Well here goes another story. This story is not completely mine, at least no the plot. My best friend came with the idea and told me to do it. She's actually doing it as well but about Avatar. Anyway I hope you like it. Please review. Forget the spelling and grammar errors, I'm doing my best and my friend is proofreading as well. Don't take it out on her though, if a typo bothers you too much, feel free to tell me where and exactly what so I can fix it.
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Hermione was sitting in the bridal store reading a wedding magazine. Her mother was sitting next to her. They were waiting for Robert, the designer. He was going to do the last fitting of her wedding dress. In two days she was going to become Hermione Granger Malfoy.
Yes, you heard right! Hermione was going to marry Draco Malfoy after eight months of relationship.
Draco and Hermione developed a friendship their last year at school when they worked together for the Order of the Phoenix. After that, they didn't see each other for two years. They met again at a little party the Order threw to celebrate the anniversary of Voldemort's fall. That's when they started dating.
Hermione wanted things to move fast. She wanted to get married and start a family. After dating Draco for six months she told him she wanted to get married…and thus, he came with the proposal. One could tell it wasn't Draco's idea at all.
Hermione was living in a one-bedroom apartment near her job. She worked in a Wizard's Magazine named "Fashion". After the wedding she and Draco were moving to a little house that Narcissa gave them as a wedding gift. Lucius passed away in the war.
Narcissa gave them the house but she wasn't completely happy. She was not a fan of Hermione. For Hermione it was a pain in the arse to know that her mother-in-law to be didn't like her at all. Narcissa wanted her little boy with someone of their own kind; a pureblood.
Draco lived part of the time with his mother and part of the time with Hermione.
Lately he was all moody. That was because he wasn't having a lot of fun at Hermione's place, or at least the kind of fun that he wanted to have. Since the moment they settled a day for the wedding Hermione told him that she wasn't going to have sex until the wedding. She wanted her wedding night to be really special.
"Hermione…Robert is ready to see you," the receptionist said from the counter.
Hermione walked to the fitting room smiling like a five year old. She was so excited with the wedding. She had always wanted a big wedding. Draco was making sure that she had everything she wanted. A big fluffy dress, a music band, great food, a great party room and he also managed to set a day in one of the most beautiful churches in the muggle world. Draco also planned a honeymoon in a cruise ship to the Caribbean.
"Hello Robert," Hermione said kissing his cheeks.
"Hermione, so nice to see you," he said smiling broadly.
Robert was a very white, skinny, tall man, with brown hair and brown eyes. A total perfection freak. Everything that he did for his clients needed to be perfect. He wanted to be the "BIG THING" in the magic fashion industry. He wanted people to remember the dresses he made for ages to come, maybe for a century. He wanted to be a Gucci or Prada. Even though he was a wizard he loved muggle fashion. He was really close to become the Gucci equivalent to the magic world.
After ten minutes Hermione had her dress on. She was looking at herself in the mirror in the merge of tears. The dress looked even better on.
"Oh Hermione! You look so beautiful," her mother Jane said with tears in her eyes. Hermione's parents were living in Australia. They came to England just for the wedding.
"Oh mom, please don't cry," Hermione said smiling. This was not a moment to cry, it was a moment to be happy.
Hermione looked at herself for a long time and then took the dress off.
"Well Robert, thank you so much for all your help. I hope to see you on the wedding and reception," Hermione said kissing him goodbye.
"Oh of course I'm going to be there. Oh Hermione before you go, I forgot. Please tell Draco that he needs to come check his suit."
"Draco hasn't come?" she asked confused. "He told me yesterday that he was coming early today."
"Well he didn't. Now, girl I have to get back to work. See you at the wedding," he said before leaving back to his little studio in the store.
Hermione walked out of the store without saying a single word. Why hadn't Draco come if he told her that he was coming early? Oh Hermione, maybe he is busy at work, she thought.
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Draco was in his office leaving everything in place since he was going to be absent from his job for one week. He had two jobs. He worked at the Department of Magical Games in the Ministry of Magic and played Quiddich with the Cannons.
