A/N: Ok Ok! I'm back! I'm SUPER sorry for being so so late, but I hope this chapter was worth it. There are a few changes so pay attention! THIS STORY IS NOW RATED M and it's rated M for a reason so just be aware. I wanted to thank all of you for being so patient and special thanks to everyone who reviewed, added me to story alert, or added me to favorites it makes me do a little jig every time that happens and just makes me want to post new chapters faster. (Hint Hint :) ) I had a little trouble with the explicitness of this chapter so there was some heavy editing as usual. Let me know what you think ! And just be aware, I have finals coming up, so if I don't have the next chapter up on time again, don't worry, I'm not abandoning. My life is pretty hectic right now and I've used up my chapter buffer so I have a LOT of writing to do :) Anyway enough rambling! Enjoy
Sugar or Honey
The sun shone brightly the next day. It was a beautiful, crisp September Sunday and a ray of light snuck past the thick velvet drapes of Hermione's four poster bed and landed serenely on her face. She woke early, as she was wont to do, and sat up softly, rubbing the sleep out of her still groggy eyes. She looked around slowly, drawing back her curtains. The crumpled sheets on Ginny's bed informed her that Ginny had already left for breakfast. Hermione continued looking around the bright room and then her eyes landed on the yellow haired girl that was lying twisted in her sheets. She jumped slightly at the sight, but then quickly remembered the events of the previous night.
I can't believe I…we…did that last night. I mean, I guess nothing really bad happened, but I kissed her on the cheek—I told her that I like her… What has gotten into me? She is beautiful, though…
Hermione reached a timid hand towards Lavender's pink cheeks and brushed a stray curl away. She soaked in the softness of Lavender's skin against the pads of her fingertips. Lavender nuzzled into Hermione's touch and slowly opened her eyes; Hermione's heart skipped a beat.
"Hey," Lavender said, locking eyes with Hermione and not looking away.
"Hi," Hermione said, stroking Lavender's long locks. She flushed slightly at having been caught.
They sat silently for a few moments, not taking their eyes off of each other. The only sound in the room was the ragged inhaling and exhaling of breath.
Lavender slowly leaned up from the bed, supporting herself with one hand while the other slowly made its way to Hermione's cheek. Her hand landed softly on Hermione's skin. Hermione felt a wave of electricity flow through her and she could feel her face flood with heat, but she didn't pull away. She was rooted to the spot, afraid to move, but afraid to stay. Lavender began leaning in, her hand moved and Hermione felt it caressing her hair. Lavender was close now, within inches. Hermione caught the scent of her perfume, mingled with shampoo and something else. It was heavenly, like vanilla and strawberries. Lavender was closer now and Hermione realized that she had been holding her breath. It was too late to let it out now though. Lavender was too close—much too close, but Hermione wouldn't move—couldn't move. Hermione closed her eyes as their lips brushed. She could taste the sweetness of Lavender's plump lips—like sugar or honey, she couldn't decide. She wanted more, but she realized that the small little brush was all she would get. She opened her eyes slowly and was instantly captivated by intensity behind deep blue eyes. Lavender was looking at her, questioning. She had tested the waters and now it was Hermione's turn to make a move.
Hermione let out a slow breath and licked her lips. Lavender's sweet taste still lingered there and she realized that she didn't care anymore. She couldn't help herself. She wanted more…
Hermione reached a hand to Lavender and pulled her gruffly to Hermione's lips. This time, there was no testing the waters. This time Hermione wanted all of her. They locked lips, kissing frantically. Hermione's hands never left Lavender's thick locks and she could feel Lavender's hands wandering freely over her body. When they reached her breasts she felt a surge of heat course through her and land between her legs with a throb. She pulled Lavender closer, meshing their bodies together and then laid her down on the bed so that she could straddle her. Hermione moved her hands lower on Lavender's body as their lips touched, relishing the fact that she was in control now. Lavender moaned slightly and Hermione took the opportunity to let her tongue slide into Lavender's mouth, deepening the kiss. She smiled when Lavender bit her tongue, playfully.
"Mmm," she heard herself moan.
Hermione pulled away slightly and began shifting towards Lavender's neck, planting light kisses and licks wherever she could reach. She felt Lavender's hands roaming her body as she moved—exploring. When she felt them cupping her breasts she let out another moan. She pulled down the collar of Lavender's robes so that Hermione could reach her collar bone, and began lightly tracing it with her tongue. She heard soft moans beneath her and was only lightly surprised when she felt tugging at the knot of her night robes as Lavender tried to undress her.
