Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter; it owns me.
Author's Note: If anyone was waiting for an update, I am truly sorry for making you wait. I have been traveling for 2 months but now I'm back home and jobless, so I'm back to normal, I think. Thank you everyone, I am far too lazy to open another window and find all your names and put them on here. But I will in the next one, for sure, because I know how important it is, lol. I've kind of lost track of my story, forgive me, so this chapter might not seem together, but I tried. Note that I don't know how old Hogwarts is, so if anyone can help me out with that, it would be lovely.
"Okay, you have got to stop walking like that." Cedric advises Jimmy.
"Walking like what?" Jimmy asks, confused.
"Well," Cedric falters, "like a Troll."
Jimmy makes a big gasping noise. "You arse. Who do you think you are, telling a girl she walks like a troll? You walk like a prostitute!" Although it seems like Jimmy is angry, she tries extremely hard to stifle her laughter at being told she resembles a Troll. She always thought she had some sort of disorder because every time people throw insults at her, she laughs.
"Well, you do!" Cedric exclaims, glad that Jimmy didn't get offended and slap him. "Just put one foot in front of the other, but do it briskly, and in large steps." Cedric shakes his head, "I can't believe I'm teaching you how to walk."
"No one asked you to." Jimmy replies. "I happen to find my own Troll strut very sexy."
"Oh yes, it's really attractive." Cedric blurts, and then clears his throat. "But not for Roger Davies.
Cedric and Jimmy walk up to the North Tower for Divination. They continue talking until they reach the ladder.
"Oh look, a ladder." Jimmy points out. "I don't think I'll be able to climb it, what with my Troll-like features."
"And I don't think I will be with my 6-inch clear heels either." Cedric retorts.
"Are you suggesting bunking class?" Jimmy asks, in an excited whisper.
"Nice try, Jim. I know it's not the most fun, but you'll need it for your exams." Cedric argues.
"But all you do is make up a load of bollocks that involves people getting hurt, and you get full marks." Jimmy says, not incorrectly.
"Where would we go?" Cedric asks nervously. "What if we get caught?" He whispers urgently.
"Trelawney won't care. She'll predict it." Jimmy says, taping her finger on her head. "Harry lent me his invisibility cloak yesterday. I'm sure he won't care if it's used again. Plus, I need to go to Zonko's and pick up something."
Cedric stares at her, unconvinced.
"Please? When was the last time you bunked class?" Jimmy presses.
"Never, because I've never had to! And you don't have to! You'll get in trouble." Cedric tells her. However, he can't help but think what it is like to bunk class. He must be the only one in Hogwarts who hasn't done it. Roger's done it loads of times, but Cedric never went because he was too scared of being caught. But it's his last year at Hogwarts, Divination is a load of rubbish, Jimmy has an invisibility cloak with her, and school is over after the class, so why not go?
"Fine." Cedric gives up. "I'll go."
"Yes! I know you'd come around. Meet me in the front in 10 minutes." Jimmy instructs him.
In exactly ten minutes, Jimmy is at the front of the school, presenting a silver cloak to Cedric.
"That doesn't look invisible to me." Cedric says in a disgruntled tone.
"That's because you have to get under it first, you crackerjack." Jimmy says before pulling Cedric under the cloak with her.
Since Cedric and Jimmy are two grown people, especially Cedric with his build, space proves to be rather cramped under the cloak. Jimmy could feel the barely visible stubble on Cedric's face and could smell his aftershave ten times stronger than usual. She continuously wishes in her head that they would get out of the grounds and out of this uncomfortable situation quickly. She had never even been this close to anyone physically before, and it is giving her the slightest…spasm, is the best way to put it.
"Stop shaking." Cedric commands. "The cloak might fall off."
"Sorry, it's really cold." Jimmy retorts, pretending to shiver by making noises with her teeth to back up her excuse. Cedric considers putting his arm around her, but decides it would just be too weird. Soon enough, to both their relief, they were past the grounds and could walk normally and return to their usual banter, which beats the uncomfortable silence from when they were under the cloak. Jimmy, who's usually forward about everything, chose to ignore the topic and move on.
"This is very wrong." Cedric thinks out loud, staring at the Village empty of students, except for a flaming red haired pair in the distance, which were probably Fred and George. "Look, even the twins are here, so you know it's wrong."
"Oh, they're not bad. Very intelligent. George has been after Emily for ages…" Jimmy rambles as they walk past The Three Broomsticks.
Cedric stops in his steps, looking aghast. "Are we going to Madame Puddifoot's?" He asks, eyes wide.
Jimmy's shoulders fall and she rolls her eyes, "Yes, that's exactly how we're going to spend this time when we should be at school. Dream on, we're going to the Hog's Head."
"Oh good, I can't stand that tea shop. Cho loves it so I always take her there and it's such a pain but I know it's just for some time and---did you say the Hog's Head?" Cedric stops walking suddenly and holds Jimmy back from walking too.
"Yes. It's cheaper and there are less people to snitch on us. Plus, I always see interesting people there." Jimmy resumes her walk before Cedric's arm stops her again.
"It's dangerous. And who would want to snitch on us when we're almost the only ones here?" Cedric argues.
"You'd be shocked." Jimmy doesn't bother trying to resume her steps. "I swear to God it's more fun. C'Mon Ced, be a man. Have you ever been in there before?"
"No, and I'm glad." Cedric says.
"Well, consider this a day of many firsts." Jimmy says before she starts to walk again, Cedric following.
Cedric had never had so much fun in his life. He'd been to Hogsmeade countless times before, but never seen it the way Jimmy showed it to him previously. At the Hog's Head, they ordered about seven butterbeers and shared a Firewhiskey. They openly laughed at everyone who walked through the door, because they were always so strange looking. When Cedric got up, he fell off his chair, causing everyone strange to laugh at him as well as getting him and Jimmy kicked out of the pub.
"Who the bloody hell gets kicked out of the Hog's Head, of all places?" Jimmy has trouble saying, in between laughter.
Jimmy had to hold Cedric by the shoulder for a good twenty minutes before he regained himself. Then, they went to the Shrieking Shack, where Cedric was dared to climb over the fence and stick a picture of Eloise Midgeon on the door. After he spent about 40 minutes doing it, Jimmy felt bad for Eloise and took it off, getting a very annoyed response from Cedric.
After walking around aimlessly, causing mayhem in the most discreet ways, they sauntered into Zonko's, where Jimmy needed to buy something. Cedric, being aware that Zonko's products were strictly forbidden in the school, kept reminding Jimmy of the trouble she would be in if caught, but did nothing to stop her. He even bought a few things himself.
"You're Head Boy!" Jimmy exclaimed, snatching the concoction that made toenails grow rapidly.
"It can be your punishment for bunking class." Cedric replied, grabbing it back from her. "Plus, I might need to use that Medusa thing you have in your hand on you. Long toenails and snakes for hair, I daresay, would look beautiful on you. Roger will fall for you in a second." Cedric said before running to the other end of the store.
They walked into stores they never even know existed in Hogsmeade, like a used book store which only sold books that taught spells and had odd features (The Monster Book of Monsters was in there). They picked up the latest Weird Sisters music as well as Celestina Warbeck's latest, which Cedric claimed was for his mother but everyone knows better.
Now Cedric and Jimmy are trying out all kinds of sweets at Honeydukes. It had been a while since he had gone there, since Cho was always so weight conscious. Jimmy was too, but she'd shove a chocolate in her mouth every time she complained her calves were getting too fat. Cedric had a freakish affinity for Cockroach Clusters and Blood-flavoured candy.
"Maybe you were a vampire in your last life." Jimmy justifies while chewing chocolate.
"What makes you think it was only in my last life?" Cedric replies.
"Well, who would've known? Our very own Head Boy." She shakes her head.
"No, I really am a vampire." Cedric says, gravely.
Jimmy gets worried. Maybe that's why he's helping her with Roger, blood! She recalls having a conversation with Emily about Cedric being too perfect, that there was something wrong with him. So he wasn't a serial killer, but a vampire.
"I knew there was something wrong with you." Jimmy says softly, a little bit of fear in her voice.
Cedric bursts laughing. "Bloody hell, you are the most paranoid person I have ever met. What did you think I was?"
"Emily reckoned you are mentally challenged, and I said you were a serial killer. I guess we were both wrong." Jimmy confesses, being fully sure that Cedric is normal.
Cedric glimpses at the window and notices it's dark.
"Merlin! What time is it? We better get back to the castle. People will worry." Cedric realizes. "I guess there are perks to being a loser, like you, Jim." He adds, standing at the door.
"Very funny." Jimmy says, not wanting to get under the cloak with Cedric and bring back that awkward episode. "We're using the secret entrance into the castle."
Cedric's jaw drops. Jimmy explains to him what George told her and Emily about the secret passage through Honeydukes.
"Oh, so that's why." Cedric figures.
"What?"
"Roger said he saw you and Emily on the One-Eyed Witch's hump the other day. You two better watch more carefully. Imagine how strange…"
"That's horrible! He probably thought we were insane."
"It's all right, I can tell him it's a passage and he won't think it's so weird then."
"No, don't tell anyone about this passage." Jimmy warns him, and Cedric agrees.
"Why didn't we come in that way?" Cedric asks.
Jimmy is at a loss for words. Why didn't they come that way? It would've saved time and an unnecessary scene. Perhaps subconsciously, she wanted to be under…never mind. She pushes the idea out of her head.
"I saw Filch there earlier." Jimmy lies, while walking down the passage to the castle.
Cedric senses there's something strange about Jimmy's voice, but he shrugs it off. A heavy, imaginary stone drops in his stomach when he realizes that Jimmy probably only took him to Hogsmeade today so he could train her on how to make Roger like her. It was the last thing on his mind, and it hurt him to think that behind all they did today was an expectation from her. He decides he needs to get this whole issue out of the way before it gets worse.
When they get out through the One-Eyed Witch's hump, they notice the corridor is deserted.
"Where is everyone? It's not dinner yet." Jimmy says.
"Let's head for the Great Hall." Cedric starts walking. Sure enough, there was a crowd in the entrance hall. They split up and find their own friends.
"What's going on?" Cedric inquires a fourth year from his house.
"They're having a ball in April, to celebrate the 2000th Anniversary of the School."
Cedric sees his mission go from a plan so unorganised to one end. He has to get Roger to ask Jimmy to the ball, and all is over and done. It's only November, he's got plenty of time.