A/N: Ok so I have been reading other stories recently and you know what I realized my chapters are incredibly short compared to most other stories if I can I am going to change that fact, get ready for long chapters!

A/N 2: ok so I decided not to start a relationship with someone new, I just can't figure how to write him in so you will see what happens.

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Hermoine walked into the restaurant where they planned to meet. She saw him from across the room and for a second she couldn't tell if it was him, because she had never been attracted to someone like this before, he was wearing a blue button up shirt and dark jeans, and his hair for once was spike subtly.

In the midst of taking a sip of his drink, Draco looked up and saw her standing there; she looked 5 times more beautiful as he had ever seen her. He wondered what she called him for, sure they went out all the time, but she never sounded the way she did on the phone before, he thought he sensed some flirtation, but he wasn't sure, since he knew she wouldn't feel that way about him ever.

"Hey Draco," she said as he stood up and she hugged him.

"Hey 'moine… what's all this about?"

"Well you see, I have been thinking about Hogwarts recently, and you know what I never really gave us a chance, I mean I was always so caught up in trying to get Snape to love me again, that I missed what I had right in front of me."

"What are you getting at?" Draco said very playfully.

"In simple terms, I think I love you Draco, not the little kiddy love, but full on I would marry you if you asked."

"Are you sure about this?"

"Of course, I haven't been more sure in my entire life."

"Well than miss granger, I would like to know if you would like to be my girlfriend."

"If course I would."

"Well than let's get this date started, um excuse me waiter can I have another menu for the lovely lady who is now my girlfriend."

"Sure, let me go get you one." The waiter returned a minute later and the two ordered.

"So I know you may not want to discuss this, but your sisters wedding, would you still like to go with me?" Draco asked.

"Do you really have to ask I mean I must see my sister get married, and it's not like I was invited to the wedding."

"Wait… you weren't?"

"Nope, she only invited me to the reception."

"I can't believe she would do that to her own sister."

"Well what can I say, I was the baby of the family so I got pretty much all the attention and she would always try to steal it from me, I know getting attention all the time can get boring so most of the time I didn't care if she wanted it, but the two times I really wanted it, she had to take it away from me again."

"What were those two times?"

"Well the first time was when I got accepted to Hogwarts, I had been the first wizard in my family since my great grandfather, yes I am not exactly a mudblood as you call it. So my parents were pretty much ecstatic about it, because we had been awaiting the magic to come back to our families. Well that day my sister decided to fall off a horse and break her leg and needed surgery and I know she normally wouldn't hurt herself, but she had been hoping for as long as I could remember to be the magical one. Then, when it was me who got the trait she couldn't bare it any longer."

"What was the other time?"

"When I told her I had fallen in love with someone, since she's older she thought she had to get married before me or as soon as she could after me."

"So she likes Snape because you love him?"

"No... that's not it."

"Then what do you mean?"

"She likes him because I love you."

"You what?"

"I love you Draco, I know this wasn't supposed to happen I was supposed to love Snape, and I do love him, but when we became close I pushed you away at first and then I read one of the letters he sent me like a week or two ago and it dawned on me, he doesn't love me like that, and he possibly never did." However what Hermoine didn't know was that the rest of the letter which she stopped reading earlier had contained how much Snape loved her and needed her, it said if she had responded to the letter like he asked he would tell jenny and it would be Hermoine he'd be marrying that day. She just hadn't read that much, and Draco knew this.

"Listen Hermoine... I have to tell you this, I know you're not in love with me..."

"What do you mean? Of course I love you."

"Hear me out ok. Well I know about a certain letter Snape sent you. Which you probably only read the first quarter of it, because he told me about and angry response you sent him to a letter in which he confessed his undying love for you, and you turned him down."

"What are you talking about? What letter?"

"This letter," apparently he had accioed the letter from his house while she was speaking, and it was not getting to the table. "Read it okay, don't speak until you finish and you'll understand exactly what I am talking about, because if you had read it entirely the first time your wouldn't be telling me you love me and not him."

Hermoine read the letter and this time she didn't stop when she read about him not inviting her to the wedding and found out exactly what Draco was talking about. Snape hadn't asked her to be at the wedding because he wanted her to be IN the wedding as his bride. He never meant to hurt her, but he had to make sure she was the one. In doing so what if he lied to Jenny. She would move on, and she even explained to him one night, while drunk, that at first she was only using him because she could make Hermoine jealous, but now she thinks she loved him.

"So she doesn't love him either?" she asked when she had finished reading the letter.

"Apparently not, so what are you going to do about it now?"

"Take me to that wedding Draco!"

"Will do lovely lady."

"Well, Draco I think you are the nicest guy I have ever met, and although I am sorry I never fell in love with you, I am so glad you are my best friend."

"I'm just glad I get to hang out with you 'moine, you know you changed my life, I was heading down a road involving mass murders and ultimately being miserable but you wouldn't let me would you. I am just glad to have met you when I did. Did you know when I met you I had started training to be a death eater, I was going to be marked shortly following and then I met you. You save my life, now I must save yours."

"What do you mean save mine?"

"I know just as much as you that if Jenny walked down the aisle towards Snape instead of you, you'd be the biggest wreck ever, and possibly would do something to harm yourself, and I can't allow that."

"You know I love you right?"

"Yep, which is why we have to get you a wedding dress now, you can't walk down the aisle dressed as a guest."

Hermoine and Draco arrived at a famous muggle dress maker named Vera Wang's dress shop.

"Oh Draco, this is the one." She stood in front of a gorgeous strapless dress with a corset top and a princess skirt. It had a ring of light pink flowers around the bottom that matched the embellishment on the body. It was the wedding dress Hermoine had dreamt about since she was five when she dreamed of marrying Winston, the seven year old next door. "I've dreamt of this exact dress since I was five years old."

"You've dreamt about marriage since you were five?" Draco asked stunned, "And here I thought this was the first time marriage came up in your mind."

"Obviously you don't have any sisters I see."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because everyone knows that as soon as girls learn to speak and can put thoughts together they plan their perfect wedding."

"Oh, really? So that's why Isabella always asked me to play 'groom' in her games we always played."

"That's exactly why."

"Ok, so would you mind terribly if I offered to buy you this dress for always being here for me, and seeing as how it costs $15,000 I doubt you have the money to buy it."

"Okay, if you insist." Hermoine started laughing for reasons unknown to her.

The next day was the wedding Hermoine barely slept, all she could think of was what was she doing. She didn't want to hurt her sister's feelings, but at the same time her feelings were telling her that she had to do this. She had to marry Snape. Now, Hermoine normally wasn't a selfish person, but marrying Snape was not something she wanted to do, she had to.

She started putting on her dress that she was going to wear, and shrunk the wedding dress and stuffed it into her purse so she would have it at her disposal at all times and it was charmed so that the moment she enlarged it, it would put itself on her in a matter of seconds