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A/N: For the Pairing Diversity Boot Camp with Nerves and for the Character Diversity Boot camp with humiliate

'What's wrong with you?' Cedric asked himself. "Just get up the nerve to ask her!"

Cedric Diggory had a serious problem, or maybe to some people it wasn't actually serious; he knew that his friends would make fun of him for making it such a big deal.

He'd had a crush on Cho Chang for just about a year now and really wanted to ask her to go to the Yule Ball with him but didnt' know how to ask. It was embarrassing, and he didn't know what to do.

How could he ask her? Should he make a big speech before asking her? He certainly didn't want to ask her in front of everybody else; talk about humiliating.

That would be the worse thing ever if he did that and he knew it.

But he didn't know what to say, she was beautiful and sweet and just so wonderfully amazing that whenever Cedric tried to ask or her just talk to her he got all tongue-tied.

He knew that he had to ask her soon before somebody else asked her. Cedric sighed softly and decided that maybe a walk would help him calm his nerves.

He walked outside of his dorm room and down the steps, a few students called out hello's to him and he waved rather distractedly at them thinking just how he should ask Cho out.

Cedric walked out of the Hufflepuff Common Room and continued to walk down the passage way. He walked through the doors of Hogwarts to outside because he figured that would help him think better if his head was more clear.

He continued to walk to the Black Lake hoping to be alone but saw that Cho Chang was sitting by a tree looking out at the lake. Cedric froze; uncertain about what to do now. Should he run away before she saw him? She was alone so maybe he should just ask her now?

Cedric cleared his throat which he saw made Cho jump slightly.

"Hi." Cho said smiling brilliantly at him as she did so making him blush furiously.

"Hello." Cedric said suddenly uncomfortable.

He could hear other students walking around and talking but it felt as though they were miles away from him and Cho. He smiled uncertainly at her not quite knowing what to say now.

Cho smiled back and said "Would you like to sit down with me?" Patting a spot of grass beside her.

"Um, sure." Cedric said a part of him wishing that he had run away before drawing attention to himself.

He walked towards Cho and sat down beside her which made her smile. Cedric realized that he loved making her smile and wanted to do it more often.

"Cho? Can I ask you something?" Cedric asked biting his lip nervously.

"Um, sure." Cho said echoing Cedric's words from earlier a curious look in her eyes.

"Well I've wanted to ask you this for a while now but didn't quite know how, actually to be perfectly honest I still don't know how to ask really but I thought that maybe you'd like to gototheyuleballwithme?" Cedric asked hurriedly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch that." Cho said tilting her head to the side curiously.

Cedric took a deep breath and let it out. "Would you like to go to the yule ball with me?" Cedric asked this time more clearly.

Cho's eyes lit up with surprise and a few seconds passed by before Cedric started to feel his heart wrench tightly.

It was silent for a while longer making Cedric feel like he made an idiot out of himself before Cho smiled happily and said "Yes I'd love to go to the Yule Ball with you."

Cedric smiled happily and said "thank you so much, I'm so happy that you said yes."

"Why wouldn't I say yes?" Cho asked.

"I don't know really." Cedric replied.

Cho laughed in amusement and shook her head at him. She had, had a crush on Cedric for a long time now and was completely happy that he had asked her. She knew that they would have a great time.