I awoke on Christmas morning to the sound of Emily, Min and Marietta laughing. I stretched and yawned, rubbed by eyes and looked over at Marietta whose curly red hair had tinsel wrapped in it. I smiled and looked by the foot of my bed to see five presents wrapped in different color paper and bows of silver, gold and blue. I climbed out of bed and walked into the dormitory bathroom, ran cold water and splashed it on my face to let myself wake up.

"Hurry up, Cho!" I heard Emily call.

"Coming!" I yelled, wiping my face with a dry towel and turning the water off.

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Despite the fact that it was Christmas, the first couple of hours seemed to go by real slow. I woke up at seven and it was eight o'clock by the time I was finished opening presents. Mother sent me a silver necklace that she told me to wear to the Yule Ball and five Chocolate Frogs (one girl can never have too much Chocolate Frogs), Emily gave me a new eagle feather quill, SuYoung also gave me a new quill but it was from a peacock. Marietta gave me two inkwells one that was blue and one that sparkled when you wrote. Min gave me a book on the Toyashi Tengu Quidditch team from Japan (since she was Japanese herself). During the process of opening presents and changing out of our pajamas, each of us went back and forth talking about the Yule Ball. Emily had a robe of soft lavender with frills at the end of the sleeves and at the bottom of the robe. Marietta had a pastel blue one that had a hood attached to it with lace at the end of the robe and at the sleeves.

SuYoung walked into the dormitory with silver tinsel in her hair. "Cho," she began, "I was just walking down the stairs when I ran into Cedric. He wants to talk to you. He had a gift in his hand; I think it's for you."

Emily squealed. "A Christmas present for you! I wonder what it is!"

"He must really like you, Cho! He got you something," Marietta said.

"I don't have anything for him…" I mumbled.

Min handed me a gold bag with tissue paper in it and grabbed my eagle feather quill and stuffed it in the bag.

"Hey!" Emily protested. "That was my present to Cho! I don't want Cedric to have it!"

"Well, I do," I said taking the bag from Min. "I don't have anything to give him and quills are always nice things to give."

"That's why I gave one to you."

"I know, Emily, but please. I bet he got me something really nice…and I just don't have anything."

"Blah, fine. Tell me if he likes it or not."

I smiled. "Thanks, Emily." I walked out of the dormitory, down to the common room and passed the Knight. I walked down two flights of stairs before I finally saw Cedric walking down a flight of stairs. "Cedric!" I called after him.

He turned around. SuYoung was right – he did have a box – a rather small one – in his hand that was wrapped with silver and blue paper with a silver bow. I gripped his present tightly in my hand and walked down to meet him. "Cho."

I smiled. "Hey…" I never felt so nervous giving someone a Christmas present before. "Erm… I got something for you… You know, for Christmas…" I offered it to him.

A smile spread across his face as he accepted the gift. "Thanks, Cho. Um, I got you something too…" He handed the present to me.

I felt myself blushing red. Why was I so shy? "Thanks." There was a moment of silence and then Cedric kissed me. I was a little taken back by it…kissing in the middle of the Grand Staircase while walking down stairs. Together we pulled away and we were both pink in the face.

Cedric cleared his throat. "Well, I guess I'll see you after breakfast."

"Um…yeah. 'Bye, Cedric." I walked back up the stairs to the Ravenclaw Tower, passed the Knight, in the common room and up the stairs to my dormitory. Everyone was still in there including SuYoung who had taken my place on my bed.

"That was quick," Min said.

"Yeah, well—"

"What happened?" Marietta asked.

I looked at her. "What're you talking about?"

"Something obviously happened if you didn't take that long."

"Oh…well…nothing really… I just gave him the present and he gave me mine…"

"And?" SuYoung jumped in, wanting to know everything. She was looking at the present in my hand back to my face.

"Erm…we sort of kissed…just once though."

A smirk spread across Marietta's face. "You guys are that close already…?"

"It's Christmas, Marietta, let it go!" I said.

She stifled her giggles in her hands.

Emily looked at her. "Forget it. What did he get you?"

"I don't know," I replied.

"Open it already!" she urged.

SuYoung got off my bed and sat on the floor and I sat down at the foot of my bed. I peeled off the bow and the wrapping paper to discover and long velvet blue box. Everyone gathered around my bed as I opened it to reveal a silver charm bracelet. There was already a charm on it: a heart.

"Ooo…look!" Min said, smiling.

I took it out of the box.

"Let me put it on for you!" Emily squealed.

"Okay," I said as she took the bracelet from me and I offered her my wrist.

She clasped the bracelet on and looked at the charm. "He's so sweet, Cho."

I smiled. "I know…"

It was quiet for a while until Min said that she wanted to go down for breakfast. Everyone agreed with her and together we clambered out of the dormitory and out of the common room. I walked behind everyone gripping the wrist that the charm bracelet was on. Wow, he must really like me… He's so sweet… I can't believe I didn't even think about getting him anything… You knew he was getting you something, Cho! a voice inside my head told me. "I know…" I mumbled back. "I should hold onto him…" We walked into the Great Hall and to the Ravenclaw table where there were a few people munching on breakfast, talking to their friends about Christmas, the Yule Ball and presents.

I saw that Cedric was sitting at the Hufflepuff table talking among two of his friends. I wondered what they were talking about. Cedric didn't seem like the guy that would take about his girlfriend to all of his friends but it was every once in awhile when I saw his friends looking back at me from the corner of their eyes.

"He's not talking about anything bad," Marietta said to me, interrupting my train of thought.

"I know but one can never wonder too much," I told her.

"I think you do. Cho, Cedric would never talk bad about you. He's too sweet and if you don't see that, then I don't know what you see in him."

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Author's Note: This isn't leading up to anything bad so the ending isn't what you think but it really makes you wonder what Cedric really talked about among his friends. ^.^ Thanks for everyone who's been reviewing! It's much appreciated.