She loved Gormley and Theo. They really were her everything; her rock and her anchor. But right now she was happy and content to be spending her time with ffleurbert. Yes, she knew the two boys in her life besides her boyfriend were just protecting her, and were a little jealous and at a loss, but they were going to have to get used to it. She had gotten used to it when they had started noticing girls after all.

So she decided to take ffleurbert to her secret place. It was a place that she had found by accident. There wasn’t much story there. None at all. She had found it and that was that. In fact, she had been lucky she had found it a second time but she had and so it had become her thinking place. And now it was her and ffleurbert’s place. Or one of them at least. They were bound to have several.

“Well, yes, love, if that’s what you want. I was serious when I said I wasn’t going to force anything on you. We might chat a bit though.”

“I know,” she told him. Ffleurbert was not like other guys. Ava didn’t feel like she constantly had to impress him or go out of her way to get his attention. He was just there, already, ready to take her as she was without any kind of expectation or extra work on her part. “Chatting is always nice.” But so was snogging. Either way, she really wasn’t going to complain.

When they got to her secret spot, Ava smiled as he cleared a spot for her. Ava didn’t mind sitting on dust or dirt but it was a sweet gesture by ffleurbert; it was very thoughtful of him. And she liked it. It was something she wasn’t used to but had always imagined a boy doing for her. Okay, maybe not that exactly. She thought more along the lines of laying a coat in puddle for her. Then again, she would feel awful about that and would not have liked the boy to ruin his coat just because she was too lazy to step over a puddle. Besides, what if she had wanted to jump into the puddle?

Oh, now she was just getting off track.

It probably would be easy for him to remember where this was since had recognized the location so easily when they had first arrived. Then again, it was quite obvious that this was the Divination tower. But the good thing about that was that they were most likely not going to be disturbed. She hoped not at least. Especially after all the effort she had gone to in bringing him up there and him helping her settle in.

Ava laughed. “We’ll just have to find another place to lurk then. I suppose we can have more than one place, right?” She raised a brow. They couldn’t very well just have one place. There were so many choices out there. While this one was good for talking and snogging in private…another one would probably be more beneficial for lurking.

“Now then,” He said, his voice suddenly shaky, and strangely deep, “After the appetizer, the… the..finger food!”

She giggled and suddenly felt nervous. It was all fine and dandy when snogging wasn’t planned, but now that she knew what was going to happen…she just felt nervous and hoped that ffleurber didn’t end up deciding she was bad at it.

What she wasn’t expecting was for him to kiss her hand instead of his lips. Again she giggled. That giggle stopped the moment his lips progressed upward. Her heart beat faster than she expected and her skin flushed with each second that ffleurberts lips touched it. Her stomach was twisting in a pleasant way and her breathing hitched.

By the time his lips were at her neck and he was playing with her hair, Avaline was shivering a bit and she couldn’t understand all the feelings that were flying around her body like Peter Pan on his way to Neverland.

When his lips were on hers, she finally reacted. And while it was an eager, rushed kiss on her part, his slow leading up to it was not her fault. It had been perfect in fact. Ava was on her knees, trying to get a better angle to kiss him at. “Merlin, ffleurbert, are you trying to make me faint?” she asked him, laughing at the dramatics of it all, but that’s how she felt. Her lips moved to his once more, not wanting to do anymore talking. She had something quite different on her mind, thank you very much.

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