As soon as they arrived at school Harry and Ron went in search of Hermione. They found her sitting in one of the chairs next to the fireplace. She had a book open in her lap as if she had been reading it, but she was currently busy staring into the fire.

"Hey Hermione. How was your Christmas?" Ron asked as he walked over to her.

"Oh hi guys. It was good, a bit odd, but good."

"You should have come with us to my house. It was so much fun. Everyone was there."

"Yeah, it was pretty fun. Percy was outside a lot and Bill and Charlie spent most of their time leaning out of an upstairs window dropping very slimy things on his head. It's hard to believe, but I think they might actually be worse than Fred and George in that department!"

"Wow, it sounds like the two of you had fun."

"Oh, yeah. It was a blast. Until I caught Harry here defiling my sister!"

"WHAT?!"

"Thanks for that Ron. Did you really have to bring that up? Did the conversation really call for it? And I did not defile her! Defiling calls for a hell of a lot more than what we were doing!"

"Which was?!" Hermione asked, obviously intrigued.

"Nothing!"

"Snogging!"

"No. Kissing. I kissed her, and it wasn't even that….. I mean, it didn't last….. Bloody hell, there isn't a way I can put this that I can win with is there?"

"Not really. But, Oh my God! I can't believe you kissed Ginny! What happened? Was it just a hey don't feel bad kiss, or was it a you're here and I'm here so lets kiss kiss, or was it a I can't keep my hands off of you for another second cause I might explode kiss?"

"Hermione, what the hell are you talking about? Ron, did you know that there were that many types of kisses?"

"No, I thought it was just kissing."

"Well, there are a lot of different types of kisses! I mean honestly! Ron, do you kiss Ginny the same way you would kiss your girlfriend?"

"EW! NO!"

"Exactly! So there are two kinds already! So Harry, which one was it?"

"I don't know. I'm a guy, remember, I don't think about these things!"

"OH! Fine! I'll go find Ginny and get the good dirt from her!"

She got up and walked away from the two boys in the direction of the girls dormitories.

"That girl is odd." Harry said as she left.

"She's a girl, what did you expect? Their minds don't work like ours do. There's a lot more….. fluff, and….. sugar and spice and stuff in there that makes them care more about those stupid little things. You know, like flowers and candy and feelings."

"Ok, even I know that was a stupid statement, and I'm a guy."

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Hermione was waiting for Ginny in her dorm when she came in to her room. She bounded off the bed and grabbed her by the shoulders.

"YOU KISSED HARRY?!"

"Ok, you have obviously talked to Ron and Harry already."

"SO?! What happened? How was it? What did he say? What led up to it? What happened after? And why did Ron know?"

"It isn't that big of a deal."

"Yes it is! So spill."

"But-"

"You spill about you and Harry, and I'll spill about me and Draco…"

Ginny couldn't resist the pull of that news. "Ok. So I took Ron's book up to his room but he wasn't there, Harry was. So we were talking for a second and then we just kissed. It was one of those You're here and I'm here so lets kiss kisses, but with more emotion than that makes it sound like."

"How did you end up kissing though?"

"Well I was sitting next to him on the bed-"

"ON THE BED?! You two were on the bed together?!"

"Yes, but at that point we were just talking. And we were talking about Voldemort and he put his arm around me and I laid my head on his shoulder-"

"AW! That's so sweet!"

"Do you want to hear this, or do you want to keep interrupting?"

"Sorry, go on."

"Ok, so then I looked up at him and he was looking down at me, and we were really close, so….. we kissed."

"SO it was like something pulled you to each other. Like a magnetic field." Hermione had gotten this really dreamy far off look in her eye, and Ginny couldn't help but laugh at her. "Oh, so you think that's funny do you? Well then see if I tell you about Draco!"

"Hey that's not fair! You said you would!"

"Oh alright! So we spent most of Christmas together, and yeah."

"What would the yeah be??"

"Well, he's really sweet actually."

"Oh yeah, what else?"

"He's….. really good at kissing….. and….." She trailed off as her face got bright red.

"AND?! AND WHAT?!" Ginny practically screamed, though she had a pretty good idea of what the and… was.

"And… he's also really good at….. chess?" Ginny gave her a look that said she would murder her in her sleep if she didn't tell it all. "Ok! So.. we kind of slept together."

"Holy Shit Hermione! You did what?! How, when, where, why, and was it any good?"

"Well…I asked." She hid her face in her hands. Then spoke from there "last night, the slytherin dorm." She looked up. "because he's gorgeous! And so incredibly sweet, and caring. And I wanted to. And…" Hermione got that far off look again as she sighed "Yeah."

"So, he was good?"

"Oh yeah. He even tried to not do it again because he knew that it would hurt me."

"Aw! I would have never expected it. But that is so cute! Why can't every guy be like that?"

"What?! Are you telling me that you've done it?!"

"No no! but a girl in this room has, and she felt the need to tell us all about it. Horrific, trust me, you don't want to know."

"Oh, well, Draco was perfect."

"Did it hurt?"

"Yeah, but then it felt really good. And the second time it kind of hurt, but not really."

"But that goes away, doesn't it? The hurting thing?"

"Well, I don't know. That was last night, and we obviously haven't done it since then!"

"Well... Does it still hurt today? Just…. You?"

"Kind of. I'm a little sore but it isn't all that bad."

They both sighed in unison.

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Draco laid in his bed as his dorm mates came in unloading their things. They were all talking about the things they had done over the break from school and the present that they had gotten for Christmas. He was trying to hold on to the way Hermione had looked last night.

He knew that they couldn't be like that anymore. That somehow it had all changed in the passing of an hour. The school was back and now they had to do what they had known they would have to do all along. So why did it still bother him that he had to go back to the jackass persona?

Just think of her face when she asked you to sleep with her he thought. There, that would get him through it. He had to figure out which classrooms would be empty and when too. She may think he was a saint, or whatever, but he was still a guy.

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A/N - ok, wow! Mondo sorries!!! Though, I doubt that anyone who was originally reading this fic is still there, and anyone who started when I got that fire freshmen year has probably given up too… still, really sorry.

I've had to reread everything to remember everything that I put in there. And wow, I had some weird shit in there. (sorry for the cursing…) for one, Luna isn't a Gryffindor… apparently I can make an entire website for harry potter including intricate backgrounds for all of tom riddle's family members, but when it comes to current things, I can't keep it all in my head… yeah… anyway. I'm sure there was a reason, I may have mentioned it all before, whtever. Lol. Ok, so here I am looking back, and this all started about my freshmen or sophomore year of highschool and I am now a senior in college… wow, adding to the sorries. Especially since I started laughing at the note I put in an earlier chapter about being finished by midterms! Yeah, like 2 years later! Sorry. I'm debating shortening it all, just to get it done.

Anyway! I have been writing lately, just not this fic, cause I needed to reread it. I have a lot of other things started at this point, but I am still going!!! I've been in a writing mood so now I plan to get this finished! Sometime before I'm done with grad school. 

Oh, and finally, part of this I had written before, so if it seems a little bit strange then I'm sorry.