Emma Thomas lay on the cold stone floor, her right cheek pressed against the stone and her small body sprawled out, the mass of blonde curls covering her face. Tears spilled from her ocean blue eyes, down her rosy cheeks and over her slender chin to land on the stone beneath her.
"I don't ever want to see you again" she heard his angry voice echo in her mind.
"You are nothing to me" he had told her as she begged him not to do this.
Her fight with Ron had taken place more than three hours earlier and Emma hadn't moved from her spot on the cold, stone floor since then. The memory flashed in her mind when he walked into the Common Room and jumped to conclusions when he saw her and Harry in front of the fire before he started yelling at her. She had climbed the long staircase and entered his room to try and fix the situation when she saw them, Ron and Lavender.
"We can be together now at least" Lavender had said and Emma's blood boiled
"You hypocrite" she yelled and Ron turned to look at her. "I...how dare you" Emma screamed and shoved him "You cheated on me with my best friend" he yelled and she broke into tears
"He was helping me with a present for you for our anniversary" she cried and fled the room.
Cedric's boots tapped on the stones as he walked down the old hallway, a quick way out of the school without facing Cho. He knew it was wrong to be avoiding her but she was just so annoying sometimes. He saw the small figure in the corner of the hallway and made his way towards it, cautiously. He bent down to the small figure and pushed the mass of blonde curls from the face and sighed when he saw the blue eyes starring into the distance.
"Emma?" he asked and she moved her eyes till they landed on him. He didn't know her very well but she was a friend of Harry Potter and was dating the Weasley boy. "What?" she asked, barely a whisper. "What's wrong?" he asked her. She sat up and looked at him under heavy lids "He…oh god" she sobbed and fell against his chest. He stumbled back at the force but stabled himself before he started rubbing her back in gentle motions.
"What happened?" he asked her. "He accused me of cheating on him…with Harry of all people! I went upstairs to try and explain and he was with her…Lavender" she told him in a sassy tone. He stared at her for a moment, silently comparing her to Lavender; she wasn't the most beautiful witch he'd seen but she was defiantly good looking. She had the brightest blue eyes he had ever seen, with fairly tanned skin, high cheek bones that always seemed to sparkle under the lighting in the Great Hall, plump lips with a body that was easy on the eyes.
"He's been with her for a while now, at least that's what Pavarti told me" she said and then started up again. "We were together for two years and he chooses her" she sobbed. He was never good with crying girls but had seen his father interact with his mother when she cried and used a few of the things he'd seen.
"He's an idiot then if he can't see how much better you are" Cedric told her sincerely, standing to offer her his hand. "Thanks, but are we talking about the same Lavender? She's gorgeous" she told him as he walked her out of the cold hallway. "She is, but so are you. Besides, her look is much more fake while yours is more conventional I suppose, natural is the word I think" he told her and she blushed through a weak smile. "You should smile more" he told her and gave her the smile that could make any girls heart melt.
"Thank you" she told him. "I'm sorry I rambled about my problems like that" she told him and he shook his head as they entered a slightly more crowded hallway. "No problem" he told her. "I…I guess I better get going, I have to find Hermione" Emma told him and he smiled "I got Quittich practice in…oh about now" he told her, looking at his watch with a laugh that she found contagious. She whipped her tears away with the back of her hand and looked up at him "You're a good guy Cedric" she told him and left. He watched her head off towards the library and sighed before he turned and ran towards the pit.
