Together, hand and hand, Cedric and I walked back into Hogwarts. We were both wet and I could heard the squish squish noise of our shoes as we walked up the Grand Staircase. He took me to the Ravenclaw Tower and told me to change into dry clothes and then to meet him in the library. I smiled, nodded, and walked passed the Knight, mumbling the password. I found the common room fire burning bright and letting off heat but the room itself was empty except for two second years that were playing wizard chess. I ran up to the dormitories, taking off my robe and throwing into onto my bed. My skirt was soaked through and so was everything else.

"Cho," Emily said as I turned around to find Marietta and SuYoung starting back at me. "Where have you been?"

"I was with Cedric…in the courtyard," I replied, digging out dry clothes from my trunk.

"In the rain?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "What? I just got a little wet."

"A little?"

"Oh, stop being so nosey. I have to go again… I'm meeting Cedric in the library."

"What for?" Marietta asked.

I didn't really know what for but I couldn't say that. "He's helping me with the O.W.L.s. I asked him about it weeks earlier and now that the break is here, he said that he would." I ran into the bathroom and quickly changed out of my wet clothes and into a new outfit. It was plain, simple just a pair of blue jean flares with a blue shirt. I picked up a clean, dry robe and wrapped it around myself. I began to walk out of the dormitory when Marietta stopped me.

"Aren't you forgetting something?" she asked.

I thought about it. "No."

"Your books, Cho."

"Oh, right, my books… Um…I really don't need those…"

"But—"

I rushed out of the dormitory, down the stairs and back out of the common room. I shook my head. I had forgotten how nosey Marietta was. I made my way down the Grand Staircase and to the second floor and into the library. Madam Pince was sorting through books and floating them onto the correct shelves. I looked around for Cedric and found him with books spread around. I smiled, walked over to him and sat down.

"What're you doing?" I asked.

"Oh, just reading about the Triwizard Tournament. Maybe I can find something that can help me figure out what the last task is going to be about."

"Are you worried about it?"

Cedric shook his head. "No…but – I don't mean to sound selfish – I want to win."

I smirked. "Even if you didn't win everyone would still like you."

He looked at me and smiled. "I know but it would be nice to do something for myself." Cedric closed all the books there were, stood up, and put them all back on the shelves. He came back over to the table and took my hand, gesturing me to stand up.

I looked at him. "What? Where're we going?"

He smiled. "Just follow me." Cedric led me to the very back of the library, close to the restricted section. He was quiet for a few moments.

A puzzled look spread across my face. "Are you all right?"

"Cho, I've been meaning to talk to you… I meant to do it earlier but I couldn't. All the words just couldn't come out right." Cedric was getting nervous. He was pacing back and forth and he always does that when he gets nervous.

"They seemed to come out right to me." I smiled.

"You're the only person that has ever made me feel this way and I do love you…"

There was a "but." There always was one.

"And I'm glad that you're here… I think that we have something working for us. I was thinking about asking you if you would like to come over for the summer…with me."

I was shocked. "For the summer?"

"Um…you don't have to…"

"Oh, well, I want to…it would be nice. I would like to do that."

He smiled and then hesitated.

"Oh, heavens, Cedric, just kiss me."

---------------------------------------------------

Cedric and I walked out of the library half an hour later. It was close to supper time and we noticed that kids began to huddle in the library to skip supper and study for exams, O.W.L.s, and N.E.W.T.s.

"We were almost caught," I told Cedric.

He smiled. "But we weren't so don't say anything."

"And to think that I told my friends that you were going to help me study for O.W.L.s."

Cedric laughed. "I was giving you a different sort of lesson."

I laughed. "Oh, hush up."

We made our way into the entrance hall. Kids were already sitting at their tables, waiting for the food. We walked into the Great Hall and separated from each other. I made my way to the Ravenclaw table and found my friends. I squeezed between Marietta and Emily. "Wow, I'm starving." My friends didn't say anything to me. I looked at them. "What's wrong?"

"What's wrong?" Marietta repeated. She then laughed. "Yes, um, Cedric is helping you study for O.W.L.s in the library. Some studying you were doing."

I looked at her. "What're you talking about?" I tried to hide my facial expressions.

"Cho, we so saw you in the library," Emily said. She wasn't mad and I knew it. She was trying to go along with Marietta. "You're lucky no one else did."

"Well, I found things to be more important than studying," I replied.

"What's more important?" Marietta asked.

"Just so you'd know, Cedric invited me to stay with him for the summer."

A smile broke Marietta's face. "Oh my gosh, Cho!" She wasn't mad anymore but excited.

I smiled. "Heh, I know."

"Gosh, what did you say?"

"I said that it would be nice to do that."

"Lucky! He's so nice, Cho. Imagine going to his house. I bet it's like super clean and smells really great."

I looked at Marietta.

"What? I can imagine can't I?"

I shook my head. "You're crazy."

"I know, that's why we're friends."