A/N: I am patiently going to wait for all the reviews to come. Yeah! Okay.
. . I hope I get reviews. (Pauses then bites lip) Yey! Only this chapter
left and I'll be doing the wedding ceremony!
Special Thanks: I know that I promised short notes to each of you but I'll have to move it to the next chapter because as soon as post chapter eight this is going in as well. I hope you all enjoy this chapter.
Summary of Chapter 10 - Draco confronts Hermione about wanting to keep Sadie with him for the rest of the summer. Can Hermione cope? She's never been away from Sadie for a mere three days. Then he talks to Sadie and Sadie asks him is he still loves her mother. What is Draco's answer to the fifteen-year-old? Last minute preparations and the sad bachelorette party and can you believe what Draco's bachelor party was like? Not very typical I must say. How can someone get married when everyone else is dreading it?
Corrections: Whatever! I know I'll have mistakes so please correct me.
~*~*~*~
"I would rather be by myself forever than be with someone just because I'm lonely." - Britney Spears
Everything was left in the air until the next morning. Sadie hadn't spoken to Hermione because she went straight to bed when she got to the hotel room. And when Hermione woke up the next morning she found a note on her bedside from Sadie telling her that she would just be hanging around the hotel with Ryan and the rest of her friends and that she would meet K every other hour.
Hermione decided to spend the morning in the pool area. She was lying there by herself until. . .
"Hermione." A voice took a seat beside her.
She opened her eyes to see Draco on the other lounging chair. She sat up and put down her shades. "Hi, what's up?"
"I've been looking all over for you." He told her.
"Well, I was here the entire morning." She smiled at him.
"I wanted to talk to you."
"Shoot." Hermione gave him her full attention.
"I want to keep Sadie for the rest of the summer."
His words registered in Hermione's head and her eyes got big.
"Are you okay?"
"Fine." She rubbed her forehead. "The entire summer?"
"Yeah. I want to get to know her more. I was thinking of breaking the news during the reception."
When Draco said reception Hermione's heart broke, again.
"I. . . " She stuttered. "You have to talk to Sadie."
Draco could see that Hermione really didn't want her daughter to go with him.
"Are you sure this is okay with you?"
"It's not my decision to make. And you're her father I took away fifteen years from you. I can't deprive you the right to spend time with her."
"So this is all okay with you?" Draco smiled happily.
Hermione flashed a smile but deep down she was crying.
"Thanks." Draco stood up. "I'll see you around."
Hermione lay back down as her eyes began to well up.
"Herm." Draco came back. "What was the longest time you spent away from Sadie, ever?"
"Three days." She managed to choke out.
Draco nodded his head and finally he left. All of a sudden Hermione felt she got enough sun and decided to walk back to her room.
~*~*~*~
Sadie and the rest of the kids bumped into her mom on the way to the pool.
"Mom?" She looked at Hermione worriedly. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine sweetie." She kissed her on the forehead.
"You were always such a bad liar." Sadie shook her head.
"We'll talk about this later. Go have fun. Come back before three so we can go eat somewhere, okay?" Hermione looked at her daughter.
"Sure mom." Sadie gave her a quick hug and ran to her friends.
~*~*~*~
It was already past two.
"Hey you guys want anything from the bar?" Sadie asked her friends. "I'm going to get a glass of water."
Her friends shook their heads and continued to lounge around the pool.
"Can I have a glass of water please?" She smiled at the waiter.
"Sadie." Aaron walked up to her.
"Hey? You want a drink?" She assumed.
"No. I want to talk to you. . ." Aaron moved closer.
"What?" She asked.
Aaron made a fast moved and kissed her.
"Get off me!" She yelled and pushed him away.
"What? You didn't like that?"
"No!" Sadie shrieked. "What the hell made you think I would want to kiss you?"
"I thought you liked me."
"You thought wrong." Sadie shook her head. "I like someone else."
"Sorry." Aaron said sarcastically.
"You're not sorry." Sadie got her drink and walked back to the pool Aaron following behind her.
"Don't tell me you like that fag Ryan?" He yelled causing all their friends to look at them.
Sadie turned around in shock. She threw her water at him and slapped him hard across the face.
"Ryan is and will always be ten times the man you are." Sadie glared at him.
