Somewhere in the back of her mind, Tilda finally understood what her friends at school had been talking about when they were chatting about being intimate with a man. She wasn't naive, and plus it was rather impossible to go all throughout Hogwarts in a dorm room without hearing talk about being intimate with someone. But this...this was better than she could have imagined. Why had they failed to mention the want - the need to be closer to someone than you ever thought possible? It wasn't enough to be next to them. It finally hit her as she felt more urgency in his kiss as her lips parted and she deepened the kiss, following his cue.

His pulling away only left her wanting more, and she almost pouted, looking up at him. She didn't want to stop. His hand stroking her back only caused her to curve further into him and she bit her lip. It shouldn't have been physically possible to feel so light-headed and yet so grounded at the same time, yet here she was. His question brought a smile to her lips and she nodded as a giggle escaped her. "Only if I may call you Eugene." She said, her heart doing its umpteenth flip in her chest as she savored the feeling of his name on her lips.

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