A New Life with the Old Chapter Two: "The Truth. Never Prevails"

**Disclaimer** I do not claim any of the characters in this story they all belong to J. K. Rowling. They do not belong to me. Words in these "// //" are the thoughts of the other characters not Cho.

She stared intently fixated on the man who had just walked through the door at Serendipity. In disbelief she saw what she was dreading to be. She saw the one she loved the one she had cared so much as to risk her life for, just walked into her life again out of some miracle, he had risen from the dead. It was he she was sure of it, who else could it be but he, there was only one he and there he was alive in front of her very own eyes. She walked up to him not knowing if her conclusion was right and asked so boldly if she knew him.

"No miss I don't think we have ever met."

" You look like someone I knew. It's as if the two of you could be one in the same. I'm sorry to have bothered you."

"No, not at all, it was no problem. May I ask what his name is?"

"His name," she asked with curiosity as to whom he was talking about, forgetting that that wasn't who she had expected it to be.

"The name of the guy who I remind you of, maybe I know him?"

"His name was Cedrick Diggory."

//How does she know my name? What does she mean by "His name was?" Is it possible that my past may have some connection to her or is she stalking me? //

"How do you know my name?" he said with an alert and worried voice.

"That was my high school boyfriend's name. I had no clue it was your name. I think I should leave." She said with tears swelling in her eyes, threatening to release it's self. She ran out of the quaint little coffee shop.

He stared at the door as it flung shut in amazement and astonishment. As though he had meet her before he felt a certain love and longing for her, as if they had meet before. He thought he was being paranoid, some girl he has no idea who she is comes up to him in a coffee shop, and he thinks he has feelings for her, yeah right like she would feel the same for him, she loved her high school boyfriend not him.

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As she headed down the street to work she thought about what had happened at the coffee shop, was it him, the one that belonged to her, the same guy who promised to marry her after they ended Hogwarts? So much pain and memory came as she had looked at him and saw Cedrick's face, her Cedrick, all the good and bad times she had had with him and especially the day that she lost him, his funeral, they all came rushing back to her.

She almost lost control of herself it were not for her friend's voice interrupting her thought. She felt the tears retreat as if nothing had happened, as if there was no pain at all.

"Hey you look like you just saw a ghost or something," said Cho's friend Mariana, who everyone called Bloody Mary as a joke. She never mind the insult, she would actually take it as a compliment.

"I feel as if I did just see a ghost."

"What do you mean? Who did you see?"

"I saw this guy who looked like my Hogwarts boyfriend."

Marianna had also attended Hogwarts, she was and still is Cho's best friend, and they were both Hufflebuffs.

"You mean Cedrick Diggory?"

"Yes! For god's shakes I can't even say his name, look at me I am still dwelling over the past. Will I ever be able to get over what happened, will I ever be able to put it behind me?"

"You need time that's all. It was hard on you when you lost him; there was nothing you could have done. Don't worry, you have gotten over it, it's just that the pains still there, and it all came back to you when you saw this guy and was hoping it was him."

"I know but the weird thing is that he has the same name as. well you know who."

"No I don't know who."

Cho looked at her friend with pleading eyes, not wanting to say his name.

"You know, you have to say his name at some point or another."

"Well can it not be now?"

"Whenever you're ready I'm here for you."

"I know. Don't worry I'll be ready in due time, I have an odd feeling soon, very soon," she said with a hint of worry in her voice.