"Mr. Malfoy," his secretary called from the door. She was a middle age woman, olive skin, brown eyes and straight red hair.
"Yes Maria," he said not looking at her.
"You have a call in line number two from your fiancé," she said smiling. Maria loved Hermione very much.
He rolled his eyes and smiled. He knew why she was calling him. He took the phone and took a deep breath before answering, "Yes, love?"
"Draco I just got out from Robert's store. He told me that you didn't go to check your suit."
"Baby, I'm busy leaving everything ready. Remember that I'm going to be out of my office for one week. I'm going later. I'll tell Maria to call Robert and tell him that I'm going later," he said a little annoyed.
He hated Hermione's bossy side.
"Draco if I call Robert at 6pm and he tells me that you haven't gone, you are going to be in serious trouble with me," she said a little annoyed. Draco was the man that always waited until the end to do the things.
"Yes, love. I'm going to go. I just can't go now," he said trying to control the tone.
"Okay…well, I'll call you later," she said before hanging up the phone.
"Is everything okay honey?" Hermione's mother asked. Hermione's mother wasn't exactly thrilled with the wedding. She wanted Hermione to wait a little longer to make such a big commitment, and she didn't know that Hermione was the one who insisted Draco about this. If she knew, Hermione would never hear the end of it.
"Yeah, mom! He's just busy," Hermione said half smiling.
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"Maria," Draco called from his desk. Draco was a really dependent person; he threw every single thing at Maria.
Maria showed at his office two minutes later. Draco was frowning. He was the type of person that when he called somebody he wanted to see the person right away.
"Yes Mr. Malfoy?" she asked a little annoyed. Draco was calling her every five minutes. Maria loved her job that was the reason she didn't quit. And she also cared a lot for Draco; she loved him like her son.
"Please call Robert. Tell him that I'm going to be passing through he's store in one hour. Tell him that I can't wait a lot. I need to do the fitting fast."
"Yes Draco," she said rolling her eyes. He could pick the damn phone and do it. This was not a business call.
An hour later Draco got out of his office frowning and throwing dirty looks at everyone that he saw. He was in the worst mood ever. Roger Stuart called at last minute to tell him that he had a meeting in two hours. Now he needed to run to the store, check the damn suit and apparate in the office again to attend this meeting. What a time to get married when he had so many things to do!
"Hey," Draco said to the receptionist in the bridal store. "I'm here to see Robert."
"Oh, yes, Mr. Malfoy. Let me call him and tell him you are here," she said sweetly smiling at him.
Draco half smiled and sat down to wait. Two minutes later he was walking inside Robert's little room.
"Hey, Draco. You made it. I was starting to think you got cold feet," Robert smirking evilly.
"No…no I don't," Draco said bitterly.
"Well come on, kid. I don't have all day. I have another wedding next week and I need to find some pearls for the dress."
"Wow pearls. Somebody important?" Draco asked while taking his sweater off.
"Yes. Rachel De'Marcus. A very famous witch from France," Robert said smiling proudly. It was an honor for him to have someone from far away to call him and ask him to do her dress.
"Yes. I think I know her family. Mother is a good friend of her mother. I didn't know that girl was marrying," Draco said chuckling. The thing was Rachel was not the pretties' girl ever. When people talked about her they always talked about the 'ugly swan'.
"Yeah I know what you mean," Robert grinned. "But of course you have Hermione who is a very pretty girl. You don't know what it is to have someone unfortunate on your side."
"Well that's true," Draco said standing in front of the mirror. "Robert I don't understand why Hermione told me to come and check the suit. It looks rather normal, nothing out of this world."
"What!? Are you kidding me Draco? This suit was made just for you. It's super different. You don't know the difference because you don't know anything about fashion," he was fanning himself. He was scandalized by Draco's words.
"Sorry. It just looks the same," Draco said starting to take the suit off.
