Fred moved his hand closer to Hermione's, and he carefully stroke her fingers; starting with the smallest. Hermione closed her eyes with his touch and didn't know what to say. Fred's fingers found their way upwards her arm, this almost tickled her but it was so soft and nice. Hermione opened her eyes again and met Fred's gaze, he awkwardly smiled and she looked down to the table, not sure what to do. Fred stroke Hermione on her cheek and now she smiled, her mother used to do that when she was sad as a little child. She looked up and caught Fred's eyes. She mouthed 'thanks' and he blinked slowly as response. Fred moved closer and carefully wrapped himself around Hermione; he caught her scent and breathed in. She laid her head against his shoulder and relaxed, it felt nice. Hermione had never been held like this before.

He loosened the grip and met her eyes again, still very close. Hermione couldn't concentrate on anything but Fred's beautiful brown eyes. Hermione got lost in them, she had no idea how to take control over anything. Thankfully Fred said quietly

"Let me" and then leaned forward and stopped just an inch away from Hermione's mouth, he looked her in the eyes to see her reaction of his move. Her eyes were closed. Fred gently touched his lips against hers, nearly not touching. Fred moved away and gazed upon Hermione's peaceful face, her eyes were closed and her lips slightly separated. Fred had seen her lips like that before, and he knew what the image of it made to him. He kissed her again, this time more. Hermione opened her mouth in response and their tongues met, it was warm and Hermione had lost every inch of self-control. He pulled Hermione closer and his hand found its way to her waist, he loved the shape of her waist and carefully squeezed it. His gentle touch and kisses made Hermione feel lost by desire, she had never felt anything like this before. Hermione was breathless and she stopped responding to his tender touches. He pulled away a bit and looked at her, worried he had done something wrong. Hermione's eyes became tearful and she stood up. She looked at him, who looked worried and ashamed and she ran.

Hermione couldn't understand how it happened. She had kissed Fred! Or actually he had kissed her, but it didn't matter. They had kissed! Hermione ran, not towards the Gryffindor tower. She knew she had to find Luna, she was the only one who could make her think of something else. She was the only one who wouldn't ask questions. She didn't care if it was about nargles or something else, she just knew Luna wouldn't mind or laugh. She found her way towards the Ravenclaw tower, Hermione had never been inside of the Ravenclaw common room, or didn't know how to get in. But it couldn't be that hard, she kind of belonged there. She climbed the spiral staircase and found a bronze eagle waiting for her.

"May I see Luna?" Hermione asked the eagle tearfully

"When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don't have me. What am I?" the eagle asked Hermione in response. Hermione got a bit thrown off; a question? Then anyone would get in easily. The question was easy for Hermione

"A secret…" she said and the door opened. She went inside and she had no idea of which door led to the girls'. As she went further she sat down in a sofa and waited. Here Fred couldn't find her anyway, and if somebody else found her she would just say she forgot the password to her common room. Just as she planned lying down the door opened and closed, Luna was walking quietly and stopped when she saw Hermione.

"Oh, hello Hermione!" she said, not particularly surprised to find her Gryffindor friend inside of the Ravenclaw common room. "Are you sad?" she asked a bit more surprised

"Luna! Oh, thank god. Do you mind some night talk?"

"Not at all, why are you sad Hermione?"

"Yeah, something happened and I'm not sure I want to talk about it. Do you have something else to talk about?"

"You know what a Wrackspurt is?" Luna asked and Hermione smiled, she knew something like this was coming, but it made the tears disappear "They are invisible you see. So you can't find them unless you have a pair of spectrespecs."

"What are spectrespecs?"

"OH! You don't know? I got my pair with this week's Quibbler. You want to see?" Luna got ecstatic to get to show something and jumped out of the sofa and ran towards her dormitory. Hermione sat still, smiled at Luna's crazy enthusiasm. Hermione thought Luna was such a great girl, they enjoyed each other's company but Hermione would never believe such illogical things.

"Here you go!" Luna said when she returned and put a pair of owl shaped glasses on Hermione's head. "You look great, do you see anything?"

"Well, I don't think there's any Wrackspurts in here."

"Oh, you sure? You would see them as fuzziness in front of your eyes. Wrackspurts are as I said invisible and they can crawl into your brain and make you go fuzzy." Hermione laughed at Luna's description, she knew Luna would make her feel better.

"You're great, Luna. Thank you, but you're probably tired."

"It's alright. Someone has hidden my pajamas so it's quite weird to sleep. I sleep walk you see." Luna's expression wandered out in space as she thought of her walks in sleep.

"Alright Luna, I'm going back to my tower. I'll see you tomorrow at breakfast, okay?" Luna nodded and they hugged, and Hermione stepped out from the Ravenclaw common room.