The Girl who Survived (Fred Weasley)

CH 34. The Yule Ball Pt. 2

~Cedric's POV~

Cho was waiting outside of my common room. She looked lovely in her traditional dress. She was a pretty girl, and a wicked quidditch player, but best of all she made Justin happy. We'd had a bit of a flirtation going back and forth since last year. It slowed for a bit when her and Justin began dating, but somehow it would always come back. Not that I stopped it.

"You look lovely Cho," I told her sincerely as I straightened my bowtie.

"Not so bad yourself Cedric," She told me.

"Your boyfriend will be out in a moment," I informed her.

"Justin isn't really my boyfriend," She said. That's weird, Justin thought he was. "He hasn't asked me yet," She told me.

"He's my best mate, I can assure you, he's crazy about you," I told her, feeling guilty. She hadn't talked to me much when Justin was around, but every now and then we'd have moments like this.

"Are you?" She asked and placed her hands on my tie to undo it. "Cause you're the one I'm waiting for. Tell me, just how long are you going to let Potter play her games? You know I've even heard that you're not the only one she has chasing her around," Cho said.

"You don't know what you're talking about," I told her unphased by her statement. She was lying. Elodie never looked at anyone the way she looked at me.

"Tell me I'm wrong," She challenged.

"Hey! Hope we didn't keep you too long, you two ready?" Justin said as he walked out with Maggie and Scott.

"Yeah, I don't want to keep my date waiting," I said.

"Aww, you mean the future Mrs. Diggory?" Maggie said cutely. "Tell us Ced, is tonight the night?"

"I hope so," I said as we began making our way to the great hall.

It wasn't too far from our common room. Cho separated from Justin to go talk to one of the girls from her house that was over by the twins. I thought about telling Justin what she had told me, but I didn't know how to filter the situation. Part of me wanted to just have complete transparency, be the bad guy for a bit. It was only flirting, and that one time we spent the night together last term, but I could at least spare him from wasting his time. But I couldn't do it tonight.

"I'm going to go wait for my lady, don't have too much fun without us now," I told them once Cho returned. I turned to walk over to Elodie's friends to have a bit of chitchat before the girls arrived.

"...friends. He's a git, and he doesn't deserve her, but not tonight." I think George said. I still hadn't gotten the hang of telling the two apart. I'd walked up on their conversation and didn't have any context, but thought if they explained it, I could offer some help.

"Who's a git?" I asked them.

The twins looked at each other. It was pretty intense; this must be one of their private conversations that Elodie said they were capable of. The one I was standing in front of looked at me, but like he was looking through me, almost like he wanted to hit me.

"You, and she deserves better." He said. This had to be Fred, he was the bolder one.

"Sorry?" I asked, a bit confused why he would say that.

"You are going to make sure she has a good night tonight, and you're going to stay away from Chang. Or I'll tell Elodie myself," he pressed. The only thing that came to my mind was that When Cho had come to stand by them, she must have said something. They were making it something bigger than it was, they had to know that I didn't mean for anything to have gone this far.