"Sure." Aaron raised an eyebrow.
"You're pathetic. I don't know how you can be related to those girls. Sick." Sadie shook her head and walked back to the poolside.
~*~*~*~
Draco walked to Hermione and Sadie's room.
"Oh hi dad!" Sadie smiled when she answered the door.
"Are you two going out?" He asked. He noticed that Sadie was wearing her shades and baseball cap.
"Yeah, me and mom are about to go out for ice cream and chocolates!" Sadie beamed excitedly.
"You want to come?" Hermione asked nervously. She didn't want Sadie to suspect anything.
"Sure. I've got nothing better to do anyway."
"We figured as much," Sadie laughed.
The three were soon on their way to a small park by the river.
"Oh gosh mom look at those twins! They're adorable." Sadie beamed and pointed to those little kids. "Can I go see them?"
"I don't think the mom would appreciate it but if you really want to. . ." Sadie was off. "don't blame me if they call the police!"
Draco looked at his daughter then back at Hermione.
"She's something else huh?" He smiled.
"Yeah." Hermione sighed. "She's always wanted siblings but she seems pretty happy being an only child."
Sadie looked at her parent's and waved.
"Look at her." Draco smiled again. "She adores children."
"That she does. She goes to theses outreach things back at home with her friends Crystal, Isabel and Megz. Actually, she's got a lot of friends back home maybe if you visit you'll get to meet them all."
"Maybe." Draco nodded.
"Mom, dad you have to see them they are absolutely adorable." Sadie giggled.
"Come on let's go get ice cream." Hermione put out her hand for her daughter.
"Excuse me sir." A man tapped Draco on the shoulder.
"Yeah?" Draco looked at him.
"I was wondering if you and your lovely family would like a photo?" He offered.
"It's okay. . ." Draco began.
"Sure!" Sadie smiled at the guy. "You'll give us the picture right?"
"Absolutely." He nodded his head and held up his camera. It was a Polaroid.
Sadie pulled her parent's beside her. She was in-between the two. Her hands were crossed as Hermione and Draco both had their arms around her.
"Smile."
"Eight." Sadie giggled. The man handed her the picture.
"That'll be five dollars." He put out his hand.
"Don't you use pounds here?"
"You are American are you not?"
"Yeah. . ."
"Five dollars."
Hermione and Sadie began to pull out their wallets.
"I got it mom." Sadie looked.
Draco handed him a couple of bills. "Keep the change."
Sadie examined the picture. She was leaning on Draco's shoulder and she could see that Hermione's hand was touching her father's.
"Mine." She shook her head happily.
~*~*~*~
The day flew by fast and soon enough Draco was walking the two girl's back to their rooms.
"Sadie I want to ask you something." He looked at his daughter before she entered the room. Hermione didn't stop walking until she got to the bathroom. She knew that she was going to ask Sadie to stay for the rest of the summer.
"Yeah dad?" Sadie asked.
"Would you like to stay here with me for the rest of the summer?"
"I. . ." Sadie got excited. "Sure! But what about mom?"
"I. . ."
"I'll go back with her first and then I'll come back like after a week or something. Okay?"
"Why do I get the feeling that you had this all planned out?"
"I did. I need to go get ready, we're having a bachelorette party." Sadie kissed him on the cheek and walked into her room.
"Bye." He smiled and returned to his own room.
~*~*~*~
"Gosh!" Sadie looked around the room. "This is definitely not the kind of bachelorette party I expected."
"How can it be a nice one if the bride doesn't even want to marry the groom." Ginny shook her head.
The five girls were seated in Ashley's room. They had upgraded her to the suite.
"I think I'll go to sleep now." Sadie rubbed her eyes. "I need to make myself pretty for tomorrow."
"Night, sweetie." Hermione kissed her daughter and made room for her to sleep on the bed. All five girls planned on just staying there and talking.
For a few moments everything was quiet.
Ashley began to cry.
"What's wrong Ash?" Hermione put a comforting arm around her cousin.
"I don't want to get married to him. I don't love him. I love Colin." Ashley began to cry harder.
"Who's Colin?" Pansy asked curiously.
"Colin Creevy." Ashley cried. "The famous photographer. I met him a year back and I knew that mom wouldn't approve because he's a muggle-born so I didn't tell anyone including you, Hermione. I'm sorry."