After finishing in the store Draco apparated in the meeting and after the meeting he decided to forget about his job and go and visit Hermione. She should be in her house, he thought.
Hermione was in her living room watching cartoons. She was supposed to be checking the last minutes details for the wedding but she was tired and so decided to skip it for a while.
"Hey," Draco said from the kitchen, leaning on the doorframe.
"AAAAAA…Oh shit! Draco you scared me," Hermione shouted. She almost got to the ceiling when she heard him.
"Please, Granger. I'm not a ghost," he said smirking.
She stood up from the floor after regaining her breath and ran to jump at Draco. He took her by her waist and hugged her tightly. After a couple of seconds of hugging she looked at his face and smiled. He was smiling too. She got in her tiptoes and gave him a quick peck in the mouth before returning to sit again in the floor.
Draco sat near her and said, "So Hermione, I went to Robert's store a couple of hours ago."
She smiled and took his hand in hers. "I'm glad you did. I was starting to think you were getting cold feet."
Draco stiffened a little and simply smiled at her. She was the second person that mentioned that. He was starting to get a little scared.
He went back to the subject of the store, "So I went. Hermione I didn't find anything different in the suit. I think I have better ones in my house."
"Well Draco, is a suit from France. It may not look different but it is. The fabric is very expensive," she said getting up and walking to the kitchen.
"So Hermione everything is ready for the wedding? I mean you don't have to worry about anything more, right?" he asked following her.
"I wish… I still have to check if the reception place is ready. I don't know if my mom finished decorating," she said sitting in kitchen table with a glass of water.
Draco sat in front of her, took her hand and said, "You shouldn't worry. I'm pretty sure everything is going to be perfect. Your mother is a professional. She'll know what to do with the place. And with the help of Martin everything is going to be better." Martin was the decorator.
"Yeah I hope so. I really want that day to be especial," she said grinning. Every time she thought about the wedding she smiled broadly.
"Yeah…I can't wait," he said without emotion but she didn't notice since she was lost in space thinking about how she was going to look.
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Two days later…
Hermione was in her room getting dressed. She was done with the make up. She only needed to put the dress on.
She was wearing soft pink eye shadow, liner, mascara that brings out the color of her eyes, a little blush and lip gloss. Nothing that will draw the attention! She had her hair loosen in soft curls with a little crown and the veil that was really long.
"Hermione…it's time to get the dress on. The wedding starts in forty minutes. We have to hurry," her mom said getting inside the room.
Hermione smiled and stood up to get the dress.
Five minutes later she was walking outside of the house. Her dress was really fluffy. It was white, strapless very tight until her hips. The back of the dress had a big bow and the tail of the dress was really long. She looked like a princess.
In front of the house a Hummer limousine was waiting to take her to the church.
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Draco was in the church already with his best man Jason Colin a friend from his childhood. He was passing around sweating bullets. Jason was a tall man with a lot of muscles; he had pale skin, dark brown ayes and spiky black hair.
"Man, stay calm. She's not going to let you waiting for her," his friend said smiling.
"I know…it's just that I'm nervous," Draco said putting his fingers in his mouth.
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Hermione got to the church and waited outside until she heard the wedding song.
When Hermione entered the church all the people stood up. She half smiled at everyone. She was a nervous wreck.
Draco saw her and held his breath. She looked very beautiful. This was just the way he imagined his bride.
"Draco…I give you my daughter and I hope you make her happy," her father said holding his tears. His little baby was getting married.
Draco took Hermione's hand and smiled softly, she returned the same smiled.
They looked at the pastor and nodded, telling him that he could start with the wedding.
"Dearly beloved, we are here to celebrate the love that Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger feel for each other. If anyway think that these two shouldn't be married please talk now or forever stay quiet," the pastor said looking everywhere. After 10 seconds he said, "Well, perfect. Let's start this."
"Matrimony is something to take seriously. It is not a joke. I'm glad to see two young people ready to make that commitment, ready to love each other and hold this big responsibility. Now with that said. Hermione Granger, do you take Draco Malfoy, to be your beloved husband, to love him, treasure him, respect him and stay with him until death do you apart?"
