Author's Note: Okay I know that this pairing is most unlikely and you must be thinking by now, "Who does this girl think she is pairing Ron with Cho?" I don't know why either but after watching a video from Youtube about Ron and Cho, I realized that they looked good together so I started shipping them. In this story, Cho is in Harry's year whereas in the original, she is one year older than him. Anyways, I hope you'd read and enjoy my first story!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter universe becaused J.K. Rowling owns it.

Chapter 1

The Encounter at Diagon Alley

"Cho, dear, wake up," her mother softly said as she shook her gently, "You don't want to get stuck in the crowd at Diagon Alley, now won't we?"

She let out a groan and pulled the covers over her head as she hugged her soft pillow. She was still sleepy for she hasn't slept all night, instead she spent the whole night tossing and turning on her bed. In fact, ever since Cedric died, she never had the chance to get a good night sleep and eat her meals like she used to.

"Please, Cho. You have to wake up," her mother pleaded once more.

She reluctantly pushed the covers to reveal her face and gave a small smile to her mother who was finally relieved that she got her daughter out of bed.

"Now I'll leave you here to get changed. Climb down as soon as you're ready so you can eat your breakfast and start your school shopping," she explained, standing up, leaving Cho's room and closing the door behind her.

The second her mother left her room, her smile faded and she groaned again, this time even more loudly. She looked at the wall clock revealing that it was seven o' clock in the morning. She could feel the warm, golden rays of the sun on her face, making its way inside my room through her wide window, welcoming her to a bright, new day. She then finally gathered her strength and managed to stand up. She first made her bed, and then she went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and take a shower. After she had cleansed and refreshed herself she changed her clothes, combed her hair neatly and left her room. It had always been her morning routine, even at Hogwarts.

She skipped down the stairs and faked a happy greeting to her loving parents who were at the kitchen waiting for her. Her father, as always was busy reading the latest issue of The Daily Prophet while her mother was sitting beside him. She glanced at their house elf, Fiddly, who was busy cleaning the dishes used by her mother and father.

"Good morning, Mom, Dad," Cho said almost too good to be true even though she knew it wasn't as she kissed their cheeks.

"Oh, good morning to you too, Cho," her father replied as he set aside the paper and pulled his daughter in a tight bear hug.

"A pleasant morning to you too, Cho," her mother answered planting a kiss on her daughter's forehead the moment her father released her from the tight hug.

"Now, Cho, is it alright if you could go alone to Diagon Alley today? Your father and I have important business to attend to," her mother asked as Cho sat on the wooden chair across her parents.

Her smile turned to a frown. She was disappointed that her parents never had time for her anymore. But, instead of showing how she really felt, she instead hid her disappointment by flashing a fake smile as she answered, "Oh, certainly, Mom. I am a big girl now after all." Even though she knew deep inside her that this wasn't how she really thought.

"Well, that's my girl," her mother said as she stretched her hands to touch Cho's chin, "Now you better eat up. Once you've finished, put your plate on the sink so Fiddly can wash them up," Cho's mother instructed her, "Now we must better be going."

With that, Cho's mother stood up while her father put down the paper (which he read again after he hugged his daughter) on the table. They both bid her farewell before leaving.

Once her parents were out, Cho took a bite of her buttered toast but put it back down when she realized that she weren't hungry after all. She instead, just took a sip from her pumpkin juice and got out off her seat and approached Fiddly, who just finished washing the dishes.

"Hey, Fiddly, why didn't you just use magic to clean the dishes so you won't get tired?" Cho asked bewildered on why the elf didn't use magic for the first time.

"Oh, well, Fiddly wanted to clean dishes in ordinary way," the elf answered.

"Oh okay then," Cho said, "I'm going to Diagon Alley now, Fiddly. Just cover my breakfast and I might just eat it later after I have come back."

"Yes, Miss Chang, Fiddly would take care of your breakfast," Fiddly said.

"Thanks a lot, Fiddly."

Cho went to the living room and apparated herself to Diagon Alley.

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"Ronald Bilius Prewett Weasley, if you don't come down from your room this very instant I will be forced to do something that you would absolutely regret!" Molly shouted with all her might to let her still snoring son hear from his room, from the kitchen.

"Maybe you should try bewitching a bucket of cold water to enter Ron's room and throw the water at him. That would surely wake him up. And steal all the warmth off of his body," Fred suggested as he and George high-fived while they laughed hysterically.

Molly, ignoring his son's comment, continued to shout at Ron, "Don't make me come up there Ronald!"

Giving up, she finally took Fred's advise, bewitched a bucket of cold freezing water, made it come up the stairs, enter Ron's room and in mere seconds they all heard…

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Ron screamed dreadfully as he got out his bed and went down the stairs shaking and freezing, "W-what y-you d-did t-that f-for-r?"

"I warned you but you didn't listen. Now go and get dressed," Molly scolded at him.

The kitchen atmosphere was filled with laughs. Fred and George had the most epic laugh while Ginny, Harry and Hermione, were rolling on the floor, laughing their heads off while Ron, embarrassed, got himself ready.

