Hermione opened her arms and spun around, her laugh echoing in the empty room. "This is fantastic! I know the pictures were pretty but it's better than I ever imagined it would be."
Her and Draco had arrived in America an hour ago and had just arrived at their new home. It was an apartment in a nice part of New York City. It had a nice big living room, a full kitchen with a space for a table and also an open part of the wall between the living room and kitchen that had a counter that she thought would be lovely to put stools against and eat on. There was a master bedroom and two other bedrooms that were equal in size to each other but smaller than the master. There was a bathroom and two closets that led off from the hall to the bedrooms.
While she was please immensely with their new living space, Hermione was going to make some adjustments. That was a benefit of magic, she thought, you can do remodeling in an instant for free and change a small space to a huge one with no problems whatsoever. First she made the kitchen bigger and added more appliances, such as a commercial stove, huge refrigerator, bigger cabinets, marble countertops, and on one wall she spelled a window that although on an inside wall, showed a view of outside as if it were a real window. Of course she could spell it to show any place she wanted, but for now she wanted to revel in the change of address.
Next she headed toward the bathroom. She modified it to replicate the prefect's bathroom at Hogwarts, though she changed the décor so that the color theme was a light green and light blue. After that she went to the closets and extended each one so that it would fit everything they needed them too, and so that whenever more room was needed it would extend further.
Then she was off toward the master bedroom. First she added a bathroom that equaled the first one except that this one's colors were red and grey. Then she put an emperor sized four-poster bed with green draping in. She then spelled in the rest of the necessary furniture into the room, 2 dressers, a vanity, 2 bedside tables, a lamp, etc.. She left the other two rooms for later. When she went into the living room she added a huge TV mounted to the wall tat she spelled to work around magic. She vowed to take Draco out to get IPods and Laptops later.
While she had been doing this Draco just stood back and watched in awe as his soon-to-be wife buzzed around in a whirlwind decorating everything. When she came back and spelled a huge black thing on the wall he just stared at it. What was the point of that? He noticed that she had left the walls of everything but the bathrooms undone. He looked over at her and saw her heading toward him. Smiling at her be pulled his beautiful fiancé in for a kiss.
"This is lovely sweetheart. I do have to ask what that black thing is however." Draco said to her. Hermione looked where he was pointing and laughed when she realized what he meant.
"Oh, that's right! You wouldn't know what one was would you, I forgot." Hermione said smiling at her wizard. "That is a television, although everyone calls them TVs. They show moving images, almost like a pensive but it isn't a memory, at least most of them aren't. They tell stories. Documentaries are about true factual things, Reality shows are things that happen in real life but are still staged a bit. Then there is the news which is like the newspaper but people talk about it to a camera which captures the image and then sends it out on waves received by the TV. There are movies and TV shows which are fake stories that people act out for the purpose of entertaining others. I'll explain more when we watch it later. Now, what colors do you want to do the walls?" She asked, changing the subject. Draco was confused about the whole TV thing still but he kind of understood the concept. Looking at the walls he thought for a minute.
"How about a light yellow for the living room, a red for the kitchen, lilac for the hall, and a brown for the master?: Draco offered, looking toward Hermione.
"I think that will be perfect." She said, beaming at him. With a couple flicks of their wands it was done. Looking around Hermione said "I think it's time for our stuff now." With another wave of her wand their possessions flew out of their pockets and went to the proper place. After they had all settled Hermione turned around and spelled a soft couch and some chairs into the living room. Turning to Draco she asked "Is there anything you think we should add?" Draco looked around.
"How bout a fireplace?"
"Yes! We definitely need one of those." She exclaimed. Draco raised his wand and added a fireplace with river stone around it and a red and orange rug in front of it. Looking around he nodded.
"I think we're all set now, what do you think love?"
"I completely agree. I can't believe we get to live here! Oh I can't wait to check out the shop!" She squealed.
"Well first I think we should go register our marriage." Draco said wisely.
"I love you so much, you know that?" Hermione said, planting a sweet kiss on his lips and tucking her head in the crook of his neck, snuggling into his warm chest.
"I love you just as much darling." Draco replied, kissing the top of her head. "Ok lets go."
And with that they apparated to the marriage registration office.
