The Eighth Year - Under Major Reconstruction

35 - Nap

Returning to her room, Hermione begins her classwork and studying to get her mind off of waiting for Draco to come back.
She spent two hours waiting for him before deciding she should take a nap since she couldn't focus on her Arithmancy homework.
As she drifted to sleep, she plunged into dreamland - a place she hadn't escaped to in a very long time...not that she minded. Dreams were sometimes the worst part of her nights.

Looking down at herself, she's in a white dress...a wedding dress, it seems.

"Oh! Hermione, you look absolutely ravishing! You have to choose that one! It's perfect. Draco will absolutely adore it." Ginny says, coming into the room holding a veil, pinning it into Hermione's hair

"You think so? Godric, I'm so nervous. Our wedding is so bloody close...and after his affair with Alexandra, I'm worried about our marriage...I know we were forced to be together, but...what if he has another affair with her when we're married? I couldn't live with a cheating husband." Hermione sighs

"Hermione. He won't. Have faith. Once you two are married, everything will be perfect! And don't forget that you have to have kids soon! That'll for sure straighten him up. And if it doesn't...he won't even see my wrath coming. A pregnant Ginny is an unhappy Ginny." She laughs, rubbing her pregnant belly

"Are you excited?" Hermione asks, referring to her pregnancy

"Of course! It's just I wish we could have waited a bit longer. I mean...we're just so young. Daft law." She sighed, taking a seat next to her (her feet were hurting quite often lately...ever since she had reached the three-month mark of her pregnancy. She had also gotten a lot grouchier. But no one dared tell her.)

"Do you really think he'll stop seeing her?" Hermione asks, referring to Alexandra and Draco

"Of course. He said he stopped when you chose your wedding date. And your wedding is literally next month. Stop worrying, Hermione. Everything will be okay." Ginny urges

Nodding, she knew Ginny was probably right...she usually was.
Ginny began helping her out of her wedding dress and led her to the shop attendant, who helped her buy the dress and send it off to Hermione's room.
She would find a good spot to hide it later.

Walking out of the shop, Hermione and Ginny head to The Three Broomsticks for lunch before heading back to the castle, discussing the finest details of Hermione's upcoming wedding.

Ginny, Pansy, and Luna were her bridesmaids - Ginny was her Maid of Honour, and Luna was out of obligation.

Walking into her room, she finds Draco pacing about the room.

"Hey...what's going on? You seem worried. What's with the pacing?" Hermione asks nervously

"Well. You know Alexandra..." he begins slowly.

"Of course. What about her? Draco." She says, taking a seat at her desk, knowing some bomb is about to be dropped on her

"Well...Salazar. This is hard. As you know, I, uh...was with her for a bit."

"Yes. Draco, don't remind me. What did she do?"

"Well. Before I ended things with her...we went a little too far.

Closing her eyes, Hermione knew what was coming.

"She's pregnant."

With that, Hermione shot up out of her bed, looked around, and realized that hadn't happened. She was still in bed, and tears fell down her face.

She had to get to Draco before anything like that happened. She would not let some slag steal her fiancé from her.

Getting out of bed, she cleaned herself up and got ready to head down to dinner, seeing as dinner started in half an hour.
She was about to pull Draco out by his ear and yell at him for everything he had said and done earlier that morning. Hopefully, she was fast enough.

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Walking into the great hall, she immediately heads to the Slytherin table, grabs Draco, making a small scene, and leads him back out of the Great Hall, where she could yell at him in privacy.

"What's going on with you, Draco?" She asks straight out

"Nothing is going on with me, Granger." He replies

"Don't give me that. Something is wrong. Tell me what it is so I can fix it. I will not have my fiancé slagging around."

Hermione notices his eyes flicker over her shoulder, causing her to turn around to see what he is looking at. Of course, it was the lovely Alexandra.

"How can we help you, Alex?" Hermione asks bitterly

"Well. I would like to say, obviously, if you weren't so boring and plain, Draco wouldn't have had to come to me. He doesn't want you or love you, and he's only going to marry you because he has to. So get used to me being around. Because he will never be happy with you." Alexandra says in her sickly sweet voice

"We were completely fine before you came around here. We were happy. We may not have loved each other quite yet...but we were happy. You came along and ruined all of it, and it makes absolutely no sense. The sudden change of his attitude, the change in the names he uses for me, his actions...everything is different...what did you do to him?" She asked incredulously

At this moment, Harry, Ginny, Ron, Blaise, and Pansy have all made their way out to the scene.

"I did absolutely nothing. He just realized how plain you are. He needed something new. You don't honestly think I came all the way from America to be near my father? For what? Two or three weeks because of school? Absolutely not. I came here for him. You...you're a mudblood. I'm a pureblood. Why would he choose you over me? I'm everything his mother wants...everything he wants." She smirks

"I knew Narcissa had something to do with this...what did she do to him? What was it? A loathing potion?" Hermione asks, trying to figure out how to fix this mess

"Actually, Hermione...now that I think about it. This seems quite familiar. Remember in the sixth year when Ron ate a bunch of chocolates from Romilda Vane? I'm thinking this might have to do with a love potion...did Malfoy eat anything from her?" Harry asks no one in particular but gets a worried expression from the new student

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CLIFFHANGERRRRR
I'll either update on Thursday or Friday!

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2023 shelby here, 

i clear this up so fast because i hate this plot point. but it DOES make for good drama. 

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