Hermione smiled with tears in her eyes and whispered, "I do."
"Draco Malfoy, do you take Hermione Granger as you beloved wife, to love her, treasure her, respect her and stay with her until death do you apart?"
Draco looked like he was going to faint. He was sweating really badly. Five seconds later he still didn't have an answer. Hermione moved his hands and looked at him straight in the eyes.
"Draco," the pastor said.
"I'm sorry… I can't," he said without looking at her.
Hermione's gasp was the only thing that could be heard around the church, everyone stood quiet looking at the couple in the altar.
After a couple of seconds Hermione found her voice again. "What?" she asked shocked.
Draco took a deep breath and said to the guests, "I'm sorry. I need to talk to her alone. Can you please leave?"
The guest started to get up making a lot of noise. It was obvious that they were too shocked to say the least. Robert was almost crying. Hermione's father threw Draco a murderous look.
Hermione was in the altar shocked, with moisture in her eyes. She didn't want to cry. She was a stubborn girl and she refused to let Draco seen her crying.
"Hermione we need to talk," he said after a couple of seconds of awkward silence.
Hermione nodded and then said in such a soft and low voice that Draco couldn't hear correctly, "What do you want to talk about. About how you used me? About how you made me believe that you were in love with me? About how you humiliated me just now?" by this time she was already sobbing hard, tears pouring down her face. She looked at him like she was going to kill him and screamed, "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THIS TO ME? I HAVE GIVEN YOU EVERYTHING, AND YOU PAY ME LIKE THIS. YOU FUCKING HUMILATED ME IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO THIS?
Draco didn't know where to start. He was a little scared; he didn't want her hexing him. "Hermione…I'm sorry. You wanted to get married and I thought it was a good idea. But the thing is we only dated for eight months. I'm not a person that does things so fast. I'm scared of matrimony. I'm not ready for such a big commitment."
"WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU SAY IT BEFORE? I WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD YOU," she screamed with fire in her eyes.
"I try…but you were so excited about the wedding that I didn't know how to say it. I thought I could overcome my fears, but when I heard the pastor talking about responsibilities, I just freaked out. I'm sorry Hermione, I'm not ready," he said with pleading eyes. The thing was despite saying no to get married, Draco didn't want to loose Hermione, although he wasn't sure if he loved her or not.
Hermione looked at him for a couple of seconds and said in a calm voice, "You know what? You are just an immature, coward, stupid, little boy. I should have known that since the beginning. You are a nobody. You are an idiot. You are a pussy. You are…"
"I'm nothing like that Hermione. I'm just really young. God! I'm only 20 years old. I want to have fun, I want to get drunk and…and…I want to have sex but I haven't done for two months. I want to party with my friends. But ever since we started this stupid wedding, things had changed. I hardly party. I never see my friends. You are always telling me what to do and I'm sick of that." he said angry. Finally he was taking everything out of his chest.
"Oh great….you are so mature Draco Malfoy. Really! You miss your friends, who are a bunch of wankers. You need to fuck a woman. Oh wait, poor Draco! Hermione hasn't' giving him anything for two months since she wanted her wedding night to be special and you fucking knew that."
Draco looked at her but didn't say anything. He didn't know how to make her understand. He knew that it was not going to be easy since he humiliated her in front of many guests. Now she needed to quit her job and probably disappear from London because everyone was going to be talking about the humiliation she suffered.
"Do you even love me?" she asked after a couple of seconds. Her face was all red and her eyes puffy.
He took a deep breath. Did he love her? He didn't really know the answer to that. "I don't know," he said after a couple of second.
She sobbed harder and screamed, "YOU KNOW WHAT? GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE. I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN."
With that she turned around and walked to a little room in the back of the church. The pastor was there, waiting for her. She ignored him and walked out of the church without people realizing it.
She got to a deserted street, toke the veil off and threw at the floor. She wanted to scream, to cry and to punish herself for being so stupid.
