So I'm going to be skipping through days now, because I just want to get to the main plot soon. So this chapter is set a little over two weeks after the talk with Molly. So...here we go!
Oh! And by the way! James is like a little under one. I know earlier I kinda made it sound like he was really little, like newborn, but no. He's like 10 months.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Miss Rowling does. Not me. :)
"Hermione, it's going to be okay. I'll only be gone for a week or two! I promise you, I'll come back." Ron tries to reassure me. "Harry will be going on this mission too. We'll be safe. You and Ginny can take care of each other while we're gone."
"I don't want you to leave. In a week, we'll get to find out if I'm pregnant or not. I don't want to find out without you, but I don't want to wait forever either." I say, still hugging him around his neck and crying into his shoulder.
"I know. If there was something that would help you find out sooner, I'd love to be here, but I don't think there is." He says sadly. He wants to be a father as much as I want to be a mother. "How about you stay with your parents while I'm gone. Then, if you do find out, you're with your mother for help. I know you've been wanting to see them anyway." He suggests. It sounds really convincing.
"Yeah. I guess that's be a good idea." I take a deep breath to calm my self. "Yeah. I...I need to see my parents. I haven't seen them in over a month." I pull back, and look at him. "I'm just really going to miss you."
"I know, I will miss you too. Just like I said when I proposed to you, 'I don't feel right when I'm not with you'." He told me.
"I loved that day very much." I say to him, smiling.
"Me too." He responds. He leans his head down and kisses me. He pulls away a few moments later, and rests his forehead on mine. "I love you, 'Mione."
"I love you too." I say back.
LATER THAY DAY:
I decide to go to my parents' house to see if I can stay there while Ron's away. I Apparate into an alley in London, and get a taxi to their house. I walk onto the familiar front lawn, and go to the door. I take a deep breath, and ring the doorbell. My dad opens the door a few seconds later.
"Hermione!" He smiles when he sees me. "Jean, come here! Hermione's here!" He yells towards the kitchen, and then hugs me tightly.
"Hi Dad!" I greet him, and feel so happy that I'm home. I pull away from my father as soon as I see my mother coming towards me with a huge smile on her aging face. I feel like crying, but I don't. "Hi Mum!" I say to her, and give her a big hug too.
"Oh, my Hermione." She says, then holds me out in front of her to look me over. "You look so thin! Do want some food? I just got done making a casserole." She tells me, walking back towards the kitchen.
"Sure. I'd love to have your casserole!" Mum, Dad, and I sit at the kitchen table and eat.
"So, where's Ron?" Dad asks.
"Oh. He's at work. They're getting ready to send him on another trip... mission thingy, so he's there getting prepared." I say, looking down at my food. I feel my mother watching me.
"Herald, could you please go find that scrapbook I made for Hermione for me, please?" She asks my father. He agrees, and goes off to look for it. Mum scoots over to the chair next to me, and wraps her arm around me. "Why are you really here, Hermione?" She asks. After a minute, I answer.
"Well, Ron and I are trying to have a baby." I tell her and she starts smiling grandly. "And, we've been having some trouble. But, by next week, I'll be able to figure out if it worked this time. But, he's going to be on his mission. So, I was wondering if I could stay here, so I can be with you." I say to her, and she grabs my hand.
"Well, of course you can stay here, darling. I pray that you're pregnant. You'll be such a great mother. And I can't wait to be a grandmother, either!" She tells me, starting to ramble on about how great it will be. It looks like I'm going to be enjoying my time with my parents when I stay here!
My parents went upstairs to work on some paperwork for their dentistry, and I sit down at the couch and turn on the TV. I change the channel to a local news station, and sit there and watched it. On a commercial break, there is an ad for a Muggle pregnancy test that tells you if you're pregnant five days before your missed period. I feel my heart speed up, and I grab the phone off the counter. I look at the clock; Ron will be home by now! I call home, and Ron answers after two rings.
"Hello?" Ron asks.
"Hey, Ron!" I say.
"Hi! When are you coming home?" He asks.
"Right now, but I just need to stop by the store on the way home." I decide to keep the pregnancy test information a surprise for when I get home. I'm so happy that he'll be home to find out.
"Okay. I'll see you later."
"Okay. I love you."
"Love you. Bye."
"Bye." I hang up the phone, and tell my parents goodbye and that I'll call them tomorrow about staying here. I call the taxi again, and get to a pharmacy. I buy four of the right pregnancy tests, and Apparate home.
AT HOME:
"Ron! Come here!" I scream when I get in the house. He runs to the foyer with a bag of candy. I raise my eyebrows at him, and he just shrugs. You're bound to get a look if you eat a bunch of candy in front of a person raised by dentists.
"What's in the bag?" He asks me, pointing to the plastic bag hanging from my hand. I smile at him.
"Something totally convenient and awesome!" I tell him gleefully.
"What is it?" He asks, a little worried. I lead him to the bathroom, and dump the tests onto the counter.
"Pregnancy tests!" I say to him. He looks at me, puzzled. "Muggle pregnancy tests."
"But, you can't find out until next week." He says, picking up one of the pink and black boxes.
