Okay guys, Elli said Who Doesn't love A good party could be more than a oneshot. Well its going to stay that way. I suppose, but I never said a sequel wasn't in order! Don't own HP
You hafta read my other story: "Who doesn't love a good party?" To know what I'm talkin bout!
Ever After
Ch. One; reminiscing
"Well then what happened Auntie Hermione?" Mia wanted to know. Hermione Granger; age 25, sat on the carpet of Blaise and Ginny's flat where they lived with their five year old daughter Mia in the heart of Magical London, close to Diagon Alley and Hermione's flat was right next door.
Hermione was babysitting and Mia wanted to know about her time at Hogwarts. "Well Draco and I dated for a year after that and we graduated. Draco invited me to stay the summer with him. We went to beaches, parties, oh it was lovely. But Draco was offered a job to start up and run a big time company. He became swamped with work and I just felt like there wasn't any time for us to be together any more. And well that was the way the cookie crumbled…"
She finished wistfully as Mia jumped up: "Cookie where? Auntie Hermione there aren't any cookies here!" She laughed at Hermione's mistake as they turned and saw Blaise and Ginny standing in the threshold.
"Yes, and your mommy and I were married a year after she finished Hogwarts and well princess you came along shortly after." Blaise said walking over, tickling Mia, who filled the room with her giggles.
Hermione couldn't help but grin; Mia looked just like her parents, she had Ginny's freckles, Blaises chocolate brown hair, hazel eyes; a trait inherited from both parents, she was just a bit tall and gangly, and she had the most delicate smile that kept her father wrapped her little finger.
Hermione smiled again and stood up brushing off her skirt and began to walk out the door.
"Oi! Hermione I nearly forgot, you must come tonight for dinner! We're having a few people over for dinner tonight!" Blaise yelled to Hermione as she was descending the stone steps leading into the summer sun.
Hermione turned and looked at him, one eye brow raised. Blaise rolled his eyes. "Draco isn't coming; he has an assignment for erm work, he has to finish. See you at seven? Semi, semi formal"
Hermione smiled and nodded her head and disappeared into her own home.
Dropping her keys, wand, and cell phone (brand new in wizarding world) on the table next to her front door, Hermione proceeded to tidy up around her apartment. As a magical fashion designer; Hermione had sketches and spare material lying everywhere. With a quick sweep of her wand all the material was folded and lying on individual shelves in her sewing room. All of her sketches were sorted on her desk and she could see the living room floor.
Suddenly an idea popped into an idea for Hermione's dress for that night.
Pulling out some black fabric, she sketched out a pattern for a dress just above her knees, it was strap less, and right below the breast she drew in a pink ribbon with a circular rhinestone clasp on the left of the ribbon.
She took all her fabric and retreated to her sewing machine to make the dress. Hermione; though she was a witch preferred to sew the muggle way, she simply enhanced the machine to work faster.
Two hours later she looked up at the clock and saw it was five o' clock. Carefully laying the dress on her bed, Hermione jumped into a warm shower and by five thirty, she stepped out of the shower, dripping wet and pulled on her robe.
Finally after curling her pony tail and putting on pink dangling diamond earrings with a matching necklace, she slipped into her dress and shoes.
On her way out she summoned her purse with wand, lip gloss, keys, and cell phone.
"Herm! Hey girl!" Ginny greeted her enthusiastically at the door. "Hey Ginny! Who else is here?" Ginny looked around and started ticking off names: "Hmm: Mum and Dad, Ron Lav and their son Chris, Fred and George and who ever their dates are, Harry Parvati and Jessica and Natalie their lovely twin daughters, Bill and Phlegm hahaha, Percy Penelope and Leila their daughter, Charlie and his fiancée Rachel, Colin and Hannah Creevey, Padma, Seamus, Dean, oh Pansy and Vincent and Gregory just arrived, Hello Luna!"
Ginny finished her long list of guests relatively quickly and Hermione went to greet the Potters. "Hi Hermione!" Natalie and Jessica said in unison as Hermione hugged Parvati and Harry. "Hermione!" Harry exclaimed. "It feels like it's been forever! How are you?"
The girls scurried off to play with the other children; all of which were around their age, since most of the couples had children near the same time. "Well, it does seem that its been ages since we last spoke, Harry I'm doing wonderful, I just designed three dresses featured on the cover of Witch Weekly! And you Parvati how are you?"
After conversing for a while; Blaise called everyone into the enormous dining room while Ginny called in the children.
Just as everyone was seated and ready to eat there was another knock at the door. "Oh it must be Millicent! I could have sworn she wasn't sure she would be able to find someone to cover for her at Saint Mungos!" Pansy exclaimed as Hermione; chuckling went to open the door and found none other than Draco Malfoy standing outside.
Unsure of what to do, Hermione showed him inside with out a greeting and went to sit down at the dinner table. "Draco, mate! I thought you were too busy to make it?" Blaise greeted Draco enthusiastically as he pulled up another chair.
Everyone acted as though nothing was different and that Hermione and Draco hadnt seen each other since they broke up. "Hi Uncle Drake!" Mia called from down the table who waved back at her grinning. Blaise; who oh so brilliantly put the chair next to Hermione so they were forced to engage in conversation.
"Hermione, how have you been? Haven't heard from you in oh eight years, what are you up to?" Draco regarded her warmly.
Hermione wanted so much to ignore him but she had to admit she missed him; oh sure there were other guys she had dated but she never stayed with any longer than a month or so; after that long she couldn't get Draco out of her head.
"Oh I've been fine, I've become a fashion designer and how have you been. That corporate company running well?" Draco's eyes turned steel for a brief moment when she mentioned his company; the reason she had left.
"Oh things have been going along swimmingly, the company is well, I have downsized it a bit, I was never a fan of enormous companies, I specialize in making broom sticks. Ron here's a small sketch of the Meteorite 067, sure to be the best broom since the fire bolt." Passing a scrap of parchment to Ron.
Dinner passed with out any problems and Lavender handed each guest a bowl of ice cream for dessert. All the children dove in with their spoons, shoveling mounds of ice cream into their small mouths. The parents continued eating between conversations and before anyone had realized it, it was ten thirty!
Most of the children had trouped off to the play room; sleeping on the floor. But not Mia, Natalie, or Jessica. They were close friends and now Natalie and Jessica knew that Hermione and Draco had once been together. They were determined to make them fall in love.