Chapter 2

The next morning I woke to a sudden burst of sunlight on my face. Being the lovely morning person that I am, I didn't hesitate to hide my face in my pillow and attempt to pull up the covers. You could imagine that I wasn't very happy to find that all of my covers were gone.

"DRACO!" I whimpered, "Please let me sleep a little bit more. Just a little?" I said as I attempted to dig my face deeper into my pillow.

"I would love to my dear, but we're going shopping," he whispered into my ear.

"Shopping?!?" I said while jumping out of bed and running towards the dresser only to find that it was empty.

"Draco? We are going to shop for clothes, right?" I could feel a smirk making an appearance on my face as I thought about the possibilities of shopping with Draco.

"Yes…but first we're going to shop for food and hay and furniture and stuff. Maybe a car. I figured you wouldn't mind wearing your dirty clothes from yesterday around a muggle mall." Draco said. His voice was muffled slightly and shaking. I knew without turning around that he was laughing as quietly as he could.

"Just for that you're going dress shopping with me." I said as I turned around with a flourish before remembering that I wasn't even wearing pajamas. I was not happy to be wearing clothes that hadn't been off my body for something like 15 hours.

"Fine." Draco said. You could tell that he was happy to have even gotten me out of bed. "Also, while we're in the city I thought I would ask around for a minister so we could get married as soon as possible."

"Really?" I exclaimed while wrapping my arms around him in a giant-girly-bear hug.

"Yep. You'll finally be my bride." He finished off his statement with a kiss that took my breath away.

"Then let's go shopping!" I said while dragging him out the door.

It turns out that the only way to get to the city's mall was to take the floo network into a back room. Supposedly it was a room that was disguised like Hogwarts so no muggles saw it. It was very useful and the hidden room just happened to be next to Gap! Just my luck!

Since Draco and I were eager to get into a new pair of clothes, Gap became our first stop. I ended up in a very comfy pair of jeans and a really cute shirt. Draco just got the necessities. Boys. Ugh!

We continued strolling around the mall until even I was exhausted from shopping, which was a feat of it's own. I had more clothes than I had ever had before, and we'd gotten some cute furniture that we had both agreed would look nice in the house. We were making our way to our last stop, the grocery store, when a different store caught my eye.

"Draco! Look, it's a pet store." I said as I stopped walking and pointed to a store on my right.

"So?" He said as he continued walking again.

"Can we please go look?" I said while trying my hardest to pull off that cute "adorable cat" face. "We don't have to buy anything!"

After a bit more persuading, he finally agreed to take a look. As we walked into the store I was amazed by how many animals there were. No owls, of course, but cats, dogs, other kinds of birds, rats, hamsters, gerbils, and fish were all around me.

As I was looking around, one dog caught my eye. It was a tiny little puppy that was adorable! She was the cute of cute and I couldn't resist walking over to her. There was a sign in front of the cage that had a blurb about the dog.

Hurricane

This little Bernese Mountain Dog, which we've named Hurricane, is in desperate need of a loving family. After surviving Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane was brought to an animal shelter by the police. When we heard that the animal shelter was about to get rid of her, we quickly made an offer for little Hurricane. Before we knew it, we were being told to meet Hurricane at the local airport! Even though we love having her here, we know that she would be much happier with a loving family.

"Draco. Come over here and read this," I said quietly as I tried to hold in my tears. Poor thing! How on earth could an animal SHELTER have considered giving away this cute little thing? I couldn't understand why they would do this, and even as Draco started walking over, I knew that I would be taking Hurricane home with us.

As Draco started to read the blurb, I watched Hurricane. She was walking around a little bit in her cage but you could tell that she would rather be running free somewhere. If I pulled my cards right today, she'd be running free at her new home.

Suddenly I realized that Draco wasn't by my side anymore.

"Draco?" I said as I looked around. "Draco?"

As I gave the room another sweep, I noticed someone with very blonde hair at the checkout counter. Wait a second…it's not Draco is it?

"Draco?" I said as I approached his side.

"I'm sorry for not consulting you first," he said, " but that dog needs a home and I plan to share ours with her. Is that ok?"

"You read my mind." I whispered into his ear as I threw my arms around him and let a few tears leak from my eyes.

Before I knew what was happening, Draco and I were being ushered out the door with Hurricane inside her brand new cage. Draco and I had decided that I would floo home with some of the stuff while Draco continued onto the grocery store. I was so excited to begin getting to know Hurricane, which I couldn't wait to get home and let her out of her cage. We didn't want to let her out of our house for a while though, because we really didn't want her to run off.

As I approached the hidden room, I looked in both directions before slipping inside. I flooed home quickly and arrived at my new house to find that our new furniture had already been delivered. Wow, I thought, I didn't know muggle's could deliver stuff so fast. At the moment, I couldn't care less about the furniture so I made my way towards the house slowly and cautiously so I wouldn't fall and hurt myself and/or Hurricane.

When I finally made my way past the furniture, I went into my bedroom and shut the door. Hurricane had been peeking out the sides of her cage and I couldn't wait to let her out. Without further ado, I sat on the ground and opened the door hinge of her cage.

First all I could see was a nose, then a head and finally a moving head. Hurricane had to get to know her new surrounding first before she became comfortable with them. Bit by bit she worked her way out of her cage as she continued to explore the room with her nose.

For the entire hour that Draco was gone I sat on the floor and watched her. I let her get used to me sitting there because I didn't want her to be scared of me later. She continued to work her way around the room slowly, every once in a while ducking under the bed or hiding behind the window's curtains. The longer Draco was gone, the more I wished I had a video camera to record this moment in time.

By the time Draco got back, Hurricane was very familiar with our bedroom and was itching to explore the rest of the house. As I heard Draco walk in the front door I picked Hurricane up quickly before she could protest, and walked downstairs to meet him.

"Hey!" I said, "How'd the rest of the shopping go."

I leaned against the wall, watching him and petting Hurricane at the same time as he answered, "It was fine, but I hope I got the right kind of food for Hurricane."

"I'm sure it's fine. Besides, I don't know what kind of food is best any better than you do." I said as I made my over towards Draco slowly. "She seems to like our bedroom though, and I can only hope that she likes the rest of the house as much as I she likes our room. Otherwise there will be 3 of us living in there!" I finished. By now I was standing by his side, watching him put cans of soup in the cupboard.

"Good. Even if she has to live in our room her entire life, it's got to be better than living in a pet store." He said with a sigh as he gently took Hurricane from my hands.

"She's perfect isn't she?" I whispered, leaning my head against his shoulder as Hurricane snuggled into his arms.

"Yes, she is." He whispered in reply as we both stood there watching our new member of the family get acquainted with her new parents.

Thanks for putting up with me, seeing as this is my first story.

I'll try to update slightly frequently although I'm not going to set a schedule of when I'm going to update.

Thanks! - Kaminsky