AN: I'm back once more!!!! And now, I'm leaving again to go get a snack!

{Author goes to the kitchen to get Original Pringles and a Strawberry Banana Capri Sun}

I'm back again! Not that you guys were waiting there for five minutes, you just read the line that took me five minutes to do and continued to this one!

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter ©. I do not own Pringles ®. I do not own Capri Sun ®.

Now, ON TO THE BEST CHAPTER EVER IN FF.NET HISTORY!!! (Well, I wouldn't go that far, but it the best one in my book!)

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It had been three months since that day when Jim had tried to win back Hermione's heart. Many of you may be wondering if she accepted him back with open arms.

HELL NO!!! Are you kidding?

If Jim coming back did anything to Hermione, it just put her love for Draco into sharper perspective. Rather than feeling like she had known the real Draco for two weeks, she felt it was more like two years. True, Jim had been heartbroken, but Hermione told him that they could still be friends, and he had finally gotten over it about a month ago and signed the divorce papers. He was currently dating (wouldn't you know it?) Julie, Amanda's mother. When Hermione met Julie, not knowing who she really was, she insisted on her meeting Draco. The second that Draco laid eyes on her, he nearly fainted. Julie really did faint. When Julie had come to and Draco had calmed down, everyone was introduced with hugs and tears, and Julie finally got to meet her daughter. Amanda was rather shy about it, but after a few minutes, she called Julie "mommy", which melted everyone's hearts.

Hermione had moved in with Draco in Malfoy Manor, since it was now deserted. They, of course, slept in separate rooms, but otherwise acted as a couple. Julie and Jim came over periodically to see Amanda and Emily, and Amanda was getting more and more in the habit of calling Julie "mommy." She had been called Hermione "Mya," since "Hermione" was too much of a mouthful to say for a three-year-old, and Hermione wouldn't let Amanda call her "mommy," since she knew her real mother. She would have felt like she was taking something away from Julie if Amanda called Hermione like she was her own mother. All of this was quite a lot to be taking in just a single month, but the real shocks and surprises came at Emily's first birthday party. Hermione, Draco, and Amanda were there, of course, but so were Jim, Julie, Harry, Ginny, and Ron. It happened when Hermione and Jim were helping Emily open her presents.

"Oooooh, Emily, look what mummy and daddy got you! It's your own special play set!" said Hermione, pulling off the wrapping along with Emily, who was grabbing at any piece of loose paper of the giant box and tearing it off, full with fits of giggles.

"Either she really likes it or she's just having fun tearing off the paper," said Jim, picking up Emily off the floor and lifting her in the air above his head. Emily giggled some more before another sound issued out of her mouth.

"Dada!" she cried out happily. "Dada! Dada!"

Jim nearly dropped her. "What?"

"I do believe she just called you 'dada', Jim," said Hermione.

"Her first word! She called me 'dada'! She knows her daddy! That's my baby girl!" he said, lightly tossing her in the air and catching her. After Emily giggled some more at being thrown up in the air, she turned and reached out her arms, stretching towards Hermione.

"Mama!" she cried. Hermione's eyes widened.

"She called me mama!" said Hermione and she stood up and retrieved Emily from Jim, positively beaming with happiness.

"Mama!" said Emily again, playing with Hermione's hair. Hermione had forgotten that there were six other people in the room besides her, Emily, and Jim. They had been identified by their baby girl as mama and dada, and that's all that mattered right then.

"Uhh, 'Mione, I hate to break up the moment, but there is still a very large pile of gifts waiting to be opened, and I'm just as eager to see them as anyone else here," said Draco playfully.

"Oh, right, of course," said Hermione, putting Emily down on the floor again. Jim got the next present off the pile and placed it on the floor, then sat down next to it with Hermione and Emily.

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After all the presents had been opened and Emily had successfully covered her face with chocolate cake, Draco pulled Hermione away from the hustle and bustle of the living room and into the kitchen. Hermione noticed that he looked very nervous. Wondering what was wrong, she followed him.

"'Mione, I was going to do this out there in front of everybody, but I found out that I don't have the guts to do that, so I'm gonna do it right here," he said hurriedly. Hermione was still clueless, but she thought she had a slight, but ridiculous, suspicion.

"Hermione, you know that I love you, correct?"

"Correct, and I you," she said, kissing him on the lips lightly.

"Right." He took a deep breath and reached into his shirt pocket, pulling out a small, soft velvet box. As he opened it, he got down on one knee and said, "Hermione, my love, will you marry me?"

Hermione, unable to speak, simply nodded, tears of happiness in her eyes. As she looked at the ring in that soft velvet box through her tears, she thought that it was the most beautiful ring she had ever seen. The band was made of pure gold, and tiny ½ carat diamonds were set all around the band, except for the top, which had a larger sapphire in it, her birthstone, shaped like a heart, surrounded by ½ carat emeralds, Draco's birthstone. {AN: Sapphire is the birthstone for September, and Emerald is the birthstone for May}. As Draco took the ring out of the box, he wiped away Hermione's tears and showed her the inside of the band. Engraved on it were the words: "Draco and Hermione: together forever" in fancy script.

"Oh Draco!" she said as he slid the ring onto her middle finger. For lack of anything to say, she simply wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and gave him the most passionate kiss she had ever given him, which he gladly returned. When they finally broke away a few minutes later, Hermione was smiling bigger than she could ever remember. As they walked out of the kitchen and back into the living room, their fingers intertwined, everyone was staring at them, as if they had been waiting for them to return.

"We wondered where you guys were." Ginny said. "About two minutes ago we realized that you weren't in the room anymore, and . . ." she trailed off. She had just noticed a sparkle on Hermione's hand, the one that wasn't intertwined with Draco's. "Hermione, what's that on her hand?" she said, trying to get a closer look. Hermione glanced up at Draco, who nodded. She held out her hand for Ginny to see, still smiling like a goon, and felt like laughing at the look of shock on Ginny's face when she realized it was an engagement ring.

"Hermione, is that – is that a – what I think it is?" she stuttered.

"That depends on what you think it is," said Hermione, now smirking.

"Well, I could be wrong, but it sure looks a lot to me like an – an engagement ring," she said uneasily.

"We have a winner!" said Draco happily.

It took a second for this statement to sink in to the rest of the room. Then, all at once, everyone was jumping out of their seats and rushing over to congratulate the couple.

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AN: It's a little shorter than normal, but that's because it's the epilogue! Yep, that's right! This is the official last chapter of this story! {Readers run at author with torches and pitchforks} WAIT! STOP FOR A MINUTE!!!! {Readers freeze, but are listening} Although this story is finished, I'm all set to write a sequel! So, if you guys want a sequel set when Amanda is thirteen and Emily is ten-going-on-eleven, REVIEW AND VOTE!!!! {Readers drop torches and pitchforks and go to review}