Author's Note: Oh, I forgot something. In the last chapter, the Toyashi Tengu Quidditch team, I got that courtesy of www.mugglenet.com. I forgot to mention that. Sorry that I haven't updated in awhile. My Internet has gone haywire and so had my computer and I don't know how to fix it. I hope this makes up for it!

Disclaimer: Don't own anything and you know it! Just this fanfic…

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It was six-thirty and already I was in the dormitory getting ready. I dressed into my blue robe and snapped on the necklace my mother gave me; Cedric's present to me was still dangling on my wrist. Marietta, Emily, and Min walked in and decided to help me get ready. I was really nervous and my hands were sweating the whole time. Marietta, Emily, Min, and SuYoung hurriedly dressed after they helped me.

"Shall we head off?" Emily asked glancing at herself one last time in the mirror and readjusted the curls in her hair. Her watch read seven forty-five.

"Yes, we should before we're late," I said, throwing back my long black hair. "I can't be late."

Marietta looked at me. "What do you mean?"

"The champions and their partners are opening up the Yule Ball."

"They're calling you partners?" she asked. "It's more like dates. Partners…" She shook her head.

SuYoung walked into our dormitory dressed in robes of pale ruby. Her shiny brown hair was flowing behind her as she squealed, "I'm ready for this!"

"Come on," I said, walking out of the dormitory and to the common room. It was surprising to see the people in the common room dressed in robes of different colors instead of the wave of black that was usually seen. "Let's go." I motioned them to follow me.

We walked down the Grand Staircase and into the entrance hall where many people had already begun to gather around the Great Hall entrance. Professor McGonagall was easily spotted over everyone. I saw Harry with Parvati Patil of Gryffindor, Krum was with a girl that I didn't recognize. Fleur was with the captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, Roger Davies.

I saw Cedric waiting for me. "Hey, I'm going to go with Cedric, okay?" I said, making all four of them giggle horribly. I blushed. "I'll see you later okay?"

They nodded and went off in the other direction. I walked over to Cedric who was very close to Harry and Parvati. He looked very handsome with his hair done and in robes of crimson. He smiled as I walked toward him. "Hi, Cedric," I said, hoping to hide myself from blushing."

"Cho…" He was staring at me from head to toe. "You look very…"

"Pretty?" I tried to finish for him.

"Beautiful."

I blushed as butterflies fluttered in my stomach. "Thanks, Cedric. You look very handsome."

"Champions over here, please!" Professor McGonagall said. She was wearing red-checkered robes and a hat with wreaths of thistle around the brim. The champions and their partners walked to McGonagall who told us to wait on one side of the doors while everyone else went into the Great Hall.

Once everyone was inside Professor McGonagall told us to line in pairs and to follow her. My stomach was churning. I tried to calm myself as we followed her. Everyone in the Great Hall applauded as soon as we walked in. I felt really special at that moment. I looked up at Cedric – though he was taller than me by about a head and a half – I could tell he was smiling. We walked up toward a large round table at the top of the Hall. I looked around and noticed that the Hall was covered in sparkling silver frost with hundreds of mistletoe and ivy crossing the starry black ceiling. The House tables were gone and instead there were about a hundred smaller ones that could seat about a dozen people. Professor Dumbledore smiled as we approached the top table. Karkaroff wasn't smiling but more like glaring at us and next to him was Ludo Bagman who was clapping excitedly. Madame Maxime was dressed in a gown of lavender silk and was applauding and beside her was Percy Weasley who must have taken Mr. Crouch's place. We all sat down and the crowd stopped applauding and turned around to their tables which all had small menus on them.

"Interesting," I heard Cedric mumble. He looked over at me.

"I'm confused," I said.

He smiled and opened his menu. He looked over it for a few seconds and said to his plate, "Pork chops." Instantly the meat appeared on his plate. "That is interesting," he said.

I looked at my plate and picked up my menu. I opened it and looked around at the different courses. There was a variety of meats, vegetables, soups, salads, and desserts on the menu, I just couldn't choose. Cedric was already beginning to eat. He looked over at me.

"Are you having a hard time?"

"There's just so much!" I said.

He smiled. "Don't fill up on a lot of food. You know there's still dancing to do."

"Yeah, I know," I replied as a baked potato smeared with butter and sour cream appeared on my plate. "I'm no good at dancing, Cedric."

"Neither am I but I'm sure we can work something out."

I laughed and nodded. I looked over at everyone else. Viktor and his date were deep in conversation while Fleur was criticizing the Hogwarts decorations.

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When the food had been consumed and everyone was deep in chatter, Dumbledore stood up and asked the students to do the same. With a wave of his wand the tables zoomed back along the walls leaving the floor empty and with another wave he conjured up a raised platform along the right hall. A set of drums, several guitars, a lute, a cello, and some bagpipes were on it. The Weird Sisters began to walk onto the stage to a roar of applause. They all had wild hair and wore robes that seemed as if they were purposely ripped and torn. The lanterns on the other tables had gone out as the Weird Sisters picked up their instruments. The champions and their partners began standing up.

Cedric offered me his arm. "Let's try to dance shall we?" He smirked.

I laughed and gladly took his arm. "Let's."

The band broke into a slow, mournful tune. Cedric wrapped his arm around my waist and slipped his hand into mine. We sort of glided along the floor stepping on each other's toes once or twice before we finally followed each other's steps. Other people began pulling their partners onto the floor and began dancing. The Weird Sisters finished their song that was followed by a huge applause as people began to sit down and the Sisters started another song but faster. Cedric pulled me closer to him as we and others danced to the fast tune of the band. I wanted him to kiss me but I kept my thoughts to myself as I felt eyes crawling upon my back.

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When the Weird Sisters finished playing at midnight everyone gave them a last, loud round of applause and started to make their way to the entrance hall. I think that many people were hoping that it could have lasted longer but I was tired and ready to head to the Ravenclaw Tower and crawl into bed. Cedric and I whipped past students who were saying their goodbyes to one another.

"Cho," Cedric said, "would it be okay if I went and talked to Harry for a moment? I have to tell him something."

"Um…sure. I'll be right here." I watched Cedric walk the stairs to Harry. Harry's friend, Ron Weasley, left him so that the two could talk. I saw Harry peering over Cedric's shoulder twice before Cedric returned to me. "What did you tell him?"

"Erm…something about the dragon egg."

"Oh, you've figured something out?"

"Yes," he said with a nod. "You know when I tried the open the egg?"

"Yeah, it squealed as if it was screaming or something."

"Exactly. Well, the other right I took the egg with me…" he blushed pink as he said this "into the bath and opened it under the water. It sang a tune… It was rather odd now that I think about it."

I looked at him.

"Hm…well, I guess I'll see you off then, Cho."

I nodded. "Yes…"

"Tomorrow then?"

"Yes, tomorrow…"

He kissed me on the lips and walked out of the entrance hall, blushing pink.

I smiled to myself with chills running down my spine as I walked out of the entrance hall and to the Ravenclaw Tower. I yawned and walked up to the dormitory. I undressed out of my robe and into my pajamas yawning with every motion that I took. Marietta, Emily, and Min walked in minutes later, yawning together. We smiled at each other, each of us had w wonderful time it was easy to see but I think I had the most wonderful time ever.