A/N-i dont own anything of this story other then the Mulligans. sadly.
Hermione went up to her room after Draco left and laid down on her bed. It was only 3 pm and she was ready to pass out. This was not like Hermione at all. As she closed her eyes, a taping noise was injected into her head. She walked over to her window and allowed the beautiful owl into her room.
"Hello beautiful. Who do you belong to?"Hermione walked over to the owl and spoke to it as if the owl could talk back to her. Once she reached it, she untied the piece of parchment from its leg and went to her desk pulling out an owl treat for it. Hermione sat on her bed unrolling the letter expecting the owl to fly off, but instead, it didn't move.
Hermione read the letter through a couple of times. Each time she read the letter, a smile would appear on her face, bigger then the last. Hermione then went down stairs to find her parents to tell them the wonderful news.
"Mother, Father?"Hermione questioned as she made her way down the stairs to the family room.
"We are in here, Hermione dear."
She made her way to the room to find her mother reading a book and her father reading the newspaper.
"Mother, Father. You will never believe this." she handed the letter to her mother and began to speak.
"Before Draco left, I asked him what him and his Mother were doing for Christmas. I also said that maybe him and I can see each other!"
"Cissy!!" was all Mrs. Mulligan could say. She got up and handed the letter to Mr. Mulligan. He read it in disbelieve.
"Well, this is great! Honey, Hermione. We will be going to Malfoy Manor for Christmas!!"
Everyone was now excited in Mulligan Manor. James and Brittany Lynn missed Narcissa greatly and needed more then anything right now to see her.
"Hermione, dear. Go and get ready. You and I are going to get ourselves a gorgeous dress for the special event!"
Hermione ran up to her room, but before getting herself ready to go, she got out a piece of parchment and a quill and carefully wrote Draco note. After finishing it, she tied it to Ajax's leg and watched her fly off to the far end of the town to Malfoy Manor.
"Alright Mother, lets so and do some shopping!"
And with a green spark of light, Hermione and her mother were gone.
Back at Malfoy Manor, Draco lay on his bed, much too excited to do anything other then think of Hermione. He already missed her and couldn't wait until she wrote back an answer. Just as Draco let his head fall to the comfortable pillow just below him, an owl came and tapped on his window.
"Ajax"a smiled found it's way to Draco's face.
He took to letter from Ajax and went over to his desk.
Draco,
I just spoke to my parents and they gladly accepted you and your Mothers invitation. I can not wait until Christmas.
Love always,
Hermione
If is was possible, Draco's smile became bigger. He went and found his Mother and told her the wonderful news! She was just as excited as The Mulligan's and Draco. With the letter in his hand, Draco raced down the stairs to tell his Mother.
"Mother?"
"I'm in the family room!"
"I've just received a letter from Hermione and she says that they will be coming for Christmas. Isn't that wonderful?"
"Yes! I must get things ready. Christmas is only 2 days away!"
And with that, Narcissa Malfoy ran off to get things ready for the big day.
About 2 hours and 2 dresses later, Hermione and her Mother returned home. Hermione was so excited that all she could think about was going. She ran up to her room to put away her dress and went to wrap Draco's present.
'I hope Draco likes his gift. Is he going to get me anything? I wonderful!'
The next 2 days passed in a blur and before she knew it, Hermione was getting up to go and open gifts on Christmas morning with her parents. She went downstairs and found lots of presents under the tree. Some big and some small. She got lots of new clothes, makeup, books, and basically anything she could ever ask for. After a relaxing morning and afternoon with her family, Hermione went to her room to get ready. Her mind was only on seeing Draco. Its been almost a week since the last time she saw him. Yeah, only a week, but Draco was Hermione's best friend and she felt like she had no one else.
"Come on Honey! We best be on our way now."
"Coming Mother."
Hermione grabbed her clutch and cloak and was on her way. Once they were all down stairs, they were off to Malfoy Manor, traveling by Floo.
Draco was in his room putting the finishing touches on his hair when he heard a loud yell of excitement and crying. He knew that they were here. He took one more look in the mirror and made his way downstairs.
"Draco, come here and meet the Mulligan's."
"Hello Draco, I am James Mulligan and this is my wife, Brittany Lynn Mulligan. An I presume you know my daughter Hermione Mulligan."
"Yes Sir. It is nice to meet you. I was wondering if I may take Hermione for a few moments. Is that okay with you?â₂?
"Of course."
"Draco, honey. Don't be too long, okay?" His mother gave him a big smile, as if knowing what his was going to do.
"Alright mother. We will be back soon. Don't worry."
