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Never had a dream come true

Chapter 17 Engagement Ring

"Eve, wake up. We are going to do some shopping now." Severus was sitting on her bed, trying to wake her up. It is the fifth time Severus had been sent to wake Eve up, but it seemed like Eve wanted to live sleep through her holiday, as she did in university. Severus had even went into town to Diagon Alley to exchange some muggle money once already.

"I don't want shopping, Severus, I want my sleep." Eve mumbled, who snuggled further down her blanket.

"You shouldn't sleep so much all at once, you have slept over ten hours already." Severus had now carried her out of her bed, sitting her on the only chair in her room.

"If you only slept five hours everyday for a month, teaching, mixing music for the disco, and knitting, I doubt you could still be wide awake after everything's finished." She buried her face in Severus' chest, trying to persuade him to let her sleep.

Severus now understood, "So what Miranda stopped Bertha from saying on the night of Christmas Eve was knitting. What is she knitting?"

"Eve, I understand, but you need to get up. Everyone's waiting for you, especially that it's boxing day today."

"Alright alright. Give me ten minutes to wash up."

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"Is she awake yet?" Miranda asked the fifth time in the morning, without looking up from her magazine.

"Yes. Finally." Severus threw himself in the sofa next to the window.

"Well, she is alright then, well, I mean she used to sleep through her holidays before that. We found it so hard everytime to get her to go out with us during the holidays. We nicknamed her kaola, because she spent so much time sleeping, like a koala." She said with a smile.

"Koala's here. Where are the others?"Eve replied, who came down from her bedroom, totally awoke and changed, and ready to go. She walked across the sitting room and sat on Severus' lap, throwing her arms around Severus' neck, and gave him a kiss on his cheek.

"Please control yourself, there is a single girl in the room." teased Miranda, who was looking up from her magazine. "Fayanna and Ben are cleaning up in the kitchen, well, where else would Bertha be other than the backyard."

"Still the backyard. Sometimes I don't really get why she insisted that Doggy would come back, especially it left two years ago. Even if it did come back, we haven't been here since graduation."

"Doggy? You have a dog in the past? I thought you like cat."

"Yes, I like cat better. Well, Bertha found it injured right down the road, and it was a really enormus dog. She said she wanted to keep it, so we bought a dog house for her and put it in the backyard. One morning, we found Bertha lying in the backyard, and Doggy was gone. We had given out missing poster, but no one replied to the missing."

"We wanted to get her another one, but we couldn't find which breed it was. We looked through books about dogs, but no description of Doggy fits into any breed." continued Bertha.

"Might be she was waiting to get back the friendship charm, you know, she had given her quarter of friendship charm to Doggy as his name tag." Eve said, playing with her hair.

"Are you guys ready to go?" Fayanna asked, and Ben coming after her.

"Yes." replied Bertha, who walked back inside from the backyard.

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The girls went shopping for clothes as the half price sale was on, so they told the guys to do some shopping themselves and met them back at the entrance of M&S at five.

Severus had only been shopping in the muggle world once, to get clothes for this trip and the tuxedo for the ball, so he didn't think he would go shopping for more clothes or something like that. But he did have something in mind he wanted to buy, a present for Eve.

They were walking through the men's wear department, and Severus asked, "Ben, you know where I can buy jewellery here in London? I haven't been here before."

Ben looked at him, wide-eyed, and asked, "I assume a ring?"

"Yes."

"How much do you want to spend on it?"

"I have no idea."

"Well, I better take you to Cartier then."

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Ben took him to Cartier, but Severus insisted him to go on shopping, and he would meet him and the girls later in M&S.

He went into the shop, and a female staff asked him, "can I help you, sir?"

"Do you have any engagement rings?"

"Sure sir, do you want any style in particular?" she asked.

"I would prefer it be simple, best if it is silver."

"We just have a new catalogue for silver ones, would like to have a look?"

"Yes, please."

"Please take a seat. I'll be right back."

Severus sat down, and she came back with several velvet boxes. She opened the boxes, and put it in front of him. "Here they are, sir. Have a look."

