Hogsmead was surprisingly busy for Christmas Eve. Everyone was out buying last-minute Christmas presents. The students that stayed behind were allowed to spend the day. Ron and Harry forced Hermione to go so she could pick out their girlfriends' presents.
" Honestly Harry I don't know what you should get them. Just because I am, a girl doesn't mean I know what they like." Hermione tried to explain. " You two have been dating your girlfriends how long now? Don't you know what they like?"
" Hermione do you actually think we pay attention to that. Jessica is constantly blabbing about things she wants. I sort of learned how to tone that out." Harry laughed when Ron said this, " It's true! I really started blocking her out when she brought up how she would like our relationship to go after we graduated. I nearly shit myself when she said, she would like to have three kids." Ron yelled, making Harry laughed even harder.
" Sounds like you have more problems then just picking out a Christmas present." Hermione said smiling. " If you're that freaked out about then why don't you just tell her."
Ron choked slightly, " Ya right. If I ever said anything about not wanting to think about the future or kids I would be in the shit house for weeks." Harry nodded in agreement.
" He is right you know, girls do tend to take things and blow them way out of proportion." Harry said, stopping and looking into a window with the newest broom on display.
" That is not true. Yes some girls may be like that but not all of us." Hermione huffed. " Why do all guys think that? It really annoys me when you say that. I'm not like that with D. . . Brian."
Looking away from the display for a second, " That's because you're Hermione." Ron said it like it explained everything.
" What's that supposed to mean?" Wondering why he would say that.
Ron stared at her, " Your Hermione . . . You have more important things to do then to act like a girl and do girly things with all the other girls . . . Did that make any sense? What I'm trying to say is, you're like one of the guys in a girl body . . . That's it I'm done talking."
" Good. We wouldn't want you hurting yourself." Harry said patting Ron on the back. " Can you just help us, what would you want from your boyfriend?"
" And don't say a book because I don't think Jessica reads." Ron jumped in.
Hermione shrugged her shoulders, " I told you I don't know, you should have spent more time getting to know her. Rather then wait last minute to ask your boyish friend in a girl body." Hermione added sarcastically. " Now if you don't mind I have my own presents to bye." She smiled at them and walked toward the animal store right down the street. She finally figured out what she wanted to buy for Draco.
Draco had been waiting sense 10:00pm for Hermione to get back from shopping with Harry and Ron. He had been hoping she would spend the whole day with him, but she had other plans. It was now 1:30am and she was still not back and he was starting to wonder if she decided to spend the night in the Gyffindore tower. She could have told him so he wouldn't have spent the night sitting up waiting. Draco stood up and walked to his bedroom, thinking it would be best if he went to bed. It wasn't until 20 minutes after he went to bed that his bedroom door creaked open and Hermione came, carrying a large square thing wrapped in Christmas paper and a ribbon. She slowly walked in and placed the present on the bottom of the bed. Climbing quietly on the bed trying not to make it move to much, she must have thought I was asleep. " Wake up." She whispered in my ear. I slowly opened my eyes and smirked. " I have your present. I can't wait until morning so you have to open it right now." She clapped her hands excitedly. " Don't laugh at me I really can't wait. I spent so much time wrapping to look just prefect." I sat up and pulled the heavy square thing onto my lap.
" What is it?" I asked, looking at it from a different angle.
Hermione sighed, " Open it!" She ripped a corner of the paper for me and I pulled it off the rest of the way. I took me a moment to figure out what I was looking at. It was a large tank with a screen cover on it, when I looked inside I saw a snake lay in the middle. The tank was filled with small plants and must have been charmed to stay warm. I laughed and shook my head, Hermione must have taken this a bad thing and stopped smiling. " You don't like it." She said sitting back on her feet.
" No. I do. I just can't believe you knew I would like this type of gift." I really was amazed. It was the type of gift I liked to receive and I had never owned a snake before, so that made it even better.
" Really?" I nodded my head and got up from the bed placing the heavy tank on my dresser. " Now your gifts." I opened the draw and pulled out two boxes. I handed her the bigger one first.
" One present would have been good enough." She smiled at me, ripping the paper off and opening the box. She pulled out the newest copy of Hogwarts A History. " Oh yay, I wanted this book so bad." She said excitedly opening it to the first page and reading a couple of lines. I laughed. And handed her the second box. She unwrapped it and opened the box. Inside was a gold neckless with a beautiful pendent hanging from it. The pendent was gold and had a white stone in the center. She sat there in awe staring at it. I took it from the box for her and unclasped it.
" This is no ordinary neckless. This neckless can read your emotions and its tells you what you are feeling by its colors." I told her turning her around and putting the neckless on her.
Hermione looked down at it. " Like a mood ring." I looked at her confuse, ' a mood what'. " Never mind. It's a muggle thing."
I watched the neckless turn different shades before finally settling on red. I was pleased by that. " Now there are lots of colors this stone turns to, and that's why I also got you this." He walked back over to his dresser and pulled out another book. " This tells you what every color means. For example green means confused, black means hate, pink means lust, blue means sad, orange means amused . . . You understand."
Hermione looked back down at her neckless, " What's red mean?" She said crawling closer to where I was sitting on the bed.
I stared at the neckless before looking back up at her, " Red means love." I barley got to finish before she lightly kissed me on the lips, " I love the present. Thank you." She whispered as her lips brushed against mine. She wrapped her arms around my neck pulling me into a stronger kiss. Pulling back whispering I love you. A few minutes passed and she pulled back again. I pushed her back on the bed and laid on top of her. I pulled back and looked at her face, she was perfect in every way. I don't know what I would do if she were to ever be taken away from me, it was then that I decided to say it to her. " I love you Hermione." She looked at me and smiled.
" That's the first time you ever said that to me." She kissed me again. Only for me to pull back again.
" You noticed." I asked. How is it girls always notice these little things?
She nodded her head, " I didn't want to push you into saying anything you didn't mean. I figure you would come out and say it when you were ready . . . and you did." She smiled at me. I rolled off her and pulled her closer to me. " What are you doing?" She asked looking slightly disappointed that I stopped.
" Never letting you go." I said holding her tight. She smiled and snuggled closer to me laying her head on my shoulder.
" Good." She said so quietly I could barley hear her.
A/N: Corny, I know. You people must want to kill me. I am sooo sorry it took so long for me to update. I just couldn't think of anything good and then finally I'm like, these people have waited long enough it's time to update. Now I know I said I was going into normal POV, but as I was writing this chapter I noticed I was focusing on Draco's again. I guess I just like it better that way so I guess I will just leave it that way. However I am going to put more of how Hermione is feeling from now on. Anyway please forgive me. And I'm sorry if you got like 10 Author Alerts, I was just fixing some of the mistakes on the other chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Tell me wether or not I should keep it in Draco's point of view I think I like it better that way. Kisses