Hermione took Lavender's lips back in her own, savoring the sweet and salty flavor in another deep kiss. She realized that Lavender hadn't relented in trying to untie her robes, so she reached down and took Lavender's hand. Without stopping their deep kiss, she pulled it over Lavender's head and pinned it down with one hand. Lavender moaned at the loss of control and Hermione broke their kiss once more as she looked over Lavender's body with longing. She continued to pin Lavender lightly with her left hand as her right hand began roaming over Lavender's soft curves. She caressed Lavender's small waist first, smiling as a quiver met her fingers. Hermione pressed firmly, savoring the touch through the thin material that covered Lavender's body. She then trailed her hand up to caress Lavender's soft mounds, licking her lips as she did so. When she heard a soft moan, she looked up to see Lavender staring with intensity. Her eyes were black with lust. Lavender bucked slightly and Hermione released her hands which immediately latched onto Hermione with fierceness, pulling her in for another unfathomable kiss.
Their lips touched once more and Hermione was surprised at Lavender's skill. She relaxed slightly as she felt Lavender shifting her body down to the bed. Lavender rolled, pinning Hermione down beneath her, but never breaking their kiss. Hermione let a guttural groan escape her lips as she felt Lavender untying her dress robes and pulling them back to expose Hermione's large breasts. Lavender broke the kiss so that she could look at Hermione's body with a smile. Hermione felt herself blush for a moment but she was quickly overtaken with a fit of ecstasy as Lavender's soft lips began trailing along her virginal skin. As they made their way along her mounds Hermione let out a gasp, which quickly turned into a deep moan as she felt the light flicking of Lavender's tongue on one of her nipples.
"Mmm," Hermione managed, feeling her nipples stiffen under Lavender's soft licks.
Then Lavender closed her lips around it, sucking mercilessly and kneading softly with her hands as Hermione bucked beneath her. Hermione let out a loud moan as she felt the heat surge to her nether regions and Lavender took the opportunity to kiss Hermione again. This time, Hermione broke the deep kiss, pulling Lavender up above her head with one hand so that the other could pull her green dress off of her creamy shoulders. Taking in the newly revealed flesh that hung invitingly over her face, Hermione reached behind Lavender's back and unclasped her bra.
Lavender slipped out of her clothes and bra obligingly and went to continue her exploration of Hermione's body when Hermione pulled her breasts down gruffly and began sucking on Lavender's nipples in return. Lavender moaned loudly, but Hermione was relentless. She cupped Lavender's breasts with both hands and sucked and licked one nipple gruffly, savoring the sweet and forbidden flavor, and pinched the other between her thumb and forefinger before letting Lavender pull away. Lavender planted another deep kiss on Hermione's lips before trailing back down to Hermione's breasts, leaving deep kisses in her wake. She continued to trail kisses down to Hermione's stomach and Hermione ran her fingers through Lavender's hair as she bucked and squirmed with each kiss. Lavender planted a soft and tantalizing kiss on her lower stomach and Hermione let out a loud moan. The need that was growing between her legs was becoming unbearable and as she felt Lavender trailing lower. She raised her lower body to Lavender's lips as if offering it to her.
Hermione moaned again as Lavender pinned her arms down before planting kisses even lower. She paused at the waistband of Hermione's simple white underwear and trailed her tongue along it—teasing. Hermione bucked again. Her breath was ragged and her eyes were dilated with the surge of pure lust that was coursing through her.
"Ugh, I want you so bad," she said hoarsely.
"Mmm, me too," Lavender said, before nipping at Hermione's waistband with her teeth.
Hermione moaned again, deep and guttoral, she could feel the wetness seeping out from her most private area. She had never wanted someone so badly. She had never felt more aroused. She wanted Lavender more badly than she had ever wanted anything. She wanted to have every part of Lavender, to hold her, to please her. But, she knew she wasn't ready yet, it was too fast.
"Not…y-yet…" Hermione managed between breaths.
"But I want you," Lavender moaned through her teeth.
Hermione felt another hot surge between her legs at these words. She leaned away from Lavender before she couldn't help herself any longer.
"I want you too," she whispered. "But, I'm not ready yet… This is still really new and confusing for me."
Hermione looked away for a moment, catching her breath and then looked back to Lavender. She wasn't surprised to see a little pout forming on Lavender's plump lips. She couldn't stop herself. She leaned in again and hungrily locked onto them. They were kissing again with more passion than Hermione had ever thought possible. At this moment she didn't care anymore; she wanted all of Lavender and she wanted Lavender to have all of her. But, this time Lavender pulled away. Hermione whimpered at the loss, but stopped when she felt Lavender's soft fingers on her lips. She opened her eyes slowly and was surprised to see Lavender smiling.
