I'm going ahead and posting the update today because I won't have time to update tomorrow like i was going to. Enjoy the chapter

Summary: Ariana Walker is in her sixth year at Hogwarts. She has never had a boyfriend or even been kissed. After her friends give her make over she gets noticed by the guy she has a crush on for years Oliver Wood. Oliver only succeeds in breaking Ariana's heart and Cedric Diggory is there to pick up the pieces and him and Ariana develop a close friendship. Will their friendship turn into something more?

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CHAPTER 3

The next week Ariana went to all her classes dreading Saturday when it would be time for Quidditch practice. But of course Saturday came faster than it should and after breakfast the Gryffindor Quidditch team found themselves practicing. Practice of course was stressful and time consuming and everyone was glad when it was over and they dragged themselves to the showers. Ariana quickly jumped in the shower and dressed in a pair of jeans and pink top Angelina and Alicia had picked out. She waved her wand to dry her hair and then Angelina and Alicia came in and fixed her make-up.

"Why are you doing this now," she asked.

"Oliver is waiting to talk to you," Angelina said smiling.

"Are you serious?" Ariana asked shocked.

"Yeah," Alicia said. "Now look at us." she added.

"You look great," she said. "Now go talk to Oliver." She added and Ariana walked out and saw Oliver was sitting on a bench in jeans and a t-shirt.

"Ariana," he said standing up.

"Hi Oliver," she said. "I hear you want to talk to me."

"I do," he said. "Come on," he added taking her hand and leading her out of the locker rooms.

They walked in silence for a few minutes before he stopped.

"Ok Ariana," he said. "I like you."

"I like you to Oliver," she said.

"Can you please let me finish," he said and she nodded.

"I was wondering if you would be interested in going out with me sometime?" he asked.

"Really?" she asked.

"Yeah."

"Why do you want to go out with me?" she asked.

"Well you seem nice, I know we don't know each other that well," he said.

"Even though we've been on the same Quidditch team three years." she said.

"Maybe I should have made more of an effort to get to know you, but I am now."

"Why?" she asked.

"Because you are so pretty this year," he said.

"As opposed to last year when I wasn't pretty," she said.

"I don't know what you looked like last year Ariana, I honestly didn't pay attention." he said. "I mean I paid enough attention to know you look different but not that much."

"So if I didn't look like this," she said gesturing to herself. "New hair, make-up would you even be here with me right now?"

"Ariana I…" he said. "I don't know."

"Wrong answer," she said and turned and ran off.

Ariana ran to the library going to her favorite corner where no one ever went. She could be alone here. She took a book off the shelf, romance story and started to read, taking her mind off Oliver Wood. She wiped a tear that ran down her cheek as she tried to concentrate on her book.

Meanwhile Cedric Diggory wasn't having a great day himself. There was this girl he liked. She was a Hufflepuff like him and her name was Ashleigh and he had just asked her out for the third time and she had just turned him down for the third time. He was almost positive she liked him though. He let out a frustrated sigh as he walked in the library and made his way to the corner he liked to sit in, no one ever bothered him there. But as he approached the table, his table, his corner he saw someone sitting there reading a book. Cedric walked over to the table and looked at the girl sitting there immersed in her book.

"This is my table," he said and the girl looked up.

Ariana was sitting reading her book until she was interrupted by a voice,

"This is my table," someone said and Ariana looked up surprised to see Cedric Diggory standing at her table.

"Funny I don't see your name on it." she replied.

"I always come here to be alone," he said.

"Me to," she said and he looked at her.

"You're not going to move are you?" he asked and she shook her head and he sighed. "Well can I join you?" he asked. "No one ever comes back here."

"That's what I thought," she sighed. "But sure sit down."

Cedric sat down and looked over at her.

"I'm Cedric Diggory," he said introducing himself. Ariana lowered her book and looked over at him. Did he seriously think she didn't know who he was.

"There's not a girl in this school who doesn't know who you are," she told him.

"Ok," he said. "We've never met before?" he asked.

"Only to play Quidditch against each other," she told him and he looked at her.

"You're on the Gryffindor team," he said and she nodded. "You're the one who almost took my keepers head off with the quaffle," he added and she smiled. "You have a really fast throw, you can't even see the quaffle as it goes by." he went on and she smiled again. "You play Quidditch for Oliver Wood."

"I play Quidditch for Gryffindor, I don't do a damn thing for Oliver Wood." she told him and he noticed she seemed upset.

"What did he do?" Cedric asked. "What's your name?"

"Ariana Walker," she said and he smiled.

"So what brings you back here to be all by yourself."

"Oliver Wood asked me out," she said.

"And you didn't want him to, I mean there's not a day that goes by some girl in my house isn't talking about him."

"That's not it, it's the way he asked me out."

"What happened?" Cedric asked.

"We had Quidditch practice," she began.

"Already?" Cedric asked surprised.

"Yeah because Oliver's crazy," she told him. "Anyway after Quidditch practice I'm attacked by Angelina and Katie who insist on straightening my hair," she said tugging on her hair. "And doing my make-up, which they've done since we got back here." she sighed. "They tell me Oliver wants to talk to me so I go out and we walk around outside and he asks me out and I ask him why he wants to go out with me."

"Seriously," Cedric said.

"Yeah," she sighed. "And he said you seem nice I know we don't know each other that well. Which is ridiculous because we've been on the same Quidditch team for three years and I told him that," she said.

"What did he have to say to that?" Cedric asked interested.

"Maybe I should have made more of an effort to get to know you, but I am now." she said imitating his voice which made Cedric laugh. "So I asked him why this year and he said because you are so pretty this year."

"He didn't actually say this year," Cedric said and she nodded.

"So I said as opposed to last year when I wasn't pretty," she told him.

"What did he say?"

"He said I don't know what you looked like last year Ariana, I honestly didn't pay attention." she told him. "He said he just knows I look different this year," she sighed. "So I asked him if I didn't look the way I did with new hair and make-up would he be here asking me out and he said he didn't know so I ran off from him."

"And now you're here," he said.

"Yeah," she said. "So what brings you here?"

"There's this girl…"

"Isn't there always," she said and he smiled.

"Anyway there's this girl in my house that I really like and I could have sworn she liked me to but I've asked her out three times and she said no three times."

"Wow Cedric you must enjoy rejection," she said. "Ever thought of backing off a little."

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Maybe you should get to know her better. Don't ask her out, talk to her find out her favorite color and class and what she likes to do on vacation. Give it a couple of weeks and then ask again," she said. "If you like her as much as you say you do a couple of weeks won't kill you."

"I guess I could try that," he said. "And maybe you should give Oliver a chance, it won't kill you right?"

"I guess not," she sighed.

"You're eyes are really blue," Cedric said. "They're pretty."

"Thanks," she said.

"So I'm trying to understand something," he said. "Angelina and Alicia straightened your hair right?"

"Yeah."

"You obviously don't care for it," he said. "So why," he added reaching across the table. "Let them do it if it doesn't make you happy." he added as he ran his fingers through her hair.

"Well they said this was the year for me to get a boyfriend and fall in love." she sighed.

"Well it would have worked if you didn't turn him down."

"Well I would bet anything that if I showed up to breakfast tomorrow looking normal Oliver wouldn't want me anymore." she sighed.

"Then do it," he said.

"What?"

"Show up tomorrow morning normal and see what he does." he said. "Do you like Oliver?"

"Yeah, I like him, I want to go out with him."

"Why not give him a chance?" Cedric asked.

"Why not," she sighed.