Chapter 6: Alone for too long
It had been a few weeks since Hermione and Draco had gotten engaged. Hermione lay on their bed admiring her ring while Draco stood at the end of the bed packing.
"Do you have to leave?" Hermione asked poking Draco in the ribs with her foot.
"Because if I don't take this job we can't have the winter wedding you want my love."
"It's not fair, I won't be able to send you letters or see you for a month." Hermione moved so that she was now sitting right behind Draco's suitcase.
"I know babe but you get to spend all night with me and all day tomorrow before I leave, we don't even have to leave the house if you want." Hermione giggled and began to turn a light shade of pink. Draco picked up his suitcase and moved to the floor. He then slowly crawled onto the bed following Hermione who was moving back to the top of the bed. Soon he was on top of her, his face was so close to hers their noses were touching. She tilted her head and kissed him wrapping her one arm around his neck and the other around his waist pulling his body down against hers. He slowly worked his hand down to the hem of her shirt, he slid his hand up and under it moving his hand along her back pulling her shirt up as he went. Soon it was tossed aside on the ground, and Hermione began to work on the buttons on Draco's shirt which was soon tossed aside as well. Draco slid his hand around Hermione's back trying to find the clasp of her bra,
"Where is it?" Draco asked looking confused. Hermione tilted her head back laughing.
"It undoes in the front." She then lightly kissed him on the cheek. With an air of realisation Draco quickly undid the clasp on the front of her bra. He kissed her then slowly began to work his way along her jawline, then down her neck, then her collar bone, then down her chest and stomach until he came to her waist and the hem of her shorts. He removed them tossing them aside with their shirts. She began to undo his belt, then his jeans throwing the aside.
The next morning when Hermione woke up she turned to see the bed was empty. She sat up to that Draco's suitcase was also gone. She was confused as Draco wasn't supposed to leave till later that night. Concerned she got out of bed and grabbed her dressing gown tying it as she headed out into the living room.
"Morning love." Draco was setting up the dining table for breakfast. Relieved Hermione walked over to him and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek.
"How long have you been up?" She asked taking a cup of coffee from him and a seat across from him.
"An hour, I didn't want to wake you up so I came out here to read. I figured that you'd be up soon though because you can't sleep in past nine in the morning so I made breakfast."
"Well thank you." Hermione began to tuck into her breakfast.
They spent the rest of the day together, but sadly had to say goodbye at the end of the night when Draco had to head off to catch his portkey to Singapore.
A week had past since Draco had left and Hermione was feeling more alone then she had ever felt, even though she was hanging out with Ginny almost everyday and had lunch with Narcissa yesterday. Hermione was starting to get concerned, her period was 3 days late and she was starting to feel poorly in the mornings. She was trying to figure out if she had eaten anything that would make her sick, but came up with nothing. She had talked to Ginny about it and her only thought was that Hermione may be pregnant, but she didn't think so, her and Draco had used protection after all. Today was the fourth day it was late and the fifth day she had felt poorly, and she thought she might as well take the bloody test just in case.
An hour later she was pacing around her living room waiting for Ginny to show up. Suddenly there was a nock on the door.
"Hey come in quickly, I'm freaking out here!" Ginny rushed in.
"Have you looked at it yet?"
"No of course not! I was too busy freaking out and waiting for you."
"Well go grab it!" Ginny took a seat on the sofa and waited for Hermione to grabbed the test from the bathroom. She held it out to Ginny.
"Why are you giving it to me?"
"Because I can't look. Can you just tell me what it says?"
"Fine, give it here." Ginny took the test and looked at it making sure not to show Hermione.
"So what does it say?" Hermione asked nervously.
"It's negative."
"Oh, well that's fine. I wasn't expecting it to be positive, this just means I can focus on the wedding now." Hermione sat down, a few tears rolled down her face.
"Why am I crying? It's not like I even wanted a kid." Hermione looked up at Ginny, who was surprisingly smiling.
"What are you smiling at?" Ginny simply handed the test to Hermione. She looked down at it to see it was positive not negative.
"Why, why did you have to do that to me?"
"Because I wanted to make sure you actually wanted the baby. Are you happy now?"
"Yes of course I'm happy I'm going to have a baby!" She stood up and hugged Ginny.
"Wait how are you going to tell Draco? He's away for another three weeks and it's not like you can just go to Singapore, I mean even if you could they won't let you travel because your pregnant."
"I'll just have to wait till he gets back. Please don't tell anyone though, I don't want anyone to know before him."
"I promise I won't. Hey you want to go baby shopping? You know to distract from Draco being away."
"Yeah sure, we'll just have to hide the stuff in the closet so no one sees it." They grabbed their coats and headed out to the streets of London.
