What A Girl Wants

Chapter Sixteen-Hermione's Arrival

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               The last eight weeks had flown by. The bond between father and daughter grew substantially with each passing day. Harry took her to a couple of Quidditch matches, even bought her a couple Puddlemere United jerseys as souvenirs. There were other days when Harry spent time at his office,  while Lily spent a great amount of time with Luna and the girls', listening to all the tales of the creatures Luna had spent a good bit of her life trying to find. 

     As the eighteen loomed closer, Lily and Harry began renovating the extra guest room that no one ever used. On July 31st, Harry and Lily spent the day with Ginny and Amelia watching his favorite movies and shopping around Diagon Alley. Lily even made him a surprise birthday dinner consisting of pot roast with carrots, red potatoes, and green beans with a three-layer chocolate cake as dessert. To Harry's surprise, Hermione sent him a birthday card in the mail and she called to ask how his day went. He was so happy that he and Hermione were able to talk with one another without any sign of awkwardness.

           Now, it was the weekend of the eighteenth and Ginny was still sour about Hermione staying with them, but she was not in the mood to bicker with Harry about it any longer. She had something else far more important running through her mind. She hadn't seen nor spoken to Draco since the night she met him in the Hog's Head, not that she honestly cared. 

        She knew if she told Amelia she had always known who her father was, she would resent her for the rest of her life. Ginny was currently sitting on the bathroom counter waiting anxiously for three minutes to pass by. Once the timer on her phone went off, Ginny jumped off her counter and went to the spot near the sink were a pregnancy test laid. Her hands were shaking as she plucked the test off the counter and when she looked at the results, her eyes widened and her breathe hitched in her throat.

    'It's positive.' Ginny thought as she shook with sobs. 'What am I going to do? Harry will know this baby isn't his since he hasn't touched me since Lily arrived.' Suddenly, an idea sprung into her mind. She wiped the tears from her face as she looked in her mirror, trying to fix her make- up, and a tight-lipped smiled formed on her face.

        It was two in the afternoon when Harry stood in the middle of the living room as he anxiously waited for his daughter to join him downstairs. Lily was currently using the bathroom before they headed to the airport to pick up her mother.

        "I'm ready." Lily told her dad as she descended from the stairs.

         "Alright, let's get going." Harry and Lily apparated to an alleyway in Diagon Alley before they walked to the back entrance of The Leaky Cauldron. Once they walked through the busy Inn, and walked out the front door, Lily and Harry disapparated to Diagon Alley. As they exited the Leaky Cauldron, Lily hailed down a cab and then her and Harry climbed in and told the driver to take them to London City Airport.

       "I see you found your friend?" the cab driver asked her. Lily realized the cab she was in, was in fact the same one that brought her to The Leaky Cauldron eight weeks ago. She smiled as she looked over at Harry as she replied," I did."

     After a thirty-minute drive to the airport, Harry paid the cab driver and thanked him for his service. He and Lily entered the airport when Lily asked him a question.

       "Are you nervous?"

       "Nervous? Why would I be nervous?" Harry asked his daughter with a anxious chuckle.

       "Because you and mom haven't physically seen one another in almost two decades."

       "Well, we talk on the phone every week, don't we?"