"We know him." Ginny said. "Well I do personally. We were batchmates."
"I know you all went to the same school. In fact he told me that he used to have a crush on my cousin here." Ashley pointed to Hermione and noticed how quiet she was. "I'm sorry, Hermione I should've told you. I knew I could trust you but I just couldn't take the chance."
"It's okay." Hermione nodded. "I have been completely honest with you either. Remember how I never told you who Sadie's father was?" Ashley nodded her head. "Well you know you're kinda marrying him."
Ashley took a breath and looked wide eyed at Hermione. "No. . ."
Hermione nodded her head weakly. "It was fifteen years ago. I was just a child and we were dating. . . and one night it just happened."
"I can't believe that. . ."
"Believe it girl." Pansy affirmed.
"I. . . then if I have a child with him they'll be first cousins. . ."
"And half-siblings." Hermione finished for her cousin.
"I can't marry him that'll be disgusting." Ashley shook her head.
"You have to if not someone's going to get hurt." Hermione said seriously. She explained what Gracie told her and soon the four older women were asleep on the bed.
~*~*~*~
In Draco's room the four boys sat around talking.
"I can't marry her." Draco shook his head and took a sip from his beer.
"This is the saddest bachelor party I've ever been to." Seamus said.
"Obviously." Pitched in Ryan.
"How does Hermione feel about all this?" Asked Harry.
"I don't know." Draco shook his head. "I mean you know how she is. . . She's smiling on top but screaming underneath."
"Why should Hermione care?" Ryan asked.
"Nothing." The three grown men said in unison. Ryan let it drop there but he was still very curious.
The men just sat around talking for the rest of the night and one by one they dozed off.
~*~*~*~
"I can't do this. . ." Sadie looked at herself in the mirror when she woke up that night. She was in the bathroom. She knew that her mom still loved her father. "They can't get married." She cried on the floor and fell asleep in the bathroom without realizing it.
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A/N: I know this chapter is short but I'm hoping that the next chapter will be much, much longer. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. This is like one of the most boring chapters. I hope you all like the next one. I am definitely looking forward to write it.
God Bless.
--- guitar-goddess
Special Thanks: I know that I promised short notes to each of you but I'll have to move it to the next chapter because as soon as post chapter eight this is going in as well. I hope you all enjoy this chapter.
Summary of Chapter 10 - Draco confronts Hermione about wanting to keep Sadie with him for the rest of the summer. Can Hermione cope? She's never been away from Sadie for a mere three days. Then he talks to Sadie and Sadie asks him is he still loves her mother. What is Draco's answer to the fifteen-year-old? Last minute preparations and the sad bachelorette party and can you believe what Draco's bachelor party was like? Not very typical I must say. How can someone get married when everyone else is dreading it?
Corrections: Whatever! I know I'll have mistakes so please correct me.
~*~*~*~
"I would rather be by myself forever than be with someone just because I'm lonely." - Britney Spears
Everything was left in the air until the next morning. Sadie hadn't spoken to Hermione because she went straight to bed when she got to the hotel room. And when Hermione woke up the next morning she found a note on her bedside from Sadie telling her that she would just be hanging around the hotel with Ryan and the rest of her friends and that she would meet K every other hour.
Hermione decided to spend the morning in the pool area. She was lying there by herself until. . .
"Hermione." A voice took a seat beside her.
She opened her eyes to see Draco on the other lounging chair. She sat up and put down her shades. "Hi, what's up?"
"I've been looking all over for you." He told her.
"Well, I was here the entire morning." She smiled at him.
"I wanted to talk to you."
"Shoot." Hermione gave him her full attention.
"I want to keep Sadie for the rest of the summer."
His words registered in Hermione's head and her eyes got big.
"Are you okay?"
"Fine." She rubbed her forehead. "The entire summer?"
"Yeah. I want to get to know her more. I was thinking of breaking the news during the reception."
When Draco said reception Hermione's heart broke, again.
"I. . . " She stuttered. "You have to talk to Sadie."
Draco could see that Hermione really didn't want her daughter to go with him.
"Are you sure this is okay with you?"