After a getting dressed Ron, went down to eat his now-cold-breakfast. The hysteric laughter had died down after they all received threats of their own from Molly who lost her temper when they continued to laugh like there was no tomorrow.

"You've got to see your face Ron, it was absolutely priceless," George exclaimed as he rode once more at the "Laughing Express".

"Shut your mouth up George. I already warned you. You don't want to end up with what happened to Ron," Molly warned him as she shot him an icy death glare and with an instant, George was kicked out of the "Laughing Express".

"Eat fast, Ron, if you don't want to be left out here alone," Molly said turning to Ron, "We don't want to be late. Oh who am I kidding we ARE already LATE!"

As a reply, Ron just nodded and nibbled his buttered toast quickly and followed it with his pumpkin juice, not wanting his mother to do something that he would again regret.

When everybody, (that, meaning only Ron) had finished preparing themselves, Molly, apparated them to their destination, Diagon Alley. Apparently, because of Ron, they got delayed by two hours, instead of going there at seven thirty; they reached the alley by nine ten.

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Diagon Alley looked as always, filled with people. Though, there were more people than ordinary days for it was the day students from Hogwarts would buy their necessary necessities for school. Luckily for Cho, she got there in time before more people flooded the area. She had one more shop to attend to particularly, Flourish and Blotts before she could go back to her home. She entered the said store and purchased her schoolbooks.

"Hogwarts' schoolbooks for sixth year students, please," Cho said politely before she was handed her schoolbooks. She paid for them and immediately left.

Just as she was outside the store, two mischievous eleven-year-old boys were running and accidentally knocked over Cho making her let her belongings fly and land at full speed on the ground.

"Great! Just great! This is exactly what I needed at a time like this," Cho sarcastically said to herself loud enough for the people near her to hear and think that she's gone nuts, talking to herself.

She knelt down to the ground to gather up her scattered belongings. Then suddenly, a figure knelt in front of her and started helping her.

"Here, miss, let me help you," he said as he gave her some of her textbooks he picked up. Cho got the books from the stranger's hands. She looked to face the stranger as he did the same. Then she suddenly remembered who the stranger was. He was the oh-so-familiar Ronald Weasley with his Weasley trademark fiery red hair and freckles. Ron seemed to notice who the lady he helped was and it was Cho.

They stared each other in the eyes for minutes. At the corner of both of their eyes, they both noticed that the people walking around them suddenly slowed down, in fact slower than a turtle. When they had finished picking up the scattered things, without looking at what they were picking, just at each other's eyes, they both stood up in a slow manner. Cho flashed a bright smile that made Ron's legs weak for some reason even he doesn't know. He returned the smile and handed her the things he picked up.

"Thank you so much, Ron" Cho said dearly as she got her things from Ron.

"You're welcome Cho," Ron answered sheepishly.

The world was still somewhat in a slow pace, but they were pulled back from their own world back to reality when they heard Hermione, who was about fifteen feet away from them, shout, "Ron there you are!"

"I better be going Ron. I'm sure Harry or Hermione or even you are still mad at me about what had happened last year, "Thanks again."

"Yeah, sure," was all he could answer as he watched Cho walk away.

"Where have you been, Ron?" Hermione asked like a mother who hasn't seen her offspring for a week the second she and Harry reached him.

Ron was still looking at Cho, who wasn't actually visible anymore from where he stood. He got confused as to why he felt like that when he looked at Cho in the eyes which the first time he did so. One question was in his mind, "Does it mean I like her?"

"Ron? Ron?" Harry and Hermione both asked bewildered as to why their friend was acting different.

"Hello! Earth to Ron," Harry said knocking his fist on Ron's skull.

"What? Where's the fire?" Ron asked finally looking at his two confused friends who both chuckled at his answer.

"Oh there's no fire. Now come on Ron, butterbeer will help you flush away all those thoughts inside that head of yours. How does the Three Broomsticks, sound?" Hermione said

"Sounds good to me," Harry agreed, "How 'bout you mate?"

Ron just nodded his head and Hermione and Harry used this as a motion to walk towards the opposite direction where Cho went, where The Three Broomsticks was located. Ron trailed behind them and made a last backward glance, but all he saw were people walking and minding their own business. Somewhat disappointed, he shifted his glance to where he was going to see his mother and other siblings waiting for them at the Three Broomsticks.

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That night, Cho tucked herself to bed. Her parents hadn't come yet from their business affair. Alone, she lay quietly on her bed reliving the moments that she encountered earlier at Diagon Alley, whom with all people; he had to be Ron Weasley. But, when she clearly stared at his eyes, she didn't see anger and hatred instead, she saw happiness. She kept asking to herself why, is that, when their eyes met, the world suddenly got blurred and everybody else was slow. She kept tossing and turning but she can't sleep. This time, not because of her grief over Cedric but the confusion she had for her earlier meeting with Ron that morning.

What she didn't know was at the other part of the world particularly at the Burrow, a certain red-head also kept turning on his bed not because of the noise made by his other siblings, but because he kept wondering, swimming on his thoughts.

They both didn't know that they had the same question lingering in their minds.

"Do I like her?"

"Do I like him?"

Author's Note (again): Thanks for everyone who read and please review!