A/N: Voila! Here's the last chapter (sniff sniff) of Falling Star. Hope you enjoy and are happy with how it ends! Hope I made your wait worthwhile! This is dedicated to my best friend who can't see love even if it smacks her in the face! Hope she gets the POINT!=p alright then, here it is!!… Oh by the way, I may be repeating a few things but I'm really tired from school but excited at the same time for all 19 reviews (I think) I got for chapter 6! Thank you! You don't know how much it means to me! Yeah ok… on with the story!!…

Chapter Seven

       Hermione's heart was doing the marathon at that moment, wondering who in the world would cover her eyes in the dark no less. The hands remove themselves from her eyes and she craned her neck immediately to see who her stalker (a/n: is that the word?=p) was. Her frightened look made Harry mentally kick himself for scaring her. However, her eyes softened once she saw Harry standing behind her. 

    They gaze into each other's eyes, both taking in the other person's sight. After a long stare, Hermione hurtfully tears her eyes away from his bright green emerald eyes. Nevertheless, Harry managed to see that they were red-rimmed and puffy, making himself sick at himself. He bends down on his knees and puts a comforting arms around her shoulder and sighs with relief when she doesn't pull away.

   "Hermio-" he begins but gets interrupted when Hermione places a finger on his lips. 'Boy are they soft,' she notes to herself, and when she notices Harry's perplexed look she tells him,

    "Make a wish… quickly," and with that she turns her eyes to the sky, Harry following suit, looked just in time to see a falling star. He understood and both of them made a wish that hoped would come true before this beautiful yet tormenting night was over.

    'Please God give me the strength to tell Harry how I feel,'

    'This is it. Dear God let me have the courage to tell Hermione about my feelings,'

 The last light of the falling star gave Harry and Hermione both the courage to tell each other about their feelings. They knew that there would be no turning back, whatever the response may be, they knew that their friendship would change… both plucking up their courage, they turned to each other and locked eyes. As if their minds were one, they both said three little words that would change their lives;

    "I love you," was all that was said, and one awarded the other with a genuine smile. Hermione felt tears prickling in her eyes and couldn't help but let a few single tears trickle along her smooth cheek. Harry blinked his own tears away with difficulty, and managed to wipe away Hermione's tears with his thumb. 'Harry Potter loves me!' she thinks, 'I must be the luckiest girl alive!' 'That you are my dear,' her mind informs her. She'd never been so happy in her entire life and she didn't know that three little words could have such a big impact in her life. She gives him a heart-warming smile that Harry feels all breath sucked out of him. He had never seen her so beautiful than tonight, regardless of the fact that her eyes were red and puffy. How he wished he could've saved her such heartache but what was done was done, this was a new beginning for them.

    Harry replies to her smile, and gives her a big toothy grin with a twinkle in his evergreen eyes to go along with it. He changes his position and places his back against the big oak tree, thus having Hermione's back on his chest. He encircled his arms around her waist, and tightened his grip, in fear that she would disappear from his arms. She tilted her head so that Harry's head could lean on her shoulder and she placed her thin, delicate finger over his much bigger ones. They both sighed contently and Hermione felt her hair at the back of her neck prickle, as Harry's hot breath tickled her neck.

     They stayed like that for what seemed to be forever, both content to have each other in their arms, never letting go. They had forgotten the dance and the heartaches that followed with it, but just as they were about to once again get lost in their own train of thoughts, familiar strings of music reached their ears. They both grinned and couldn't have thought of a better song to celebrate their new found love.

Sometimes the snow comes down in June

Sometimes the sun goes round the moon,

I see the passion in your eyes

Sometimes it's all a big surprise.

'cause there was a time when all I did was wish

you tell me this was love.

It's not the way I hoped or how I planned

But somehow it's love.

And now we're standing face to face

Isn't this world a crazy place?

Just when I thought our chance had passed

You go and save the best for last…

By this time, Harry had Hermione on her feet, swaying to the music both lost in each other's eyes and arms. You couldn't fit a broomstick between them even if you tried. Hermione looked up into Harry's eyes and saw that love was written all over them, causing her heart to swell from happiness.

    "You know, I was this close in giving up on you. I thought our chance had passed and that you could never see me as more than a friend," she told him.

   "Well I must say I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to you. You just have this… thing, that makes me forget everything I know. You're incredible. I'm glad I found you before it was too late,' he informed her, giving her a lopsided grin.