"No. Not with these. These can give you results five days before your missed period. And how many days is it until I'm supposed to start my period? Right, five!" I say happily, and start to open a box.
"Hermione." Ron says, I ignore him. "Hermione....Hermione!" He says wrenching the box out of my hands. "Don't....Don't get your hopes up." He says, looking at me gently. I nod, and take a deep breath.
"You're right. Yeah. This could say no. You're right." He notices that I'm getting sad, and he speaks up.
"But they could also say yes too." He tells me, smiling widely. I smile back, and tell him to help me open the boxes. Once we get all of the sticks out of the boxes, I tell him to hand me one right after the other while I'm peeing, so we can do them all at once. I pull down my pants, and sit on the toilet.
"You ready?" I ask him. And start peeing on the first stick. Everything goes well, and now we just have to wait two minutes. Which, by the way, feels like two hours! We sit on the bathtub ledge, and I'm squeezing Ron's hand really hard. I start to cry, thinking that this might not work. What if they all say no? I'll be totally devastated. And it'll make Ron sad too, and he has to leave in two days. Then, I start to smile, thinking that maybe this time it will work. I could have a baby inside me right now. Well, it'd be a little bundle of cells right now, but it's still a baby. I could be a mother soon.
Once the two minutes are up, I feel like throwing up because I'm so nervous. Ron closes his eyes, and reaches for the first stick. He flips it upside down, so the answer's facing down. He gives me a peck on the lips and flips it over. It says 'YES'! I sigh and start jumping up and down. I reach for the other three and flip them all over. They all read: 'YES'! I start crying, and hug Ron.
"Bloody hell! Hermione! You're pregnant!" He says excitedly and pulls away. He has his own few tears in his eyes. I kiss him happily, and then grab the phone. I dial the number of the Burrow, and Molly answers.
"Hello?" She asks. I put it on speaker-phone.
"Hi, Molly! It's Hermione and Ron." She waits for a second then asks the question I'm finally happy to answer.
"Are you pregnant?!" She asks, I can tell she's smiling while asking me this.
"YES!" I scream into the phone, and Ron wraps his arm around my waist. I hear Molly scream the news to Arthur, and picks up the phone again.
"Oh! This is just brilliant! I'm so excited, and happy, and proud of you two! Oh! This is great!" She tells us excitedly. We say our goodbyes. I look over at Ron and give him a huge hug again. We stand there for a few minutes taking the news in.
"I'm so happy, 'Mione. This is so amazing." Ron says, leaning his head down snuggling into my shoulder.
"I know." I say simply back. I hear the phone ring, and I pull away to answer it.
"Hello?" I ask into the phone.
"Hey, Hermione. I'm glad you answered." It was Ginny.
"Hi! I'm glad you called." I told her.
"Okay. Um. Hermione. I'm sorry, because I don't know how you'll react, but..." She trailed off, and I got worried.
"What? What's wrong?" Ron looks at me questioningly. "It's Ginny." I whisper to him. He looks worried too now.
"Well, I'm pregnant." I can hear the guard in her voice. She doesn't want me to get upset, because she thinks that I might get upset that she's pregnant and I'm not. I smile.
"Really?" I say. "Well, you'd never guess it, but...I am too!" I say, waiting for her response. Ron looks at me questioningly again. "Ginny's pregnant." I whisper to him, and he puts on that disturbed face he had on when he found she was pregnant the first time, and walks out of the room. He doesn't like thinking about his best friend and sister that way. Yeah. It was a little awkward at first for me too, considering Ginny's like my sister and Harry's like my brother.
"Oh my gosh! Are you serious! Oh! I'm so happy! Oh! That is amazing! Oh yeah! That means they'll be in the same class in Hogwarts! This is wonderful." She says excitedly.
"What's so wonderful?" I hear Harry say on the other line.
"Hermione's pregnant too!" Ginny tells him.
"Really?!" He says happily, then sounds a little grossed out when he says: "Awesome." Ginny laughs, then talks to me again.
"He's a little disturbed by you and Ron being that way still." She tells me, chuckling.
"Yeah. Ron is too. I whispered to him that you are pregnant, and he looked disgusted and left the bathroom."
"Yeah, well. Great minds think alike." I chuckle.
"So, now you're finally saying your brother has a brilliant mind."
"Yeah, I guess." She says sarcastically.
We sit there talking to each other for two hours. She tells me all about pregnancy, and tips to it. We share our happiness, and then say our goodbyes.
Poor Ron and Harry. I think. They'll have to deal with TWO moody, pregnant women for the next several months. I joke with myself: Oh, well. That's what they get for getting us pregnant.
Well! Wasn't that a long chapter!! Ha ha. Well, I'll update as much as possible, but I have to go to my grandpa's funeral on Friday, so I might not have a chapter up on that day. Oh! And, Hermione's engagement ring is on my website: http://www..com/ under the 'extras' tab. Review this story/chapter please! I know how many of you have read my story: 806. And out of all of those 806, 5 reviews! Come on people! Click the pretty green button!! Click it... go ahead...3...2...1...now! (: