What are you doing here?
She gazed out the window into the garden, it was a lovely spring day. The weather was perfect, everything was perfect. She looked into the mirror, gazing at the way she looked clad in white gown and the family tiara.
An unsettled feeling came over her as she sat there thinking about the ceremony she was due to take part of in less than an hour.
Everything was perfect so why didn’t this feel right?
“Not getting cold feet are you Granger?”
The unexpected voice caused her to jump as she locked eyes with Theodore Nott. He was leaning in the doorway, hands in his pockets with a boyish grin on his face.
“What are you doing here?” she asked, jumping up to wrap her arms around him. She leaned her head into his chest as he held her close.
“I couldn’t let my best girl get married without me, now could I?”
The mood shifted as Hermione pulled away from him, a solemn look across her face. They both knew why she had agreed to this. Ron was here and present in her life, and Draco Malfoy had stolen her heart and fled the country. Neither of them had heard from him in over a year.
“Hermione, you know you don’t have to do this,” Theo said, attempting to smooth the creases upon her brow. “I will happily stage a getaway with you. You deserve the very best, and if this isn’t the best run, run far away.”
She smiled up at the boy who had become her best friend.
An hour later, everyone was frantically looking for the bride.
The only sign Hermione Granger had even been there, was a discarded wedding dress and an abandoned tiara sitting on the dressing table...