WC: 1,238

Edited 6/9/16

It was now time for the picking of the champions, which was a week after the Halloween Feast.

"Mr. Viktor Krum!" Dumbledore exclaimed, after snatching the first piece of paper.

Liesel gasped as her cousin stood up from the Slytherin table.

"Miss Fleur Delacour," Dumbledore continued.

A petite blonde girl got up from the Ravenclaw table and joined Viktor in the back room.

Liesel couldn't help but notice the Weasley twins and Lee staring at her. She couldn't help but wonder.

What was so special about her?

"Mr. Cedric Diggory," the Headmaster said finally.

Cedric stood up from the Hufflepuff table. After he bid his goodbyes to his housemates, unexpectedly, another piece of paper bursted out of the Goblet of Fire.

"Mr. Harry Potter," Dumbledore exclaimed in a rather grave tone.

There was complete silence. Harry was barely fourteen, how could that have happened?

After the feast, she caught up with Cedric, just outside the Great Hall. She knew her cousin had entered the tournament, but not her friend – or, as she liked to call him -, her not-yet-boyfriend.

"Diggory!" she shouted.

The brown-haired boy turned to his livid friend, smirking. At that moment, Liesel could have just slapped that smirk off his pretty face.

"Why didn't you tell me you were entering the tournament?"

"It was a last minute decision, Liesel," Cedric tried to explain.

For a few moments, Liesel stared at the boy before nodding hastily. She was on the verge of leaving him alone, when Cedric suddenly pulled her back towards him. The next thing she felt were his soft lips on hers. Despite it not being her first kiss, her knees went weak and her heart skipped a beat. She had dreamed about doing this with him since last term and it was finally happening.

"I've wanted to do that for so long," Cedric said, pulling away and resting his forehead against hers.

Liesel smiled sweetly at him.

It was the weekend, and the couple had gone on a low-key Hogsmeade date, though Liesel still kept getting multiple jealous glares from said admirers.

"I've had a lot of fun today," Liesel smiled while they were walking back from Hogsmeade, hand in hand.

"I'm glad, you deserve it," Cedric replied.

Liesel blushed. Part of her still couldn't process the fact that he chose her, out of everyone else. She was just a rather plain, bookish girl, while he was one of the most popular boys in school.

They continued their walk back to the castle, when somebody shouted after them.

"Liesel!" Joanna yelled angrily.

She turned to her best friend innocently, still holding her boyfriend's hand. Joanna glared at Cedric and tried to drag her best friend away from him.

"I was having fun with my boyfriend, what's your problem?" Liesel asked in an annoyed tone.

"How long has this been going on?" Joanna huffed.

"None of your business," Liesel dismissed.

Joanna looked taken aback for a second, but recovered quickly. "That boy is trouble and you know it."

"Cedric would be a perfect gentleman, if you'd give him a chance," Liesel pleaded.

Joanna continued scolding as they finally reached their dorm. "Cedric is just going to break your heart again."

"No, he's not," Liesel said, not appreciating the warning from her slightly older friend. She was acting like she was her mother or something.

Joanna huffed. "Don't come running to me to pick up the pieces, when he does though."

"I won't. You're just jealous that my cousin hasn't given you the time of the day yet!" Liesel snapped, immeadiatley regretting what she just said.

"He's caught up with that bloody bushy-haired, Gryffindor know-it-all!" Joanna explained.

Hermione was possibly interested in her cousin; though she didn't know for sure. Well, maybe it was time to give her the 'Hurt my cousin, I'll hurt you' talk. She never thought a girl like Hermione would be interested in Viktor, though, but if she was, she would have to take the necessary precautions.

A few days later, she caught up with Viktor in the library. This was a pretty unlikely location to find him, since he wasn't much of a reader, but then she saw Hermione sitting next to him. It sounded like she was reading out loud to him, and he was hanging on her every word. She sauntered over and sat across from her cousin and the brunette.

"Oh, hi, Liesel," Hermione greeted her older acquaintance.

"Hey, Hermione," Liesel smiled back.

The brunette replied. "Oh, have you met Viktor?"

Liesel chuckled. "Let's just say I could tell you loads of embarrassing stories about him."

Viktor just blushed, his face bright red, while Hermione looked rather confused.

"He's my cousin, we've grown up together," Liesel explained.

Hermione's eyes flickered between the light-haired, light-eyed girl and the dark-haired, dark-eyed man, looking confused.

"I know, we look nothing alike, but we are cousins. His mum is my dad's younger sister," Liesel commented.

Hermione then nodded in understanding.

"Well, I guess my work here is done," Liesel said, after a few minutes of chatting. She then got on her feet and sauntered out of the library.

As she was leaving the place, she overheard Fred and George Weasley insulting her cousin by calling him dumb.

"Stop talking about Vik- Krum like that!" she yelled at the redhead twins.

"Not another one, who has fallen for 'Dumb Krum's' charms!" Fred rolled his eyes.

For the most part she got along with his twin, George, but usually, Fred was a lot more vocal, and it usually didn't take much of him to anger Lisel.

She grimaced internally. "Sod off, Weasley!" She yelled back.

"Make me, Epstein!"

"Break it up, you three!" shouted McGonagall from the other end of the hallway, sternly walking over to the group.

"She started it!" Fred claimed.

"Weasley, you bloody liar. You started it by insulting Krum."

McGonagall shook her head, figuring this was a dispute about Mr. Weasley insulting Ms. Epstein's crush on Mr. Krum.

She rubbed her temple and said. "Twenty points from Hufflepuff and Gryffindor."

McGonagall then nodded and continued her walk through the castle. Lisel bid her goodbye as well, and when she reached the Hufflepuff Common Room, she noticed Cedric, who was sitting on the couch.

"Hey, Ced," she greeted, taking a seat on the couch next to him.

Cedric turned to face her and kissed his girlfriend's cheek.

She smiled back at him.

"So, what's wrong?" Cedric inquired.

Liesel sighed and said. "I got twenty points taken away, thanks to the Weasley twins."

That was also another thing they shared, since both Lisel and Cedric tended to easily get in quarrels with the Weasley twins - or at least Fred. Though, with Cedric, the reason might have been the rivalry between the two Quidditch teams, and the fact that one of the Gryffindor chasers, Angelina Johnson had taken up a fancy for Cedric as well.

"What did they do?" He asked, breaking his girlfriend out of her inner thoughts.

"They insulted Viktor Krum."

Cedric's brown eyes darkened. "Should I be jealous?" He inquired jokingly.

She grabbed a pillow from the couch, threw it at her boyfriend. "Gross, he's my cousin!"

"You're related to Viktor Krum; is that how you got the tickets to the Quidditch World Cup?"

Liesel nodded. "I know; we don't look like it but we are related."

Cedric then breathed a sigh of relief and wrapped his arm around her.