"If you keep doing that to me," she said, "I'm going to have a lot harder time saying no."
"Mmm," Hermione nodded, her cheeks turning red.
"It's okay, Hermione. I can wait. I want you to be completely ready when we do this. I want you to be absolutely sure about your feelings for me. I don't want to be another phase…"
Hermione smiled as Lavender looked away.
"You could never be a phase for me," she whispered. "I think I always wanted this… I just didn't know I wanted it."
Lavender looked back towards Hermione with a smile. They leaned in one last time for a quick kiss. This time it was much softer and Hermione opened her eyes to see a single tear sliding down Lavender's pink cheeks.
"I've been waiting for you, Hermione," she said. "I just didn't know it, either."
Hermione smiled again and let out a long breath.
"Let's go get some breakfast."
"Sounds like a good idea."
Hermione got up dreamily from the bed. Did they really just do that? She took a quick look at Lavender from the corner of her eye as Lavender tried futilely to adjust her disheveled robes and coax her hair into a less conspicuous position. Hermione smiled. Yeah, they really did just do that. She bent down and grabbed her bra from yesterday off the floor and put it on.
Hermione then walked over to her trunk and bent down to fish out some clean robes, underwear and her toothbrush, she blushed slightly at the realization that neither of them had brushed their teeth.
"What's that?" Lavender said, pointing to the pink toothbrush in Hermione's hand.
"Oh, this is my toothbrush. It's a tool muggles use to clean their mouth to prevent cavities. They put a special cleaner on the bristles and scrub the plaque away."
"Wow, I think I may have read about that in my Muggle Studies textbook. I've never seen one in person before, though."
Lavender took the toothbrush from Hermione and looked at it in awe. Hermione couldn't help but let out a giggle.
"Why don't you just use a spell for that?" Lavender asked, handing back the tool. "There are tons of spells and potions for oral hygiene and I'd imagine it works better than rubbing that thing on your teeth."
"Well, yes, probably. But my parents are dentists… muggle teeth doctors, you know. And they don't really like the idea of using magic in my mouth, so I just do this to appease them. At least they aren't forcing me to wear braces," Hermione said with a laugh.
"Yes, I suppose I can understand that…Wait, what are braces?"
"Never mind."
After noticing that Lavender was still having trouble straightening herself, Hermione walked over to help adjust her robes properly. Lavender smiled and leaned in for a quick kiss. She pulled back abruptly however, when the doorknob turned with a click and Ginny burst through, her eyes landing on Hermione.
"There you are! I've been waiting for you to make an appearance at breakfast for ages!" she said, letting out an exasperated sigh. She turned abruptly and her eyes landed on Lavender, taking in her slightly disheveled state. Then they looked back at Hermione.
Realizing that she hadn't managed to get on a shirt yet, Hermione quickly covered herself up, thanking the gods that she had at least had the sense to put on a bra as soon as she had gotten up from the bed.
"Uh—what's going on here?" Ginny asked, looking from Hermione to Lavender and then to Hermione again.
"Um…well…" Hermione started, and then fell silent as Lavender cut her off.
"I-I came over this morning b-because, well, Hermione said that I could give her a make-over," Lavender managed to spew it out. "I was just trying to help Hermione pick out some clothes for today when you came in. Hermione was putting up a rather good fight, to tell you the truth. I could use a little help."
Hermione gave Lavender a look of reproach, but didn't argue. It was clear from Lavender's pleading eyes that she didn't mean what she was saying.
Lavender gave Ginny her most convincing smile and Hermione had to fight a sigh of relief when she realized that Ginny looked somewhat satisfied with this excuse.
"Well, for starters," Ginny said slowly, "I think we should focus on that hair. I have a bottle of Sleekeazy's somewhere."
"Y-yes, that's exactly what I was thinking," Lavender said, again looking at Hermione pleadingly.
Hermione let out a sigh of exasperation, realizing that there was no way for her to get out of this without confessing the real reason that Lavender was there.
"You could also give me a few tips on applying eye make-up," Hermione said, admitting defeat.
"Yes, that would be wonderful. You have such beautiful brown eyes," Lavender said, with relief.
"We should probably also pluck her unibrow, I know a spell that would work wonders," Ginny added.
"I do NOT have a unibrow," Hermione said, annoyed.
"Well, you won't when I'm through with you," Ginny replied. "But first we have to do something about that mop you call hair."