Hey guys. Sorry I took a while to update, I just didn't know where to start.

Hope you like it

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Lexi walked into the Great Hall with a smile on her face. A smile that soon disappeared.

Every pair of eyes was on her, boring into her soul. She looked up for her friends, but only saw Lanna with a troubled look on her face, staring into her eggs.

With every step sounding like a cave troll on plywood, she stiffly crept over to Lanna and sat down across from her.

"What's going on?" She whispered as quietly as she could to her housemate. Lanna looked up. She looked like she was going to whisper back but then she winked.

"Ok, everyone! Shows over! Stop staring!" She yelled across the hall to the thousand-some students.

Lexi jumped about 3 feet out of her skin and looked at her friend in wonder.

"Sorry, had to do it. Now eat quick, we need to talk in the dorm. Lexi nodded as she looked around the Hall, noticing a few students whispering, looking at her, and then whispering again. Lexi picked up her fork, and just about as she was going to take a bite of her sausage, a 4th year boy with black hair and brown eyes she knew as Connor Austin scooted over next to her.

"So, Granger, is it true that Thomas knocked you up?" He then cracked up laughing as all his friends reprimanded him and pulled him back. Lexi stared at him with eyes that could easily have popped out of her head.

"What?" She meant to yell it, but it only came out as a choked up whisper.

"Lex, I'm sorry, I wanted to ask you in private." Lexi whipped her head back to Lanna.

"Ask me what?" She shrieked. Lanna swallowed and set her fork down. She put her elbows on the table and leaned forward a bit.

"Are you pregnant with Skyler's baby?"

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"We're getting married!" Hermione laughed in joy as all of the Weasley's sprung up from the table and rushed to hug the girl who was considered a part of the family.

"Have you picked a date?" Mrs. Weasley inquired once everyone had settled back down to the dinner table. Hermione looked to Harry then back to Molly.

"No, we haven't. We were thinking about next December, maybe on Christmas, but we haven't given it loads of thought yet." Harry put a proud arm around his fiancée and kissed her on the cheek.

It had been almost two weeks since he had proposed, and things were going magnificently. Just the night before they had informed Hermione's parents, and had also informed them that until all of the essential people knew about their engagement, they were keeping it on the DL. They didn't want anyone important finding out the wrong way…like in the Daily Prophet, or Witch Weekly.

Hermione and Harry were going to wait a while longer to tell everyone as not to steal the light from Ginny's up and coming baby shower, but it was so hard to keep, considering Hermione refused to take off her ring.

Ginny didn't mind though. It seemed to keep her mind off the nervousness of the shower, the baby, and her most voiced worry- "getting as fat as Harry's blown up Aunt Marge".

(A/n: its November, and Ginny's shower is in December)

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"Harry, we are not going to get Ginny's baby a toy from 3W!" Hermione exclaimed. The couple were shopping for Ginny's shower, but Harry dragged her into the local joke shop.

"Fine, but at least let me get something." Harry didn't even look at her as he roamed the New Products shelf. Hermione looked down at her left hand and sighed.

::some time later:::

"Ok, I'm ready to go!" Hermione turned around from her conversation with Dean Thomas, who just so happened to be picking up a few things for his nephew, to look at Harry.

"Merlin, finally" She rolled her eyes and looked at Dean with a smile. Dean looked over at Harry who was walking over to them.

"Yo, Potter, haven't seen you in a while. How's Puddlemere?" Harry handed Hermione his bag and Dean patted him on the back.

"Why are you handing this to me!?" Hermione cried, shoving the bag back in his face. Harry rolled his eyes.

"Because, you took all my other bags from me, and I figured you would take this one from me. I was trying to save you the muscle strength." Dean let out a laugh.

"Hermione, thanks for offering you're daughter to baby-sit when she gets back from Hogwarts. I really wanted a chance to go to this company Christmas party, and I didn't feel like bringing a two year old boy with me.

"Oh, that's alright. It will keep her busy." Dean waved goodbye and walked out of the store.

"Well, now what?" Harry asked his fiancé.

"Now, we go to Madam Malkin's Baby ware." Hermione told the black haired man as she dragged him by the arm out of the store.

::10 or so few minutes later::

"How about this for the baby?" Harry asked Hermione as he held up a frilly red dress.

"Harry, dear, what color hair will the baby most likely have? Red does not go with pink at all. We want a baby not a tomato." Hermione told him as though it was the most obvious thing in the world. Harry shrugged and walked over to the strollers.

"Here, hold this. We can get her this and a cute little outfit." Hermione walked across the store and shoved a box into Harry's empty arms. He looked down in horror.

"What the hell is this?' He cried, making the sales lady behind the blue and pink desk (which by the way looked like a pile of blocks) look at him in annoyance.

"A breast pump, dear. Why are you so shocked?" Hermione looked at him with a little bit of concern.

"A what pump? For Ginny? What the-" Hermione put a hand over his mouth.

"Harry Potter, control yourself." Hermione removed her hand and stomped over to one of the clothing racks.

She picked up a yellow outfit that had the snaps so u can change the diaper. It had little blocks on the chest that rearranged into different "structures" every 5 minutes.

"How about this?"

"Fine, fine. But what is a breast pump?"

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"They're saying what?" Skyler practically screamed. Random students in the common room turned to see what the commotion was about.

"They're saying what?" Skyler said about 20x quieter. Lexi shook her head with her face in her hands. She was sitting on a couch bent over with her hair falling over her head so you couldn't see her.

Skyler shifted on the coffee table in front of her and ran his hand through his brown curls in nervousness.

"Where the hell would anyone get that from? None of your friends said anything about after the dance, did they?" His blue eyes begged for an answer from Lexi. Lexi looked up at him with red, puffy eyes that had obviously shed many tears in the past hour.

"All they said was that they passed Joel-oh…oh no…" Lexi jumped up off the couch. She looked down at Skyler who was also beginning to get it.

"You don't think…Joel?" Skyler jumped up onto the couch and over the back.

"We need to find my brother. Now."

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Yeah, it wasn't too great, and it was a little short, but this chapter had me stumped for a while.

Up Next: The baby shower, Lexi and Skyler confront Joel, and will Harry every find out what a breast pump is?

Pleas review and tell me what I can improve on, and tell me what you like!