Secrets I have held in my heart (part 1)

Chapter 34: Valentine's day

The following morning, I had to wake Hermione up. Her eyes were still slightly puffed up from the day before.

'hey Granger, wake up, it's Friday so we just have to get through the day and then it's the weekend' I said encouragingly in order to try and convince her through her grunts of denial

'come on Granger, I need to talk to my girlfriend' said George's voice from behind

I let out a gasp, I wasn't expecting George to be in here so early in the morning. 

'can't believe you decided to replace me Edwards' he joked, placing his hands on his chest and pretending to be heartbroken

'what are you doing here George?, it's like 6 am' I said, my heart still racing from his sudden appearance 

'Edwards, check the date' he replied, flashing an excited grin

I stretched to grab my planner from my satchel and saw that it was February 14th, 

'what about the date?' I asked confused, I was still a bit groggy from waking up so everything was a haze

'Edwards, it's Valentine's day' explained Hermione, who now appeared more awake than I was

'oh shit, you're right' I said, putting my hand to my mouth, how could I have forgotten? I did have a present prepared for George but it was hidden in my wardrobe 

'I see you've caught on Edwards' said George, his arms crossed and his mouth displaying a smirk

'I'll get changed quickly and I'll leave you two to it' Hermione said, jumping out of bed and grabbing her robes to get changed in the bathroom

Ginny had also woken up and was annoyed that she also had to leave, she and Hermione left the dorm together after a couple of minutes while I was still sat up on the bed

'I missed you yesterday' whispered George, who was now on the bed as well, opposite of me

I moved to sit on his lap, draping my arms on his shoulders, and whispered back that I had missed him too, I didn't get the chance to talk to him the day before as I had been occupied with Hermione all day and it had been weird to not talk to him for a full day.

Without further comment, George leaned closer, his lips were barely brushing mine when Ginny barged into the room,

'shit sorry, I forgot to grab some books' 

She ran to her bed, grabbed a textbook from her pile of school books and left the room, while apologising repeatedly. George had his head hung low in defeat and I got up to get changed, it was quite late already and I had to head to the library with Hermione after breakfast to continue doing research for Buckbeak's trial.

'I'll see you downstairs, okay?' I told George in a rush, I was grabbing the clothes I had left on the floor the day before and heading to the bathroom

George stood up from the bed and left the room, reminding me that he wasn't finished with me.

I got changed as fast as possible, grabbed my Transfiguration and my damn Potions book and rushed downstairs. Hermione had already left as well as the whole common room for some odd reason but George was waiting for me on one of the couches.

'as I told you, I wasn't finished' he said while approaching towards me 

He cleared my hair from my face and lifted my face up from my chin so that our faces were close once again, his eyes were looking down eagerly at my lips and so he drew me in,

'well if it isn't you two love birds' spat a vicious voice from behind my back

I turned around wondering why he was here, considering this wasn't his common room.