Wedding's can only be chaos.
Author Notes:
This is my first Fanfic, I just want to say thanks to my Beta – reader StarGazer909, for the brilliant editing job you have done. And R&R.Chapter 1
Hermione Granger was sitting crossed legged on the floor of the house that she shared with her husband-to be Ron. She was reading her old Transfiguration textbook, and drinking a glass of red wine. She was happily thinking of what would happen at the wedding tomorrow.
"I hope everything will be fine tomorrow. It's my special day and everything has to be perfect," Hermione said to herself, as she poured herself another glass of wine. She decided to take one more look at the guest list. She went upstairs to find the copy of the document. She found it in the drawer, opened it and found the thing that she was looking for all scrunched up.
"How did it get like this? Good thing that it's only a copy," said Hermione, carefully unshrinking the paper so that it was flat again. She went downstairs and made herself comfortable on the floor again and began to read the paper, her finger gliding along as she began reading the names on the list.
"Molly and Arthur Weasley…Ginny and Harry…Mum and Dad. As long as everyone who we know is there, that's fine," Hermione said, as she put the glass on the floor, and put the piece of paper by the side of the glass. She got up and took the wine glass back to the kitchen and put the wine bottle in the bin. She wished that Ron was here, but Ron decided that the night before the wedding they should be traditional and not see each other until the wedding day. She didn't know that Ron knew that muggle tradition. So the decision made, Ron moved back into the Weasley family home, and Hermione stayed in the marital home. She decided she would carry on reading her Transfiguration book. She went back into the living room. She then heard a knock on the door.
"Hang on, I'm coming," she shouted, as she answered the door. "Hello Ginny, Luna, Susan. What are you all doing here?"
"Come on, Hermione let us in. We are here to take you to the hen night, that I your bridesmaid have organized," said Ginny as she walked past Hermione and into the hallway. The others followed her into the living room, as Hermione closed the front door and followed them in. Everyone was sitting down on the comfy, soft leather seats. Hermione looked at them all.
Hermione tried to look excited at the thought of what they had planned, but try as she might she couldn't. Knowing Ginny as she did, it would be chaos. She sighed, knowing she would have to go along with whatever Ginny had planned. Great, all I had planned to do tonight is to watch T.V and relax, not go to a pub, crawl, get drunk and end up with a hang- over the next day, thought Hermione to herself. She turned to Ginny and asked what she had planned.
"So, Gin, where are we going?" asked Hermione, looking at Ginny curiously.
"Well, I thought that we could go for a meal, which I have already booked. It's at the Pacific restaurant, in Hogsmeade. Then go onto a club, what do you think Hermione?"
Hermione thought the meal sounded alright. She nodded, letting Ginny see that she was fine with what she had suggested, but was dreading the thought of going to a club. Before she had a chance to complain, Ginny had dragged her upstairs to her room.
"Right," Ginny said, dragging Hermione up to her wardrobe and she opened it up, pulled all the clothes, aside muttering to herself. Hermione stood there watching, her eyes wide watching as she manhandled her clothes.
"No, No, No. Hermione what are you going to- Yes this is exactly what I was looking for, when did you get this I've never seen you in it," said Ginny pulling out a blue dress, and held it against her. Then she gave it to Hermione to try it on. Hermione held it against her but Ginny noticed that she was blushing. Waiting for her to explain, she sat on the bed.
"Well, Ron bought it me before he proposed; I was saving it for a special occasion. He said he tried to get it the same kind of blue that I wore to the Yule ball, because he said that I looked beautiful in that color," Hermione said, while blushing and looking down at the item of clothing. Ginny was looking at Hermione while she was talking, wishing that she found a guy who would do something romantic for her. She, of course, still liked Harry but she didn't think he would reciprocate her feelings. Who knew that her brother could be so romantic?
"Gin, are you alright? You look a bit sad," Hermione, asked looking at Ginny. Hermione knew of course that she was thinking about Harry. She didn't want to pry so she just left it. She hoped that Ginny would tell Harry how she felt soon. Hermione asked Ginny to leave while she got changed into her clothes. Ready for the night out that Ginny had kindly organized, she got into her dress. She got her shoes from the bottom of the wardrobe; fastened the clasps and went in to the bathroom to try and sort out her hair. She looked into the mirror, as she did this grabbed pieces of her hair and played around with the style. She finally decided to grab her clip and tie in to an elegant up-do and let a few loose curls out to frame her face. She again, looked into the mirror and she put on some make-up; just lip gloss, mascara; eye- shadow and blusher. She preferred the natural look rather than putting layers and layers of make-up on. Deciding that would do, she called Ginny back to say that she was done. They both walked downstairs to find the others.
"Hermione, you look gorgeous. That blue dress really suits you. Who thought my brother had such good taste?" Ginny joked, as she hooked her arm through Hermione's.
