A/N HEY!! Next chapter is here, I'm really sorry it is so much later than usual I have been really busy but the Christmas holidays have just started do it should be slightly better … I hope you enjoy.


PREVIOUSLY

"Bye then Hermione" He started walking away and Hermione said goodbye back, waving.

Oh Hermione she thought closing the door and going back into her apartment, what have you gotten yourself into.

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When Hermione woke up the next morning she couldn't help but feel excited, she was able to open her presents and then go see her parents and she had been invited to the Weasley Christmas dinner … which meant that she would get to see George again. This was something that she could not help but be happy over, and it reminded her … wasn't George supposed to be sending her an owl arranging their 'date'? Hermione didn't know what to call it, had George been serious when he used the "D" word or was it just a slip of the tongue? It's so confusing I'm not used to feeling like this.

Just then there was a slight tapping at the window bringing Hermione out of her confusing thoughts. Hermione got out of bed and to her window to find an owl on her windowsill looking very ruffled, she quickly opened the window to let the bird in closing it as soon as all of the bird was safely through the window, the breeze brought in from opening the window gave Hermione Goosebumps as she moved to her dresser where the bird was perched.

The letter that was attached to the owl was addressed to her in what could only be described as very messy handwriting, it had to be George.

Hermione,

How are you? Get any good presents? Did you like mine? Anyway how
does Boxing Day sound to you, say 6:30 for dinner, where we are going
is … guess it? A surprise, I'll see you soon at the burrow.

George XX

P.S. what did you get for your present from that Father Christmas, I got
two little toy cars, although I enchanted them so that they drive around
the apartment all the time.

Hermione laughed at the last thing George had written, typical. She decided she would reply to George's letter after she had opened her presents, she was weirdly excited at the prospect. Before Hermione was able to skip out of the bedroom the owl, which Hermione had totally forgotten about, let out a little hoot of exasperation. "Whoops, sorry Mr. Owl, come with me and I'll give you some food".

Hermione proceeded to go to her kitchen, with the owl following her, and rummaged around in her cupboards, finally finding some sunflower seeds she put them in a bowl and put it down on the counter in front of the bird, before it had even let out a hoot of thanks Hermione was already at her Christmas tree grabbing the first present she could reach, it was from Harry.

She ripped open the wrapping paper and laughed at what she found in it, it was a book which read 'How to become a know it all without knowing it all. Her and Harry had a running joke that Hermione wasn't actually that smart and it was all "just an act".

By the time that Hermione was halfway through her presents she had gotten something from Ginny, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Ronald and Fred. She still had presents from work colleagues to open (she would get the presents from her parents when she went to see them later) but she was getting impatient wanting to open George's and just went straight for that one rather than picking them randomly.

Hermione opened the present carefully this time, trying not to get too excited, when she had finally opened her present Hermione was gob smacked. George had gotten her, what seemed to be, a crystal figure of a cat, and not only that but it was enchanted to move around slightly, padding at the floor and grooming itself. It was beautiful and Hermione just sat there staring at it for minutes, it was such a thoughtful present but it made Hermione feel slightly guilty about the fact that her present to him pretty much sucked compared to this (she had gotten him a broom cleaning kit and a joke pair of socks which changed colour and shape randomly).

Hermione just sat there for a moment reeling in her own thoughts, this present must have been expensive. What does it mean? Is he trying to tell me something. What is he going to think when he sees the crappy present I got him?

Before her thoughts could get the better of her Hermione quickly reached for the present that she had received on the day that her and George had gone to see Father Christmas. When it was open Hermione let out a little chuckle, it was a nurse Barbie doll, oh the irony.

Hermione put the doll down and looked at George's present again smiling, it really was a great present. Before she opened any more presents Hermione decided to write a letter to George replying to his previous one, so as to give him a profuse amount of thank yous. When she found a peace of parchment and a quill she wrote.

George,

Your present was amazing, it was so thoughtful and I can't thank you enough for it (although it does look quite expensive, you shouldn't be spending that much money on me). Now I feel really bad about the crappy present that I gave you, maybe I can get you something else another time.

Anyway 6:30 on Boxing Day sounds good, I can't wait.

Thanks again, see you soon at the Burrow.

Hermione XX

P.S I got a nurse Barbie from that Father Christmas, he must be psychic or something.


A/N Okay, finally the chapter is out. It would be much appreciated if you could review, I love it when I go on to my e-mails and see that I have one. Oh and if I can't get another chapter out before Christmas ... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Ciao. Xx