It was Bliss

Disclaimer- Myself nor Nyx own Harry Potter or the characters, no matter how much we dream -they belong to the beautiful JK.

Summary

Spoon Production-Two book worms, find something more than friendship in the library of Hogwarts.

A/N

A Spoon production- Nyx wrote a line, I wrote a line, and so on and so forth, and we produced this, a short story about Neville and Hermione-a pairing choose by yelling a name simultaneously. Read and Enjoy :)

Hermione POV

I sat in the library, engrossed in a book on theories of thestrals, when a soft noise distracted me. I looked over my shoulder and saw the back of Neville Longbottom, struggling to carry the weight of several books, all on herbology of course. I rolled my eyes, and cast wingardium leviosar on the books, he span to see the cause of the spell. I put my wand back into my pocket, and smiled at him. He mumbled "thank you..." and smiled nervously, and I smiled in return. I patted the space next to me and returned to my book, knowing he'd join me eventually. I was right, after a few moments he sat down wordlessly, but clumsily knocked his pile of books over onto the desk. I laughed quietly and he blushed, I helped him pile them back up into a precarious stack once again. He mumbled "thank you..." again, and opened the book on top. I pulled my book back up, and pretended to read, all the while quietly watching Neville's countenance relax as he read. "Why aren't you reading anymore?" He asked quietly, after a few minutes.

I felt myself blush, "I err- I was just…watching you read..." I looked down realising how incriminating it sounded.

"Why?" He asked. "Is it distracting you?" his head slightly tilted to one side a slight smile on his lips, it was shockingly endearing.

"No, no, it isn't." I smiled. "You just read quickly is all." And he nodded.

"So do you, you've went through 3 books just in this hour" he chuckled.

bizarreness of the situation. I frowned. "You've been watching me read?" his eyes widened and his mouth gaped slightly, as closed again as he tried to find a way to explain himself. "That makes us even then," I said, and chuckled. "I'm guilty of that too." He looked up then, and we held awkward yet intense eye-contact before we both blushed and started trying to read again. Trying- because every so often, we'd look up at each other and catch each others eye's, eventually we we're laughing at the sheer ludicracy of the situation.

We more or less wordlessly decided to abandon reading and began to chat about books and lessons, we didn't notice how loud we were talking till a fourth year Ravenclaw 'shhh-ed' us, we scoffed a laugh in reply.

"Lets ditch this place, we'll find somewhere we can actually talk." Neville said, smiling, I was secretly shocked at Neville's nonchalant and suave attitude but nodded in reply.

We both stood up, and replaced our books on the shelves. "Where shall we go?" I asked, "Great Lake?" he asked shyly, the Neville I was used to coming back out. I glanced out of the window, the sun was setting, casting an orange glow over the horizon. It looked perfect. "Sure, I'd like that."

He smiled widely, and we began walking, his hand twitched towards mine, and I resisted just grabbing his hand, we finally reached the cool, fresh air, and made our way towards the lake, the smell of grass reminded me of muggle summer holidays and I smiled, I noticed as Neville begin to smile too.

I never thought I'd be able to talk to Neville so freely, but we were chatting lightly in no time at all, we reached the tree and settled down leaning against the trunk, me head resting on his shoulder, at first he seemed apprehensive, but soon became more comfortable.

I closed my eyes, just listening to the wind, the birds and his calming breathing. Eventually, his head rested gently on mine, and he sighed in content, his arm gently slipping round my waist, and I entwined my fingers with his.

My heart was pounding and my head felt oddly light, I peaked through my lashed to see his reaction- he was stunned, clearly expecting rejection and had been proven wrong, he carefully looked down to check my reaction and I blushed as our eyes made contact again.

I decided that if he didn't go for it soon, I would have to myself. I was about to, when I bottled out and went to press my cold nose into neck, at the same time, I felt his chin move down, my nose brushing against it, and then our lips met.

We froze for a split second as if in shock, when we both leaned into the kiss, I had wondered what it would be like, but those thoughts didn't compare to the real thing, my mind was blank, a strange thing in its own right. I slightly traced my tongue over his bottom lip, surprising myself.

He didn't seem apprehensive about it, in fact he did the same in return, so I gently put more passion into the kiss, wrapping one arm around his neck, his hands found their way to my waist, the other around my neck.

Balancing precariously on our knees, we kissed more until Neville's natural clumsiness made us topple onto the grass, I laughed softly and laid down on my back, looking up into his eyes-brown and wise. A slight smile on his lips, he carefully placed a kiss on my nose; I returned the kiss, and smiled.

Then his face grew serious and he pulled me onto his knee, he kissed my cheek and whisperingly stammered "So what does this mean?"

I took a deep breath and looked out to the lake, ''I'd like it to mean we were together...but''

"But what?"

''But I'm still nervous after Ron and if you don't want to...'' I trailed off,

"Of course I want to" he whispered reverently,

I turned in shock ''really?'' I couldn't let myself hope, "Why else would we be here?"

I shrugged and looked away, ''Does that mean you want us to be together Neville?'' closing my eyes, waiting.

"Yeah, do you?"

I turned back to him ''Of course I do'' I whispered smiling, did I want anything more?

He smiled "Thank you"

I smiled broadly back; we were together at last, but what would we do now?

Then as if reading my mind, he leant in and gave me another perfect kiss on the lips. It was bliss.

This is my first collaborative fan-fiction, and I'm happy to have with the brilliant Nyx :)

Read and review please :)

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