Hey, well, I'm back… sorta… oh so much has happened to me since I started writing this story. I eventually found the back-up disk, but it was very out of date. And I've been on a real writing thing the last couple of days and so I decided to update this!!! Enjoy!
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Not a day had gone by in the past eighteen months were Hermione hadn't though about her wedding day. When the photos had been developed she had spent weeks framing the best and positioning them around the house.
Still smiling, she reached into the box and pulled out a plastic stick. She smiled and remembered that day not to long ago now…
Standing in the muggle supermarket, Hermione looked around her shoulder nervously at the other people nearby. She didn't recognize a single one of them, which was good. She didn't want anyone to see what she was buying. Carefully and as quick as she could without knocking everything off the shelf she grabbed a box and threw it in her trolley, burying it under a whole pile of other stuff that she wasn't quite sure if she needed.
She felt like she was running to the checkout and she made sure that the box was buried under stuff on the checkout bench. She felt so embaressed as the checkout operator scanned the box and put it in the bag.
'I should've bought Ginny,' she muttered to herself. Ginny never got embaressed about stuff like this and Hermione can remember the memorable day they both went to buy condoms.
She paid for the groceries and ran out the doors like a flash and almost ran back home. She had to do this before Harry got home from work.
Taking the box into the bathroom, she shut and locked the door and just stared at it.
'Directions- allow urine stream to soak the strip for at least 15 seconds. Remember this is a mid-stream test so allow a few drops to go first. Results should appear after two minutes. A line should appear in the second window to confirm the test has worked. A line in the first window indicates a positive result and you should see your doctor immediately,' she read outloud to herself. 'This is so humiliating.'
She carefully unpackaged the test and sat down on the toilet and completed it. She snapped the lid over the strip and then placed it on the sink and waited.
And waited.
She was almost too nervous to look at it. She had only realized that morning that her period was three weeks late and that had never happened. They weren't exactly trying for a baby, but if one happened, it happened.
'Hermione?' she heard Harry call out and she jumped a mile into the air. She hadn't told him.
'I'm on the loo!' she called back.
He didn't come any closer to the bathroom and she breathed a sigh of relief. Knowing she had to look, she picked the test up and looked at the windows.
Two lines.
She placed the test back on the sink and was surprised to see herself smiling. She reached over and unlocked the door.
'Harry… can you come in here?' she called. A few seconds later Harry appeared, cautiously looking around the corner of the door. 'Come in… I have to show you something.'
But Harry's eyes had already spotted the box and without saying a word, he reached over and picked up the test.
'Two line,' he whispered and looked at Hermione. 'Is that good?'
'Depends… on whether or not you want to be a daddy.'
Harry let out a massive whoop and threw his arms around Hermione, still clutching both the test and the box.
'Do… do you mean it?' he asked, looking her in the eyes and she nodded.
'We're going to be parents.'