After a couple of seconds of crying she regained her breath and apparated in her house. Thank God she was alone there. Her mom wasn't there yet and she was happy for that. She didn't want to talk to anyone.
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"Son, are you okay?" Narcissa asked when she met Draco in front of the church. The guests were all ready gone. He was happy for that, he didn't want to see them looking at him. The only person there was Narcissa and his friend Jason.
"Mother, please don't ask anything. I'm going home," he said walking to the car in front of him. He didn't even wanted to apparete in his house. He needed to be alone.
When he got to his house he locked himself in his room and sat in his bed to think. He was sure that he lost Hermione for good. He was now thinking about the big mistake he did. It was a stupid thing to do!
"Draco, it's me, Jason. Can I come in?"
"Yeah…come in," Draco said taking a deep breath. This talk was going to be interesting!
Jason entered the room half smiling. Jason was one of those people that even though there was a big catastrophe he was smiling and making jokes. "So you didn't get married," he said closing the door.
"Hmmm," Draco said rolling his eyes.
Jason sat in the bed and got serious. "You know? I'm proud of you man. At least you were honest and didn't let this crap finish."
Draco looked at him confused. Jason liked Hermione a lot. "I though you were going to be mad at me."
"Well I am, a little. I mean you humiliated Hermione. You should have talked to her before. But at least you stopped this crazy shit you were doing. You are too young to kill yourself man," he said smiling broadly.
"I'm glad to see someone happy," Draco mumbled.
"So what are we going to do now that you are a free man? We should go to Las Vegas. I heard that it's a great place," his friend said smiling wide.
"I don't think so…although I have two tickets for a cruise ship to the Caribbean. I'm pretty sure Hermione is not going so I'm sure you can take hers. The only thing we need to do is be at 7am tomorrow in the airport. They have the tickets there," he said half smiling.
Maybe he needed this. Okay, he did take the honeymoon suite. But he was sure that the room had two beds and two floors. He read that the Adventure of the Seas was really good when it came to rooms.
"Well, let's do it man. Tomorrow I'll be at 7am in the airport with my luggage. We are going to have such a great time in this ship. And we are going to get so drunk…and we can have random sex." Jason was already in lala land when he finished talking. He was making mental pictures of everything he was going to do. He always wanted to go on a trip like this, so he was not going to say no.
"Fine…well I don't need to make a bag since I already have my bag done," Draco said a little sad.
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Hermione was in her room crying her heart out. She was falling into a deep depression. She didn't want that at all. She wanted to be the same happy girl that didn't put a lot of attention to things.
In the living room of Hermione' s place her mother, father and best friend were waiting for Hermione to come out and talk.
"You know what Mrs. Granger? I'm going to talk to her. Maybe she needs me there with her right now," her friends Susie said. Susie was a black short woman, with big round blue eyes, which made her look very different, black curly hair and really delicate skin. She was a beauty.
She got to Hermione's room and felt her heart fall. She could hear Hermione's sobs. "Hermione it's me Susie. Can I come in?
Hermione cleaned her face with the back of her hand, held her breath and said, "Sure come in."
"Hey girlfriend," Susie said while closing the door.
"Hey," Hermione said. She looked really bad. Her face was all red, her eyes were puffy and her hair was a mess. To make it worst she still had the dress put.
"Hermione you should take the dress off. It's not going to help you," Susie said sitting next to her in bed.
"Susie…I don't feel like taking it off," Hermione said without looking at her.
"Hermione…I'm so sorry for you but…"
"Susie please I don't want to hear you right now. I don't want to talk about this mess," she said holding her tears. She didn't want to think of the wedding.
"Okay…but Hermione I think we should do something. Like take a trip or something," Susie said half smiling.
Hermione looked at her confused. She was suffering and all her friend can think about was to travel. "What?"
"Well Hermione you can't stay here. You have to look at your new life. You are young Hermione, and you need to have fun. I now that it's not going to be easy, but you should try. I think it's going to help you. I don't want you falling into a depression for someone who doesn't deserve you." She regretted saying this. Hermione started crying when she heard that.
