Chapter Twelve- Reactions

They both came up for air after kissing for a couple of minutes. Hermione smiled at Draco but stopped suddenly. She looked around the hall to find every pair of eyes on them. She looked to her side to stare at her two best friends. Harry was open mouthed and wide eyed. The look on Ron's face was indescribable. Hermione blushed.

Draco smiled at her and whispered in her ear, "See you around", and turned towards the Slyherin table.

Hermione cleared her throat and told them, "Lets sit down", and they did.

The hall suddenly filled itself with whispers from all over. Hermione began to eat her breakfast as if nothing happened. Harry finally appeared to come out of his trance and told her, "Well, that was something", and smiled at Hermione.

She smiled back because she knew he approved when he said that remark.

"Why didn't you tell me bout Malfoy, 'Mione?" said Ginny, grinning.

Hermione kept blushing and then turned to Ron. He ate without saying a word and stopped to look at Hermione. She suddenly wanted to burst in tears as she saw his eyes. The pain that was going inside him was unmistakable.

"Ron, I..." she couldn't find words to express how sorry she was.

"Its ok, 'Mione. I honestly think he has to care at least a little to do what he did in front of the whole school and put his reputation in jeopardy"

He gave her a small smile and continued eating. Hermione still felt bad, but was a little relieved. She suddenly smiled, thinking back of what just happened. She kept eating.

"What was the meaning of that?" shrieked Pansy as soon as Draco sat next to her.

Draco sighted and said, "Look, Pansy, I've liked Granger for a while now, but she refused to believe me. So, I decided to prove it"

"What about me, Draco! What about me!", she kept saying, over and over. "What about US!" she told him.

Draco turned so that he was at the same face level, "There was never an US and you know that. We just fooled around once in a while, that's all. I'm sorry, Pansy, but I've decided that I want to give it a shot with Hermione"

He turned away from her and started to serve himself some porridge. Pansy stared at him, anger rising in her.

How dare he choose the mudblood over me! she thought, I am way better than her and I deserve Draco. Oh, I'm going to make her pay. She started to think of ways of ruining Hermione until the perfect idea came to her. Oh, and what an idea she had. She was going to need help, of course, but it had to be from someone that wanted Granger as much as she wanted Draco, and she knew exactly who that someone was. She smirked and began eating as if nothing happened. Soon, my love, we will be united again she said to herself.

The Gryffindors spent most of the day outside, talking and having snowball fights. Hermione saw Draco around the lake with his friends. He turned and saw her looking at him and blew her a kiss. Hermione blushed and laughed. She had become very girlish towards him and her behavior was kind of brainless. She kept thinking this and hated herself every time she became weak when he was near her.

That night, Hermione felt him calling her. She was wearing the blue necklace he had given her and apparently it had the same powers as the other one. She quickly put clothes on and went running outside. He was at the lake, she could feel, at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. When she got there, she saw him leaning against a tree, grinning at her. She made her way to where he was and stood in front of him. She could just stare at him. She felt rooted to the floor because she couldn't move.

He, like many times before, pulled her to him so that their bodies were against each other. His face was so close to hers, yet he did not lean forward to kiss her, he just stared at her. He could see passion in her eyes and longing. He missed caressing her and being pressed against her with nothing on, although it's only been a few days. He also saw something else in her eyes. Something that made him feel warm inside and something that made him feel comfortable as no one could ever do. He could see love in those chocolate brown eyes. He didn't know if he showed this in his eyes, but he felt the same way as she did.

Hermione felt, as she was pressed against him, that he was a little aroused. She leaned forward and gave him a soft kiss, soon followed by another kiss until these kisses grew deeper inside of both of them. They were embraced, kissing and longing for each other. Draco stepped back and took her hand in his, leading her inside the forest. She would have normally been frightened, but she could somehow feel that Draco knew where he was going and what he was doing.

They came to a halt and, when Hermione looked forward, she gasped. In the middle of the space in front of them was a four post bed, where the moonlight reached it and made it visible. She could see even from the distance between her and the bed that the sheets were velvet and silk and were wine colored. Draco walked forward, still holding Hermione's hand, to where the bed was. When they reached it, he turned and smiled at her.

"Surprised?" he asked.

"Very" she replied, extremely exited.

Draco sat her down on the bed and lied her down. He moved on top of her and began kissing her. While he did this, he undid her blouse and jeans, and she was just with her bra and underwear. He undid his own jeans and took his shirt off so that he was only in his boxers.

Hermione was surprised that she wasn't cold, since it was December and she should have been freezing to death. She figured that Draco probably spelled the place around them so that it was warm and snow-free. The minutes went by and they suddenly found themselves naked, seriously not really paying attention to when they took their underwear off.

Draco was surprised when something unexpected happened. Hermione pushed him off her and climbed on top of him. She began kissing his neck and move her way down until she reached his stomach. He groaned at every single thing that Hermione did to him. He certainly wasn't expecting everything that Hermione was doing to him, especially what came next.

She lowered herself down until she reached his member. She grabbed it gently and began licking it softly up and down. Draco was shocked as Hermione did this. He moaned out loud to let her now he was truly enjoying this. She inserted it in her mouth and she began to suck. Draco closed his eyes, open mouthed. He knew that this was the first time Hermione did this. But she was bloody good at it!. She did this for about two minutes until he pulled her up. She smirked at him because she knew exactly why he stopped her. He was coming while she sucked and he didn't want THAT to get to her mouth.

"Draco" whispered Hermione

"Yes?"

"I love you"

He looked deeply into her eyes and said, "So do I", and kissed her.

Soon afterwards he was climbing on top of her, quickly filling her like he had done before, Hermione reacting to that pleasure with the same satisfaction as last time.

A/N: Hope you like this chapter. Thanks a lot for all the support of the reviewers. I will specify those in my next chapter! Please review this one and tell me how you found it.