Hi everyone! Thanks for the reviews and everything. This is another shortish chapter I'm afraid; everything's a bit hectic at the moment because I'm going to university in less than a week! Exciting! I'd hoped to have this finished by then but it doesn't look that's going to happen now. I'll still keep writing and updating as much as I can though!

Neville sat down next to Hermione the next morning at breakfast. She seemed amazingly wide awake, considering they'd only left each other to go to bed about two hours before.

"Hi," he smiled at her. "How are you?"

"I'm not too bad," she replied. "I just had to explain to Bernard about last night. I didn't tell him about you though; I just told him I couldn't do it and we should be friends." She looked down the table at Bernard, who was stabbing his cereal with his spoon; he hadn't taken it very well.

"Why didn't you tell him about me?" Neville asked.

"Don't take this the wrong way," she said nervously "but I don't want anyone knowing about us yet."

"Why not?" he asked, feeling a bit hurt.

"It's just that the students are horrible enough to me already, without having this to use as ammunition against me as well, so I don't want anyone to know yet."

Neville sighed.

"Fine, I understand," he said. "Although I wanted to take you to Hogsmeade today and now I can't if you don't want people to see us together."

"We can still go Nev," she said. "We'll just have to be very sneaky."

"What if we get found out though?" he asked.

"Are you suggesting that I'll let us get caught?" she laughed. "I'll meet you in an hour."

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Hermione ran down the corridor to Neville with a huge bag over her shoulder.

"What's that?" Neville asked.

"Don't worry about that now," she panted. "Come on. We need to get there before the students leave so we don't get caught."

They walked out of the school grounds, keeping distance between them, but as soon as Hogwarts was out of sight they held hands and stopped every few steps to kiss.

"Right," said Hermione when they reached Hogsmeade. "I thought we could go in a couple of the shops while no one's around."

Neville nodded and let Hermione pull him into the nearest shop. He was glad that he was out with Hermione but it wasn't how he'd imagined it. He kept looking around nervously to see if anyone had seen them together. It was a long way from the romantic day he'd hoped for.

"I'm just going to buy a couple of things," Hermione said. "You just walk around for a bit."

Neville did as he was told and looked around. He saw a box of chocolates which he was sure Hermione would love. He picked them up and took them to the till on the other side of the shop where she wouldn't see him. Even if they couldn't do all the boyfriend and girlfriend things he'd planned: tea together, walking through the streets holding hands, going for a butterbeer, he could at least do one romantic thing and buy her a present.

"Ok, let's go into the next shop quickly," she said, touching Neville on the arm making him jump.

They went from shop to shop quickly, as they could see a couple of students around. When Hermione was satisfied that she'd bought enough things, they went out of the main part of town.

"Where are we going?" Neville asked as he struggled to keep up with her.

"Wait and see," she replied, and although he could only see the back of her head as he followed her, he was sure she was smirking.

They stopped outside a cave.

"Here we are," Hermione said.

"What? Where are we?" Neville asked.

"Wait outside for two minutes," Hermione said, fiddling with her bag. "I'll tell you when you can come in."

Neville stood outside. What was Hermione doing? Did she seriously think spending the afternoon in a cave in November was a good idea? He peeked into the cave.

"I can see you looking," she called. "You can come in now anyway."

Neville walked in, and stopped, surprised. He wasn't sure what he'd expected to see, but it wasn't a fire, a blanket and the biggest picnic he'd ever seen.

"Well?" she asked. "What do you think?"

Neville rubbed his eyes and blinked. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"Sirius hid here, and he was never found until he left," she said. "So we won't get found either, so we can still spend the day together."

"You're absolutely amazing Hermione," Neville said happily.

"Well, I didn't want to ruin your day. I felt awful when you said that you were planning on taking me out after I'd said I didn't want anyone to see us. So I felt I had to do something."

"Well this is much better than what I had planned," Neville laughed. "By the way, I bought you this," he said, handing her the box of chocolates "but it pales in comparison to everything you've done."

"Thank you Nev," she said, hugging him. "These are my favourites! Let's add them to the picnic."

They spent the whole afternoon in the cave together. When it began to get dark, they decided to leave.

"How did we eat all that food?" Neville groaned as they struggled to get up.

"I don't know. At least I don't have a lot to carry back though," Hermione laughed.

"I don't think I can even manage dinner tonight," he said. "Do we have to go? I can think of other stuff we can do. Oh no! I didn't mean that," he said, turning almost as red as he noticed Hermione had. "Unless you want to of course. I just meant we could hang around together."

"Sounds tempting," Hermione smiled. "We have to go to dinner though. People might get a bit suspicious otherwise."

"You're right," Neville said. "We have plenty of time for everything else anyway."

"We do," Hermione agreed. "I'm glad we did this."

"Well, you did this," Neville said, gesturing around the cave.

"No Nev," Hermione laughed. "I mean this whole thing, us getting together. I'm glad you told me how you felt."

"I'm glad I did too," Neville smiled. "Can we have one last kiss before we go?"

"Do you even need to ask?" Hermione giggled, as her lips met his.