Life Goes On
Life Goes On
Chapter 3- Another Proposal
Hermione walked into her room, with Ginny waiting with a message. "Ron says to meet you at the bottom of the stairs at 6:00." A satisfied Ginny Apparated back to Potter Manor.
Harry was just walking in when Ginny Apparated home. He saw this and was immediately angry. "Ginny I told you do NOT Apparate. You are 3 months pregnant and you cannot risk splinching yourself. Apparation could hurt our baby." He said this last part softly.
"I'm sorry Harry. I had to hurry home. I really am sorry," she said, walking over to him and kissing him, making him a little bit less mad.
He kissed her back passionately.
"I take it you accept my apology," Ginny asked.
"Only on two conditions, one: start Flooing places. Eventually you will have to walk or I'll drive you, once I get my muggle driver's license. The other is you have to kiss me like that again."
"I, Ginerva Molly Weasley, accept your terms and conditions." She said as she walked back to Harry, wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him tenderly.
He kissed her back fully, making her have to hold back a smile until the kiss was finished. When she finally pulled away for air, she couldn't hold back the huge smile on her face. He couldn't either.
At 5:59 Hermione came down the stairs, dressed in a simple navy blue, knee-length dress. Ron was already at the bottom of the stairs. Hermione asked, "What's this all about? Where are we going that's so formal?"
"You'll see. Now come here. You look beautiful." He said. She had gone through the trouble of straightening her hair, just because he liked it that way. He wrapped his arms around her and said, "We can't Side-Along because of our baby. We can't Floo to the place we're going, so I'm going to drive."
"Umm…okay. Where are we going anyway?" she asked.
"We, my dear, are going to a muggle restaurant. Is that okay with you?" He asked, now slightly worried she wouldn't like it.
"Yes, Ron, it is fine with me. Now let's go.
About 15 minutes later, they were at a small, fancy restaurant. They had reservations under Weasley. The whole place was full of people they didn't know. They both ordered, and ate, then Ron had ordered them desert.
Right after he ordered he looked at Hermione and said, "Hermione I love you." He got down on one knee looked up at her and asked, "Will you marry me?"
She looked at him, stood up, and pulled him up into a long passionate kiss. She broke away and said, "Yes, Ron, I will marry you." The whole restaurant started clapping. She then whispered, "Why couldn't you have done it somewhere where there weren't so many people." Then she laughed. "Oh, well it doesn't really matter to me, just as long as we're together."
They sat back down and their desert came. He had gotten a small cake and they had put in writing on it, "I love you, Hermione."
She looked at it, and looked at Ron, and said, "Now what would've happened if I said no?"
"Well I was positive you'd say yes, because you were always talking to me about how jealous you were of Ginny. I was pretty jealous of Harry too, and then," he said pointing at the ring, "He bought me that for you. I tried not accepting it but he said don't worry about it. I tried to pay him back, but he wouldn't accept my Galleons either. I couldn't buy another ring, because that would mean I would've had an extra ring. So I just decided to use that one. I didn't look at it when Harry gave me the box. I wanted it to be a surprise for me too, but eventually my curiosity got the best of me and I opened it. The first look I took at the ring, I knew you would love it. It seemed so, I'm not sure how to say this, but it seemed so…you."
"Well I love it Ron. I wouldn't have cared if the ring was quite a bit smaller than this, but by the looks of the present he gave me this morning, the shared present he and Ginny gave me, he had forgotten to get me one. I knew automatically that Ginny had picked it out. So it's kind of his Christmas present to me."
They both sat in silence as they ate the desert.
When they were done Ron asked, "Well, do you want to go now?" She looked at the obviously stuffed Ron.
"Yes let's go. I want to get back to the Burrow. I think I'll wait until tomorrow to tell everyone, though. Only Harry knows, right?"
"Unless he told Ginny, only Harry knows."
The next day at dinner, everyone was eating quietly, when Hermione looked at Ron and nudged him with her elbow. They both stood up.
Hermione cleared her throat to get everyone's attention. "Ron and I have an announcement to make. We're getting married!"
Mrs. Weasley stood up and gave Hermione and Ron the same bone-crushing hug she gave Harry and Ginny, before looking at Hermione's ring finger. "Where's your ring dear?"
"It's in my room. I didn't want to give anything away so I took it off and stored it up there. I'll go get it."
"Hermione, let me get it," Ron said as he stood up and went upstairs.
When he came back down he put it on her finger. Mrs. Weasley took one look at it and immediately wondered where he got the money to buy it. She didn't say anything though. Ginny walked over to Hermione and saw the expensive ring. She made a mental note to talk to Harry about it.
After everyone was done looking at the wonderful ring, dinner went back to being quiet. Harry finally noticed that Ginny was done eating and asked, "Ginny, are you ready to go?"
"Yeah, I'm ready. Let's go home." She said, still liking the sound of calling Potter Manor, home.
"Master Harry and Mistress Ginny are home." Ditty announced as they Flooed in. "Would Master like anything to eat or drink? Can I get you some Butterbeer or Mulled Mead? What about some dinner?"
"Ditty we ate at the Burrow. Where are Bonny, Crunky, and Jenny? I still need to give them their Galleons."
"They told Ditty to tell Master Harry that they will not accept them."
"Bonny, Crunky, Jenny come here please." Harry called out. Immediately he heard 3 pops and saw the other three house elves. Harry pulled out 9 Galleons and handed 3 to each elf. "Don't tell me you won't take it. You deserve it. If anyone asks just tell them that I forced you to take them. It will do nothing to your honor. I have plenty and all of you do such hard work and don't get rewarded."
"But—," they all started.
"Take them, please."
With that Harry walked away, and Ginny followed.