   When the song was over, they resumed their positions at the oak tree. However, Hermione remembered the dream she had the day before yesterday, and her heart began to pound in her chest so loudly, that she thought it was going to burst through. She took a few deep breaths before staring to talk so she could calm herself, and chastise herself mentally for thinking such stupid things especially at this time when Harry just proclaimed his love to her. 'I have to be sure,' she told her mind.

    "Harry…?"

    "Mmmm…?" he mumbled, as his closed mouth was on the back of her shoulder.

    "I don't want you to think I'm stupid or anything but… are you ever going to go away?" she asked him with a frightened look that caused Harry to turn her around and make her look him in his eyes. He brought his finger under her chin and lifted it up so she could see him.

    "Listen to me… I'm never going to leave you no matter what. I haven't gone into all this trouble into believing you could never like me, just to get up and walk away. I love you, and I'm going to keep on loving you,"

     "Promise?"

    "I promise you forever. And I suggest we seal this promise with a kiss," he told her somewhat shyly but wiggling his eyebrows suggestively nonetheless. She gave him a bashful smile but nodded softly. She felt her heart leap in anxiety at the thought of kissing Harry. He began to lean in slowly, and she helped close the distance between them. When their lips finally met, they both felt something explode inside of them. It was nothing either one had ever experienced before. Hermione snaked her arms behind Harry's neck, thus pulling him closer to her. Harry in turn, tightened his grip around her waist and begged her for entrance as he ran his tongue across her bottom lips. He smiled inwardly when he heard her groan in satisfaction and opening her mouth for his tongue to enter, so they could begin the famous tongue dance (A/N: hehehe I couldn't help it! =p) they both pulled apart breathless, and smiled with relief as they saw that their first kiss was far from disastrous, but was quite the firework show! You could practically see the sparks flying over their heads when they kissed. Harry gave Hermione one more soft peck on the lips and they took their positions against the oak tree. He kissed the side of her neck and she sighed in contentment, and brought her hand to caress his cheek. 

      They leaned back in satisfaction and started to star gaze. The night was lit brightly by the blue twinkle of the stars, and a few notes could be heard here and there, coming from the Great Hall.

     "Look at the night, it's so beautiful it's almost like magic," she whispered in the night. Harry merely looked at her, having great difficulty tearing his eyes away from her, and softly murmured,

      "Yeah, it's beautiful…" letting his voice trail off, and grinned like a Cheshire cat when he saw that his little comment made her turn shades of red. He kissed her cheek and continued to sit under the oak tree, happy to be in each other's arms and curious as to where this relationship will lead.

       A few meters away from the happy couple stood two old professors, pleased that their two students have found the way to each other. They were beginning to get impatient with them, as they knew that lots of misunderstandings had happened, plus the fact that they were both dense when it came to their feelings.

      "You see Minerva," Professor Dumbledore started to say, the twinkle in his old blue eyes never leaving under his half moon spectacles. "They have at last got together. Love is a strange thing, but even stranger is how people react to it,"

     "Yes Albus. I was beginning to question if they ever got together! I'm sure Lily and James would be proud of their son and his choice. Miss Granger is a very smart and lovely witch, it's a pity that they have…" she trailed off, not trusting her voice to speak anymore, as she had always had a soft spot for James Potter and Lily Evans. Professor Dumbledore only nodded and gave his hand to Professor McGonagall, turning on their heals and returning to the Great Hall to resume the dance.

     "Lightosium Sparklsios," Dumbledore muttered under his breath before he disappeared through the colossal doors of the Great Hall.

     At the lake, golden lights began to sparkle and dance around Harry and Hermione, causing them to giggle and sigh. Harry thanked God for letting him be happy just this once time, and he vowed that he'd never leave anything happen to Hermione.

     Simultaneously to these train of thoughts, Hermione was thinking how lucky she was to have found out about Harry's feelings. Her only concern was how to break the new to Ron. She figured that together they would find a way.

     "Forever?" Hermione asked…

     "Forever… and this time, I won't even have to wish on a falling star," Harry told her, kissing the tips of her fingers and then leaning in to give her an earth-shattering kiss, sealing the promise of all promises… together forever…

THE END

A/N: well… that was it you guys! Thanks everyone for reading this story, especially those of you who reviewed and made me want to write so much more so I can keep my readers content! Please review this also, and if you want I could think of a sequel to this… just tell me your opinions and things like that… I'd like to especially thank The Backliner for always reviewing every single chapter! Thank you, and I hope you've enjoyed reading this as much as I have writing it! I'd be happy to heart from you, as feedback is more than welcome! Bye and take care=) Love's Fool