AN: Here it is! Thank you all so much for all of your support. I do not plan to write any more Dramione for a bit (I'm a Drarry girl, sorry) but I am so glad that I got the chance to do this and interact with all of you beautiful human beings. I always respond to reviews and PMs if you ever want to drop me a line. Please?

Hermione had always been very methodical. Except for that kiss. Wow, that kiss. She later reasoned that it was the only thing her heart was telling her to do in the moment after Draco had confessed his love for her. Ron had never said that he loved her and neither had Harry, even in a platonic way. But she was done with Ron. She barely saw the oaf lately, so consumed with her life with Draco.

She put her last pair of shorts in her suitcase and went to answer the doorbell. Rose grabbed at her skirt as she flitted past, and she could not help but stop to pick up her daughter with the cute blond streaked hair and blue eyes that still sucked her thumb at three years old. Hermione flew over the wood floors next to the burgundy walls that were dotted with pictures of the happy family before she yanked open the heavy pine door with its elegant window.

Heidi invited herself in and immediately took her goddaughter from her mother. "Hey, 'Mione. How's it going?"

The mom took a deep breath and brushed a strand of Rose's hair behind her ear as she led in her friend to the kitchen where tea was already steeping.

"Everything is under control."

"As usual." Heidi laughed as she plopped the toddler into her booster seat and helped herself to a mug of tea. She pointed to a portrait above her head of Draco and Hermione on their last vacation together to Australia to visit her parents. "Is this new?"

"Yeah." Hermione sighed as she squeezed a lemon into her own tea and checked her phone for texts from Draco for the tenth time that hour. "It was delivered after the last time you were here, I guess."

Heidi rolled her eyes at her friend's sudden change in mood. "Don't worry, sweetie. Draco will text you when he is on his way. He probably just had some last minute things to do before your guys' big trip. It only comes once a year." She waggled her eyebrows and relaxed into the classic wooden kitchen chair with her pedicured feet crossed.

"I know, but we both took off a day from work to get ready, and he's still running late."

Heidi nodded and redirected the conversation away from her friend's worries. "How is Magical Getaways?"

"Good, it's good. Lot of new clients. That's mostly Draco's doing. He's really good with people. We have a partnership with some hotels that we've visited now, so that helps us and them. It's better than I ever imagined it would be. To think that I started out as a secretary!"

"Maybe that's what I need to do," Heidi mused. "I'll get a job like that and then one of my coworkers will sweep me away on an exotic vacation and then profess his love for me." The blonde girl had never quite gotten over her breakup with Ron.

The girls slipped into giggles, but a luminescent ghost arrived on the scene to reset the mood. A sea turtle glided in from the hallway, leaving a wave of light. It spoke: "I love you, Hermione." And the recipient blushed at the public proffession of love as Draco swung around the corner to give her a bouquet and a kiss.

"Sorry I'm late, love, but I figured you needed some flowers and our wonderful savior Heidi needed some Lindor truffles." He winked and let his hands fall from Hermione's taffeta waist long enough to toss the bag to Heidi who nodded a thanks before stuffing two into her mouth.

Hermione turned around in her husband's arms and looked into his blue eyes that never failed to amaze her. "So, where are we going?" He kissed her tea-coated lips and rested his nose on hers.

"You will see." Draco slid his arm from her svelt waist once more to wave Heidi goodbye and lead Hermione out to the garage. "Thank you for watching Rose, Heidi. Bye sweetheart!"

"Bye Daddy," the little girl chimed. "Bye, Mommy."

"Goodbye, sweet pea!" Hermione called over her shoulder as Draco summoned their luggage and wrapped his arm around her waist to escort her to the passenger side.

"Where are we going?" Hermione asked once more after they had set out on the open roads of England complete with blooming flowers and road signs that interested her not in comparison to the excitement she felt in taking their annual trip that Draco had initiated so many years ago. The first one after Hawaii had been Italy and then France, leading to last year's Australia visit.

He kissed her hand at a stop light, relishing the sight of his ring on her hand. "Have you ever been to... Hawaii?"