Chapter 11
She gripped the test tightly in her hand, the screen had a (+). It was positive. She couldn't believe it. Her mind was like a scratched CD. I'm Pregnant, I'm pregnant.
Emily peered over at the test grasped in Hermione's hand.
"Congratulations!" She squealed, throwing her arms around Hermione.
"Thank you?" Hermione said weakly. She wasn't sure how to react. Happiness was the obvious reaction. But she wasn't sure she was happy. Did she want to be pregnant? She was only twenty one, all her concentration was focused on the screen, on the screen of the test, how was she supposed to react? Hermione jumped when she felt Emily's elbow dig into her side. She looked up to see Michael entering the kitchen.
She whipped the pregnancy test from sight.
"What's up sweetie?" Hermione said concernedly. She hurries by the trashcan, dropping the test in the bin on the way to hug him.
"Hungry." Michael says as he moves toward the refrigerator. "Just gonna get a snack."
"Alright." she squeaked.
"Are you okay?"
"Yea, of course. What makes you think I'm not?" she asked nervously.
"You just seem a little stressed."
"Oh, yea. Pretty serious stuff going on at work." the excuse sounded lame to her ears.
"Okay." Michael was looking at her strangely. But he must have dismissed it because he continued to the refrigerator.
Emily looked at Hermione expectantly, and Hermione shook her head subtly.
Michael who has been standing in the open refrigerator, eating frosting from a can with a spoon.
Hermione makes a face at him and says that he can keep the frosting since it's now all germy.
"What you don't like my germs? You are engaged to me, a little thing like my germs shouldn't separate us." Hermione's laugh is too controlled, too loud. It is very obvious it is fake laughter. Michael shakes his head in confusion and walks back up to bed.
"Hermione, it's late, I should probably go, so you can go to bed." Emily says. "I'll pick up my stuff in the morning."
"Ok" Hermione says uncomprehendingly, the result of her test has jammed her brain. She's finding it hard to focus on other topics.
She makes her way up the stairs, slowly and lies awake.
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Slobozia, Romania
Charlie quite literally could not believe the circumstance he found himself in. He was in prison. For a crime he did not commit. He had a trial soon. They would tell him later. They only gave him one owl to send out.
He had wanted to send it to Hermione, see if she cared enough about him to reply, or do something to show that she still cared. But that was a pipe dream. But, instead the sensible person came out and he owled one of his good friends from the Keeper's Dorms, and asked him to please withdraw 550 galleons and deliver the money to the prison where he was being held.
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When Charlie woke up from an apparent midday's nap, he was alarmed to see a pale face hovering at the bars of his cell
"Mariella?" he asked questioningly. Mariella had been one of his best friends at Hogwarts, she and he had bonded over their love of Magical Creatures, and they were both delighted to learn upon their graduation from Hogwarts that they had both been accepted at the Slobozia Dragon Care Facilities. They had had a little fling back when they were both seventeen, but nothing had come out of it. Except Mariella, herself, who left the closet a little later that year.
"Charlie Weasley? Who would have thought you'd ever be in prison." Mariella had a laughing, joking manner to her voice.
"Not me." he mumbled.
"Certainly not, well, I've paid your bail. Now, come out with me and meet my girlfriend." Mariella exclaimed.
So he did. They went out drinking, but the whole time he was out with them a feisty brunette stayed on his mind. Finally when he was too smashed to see straight, he didn't think of her. But he would dream of her.
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After work one night, Hermione and Michael were just cuddling on the couch, while Michael aggravatedly flipped through the channels, alternately booing and cheering respective sports teams. Hermione stayed in her thoughts, awkwardly offering a well placed 'booo' or 'yay!' when it seemed appropriate.
Finally, all of the games seemed to go on a commercial break at the same time. It was like a sign. More than a sign, it was like god himself was ordering Hermione to tell Michael about this pregnancy.
"Hermione, I've been thinking" He said, casually turning the TV on mute.
"What have you been thinking of?" Hermione asked, genuinely curious.
"I think since we're getting married, we should think about having a baby." Michael says (yup, it was definitely a sign from god)
"Michael, I took a pregnancy test last night."
He was silent.
"It was positive."
"Oh." Michael was stunned. "Is it my child?" Hermione was extremely offended (even though this was a valid question in her mind, shedidn't even know) but still, the way he said it. It sent chills down her spine.
"I don't know if its yours." Hermione said quickly, hoping it would get over faster.
"What! Who else's would it be?" Michael bellowed.
"Charlie's" she said and the idea of being pregnant with his baby made her all fluttery inside, but she immediately dismissed that thought as foolish. Michael was the one she loved, right?
"That guy from the Christmas party!" he bellowed indignantly.
"Maybe, i thought i used contraceptives though."
"I don't know when I got pregnant, all I know is that I've been really stressed at work with this promotion, then I got sick. I never get sick. So Emily and I went to buy a pregnancy test. And it was positive." Hermione says explaining it to him.
"OK, Hermione. Sshh. Honey, I will love this baby no matter what."
-author's notes:
-anyway. Here's the new chappy. I think this is more of a set up chapter for the drama. Later on. Keep with me, and review please.
-haha, i love to write Michael he's such an evil character, which makes him fun to write. love to write, but hate.
-ok, so i didnt intend to create mariella, she is a nothing, just a character to get me out of a writer's block.
- and i was going to use Bucharest, Romania, but thats a city, hardly a place to keep dragons. so i moved it to what i think is a town in romania. if i'm wrong, i'm sorry.
-this is the first story where i've gotten double digit chapters!! im excited for me. :P