"It's not my decision to make. And you're her father I took away fifteen years from you. I can't deprive you the right to spend time with her."
"So this is all okay with you?" Draco smiled happily.
Hermione flashed a smile but deep down she was crying.
"Thanks." Draco stood up. "I'll see you around."
Hermione lay back down as her eyes began to well up.
"Herm." Draco came back. "What was the longest time you spent away from Sadie, ever?"
"Three days." She managed to choke out.
Draco nodded his head and finally he left. All of a sudden Hermione felt she got enough sun and decided to walk back to her room.
~*~*~*~
Sadie and the rest of the kids bumped into her mom on the way to the pool.
"Mom?" She looked at Hermione worriedly. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine sweetie." She kissed her on the forehead.
"You were always such a bad liar." Sadie shook her head.
"We'll talk about this later. Go have fun. Come back before three so we can go eat somewhere, okay?" Hermione looked at her daughter.
"Sure mom." Sadie gave her a quick hug and ran to her friends.
~*~*~*~
It was already past two.
"Hey you guys want anything from the bar?" Sadie asked her friends. "I'm going to get a glass of water."
Her friends shook their heads and continued to lounge around the pool.
"Can I have a glass of water please?" She smiled at the waiter.
"Sadie." Aaron walked up to her.
"Hey? You want a drink?" She assumed.
"No. I want to talk to you. . ." Aaron moved closer.
"What?" She asked.
Aaron made a fast moved and kissed her.
"Get off me!" She yelled and pushed him away.
"What? You didn't like that?"
"No!" Sadie shrieked. "What the hell made you think I would want to kiss you?"
"I thought you liked me."
"You thought wrong." Sadie shook her head. "I like someone else."
"Sorry." Aaron said sarcastically.
"You're not sorry." Sadie got her drink and walked back to the pool Aaron following behind her.
"Don't tell me you like that fag Ryan?" He yelled causing all their friends to look at them.
Sadie turned around in shock. She threw her water at him and slapped him hard across the face.
"Ryan is and will always be ten times the man you are." Sadie glared at him.
"Sure." Aaron raised an eyebrow.
"You're pathetic. I don't know how you can be related to those girls. Sick." Sadie shook her head and walked back to the poolside.
~*~*~*~
Draco walked to Hermione and Sadie's room.
"Oh hi dad!" Sadie smiled when she answered the door.
"Are you two going out?" He asked. He noticed that Sadie was wearing her shades and baseball cap.
"Yeah, me and mom are about to go out for ice cream and chocolates!" Sadie beamed excitedly.
"You want to come?" Hermione asked nervously. She didn't want Sadie to suspect anything.
"Sure. I've got nothing better to do anyway."
"We figured as much," Sadie laughed.
The three were soon on their way to a small park by the river.
"Oh gosh mom look at those twins! They're adorable." Sadie beamed and pointed to those little kids. "Can I go see them?"
"I don't think the mom would appreciate it but if you really want to. . ." Sadie was off. "don't blame me if they call the police!"
Draco looked at his daughter then back at Hermione.
"She's something else huh?" He smiled.
"Yeah." Hermione sighed. "She's always wanted siblings but she seems pretty happy being an only child."
Sadie looked at her parent's and waved.
"Look at her." Draco smiled again. "She adores children."
"That she does. She goes to theses outreach things back at home with her friends Crystal, Isabel and Megz. Actually, she's got a lot of friends back home maybe if you visit you'll get to meet them all."
"Maybe." Draco nodded.
"Mom, dad you have to see them they are absolutely adorable." Sadie giggled.
"Come on let's go get ice cream." Hermione put out her hand for her daughter.
"Excuse me sir." A man tapped Draco on the shoulder.
"Yeah?" Draco looked at him.
"I was wondering if you and your lovely family would like a photo?" He offered.
"It's okay. . ." Draco began.
"Sure!" Sadie smiled at the guy. "You'll give us the picture right?"
"Absolutely." He nodded his head and held up his camera. It was a Polaroid.
Sadie pulled her parent's beside her. She was in-between the two. Her hands were crossed as Hermione and Draco both had their arms around her.
"Smile."
"Eight." Sadie giggled. The man handed her the picture.
"That'll be five dollars." He put out his hand.
"Don't you use pounds here?"
