Chapter 7: You
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Once we broke apart again I decided to ask her what I had been waiting to say. "Hannah? Would you be my girlfriend?" I got out, looking hopefully into her eyes. "I mean you don't have to say yes, it's your choice…"
"Yes" she says but I don't listen at first.
"I wouldn't force you, I would accept your choice no matter what, just say if…wait, you said yes!" I exclaim happily.
She nods grinning as I stare at her in shock, when it finally registered in my mind, I pick her up from around the waist and spin her around. I keep her suspended in the sky and look up at her eyes, she graves my neck and leans down kissing me for the third time that day. I smile at her and she grins back. I don't want to ruin the moment but I'm afraid we would be late, so I check my watch. 1:36. Wow time really goes by fast when you are having fun. Hannah notices this.
"So where are we going?" She asks
"Well I was thinking we could go to a muggle pizza place in London, someone told me it was good" I say, now a hundred times happier and less nervous.
"Sounds lovely Nev" she says
"Let's go then!" I exclaim, smiling.
She giggles and says, "I think you should put me down first"
"Right" I say, laughing and put her down. I take her hand and lead her to the door. I put my hand on the small of her back as I walk through the door myself, then I take her hand again and disaparate on the spot.
We appear once again in an alley in London and start walking towards the pizzeria. We get there and see that it isn't one of those fast food restaurant but a fancy one with wood-fired brick ovens and decorations to seem like you are in a street in Italy. I go up to the Maitre d', still holding on to Hannah's hand tightly.
"Reservation for two" I tell him
"Name?"
"Longbottom", he looks up at this with an amused look in his eyes. Most people in the wizarding world didn't find my name that funny anymore considering it is well know now, but muggles still try to contain their laughter when I say my name.
He once again looks down at his seating chart and answers me, "Right this way" he motions us to follow him as he graves two menus. He leads us to a little table with checkered table-cloth and a candle in the middle. I scoot back Hannah's chair so she can take a seat and then I sit down myself. We ordered a pizza and coke. When we ordered our drinks I was tempted to say butterbeer but I remembered just in time that muggles don't know what that is.
We eat and talk, occasionally cracking up at something someone in another table says. When we are finished I pay the bill and we stand up, graving our coats. We walk in silence to the alley where we aparated. Suddenly Hannah asks a question I had not expected to hear. "Neville?"
"Yeah?" I answer
"Well I was thinking of about a year back and I remembered I wanted to ask you something." She looks at me and I nod signalling for her to continue. "What made you go back to the Leaky after the first time I saw you after the war?" I raised an eyebrow but answered without hesitation. "You."
"Really?" She asks
"Yeah, I mean, I've fancied you since about sixth year. I really had missed seeing you in the halls that year and all though it was under extremely horrible circumstances, I was unbelievably glad you went back for our seventh year, because that way I knew you were safe. And since I'm such an idiot I didn't tell you how I felt before we left Hogwarts, so I kind of lost hope, but when I saw you at the Leakey that day, I knew I couldn't mess that up so that is what made me go back. Knowing that maybe there would be a tiny possibility that we would be like we are now and there was."
Before I knew it I had Hannah's arms wrapped around my neck tightly and her head on my shoulder. I hug her tightly around the small of her back. "You mean that?" She whispers into my ear.
"With all my heart" I respond honestly.
She smiles at me and takes my hand tightly as we continue walking. "Can I tell you something now?"
"Of course" I respond
"I have fancied you since our seventh year, when I saw you give up so much to defend people you barely talked to. But like you I was to afraid to tell you so I kept my mouth shut and Susan's, which was actually hard to do, considering we all slept in the room of requirements and she kept on wanting to tell you about it, she said that you liked me too, that she could see it, but I didn't believe her."
"Smart girl, Susan" I say, and she playfully slaps my arm. "Well she was absolutely right, maybe if you would have listened to her we would have been together way before now", I tease her chuckling.
She laughs but says, "Well if you would have told me, instead of acting like I was a bloody ghost, we would have been together before now, like you said, or instead of almost giving me a heart attack when you told Voldemort how you felt about him, you could have told me how you felt about me, I'm not the one to blame here mister", she teases back laughing, I laugh.
"Yeah ok." I say.
"But you know what" I tell her
"What?"
"The important thing is that we are together now and I wouldn't change a thing"
"Me neither" she agrees sincerely, right as we get to the alley. I smile at her and disaparate.