Severus looked at them, they are all silver, as he knew Eve really love silver. He noticed that she always wore a silver fan-shaped pendent. All the other jewellery he saw her wear were all silver in simple style. Well, they all looked great, but one especially caught Seveus' eyes. The ring had a diamond in the middle, and some small ones around it, which formed a pattern like a snowflake. Eve would love it.

He took out the ring and said to the staff, "What size is this?"

"It's a six, sir."

"I'll take it. Can I have it wrapped as gift?"

"Certainly sir."

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Severus came out from Cartier, and headed towards M&S to meet the girls and Ben. When he arrived at the entrance, he saw Eve standing there.

"Eve."

"Severus, the others had gone to the cinema, and said they won't be back until really late, so we need to go home ourselves." Eve said, "Have you bought anything?"

Severus thought, "Well, seemed like Ben had told everyone I am going to propose tonight."

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They arrived home, and Eve cooked an excellent dinner. Bertha would probably complain why she cooked when she was not there, as she was fond of Eve's cooking.

She surprised Severus again. "I don't know you cook so well."

"Thanks. You know Bertha would probably be really envy if she knew I cooked tonight, probably Harry and the gang too."

"They had tried your food before me? Why didn't you tell me?" Severus was really envious now.

"You have lessons every afternoon, while Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny and Draco always come to visit me in my chambers for tea that time. Or else why do you think they love to visit me in my chambers for tea?"

"You are just amazing." Then he mumbled to himself, "Good, Lupin haven't tried it yet."

Eve laughed to herself, men. "I told you. I am traditional, but not traditional in my character. I learn cooking from my grandmother, who taught me, 'if you want to capture someone, cook good food, so he can't live without your food."

"You absolute capture me." He kissed her deeply.

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They were in the sitting room after dinner, watching television, when suddenly Eve asked, "Severus, are you ready to get your Christmas present?"

Severus took out his wand, "Accio gift for Severus." Then a box in wrapping paper floated down from upstairs into his hands.

"Open it." Eve said.

Severus removed the wrapping paper, and opened the box. He couldn't believe what was inside. It was a hand-knitted sweater! It's dark grey and green with complicated patterns on it. The pattern is the Slytherin House Logo!

"God... so this is the thing that you have been knitting for a whole month?" Severus couldn't believe what was in front of his eyes, how much time and energy had she spent on this?

"I didn't know what to get you for Christmas, and I think it will be unique if I make it myself, so I asked Miranda to get the wool for me, and use her computer to convert the house logo into knitting pattern, and finish it before the ball."

Severus put on the sweater immediately, "I love it, Eve, it's the best Christmas present I ever have." He hugged her and kissed her, not lightly on the lips like they used to, but passionately, until they were out of breath. "Do you want to open your present too?"

"Where is it?"

"You can get it yourself. You are a qualified witch now." Severus smirked.

"Oh right. I almost forgot."She giggled. Then she took out her wand. "Accio gift for Eve!" There came the Cartier gift box into her hands.

"Oh my God! Cartier! Severus, it must have cost you a lot." Severus only smiled at her.

She thought it would possibly be a watch. She tore the wrapping papers away, and noticed that the box was actually too small for a watch. Could it be... She looked back at Severus.

"Open it." Severus said, and wrapped his arms around her waist from behind.

With shaking hands, she opened the box, and she saw a ring. It had the diamonds in the pattern of a snow flake. She looked up at Severus again. He took it out and put it on her left hand ring finger, and asked, "Will you marry me, Eve?"

She couldn't believe it was happening, and didn't answer his question, "Eve?"

"It's too quick, Severus. I love you, but we have just met for four months..."

Severus put a finger on her lips, and said," Shh, I don't mean you have to marry me now. We can wait and know each other better first, but will you marry me in the near future when you feel it's time?"

"I will... I want to be with you forever, I will marry you." Eve threw her arms around Severus, screaming.

TBC

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Better stop it here now, as my friend, who is proofreading my story said I am 'adding sugar on sugarpuff' again. Well, anyway, wish everyone a Happy New Year! I really think whether I should continue it.