CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Hermione clutched the vanity table tightly. It was the day of their "renewal of vows". she could already hear the people socializing outside in their garden, where the ceremony was being held.
"Hold still!" Jean-Claude insisted as he tried to tame Hermione's hair. He was Narcissa's favourite designer and makeup artist and she insisted that he would be the one to do Hermiones makeup and dress. Fleur, who was delighted to have another French person to chat with, was shooting French out of her mouth like bullets.
"Hermione, we don't have much time." Narcissa said impatiently, "Almost everyone's here! She glanced out the window that overlooked the garden. She rushed downstairs to mingle with the guest.
"Where Giselle?" Hermione asked.
"She iz with Blaise." Fleur responded as she smoothed down her own dress. Hermione had asked her to be the maid of honor and was beginning to regret it. Fleur, who has chosen a very modest, plain dress still looked better than Hermione.
"Blaise?" Hermione asked with a look of shock on her face, "Did Draco force her upon him again?"
"Au contraire, 'e seems to be enjoying ze attention ze ladies iz giving him." Fleur laughed and looked down towards the garden. Sure enough, Blaise was surrounded by girls who were cooing at Giselle, who also seemed like to like the attention.
"Okay Miss, you are ready to go." Jean-Claude sighed as he got up, "Next time I will have to tie you up!" Hermione glanced at herself in the mirror and gasped. She was wearing a long ivory dress that was mermaid style so everything was tight and flared out at the bottom. Her hair was pinned up with a few wavy strands loose on her face. She had to admit, she looked beautiful. Fleur stepped into the picture and Hermione frowned.
Gah! Hermione thought and she turned away from the mirror.
"Absolutely beautiful!" Fleur purred at Hermione, "Draco will want to devour you!" Hermione blushed and quickly followed her down the stairs.
The wedding/renewal of vows went by in a blur, and then next thing Hermione knew, everyone was dancing on the floor. Hermione glanced over and saw that Pansy did show up to the wedding with her mom. Pansy sauntered over to Hermione.
"Congradulations." Pansy said stiffly, "I wonder who long you can keep a hold on Draco." Hermione looked at her in confusion before looking at where Pansy was looking at. There were two French girls who were batting their eyelashes and flirting excessively with Draco. Pansy shot Hermione a dirty grin before walking over to Blaise who was occupied with a few girls himself. Giselle was asleep in Narcissa's arms.
Hermione looked over at Draco again and saw that one of the girl had her arms looped through Draco. Draco had an amusing looked plastered on his face as he laughed at what one of the other girl had said. Hermione couldn't believe that he was flirting with girls at their wedding! She went over to Narcissa and grabbed Giselle.
"I'll bring Giselle to bed." and with that, she walked away furiously towards the manor.
"Wait! 'Ermione!" Fleur cried out and grabbed her chest as she was catching her breath, "I'm so sorry."
"About what?"
"Those girls with Draco." Fleur pointed out, "Zey are my cousins and absolutely 'ave no shame."
Great, they are part veela too? Hermione thought bitterly.
"He can do whatever he wants." Hermione said coldly, "Obviously I'm not attractive enough to catch his attention." Without giving Fleur time to respond, she took Giselle up to her room and told a house elf to look over her.
Instead of heading over back to the party, she wandered to the pond on the other side of the garden. Was she a fool to wait for Draco? How could he let those girls flirt with him like that? Especially in public? Especially on their wedding? She heard footsteps behind her and she whipped around. A girl was giggling as she clutched onto Blaise.
"Blaise!" the blonde girl shrieked as she stumbled around. Blaise saw Hermione by herself, looking at them.
"Shit." Blaise said. He whispered a few words to the drunk girl and then she wandered, or should I say stumbled, her way back to the party.
"You don't have to do that." Hermione pointed out.
"Nah, you looked upset." Blaise replied and walked up to Hermione, "What's wrong?"
"Has Draco talked about me?" Hermione asked.
"Of course he has." Blaise said, "But you know how Malfoy's don't express their emotions to people. Why?"
"Those girls." Hermione nodded her head towards the distant. Blaise seem to know who she was talking about
"He's like that." Blaise assured her, "But he will never cheat."
"That doesn't matter!" Hermione cried out, "This is our wedding day! The day the media knows that Draco's married and off the market. Yet, he's acting like he's not!"
"Why don't you go talk to him about it?" Blaise told her.
"I don't want to look like the jealous wife." Hermione mumbled, but that was only part true. The other part was that she was scared that Draco will see her standing next to those gorgeous girls and see how plain she was.
"You're beautiful." Blaise said soflty, as if he had read her mind. The sun was already setting and it was reflecting off Blaise's hair. Hermione sighed.
"Not compared to those veelas."
Blaise lifted Hermione's chin, "I told Draco he's a lucky bastard to be married to you, now go claim what is yours."
