Ooh I'm updating so quickly! Today I have all my exams so I might write later in the week. Okay for the most part 'yes' for the intimate thing, so here you are! Thank you for all the reviews and please, feel the need to do so again!

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Ever since Harry and Hermione had become a 'couple' they had tried to avoid the Griffindor common room when it was crowded but tonight Ron implored them to stay because he hadn't been seeing much of them lately. Harry couldn't believe the group of people who sat around them, instead of going off into their own groups but he soon found out why. They were a new couple: fresh meat.

"You know what? I have heard tons of rumours about you guys but I've never actually seen you two kiss. Why is that?" Ginny said, Dean's arms around her shoulders.

Hermione shot him a look. Harry shifted uncomfortably at the subject.

"Well.." he started.

"Hey I've noticed that too." Said someone else.

"You see.." Harry tried to continue but soon many more people were talking about how he's never kissed her.

Hermione started to look like he felt: overwhelmed.

"Come on Harry, you don't want to make Hermione feel under appreciated, now do you?" Seamus said with a grin.

Harry shot him a glare. Soon he found words coming out of his mouth before he could think them over.

"I've kissed Hermione tons of times," he lied "Just not in front of you, Seamus, but if you need proof, I'd be happy to oblige." He finished.

She sat in shock while he said this but when he turned to her she lost that look for a different one, he couldn't really recognise it but he remembered that she wore a look like that in Arithmancy class. He began to get nervous and hoped that he wasn't a bad kisser because he didn't want Hermione to be any more mad at him. The soft light of the fire reflected on her face, she looked gorgeous Harry realised. With his right hand he cupped her cheek and leaned in, closing his eyes. Their lips locked.

She hadn't known that he would be such a good kisser. Not that she had much to go by but she knew that she had liked that kiss. She was almost embarrassed that he would kiss her that way.. so sensuously. The feelings she got afterwards were something that she didn't think she could feel for Harry, they were so close, or maybe that was it, they were close and that was why she was starting to feel this way. When they parted they were greeted with amused looks from the people around them.

"Awww.. so cute." Parvati commented.

Hermione blushed and tried to not look at Harry, if she did, she feared her feelings would show on her face if they hadn't already. The rest of the time that they had spent in the common room she wondered if he had just done that to please their audience or if maybe he felt the same way about her.

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Ever since the kiss Hermione had seemed distant, Harry didn't like it at all. They were now preparing their stuff to take a bath. Harry was finding it harder and harder to think of her as 'Hermione my friend who's just going to take a bath with me' as he started to think of her more as 'Hermione my friend who is a girl who I'm starting to have feelings for and OH MY GOD she's there naked besides me'. When they were walking to the bathroom Harry blurted something out.

"Come on, just say it, I'm a bad kisser."

She looked surprised, he hadn't expected her to look surprised, she had been distant all week, she must have known this was coming.

"What are you talking about, Harry?" she asked him, quizzically.

"You know, it's not my fault," he said in exasperation "It's not like I've been around kissing tons of girls, but ignoring me ever since I kissed you, that's cold." He finished, looking away, embarrassed that he was admitting that he was a bad kisser.

"Harry, you're not a bad kisser." She reassured him.

He was unconvinced, she was saying that because she didn't want to hurt his feelings.

"Sure.. and that's why you were ignoring me." He said, finally looking at her.

"Harry, trust me, that kiss took my breath away, I wasn't talking much because.. well I have some things I need to think about." She told him.

Harry let out a sigh of relief. He let a playful smile onto his face.

"So, would you like to rate me?" he asked her.

She smiled a small smile.

"Let's see.. nine out of ten." She replied.

He made a grimace and stopped her.

"Why not ten out of ten?" he asked.

"A point deducted for doing it in front of an audience." She explained.

He still felt bad about doing that, but didn't regret kissing her. He drew in a slow breath.

"Want to go for ten?" he asked in a joking tone, he wasn't joking though.

She searched his eyes and he felt nervous, he had no idea what she was thinking. After awhile she started walking again and Harry assumed that she had either thought he was joking or shot him down. She rifled through a bag as she walked, she took out two shampoo bottles.

"I like the peach one better." He said.

He had realised what he said and blushed.

"I mean.. you know it's.. um.. nice?" he said.

She smiled at his incoherent sentences.

"Anything for my boyfriend." She told him, mockingly.

He grimaced.

"Hey, you're not allowed to say that, it's my line!"

"Yes, I'm sure you say that to many of your boyfriends." She laughed.

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