A/N: I do not own anything. All characters belong to J.K. Rowling.

Chapter 14

The next morning dawned bright and early. Cho went down to breakfast, wearing the ring Draco had given her. When she had inspected closer last night, she had realised that her and Draco's name had been engraved in beautiful flowy script on the inside of the ring.

As she reached her place at the Ravenclaw table, Harry was already waiting for her.

"Hi Harry. What are you doing here?" Cho asked.

"I need to talk to you. Now," Harry stressed in a serious tone.

Cho was confused. What was it that Harry wanted to talk about? Harry dragged her to an empty classroom.

"What is this all about, Harry?" Cho asked, sitting on a table.

"I saw you and Draco together last night. Kissing," Harry said.

"Oh..." Cho said, looking away. She had known it would happen. She knew it! Harry had found out.

"Cho, how could you do this to me?" Harry asked, hurt evident in his eyes.

"I- I-," Cho stuttered, at a loss for words. "I... I'm sorry Harry... I didn't want to tell you... I really do love you Harry... It's just I love Draco too..."

"Malfoy? How could you love Malfoy?" Harry spat.

"I just... can!" Cho said.

"It's the same as loving a cube of ice! Cold, dead, unemotional, hard, mean... Do I need to say more?" Harry exclaimed.

"Harry, don't say that! Once you really get to know Draco, you'll find that he has a softer side!" Cho argued.

Harry snorted. "Yeah, right! Am I really expected to believe that MALFOY of all people is actually capable of feeling! That will be the day money starts growing on trees!"

"Harry, just stop, okay? Stop it!" Cho cried, covering her ears and running out of the room.

She raced all the way to her room, flung her book bag on the floor and started crying into her pillow.

Suddenly, Draco entered the room. His eyebrows creased to see Cho in such a state. "What's wrong Cho?"

Cho looked up and saw Draco, and he was very shocked when Cho suddenly flung herself into Draco's arms and started crying into his robes.

When Cho had calmed down enough, he sat her on his bed and sat down next to her. "Now tell me what happened," he said.

"I- I broke up with Harry," Cho replied.

"Really? Does that mean you can date me in public now?" Draco could barely conceal his joy.

Cho hesitated. Then she remembered what Lucius Malfoy had told her.

"No, Draco, we can't go on," said Cho, not looking Draco in the eyes.

Draco was shocked. "But... why?"

"I... Just can't... Please believe me when I say I have no choice," Cho said.

"Why, Cho, why? I thought we had something!" Draco exclaimed, his robes flying as he got off the bed and started pacing the length of the room.

"We did, but now that something is just not meant to be," Cho answered.

"Cho, please!" Draco pleaded.

"I'm sorry Draco, I just can't..." And with that, Cho removed the ring that Draco had given her. Draco watched in disbelief as Cho took the ring and placed it in the drawer of her bedside cabinet along with the diamond heart necklace.

It broke her heart to see Draco in this state. It pained her to remove her ring, their ring, the symbol of their love.

"I'm sorry Draco," she whispered, but Draco had already gone and buried his nose in another textbook and was reading away furiously. He took no notice of what Cho had said, if he had even heard it.

With one final look at Draco, Cho exited the room to look for Harry.