Title: SHATTERED HOPES

Author: QuidditchGal 3™

Rating: PG

Pairings: R/Hr angst

Author's Note: Please pardon how this story is going. It will turn out better.

P.S: This is a REPOST!!! So if anyone who has read this before would want to review again, you are welcome to do so. I've posted this last year, but then ff.net got problems with their server and stuff, and I accidentally deleted this. LOL! ü

Disclaimer: If I owned any of the characters in this story, then I would have to be bloody rich by now. But sad to say, I am not bloody rich, and I do not own any of the characters. So, none of you lot can sue me. Cheers!

Dedications: Well, this goes out to all you supportive readers out there. Reviews would be impossible without the help of any of you. Luv you guys! To my best friends, Dionne Angeli, Charisa, and to my good friend "Thomas", thanks for all the laughs and the witty remarks… they helped me get started on this story. And lastly, to my "CRUSH", thanks for the inspiration… I do not believe you know who I am, but at least you get a mention on the net from me. ü

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CHAPTER 2

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I never did like that guy. He was the one who took her away from me. But, she really wasn't mine to begin with, so I really couldn't say that. He was the one who squeezed all the happiness out of me, out of my life. I really couldn't blame him though… only a fool would look past her---I was the fool. I only wanted her, when she already belonged to someone else. Someone else, who doesn't love her the way I truly do. Maybe, I really was… okay, I admit, I still am jealous. But did I do anything about it? Yes. No. Well, maybe. But by the time I told her how I really feel, I was already too late. Now, she is to be wed to someone else. How I wished, that this day really wouldn't come. The day of her wedding… but the worst part of this day, is that she is marrying the wrong person… I mean has she ever thought about the fact that she is going to spend her entire life after 24 years of being just herself. Being Hermione Granger. Now, she is going to be Mrs. Hermione Granger - Krum. *Shudder* But, I'll doubt she'll ever be happy. I know, I know. I'm being selfish, but all I really wanted was her love. And I admit. I'm hopeless. I'm hopelessly in love with her.

But now, the time has come to say goodbye to Hermione Granger. And time to say hello to Mrs. Hermione Granger - Krum. I could tell, by the sound of the wedding march starting to fill the whole church.

First, the little flower girls marched down the aisle. They look so cute. I could see, from where I was, little James, the ring bearer, Harry's child, and my godson, accompanied by a little redhead who was one of the flower girls. The bridesmaids, then Ginny, the maid of honor, followed them. She smiled at sweetly and waved towards me standing beside the groom. Yes, I couldn't believe it either. My worst enemy and competition had asked me to be his best man in their wedding. But, what can I do? If it was for her, I'd do it anyway.

The pianist stopped playing the wedding march. After a few minutes complete silence, the pianist started to play it all over again. Only this time, louder.

Suddenly, right before my very eyes, an angel appeared wearing a white gown of laces and silk. She also was wearing a golden crown fastened firmly on her neatly kept hair. As if a halo around her head, just like an angel.

I snapped back to reality and realized that it was she. Yes, she was an angel. Visions of her and me started to whirl inside of my head. There we were laughing, having fun. Then we were fighting, quarreling, and bickering at each other. Then the sweetest vision of the both of us showed up inside of my head. The moment, when we shared our very first kiss. The sweetest kiss I'll always remember. And, the kiss, in which I will compare all my other kisses to. The kiss I will forever cherish.

It was followed by the saddest vision. It was of her and me. She was pulling away from me after that wondrous kiss. Her, crying. Muttering to herself that this, (us) wasn't meant to be. Her, quickly running out of the room crying. The room where I shared with her the kiss, then, losing her all at the same time. The room where I stood still for an hour feeling like a fool for not expressing my true feelings for her sooner.

Because, if I did so, then she could, she could've been mine, and not his. I would do absolutely anything just to get her back, and get her away from Viktor. *Shudder*

I never really wanted to come to this wedding. Her wedding. Too bad I'm the best man. I really am obliged to come. If I weren't part of the entourage at all, I wouldn't have second thoughts about not coming here at all. It's just, it's so hard to see her running into someone else's arms. Her kissing him, caressing him and loving him.

But now, I have to let her go. I know it's really hard. But I just have to try. She really loves him, not me. It's my fault anyway. My fault that I didn't want her so bad, until I knew someone already had her. I have never loved a girl this bad before. Now, all the things we have done together and the secrets we shared are now falling apart because of him. How I hate him. Stupid Viktor Krum. And to think I actually thought he was a cool guy.

She walked gracefully down the aisle, making her way to the altar. There, she and the groom linked arms. The priest is now starting the ceremony.

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