Chapter one: I can't stand him!
Fourteen-year-old Daphne Florida sat in the great hall with her best friends, Hermionie Granger & Ginny Weasley eating breakfast on a Saturday morning. They were playing, Truth or dare.
"Do you have a crush on anyone?" Daphne asked.
"No." Hermionie
said, tapping her foot nervously.
"No" Ginny said, playing
with her hair.
"You guys, I'll make you go hit Diggory in the face if you don't tell the truth!" Daphne said.
"Viktor Krum." Hermionie admitted helplessly.
"Harry Potter." Ginny said.
"What?" Harry said, walking over to the table.
"Nothing." Ginny mumbled.
"Hi Harry. And no, we don't want to hear about what Cho did." Daphne & Hermionie said at the same time. Harry & Cho had gotten together a month ago & Harry was being really annoying now as if he & Cho were married instead of dating! No. Worse!
"Aww." Harry said, "But it was really good this time!"
"I don't care how frickin good it was!" Daphne said.
"Ya Harry, go away!" Hermionie said.
Harry sighed & went to sit with Ron.
"So why did you say you'd make us hit Diggory?" Hermionie said.
"Because I don't like him, that's why." Daphne said.
"Why don't you like him?" Hermionie asked.
"Yeah, why don't you like him?" Ginny joined in, "He's cute, talented, & smart."
"I don't like him because…" Daphne stopped. Why didn't she like him? "I don't like the way he seems so confident about himself, I don't like the way all the girls love him, & I DON'T like the way he stares at Cho!" Daphne said.
"Whoa!" Ginny said, "It looks like someone is jealous!"
"You have a crush on Cedric Diggory? OMG!" Hermionie screamed.
"Shut up!" Daphne hissed, hoping Cedric didn't hear.
"You're embarrassed. Aren't you?" Hermionie said.
"No! Because I don't have a crush on him!" Daphne said, knocking the saltshaker off the table. "Now look what you made me do!" Daphne snapped.
She got up to get & had just bent down to pick it up when someone else did at the same time.
"Here you go Miss-What's your name? I'm Cedric Diggory." Cedric said, handing Daphne the saltshaker.
Daphne blushed uncontrollably. She could hear her so called friends snickering like they had when she'd complained about her six-inch heeled shoes this morning-What was so friggin' funny about that, God knows!
"I'm Daphne Florida." Daphne snapped, not noticing the ice-cube Draco Malfoy had thrown on the floor. She turned around to go back to her table & slipped on the ice-cube. Her books flew into the air. Cedric caught all her books with one hand & caught Daphne with the other.
"Thanks." Daphne snapped.
"I hope I see you again!" Cedric shouted after her.
OMG! The nerve he has! Daphne thought, sitting back down. Her friends were still snickering uncontrollably.
"What is so funny?" Daphne asked.
"So much for not having a crush!" Ginny said.
"I think he likes you." Hermionie said.
"I'm not putting up with this abuse!" Daphne said, loud enough for everyone in the great hall to hear!
"Hey go after her." Cedric's friends told him as they left to go outside.
"Are you joking?" Cedric asked, "She doesn't like me! I think she hates me!"
"So?" Hannah Abbott asked, also leaving.
"Yeah, so?" Draco Malfoy shouted over from where he was sitting, leaving with Pansy.
"Like, Yeah! Like, grab her, & like, kiss her!" Pansy Parkinson shouted.
Cedric sighed & got up to go after her. "Hey, Daphne wait." She looked like she was crying. This is my entire fault! Cedric thought miserably. Maybe I'll just go outside to ice-skate with my friends or something.
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When Cedric walked outside he noticed everyone else was outside to. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermionie Granger, Ginny Weasley, Cho Chang, Seamus Finnegan, Dean Thomas, Luna (Loony) Lovegood, & Michael Corner were having a snowball fight against Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Hannah Abbott, Fred & George Weasley, & five Ravenclaw girls Cedric didn't know. Everyone else was ice-skating or building snowmen. He saw Daphne sitting by herself, crying.
Cedric walked over to
her. "Are you OK?" he asked her, sitting down next to her. He
just wanted her to be better.
"No. I'm not OK." Daphne
whispered, "I was just totally mortified by you and my
friends laugh about it! Plus Sirius Black just died yesterday &
it turns out he wasn't guilty & the minister of magic wasn't
even sorry about it!"
"I'm sorry." Cedric said, "Do you want to go ice-skating?"
"Fine." Daphne hissed, "But I still don't like you."
