The night of December 1992

The night i met Hermione

It was a long winters night on December 4th 1992, and I decided to go on a walk so I wrapped up nice and warm, after walking for a while i sat down on a bench in Haneul Park and watched the snow fall down like autumn leaves. A little girl approached me in a welcoming manner, and she sat down next to me she was young, a young woman to be exact she looks like she was in her teen years.
I looked at her and said friendly "Hi, where are your parents?" She just sat there and watched the snow and replied with "lovely night isn't it" she seemed like a bright intelligent young lady. Her eyes where so innocent and gentle like the dew on a cold winter morning.
No one seemed to be looking for her so I asked her politely "whats your name, young lady?" She replied with "Hermione... my name is Hermione Danzig, and yours?" "My name is Remington Leith" I answered in a friendly and welcoming voice, she giggeld and looked down and muttered under her breath "Hermione and Remington" she looked at me with bright smiling eyes and she said louder "Has a nice ring to it dont you think?" I replied "yeah it kind of does"
I had to make sure she was going to be safe tonight because she can't stay out here all night, so I asked her politely "Are you safe, do you have a place to stay?" She replied hesitantly but clearly "No... I dont have anywhere to go" I couldn't help but feel there was something about her that made me curious. I had to offer her if she would like to come back with me in the most polite and non-creepy way possible, I slowly started to build up my sentence "Hermione would you like to stay at mine tonight so you have a roof over your head?"
She jumped up in excitement and said "Thank you! Thank you so much!" And gave me a hug. I was a bit jumpy when she got excited but I had to make sure she would be alright tonight.
When we got back to my place I gave her spare pjs and a blanket I also made her hot chocolate and we sat down on the sofa to watch Christmas movies. Soon after she finished her drink she drifted off to sleep.
When I woke up the next morning she was still sleeping so I cooked us both breakfast to be more specific I cooked us thick fluffy pancakes with strawberries and maple syrup. We spent the rest of the day together, just like the previous night. I took her to see Christmas lights and we went to a Christmas Market and we also went out to eat. But I knew we would have to talk about why she was alone out side so late at night at some point, thats when I said "We need to talk-" before I could say anything else she blurted out "Remington.... I'm sorry I wish I could tell you more but I'm afraid it will have to wait until we are back home."
When we arrived home we sat at the kitchen table and it was silence for the first few moments but those moments felt alot more longer then usual. I broke the ice by saying "Hermione, I wont stop you from staying here but I need to know why where you alone so late at night?" She was silent for a few moments then she replied "right yes.... my mother left when I was five and I haven't seen her since" I quickly replied "and you farther, where is he?" With a sad expression on her face she looked down and said quietly "i-... I dont know, I dont even know if he's still alive" I looked down in sadness "Hermione, how old are you currently?" She looked up and said "I'm 13 but because I've been looking after myself since I was 5 it feels like I'm 10 years older"
I nodded in agreement because she seems to have the intellectual mind set of a 25 year old, which worries me because she's just entered her teenage years, I thought to myself 'has she really had a childhood in this case?' I looked at her and said "Hermione you can stay her as long as you like, you can have the spare room." She answered "Thank you so much, but are you sure i don't want to be a bother for you." "Oh no not at all no one lives here apart from me and my cat."
From now on Hermione lived with me and it was the best few weeks shes had in a long time. After she told me about her parents I thought it might of been a good idea to do some research so I went down to the local library hoping to find something about a missing child under the name Hermione Danzig. After an hour or so I found a file with her name and address. I went to the address it said on the file and it was just a construction site. So I went back to the library for some more digging, I asked if they could find anything under the name Danzig and they gave me 3 names
Maria Danzig (age 30)
Sebastian Danzig (age 32) and Coco Danzig (age 11)
When I got back Hermione was asleep on the sofa so I gently woke her up. I said to her "I've done some research on you if you dont mind" she sat up and rubbed her eyes "OK, let's see what you found" I showed her the 3 names and she told me who every one was
A few moments later
"So... wait you have a twin sister?"
"Yes... Coco is my twin" "sooo why is she 11 and your 13?" I asked "well... she died soon after my mother died and my farther ran away... she died of heart break she was alot close to mother and farther than I was"
We talked for a while, we talked late into the night, that night I also came to a conclusion she was just a lonely orphan who ran away from the orphanage due to bullying, I looked at her sitting there with her head in her chest and her hair in her face and I felt really sorry for her. I stood up and kneeled to her level and gave her a massive hug, after a moment I pulled her away and moved the hair out her face held up her head by her chin and wipped her tears away,
"Lets go to this orphanage of yours tomorrow.... I will adopt you.. how does that sound?" I said brightly, she looked at me with her big brown eyes and said "that sounds amazing!" While tears of joy ran down her round baby like cheeks. She gave me a hug and put her hed in my neck and mumbled "Thank you so much.... Dad" I took her in my arms as a smile grew on my face
I got up off my knee and said "come on Hermione its getting late we should get ready for bed and early morning we will go and get the adoption papers" she just stood there quietly with no movement so I asked if she was alright she looked up at me with her dough like eyes and said "yeah, I've never been happier in my life I'm just trying to process that this is my life right now" I looked down and chuckeld and looked back up at her "I'm glad your happy Hermione" and gave her a smile.

Author note
Hey this is my first story please give me feedback so I can work on it 😊 and I hope you enjoy this and please let me know if you want a chapter 2 or if I should leave it like this. Also please pick me up on spelling and my sentence structure.