Hermione nodded and they both walked back to the party. Draco noticed Hermione and Blaise walking back to the party from a secluded part of the garden. He narrowed his eyes and shrugged the girl's arms away from his. Blaise parted away from Hermione and went to talk to Narcissa. Draco dragged Hermione aside.
"Where were you?" Draco hissed, "And what were you doing with Blaise?" Hermione couldn't believe her ears, Draco was angry at her for walking with Blaise?
"Excuse me?" Hermione asked, "I was by the pond when Blaise came to comfort me."
"Ya? About what?" Draco demanded, "You can't be seen walking around in secluded places with another guy!"
"That's a bit rich coming from you!" Hermione said, getting angry, "Having girls throwing themselves all over you during our wedding night!"
"That was nothing!" Draco pointed out, "We didn't do anything."
"What made you think Blaise and I did?" Hermione asked, venom leaking through her words, "You have embarrassed me tonight Draco. I assure you that there will be something about you and mistresses in the daily prophet tomorrow about our wedding." Hermione turned around and walked back to the manor.
"Stop." Draco said, grabbing her arms, "Look, it's no big deal. I'll stop okay?"
Hermione's mouth dropped open. It's as if Draco's treating this situation like it was nothing. Hermione wrenched her arms away from his grip.
"To you it's nothing, but it is something to me." Hermione hissed, "But I forgot a Malfoy only thinks about himself." and with that, she whirled around and continued her way to the manor leaving Draco with his mouth hung open.
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Hermione was glad that Draco hadn't followed her, but at the same time she had wished he did. She looked out the window and saw Fleur yelling at her cousins in French. She was waving her arms around and her wands was sparking. One of her cousins must have said something back to her because Fleur's eye's widened and slapped her across the face. Herminoe shook her head and went to change.
She rolled around her bed for Merlin knows how long. The garden finally quieted down and she knew the guests had left. She heard Draco's footsteps walking into the room. She pretended to be asleep as she heard him stop by their bed. He must be staring at her because he wasn't making any noise. She tried to even our her breathing so she could sound like she really is asleep. She heard Draco sigh and went to the washroom to change.
Hermione snapped opened her eyes when he was in the washroom and glared at the door. She wanted to throw hexes at him for being a brainless git, but she quickly shut her eyes when the washroom door opened. Draco came shuffling out and laid beside Hermione. She could feel that Draco was lying on his back, staring up at ceiling. Everything was quiet for a few minutes.
"You're a terrible actress." Draco finally said. Hermione snapped her eyes open at what Draco had said.
"How dare you!" Hermione cried out and threw a pillow at him, "You already embarrassed me to the entire media, now you're just plain insulting me."
Draco wrapped his arms around her and made her face him.
"Look Hermione, I'm terribly sorry." Draco whispered, "It's just old habits die hard. I promise I'll never do that ever again."
"It hurts." Hermione mumbled.
"I know sweetie, and I'm sorry." Draco placed small kisses on her head. Soon those kisses were trailing down her neck and onto her sensitive part of her skin. She moaned and her hands automatically went to his shirt. As she unbuttoned his shirt, Draco took off her flimsy nightie in one smooth movement and was placing kisses all over her body. Soon, every single piece of clothing was on the floor while Hermione and Draco were clutching to each other for dear life.
Nothing else mattered at the moment. Kisses were thrown everywhere, hands were leaving the skin wanting more, moans were mixed in with cries of pleasure. No one else mattered in anymore, only those two. New memories were to be made, old ones were to be thrown away.
Hermione fell head first over the cliff as she cried out Draco's name and clutch tightly onto him. Draco soon followed and they both rode the waves of pleasure. Hermione buried her face into his chest and mumbled something.
"What?" Draco asked lazily, stroking Hermione's hair. Hermione took her face out of his chest and looked at him.
"I forgive you."
"Of course you do." Draco smirked, "I work hard to give that performance, and if girls don't forgive me after that, they might as well be rooting for the other team."
"You are such a cocky git." Hermione laughed and playfully slapped him, "Such a Malfoy."
"Shh." Draco kissed her forehead, "You're a Malfoy now too."
"Don't remind me." She teased, "I love you Draco."
"I love you too Hermione…Malfoy."
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A/N: There you go! It's finally finished! I would have done a better ending, but I was too excited for the sequel! I kind of have it planned out and can't wait to write it. Here, I'll let you guys know what its going to be about!
It's going to be about Blaise and how he becomes one of Draco and Hermione's close friend. But Blaise may be stepping on the fine line between friendship and something more with Hermione. And now that Draco's company is one of the top five companies and his wealth is unlimited, more girls than usual are trying to steal Draco away from Hermione. Will he stray off his path? Ron and Pansy comes back into their lives and makes a mess of things. I'm bringing Astoria Greengrass into the story and a bit of Hogwarts for Giselle.
That's what I have in mind for the story so far, but who knows? Let me know what you guys think of the sequel plot!
And seriously, all your reviews are awesome and I will try to make the sequel a lot better! Since I don't have school for two months, I have a feeling it will be loads better! Love you guys! xoxo