After a couple of minutes Hermione cleaned her face and said, "You know what? You are so right. I need to do something. After all, I have a one-week vacation from work, and I'm sure I don't want to go there. I don't want people staring at me. I think we should do something and I have the perfect thing. That mother fucker was taking me to a cruise ship to the Caribbean. I'm sure I can get the tickets. We just need to be in the airport tomorrow at 7am. The reservation is made in our name so I'm pretty sure I can have the tickets and change his and give them to you. We are going to have a great room. The son of a bitch took the honeymoon suite, but I'm pretty sure we have two beds, and two storages. I think I should take that trip. I should have fun. I've heard the cruise ships are a heck of a party."
"Well its settle. I'm going to make my bag and tomorrow we are leaving to that ship," her friend said standing up from bed smiling broadly. "See you tomorrow girlfriend."
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Hermione woke up at 6am a little confused. From yesterday to today it was like an eternity. She got up from bed, took a shower, got dressed and left to the airport. She didn't even mind talking to her parent's, she knew what they were going to say. Her friend Susie was already waiting for her in the airport.
"Hey…you look pretty," her friends said smiling when she met Hermione in the airport.
Hermione was wearing a pink strapless short dress with flip-flops and a neat ponytail. "Thanks," she said half smiling. She didn't dress like that to look pretty.
They walked together to the counter when Hermione saw him. "No shit," she almost screamed.
"What?" her friend asked confused.
Hermione ignored her and ran to the counter. Her friend followed her but realized what the problem was. Draco was in the counter with his friend. Draco didn't realize Hermione was there until she screamed at him in front of the assistant.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE MALFOY?"
He was shocked, to say the least. He looked at her from head to feet. What the heck she was doing here?
"What…what am I doing here? What are YOU doing here?"
"I'm here to take my flight," she said looking at the assistant. "My name is Hermione Granger. I have a reservation for plane tickets and two tickets for a cruise ship named Adventure of the Seas," she said smiling courtly at the woman.
The woman smiled and said, "Miss, I'm sorry but I can't give you the tickets. Mr. Malfoy here already asked for them."
"Well don't give the tickets to him and give them to me. They are mine," Hermione said in a murders tone.
"No, Granger. The tickets are mine. I'm taking them and I'm going to the Caribbean," Draco said serious.
"Oh no your not," she said throwing him a dirty look.
Jason was confused and Susie was getting angry. She couldn't believe this man audacity. Hermione deserved those tickets more than him. She was the one that went through the humiliation.
"Granger I'm leaving. Please ma'am the tickets," he said politely.
Jason smiled and came close to them and said, "You know what. Since both of you want to go I think you should both go together."
"NO," they both shouted at the same time.
"Hermione," Susie said walking near her. "I think we should go. Let's go to another place. I heard Germany is great."
"No. You know what, Susie? I paid for half of this trip."
"No you didn't," Draco said in a harsh tone.
"Okay, I didn't… but I deserve to go! So I'm taking my ticket and Mr. Moron here can do what he wants with his. He can shove it up his ass if he wants. I'm pretty sure he is going to love that since all he wants to do is be with his buddies," Hermione said taking the ticket out of Draco's hands.
Draco looked at her and at his friend shocked. He was shock not only because she took one ticket away but also for the comment that she did suggesting that he was gay.
"You know what Granger? I'm going because I'm not going to lose this ticket," he said taking his bag.
Their friend stood looking at them shocked. Draco and Hermione forgot that they were there and walked to the terminal.
"Try to find a sit far away from me," Hermione said when she was boarding the train.
"Fine I don't want to be near a mudblood," he said trying to hurt her.
She threw him a dirty look and said, "I don't want to be near a fag."
We that she walked to her sit. Draco stood shocked looking at her, it was the first time someone called him like that and he didn't like it at all.
Well…what do you think? Do you like it? Please let me know what you think, remember to review.