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Cedric's dad, Amos
Diggory had decided to visit his son to tell him he was proud of him
& walked up. Now for the typical Dad it's no big deal if you
see that your son has what you think is a new girlfriend, but for
Amos Diggory, it was a different story.
"CEDRIC!" He shouted,
running out onto the ice, slipping & sliding because he didn't
have ice-skates on. Everyone in School was laughing. "Who's you
new girlfriend?"
"She's not my girlfriend Dad." Cedric mumbled, getting up. He definitely did NOT want to see his Dad right now!
"Oh Cedric! I'm just so proud of you! Does everyone know that my son was voted best seeker because he beat HARRY POTTER?" Everyone laughed even more.
"Yes Dad, I was voted best seeker, but I'm not really better then Harry." Cedric said, stuffing his hands in his pocket. Why did his Dad have to do this in front of everyone at school? Draco Malfoy would never let him live it down!
"Oh, son, your so modest!" Amos Diggory said, "What would you like to do for a celebration? I'm staying a whole week you know!"
Cedric moaned. "This is going to be a long week!"
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One week later…
"Oh Cedric! You beat the famous Harry Potter, so everyone should bow down & kiss your feet!" Hermionie mimicked, when Cedric passed.
"Is that your new girlfriend?" Ginny mimicked, also.
"Cut it out." Cedric said, turning red.
"Hey, Daphne! I finally found something that will embarrass him!" Ginny told Daphne.
"Leave him alone!" Daphne said.
"Oh, Cedric is your girlfriend protecting you?" Draco Malfoy sneered.
"I SAID LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Daphne shouted.
"Who's gonna make me?" Draco asked her.
"Me." Daphne hissed.
"Then make me." Draco told her, "Then I'll leave you alone & let you kiss your little boyfriend Cedric, but don't forget to take a picture so Cedric can prove to his dad he has a girlfriend!"
Daphne blushed.
"Oh, isn't that cute, you're blushing." Draco said.
Alright! That was it! Daphne drew back her hand & SMACK! Hit Draco across the face, "Take that Malfoy!" She said.
"Too bad I didn't have a camera!" Ron exclaimed.
Daphne turned on her heel & walked off.
"Hey wait, Daphne!" Cedric shouted, after her. He caught up & grabbed her.
"Get you're friggin' hands off of me!" Daphne hissed.
"I just wanted to thank you." Cedric said, "I mean what you did was nice. I mean, like, you don't even like me. You hate me! And, well, no one stands up to Draco Malfoy."
"I was just embarrassed in front of everyone in school the other day & you expected me to let someone else get embarrassed out of their wits? No frickin' way!" Daphne cried.
"Well any way, thanks." Cedric said.
"But DON'T think this means I like you! I do NOT!" Daphne said, "I mean, your Dad, he's totally obnoxious! He said, 'Cedric, you deserve everything on this earth, but, why did you pick her as a girlfriend? What ever happened to Cho Chang?' He thinks you deserve better then me!"
"I know." Cedric said, "I'm sorry, it's just, my Dad thinks I deserve the world. It's embarrassing. But I don't know how to stop being, "The best". I mean, can you, like, help?"
"How?" Daphne
asked.
"Just hang around me, & teach me how to have fun."
Cedric said.
"Well… I don't
know. Won't your Dad be mad?" Daphne said.
"Yeah… but we
can do it behind his back." Cedric said, smiling, "He calls every
night at ten so-' Daphne coughed. "Yeah, I know it's stupid,
but he NEVER forgets! So we'll have to be back by nine thirty or
so." Cedric finished. "Hey, we'll be back!" Cedric said in
his best Arnold Schwarzenegger voice.
"You like that
movie?" Daphne said, laughing.
"Are you joking?" Cedric
asked, "I LOVE IT!"
"ME TOO!" Daphne cried.
"I can't believe we have anything in common." Cedric said, smiling again.
"So, do you like, think we should like, go to like, the mall for our first lesson on having fun?" Daphne said in her best Pansy Parkinson voice.
"OH MY GOD!" Cedric cried, "This will be soooo much fun!" he lost control of his emotions & kissed her.
"Hey, don't do that." Daphne said, totally dropping the Pansy Parkinson voice, "I still don't like you & I have no clue who would want to kiss you! I'd rather eat a worm!"
"Alright, I'm sorry." Cedric said, looking on the verge of tears.
"So, like, should we like, say, like, goodnight?" Daphne said, re-adopting the Pansy Parkinson.
Authors note: Do you like it? Please review! I hope you are satisfied with my fan fic!