Aurora sat on a stone bench as the rain poured down outside in the courtyard. A couple of girls giggled as they ran through the rain complaining on how late they were going to be for Professor Snape's class. She barely even looked up as she continued to sketch in her notebook. The Slytherin girl had her free period right now and instead of thrusting herself into the library or Dining Hall, she chose a very secluded bench to calm down her nerves. She let in a big intake of breath as she let the smell of rain fill her lungs as she let out a deep sigh. She could tell how cold the atmosphere was around her, but her mind was thrust into another world entirely different from the world she lives in.

Right now, Aurora was in a field of wildflowers with a woman in a white dress, trying to captivate the wind blowing the dress and the flowers with its vibrant colors. On her right was Claude Monet himself, drawing the woman but in his muggle form techniques but occasionally peeking at hers and giving advice. She imagined that the mysterious woman they were painting was actually her mother, staring off into the distance with a hint of a smile on her face. Aurora's strokes suddenly stopped as her imagination turned dark as she knew her mom wouldn't be standing on a painting but torturing the artist until he couldn't take it anymore. Being from a pureblood, muggle hating family makes it difficult to sit down and enjoy artwork that was made by a muggle.

Suddenly, someone jumped up behind her and sat down on the bench next to her with a squishy plop. Aurora jumped and slammed her sketchbook closed and set it aside, fearing that it was Draco who had snuck up on her. Instead, it was a ridiculously drenched Cedric smiling at her as she rolled her eyes. She honestly didn't know how this boy could not take a hint that she has no interest in becoming his friend.

"What are you drawing?"

"Art for class. Something I should be getting back to" Aurora looked at him with a pointed look, "What? Did you fall into the lake or something? Nevermind! I don't want to know"

"I ran from Herbology class to put my name into the Goblet"

Aurora scoffed but then realized what he said and turned and looked at him. He gave her a toothless smile and nodded. In a way, Aurora felt almost jealous that he put his name in the Goblet, but she never would've figured that Cedric would do such a thing.

"Did you really?" Aurora questioned.

Aurora didn't need a response as a couple of Hufflepuff students came over and congratulated him and patted him on his back. When they looked over to her, Aurora gave them a glare which made the Hufflepuffs gasp and quickly continued down the hallway.

Cedric scoffed and shook his head, making Aurora look over to him.

"Why do you do that?" Cedric asked.

"What?"

"Act like your mother"

"You don't know my mother" Aurora scoffed.

"I know her reputation and you act like you are the one that has it under your belt" Cedric countered.

"That's what these people are afraid of" Aurora mumbled, "Mind as well make them fear for it"

"Not all of them fear it or you" Cedric got up and pointed at the book, "When you're finished with that drawing, I would love to have it"

Aurora looked down to her sketchbook and picked it up before looking back down the hallway to Cedric walking away. She rolled her eyes and walked the opposite way as she was starting to get annoyed by his constant appearing out of nowhere, talking to her nonstop, and then leaving just as suddenly as he appeared. Aurora vowed to herself that she was going to be the next one to randomly walk away. In her mind, she imagined when she was going to do it, before or after he talks about her mothers reputation or maybe when he flashes her his million dollar smile. Aurora smiled to herself as she imagined him calling after her as she held her head high up and continued to march on. She didn't realize it at the moment, but that was when Aurora was starting to look forward to Cedric finding her.

"I can't believe it's time!" Gabriella squealed later that night, "I wonder who our champion is"

"I'm guessing it's Douglass or maybe even Thomas" Aurora noted, "I know that Douglass has been doing nothing but training himself ever since he put his name into the Goblet. He changed the whole common room into his own training room"

"Don't remind me" Devery scrunched up her nose, "I still feel like I smell like his sweat"

"I really wish I could've joined" Aurora mused, "I would make my father proud of me. It would also give the students a little taste of what I could do. Of course the Ministry puts up that stupid age limit. I want Eternal Glory more than anything"

"My, my" Devery smiled, "I've never heard you so riled up"

"It's just with everything that's happening right now" Aurora looked around before leaning in closer, "The Dark Mark's burning and the Triwizard Tournament raid"

"I know, but keep it down" Gabriella whispered, "The Dark Lord would no be too pleased if we were the ones to ruin his plans"

"Point taken" Aurora glanced over and noticed that the staff members had just started to walk in, "Finally! I feel like we've been sitting here for a whole hour. I want to know who each champion is. It's the only reason why I'm here"

"In due time"

"Yes" Aurora nodded, "After a useless speech from the Headmaster. The old man just finds excuses to talk. I honestly don't remember a single one of them. It's making me dread the day that we graduate"

"If the war hasn't started yet" Devery hinted.

"Hopefully it will be this year-" Aurora said.

"May I have your attention, please?" Dumbledore spoke up.

"Here we go," Gabriella squealed.

"It's time to reveal the champions of the Triwizard Tournament" Dumbledore yelled out, "Let us begin. Good luck to the three that are to be selected"

The students watched as Dumbedore's hand waved to each fire, dimming each of them till the only fire that illuminated the room was the Goblet of Fire. Aurora couldn't help but glance over to the Hufflepuff table, it took her a couple of seconds but she found Cedric whose eyes were fixated on the fire. Aurora sighed as she turned back to the flame turning a different color, there was no way that Cedric will be the champion, he's a Hufflepuff! Nothing remarkable comes out of that House, except for the idiot who accidentally released his collection of animals in America, but otherwise, that's it. The fire exploded as a scroll flew out into the air and fluttered over to Dumbledore.

Aurora gasped as he snatched it, "The first one"

"The Drumstrang champion is... Viktor Krum!" Dumbledore yelled out.

Devery shrugged and clapped her hands, "Of course it is"

Everyone around Aurora cheered as Viktor got up from his bench and made his way over to Dumbledore. Draco got up and let out a whistle to show his support of the Drumstrang. Aurora scoffed and rolled her eyes to her cousin as he seemed to be the happiest one of all, aside from the women in the Hall. The fire turned magenta yet again as it shot out another piece of parchment paper in the resemblance of a fan. Aurora waited as the Beauxbatons girls whispered excitedly about who might be picked.

"The Beauxbatons champion is... Fluer Delacour" Dumbledore announced. A shrill cry came from the end of the hallway as the tall and willowy blonde girl came up to Dumbledore with a proud smile on her face.

Aurora couldn't help but notice the rolling of the eyes of some girls and stink faces as Gabriella let out a groan of disdain. The witch looked so beautiful that she could've easily passed as one of the nymphs in the Forbidden Forest.

The fire shot out the last parchment of paper to represent Hogwarts, making all of the students quiet down. Devery glanced over to Aurora and gave an excited smile as they both straightened up as if that would make Dumbledore read faster. "The Hogwarts champion is... Cedric Diggory!"

"What?!" Aurora let out as she felt her palms begin to sweat and her heartbeat rapidly.

Cedric got up from his place as everyone cheered for him. He seemed to take his time as he patted some of his friends who had reached out to congratulate him. Cedric took his parchment of paper and walked over to the back of the room. He never once glanced over to Aurora as he approached the trophy room, making her bow down her head and nonchalantly clap, not too sure what she was truly expecting from him. Then suddenly, she felt a light trace of his fingertips across her back as he passed, making Aurora gasp and blush at the hidden feeling. She glanced up to him as he turned his head slightly and glanced at her from the corner of his eye.