"You are American are you not?"
"Yeah. . ."
"Five dollars."
Hermione and Sadie began to pull out their wallets.
"I got it mom." Sadie looked.
Draco handed him a couple of bills. "Keep the change."
Sadie examined the picture. She was leaning on Draco's shoulder and she could see that Hermione's hand was touching her father's.
"Mine." She shook her head happily.
~*~*~*~
The day flew by fast and soon enough Draco was walking the two girl's back to their rooms.
"Sadie I want to ask you something." He looked at his daughter before she entered the room. Hermione didn't stop walking until she got to the bathroom. She knew that she was going to ask Sadie to stay for the rest of the summer.
"Yeah dad?" Sadie asked.
"Would you like to stay here with me for the rest of the summer?"
"I. . ." Sadie got excited. "Sure! But what about mom?"
"I. . ."
"I'll go back with her first and then I'll come back like after a week or something. Okay?"
"Why do I get the feeling that you had this all planned out?"
"I did. I need to go get ready, we're having a bachelorette party." Sadie kissed him on the cheek and walked into her room.
"Bye." He smiled and returned to his own room.
~*~*~*~
"Gosh!" Sadie looked around the room. "This is definitely not the kind of bachelorette party I expected."
"How can it be a nice one if the bride doesn't even want to marry the groom." Ginny shook her head.
The five girls were seated in Ashley's room. They had upgraded her to the suite.
"I think I'll go to sleep now." Sadie rubbed her eyes. "I need to make myself pretty for tomorrow."
"Night, sweetie." Hermione kissed her daughter and made room for her to sleep on the bed. All five girls planned on just staying there and talking.
For a few moments everything was quiet.
Ashley began to cry.
"What's wrong Ash?" Hermione put a comforting arm around her cousin.
"I don't want to get married to him. I don't love him. I love Colin." Ashley began to cry harder.
"Who's Colin?" Pansy asked curiously.
"Colin Creevy." Ashley cried. "The famous photographer. I met him a year back and I knew that mom wouldn't approve because he's a muggle-born so I didn't tell anyone including you, Hermione. I'm sorry."
"We know him." Ginny said. "Well I do personally. We were batchmates."
"I know you all went to the same school. In fact he told me that he used to have a crush on my cousin here." Ashley pointed to Hermione and noticed how quiet she was. "I'm sorry, Hermione I should've told you. I knew I could trust you but I just couldn't take the chance."
"It's okay." Hermione nodded. "I have been completely honest with you either. Remember how I never told you who Sadie's father was?" Ashley nodded her head. "Well you know you're kinda marrying him."
Ashley took a breath and looked wide eyed at Hermione. "No. . ."
Hermione nodded her head weakly. "It was fifteen years ago. I was just a child and we were dating. . . and one night it just happened."
"I can't believe that. . ."
"Believe it girl." Pansy affirmed.
"I. . . then if I have a child with him they'll be first cousins. . ."
"And half-siblings." Hermione finished for her cousin.
"I can't marry him that'll be disgusting." Ashley shook her head.
"You have to if not someone's going to get hurt." Hermione said seriously. She explained what Gracie told her and soon the four older women were asleep on the bed.
~*~*~*~
In Draco's room the four boys sat around talking.
"I can't marry her." Draco shook his head and took a sip from his beer.
"This is the saddest bachelor party I've ever been to." Seamus said.
"Obviously." Pitched in Ryan.
"How does Hermione feel about all this?" Asked Harry.
"I don't know." Draco shook his head. "I mean you know how she is. . . She's smiling on top but screaming underneath."
"Why should Hermione care?" Ryan asked.
"Nothing." The three grown men said in unison. Ryan let it drop there but he was still very curious.
The men just sat around talking for the rest of the night and one by one they dozed off.
~*~*~*~
"I can't do this. . ." Sadie looked at herself in the mirror when she woke up that night. She was in the bathroom. She knew that her mom still loved her father. "They can't get married." She cried on the floor and fell asleep in the bathroom without realizing it.
~*~*~*~
A/N: I know this chapter is short but I'm hoping that the next chapter will be much, much longer. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. This is like one of the most boring chapters. I hope you all like the next one. I am definitely looking forward to write it.
God Bless.
--- guitar-goddess