So, this is it. The moment you've all been waiting for. The ending to this short story, even though it seems like it's taken me an eternity to finish.

Thanks to all of you who have supported me through this, you cannot imagine how much you yourselves have contributed to the success of this, and that it was not only me.

So here it goes, the beginning of the end.

Sixteen Candles

Chapter 9: The Happily Ever After

Hermione POV

I walked down to where Harry was standing and lightly grabbed my book out of his hand. "What are you doing here?" I asked him.

He shrugged his shoulders. "Just felt like it was the right thing to do." He told me.

I smiled up at him as I turned to walk away. "Hey wait!" he stopped me in my tracks before he even spoke. I turned to look back at him. He shifted his feet back and forth. "Are you busy right now?" he finally asked me. His green, emerald eyes looked right in my eyes.

"Not really." I replied.

Harry gave me a smile. "Cool." He walked up a couple of steps to look me straight in the eyes. "Can I show you something?" He motioned to his broomstick.

"Um, I'm actually not the biggest fan of flying." I told him straight out.

"It's okay," he told me. "You can trust me." He offered his hand out to me. I held on for a minute before I decided that this was like, the chance of a lifetime. I placed mine in his, and he led me to a little past the step of the school to the open grass.

Harry mounted his broom and motioned for me to get on behind him. I placed my book in my robe and hesitated followed him. I wrapped my hands around his waist and buried my head in his back. I kept telling myself over and over that I cannot believe that I was about to go flying with THE Harry Potter.

"Hold on tight." Harry told me as he kicked off of the ground and began soaring into the air.

The wind ran through my hair and whistled in my ears. My head became lighter, I wanted to open my eyes but I held them shut tight. I felt the speed begin to slow down. "You can open your eyes." Harry spoke to me.

I did as he told me. My breath was caught in my throat. We were hovering over the school, it looked like a fairy tale castle from this far up. The sun reflected off of its high arches almost angelically. The students that were out on the luscious green grounds were barely recognizable. The sight was almost too good to be true.

"I like be up here, it lets me escape." Harry spoke up.

"I can understand, it's a beautiful sight." I replied back.

"It's much better at night, the lights from the windows glisten in the moonlight. "Up here, it's so quite I can actually listen to my own thoughts, not the opinions of my friends or any of that bullshit."

I could totally understand where he was coming from. Harry began moving again as he flew further and further up. As the wind kicked against my feet I closed my eyes again. I felt the air getting thinner but it didn't bother me. All too soon, Harry stopped again. I could feel a soft ground underneath my feet. I opened my eyes to see that it was extremely soft, because it was a cloud.

I hoped off of the broomstick and felt the soft ground bounce underneath me. The ground wisped and whirls around, but the floor remained steady besides it's constantly moving over the ground. I leaned over the edge and saw that Hogwarts was only just a little bit higher than we were before.

I felt Harry's hand on my back and turned to face him. He smiled at me and motioned over to a blanket and he had set out in the middle of the cloud. I followed him as we both sat facing each other. We both sat there and just looked at each other for the longest time.

"So why did you take me up here?" I asked him. "I have a feeling it wasn't just for the view."

"I wanted to tell you something." Harry replied. He opened up his black jacket and pulled out a little dot. He set it down on the table between him. He then pulled out his wand and murmured and incantation that made the small dot, expand into a birthday cake. It was just pink and it had white trimming on it.

It had sixteen white and pink candles on it that Harry began to light with his wand, one by one. I could find the strength to breathe. After all the drama I had been through, I couldn't believe that it was all working out to turn into a total fairy tale.

"Happy Birthday Hermione." Was what interrupted my thoughts. I looked up at him with huge eyes. "Make a wish." He continued.

I couldn't think of anything to say, my mouth opened but I couldn't find the words to describe the emotions flowing through my head. And then it all came to me.

"I did," I replied. "But it already came through."

We both held each other's gaze and soon we were moving towards each other. And over my 16th birthday cake, we shared our very first kiss.

The End!!

Most of it was predicted because it was all based on the movie.

So now that this story is complete, I want to say that my newest story, Prince Charming Carries A Wand it already up along with the first two chapters. I really do hope you all checked it out and leave nice reviews.

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