"Hermione."Draco put his hand out for Hermione to take, which she gladly accepted. They walked outside to Narcissa's beautiful garden. Once they were far enough out in the garden, Draco stopped walking.
"You look beautiful tonight."
Hermione blushed a crimson red. She wore a long black dress and fit her perfectly, showing all her curves. It was a beautiful dress, coming up to her mid calf, with a slit that went up to he thigh. She wore her hair up in a elegant bun with a few curls framing her face. In Draco's eyes, she looked like an angle. When he first saw her, she took his breath away.
"Thanks. Here,"she took out a small box and her wand. Pointing at the box, she muttered an enlarging spell which made the box go back to its normal size. "I hope you like it."
Draco looked surprised. He didn't know that she was going to get him something. He reached out his hand and took the present.
"Well, are you going to open it?"
"Oh, yeah. Sorry." He let out a nervous laugh. He was so scared of what she was going to say. He unwrapped the present and a smile crept onto Hermione's face.
"Wow, Hermione. You didn;t have to get me this."He pulled out an Ipod from the box.
"Well, I know how much you liked mine, so I thought that you would like your own. And I bewitched it so it would work in Hogwarts. Do you like it?"
"No,"a frown took the place of Hermione's smile."I love it."She let out a thankful sigh.
"I'mglad you like it!"She gave him a big hug. Draco pulled out a little black velvet box form his pocket.
"This," he opened the box and held it out. "Is for you."
"Oh, Draco! Its beautiful!!"
"This is a very special necklace. My Grandfather gave this necklace to my Grandmother to tell her how much he loved her. As did Lucius. Now I am giving it to you to show you how much you mean to me."
A tear made its way down Hermione's cheek. ' Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!!'
"What I'm trying to say is, err.. Will you be my girlfriend?"
"Oh, Draco.. Of course!!!!!"
He took the necklace out of the box and helped Hermione put it on. A rose hung form the chain with a serpent wrapped around it. The eyes of the serpent were emerald and the rose was made of ruby's. it looked just like the Malfoy crest. As soon as the necklace was on her neck, she brought her hand up to it and help it. Draco inched closer to her and soon, his and Hermione's lips found each other. The kiss didn't last for more then a minute or two, but it didn't feel like all the others that shared. Draco was so wrapped up in the kiss that he didn't realize that it had been about 15 minutes since the two of them left their parents.
"We should be heading back to the manor. I don't want your Father to kill me just yet."
Hermione let out a laugh and smiled at Draco.
"Of course, we only just stared dating about 5 minutes ago and I don't want my boyfriend to die yet."
Draco took hold of her hand and they waked back to the manor.
"Draco, dear. We are in the dinning room."
"Come on, we have to make a grand entrance!"
Hermione and Draco walked into the room, hand in hand. Both Mrs. And Mr. Mulligan looked a bit shocked, But Mrs. Malfoy had the famous Malfoy smirk on.
'I'm so proud of my Draco!!!!' Narcissa was so happy that he asked her out. Draco always talked so much about her and anyone could tell that he really liked her.
Draco pulled out the chair for Hermione and waited for her to sit down to push it in. He then took the seat next to her and looked at his Mother and the Mulligan's. Dinner passed without much of anything happening. Narcissa, Brittany Lynn and James caught up with each other while Draco and Hermione gazes into each others eyes and talked about their favorite books. After dinner, their parents continued talking while Draco gave Hermione the grand tour of the manor. They didn't go around the whole manor, for that would take too long.
"Draco?"
"Mhmm"
"Do you think it would be alright if I told Ronald? Like about us?"
"Sure. As long as it makes you happy."
Hermione stopped walking to give Draco a big hug. He gave her a kiss on the forehead and continued walking.
Narcissa, Brittany Lynn and James sat in the tea room, drinking tea ( :)a derrrr. Lol) Narcissa and Brittany Lynn were talking about Draco and Hermione when Narcissa realized something.
"Brittany, did you happen to notice that beautiful necklace that your daughter had on this evening?"
"Why, yes I did. It looked much like the Malfoy Crest."
"That's because it is!"
"Does that mean.."she was cut off by a very excited Narcissa
"YES!!! Merlin, my Draco has finally asked her out!!! Oh, I'm so happy for them! I knew she fancied him!!!"
"You knew? How?"
"He would always talk so fondly of her. And I could see it in his eyes. He has never had that look before. Also, I know everything!!"
"Haha, yes you do! James, did you hear the wonderful news?"
"Ahh, yes I have. Im very proud of Draco and I am very happy for our Hermione!"
Well. That's it. I'm terribly sorry for the LONG wait. It's not really much. But I've been having kind of writters block. It's been so hard to write. I hope that you all liked it. I have some special people to thank too...
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