A.N. So, this is my last chapter. Sorry I've made everyone wait so long. I just need to wrap everything up, and I'm planning on posting another story. (Completely unrelated, however.)

Epilogue

The rule is boyfriends and girlfriends come and go, but best friends are forever. What happens when your love is your best friend? Does the rule apply? Hermione didn't like to think so. She liked to think she and Ron and Ginny and Harry would be forever.

As the summer ended and the school year blurred past, she found out things would be forever. Ron gave her a promise ring and Harry proposed to Ginny. At first, Mrs. Weasley had a conniption, but Ginny promised they would have a very long engagement. It would have to be, after all, she still had another year to go with Hogwarts.

Hermione thought it was quite naive for her to think Ron and her would never have bad times. But still, when she looked at him, she still got the same excitement and rush of warm wind through her body she had always got.

So, is a Cinderella ending really possible? Perhaps it is.

Perhaps everyone could have a Cinderella ending if they have the right person. Hermione was just lucky enough to have met the right person when she was eleven years-old. As clichИ as it sounds, sometimes love does feel like walking on air, or spinning around in the summer sun with the warm grass beneath your bare feet. But sometimes love can be like a nine-inch knife stabbed directly into your heart, with no way to escape the pain.

The risk of being hurt or rejected is always worth it, Hermione learned that fateful summer of confessions. Always worth it.

A.N. Thanks for sticking with me, everyone! It's been a bumpy road. I love you all!

Kisses and Love, from your favorite Franci