Chapter 9- Telling Someone

With a smile wider then Ginny had ever seen, Hermione bounced into the Great Hall and sat right beside Ron. "Good morning." She said cheerily, as she picked up a cup of coffee.

"You are in a good mood this morning Hermione." Harry said.

Ginny let a large smile come across her face. "Did you have a good night?" She asked the bouncy brunette.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I had an amazing night." Hermione said with a smile. She looked up at the magic ceiling that seemed to match her mood. It was a sunny school with bright blue sky. "Don't you just LOVE the mornings?" Hermione said, stressing the word love. "I just LOVE today, I feel just so LOVED." She looked at Ginny again.

Ginny looked at Hermione with a look of confusion. Then her face lit up with a smile. "Oh!" Ginny said as she got it. She stood up quickly. "Sorry boys, Hermione and I have to study for something. Talk to you later." Ginny grabbed Hermione's hand and practically dragged her out of the door.

"Wonder what that was about." Ron said.

"No idea." Harry said, concentrating on the newspaper in front of him.

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Ginny dragged Hermione down the hall and back up to the Gryffindor Common Room. Once safely inside Hermione's room, Ginny looked right at the girl. "Spill! And it better include the name of the mysterious Slytherin."

"Ginny, you are my best friend right?" Hermione said, falling back on the bed and looking up at the ceiling.

"Yes, and I promised that even if the stupid bloke you are dating is Malfoy, I will always be your friend." Ginny said lying back beside Hermione as she enchanted the ceiling to make little sparks of light dance around it.

"Okay." Hermione said. "Last night was amazing. I went to Hogsmeade with Ron, but I didn't really want to go. I wanted to go see him; he told me that he had special plans for me. But, I promised Ron that I would go. So when I got back, I went to see him. I slapped him and called him a bastard because he knew that all I would think about was him."

"So what happened?" Ginny asked eager to know the name of Hermione's mystery guy.

"We fucked. I let him lose complete control, let him release all that built of sexual frustration and fuck me. It was amazing, up against the hard stone wall. I've never experienced anything like it before." Hermione said with a smile, watching the lights swirl into unnamable shapes.

"Weren't you scared?" Ginny asked.

Hermione smiled. Although the girl was only a year younger then she was, Hermione knew she was much more naïve then Hermione had been at the age. Even with Ginny being in a relationship with an older guy, she was in a relationship with a guy who didn't need the added stress of sex in his life. "Of him? Terrified. But I trusted him to lose control."

"Hermione... who is he?" Ginny said.

"You can't tell anyone, not a single person. And you have to promise me that you will not be angry." Hermione said, using her wand to get rid of the sparks of light.

"I promise Hermione, now tell me." Ginny begged eager to know who Hermione was sleeping with.

"It's Snape." Hermione said.

Ginny sat up in complete shock and looked at Hermione. She was waiting for the 'I am just kidding' or the 'Got ya' look, but Hermione's face was dead serious. "SNAPE!" She yelled.

Hermione instantly covered her mouth and placed a silencing charm on the room. "Ginny, be quiet." She said.

"Snape! You are sleeping with Professor Snape? You are sleeping with your professor?" Ginny said in shock.

"Yes. There's more to the night, if you will just be quiet." Hermione said, slightly annoyed. Ginny regained her composure and motioned for Hermione to keep going. "We were too tired to walk to the bed, but we lay on the floor. He told me that I was going to be the death of him and the only response that I could give him was to tell him that he was amazing. He accused me of it being because of the sex that I thought so, otherwise he was an arrogant bastard."

"He has that right." Ginny interrupted.

"Hey!" Hermione said. "Stop that and wait a minute. So I told him that it didn't matter, I was an insufferable know-it-all, but I was his." She smiled. "He asked me what I saw in him, but I really couldn't put it into words. Then, without even thinking, I told him that I loved him."

"What?" Ginny said in a high voice. "You told Snape that you loved him? You fell in love with Snape?"

"Yes." Hermione said. "And he told me that he loved me too."

Ginny stared at the girl. The last few words Hermione had said brought Ginny back to sanity. "He loves you?" Ginny said softly.

"Yes, he does." Hermione said. "And I love him. I've never even imagined being as happy as I am with him."

"But Hermione, he is your professor." Ginny said.

"I know that, but I don't care. I'd risk it all just to be with him Ginny, just like you would risk everything to be with Harry." Hermione said. She removed the silence charm. "Don't tell anyone." Hermione told the girl.

Smiling, Ginny wrapped her arm around the older girl's shoulder and walked out of the room. "I won't." She said, but then smirked. "But, I will have fun torturing you when the boys are around. Neither one pays enough attention to catch on." Ginny said before darting away from Hermione and out the door.

"Ginny Weasley, get back here now!" Hermione said with a laugh, before chasing after the girl.

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