided it wasn't good for us. Her not being able to have children was a stupid excuse for the newspapers".

"Why? You loved her?" Hermione challenged. "I did or I thought I did" Draco explained. "What? So why did you split?" Hermione asked naively. "Because I loved you more" Draco had just poured his heart out. Hermione felt a tear fall on her face "No" she refused to believe that. "You're such a prick Malfoy" She felt herself cry more "You coming here and telling me all this, that's not fair. You can't put that on me. I was over you. Finally, and now you've brought it all back. What the fuck do I do now?"

"You don't have to do anything Granger, You asked and I answered." Draco was mad, mostly at himself, he never let his guard down. He'd lost Hermione once and he didn't want to again. Hermione had wiped away her tears and came back to face Draco. They were so close you wouldn't fit a wand between them. "I loved you" she whispered, "I loved you and you broke my heart". "I'm sorry" Was all Draco could get out.

Then Hermione made a stupid decision. She kissed him. Full-on mouth to mouth kiss. 'What am I doing?' she thought 'You idiot! Let go of him. Stop kissing him.' Draco was surprised at the turn of events but couldn't deny he missed how she felt. Hermione felt Draco's hands on her back and her waist before she decided to break the kiss. Her eyes widened 'oh god' she thought 'what have I done'.

"I don't know Granger, What have you done?" Malfoy smirked. Okay, so she'd said that out loud. that doesn't help the situation "I'm -" She started before being interrupted by Ginny who had supposedly been looking for her for ages. "HERMIONE there you are. Malfoy? What are you doing?" "Well- we were just- talking" Hermione lied. Ginny nodded "Sure you were. I'm going back inside now. please continue" She turns around and goes back inside. "Ginny! We weren't" Hermione tried to reply but Ginny had left.

Hermione drew her attention back to Draco. "Look Malfoy, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that" she started to walk backwards "I'm gonna go" She turned around to leave before being pulled back by Draco's hand on her arm. "If you think i'm gonna let you leave again you're an idiot" He pulled her in for another kiss. She felt safe. She felt comfortable with him.

"I know that I made the wrong decision then, please, don't let me make it again" He whispers. "What are you saying?" Hermione pulled back. "I'm saying I love you, Granger. From the moment we first kissed, I knew deep down I loved you and i always will." Hermione didn't really know how to react to this. "I don't understand". "Really Granger? for being the smartest witch of our age" Draco rolled his eyes. Hermione thought about it for only a second before she knew what she wanted. She smiled "I love you too Malfoy".

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Okay Woah. I'm so sorry for the super long chapter I got carried away lol. I hope this was enough of an ending? The story is officially finished now.

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