Own Nothing.
Chapter Sixteen.
Hermione sighed, bustling around the house while Teddy was at School with Maria and Alan was at work. She stared around her kitchen, her parents had gone home several weeks ago and while Hermione was better, able to walk around on her own without help. Everyone kept an eye on her. And she hated it, it was just this morning after everyone left that she finally got fed up and cleaned the house, organized her potions room and put her library in correct alphabetical order, all before lunch. She was bored now, so bored.
There was a knock on the door and Hermione' s heart raced, someone was here, to see her! She excitedly bounced like a young child to the door, opening it to see Sarah Jane standing there. "Hello Hermione, I was wondering if you wanted to go into town?"
"Oh I would love to, let me just get my things." Hermione ran to the living room, grabbing a jacket for the later November weather and her purse. She walked back to the door. "I am forever in your debt Sarah Jane, I would be dead with boredom without you." She laughed as they walked over to Sarah Jane's car. "Where do you want to go?"
"Well I wanted to get in some early Christmas shopping before it gets to bad in a few weeks." Sarah Jane replied, starting her car, turning the heater on.
"Sounds like a plan." Hermione smiled as they pulled out of the driveway. They sat in silence for a few minutes as Sarah Jane pulled into town, they pulled into the parking lot of the local shopping center, getting out of the car. "So what are your plans for the holidays?" Hermione asked as they walked towards the nearest building.
"I don't know, It's just me and Luke, my parents passed away when I was a baby. So I have no one else to spend it with." Sarah Jane shrugged her shoulders as Hermione opened the door for her.
"Maybe we can all do a Christmas together, before Teddy and I go off to the Borrow to visit the Weasleys."
"I bet that will be fun."
"Yes, a week of Molly asking me why I haven't found anyone yet and upset about how Harry let me get hurt on the job."
"Do they not know that you lost your baby?" Sarah Jane asked as they looked around for something for Maria in the girl's section.
"No, I mean, I don't know. I'm sure Harry could've told them, but I don't know if I would want them to know."
"Why not?" Sarah Jane asked, looking at a shirt for Maria before deciding to put it back. "What are you getting Maria?"
"A book I suppose, speaking of which, I'm thinking about opening up a shop. A book store, what do you think?"
"I think that its a splendid idea, you will need something to keep you busy now that you don't have to hunt down criminals."
"So you think its a good idea?" Hermione asked as they moved out of the girls sections and into the teen boys. They began looking for clothes for the three boys, both deciding to get Clyde something to.
"I think it is a marvelous idea." Sarah Jane replied as they picked out a couple of outfits before going to check out. "What are you getting Alan?"
"I don't know yet, I cant give him a book, maybe something for his job, practical."
"Seems like a good gift, but what about something for the two of you?"
Hermione thought about it. "I like it, but what?"
Sarah Jane laughed, "Maybe you should propose, you said he already asked you, but not with a ring, why not give him one?"
Hermione laughed to. "I like it, I'll propose to Alan when we have christmas together, or maybe after, when its more personal."
"I think you should when the two of you are together."
Hermione smiled as they walked to the bookstore in the mall. "Sounds like a plan."