"I know. I was just as shocked as you when he gave it to me," Hermione said, as Hermione opened the door to leave with Ginny, Luna and Susan behind her, Hermione stayed back so that she could lock the door behind her. They walked along the path, out through the gate and onto the street. Hermione wondered how long it was going to take to get there. They walked along in silence, all you could hear was the sound of heels clicking along the path.
"Ginny, are we walking all the way?" asked Hermione, slightly worried about the walk to the restaurant, especially as it's in Hogsmeade. Her shoes will hurt if they walked all the way.
"Of course not Hermione, we are going to apparate. Did you think that we were going to walk?" asked Ginny, with a smile on her face. She motioned to turn the corner into the little side street, and carried on walking
"Of course," said Hermione, shivering slightly. She pulled her coat tighter around her body. They carried on walking until they all reached the little side road off the street. They had just walked into and stopped they all gathered around Ginny, who was consulting her watch she turned to look at the others.
"We have at least ten minutes to get there. So it will take us less than that to apparate. What do you want to do?" asked Ginny, while looking at her watch, checking the time. They carried on walking further up the street. All the street lamps were on. They were lighting bits of the street like little sunbeams and reflecting off the car windows.
"Well, there is a little pub in the next street. We can go in there and pass some time away, if that's what everyone wants to do?" said Susan looking around the group.
They all stopped and suddenly Ginny said, "Yeah, we might as well. Come on everyone." They walked to the next street, crossed the road and went to the pub.
They opened the door, the pub was busy but it didn't seem over crowded and it had a warm and friendly feel to it. The barman greeted them warmly.
"Hello, my name is Luke. What can I get you to drink?" said Luke, looking around and greeting the newcomers warmly. He was cleaning the surface of the bar with a clean cloth. Hermione walked to the bar and introduced her and the others. They went and found somewhere comfortable to sit, while Hermione ordered the drinks.
"Right, can I have one Gillywater, a Firewhisky and 2 White wines, please? Thank you," Hermione asked politely, while talking to the friendly barkeeper. They talked about everything from books, schools and friends. It turned out that Luke was at Hogwarts too, but left when Percy Weasley's year left. He told her the amount to pay. She got some money out of her bag and gave it to him; took the drinks and sat down with the others. She handed each of them their drinks and sat down.
"You were quite a long time with the drinks, weren't you?" asked Luna, drinking her Gillywater carefully. Hermione raised her glass, to take a sip of her drink and set it back down again to answer Luna's question.
"Yes, it turns out that he was at Hogwarts when Percy was, but Percy never mentioned him when I was staying at the burrow over the summers," said Hermione, scratching her nose thoughtfully. She took a drink of her wine, wondering why Luke was never mentioned before. Maybe she would question Percy about it when she saw him next. Hermione put it out of her mind and concentrated on having a good time after all it was her hen-night, and she intended on having the best time. She raised her glass, nodded her head while everyone else raised their glasses.
"Right, everyone just have a great time tonight and try not to get too drunk. Yes Ginny I'm looking at you. You're the one that's got bridesmaid duties tomorrow. OK lecture over, cheers everyone!" said Hermione, chuckling and looking at Ginny, who was laughing along. Everyone drank his or her drinks, while talking Luna was quite funny when she had a drink (funnier than usual) she was as usual talking about the latest creature that no-one else has heard of, it was great, Hermione thought she was glad that she came out now and she had a feeling that the best was yet to come. She looked at the others, she couldn't ask for a nicer bunch of people to celebrate her wedding and hen-night with.
"Anyone for any more drinks, because I'm going to the bar?" asked Luna, collecting the glasses to take back to the bar. She listened to the request for the different drinks carefully. She didn't want to bring the wrong drinks back to the table. She got up and went to the bar, re-ordered the drinks and declared a toast.
"Right, everyone stand up with your drinks raised. I want to say something. To Hermione and Ron, have a great time tomorrow you deserved it." Said Luna, feeling a little emotional and proud of her friend, she knew Ron and Hermione were meant to be together since they were at Hogwarts.
"To Hermione and Ron," Hermione, Ginny and Susan said, as they sat down and drank their new drinks. Hermione turned round to look at Ginny, she seemed sad about something. She had a feeling it was about Harry. She put her arm around Ginny. Ginny looked around at Hermione, seeing the worry in her Hazel eyes.
"Gin, you can talk to me you know about anything. If it's about Harry, then well as bridesmaid, you get the first pick of all the gorgeous men and I know that Ron decided Harry as a best man. There you go. You can have your wicked way with him tomorrow," Hermione said, with a mischievous smile playing on her lips. She knew she had cheered her up a bit. She didn't want Ginny unhappy when she was so happy.
"Let's go otherwise we will be late for the restaurant and I'm starving," Ginny declared, tummy rumbling as she said it. They set the empty glasses back on the table, said goodbye to the barman and off they went to the next street to apparate. Ginny looked at her watch.
"Is everyone here? Good come on then," said Hermione, as they all apparated at the same time right out side the restaurant.
TBC