An Unwanted Marriage, But An Unexpected Love

An Unwanted Marriage, But An Unexpected Love


Hermione fidgeted nervously as Ginny tamed her hair and braided it. Ginny smacked her lightly with the end of the hair brush “Hey, sit still. I can’t work here with you fidgeting as if you have a swarm of ants up your ass.” Hermione glared at her through the mirror. Ginny didn’t bat an eye lid, causing Hermione to sigh in defeat.

Ginny shook her head and said “You’re going to be just fine Hermione. He is just taking you out to dinner. You are going to have a great time. You’ve got nothing to worry about, I promise.”

Hermione huffed “I’ve never been on a date before. Can this be even considered a date?” Ginny smirked “Hermione, you are going to marry the man in a matter of weeks. What do you think?”

Once Ginny had finished braiding her hair, she applied her make up for her. She dusted Hermione’s face neck and forehead in a light creamy coloured powder, followed by a rose coloured blush to her cheek bones.

That was followed by a pale golden shadow on her lower eye lids. Her upper eye lids were dusted with a skin coloured shadow. Then she curled her lashes with black mascara, followed by a light thin line of mid black eye liner. And lastly she applied a pale pink lip gloss; that was strawberry flavoured.

Once that was done, Hermione slipped into a pair of tight black hip hugging boot leg dress pants. They hung low on her hips, and clung to all the right places.

They were paired with a crimson halter neck top. And then to finish the final assemble; high heeled black ankle boots. And a tight tan coloured knee cap length coat made of leather.

And lastly she placed her tiny diamond stud earrings in her ears. Before lightly spraying a lavender and lilac scented perfume. Hermione then grab her tiny black handbag, making sure everything she needed was inside.

Then it was finally time for Hermione to go down and meet Barty. She was so nervous, it wasn’t even funny. She hoped nothing went wrong. Sure she had spent the last couple of weeks getting to know him. But this was different, as he and she had not been on a date up until then.

She took a deep breath when Ginny knocked on her door, telling her Barty had arrived. She took one last look in the mirror, before heading down stairs. When she reached the bottom of the stairs she stopped, and took in his appearance. He was standing talking to Harry and Ron.

He was dressed in tight black dress pants, and light blue dress shirt, and a black leather jack with black dress shoes. His hair had been arranged in a messy style, that Hermione thought was both adorable and sexy at the same time.

She felt her self melt, and a riot of butter flies go like crazy inside of her stomach, as he turned to face her, and smiled, in that soft and heart melting way he did.

He walked towards her, and handed to her a dark pink rose, that was streaked with blood red. Its beautiful soft petals were on the verge of opening.

He explained “The colour will never fade, and it will never die. The petals will continue to open until they are in full bloom. In the winter they will close, but reopen again in the summer.”

Hermione smiled sweetly, and flushed slightly as she brought the rose up to her nose and delicately sniffed. She closed her eyes in bliss at its beautiful fragrance.

She had no idea the effect she was having upon him, but the others did. They saw his eyes soften ever so slightly. They could tell he was attracted to Hermione, and that eventually he would fall in love with her.

They also knew Hermione had developed a crush on him. She was not in love with him yet, but they realised she soon would be with time. It was only a matter of time before they both were.

Hermione opened her eyes and told Barty “We can get going as soon as I’ve placed this in a glass or something.” Ginny said “Don’t worry about that, I’ll do it for you. Why don’t you two get going, and enjoy yourselves?”

Hermione smiled in thanks, and handed the Rose to Ginny, who carefully took it by the stem, and went over to the sink. She eyed the rose approvingly, noting how Barty definitely had excellent taste in flowers.

Hermione and Barty then left the burrow and continued on, until they past the anti apparation wards, they then apparated.